Who digs?

Apart from a whole bunch of X-Men related titles , I'm currently these (and probably others I've forgotten about!)

i watched this is england the other day

would you shave my head and buy me a ben sherman shirt ?

they dont sell any cool comic books here in sweden.

Because I really love you, I'ld buy you a DNA groove or a Jump The Gun shirt because Ben Sherman stopped making decent shirts about 20 years ago.

And Yalo, I'm really sorry to hear that.

even though i've read very little marvel stuff in my life, i enjoy a lot of the characters in that universe, particularly the x-men related peeps. i'm still gutted about how they butchered the wolverine movie, when there was such awesome potential. if the whole movie had been like this, it would have been great http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCaJcW3gvPU

that said i don't think it's very rewarding to read marvel, they have like 3 major alternate universes for a few of their publications, and then dozens of spins offs. and the continuity gets fucked over all the time

i much prefer limited series like watchmen or Y:the last man where you have a nice self-contained story. however, i'm starting to collect a few batman stories, like the dark knight returns and the long halloween, i've got a few of them in my sights

finally, i don't like the bashing that comics get. sure they have pictures, but they are their own unique medium, the real problem is that too much trash gets published and sells well. that said i'm still reluctant to read a comic in public, ayeeeee

arent you swedish tho dillinger?

I dont bother reading the Ultimate universe. That simplifies things for me .

When Uncanny and the other team took a drop in story telling, it happens with any comic thats a million years old, Joss whedons Astonishing title was (and still is) more than making up for it. But Now X-men is on a roll again and the whole
Dark X-Men , Dark Avengers stuff is killer.

Norman Osborn = Iron Patriot (Capt America/Iron Man)
Daken (wolverines son) = Wolverine
Venom = Spiderman
Bullseye = Hawkeye
etc etc

Last two comics I read. I only go for volumes I ain't cult enough for single issues.





I've heard 'The Walking Dead' comics are mint so I will have to have a look into those.

I like Umbrella Academy
I have all the issues from both volumes. But, I haven't read the last three, or four issues (lazy)

I have some other comics, like the first several Wolverine origin issues, and some other silly ones, like Lenore.

I've been scanning eBay for days now to find the new Cannibal Corpse comic, hopefully someone'll put it up.

The only thing i ever read is this

mainly batman comics, or any with artwork by alex ross.

My all time favorites (omitting the obvious choices from Alan Moore):

i'd like to add that as a kid i used to collect simpson comics, i think i have all of the first fifty issues and other spin offs, like treehouse of horror 1-8, krusty comic #1, etc

in 50 years they might be worth two shits, but unlikely, particularly seeing how the greedy sluts won't pull the plug on what is an ever-declining show

I pretty much dig anything by Garth Ennis, preferably illustrated by Steve Dillon, working my way through his work on The Punisher at the moment. recently read the first two volumes of the new Coheed and Cambria comics, but they're a bit sucky, they just skim along the story and occasionally quote a line from one of the songs.

i haven't bought anything new in many years. but i still hang onto my golden oldies.
i have the first few "punisher warzone" (original series), alot of old Conans from the 70's/80's. my 2 most treaured comisc are "the crow" and "batman vs judge dredd: judgement on gotham".

Man I need to get back into the swing of things, there are a lot of nice looking covers there.

Its been about 5 years since I followed anything religously.

Oh I have been reading the Jae Lee Dark Tower/Gunslinger series, but I wait for it to hit hardback in volumes.

Great art, great story...the team fills in the backstory for King's work really well.

Modern graphic novels begin and end with PREACHER, one of the finest things I've ever read

Everything else is just a bit shit.

You should check out The Boys GN. Same peeps behind it as Preacher. Its ace! Not as good as Preacher but then it wouldn't be would it.

^this, it was the first "mature" comic i ever read, after having only read X-men up til that point. Everything else i've read is great, but it never quite lives up to Preacher. It's a bit shit that they canned the HBO series idea and went back to making a film of it, it's guaranteed to be wank.

It was a comic book .

Back in my day before all the nonners started reading things like this (No Offenc* Johnny boy) a graphic novel was a standalone story that was outside the realms of the comic book title slightly edgier and never before told in comic book form.
Eg - my 1st was X-Men - God Loves man Kills , which had all above elements and came out in 83 I think? And so
anything like Preacher or Watchmen to us, is or was a compendium or a bunch of TPB's.

*No Offenc , * Nonse-ense phil collins etc.

Preacher is great but so is The Dark Knight returns and Maus, Watchmen, WE3 , lOVE and Bullets too but
Preacher just has a shit load more Volumes PLUS artwork by 2000AD veterans Steve 'I draw Everyone's face the same' Dillon and Carlos Ezquerra, the latter who is doing the latest issues of THE BOYs and so great to see his distinctive style unchanged since Strontium Dog and Judge Dredd.

