What are the favorite comics (web or otherwise) of ILX?

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Last night I had an epiphany that Peanuts really fucking rules. I read Jerkcity every day, and occasionally find time to read Red Meat and Nothing Nice To Say.

I used to have every issue of The West Coast Avengers that I bought for $0.25 each at the local comic shop. I lost a few here and there, though, including the special last issue with red foil cover. I've been thinking about reading comics for a while--what are your recommendations?

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 3 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

New X-Men rocks, as does X-Statix.

My favorite web comic these days is Sluggy Freelance.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Tintin of course.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

mylifeinblue.keenspace.com

i LOVE it, it is the best thing EVER, but i do wish it was updated more often.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

~~POKEY!!!!!!~~

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes!! I had forgotten about Pokey.. though it's not a frequent read, when I start I just sit and read through the entire archive for a few hours. Great way to kill time.

― Ian Johnson, Monday, 3 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have every issue of The West Coast Avengers that I bought for $0.25 each at the local comic shop.

Rock on. The initial Englehart issues there are still one of my favorite runs from Marvel.

What I'm reading lately -- webcomics: Sluggy (although I don't like it nearly as much as I did a few years ago), Something Positive, PvP, Scary Go Round, One Over Zero, and Sinfest.

Print comics (read online): Get Fuzzy, Foxtrot, Boondocks, Doonesbury.

Comic books ... very little anymore, actually. I have a subscription to Ultimate Spider-Man, and pick up Powers and Alias fairly regularly. I always find I spend a lot more money than I plan to when I go to the comic store, which means I try not to go every month, which means I wind up spending money on scattered issues which don't really fully satisfy since I haven't caught up with the story arcs. So I'm sticking more to collections, and have been working my way up through Dark Horse's Lone Wolf and Cub reprints.

But CrossGen has a pirates comic coming out which will probably tempt me.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 3 March 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Slappy White, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Bob H...oh, comics, got ya.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

There's another thread on this somewhere, where I go on at some length. The only regular monthlyish titles I'm reading are those written by my old employees Grant Morrison and Mark Millar.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 3 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Love Johnen Vasquez's work - Squee, I Feel Sick and (to a lesser extent, its a little too gothy) Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. Also love Leonore by Roman Dirge.

Web comics: Jerkcity, SinFest, Redmeat is ok. I always find web comix I love (like Cat and Girl) and then forget to read them on a regular basis. I'm slack like that.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 3 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

currently I wuv: Y, 100 Bullets, New X-Men, some of Alan Moore's America's Best Comics titles, GCPD, etc.

I live X-Statix whenever I bother buying it, but it doesn't grab me enough to make me want to read it every issue.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 3 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

James Kochalka (Sketchbook Diaries, Quit Your Job, Tiny Bubbles, Kissers) http://www.americanelf.com/
Jessica Abel (La Perdida)
Debbie Drechsler (Nowhere)
Joe Matt (peepshow)
Rumiko Takahashi (Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku)
Tom Hart

Oh and X-men and Daredevil and the Fantastic Four

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Currently? Alias, Love & Rockets, Jim, Louis Riel, Daredevil, The Filth, Promethea, Cerebus (sigh).

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do people still read Cerebus? Is it just habit now?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I really uncool if I say I like Red Star?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

duh let me unleash me bookmarks upon thee

And paperwise I only ever buy graphic novels and collections. That said I have been known to seek out/own the following:

Hey, Mister

Tintin

Cerebus

Akira

Battle Angel Alita

Transmetropolitan

Creature Tech

Watchmen

From Hell

The Airtight Garage

and so on and so forth.

I still plan to read and collect Cerebus bcz having issues 1-260 in reprint editions w/o having the rest seems a little silly plus I want to see what happens.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do people like Foxtrot? It's the opportunistic dilettante of strips.

Strips: Rhymes with orange, Boondocks, Sherman's lagoon, Pardon My Planet, The Big Picture.

Comix: old Frank Miller, Blade of the Immortal, Bone, Queen & Country, Hellboy.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

am I the only geek in this bitch who reads League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

― James Blount, Monday, 3 March 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

hows the relaunched Love & Rockets? I've only got the old old old ones.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen hardback, the first one. It's all right.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Kirby's Fourth World, of course.

Although when I start picking at it these days I find lots of faults in it that spoil it for me. Maybe the memories are better.

