What comics do you collect / have you collected?

[Bifrost]

Right. I have decided that we need to spill the beans on how lame our taste in comics is/was. Mine has always sucked, but I have collected comics now for about twelve years, so obviously enjoy at least some of the tripe I buy and read.

In case you missed it, here is: Kleph's comic discussion forum (http://forums.zgeek.com/showthread.php?t=6623)

Comics I have collected:

SCUD the Disposable Assassin - Comedy Gold. Rob Schrab, I miss you. The last thing I saw him do was Robot Bastard (http://www.robotbastard.com/) which was, I think, by no means up to his SCUD standard...But it was his first film from what I can gather.
Poison Elves - This got boring and I could no longer overlook the fact that Drew Hayes is a wanker.
Fantastic Four - I keep going back, but it just keeps turning to suck.
X-Titles - Collected for a while after Age of Apocalypse, but they all grew crap and just kept on pushing their incessant cross-overs and I ditched the lot.
Cloak and Dagger - I actually never collected a single issue of this comic when it was a regular series and my interest in this comic was purely through back-issues, but I collected every damn one - including most of their appearances in other comics.
Batman - A very on and off interest in the Dark Knight. I love the idea, I just get sick of the same old storylines. Common problem for most established heroes.
Wonder Woman - I totally dig Wonder Woman - she is fantastic, but she suffers the same problem as Batman.
Spectacular Spiderman (now Peter Parker: Spiderman) - Just seems to always suck more than Amazing.
Spiderman - Todd McFarlane kicked this off beautifully, but then it just deteriorated into much the same crap.
Gen 13 - Was great, then it was awesome. Then J. Scott Campbell became too big for it and then they decided to remove all writing talent from it and that was that. I would still collect this if it was still going, even if it sucked, I think. They never officially cancelled it, but it hasn't come out in months.
Wetworks - See Gen 13. Much the same happened here. Great artist, great writer, then the artist leaves, the writers are replaced and all you have is shite. Apparently it's coming back - with original talent, so we'll see how it goes.
2099 Titles - Spiderman 2099 and X-Men 2099 were both excellent when they were released and they really showed some promise. Then, as usual, instead of introducing new villains and new ideas, they started trying to introduce 2099 versions of current villains and stuff and it began to gradually decay into sucakge. I notice that they're trying to revive the 2099 titles recently, but I picked up Mutant 2099 and it was pants. Alas.
Daredevil - Collected this for a while after the excellent Frank Miller series (which I had to buy in TPB - I'm always too damn slow), but it never came back to the same level.
Hulk - Had a fantastic run with Peter David then he jsut lost the plot and I dropped it.
Flash - Mark Waid. His best work.
Various Wildstorm mini series - Enjoyed almost every one. Particularly ones about the character Savant. I really liked her.

...I told you there'd be more...Here are a few more I have just remembered:

Watchmen - Didn't collect (was just a few months too early), but bought the TPB and it is one of the best books of any kind I have ever read.
Stardust (Neil Gaiman) - Collected the lot. Was very outside what I am used to reading in comicdom, but I totally dig Gaiman's writing and it was awesome.
Anything about Gaiman's Death - Love that punky Death chick. Love Gaiman. Nuff said.
Sin City - Gradually gathering the TPBs. Have only read the original thus far.
Green Lantern - I really thought Kyle Rayner was a good Lantern. I wish they'd suss out just who they're going to follow and stick with them or else rename the book Legion of Green Lanterns.
Transformers - The first comic I ever collected. Loved it until it became shite. As usual I suppose.
The Tick - Too, too funny. Grizzlee is responsible for me collecting this. I thank him.


Comics I still collect:

Amazing Spiderman - Best of the Spiderman titles and Spidey is the comic which I have collected since I was little (on and off, but back-issues are a wonderful thing), so this remains a stalwart.
Stormwatch (Team Achilles now) - It was always good, Stormwatch. This is where Ellis got his idea for the Authority AND where most of the Authority Characters came from. Team Achilles is also awesome. Santini was always one of my fav human hard men.
JLA - Yeah, I know. When Morrison and Porter took this from a back shelf loser to a flagship a few years back, it was one of the best comics available. The original super heroes taking on the sorts of threats that a super team made up of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern & Martian Manhunter should take on. Now it's starting to really lose the plot, I may cancel it soon. Ah well...
Wildcats - Collected this (almost) since the beginning. This current season is one of the most unusual big-money comics around and is taking directions no one else has tried (I think) and it is fucking excellent - every panel. Probably the best comic I currently collect.
Astonishing X-Men - Joss Whedon. Need I say more?
Batman Superman (one comic) - What can I say? I'm a sucker for a quality artist and writer teaming up for a short time on a book about big name characters.


