What comic reading experience has lived up to the hype?

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The opposite of the disappointment thread: what comics that you were expecting good things from, or that people hyped to you for a while before you got to read them, have met or exceeded your expectations?

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

promethea
selina's big score or whatever it was called
captain carrot and the zoo crew
safe area gorazde
all-star superman

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

GM's JLA, Flex Mentallo (which I only just read!)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Since my mid-teens, I've been the only more-than-casual comic reader I've known well, so until the internet came along I wasn't really aware of hype surrounding comics - I generally just asked the guy in the shop what was good, or followed writers I liked, or bought stuff on a whim. Since being online I haven't actually discovered anything I've completely fallen in love with. The closest is probably Y: The Last Man, the buzz around which was 'yeah, it's a good solid read', and lo and behold so it is.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Watchmen, the second time I picked it up.
Almost every big Grant Morrison ending.
Showcase Superman.
She Hulk

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

DC New Frontier. Probably never would've read this if I hadn't come across ILC, and it's every bit as good as you folks led me to believe.

Also: Showcase Superman.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

word to flex mentallo, safe area gorzade, ASS, showcase

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes to New Frontier!

Also Why I Hate Saturn/The Cowboy Wally Show (whichever one I read first)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

gotham central lived up to the ilc hype and bone lived up to the irl hype.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Another Yes to New Frontier.

And We3. Getting back into reading trades, not really knowing Grant Morrison, and not being impressed by his take on the X-Men or JLA's Earth 2 (also Morrison / Quitely). We3 could have been so much worse than it was, but I can't see it being any better.

Preacher, Sandman, 30 Days of Night, Runaways - also late to the game on these, but have found them worth the anticipation.

Hoping Seaguy lives up to the hype, when I eventually get to it.

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Amazingly, and I can't believe I'm saying this, Civil War. But my expectations were very low to start with. And I may change my mind if they can't pull all the threads together.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Flex Mentallo surpassed it's legendary status when I got my grubby paws on it last year. As did every translated opus from the recently discovered Joann Sfar.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

gotham central
new frontier
most alan moore stuff

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

queen & county

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

showcase superman

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

I must try Queen & Country. I bought one which said 'book one' on the side, but it turned out to be book one of some spin-off series. It wasn't bad, but I imagine it's not as good as the series proper.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

I had my eye on the two trades of Alan Moore's Supreme, but was turned off by the uglee art by Liefeld and his '90s peers. but GODDAMN was I glad I bought 'em once I did.

Then I got From Hell, which blew my tiny mind and which I think is AMo's greatest achievement.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

-- chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (joe.goode...), Today 1:40 AM. (chap) (later)

i did the same thing! was it the cold war berlin story (which is awesome)?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Queen and Country lived up to the hype. I've gone through the first four books and now i heart rucka. What's he doing these days?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Rucka's still writing Q&C... very intermittently. He's also writing Checkmate (like Q&C but with supertypes and not nearly as good) and 1/4 of 52 (notably the Montoya/Question plot, which is probably my favorite part). And some novels, including two Q&C novels.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Dark Knight Returns
Watchmen
Hellboy
Hectic Planet

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Also,

V for Vendetta
Preacher
Animal Man, before it went shitty.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

was it the cold war berlin story (which is awesome)?

That's the one. It was pretty good, very atmospheric.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot all about Queen & Country. I have no idea what the last trade I have is but I wonder if any more have come out.

I didn't read Watchmen for a long time because it seemed like something I had to read, but it really is that good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Q&C has two or three (I've lost track) "new" floppies out (scare quotes because they've been out for like a year or something (not really that long but it feels like it's been)) for the Operation: Red Panda Lol, which in the Q&C world actually exists between the two novels. Wherein Chase goes to Iraq (!), and in Rucka's words, "things go very bad, very quickly" (!!!).

The last trade released was Operation: Saddlebags Wtf.

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Huh, I think I have Saddlebags but no memory whatsoever of Red Panda.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's because Red Panda is underway currently -- it exists b/w the novels in the Q&C world, but here on Earth-Prime the order in which they were released goes Gent's Game--Private War--Red Panties.

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Aha. So basically I read Saddlebags like nine years ago and I'm still caught up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

all ILC-hyped:

She-Hulk
All-Star Superman
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Huk-Hyped (and perfect length for transatlantic airline flight):

City of Crime!

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

SCOTT PILGRIM!!!!

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Aldo made me want to give Latter Days a shot, which certainly lived up to the hype, in a manner of speaking.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Pilgrim
American Virgin
Cerebus
Gotham Central
Hey Wait

― Laurah (laurah), Sunday, 19 November 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

SOLO

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

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