New comics? Pah...

― ChristineSH, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

web comix: dieselsweeties, achewood, dilbert, cat & girl

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Little Nemo in Slumberland

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do people like Foxtrot? It's the opportunistic dilettante of strips.

?!?!? What are you talking about? It's the comic strip that takes the family sitcom scenario and finally gets the damn thing RIGHT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread is ripe for some random Googling. I give it six days.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the comic strip that takes the family sitcom scenario and finally gets the damn thing RIGHT.

The non-aging family, anyway (unless I haven't been reading it long enough, and the kids actually do age?) -- For Better or Worse has always been good about finding things to do with the kids growing up, marrying, etc. (granted, I more or less stopped reading it when I replaced it with Foxtrot).

Also: geek jokes galore, in non-Dilbertty ways.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

The non-aging family, anyway

Yeah, true. Interesting to see what things recycle (and whatever will Peter listen to when Springsteen finally dies?).

geek jokes galore, in non-Dilbertty ways

Jason is my hero -- and is me at ten or whatever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Please choose one of the following answers - web comics are either: A) the rhythm to print comics' melody, B) created by upstarts & charlatans afraid of papercuts, or C) something which I'm woefully ig'nant aboot (not counting that Five Card Nancy site someone linked to, which is hot stuff).

Newspaper comics page = cesspool of inequity.

Book-type things of a current vintage --> anything Bendis, The Ultimates (when they decide to PUBLISH the damn thing), Y: The Last Man, Stray Bullets, Fantastic Four (ESPECIALLY the Unstable Molecules mini-series, which I cannot recommend enough) (though I'm willing to try) (it's the story of the "real" people that were the inspiration for the FF; awesome stuff), the usual X-books (i.e. those involving Vertigo alum), the Jim Lee / Jeph Loeb Batman (yeah, guess which one of the two artistes I like more), Amazing Spider-Man (when the spider-totem stuff is not a paramount concern) (& even then, I can't complain), Jackson Guice & Mike Perkins & Laura DePuy on Ruse, Dale Keown's pencil work (UNINKED!) in The Darkness.

Geeked for --> the Rucka / Darick Robertson Wolverine, Bendis taking over Ultimate X-Men, the return of Planetary (John Cassaday woooo!), Jae Lee drawring Captain America, Dark Horse publishing Eric Powell's The Goon, Superman: Red Sun (by Mark Millar & Dave Johnson!!!), the Brian K. Vaughn-helmed regular series in Marvel's Tsunami line (that'd be Mystique & Runaways, FYI), (OK, and the other Tsunami titles, just because I'm a sucker for #1s) (yes, even New Mutants) (yes, even Venom) (and OF COURSE Andi Watson writing Namor! - that's a full-on no-brainer), Peter Milligan & Mike Allred taking on Shade, and (not least in the slightest) the Wolverine / Doop mini-series!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked Foxtrot a LOT when I was Jason's age, and while I've pretty much given up on newspaper comics I'd still defend it over almost anything else there. It's certainly got better art than Dilbert.

My taste in comics is like the equivalent of those people whose only rap LP is "Nation of Millions": I like Clowes, Jaime Hernandez and lots of old comics (Schulz, Herriman, Walt Kelly). I'm sure there's a lot of great web comics out there, but I just can't be bothered to see what the good ones are.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

It's certainly got better art than Dilbert.

Yeah but. If Dilbert had better art, it would be worse.

Not that I am all that interested in defending it, but I think the art is one of the things Dilbert gets right.

Anyway: I read: Pokey; Kochalka (esp. the brilliant Sketchbook Diaries); Ware; Jhonen; Carol Lay; Maakies; Krazy; Peanuts; Doonesbury; and really from that you can probably guess the rest of what I read. I would read FBoFW but I really want a comprehensive anthology (much like the dreamed-of Compleat Peanuts).

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 08:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Penny Arcade is GREBT.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

And living the dream!

I am astonished to find out that sinfest isn't Dan's favorite webcomic.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I look out for LoEG, and always check to see if I've missed anything like Naughty Bits, or stuff by Seth, Joe Matt, Chester Brown. I usually buy anything that looks a bit different, and isn't too expensive.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Penny Arcade is on my B-list, so to speak (the stuff I read often, but not if I'm rushed). It's one of those many webcomics -- the best of this particular sort, I'd guess -- that I keep thinking I'd find funnier if I played more video games.

