I LOVE comic books!

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by flip

I'd also like some good and fairly recent (ie later than mid 90s) TPBs for Iron Man, FF, Silver Surfer and the Hulk. Of all those I have only 1 title and that is Hulk Grey. For some reason I never got into lots of Marvels core heroes and just stuck to X-men and Wolverine.

There was a great Iron Man short last summer. The art was awesome and the story was good too. I don't know if they made a TPB yet though but it'd be worth picking up.





A good Silver Surfer one was "In thy name"

[Human Torch]

Originally Posted by KTrain

The Walking Dead: zombie fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead

Invincible : superhero comic that feels like fun again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_(comics)

Fables: fairy tale characters set in the modern world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables_(comics)

Y the Last Man: All the dudes are dead but one with a planet full of women: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_the_last_man

These are pretty much the only comics I follow(along with deadpool for my superhero fix) and recommend them as well. Good stuff KTrain, I think I'll check out your other suggestions, we have similar tastes.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by csnarpy

i used to collect along time ago. Sold off most of mine but I still have 2 boxes that I'll probably never rid of.

My prize comics being: Flash #1, Dark Knight #1, Wolverine #1 and Detective Comics #27 (if you know this comic book, you'll absolutely know why it's in my SDB - my Aunt, of all people, gave this to me when I was in my teens and I've been happy ever since!)

I find it hard to believe you have that you have an actual Detective 27. Your other prize comics are worth(in the real world and not the guide) Flash #1(1987) $1, Dark Knight #1 $8 and Wolverine #1 $10. I don't think DC ever distributed comics to Canada back then and especially in western Canada. There are only around 100 copies left in existence.



Collectors should be aware that there was an EXACT REPRINT of Detective Comics # 27, published in 1974 under DC Comics' FAMOUS FIRST EDITION line. Originally, the comic had a stiff outer cover identifying it as a reprint. When the outer cover is removed, it is IDENTICAL to the original book, except that it is OVERSIZED 10" long and 13 1/2 inches tall. There have been many instances over the years where a non-comic collector has been fooled by one of these reprints. When I owned a comic book store, I got at least one call per month from someone with an oversized reprint of either Action Comics # 1 (1st Superman), Detective Comics # 27 (1st Batman), Sensation Comics # 1 (1st Wonder Woman title), Whiz Comics # 2 (# 1) (not identical to the original, but not identified as a reprint either), Batman # 1, or Superman # 1.

A genuine Detective Comics # 27 will be the same size as a normal Golden Age comic book, which is slightly smaller than a normal sized magazine.

There is also a 1984 reprint of Detective Comics # 27, produced as an Oreo Cookies giveaway. This comic is 32 pages long instead of 68, and has 3 batman stories instead of 1. (The others are from Detective # 38 - 1st Robin and Batman # 1 - 1st Joker). the cover is paper instead of glossy, it says "collector's edition" on the cover, plus the cover price is "free" instead of 10 cents. This is less frequently passed off as the genuine article. It is harder to find and worth more money intact.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Human Torch

These are pretty much the only comics I follow(along with deadpool for my superhero fix) and recommend them as well. Good stuff KTrain, I think I'll check out your other suggestions, we have similar tastes.

Fables is one of the best reads of all time. I was talking to the writer at the comic expo last year. Sounds like DC just got the rights to use Peter Pan(villain). Can't wait.

Worst reads of all time. CIVIL WAR. I won't read marvel comics after that crap.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Worst reads of all time. CIVIL WAR. I won't read marvel comics after that crap.

Agreed, if anyone wants to read it I have a bunch of the TPB's you can have for dirt cheap. But I warn you, they weren't worth the read.

[bomber317]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Fables is one of the best reads of all time. I was talking to the writer at the comic expo last year. Sounds like DC just got the rights to use Peter Pan(villain). Can't wait.

Worst reads of all time. CIVIL WAR. I won't read marvel comics after that crap.

Oh man, they're using Peter Pan as a villain?! that sounds sweet.

[flip]

Thanks for the heads up on Civil War, I'll stay away from that. I'd thought the premise sounded a little silly. Tony Stark and a hero registration thing and other heroes fighting back? Just didn't make a lot of sense that all these people who are allies would just turn around and go to war with each other.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by flip

Thanks for the heads up on Civil War, I'll stay away from that. I'd thought the premise sounded a little silly. Tony Stark and a hero registration thing and other heroes fighting back? Just didn't make a lot of sense that all these people who are allies would just turn around and go to war with each other.

Mix that with the fact that most of the 'huge events' that happened were promptly reversed in the characters own series after the civil war. Like Parker took his mask off on national news and then after civil war people just forgot about the whole thing. Marvel events are a kick in the nuts.

[flip]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

Mix that with the fact that most of the 'huge events' that happened were promptly reversed in the characters own series after the civil war. Like Parker took his mask off on national news and then after civil war people just forgot about the whole thing. Marvel events are a kick in the nuts.

I read Spiderman: Coming Home which was J. Michael Straczynski's first run on the book IIRC which was pretty decent. But other than that I've been hard pressed to find any in continuity (re: not Spiderman: Blue) stories that aren't complete crap. Dating all the way back to the Clone Saga I can't think of a single time Spidey has been good since Macfarlane left and even then it was mostly for the art.

Have there been any good runs on Spidey in the last 10 years?

[Old Yeller]

I really liked the Walking Dead but have found the story line has started to go kind of stale.

Another zombie comic is Garth Ennis' Crossed series. There's only 4 issues so far but man is it fast moving and violent... quite brutal actually.

[Flames89]

Here is a question.