Kind of comic book related. My friend Tony just nabbed me this sweet mug for my birthday. Though the bummer is that all the pictures on it are painted using lead based paint so it looks like I can't slobber all over Hellboy.... 'tis rather sad.

Back in the day I loved the likes of Ezquerra, Kev O'Neill (I think that was him name; he did Nemesis), Brian Bolland, and all the 2000AD mob, but above all I wanted to be Glenn Fabry; in particularly I loved the way he drew Slaine.

I haven't bought any comics/graphic novels written after Sandman which changed my life(GingerN, you must read these!), but I read and loved Preacher and read a few of the Waking Dead books which were pretty good.

The major ones I've enjoyed are the big popular ones such as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Dark Night Returns, Year One, Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum, Hellblazer, then 2000AD from the late 80s to mid 90s.

Me too, I was always Gutted when reading Slaine and Fabry's run would finish and some very weird artist (who admittedley had his own off-key style) would take over.
I picked up some 2000AD about 4 years ago and Slaine had this amazing photoshopped artwork in, real faces/eyes made it very creepy.

Disney just bought Marvel yesterday, The Suite Life of Deadpool, anyone?

Simon Bisley is my all time favourite artist. Check out Slaine - The Horned God, barbarian fantasy based on Celtic myths. Fucking epic shit.








Also check fan made trailer based on this comic book. Fucking amazing!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIPAsbhZpM

Oh sheet yes, what were those tree folk called?

Im sure Atilla was meant to be one of them when I saw him with Sunn

I prefered Bisley when he did the ABC Warriors tbh, Fabry was always the main man when Slaine was concerned in my opinion, the high point possibly being the time warrior thing when he was with Myrddin, Nest and so on. There was an embarassing moment after the Horned God when Fabry felt he had to 'out Bisley' Bisley, if you see what I mean.

That was very, very good!

The Walking Dead series is worth a read if you like zombie/survival horror books. It's written by Robert Kirkman who is a brilliant writer. He also wrote the beginning of the Marvel Zombies series.

Way to read the thread Admiral A.D.D

explain yourself

he called you out on your ADD, the admiral part was just to soften the blow.

Maybe I smoked too much this morning, but I don't understand what's ADD about posting about Comic Books in a Comic Book thread? If you only want people posting what you're specifically talking about; start a more specific Comic Book Thread about the book you want to talk about.

you're right, you dont understand.

thanks for the great explanation

I just thought it was funny that you're recommending a comic book thats been mentioned 5 times in this thread alone and I even posted a piccie of the cover of one.
No Biggie, Welcome to the board.

Cool. Thanks for explaining yourself. No hard feelings here.

Just picked up B.R.P.D.'s Killing Grounds and some new Kong comics.

I'm not sure if this has been discussed already, but did you guys hear about Disney buying Marvel?

Isn't that fucked up!

Just a little, but as long as they don't fuck up the franchises at hand I'll be fine.

Disney=Censorship

Yea, I know. It sucks.

I don't know if this will actually happen, but I have a sneaking suspicion that in 10 years time Marvel will no longer produce comics because of Disney. I mean, basically, all Disney wants are the rights to the characters so they can make movies. Disney really doesn't give a shit about the comics. The comic industry unfortunately is a dying industry. If Disney loses any money from the lack of comic sales they could easily scrap the whole comic producing thing and put beloved comic book characters in child friendly computer animated movies.

Worst case scenario^^^

I doubt it will happen, but the possibility does concern me.

Disney hardly stands for anything anymore, they bought Pixar because they were literally their last hope, and Pixar makes almost all their films now. If anything, Disney have found their comeback in Pixar, they're back making modern animation masterpieces just like they were with films like Beauty and the Beast and Lion King in the 90s. If Pixar can channel their animation techniques into making darker, more adult oriented films (which they're clearly capable of doing) they could make some very interesting comic book adaptation movies, or at least shake up the genre that's getting a little stale now.

Oh well, theres always
www.electricretard.com

Which I feel would be better for comic book movies as the fans couldn't piss and moan over castings constantly.

^^^both good points.

I make no connection with the movie adapts to the books they are from, therefore
I'm rarely dissapointed.
In other news
this is a great 1st issue, sad and bleak but who knows how it will turn.

Jeff Lumiere's sweet tooth (only 70c)

What's it about?

This is the dopest dope you've ever smoked.

1st issue , hes a boy living with his old man all alone and isolated in a shack in a forest somewhere where some kind of experiments (not told yet) took place, his dad has lost it and cries himself to sleep, while the boy has nightmares of being watched by some mean looking fella. Theres more but I wont spoilt it. seems promising.