connor wrote:David Lapham's Stray Bullets is consistently great and the new hardbound collections are absolutely beautiful. Definitely a big influence on my writing. Lapham's stuff is often compared to Sin City, but Stray Bullets is far superior to that Frank Miller pap.

Stray Bullets is the shit. It was my favorite book when I was reading regularly. I just picked up a new book by Lapham called Silverfish. A little pricey but I'm sure it'll be well worth it.
I've also been reading 'Y:The Last Man' and picked up a new book that just started called 'The Sword'.

I mentioned earlier that I love Preacher. Sandman is probably my all time favorite though. I pretty much like all the Vertigo stuff I've read.

I kind of got out of comics for a few years but after a recent purchase of these beauties:

http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Sandman- ... 552&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Sandman- ... y_b_text_b

I started reading again. Trades only for now. If I start going to the comic shop before I know it I'll be having them pull books for me, then I'm there every Wednesday, then I'm spending $50 a week on comics...

Anyway, I've been working my way through DC's Crisis stuff. I read Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time since I was a wee one. Then Identity Crisis (which was awesome), which I missed out on in my down time. Now I'm reading all the Countdown to Infinite Crisis minis. I've got the Infinite Crisis and 52 trades on deck. I've heard that 52 was awesome and Countdown to Final Crisis sucks so I think I'll stop after 52 and wait for Final Crisis. After all this I'm going to get caught up on some of my favorites that I ditched a couple years ago (Fables, 100 Bullets, whatever Geoff Johns is currently writing etc.) I'll probably finally read some Hellblazer too...something I've always wanted to do.

DC has so many powerhouses writing for them. Morrison, Johns, Rucka. It's a good time to be a DC fan.

Speaking of Garth Ennis. Has anyone been following The Boys? I've been told it's fucking awesome but I haven't come across the trades anywhere yet.


Oh, bump by the way.

All-time favorite is easily Preacher. This is the pinnacle of Ennis' writing, showing that when he moves beyond repeated dick jokes and low-shots against religion, he can create a great work.

A current fave is Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead. It is still on-going. In fact, Image recently rereleased issue #1. It is a great introduction to this zombie comic that deals much more with humans than with the living dead.

The Punisher MAX comic, also penned (for now) by Ennis is fantastic and is a drastically different take on the Punisher. He's not relegated to Marvel sideshow status here.

Yesterday I discovered DMZ, set in future America in the middle of a second civil war. With the army stretched out at different hotspots in the Middle East, and the National Guard spread thin due to overseas deployment, a group of militias seek to overthrow the government. Both side reach a stalemate in New York City, with Manhattan serving as a demilitarized zone where depravity and lawlessness festers. I was skeptical as to whether this story would work; it does. The first trade is a great introduction.

I will second the DMZ plug. So good. I've read through the 4th trade and it just gets better.

Anybody read the human target series vertigo put out a while back? Really good. Peter Milligan scripted, I think.

DazeyDiver wrote:I will second the DMZ plug. So good. I've read through the 4th trade and it just gets better.

Anybody read the human target series vertigo put out a while back? Really good. Peter Milligan scripted, I think.

I third the DMZ recommendation. It's very good stuff. And! The Human Target was excellent. I thoroughly recommend getting the early mini-series, the one-off 'graphic novel' and the paperbacks of the series. All are top notch.

I like just about all of Milligan's non-superhero writing, which I think is all worth tracking down: Shade, the Changing Man; The Extremist; Enigma; Face; Skreemer; his 6 issues of Animal Man etc. All of that is strong stuff.

His superhero work is less interesting to me but X-statix/X-force was absolutely brilliant and worth seeking out.

i like preacher and transmetropolitan. only other comics i've read as an adult are a couple of the drawn and quarterlies (sof boy and tomine) which i liked. as a kid i'd pick up an xmen comic here and there and liked usagi yojimbo.

Peripatetic wrote:I mentioned earlier that I love Preacher. Sandman is probably my all time favorite though. I pretty much like all the Vertigo stuff I've read.

I kind of got out of comics for a few years but after a recent purchase of these beauties:

http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Sandman- ... 552&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Sandman- ... y_b_text_b

I started reading again. Trades only for now. If I start going to the comic shop before I know it I'll be having them pull books for me, then I'm there every Wednesday, then I'm spending $50 a week on comics...

Anyway, I've been working my way through DC's Crisis stuff. I read Crisis on Infinite Earths for the first time since I was a wee one. Then Identity Crisis (which was awesome), which I missed out on in my down time. Now I'm reading all the Countdown to Infinite Crisis minis. I've got the Infinite Crisis and 52 trades on deck. I've heard that 52 was awesome and Countdown to Final Crisis sucks so I think I'll stop after 52 and wait for Final Crisis. After all this I'm going to get caught up on some of my favorites that I ditched a couple years ago (Fables, 100 Bullets, whatever Geoff Johns is currently writing etc.) I'll probably finally read some Hellblazer too...something I've always wanted to do.

DC has so many powerhouses writing for them. Morrison, Johns, Rucka. It's a good time to be a DC fan.

Speaking of Garth Ennis. Has anyone been following The Boys? I've been told it's fucking awesome but I haven't come across the trades anywhere yet.


Oh, bump by the way.

If you liked the over-the-top/off-color humor that was a staple in Preacher, The Boys should be right up your alley.

As for 100 Bullets, I'm pretty sure issue #100 will be the final issue. Bullets is well on it's way to being the finest run on a comic ever. However, the landscape has changed a lot over the last couple of years.

Where did you leave off, story-wise?

Interesting 100 Bullets tidbit: A ways back, the entire DC comics Vertigo message board was converted from seperate comic-based discussion sections(Bullets having a seperate section. The other comic having theirs as well) to a single general discussion section with all of the seperate sections in one big comic discussing gumbo.

Most all of the 100 Bullets fans started posting on a non-DC board. After a while DC deleted all of the old threads, leaving the board empty. It's now a makeshift Booster Gold forum. Seems DC won't give Booster a seperate section in the main DC boards. Kudos Macguyver-minded Booster fans!

Also, Vertigo's Scalped is awesome. The most recent storyline has had me choked up left and right.

numberthirty wrote:As for 100 Bullets, I'm pretty sure issue #100 will be the final issue. Bullets is well on it's way to being the finest run on a comic ever. However, the landscape has changed a lot over the last couple of years.

Where did you leave off, story-wise?

I stopped in like the spring of 2004..so probably around #50? I loved it up to that point, I just kind of quit comics cold turkey for awhile (got married, bought a house, made a fake attempt at "growing up", etc.)

numberthirty wrote:It's now a makeshift Booster Gold forum. Seems DC won't give Booster a seperate section in the main DC boards. Kudos Macguyver-minded Booster fans!

I've heard really good things about the new Booster Gold series. I love Geoff Johns' obsession with/ability to bring back old characters/stories and make them really cool. Hawkman, JSA, Booster Gold etc.

My friend from college Gerry Duggan wrote a string of Deadpools with Brian Poeshn starting in 2012. I'm on issue 6 via the Marvel iPad app and I find them to be pretty entertaining. Just having access to all of those old Avengers and X-Men from the 1960's makes that app worth it. I think Gerry is working on the new Nova next.I've also been reading a lot of Dark Horse Star Wars titles through that app. I am loving the comic book apps!