The link for One Over Zero, which I should've provided cause it's the only non-obvious one: oneoverzero.keenspace.com. It's one of those things that's better when you've been reading it a long while. Oh, and I completely forgot to list Megatokyo, since it's not on my check-daily list ...

Oh, favorite strips I don't read online/in print, because I just read the collections: Li'l Abner and Spider-Man.

Someone tell me to stop being a horrible heathen and read some Pogo (and then I'll tell you I would, but I've never seen a Pogo collection).

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Pogo looks nice, but isn't a lot of fun to read, I think. Favourite ever strips, in something like order: Krazy Kat (particularly sundays), Popeye by Segar (esp dailies), Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, Polly & Her Pals, Li'l Abner. Some great albums/collections: Kirby or Ditko Marvel Essentials (best value in comics!), Lone Wolf & Cub, Corto Maltese, Asterix, the new run of Krazy Kat Sundays. Favourite not-very-regular people: Hernandez Brothers, Clowes, Bagge. Favourite current Marvel/DC things: X-Men (Morrison), Ultimates, Filth.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

How could I forget the Essentials? Possibly because I sold mine when I was skint and I'm still annoyed about it. You know, I still have a handful of Ditko political tracts lying around, yet no sign of his finest hour on Spidey... this is a warped situation.

The one recent-ish comic I was tempted to read was From Hell. The collection is too expensive for my current financial situation, tho'. Or should I just see the film? I wanted to see that...

― ChristineSH, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Sof'boy comics are fun, only because they are done by Archer Prewitt.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to be a huge fan of Vertigo and Fantagraphics comix in general, but I find that I just can't be bothered anymore. I liked Vertigo stuff when they actually told stories (ala Sandman Mystery Theatre) and not so much when it's all about whacked-out future people and monsters and shit. Fantagraphics is probably still uniformly good (well, as much as ever) but I find I just don't have the time for it apart from Love and Rockets and Naughty Bits, and the occasional Eightball. I'm sort of OD'd on Bagge at the moment, though I liked the Yeah! series he did with Gilbert.

As for daily comics, I admit a soft spot in my head for Mutts, occasionally find Get Fuzzy interesting and still like Dilbert. I used to like Fox Trot a lot too, though I haven't been reading it in a long time...like any other long-running strip, it tends to repeat the same gags over and over again (Quincy chomping Paige's sweater = Lucy pulling away the football). Sherman's Lagoon is sadistic enough to be funny most of the time, and Pirhana Club is hit and miss. Helen Sweetheart of the Internet = worst strip EVAH.

Online, don't read too many though I still like Get Your War On when I see it. I want to like Leisuretown because it's so well-done and weird, but I think the writer has too many issues he needs to work through (specifically homophobia) before I'll find it truly funny.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Childhood favourites include:
Valerian
Percy Pickwick
Yoko Tsuno
Gai-Luron
Peanuts
and most of all Asterix. (There was no way you could read Asterix and Tintin. You had to decide. And Tintin was the preppies' choice.)

Comics that helped me survive puberty:
Squeak the Mouse
Hard Boiled
Ed the Happy Clown
Okami
Gon
V for Vendetta
and Preacher.

My favourite comics right now:
Les aventures extraordinaires d' Adele Blanc-Sec
Blame!
Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
The Kindly Ones (none of the other Sandman paperbacks though)
From Hell
and Approximate Continuum Comics.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Sean, you should check out 100 Bullets (aka the last great Vertigo comic).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

People keep telling me that, I guess I have to go back and check it out. I assume they've collected in in trade paperback by now? And is it still ongoing?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

It's still ongoing and it has two (?) TPBs out there.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Recently I've been reading a lot of Bob the Angry Flower and Isometric. But I also love Tintin AND Asterix, Calvin and Hobbes, most anything by Jhonen Vasquez, and a bunch of other comics I'm too lazy to name.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Christine, I found From Hell a bit boring a lot of the way. The stuff about why people care about Jack The Ripper, as opposed to fairly straightforward historical reconstruction and being slapped round the face with the high quality and in depth research, is interesting.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

What I find most distasteful about Foxtrot is the oppressive nature of its stereotyping, especially with Paige, but especially with the older brother (Peter?) and the standards of masculinity that Amend sets forth vis-a-vis him.

