Any recommended series or graphic novels to pick up?

Any new opinions on this take from anyone? I really, really want to like Secret Wars, but it just isn't appealing to me. I might just drop it at this point.

That said, the Owen Reece angle was interesting. Essential really, looking back on how the story has evolved so far.

The flash is a great read and loving justice league. justice league united is strange to me.

I think Secret Wars is a good culmination to Hickman's Avengers run (and to some extent, everything he's written for Marvel), but not a great event miniseries. And the tie-ins seem largely pointless.

I'm right there with you. I've been trying to keep up on a few of the tie-ins (ultimate end, old man logan) but overall they're not as "tied in" as the cross overs from last summer's Original Sin.

The cross overs I've enjoyed the most are Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars and Giant Size Little Marvel.

Old Man Logan, Ultimate End, and Future imperfect are the best tie-in books.

Seige would make the list but the art is so bad it really distracts from the (mostly solid) story...

anyone reading anything new/newish?

I've been reading Nailbiter in TPB it's pretty........interesting
disappointed in the major delays in secret wars for sure

Nailbiter is great. The delays of/mess created by Secret Wars has put me off comics recently.

We Stand On Guard (written by Brian K Vaughn of Saga and Y: The Last Man) is pretty good.

You and me both. I'm basically circling the runway until Secret Wars is all done, and then I'll read it all at once and see what new series might be worth picking up.

Did you check out Paper Girls the new Vaughn book?

Secret Wars has been good as a story I guess, but it would appear that they save all the action sequences for the offshoot titles. Not much of anything action wise has happened in the main storyline (the T'Challa angle in the new issue does have promise, though).

You wait and watch - Molecule Man has been "saving" the old realities in some pocket universe with the power of the combined Beyonders, and will let it all lose when Doom pisses him off at some point. That or all the cosmic entities are hiding in that bright room with him, just biding their time when they and MM can strike.

I was a BIG fan of the T'challa angle
Also the Ben Grimm stuff

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I just finished volumes 1 & 2 of Injustice: Gods Among Us, which are graphic novels inspired by the video games.

I don't want to give anything away, but I would highly recommend it. The art is fantastic and the storyline is pretty cool. It was great to see Batman being a badass dickhead and an unbound Superman.

Superman is so ****ing awesome when he's not holding back.

Yeah, I liked those a lot more than I thought I would. I second this recommendation.

Did a little traveling this week and got caught up on some stuff.

We Stand On Guard is awesome.
Reading Saga on an airplane is hard when you've got a nice little retiree lady doing crosswords next to you and you never know whether the next page will be a robot orgy or not.
The Civil War series from Secret Wars was actually really good. Didn't expect that.
The Star Wars Shattered Empire weekly is worth it.

I took saga vol 2 on an airplane myself, not a good idea lol

Aquaman is ****ing awesome.

I'm currently in the midst of reading his New 52 run. I'm on volume 3 "Throne of Atlantis".

The art is incredible. Seriously. Probably the best I've ever seen.

And the storylines have been pretty gripping thus far. Atlantis is currently at war with the surface world where I'm reading and the Justice League is getting involved. Shit just got real.

wat.

I've seen a few of your snarky posts in other threads so I know you're a comic book elitist douche. I'm not interested in getting into a debate with you because I'm not really knowledgeable. I mentioned a few days ago that I had been reading the Injustice graphic novels but prior to that and this Aquaman run I hadn't read a comic book in probably 10 years.

Anyway, the artist involved in the New 52 is Ivan Reis. He does some good work. I really love the way they draw and color Aquaman.

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If you like his work in Aquaman check out his Lady Death stuff
you also might like Alan Davis
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Or Neal Adams

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It appears that I'm partial to Jim Lee:

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Ivan Reis:

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Michael Turner:

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Definitely one of the best.

Ron Lim was my favorite back in the day...

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Sinkewicz is one of my favs

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Also Walter Simonson
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I was going to say "looks like a generic Jim Lee rip off" but you figured it out yourself.

He certainly deserves his reputation but bleh, these days every C-list artist does his style so it's no longer a special thing anymore. He himself also trains artists to specifically draw like him or ink or do fill ins for him (not saying it's a bad though).

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Can't say I'm a fan of the bronze age and older stuff art either, I understand the technical limitations they had back then but I can't really go back and be wowed by anything. The earliest stuff that really struck me was probably Dave McKean, then Alex Ross or Phil Jimenez.

Lots and lots of great artists today, but my favorite bosses are Frazer Irving, Frank Quitely, and J.H Williams III. Irving is by far my favorite, the shit he's able to put on a page blows my mind every time. When I read his Batman & Robin for the first time it didn't even occur to me that comics could look like that.

