What is your favorite monthly title right now?

Either Thunderbolts or Stormwatch:PHD.

BPRD

It's probably still Captain America. Always the first thing I read when it comes out. Immortal Iron Fist is amazingly fun, and something I'm always excited about, but like you said of Buffy, it doesn't really move me.

I don't know, maybe Fables or Criminal? It's too bad Love & Rockets isn't a monthly.

ALL STAR SUPERMAN, but for months that it doesn't come out, BPRD is way ahead of the pack.

Punisher War Journal, maybe?

I would say that with 52 gone, I'm less excited about superhero comics than I have been at any time since I started buying them again, around 2003.

Having said that, GM's Batman is always fun, if hit-and-miss (mostly hit, I think), and Criminal and The Spirit are always reliably great. But there's nothing I can't wait for right now, except maybe "Black Dossier."

Probably CASANOVA, though it is intermittently monthly.

I'm quite happy to see some BPRD love on this thread.

THOUGH, IF ONE IS GOING BY A BOOK THAT IS GENUNINELY MONTHLY AND NOT INTERMITTENTLY SO:

PUNISHER MAX - not my favorite title but one of the very (very) few that manages a fairly equal quality-to-consistent-release-date ratio.

The All New Atom.

Also regularly enjoyable: Detective, when Dini does it (really enjoyed the last short story with Zatanna.) Batmang, when Morrison does it. Action with Busiek. ASSman, yeah, but not very monthly. Casanova isn't terribly monthly either, it seems, and I somehow missed issue 7 entirely?!

Fell has become routine and boring, sorta. I mean it's still GOOD.. it's just 'getting old' as they say.

BRPD, Immortal Iron Fist, maybe Fables (which i only read in trade though,) and just discovered She-Hulk way, way too late.

Naming that many doesn't count as a single favorite though, does it? Ugh.

BRPD.

I only buy one monthly comic book, and the shop didn't get any shelf copies of the last issue. So none.

That book being All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder, of course.

Er, 'The Walking Dead'. And 'Y', although that's not monthly any more. And ends soon.

All-Star Superman if it were monthly.

Actual monthlies? If Incredible Hulk keeps being as good as 106/107 (and not 108) were, then that.

Oh man do I ever miss Cerebus coming out once a month like clockwork.

Brave + Bold

Oh, B&B -- knew I was forgetting something.

OH HELLS YA, though it's quasi-monthly (i think I remember reading they were aiming for 10/yr?)

It's a toss-up between Punisher War Journal and Incredible Hulk. (I was actually just thinking, reading the shipping thread that PWJ is probably the best regular book being published, so it's probably not as close as that.)

Oh man do I ever miss Cerebus coming out once a month like clockwork.

Yeah, I was going to say for fifteen years it's been Cerebus and whatever Morrison was doing, but realised that it's been over three years since either of them did a monthly.

Well Morrison's Batman is technically a monthly book, and he did do that weekly book.

Can one of you explain the appeal of Punisher and/or BPMD?

BPRD, sorry.

Also, wtf re: Hulk?

Punisher itself is only OK, it's consistently exciting and well plotted but nothing stellar.

Punisher War Journal is very pretty to look at and very well written. It's like, I don't know, the bits of Warren Ellis that are just FUN? People invent mini-Iron Men because they're bored. Frank infiltrates a US Nazi camp near the Mexican border AS CAPTAIN AMERICA. Jebus, Frank and Cap were on the same side in the Civil War. Frank finds where Stilt Man's wake is, and BLOWS SHIT UP.

Hulk has been great ever since he got shot into space, and was actually really good throughout the Leader plot that was before that. So yeah, for over 2 years now Hulk has been well worth buying.

BRPD - Starting with Guy Davis' art. He's one of my absolute favorites, and has the ability to draw absolutely bizarre and unbelievable things in a really solid, convincing way. For this book, this largely boils down to the fact that it's page after page of crazy monsters looking like they're actually lumbering around and f@#$ing s@#$ up. The other thing is the writing. It's filled with this sense of dread purposes and ancient conspiracies which get gradually revealed a teaspoon at a time, great stuff for a horror book such as this. It's all show, too, there's next to no tell, and sometimes you're left to puzzle things out on your own. The characters are crazy, believable, and consistently written.

It's just, you know, good solid comics. A bit like Tintin's Flight 714, except a monthly.

Come on!
http://www.marvel.com/comics/onsale/covers/1007/pwj12.jpg

Can one of you explain the appeal of Punisher and/or BPMD?

PUNISHER proper, meaning PUNISHER MAX, is a very fine bit of bleakness which happens to center around Frank Castle, an occasionally sympathetic psychopath who wears a skull on his chest. Every storyline ends with a punch in the reader's gut (see IN THE BEGINNING and, oh god, THE SLAVERS), really the only way to end a good Punisher story.

PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL - see Aldo's above post.

BPRD - see Oilyrag's above post. Guy Davis' work cannot be praised enough.

Well Morrison's Batman is technically a monthly book

No, technically it's not a monthly. Maybe *theoretically*, but even then, how many issues did he skip?

Poo! For fans of All-Star Supes, the most recent 'Lying in the Gutters' says...

"Morrison has also completed his final script for "All Star Superman."

All good things must come to an end. Question is, who is the new team?

SUPERMAN DREAM TEAMS GO!

I choose...Steve Gerber and Cameron Stewart!

Okay so I bought the first three issues of World War Hulk on Douglas' recommendation, and I'm kinda impressed! I really enjoyed zooming through those issues in an hour, enough so that I regret not buying the last four issues of Incredible Hulk at the same time. I'm not terribly interested in Planet Hulk, but I love what Pak is doing right now. I also love how everyone keeps using the word "smash" in WWH!

Re: BRPD. Everything Oilyrags said, plus i have a weakness for stories mining the mythological veins of decadent theosophical claptrap. Trating all of the hokums that Blavatsky, Gurdjieff and their followers, mixed with the opium-mad sci-fi/fantasy of the late 19th and early 20th century seems like fun.

I've always loathed the Punisher, but even i've been enjoying read the new War Journal.

Who knew BPRD was so popular?

Yeah, I don't think BPRD sounds like my kind of thing. I mean it doesn't sound bad or anything, but just really not for me.

It'd take a LOT for me to want to read Punisher comics. I appreciate crazy over the top stuff, but I think I'd really rather read something with a lot of teenage melodrama or something. That's more my speed lately.

"lately"!

So I assume that BPRD got a lot more interesting after that first volume? Mignola is writing it, yes?

Co-writing w/ John Arduci. I nth the recommendation.