Comics Expletive Talk!

[DangerousPuhson]

Anybody like comics?


^I made dis^

 

[The1True]

I buy about one box of hard cover and trade paperback graphic novels per year. I hate superheroes. I have terrible taste in comics. I end up reselling at least 50% of them. It is an expensive habit.

Lazarus and Saga are my two current favourite ongoing titles.

I just picked up eight volumes of Monstress, so I sure hope that doesn't end up sucking.

I would say most of what I'm picking up is based on artwork and ideas. I used to get a lot of counterculture and arthouse titles, but I'm finding I have less and less time for that stuff these days. I enjoyed Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker for example, but I ended up putting Junior Baker the Righteous Faker down without reading a single page. Total waste of money.

Finally: My favourite, most dog-eared, read-to-death titles are, in no particular order:

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Akira 1-6
Slaine: The Horned God 1-3
Cerebus: High Society, and Church & State
Appleseed Books 1-3
Tank Girl Vol 01
Honourable Mention: Asterix and Tintin. Holy shit has EBay ever made it expensive to collect those for your kids.

 

[squeen]

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Akira 1-6
Slaine: The Horned God 1-3
Cerebus: High Society, and Church & State
Appleseed Books 1-3
Tank Girl Vol 01
Honourable Mention: Asterix and Tintin. Holy shit has EBay ever made it expensive to collect those for your kids.

These!

I'd add some personal favorites that probably are not your cup-o-tea:

Miller's Ronin (some Daredevil, 300, and Sin City too)
Byrne's original run on X-men
Moore's Watchman & Swamp Thing
Shooter's Golden Age Legion stories
Raymond's Flash Gordon serial from 1930's Sunday comics

probably a few others I've forgotten.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

Cerebus: High Society, and Church & State

I've got a soft spot for non-serious, quasi-parody comics (Groo, SCUD the Disposable Assassin, Transmetropolitan, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, etc.) - I think this one would tickle my fancy.

I find a ton of Tintin and Asterix at public libraries (Canadian ones, anyway - probably because they count as being "French")

 

[The1True]

Miller's Ronin (some Daredevil, 300, and Sin City too)
Byrne's original run on X-men
Moore's Watchman & Swamp Thing
Shooter's Golden Age Legion stories
Raymond's Flash Gordon serial from 1930's Sunday comics

Yeah, I reread Ronin every couple of years, I like it a lot! Sin City is pretty cool too, but marks the beginning of artistic decadence for Miller, I think. Like the rigourousness of his technique in the first two Sin City books is undeniable, but he started to get lazy/sloppy after that. Like his art became a study of a study of his original style? I initially really enjoyed 300, but I've been reading a lot of Greek historical fiction recently and my opinion of the Spartans has soured, as has my opinion of the historiocity of Miller's story. There are a lot of dummies going around revearing the Spartans for all the wrong reasons as a result of that movie...
I reread Watchmen every couple of years as well, and really enjoy it. The HBO series was an extremely faithful continuation of the story imho.

 

[The1True]

I've got a soft spot for non-serious, quasi-parody comics (Groo, SCUD the Disposable Assassin, Transmetropolitan, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, etc.) - I think this one would tickle my fancy.

Oh man! I was way into SCUD for a minute there. They kept talking about how they'd signed a movie deal and I was looking forward to that. Meanwhile, they changed publisher a couple of times, I think, and I missed a few, and it all fell apart for me
Transmetropolitan is the absolute schiznit. Add that to my Top10 list! 100 Bullets as well.

I find a ton of Tintin and Asterix at public libraries (Canadian ones, anyway - probably because they count as being "French")

Yes, but I must OWN THEM ALL!

 

[DangerousPuhson]

I inherited a few bankers' boxes of West Coast Avengers issues. It's just too bad they suck...

 

[The1True]

Any of them worth anything? Too expensive and time consuming to find out?

 

[squeen]

I have the first 20 or so issues of WCA that I bought when it first came out. They were not good, just meh. That was right around the time I stopped buy comics regularly (monthly) because the average quality was pretty abysmal.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

Any of them worth anything? Too expensive and time consuming to find out?

Nah, comics aren't worth too much unless they're pristine and super rare. Which is odd, considering my father bought most of his comics as investments (misguided as that was, like all those folk buying TY Beanie Babies in the 90s). Same goes for baseball cards, unfortunately, of which I have thousands.

Most of them are worth less than $3

 

[The1True]

I usually just box it all up and offer it as a package deal to a local comic shop or on EBay. No picking and choosing. Most of the comic shops in Ottawa don't carry back issues anymore though, so...

 

[DangerousPuhson]

I usually just box it all up and offer it as a package deal to a local comic shop or on EBay. No picking and choosing. Most of the comic shops in Ottawa don't carry back issues anymore though, so...

Yeah, but I think I'd be happier with keeping a box of inherited historical curios from my father, rather than the $40 I'd probably get from a store. I just lament that they weren't more interesting comics.

 

[The1True]

Ah, fair enough.

 

[The1True]

I read a good one last night. Huck

Mark Millar; so you can't go wrong there. Just a story about a really good guy doing good things for people. Great artwork. Quite enjoyable!

 

[Osrnoob]

I buy about one box of hard cover and trade paperback graphic novels per year. I hate superheroes. I have terrible taste in comics. I end up reselling at least 50% of them. It is an expensive habit.

Lazarus and Saga are my two current favourite ongoing titles.

I just picked up eight volumes of Monstress, so I sure hope that doesn't end up sucking.

I would say most of what I'm picking up is based on artwork and ideas. I used to get a lot of counterculture and arthouse titles, but I'm finding I have less and less time for that stuff these days. I enjoyed Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker for example, but I ended up putting Junior Baker the Righteous Faker down without reading a single page. Total waste of money.

Finally: My favourite, most dog-eared, read-to-death titles are, in no particular order:

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Akira 1-6
Slaine: The Horned God 1-3
Cerebus: High Society, and Church & State
Appleseed Books 1-3
Tank Girl Vol 01
Honourable Mention: Asterix and Tintin. Holy shit has EBay ever made it expensive to collect those for your kids.

LET US GO

LETS GO

Monstress is awesome, about a year + - hiatus behind by read quite a bit

 

[Osrnoob]

Really liked the inhuman hulk run that wrapped last year or so

In terms of non supes stuff perhaps ice cream man?

 

[DangerousPuhson]

I just bought a copy of Turn Loose Our Death Rays And Kill Them All: The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks for far too much money. Excited to read some schlocky Golden Age stuff made by a verifiable tortured mind.