OK, there's more, I just have to go through the boxes of comics under the bed and in the cupboard...

[Thyraeus]

Hmmm one mans comics are another mans jokes....I am not into Marvel/Sci-Fi ("what the fuck is he doing on zgeek?') at the risk of opening myself up to attack:
*Asterix
*Tin-Tin
*Footrot Flats

[108]

Stopped collecting:


Uncanny X-Men - Started at the issue #300 mark and loved it. Since it was one of the first comics I started reading, I didn't know anything else. Was losing patience with it because as a high school student, I didn't want to buy Uncanny, Wolverine, X-Force, X-Factor, X-Men and God knows what else, just to figure out what was going on. Comics are expensive enough. Tried and failed to drop the title for a few years and only succeeded in kicking the habit a few months before the Grant Morrison revamp. Doh! I resisted the urge and stayed away.
X-Men - Liked to follow the blue team because Gambit was my fav.
Gen 13 - T&A and was pretty fun. Started to go downhill after all this space crap started happening. Still collected it though. Didn't hang around for the Claremont run.
Spawn - I don't know why I read this. It was cool and hip and controversial. Too bad in my youth I failed to see that it was also utter crap. Issue after issue would go by without anything happening. This is the only comic collection that I sold off after I stopped collecting. It was an embarressment to have a big box labeled "Spawn" there. This coming from someone that bought comics based on how big the titties were on the cover.
Vampirella - The recent series. Bought it soley for the art.
Deadpool & Agent X - Fun stuff.
A few others, but those were the major ones.


Read a few issues and enjoyed them. Tried to and failed to collect all the back issues and so gave up on the book.

Savage Dragon - Almost got them all.
Powers - Early issues were too damn expensive. I think they're more affordable now.


Currently buying.

Daredevil - Say whatever you like about the Frank Miller run, I like the Bendis run better.
The Losers - Pretty good. The characters work well off each other.
WildCATS Version 3.0 - Many people hated the slow first year, but I liked that corporate stuff. It's gone to more traditional WildCATS stuff recently and I'm not enjoying it as much.
Blade of the Immortal - Good fun samurai manga.
Various Batman and Superman miniseries - The monthly titles of these two icons get tedious. The miniseries are where it's at.
Anything with giant knockers on the cover.


Currently downloading

Everything - I <3 the internet.

[Something Fast]

I grab TPBs of various comics when I can.
Spawn, The Sandman, various Vertigo titles, Aliens vs Predator. etc.

[lostreality]

http://www.waplingtons.freeserve.co.uk/beano1.jpg

way back when i was a kiddy :)

[tikdoph]

What Bifrost said.

[abelgold]

Ooh.. I've collected lots of cool stuff and lots of shit too..

- Batman
- Superman
- Flash
- Spawn
- Uncanny X-men
- Sledgehammer comic (of the tv show)
- TMNT
- the Tick
- Jay and Silent bob
- Archie
- Phantom
- Asterix
these are just the ones I care to talk about...

[Asmodeus]

collecting:

Ralph Snart
Hellstorm: Prince of Lies
Lady Death
Evil Ernie

[tantricmonk]

i have clllected various marvel stuff but since deciding to read dc stuff most notably geoff johns (i dunno close enough) and i dentity comics.

loved the grant reboot of x-men but all the changes were undone with the first issue of the new book that of course bites btw

[kleph]

back in the day i was marvel all the way - x men, daredevil, spider man, alpha flight, fantastic four. then, about 1988, the whole thing went off the deep end. but, by then, i had found the world of alternative comics - mage, elementals, sandman and so on.

living in peru has eliminated my comic fetish but i am not really worried since i know i can buy trade editions of everything worth a damn whenever i get back.

but, here is the core of my last list.

fables - fairy tales with a post modern twist. my boy willingham back in the saddle
age of bronze- the retelling of the trojan war in comic format. the best comic out there today
planetary - the only one on the list i seriously jones for now and then.
powers - a great book by a great writer. but it looked ready to jump the shark when i left last year.