I used to collect comics from, say, 1983-1992. Now I have boxes of them, and they are still at my parents house (needless to say I don't live with them anymore, or even in the same city).

What do I do with them? The parents are tired of having those boxes, and I don't have the space in my life here?

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by flip

Have there been any good runs on Spidey in the last 10 years?

There was a two-part with Silver Surfer and Carnage (430-431) that was great. 'The Other' (525-528 but was 16 parts over four titles, get the TPB), 'Back in Black' (539-543), the three-part with the Mayan extremists (555-557 w/Wolverine), 'New ways to die' (568-573 w/Eddie Brock and the Thunderbolts), 'Family Ties' (575-576 w/the return of Hammerhead), and the current lead-in to issue #600 are all worth reading.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by Flames89

Here is a question.

I used to collect comics from, say, 1983-1992. Now I have boxes of them, and they are still at my parents house (needless to say I don't live with them anymore, or even in the same city).

What do I do with them? The parents are tired of having those boxes, and I don't have the space in my life here?

What kind of books?

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by bomber317

Oh man, they're using Peter Pan as a villain?! that sounds sweet.

Yeah. he's a child abductor which is true if you think about it. It's going to be awesome.

I also asked Willingham how much longer the series is going to go. He said indefinitely at this time but that he does have the ending written out already.


Some more info.

I wanted the Adversary to be Peter Pan. Even when I was a kid, I couldn’t understand why he was considered the good guy in these stories. Basically, he would come to our world and steal our kids. That just seemed pretty sinister. I thought, “Okay, we’ll do a little turnaround on that, and make Peter Pan the evil Adversary, and that means that Captain Hook and his pirates were really were a crew that were going to Neverland and rescuing these kids, and they were painted as pirates only because Peter was doing the press releases.” That was, I thought, a pretty good idea that we didn’t get to do, because even though I carefully worked out that Pan was in public domain in America, he’s still under copyright in England, because the Parliament did a special extension of copyright because all the income from Peter Pan books went to the Ormond Street Hospital for kids. So to keep the hospital having their income, they extended the copyright, and since we were going to sell Fables in England, we couldn’t do it. That’s why we had to come up with a new villain, who, in hindsight, I think was much better. That worked out pretty well.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by flip

Thanks for the heads up on Civil War, I'll stay away from that. I'd thought the premise sounded a little silly. Tony Stark and a hero registration thing and other heroes fighting back? Just didn't make a lot of sense that all these people who are allies would just turn around and go to war with each other.

The worst thing is that to make their characters 'gritty' they made them all schizos.

Trying to follow up DC and their Identity Crisis series, which is my favorite superhero graphic of all time.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Flames89

Here is a question.

I used to collect comics from, say, 1983-1992. Now I have boxes of them, and they are still at my parents house (needless to say I don't live with them anymore, or even in the same city).

What do I do with them? The parents are tired of having those boxes, and I don't have the space in my life here?

Comics between 1978 till now are pretty much worthless. I sold mine at $30 a long box and i had over 50 long boxes. Works out to be about 10 cents a comic.

[Flames89]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

What kind of books?

Hmm, if I recall correctly:

Amazing Spiderman, Spiderman
Xmen, Classic Xmen, and maybe some other
Xfactor, Xforce?, Xsomething else too
Wolverine
Daredevil
Some punishers

probably some others - but basically just Marvel stuff

[flip]

Originally Posted by Flames89

Hmm, if I recall correctly:

Amazing Spiderman, Spiderman
Xmen, Classic Xmen, and maybe some other
Xfactor, Xforce?, Xsomething else too
Wolverine
Daredevil
Some punishers

probably some others - but basically just Marvel stuff

hmmm. If your location didn't say TO I'd offer to buy it.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Human Torch

These are pretty much the only comics I follow(along with deadpool for my superhero fix) and recommend them as well. Good stuff KTrain, I think I'll check out your other suggestions, we have similar tastes.

Definitely check out Starman and DMZ then.

Starman is completed with 75 issues + annuals. They've produced 2 omnibus trades (6 total are planned) so far with another coming in the fall. $36 on Amazon for 17 comics isn't too bad.

DMZ is on it's sixth trade I think. The art isn't as great as some of the other stuff but the story more than makes up for it. Here's a quick synopsis from Amazon.

A near-future America is torn by war between the Free Armies, who control New Jersey and the inland, and the United States, ensconced in New York City's boroughs. In the war-torn DMZ of Manhattan, Matty Roth, hired as a phototech intern to a famous battlefield journalist, is stranded when the rest of his crew is killed. Overcoming initial panic, he decides to remain as the sole embedded journalist in the devastated, largely depopulated city. It's a career-making assignment--if it doesn't get him killed. Befriended by former med student Zee, who runs a clinic, Matty discovers a society struggling to survive amid skirmishes and snipers (appropriate soundtrack music: Talking Heads' "Life during Wartime"). Of the DMZ issues collected here, the first three establish its premise. In the succeeding two, Matty discovers the "Ghosts of Central Park"--paramilitaries who defend the now-deforested preserve and its zoo animals--and chases a robber who steals his press badge. Wood's writing does justice to the intriguing concept, and Burchielli's jagged artwork effectively conveys the characters' desperation.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by flip

I read Spiderman: Coming Home which was J. Michael Straczynski's first run on the book IIRC which was pretty decent. But other than that I've been hard pressed to find any in continuity (re: not Spiderman: Blue) stories that aren't complete crap. Dating all the way back to the Clone Saga I can't think of a single time Spidey has been good since Macfarlane left and even then it was mostly for the art.

Have there been any good runs on Spidey in the last 10 years?

I find the current run to be excellent once they shovelled aside all his past for 20 years. I love the Brand New Day.