What comics do people collect/read?

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  • Comics for the next four weeks for me:

    DC Comics

    Action Comics #1064
    Batman / Superman: World's Finest #26
    Batman #146
    Batman and Robin #8
    Batman: Off-World #4
    Green Arrow #11
    Jay Garrick: The Flash #6
    Outsiders #6
    Shazam! #10
    Superman #13
    Wonder Woman #8

    Marvel Comics

    Edge of Spider-Verse #3
    Fall of the House of X #4
    Fantastic Four #19
    Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #2
    Power Pack: Into the Storm #4
    Resurrection of Magneto #4
    Rise of the Powers of X #4
    Spider-Boy #6
    The Avengers #12
    The Avengers #13
    The Invincible Iron Man #17
    Weapon X-Men #2
    What If...?: Venom #3
    Wolverine #47
    Wolverine #48
    Wolverine: Madripoor Knights #3
    X-Men #33
    X-Men: Forever #2

    Titan Comics

    Conan the Barbarian #10
    Conan the Barbarian #9
    The Savage Sword of Conan #2
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    I haven't purchased comics since I was a youth. I did buy Superman comics. I also bought Action comics and Adventure comics both of which featured Superman.
  • Telford wrote: »
    I haven't purchased comics since I was a youth. I did buy Superman comics. I also bought Action comics and Adventure comics both of which featured Superman.

    There are a lot of good stories in those now! :)
  • Eigon wrote: »
    A local person is downsizing his comic collection, and I'm very pleased to have picked up some of The Dreaming, a spin-off of Sandman featuring the minor characters, and Books of Magic, the spin off of another Neil Gaiman title, about a boy wizard.

    Very good choices! I used to collect Hellraiser (spelled?) with John Constantine but the art started to look muddy and the storylines got more and more depressing. I bought the complete graphic novel, "Death: The High Cost of Living" and in the 1990's I collected the graphic novel "V For Vendetta" and allll of the George Perez "Wonder Woman" comic books.

    In the late 80's when I had steady employment, I thought nothing of spending $100-$200/month on comic books. Nowadays, I am very selective about stuff I buy. I'm more interested in buying painting supplies (I'm a semi-professional abstract painter/collage artist) and electronic drums. A friend bought me one comic book out of a series, "Y: The Last Man" or something. I probably got the title wrong. Parts of it were quite amusing but most of it was seriously depressing. I am depressed in real life enough as it is. I might sell it.
  • Oh, yeah. I check out any "Love & Rockets" from the Seattle public library. I wouldn't mind owning a few of those graphic novels.
  • "Hellblazer". Sorry!
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Our graphic novel book club is discussing It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood this evening.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Ultimate Spider-man is just getting better.
  • I am very pleased to read there will be another vol of Misty being issued in a few months time. Even if daughter is not interested in purchasing, I will organise to get it for myself.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I think one of the artists for Misty is Aly Fell, who I've actually met! (His art is very good!)
  • That's really cool, @Eigon, did you meet them at a convention?
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Aly is a friend of my boyfriend, and he arranged for a meal out for four of us in Manchester - an Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant on Canal Street - with Aly's partner Rosie Garland (novelist and Vampire Queen Rosie Lugosi!). I've also met him at conventions, and have some of his art on my walls, including a very good Death from the Sandman comics. He's a really nice chap!
  • How wonderful! I've just noted some of their newer comics and will investigate those.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I can recommend A Trick of the Light by Aly Fell - great attention to detail on the 1960s details, and a mysterious stone circle near the school where the main characters are teachers.
  • @Eigon that was the one I added to my list, I thought it looked great and very Misty!!
  • Is anyone (other than me) following DC’s “Absolute Power” event and/or Marvel’s new post-Krakoa “From the Ages” mutant books?
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    edited August 2024
    To be honest, I am not. I have grown tired of the non-stop "Events That Will Change Everything" storylines from both DC and Marvel. Such events were interesting when they happened only once in a great while. Now it feels like they come every 6 to 8 months.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    I much prefer independent labels to anything churned out by DC or Marvel.
  • Ah well. I’m enjoying them. And I’m personally definitely glad that the Krakoa era is finally over.
  • Glad you are enjoying your favourites @ChastMastr. I love that comics are such a broad church that everyone can find something that resonates with them.

    Just dropping in to say that the Misty 2024 special arrived at our place yesterday. I placed an order hoping it would arrive before Cheery daughter's birthday, however arriving in 7 days from the UK was pretty good in my books! I heard her laughing when I got up in the night, so I hope that meant it was well received.
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    Comics
    Bitter Root.
    Abbott
    March
    Run
    Paper Girls

    Graphic Novels
    Berlin
    Maus
    Castle Waiting
    Wake
    Kindred

    Lost track of others.