[Grizzlee]

Damn you Bifrost. I'm meant to be doing work.

Geesh the comics I used to collect...big list so I'll give the highlights.

* Excalibur - I am the only person I know who has the whole series including One-shots and TPB. HUGE fan of Nightcrawler and a Huge fan of Chris Claremont. Even through the Cross Time Caper arc, this comic was my Fav.
* Generation X - Chris Bachelo was a breath of fresh air with his art but like so many great comics with great artists/writers, He left and the storyline never really go off the ground.
* X-Force - Still don't know why.
* X-Factor - Again I think it was just to complete storylines.
* Green Lantern - Kyle Rayner is a great GL and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Then I went cold turkey and stopped collecting. Its one title I have always thought of picking up again.
* Gen 13 - Bifrost was the influence on this, as well as my brother. But I had to cut my expenses.
* Wetworks - Another great art great story, change writer and artist and make it crap. Old crew coming back to new series and I can't wait.
* Cyberforce - Big fan of Marc Silvestri but again the story kinda lag a lot.
* Witchblade - Silvestri and Turner great art but I got bored after it became hugely popular and less effort was made to make it good.
* The Darkness - just for the art.
* The Tick - One of my favs and when the reprinted from the start, I was hooked. One of the best comical heroes around. I also have complete animated and live series. Told you I was hooked.
* Johnny The Hommicidal Maniac - Dark, funny and large knives. What more do you need?
* Ash - Another great art no story comic. I stuck with it until it went kaput.
* Soveriegn Seven - I will follow great artists/writers and this was a Chris Claremont title. Better to read when drunk...makes sense that way.
* JLA - Great story great art. Strangley after the cold turkey , I never had an urge to pick this up again.
* Buffy The Vampire Slayer/ Angel - This was my attempt to get the g/f to read comics. Didn't work very well.
* Brigade - Was something about this one I enjoyed.
* The Savage Dragon - A great title. It was good to have some light comedy with good story and good art.
* Also dabble in Too Much Coffe Man, Kid Death, Faust, Dragon Pink, Batman..there is so many. Wait till I get home and go through the mountain of boxes.

I went cold Turkey for about 12 months because of costs (30 titles a month. Yes, I was a comic whore). I have only started again late last year.
Current titles.

* Uncanny X-men
* Astonishing X-Men
* X-Men
* New X-Men: Academy X
* Excalibur - could be gone if it doesn't pick up quickly.
* District X - Its Cops with mutants
* Stormwatch: Team Archilles - Thanks to Bifrost for this one
* Exiles - Hey its got Blink and Morph.

I'm being careful with my comics this time..must not go crazy again. And its good because the X-titles aren't crossing over every 2 issues.

Stuff I have been reading, thanks to friends

* Lenore - entertaining goodness
* League of Extrodinary Gentlemen - much better than movie
* Sandman - Now I see what people see in in Neil Gaimen.

That should do for now. Be warned though, you have opened something that nobody needed to see.

[BlueBoy]

Current collection:

Astonishing X-Men (Wow. Just wow.)
Uncanny X-Men
Excalibur (I should've chosen District X instead of this crap.)
New X-Men: Academy X
Ultimate Fantastic Four
Various Ultimate one-shots and minseries.

Also getting the DC series Identity Crisis and just finished collecting all of Bite Club.

[Reprobate]

2099 Titles - Spiderman 2099 and X-Men 2099 were both excellent when they were released and they really showed some promise. Then, as usual, instead of introducing new villains and new ideas, they started trying to introduce 2099 versions of current villains and stuff and it began to gradually decay into sucakge. I notice that they're trying to revive the 2099 titles recently, but I picked up Mutant 2099 and it was pants. Alas.