Let's be honest, his joker is one of the creepiest:

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Ron Lim is my favorite, without question.

I have all of those books, BTW.

I remember buying that SS/Terrax book. I was like 12.

I was always partial to Keown and McFarlane.

I think both truly hit their strides when they went to image but you could tell they were special even in their early Marvel work.
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I was pleased with James Bond.

Warren Ellis is writing it...you should check it out.

anyone pick up Monstress?
holy shit it's good

anyone buy a lot of multiples and trade/wheel and deal?

nah, even though when I saw what the copy of Ms. Marvel #1 is going for there might be some wheeling/dealing in my future.

I did in the 90's which just happens to be the most worthless friggen decade in comix as far as value/collecting goes.

Before I die I'll have an Incredible Hulk 181...

Yeah I'm done piling up single issues these days unless it's a series I really really really need to read ASAP. Otherwise I'll just buy (or not buy) them digitally and wait for the TPB or hardcover.

Viewcomic.com is your friend. most comic books i read on there. Also saves money.

Also reading dark knight return 3 very good.

Meh it's just Miller & DC milking the cow (Beyond Watchmen anyone?). Absolutely no reason for even the sequel he did way back when which was a flop, this time he's not even drawing and he wants to do even more books for it afterward... ridiculous.

DK3 won't compare to DKR, but I'm willing to not grade it on that curve since Frank already broke the "artistic integrity" seal with DK2. I just wish the art wasn't so generic that I think I actively hate it.

I'm to the point where I'm only going to have like 3-5 books that are on my pull list and I'm seriously considering just switching to TPB.
I do buy quite a few back issues though and I find that when my pull list was huge and I was spending $100 a month on new books I wasn't buying any back issues. I cut my pull and always try to pick up and older book every week. It's fun to build old runs ( Byrne X-men, Simonson Fantastic FOur stuff like that)

Just finished reading SuperMan: Earth One for the first time. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Great story, and Seth Davis' work is outstanding. Do we ever find out who the person is that gave the Dherons the tech to destroy Krypton (I liked that part of the story as well. Krypton was essentially assassinated by their warring neighbor planet), and WHY he wanted Krypton and all the Kryptonians dead?

I did the same thing. I have lots of mostly worthless shit like #1 issues from Image comics, bagged issues and limited edition covers. A few things that aren't totally worthless, but overall it's not pretty. Everyone in the 90's was speculating thinking that stuff would be worth something, but they sold so many that there are warehouses full of that crap. Like the death of Superman bagged issues.

I'm not really sure who Rick and Morty are, but there has been a line of people wrapped around my building for 5 or so hours now for some event at a comic book store 2 blocks away. Has to be a thousand people lined up. I think they're heading to KC tomorrow.

Captain America went rogue and ordered a hit everyone's favorite SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson. Sounds like Phil is gonna die....

http://screenrant.com/captain-americ...kills-coulson/

Great Adult animated show on Cartoon Network.

Funny as hell on a Family Guy/surface level but the more you watch the more you realize the deep arguments/philosophy/commentary they're making on life...

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I think bad writing and political gatekeeping is rampant in comics, and it's affecting the product enormously. I think the Clairmont era of X-men can show anyone diversity done right compared to modern day tokenism that hack writers are passing off as diversity. Nowadays american comics take a back seat to japanese manga in terms of sales, and that's because the product is not good. Too much lecturing. Too much self projection from writers. Too much trolling the fanbase. I mean turning captain america into a nazi is pure trolling. I don't even like captain america, and that's exactly what I would do if I wanted to piss off all of his fans.

I watched one video of Diversity in comics (Meyer's youtube channel) because of it's clickbait title and it was boring as shit. Just some guy with awful audio bitching about how shitty comic books are with a weird obsession with insulting women in particular. I get the feeling he's had some bitter divorces.

In the case of that video, both things are true. Toxic activists are ruining a product to the point it's now 2nd to Japanese manga, and Meyer is a very sketchy dude.

I used to watch Maeyers videos; they were good when he focused on criticizing the comics. He got sucked up into the drama and started roasting roasties that work for Marvel. he comes off as a sexist and a gay basher. I have a modicum of respect for Meyer still because he started his own comic and sold $300K worth of graphic novels. its even more impressive since he has been blacklisted by diamond distribution and his publisher.

Purchased my first comic book in 30 some years. Getting in on the Savage Avengers series. Seems like it's going to be a good mix of characters I liked as a kid.