  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    I belong to a graphic novel book club where we meet fortnightly. Given the diverse backgrounds of the members, it gives me an opportunity to read books I would not have sought out on my own. This was last week's read: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Last_Door
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    My Young Man got me Harker - The Book of Solomon, books 1 and 2, from Time Bomb Comics. Looks intriguing, and starts with a body being found near the British Museum. DCI Harker investigates.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    The Framley Examiner.

    Rupture alert. I daren't look as I will cry laughing all the way down my trouser leg.
  • Martin54 wrote: »
    The Framley Examiner.

    Rupture alert. I daren't look as I will cry laughing all the way down my trouser leg.

    This doesn’t seem like a comic book to me…
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Martin54 wrote: »
    The Framley Examiner.

    Rupture alert. I daren't look as I will cry laughing all the way down my trouser leg.

    This doesn’t seem like a comic book to me…

    I have a broad definition of comics, it includes the 'i' newspaper and most other tabloids, especially red tops. The Framley Examiner is in the universe next door. As is Private Eye.
  • Okay, those aren’t comics… I didn’t even see comic strips in that link, much less whole stories. It’s like asking what movies people like and being told about novels.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Private Eye had comic strips, I learned Strine from The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Hom. Sap. was another that stays with me. And spectacular cartoons. Mad was my favourite for years. Mort Drucker's movie satires were perfection.
  • Martin54 wrote: »
    Private Eye had comic strips, I learned Strine from The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Hom. Sap. was another that stays with me. And spectacular cartoons. Mad was my favourite for years. Mort Drucker's movie satires were perfection.

    Agreed. ❤️
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Blue Eyed Kook!
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    In the late 1970s my mother thought nostalically that she should introduce her daughters to the Mad Magazine she had enjoyed in her youth. She has a concrete view of culture. I think she had no idea what she had introduced us to. [And Mickey Spilane novels. Really! Mom! Did you not read the lust filled descriptions of Velda?!]

    My introduction to politics came through Mad Musicals about Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter. And Spy v Spy taught me the Cold War and prepped me for Dune.

    Therr is no substitute for a Mad Fold In.

    Are they still around? Can't imagine the fun they have with Chump amd Rancid.
  • Kendel wrote: »
    In the late 1970s my mother thought nostalically that she should introduce her daughters to the Mad Magazine she had enjoyed in her youth. She has a concrete view of culture. I think she had no idea what she had introduced us to. [And Mickey Spilane novels. Really! Mom! Did you not read the lust filled descriptions of Velda?!]

    My introduction to politics came through Mad Musicals about Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter. And Spy v Spy taught me the Cold War and prepped me for Dune.

    Therr is no substitute for a Mad Fold In.

    Are they still around? Can't imagine the fun they have with Chump amd Rancid.

    Sadly...
    After issue No. 10 (Dec. 2019) of the new Burbank edition, Mad began to consist mostly of curated reprints with new covers and fold-ins, although some new articles have been periodically featured, including parodies of The Batman ("The Bathroom") and Elon Musk's tenure at Twitter (in a Dr. Seuss parody called "Free Speeches On The Beaches").[29] Distribution to newsstands stopped, with the magazine initially becoming available only through comic-book shops and by subscription, although in 2022 distribution expanded to Barnes & Noble via a series of compilation issues dubbed The Treasure Trove of Trash.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_(magazine)
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    Just a gentle reminder that we don't call folks (however vile they may be) by names other than their actual names.

    Thank you!
    jedijudy
    One of the Helpful Heaven Hosts
  • I currently have a subscription to The Best of 2000AD collection and I am buying the collected volumes of Usagi Yojimbo as they come out. As for current issues, I have rekindled a love for Commando, I started picking them up for my dad as he was dying in hospital and after he passed I kind of missed them. Since the end of lockdown I read about three out of every four issues. Cheesy jingoism they may be but rarely boring.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Blue Eyed Kook!

    Cool Hand Luke. A favourite (Paul Newman AND Alfred E.!) film.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Botch Casually and Some Dunce Kid. Another Newmans film!
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    edited August 2024
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    @ChastMastr , sigh. All good things....
    Like the Wittenberg Door...
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Botch Casually and Some Dunce Kid. Another Newmans film!

    Magnificent, @Martin54
    jedijudy wrote: »
    Just a gentle reminder that we don't call folks (however vile they may be) by names other than their actual names.

    Thank you!
    jedijudy
    One of the Helpful Heaven Hosts

    I assume this guidance is directed at me. Thank you.