Wildcats - Collected this (almost) since the beginning. This current season is one of the most unusual big-money comics around and is taking directions no one else has tried (I think) and it is fucking excellent - every panel. Probably the best comic I currently collect.



ah yes, the 2099 series by Marvel.

i started buying/collecting comics 'seriously' (ie: i was earning money and therefore could afford the addiction) back in 1989.

it's been a few years since i've bought a title but i've still got all mine in very good condition stored away in boxes.

i loved Image (ie: Wildcats) because of the exciting style of comic art that they used through all their titles.

i'd often buy issue 1 on just about anything, and would continue to buy them until i thought the story/plot started to suck pretty bad.

as well as the likes of Spawn, Wildcats, Spider-man, Venom, Punisher i was also a fan of The Phantom.

I i don't regard Tintin and Asterix as comic books as such, but an educational requirement and recommended reading for ALL kids starting in primary school and re-read every now and then when you're well into your adult years.

[kleph]

* Excalibur - I am the only person I know who has the whole series including One-shots and TPB. HUGE fan of Nightcrawler and a Huge fan of Chris Claremont. Even through the Cross Time Caper arc, this comic was my Fav.

i loved this book when it came out. the stories were constantly interesting, the nuances of kitty pride and kurt wagner characters really came to the fore outside of the regular book and alan davis drew great babes. the only x-book that bested it was new mutants when bill sienkiewicz drew it.

you will have to go back to the trade paper backs but for simply staggeringly good comics try any of the books moore penned for america's best comics.

[SOC]

As a kid I collected MAD (and I still have a lot of them in storage in Australia) and Marvel stuff (Spiderman, Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, X-Men, Silver Surfer, Dr Strange). Until I left Australia, the only comic I still collected was The Phantom (aka Mr Walker, for The Ghost Who Walks) ...

[Bifrost]

Having read Grizzlee's list, I have a few more to add...And I Probably should post replies, rather than just editing my list...Regular edits make the other replies look odd...

More used to collects:

Savage Dragon - collected this in the "insane" period of my comic collecting, you know, that time when if you get told it's good by - like - fucking ANYBODY, you put it on your standing order. I stopped after about a year (so, you know - 5 issues).
The Darkness - Really was cool and wanted it just to collect a Silvestri title. But then the initial story arc finishes and the second one sucks and you realise that you can't relate to any of the characters and then you just think "what the fuck am I reading this for?".
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (yes, I know they come out as Graphic Novels) - Alan Moore is a god. Don't let anybody tell you different.

Characters I'll collect anything to read about:

Cloak and Dagger - Yes, I love these guys even though every writer to touch them since their first story arc has been a tool. And because of this thread (and my piqed curiosity), I have found out that they are now in The Runaways and have been in Marvel Knights since the start, however, apparently Marvel Knights is akin to a series of blots of puke on paper. But I am an idiot, so I will probably jsut collect all of the backissues anyway. *shrugs*
Velocity - Loved the teenage speedster in Cyberforce and in her own mini-series. No idea where she is now. Miss her.
Savant - A female Indiana Jones who is a super tough, very strong and in possession of a very dry wit. Ideally should be written by Warren Ellis. Miss her so. No idea where she is at.
Gen 13 (any members thereof) - What can I say? I mean - have you SEEN Gen 13?

[imp]

Graphic Novels are more my thing.

My favourite is the "Watchmen" which is now being turned into a film. I bet they'll screw it up

[Eds]

I used to get a cool Aussie one called "Zero Assassin" but I think they stopped printing it at about issue #6. They were too erratic, too - only came out once very six months, then two issues would come out almost the same time...

Still, it was a good, atmospheric little homegrown number.

[Bifrost]

I met the author, artist and publisher (same guy - Sam Young or "Max Autohead") for Zero Assassin years ago in Canberra...I was at some sort of writing conference thingy where there were guest speakers and really - REALLY - bad coffee...

He seemed like the sort of guy who had done art at uni and then studied business so that he could make a successful business out of his art, but then he became a little too smart to keep writing or drawing his own comic, because he knew from his business and industry study that there was no fucking money in it...So he just kept publishing other people's work and the comics disappeared...

Bit sad, but it came pretty much immediately after they had a TERRIBLE game developed of his Cyberswine comic...The game had revolutionary graphics, but disastrous gameplay...Ah well...

[Colonel Kurtz]

Calvin & Hobbes
Footrot Flats
Doonesbury

[Hippy Vindalou]

2000ad and the Judge Dredd Megazine. They keep putting the price up but I have been reading them to long to stop now.

