Comics You Don't Read, Part One

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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jealous.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason, I'm still not buying Birds of Prey, haven't bought Thing since #1, and haven't read Plastic Man beyond the first trade (I did buy the first three issues). Not to mention Fables, Y, and I haven't even looked at Ex Machina.
And yet I'm still paying real dollars for Green Arrow???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

His buying habits - advantageous!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

For Judd Winick.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ah-hum.
So Manhunter will be doomed once Rucka's Sister Eye starts mining the same territory with special bonus Batman kissyface?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

But Rucka gives the book props! Unless that was some sort of INFINITY GIVER type of thing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

He likes the book so much he's doing his own version! (which is also a version of another book he likes so much because he writes it)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, there's so many bad comics, I'm kinda glad that I don't have to read so many of them. I remember when I was doing that thread going through a big stack of free recent DC books, and for the most part it was so depressing and boring that I couldn't even finish my thread.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Real dollars? You mean you pay in American?

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

He misspelled "rape."

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

What ONE title should I use to replace Green Arrow (which I really must drop, because it just fills me with so much MEH, it's like when I used to have to spend the first hour of every day filing death notices, and I slid into a deep depression over the ultimate futility and anonymity of life).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I would say Q&C, but 1) I don't know if you already read that, and 2) it's not really of use recommending that now, seeing as the next issue (much less next trade) is never coming out!

But you must get on the BKV gravy train before it's too late!

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 6 February 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm leaning toward Ex Machina.
I guess I've got quite a few openings in my comics file, thanks to JLA, Gotham Central and the Flash. Maybe I should just stick that money away to cover all the Showcase Presents and the eventual new bookshelf I'm going to need for all of them.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Fables, Huck. It's a superhero comic without superheroes -- the best such -- right down to iconic characters/outfits/schticks, evil overlords with master plans, traditional hero/villain roles and the contemporary blurring of that line, and the same interest in continuity and familiarity that superhero comics appeal to, except that in this case the C&F refer to traditional fairy tales and fables (and, oddly, Pinocchio).

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's a superhero comic without superheroes

... in particular it's one of the only comics where this descriptor isn't another way of saying "there are action scenes."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

The BKV titles you mention (& Fables) might read better in trade form. If you're looking for a monthly to take the place of GA, I'd go w/ BOP - it'll give you the DC fix you crave, but it's, like, good.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

i read fables tp #1... wasn't so into it, gotta say

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've been half-keeping up with Fables and Y (I think I'm three trades in for each) via trades. And the whole scariness of wading into a self-contained storyline 20 or more issues in (where's Ex Machina at?) is scary.
BOP might be my go-to book.
I should drop Teen Titans too.

xpost, I read Fables trade #2 first, and liked it a lot more than trade #1.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

(it's a decent book to get from the library, if you're lucky)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I've read 20 or 30 some odd issues of Fabless, and I was non-plussed for the duration. It was too cute (w/o being twee enough!) for me. I mean, come on, SNOW WHITE? THAT'S SOME GIRLY STUFF I AIN'T GONNA READ.

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

But Bigby is the Hulk x Wolverine!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

For the love of Triton, drop the TT already! (Sez the guy that dropped TT just before PHYSICS was DENIED.)

& get the recent BOP w/ Green Arrow in it. It came out 2 months ago, I think. If you're not happy, Matthew will give you your money back.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I read the first Fables trade and thought it was awful? What's the defense? And I say this as someone who liked Sandman!

Ditto for Lucifer, which I don't really like but for some reason have almost all the trades and about 20 issues of.

― kenchen, Monday, 6 February 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

This is the Fables thread

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Lucifer at least has some sense of wonder at "these really are powerful beings" and also is horror, which is nice. Fables just seems like a well-written story about making incredibly cool characters seem really dull.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 February 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

I read the first Fables trade and thought it was awful? What's the defense? And I say this as someone who liked Sandman!

I don't think you were here the last time I was a regular, so I'll warn you in advance I react with great hostility to the notion that liking something needs to be defended.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

That's why This is the Fables thread

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 February 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Teen Titans...Dave R. is right, drop that stinker ASAP. It's much much worse now Tony Daniel's pencilling it, he's bad to the point of being unbearable.

Green Arrow's totally boring and has a similar problem to Teen Titans; it has worsened a lot since Tom Fowler replaced Phil Hester; the only worthwile stuff there are those James Jean covers, which you can always download. What's the Nightwing ongoing like? I've always loved that character dearly and the Chuck Dixon stuff was...not great, not good, not smart, but it was decent and fun.

― i0dine, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bruce Jones is taking over Nightwang OYL, so that might be worth something.
I think I'm definitely ("I think I'm definitely", no wonder, etc) going to overhaul my pull list for the OYL. No Titans, no GA, maybe even no GL.
I kinda actually dug Tom Fowler's stuff on GA, it had a real zaniness to it (that didn't necessarily jibe with Winick's unzany "OH NO MY FAMILY IS IN DANGER"x3 scripts).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Do we have a OYL thread, speaking of which? Is there any ILC conventional wisdom about the non-52 titles? I'm making some changes to my pull list, and the more I make at one time the better (whenever I have just one or two adjustments to make, I wind up waiting until they accumulate; I don't know why).

Is everything switching over at once, at least, or is it going be be "Crisis-transition" madness with one title still "OYA," another "OYL," another "twenty minutes in the future" ...

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

There's this: The Post-Infinite DCU , which, like every other ILC thread strays all over the place.
From what I understand, something happens at the end of the next issue of Infidel Crisis and then starting with the first week of March, every DCU title picks up one year later from the last issue. Which is (among the reasons) why most DCU books have been stinking it up lately, as writers are merely marking time until the big WHOOSH! where EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT! so there's no point doing anything until then.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sort of avoiding spoilers on that, as I'd quite like to be surprised (in a good way) by what the creative heads at DC might actually do given a blank ~~cheque~~ slate. I do suspect that everything will more or less suck and I'll retreat into the pocket universe/bottle planet of 52.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Reading that thread was a very strange experience. I won't repeat stuff from it so as not to spoil Andrew, though, but I think I'm going to make some pull list choices based on creative teams, basically -- some of which sound like good combinations, others of which I think suck but I know other people will like them. At this point that seems the safest route.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Another reason why I'm inclined to pick up BoP OyL:
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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

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