The Comics Thread

[Memento Mori]

Rage of the Red Lanterns, Agent Orange, then Blackest Night.

[Pedro]

For me Green Lantern went down the toilet with the spectrum beyond the Sinestro Corps. There's some good moments with the other Corps but Blackest Night did nothing for me. No Fear and those early issues of GLC were the best apart from the Sinestro Corps War.

I jumped off when the third GL series appeared.

[Shadow]

What's wrong with forbidden planet? Their postage prices seem a bit crazy, anything else?

Everything else. I don't think anyone here's had a good experience with them.

For subscriptions, I can't recommend Economic Comics enough. I've been using them for about two years, and they've been pretty much faultless.

Ok.. I wish you hadn't shown me that.

Can't. Stop. Subscribing.

[Mogster]

I once had about fourty titles in my subs list there.

I keep it locked to a manageable ten these days.

[bear]

Green Lantern Corps was better than regular Green Lantern until the last few issues even if it was the backup title.
It's disappointing to see the return of the miniseries this week with the Huntress and Penguin six parters. The Huntress one is already being billed as tying into Birds of Prey which us obviously just starting.

[Mafro]

Got an iPad 2 today so I've downloaded all the free comics I wanted from the DC and Marvel apps

What sort of stuff?

Tons of stuff.

Astonishing X-Men #1
Avengers (1998) #1
Astonishing Spiderman/Wolverine #1
Black Panther (2005) #1
Blade (2006) #1
Cable & Deadpool #1
Infinity Gauntlet #1
Immortal Iron Fist #1
Invincible Iron Man #1
Iron Man Saga #1
New Avengers #1
Runaways #1
Ultimate Iron Man #1

Among others.

[Hypes]

I'd never had a major problem with Forbidden Planet before ordering some of the new 52 but they really have annoyed me with their seemingly random distribution on this.

My confirmation emails have so far contained these wonderful announcements

Hi,
The item(s) below with today's date have been shipped;

----- 2408262 Action Comics #1 x 1 Despatch Date: 9/9/2011

----- 2408262 Action Comics #1 x 1 Despatch Date: Pending....

----- 2407708 Superman #1 x 1 Despatch Date: 28/9/2011

----- 2457109 Action Comics #1 (2nd Printing) x 1 Despatch Date: 28/9/2011

----- 2408262 Action Comics #1 x 1 Despatch Date: Pending....

----- 2457109 Action Comics #1 (2nd Printing) x 1 Despatch Date: Pending....

----- 2407708 Superman #1 x 1 Despatch Date: 6/10/2011

Is it that hard to deliver me a little bit of Superman??

[Memento Mori]

Is it that hard to deliver me a little bit of Superman??

But yeah Forbidden Planet are awful and I wouldn't advise anyone to order online with them.

[Memento Mori]

So I decided to start reading American Vampire with the most recent issue and get the earlier stuff in trade and I enjoyed it. However I also bought the side-story mini-series Survival of the Fittest which I've just discovered is collected in the Volume 3 trade.





That aside, Scott Snyder remains my favourite new writer.

[HM]

Avengers 17

So nothing mentioned of the pointless romance on the front cover. But that wasn't my biggest fault with it. It mentioned Iron Man's battle against Stane at the beginning of Fraction's Invincible Iron Man run, about how he used all his armours at once. Pretty cool idea for Avengers to mention it as The Protector was using all of Tony's armour, but then i realised. Tony lost all his armours but like 9 in that same book and those 9 he burnt down to scrap for the prototype car. That still wasn't my main problem with the book because as usual the art was. God I'm so glad Romita jnr has left it now. It's so obvious he only gets the work because of his actually talented father and his history with marvel. Romita jnr is like artist version of Loeb atm. Avoid.

On the plus side I am finally reading All Star Superman.

[DrDoom]

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And yesterday Bleeding Cool ran with our story too: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/10/06/once-upon-a-time-machine-the-greatest-story-never-told/

There's been a bunch of interest after the BC article went up and it'd be cool if a bunch of you could head on over to the FB page, click 'Like' and generally just spread the word about said project. The art Rich has up on BC is just the beginning. The entire book looks that gorgeous.

/plug

[HM]

Another marvel mystery teaser. 3 guesses who it's related to:

[Pedro]

Just read Nate Powell's 'Swallow Me Whole' - really different to what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed it. Sometimes it's great to get away from the big two and capes.