[rosamund]

I used to collect plenty, but now I've become zen and only collect The Goon (Dark Horse) now, because I could start from ep1 withouth forking out a shitload, and because it's whacky good.

Other than that I occasionally pick up graphic novels or compendiums of older stuff I missed first time round; Mike Mignola, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Joe Sacco, etc...

[kleph]

another absolutely great one that gives me hope for the next generation of comics is 100 Bullets.

[SOC]

Graphic Novels are more my thing.

My favourite is the "Watchmen" which is now being turned into a film. I bet they'll screw it up

If it's being made by the fuckers who ruined The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you bet your sweet bippy it will be!!!

[kleph]

there have been rumors about this being made into a movie since 1988 at least. at one time terry gilliam was said to be heading the production. but nothing ever seems to come of it. i have to say, it would be almost impossible to make a movie that is true to moores original vision. at best it will be a special effects monster that discards all of the nuance of the text. the versions of the script i have read bear this out.

[Gruff Nutz]

I only ever collected comics than had consistanly good writing (execpt for a few that I'm now embarrased to mention), I always found any really mainstream superhero comic series was pretty shit most of the time.

Comics I bought and enjoyed:
Swamp Thing, The Tick, The Maxx, Transmetropolitan, anything by Johen Vasquez and League of Extordinary Gentleman,

Transmetropolitan was the best comic I've ever read.

[fastfood]

Comics I have collected:

<snip enormous list of comics>

OK, there's more, I just have to go through the boxes of comics under the bed and in the cupboard...

Holy shit dude! When do you get the time to read all of these??!!
Or the money to buy them :)

Me, I only ever collected Thor. Now that I look back at that, it's kinda gay.

[fastfood]

Since I've got BB though I've been reading plenty of comics, call it a virtual library if you will.
Hellboy, all 120++ issues of Spawn, LOEG, Wolverine, some other stuff..
But like the schmuck I am I deleted the whole lot by mistake recently, pah!

[kleph]

Me, I only ever collected Thor. Now that I look back at that, it's kinda gay.

not if it was the walt simonson run.

[Bifrost]

Holy shit dude! When do you get the time to read all of these??!!
Or the money to buy them :)

Me, I only ever collected Thor. Now that I look back at that, it's kinda gay.Yeah, it was a bit of a crazy time...I was working part time in 3 jobs, not doing Uni and living with my parents, so I spent all of the money from my jobs on booze and comics and most of my spare time drinking and reading comics (strangely enough)...

But yeah - I went a little nuts and eventually it caught up with me and I had to cancel everything (except Gen 13 and a few selected others)...

These days I bearly get value out of the 10% discount at Kings.

Oh yeah - and I missed out on some more comics I once collected:


Backlash
Team 7
Grifter


And two characters I'd collect anything to read about:


Backlash
Taboo (one of the only heroes in comicdom who is an ex-prostitute)


I agree with pretty much everything that's been said on the Watchmen movie...I can't imagine Hollywood being capable of bringing it to life...And I too have been hearing rumours of a Watchmen movie since around 1993...

[Colonel Kurtz]

Forgot about Star Wars, Alien, Alien vs Predator, Mad *cringe*

[Colonel Kurtz]

Oh, and Milo Manara

[fastfood]

not if it was the walt simonson run.

Yes! awesome ! Those are the ones I used to buy on back issue, while the new ones that were coming out were very ordinary.
Lots of mythology, one where thor turns into a frog, lots of Loki and Baldur's decscent to hell (I think), Ragnarok, and Beta Ray Bill! hehe, yeah they were great.

So yeah those ones were not gay :D

[Grizzlee]

Told you Bifrost this would be a bad idea for a thread...

I also missed many a title.

22 Brides was another great title that just floundered to long. Quesada and Palmottie were great artist but they could never get the act together on time. Now one of em basically runs Marvel...hmm

Backlash was a great title..thanks for the reminder bifrost

Back the old days I was big on the mini series such as Black Ops, Body Bags, 21, Final Night, Gambit, Rogue, Knights of Pendragon, Marvel Comic Presents (short storylines), Nightcrawler, Ripclaw, Team 7 (both minis..these rocked).