Now, if they were all talking sharks, it would be acceptable.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

You should all go and read this dinosaur comic!!!!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was really liking the new Superman/Batman title, until the newest issue where I kinda got the idea that it's going to be a while before they get back to all of the really cool things they brought up in the first three issues.
But the art is still awesome.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I just read Craig Thompson's new graphic novel Blankets, which was absolutely gorgeous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Blankets is wonderful. As it happens I'm just writing a review of it for a local mag.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I often wonder how I could afford 3000+ comics as a child, but can barely afford to buy more than a few a month now...

Also, I just read BMB's Fortune & Glory, which I'd recommend to just about anyone, comic-hater or otherwise. I've never read any other Bendis. Any recommendations?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

New X-Men is still really rocking hard.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

New Joe Sacco book coming soon. hurrah

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I often wonder how I could afford 3000+ comics as a child, but can barely afford to buy more than a few a month now...

Well, I sort of remember the sticker shock when comics went from $0.50 to $0.75, I thought I would have to drop some titles, but miraculously, I didn't. I think I softened the economic crush by reappropriating milk money.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Fixer" is really great. I saw Sacco do a talk in Toronto last month, and -- unusally for comic guys -- he's a great and witty speaker. (At the other end of the spectrum is Chester Brown, who, uh, ain't.)

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I met Chester in, uh, October I think, and he seemed no more or less socially awkward than, uh, mysel..oh wait a minute.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

He's ok in person, just a terrible speechmaker, the kind who drones on for hours without realising no-one's listening... I have to admit, also, Louis Riel is kind of a bore.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

You obviously didn't have to visit Batoche every year in Elementary School.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

On the other hand, never a true word spoken.

http://www.beguiling.com/images/2386.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Achewood

Peter Blegvad's Leviathan

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Little Nemo In Slumberland

Krazy Kat

Kirby's New Gods (esp. the Origins issue. My gosh it's amazing.)

Hellboy (except the Byrne-written issues)

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Tony Millionaire's "Maakies" is the only one I read at all regularly.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That dinosaur comic is awesome. For webcomics, I usually read dieselsweeties.com and Penny Arcade, and I used to read nuklearpower.com until it got blocked at work.

Just for kicks, I'm currently reading three-dimensional comics like New X-Men, some Batman stuff, the current Wolverine, Fables, Y: The Last Man, Human Target, Runaways, and old Hellblazer trades. I also just got the first Queen & Country trade to check out, haven't read it yet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

READ Q&C ASAP STOP YOU WILL LOVE RUCKA LIKE I DO STOP

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

(opera ate my first go at this due to lack of ram)
winner of battle comic
http://worstcomicever.com/arena.php
rezo
who got ribald youth going http://www.ribaldyouth.com/index.shtml
I like revelations with a back catalogue like that enough that I could have mentionned it in the small pleasures thread
with wigu and smallstories that I got from this thread but also

journal comic http://www.drewweing.com/journalcomic/tjc030502.html
bruno http://www.brunostrip.com/bruno.html
unicorn jelly http://unicornjelly.com/
and sexy losers who is too user ennemy to deserve a link booo

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

has @d@ml read "The Fixer"?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

www . geocities . com / flims ycavern

Get rid of the spaces. It's fantastic. Although right now it's in the middle of some series, and they don't keep archives, so good luck!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

A few years ago, my newspaper dropped "Crabby Lane" because one of the characters used the word "fart".

Today, they published a comic strip featuring a dog graphically rolling around in shit.

http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2008137650316.gif

I've never been prouder of this local, yellow newspaper.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel like this strip should be funny, but far too often isn't.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't that the strip written by the uber-conservative guy?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought my first comic books in three months today. It felt good.

― MVP (nordicskilla), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm I don't think so...? He's made some marginally snarky refs about the war in his strips (secondary character returning w/limbs blown off, etc.). You're thinking of Dildobert!

x-post

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Goork, sniff chew

when I dream sideways, Francis Asneezie and Wallace William Carixote tickle my sniffle nostril.

― goofberrytechboy, Friday, 18 December 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

all at a little place, down in a hole labelled www.nerdstrip.com

― goofberrytechboy, Friday, 18 December 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

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