  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    edited August 2024
    @Kendel, you're welcome! I'm glad to have the opportunity to post a gentle reminder on occasion. :smile:

    jj-HH

  • By the way, @jedijudy, have you ever read the Star Wars comics, whether old or new?
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    I have not, @ChastMastr!
    I've read hundreds of the books, and actually had some of the comics on my Nook, but found it a difficult format for me. I never got past the first page.
  • I'm dismayed that the latest issue of Wonder Woman, #12 by Tom King, appears to have brought back the Zeus origin (that I thought was going to be finally gone, in favor of her classic clay origin). :(
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Er - how classic is the clay origin? When did it date from?
    Something else I haven't been able to work out is when Wonder Woman first started being able to fly. Was it as late as the eighties?

    Meanwhile, new Ultimate Spider-Man continues to have not a lot happen in a really entertaining way.
    I've also been catching up with Mackay's Moon Knight in trade issues which is suitably on the edge of weird.
  • Dafyd wrote: »
    Er - how classic is the clay origin? When did it date from?
    Something else I haven't been able to work out is when Wonder Woman first started being able to fly. Was it as late as the eighties?

    Meanwhile, new Ultimate Spider-Man continues to have not a lot happen in a really entertaining way.
    I've also been catching up with Mackay's Moon Knight in trade issues which is suitably on the edge of weird.

    Wonder Woman #1, June, 1942.

    https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/frAxj74OyPcGD2wfk6q6bQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTI5MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/a76b3cc556f102d6c0b08e70a08db3ec
  • She apparently glided on air currents in from time to time starting in 1958, but her ability to simply fly came in the Post-Crisis George Pérez era circa 1987.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    edited August 2024
    Last night our graphic novel book club read a graphic novel from the early nineties based on The Legend of Zelda video game.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Dafyd wrote: »
    Er - how classic is the clay origin? When did it date from?
    Wonder Woman #1, June, 1942.
    Thank you.
    I kind of prefer the descended from Zeus - it gives her more family drama - but at the start of her own first ongoing seems pretty classic. Also I suppose the clay origin fits the theme of the character better.
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    Dafyd wrote: »
    Something else I haven't been able to work out is when Wonder Woman first started being able to fly. Was it as late as the eighties?

    Wikipedia can help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman#Powers_and_abilities
    When you come to Michigan in the U.S., please make a trip to Michigan State University's comic arts collection: https://lib.msu.edu/murray-hong-spc/comicart. The website doesn't do it justice. My girls and I went for my birthday a few years ago, and we were looking at a Volumne 1, issue 2 Wonder Woman in print. Was saw 1; 1 on microfilm.

    Another valuable view of Wonder Woman as a cultural icon is Jill Lapore's brilliant book: The Secret History of Wonder Woman. She is not just a comic book hero.
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Dafyd wrote: »
    Er - how classic is the clay origin? When did it date from?
    Something else I haven't been able to work out is when Wonder Woman first started being able to fly. Was it as late as the eighties?

    Meanwhile, new Ultimate Spider-Man continues to have not a lot happen in a really entertaining way.
    I've also been catching up with Mackay's Moon Knight in trade issues which is suitably on the edge of weird.

    Wonder Woman #1, June, 1942.

    https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/frAxj74OyPcGD2wfk6q6bQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTI5MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/a76b3cc556f102d6c0b08e70a08db3ec

    Very cool, @ChastMastr !
  • I'm late to this thread. , but now is the time to confess I have all the Dan Dare stories from 'Eagle' (which I got week by week as a lad until about 1962. Prof Peabody is my ideal lady.
    I also have the cutaways.
  • Kendel wrote: »
    Dafyd wrote: »
    Something else I haven't been able to work out is when Wonder Woman first started being able to fly. Was it as late as the eighties?

    Wikipedia can help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman#Powers_and_abilities
    When you come to Michigan in the U.S., please make a trip to Michigan State University's comic arts collection: https://lib.msu.edu/murray-hong-spc/comicart. The website doesn't do it justice. My girls and I went for my birthday a few years ago, and we were looking at a Volumne 1, issue 2 Wonder Woman in print. Was saw 1; 1 on microfilm.

    Another valuable view of Wonder Woman as a cultural icon is Jill Lapore's brilliant book: The Secret History of Wonder Woman. She is not just a comic book hero.

    As I understand it from Marston’s granddaughter, Lapore has things in there that are simply not true. I would not rely on that book. There’s a lot that is true and has been public knowledge for a very long time, notably Marston having two relationships and the (awesome) bdsm aspects in both those and in the comic, both Elizabeth and Olive remaining family and raising their kids together after Marston’s death, but not that E and O were romantically involved with each other.
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