Top Cow was my fav comic line until Silvestri left and it went to crap.

One of the best storylines I have read is still the Age of Apocalypse with the X-Men. Everyone was a hardarse and had no qualms in killing.

Characters I will always follow:
* Nightcrawler
* Shadowcat
* Colossus and he is back!
* Captain Britain a minor claim to fame is having the issue with his 1st US appearance.

Writers/Artists I will always try to follow:
* Alan Moore
* Chris Claremont
* Marc Silvestri
* Whilce Portacio
* Joss Whedon
* Chris Bachelo
* Alan Davis

Oh and if they started up Cyberforce again, there would be no hesitation to grab it.

Thanks to this thread, things I'm considering picking up:
* Green Lantern again
* Ultimate X-Men....one of the best alternate storylines ever
* back into some more DC titles and a re-look at the "alternative" titles

[BlueBoy]

Picked up 5 issues of a comic called Ex Machina last week as my regular order was running late.

It's basically about an ex-superhero who ends up mayor of New York. Not a bad read at all.

[BlueBoy]

Time to necro this thread.
My current order consists of the following:
Marvel
X-Men
X-Factor
New Excalibur (I'm giving it one more issue.)
Sentry
Son of M
New Avengers
Young Avengers
The Ultimates
Ultimate Fantastic Four
Ultimate X-Men
Ultimate Wolvernine vs. Hulk
Ultimate Extinction
Deadly Genesis
Sentinel Squad O*N*E*
X-Men: The End
Wolverine
Spider-Woman

DC/Vertigo
Identity Crisis
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Legion of Superheroes
Justice
Ex Machina
Miscellaneous Identity Crisis spinoffs

I'm sure there's more, but that's it off the top of my head.

[AntZ]

I'm not at my computer at the moment so I don't have a complete list - but if you like the Young Avengers, you might want to think about picking up the Runaways comics - they are currently at v2 issue 12 (first volume was 18 issues). Its one of the few comics that have been keeping me as interested as the Young/New Avengers have.

[BlueBoy]

Bifrost is raving about Runaways as well.
That Brian K. Vaughn can write.

[AntZ]

It is worth it - when I get on IRC I can send you both volumes if ya want. And on the Marvel website they have the first issue of V1 you can read for free.

[btwong]

i use to collect Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when i was a wee boy.

But i do have a copy of the "The Crow" the first comic, and also the collection of the 4 sin city comics.

[BlueBoy]

i use to collect Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when i was a wee boy.

But i do have a copy of the "The Crow" the first comic, and also the collection of the 4 sin city comics.
There's seven Sin City books.

[AntZ]

Just added the complete run of Runaways v1 to my FileFront (http://hosted.filefront.com/tornhelm) account. Tomorrow morning I will upload the current run of v2 (upto #12) there too for people to grab.

[Springer]

Transmetropolitan was the best comic I've ever read.

Agreed.

[ShinymetalASS]

Gen 13....

Man did I love rainmaker

[JessicaDV8]

I'm being a thread necromancer while I get caught up with everything I've missed.

My ex-boyfriend had a basement full of comics, and I left him before I was able to read them all. Also, for four years we bought comics together and I left them all with him. (I didn't take anything with me when I left Colorado except my older books, a computer, and personal mementos, because I was the one who had broken it off and it felt wrong to demand possessions we bought together.)

So my comic collection is pitiful now -- the Cerebus series, all the ElfQuest first editions, Bone, Sin City, Ranma 1/2, tons of the Paradox Press Big Books, the Tick, and V For Vendetta.

These days, whenever I have the money to spare, I get a compilation of the comics I left in Colorado, rather than buy a new title. I've been recovering the Sandman series, volume by volume. I miss Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, the Books of Magic, X-Men, the Watchmen, Faust, and Lone Wolf and Cub.

However, because of kleph's review, I want to get the Age of Bronze books next.

Has anyone else seen the new Peanuts compilations from Fantagraphics? They're perfect. I loved Charlie Brown back when he was a self-pitying turd rather than a hapless victim.

[Seeker]

I had the complete run of Xmen before an SOB I once called a friend stole them, anything Alan Moore, Swamp Thing (Bernie Wrightson) and Moore's Swamp Thing, Lucifer, Hellblazer and Sandman.