Craig Thompson's 'Habibi' is sat next to me awaiting to be read as well. Gonna try and get through a back-log of trades I've got and not pick up comics till payday.

[hideous_enigma]

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[Pedro]

Is there any more promising talent then Scott Snyder? I seriously like everything the guy puts out and even more so when you hear him talk about the books. His thoughts on Batman pretty much exactly mirror my own and I hope he stays on a Bat-book for a long time to come. DC really need to NOT strawberry float up relations with him as they have so many other talents.

[NBK]

So I decided to start reading American Vampire with the most recent issue and get the earlier stuff in trade and I enjoyed it. However I also bought the side-story mini-series Survival of the Fittest which I've just discovered is collected in the Volume 3 trade.





That aside, Scott Snyder remains my favourite new writer.

Ah, it's really good, isn't it? I just read up to the last part of Ghost War last week, haven't started Survival of the Fittest yet. Did you get Ghost War in single issue? The covers are amazing, join them all together for an excellent piece of artwork. It'll be interesting to see how it continues, I doubt Skinner's dead, he seems like too big a part to write off like that.

Is there any more promising talent then Scott Snyder? I seriously like everything the guy puts out and even more so when you hear him talk about the books. His thoughts on Batman pretty much exactly mirror my own and I hope he stays on a Bat-book for a long time to come. DC really need to NOT strawberry float up relations with him as they have so many other talents.

I'm sure he said that he's signed with them until 2013, it'd be great if he could stay longer. 2 years doesn't seem like much in comic land.

I agree with you both, his stuff is fantastic and the quality only seems to be getting better and better. That's 3 of the top titles he has on the go right now and I'd like to think he'll be mentioned with the likes of Miller, Dixon and Morrison when great Bat books are mentioned in the future. I also have faith in him putting another interesting spin on Swamp Thing, can't wait to see how that turns out.

[NBK]

Pluggity plug time:

awesome art work and cool sounding stories

/plug

That looks brilliant, DrDoom. Well done. I'll be buying it as soon as it comes out for sure. Best of luck with getting it picked up, hope to see it on the shelves soon!

King Humpty

[Memento Mori]

So I decided to start reading American Vampire with the most recent issue and get the earlier stuff in trade and I enjoyed it. However I also bought the side-story mini-series Survival of the Fittest which I've just discovered is collected in the Volume 3 trade.





That aside, Scott Snyder remains my favourite new writer.

Ah, it's really good, isn't it? I just read up to the last part of Ghost War last week, haven't started Survival of the Fittest yet. Did you get Ghost War in single issue? The covers are amazing, join them all together for an excellent piece of artwork. It'll be interesting to see how it continues, I doubt Skinner's dead, he seems like too big a part to write off like that.
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The only single issue of the main AV series I've got is #19 which is the first part of the flashback arc. #1-#18 are all collected across the first three trades so I'll pick up those when I can.

Pluggity plug time:

awesome art work and cool sounding stories

/plug

That looks brilliant, DrDoom. Well done. I'll be buying it as soon as it comes out for sure. Best of luck with getting it picked up, hope to see it on the shelves soon!

King Humpty

Also this.

[DrDoom]

Cheers! It's been gestating for a while now (almost 2 years this December) and the Bleeding Cool article has helped kick up a lot of interest again in the project. The art shown there is merely the beginning.

I have another book out that I'll be shilling at Thought Bubble. I'm writing that Marvel style (give plot outline to artist, artist draws it, I then fill in the dialogue) and the results have been. . . interesting.

I've also managed to snag an artist who has done bona-fide work for a few Image books for covers for an upcoming project that will be heading Image's way come submission time.

Slowly but surely...

Pimpery aside, has anyone else been reading Witch Doctor, Luther Strode, or Pigs? All recommended!

[Floex]

More info can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/onceuponatimemachine

And yesterday Bleeding Cool ran with our story too: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/10/06/once-upon-a-time-machine-the-greatest-story-never-told/

There's been a bunch of interest after the BC article went up and it'd be cool if a bunch of you could head on over to the FB page, click 'Like' and generally just spread the word about said project. The art Rich has up on BC is just the beginning. The entire book looks that gorgeous.

/plug

I saw this on Twitter earlier and it looked fantastic, never knew you had involvement

So did you write/draw some stories for the comic? When is it due? I must have it!