[JessicaDV8]

Seeker: Arrgh. I can't stand to think about that. :mad:

[kleph]

speaking of reviews, the zprint section could use more. particulary tpbs of classic runs on different titles. lotsa folks like me are keen on picking up a tpb if someone reccomends it highly enough but we aren't going to waste our time slogging through the fanboy dreck in wizard magazine to find out what is worth putting our cold hard cash down on.

[Seeker]

Seeker: Arrgh. I can't stand to think about that. :mad:

I know even after several years I still get that pang of anger, he took a hell of alot more than that but I'll cry if I go into too much detail suffice to say a Golden Age Flash #10 was also amoung the lost lot.

[Glompbot]

I don't really have a 'collection'

I have The Light Fantastic illustrated novel
I have 'I feel sick a book about a girl' (part 1 & 2)

and i think one or two other small ones...

I feel sick has to be my favourite though.
I Feel Sick - This book chronicles the history of Devi (the girl who kicked Johnny’s ass in issue #2 of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) and her life-degenerating relationships with other human beings, told in the form of several delightful, mercifully short stories. Not quite a cursing away at the rest of the human race, I Feel Sick is more a testament to love and friendship’s uncanny ability to make one buckly at the knees and purge the contents of one’s stomachs in the most violent projectile of manners.
(taken from the SLG website)

[pieman]

I feel sick
JTHM-Johnny the homicidal maniac
Squee
Filler Bunny --The awesomest!
Alll of them are by Jhonen Vasquez, as is invader zim.
I loooove invader zim.

[Thyrd]

I've recently started downloading comics. Both DC and Marvel. I've come along in the middle of the Mega crossover events. House of M and Infinite Crisis were awesome, and so far Civil war looks even better than both of them.

[AntZ]

You calling House of M awesome just proves how much of a n00b you are! IC was a let down but Civil War looks like its going to deliver the goods - even if it was a last minute throw together to give DC the finger.

[Thyrd]

It's doing a good job of fingering them so far......ewww

[mooshka]

LOBO series
Tick
Punisher series
Wolverine
Spawn
Pitt

[EvilMuppet]

LOBO series
Tick
Punisher series
Wolverine
Spawn
Pitt


Lobo is the most badass comic dude ever. (well at least when Bisley is dooing the art.) Lobo vs Santa claus is a work of art. Lobo vs heaven is another fave.

[Thyrd]

LOBO series
Tick
Punisher series
Wolverine
Spawn
Pitt
I vaugly remember the hulk fighting a character called pitt probably 10 years ago. Am I thinking of the same one?

[mooshka]

Piit was Dark Horse trying to reproduce a SPAWN type comic. It was a short run, but was great graphics. As to LOBO INFANTICIDE was the best.

[kleph]

i don't know. i though lobo/hitman That Stupid Bastich was pretty damn awesome.

http://www.shwiggie.com/hitman/hm-lobo/

[EvilMuppet]

id completly forgotten about infanticeide, yes it was awesome.

[ShinymetalASS]

Do Tintin and Garfield count? :)

The Seven Crystal Balls scared the shit outta me as a kid. I have whole Tintin series on DVD now. I love it cause it is JUST like the graphic novels.

[Thyrd]

Did anybody else get the reference to futurama in Infinite Crisis #6? Earth-898, the cowboy universe. :p

[BlueBoy]

Shit.
I'm going to have to reread that.

[d3kst3r]

100 Bullets
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Ex Machina
Y: The Last Man

All this talk about X-men and crap feels like trading Pokemon.

[skylar]

I used to collect Archie digests and comic books until I realised too many strips were being rehashed. I still have them at my parents' house somewhere.

[BlueBoy]

I used to collect Archie digests and comic books until I realised too many strips were being rehashed. I still have them at my parents' house somewhere.

Jughead eats a hamburger while Archie can't decide who to take to the dance, Betty or Veronica.There's going to be trouble in Riverdale tonight!

[skylar]

Jughead eats a hamburger while Archie can't decide who to take to the dance, Betty or Veronica.There's going to be trouble in Riverdale tonight!

I was always wondering why two attractive, intelligent girls were fighting over an ugly guy.