Comic books and trade paperbacks...Serenity and otherwise.

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, August 4, 2005 23:13
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GROUNDED

Friday, July 29, 2005 8:59 PM

Cheers for that :) I'm still a little fuzzy on what fits where, but that did help. Basically, before I read this, I was planning on starting at New X-men: E is for Extinction (and I think they recommend that) and I wanted to know which books ran alongside from that point. From what I can gather it would be Uncanny X-men, starting at Poptopia - does that sound right to you? I also wanted to read Generation X, but I can't work out where that fits and I see Chamber is in Poptopia....arg it's all so complicated...

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Friday, July 29, 2005 9:07 PM

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Originally posted by Grounded:
Cheers for that :) I'm still a little fuzzy on what fits where, but that did help. Basically, before I read this, I was planning on starting at New X-men: E is for Extinction (and I think they recommend that) and I wanted to know which books ran alongside from that point. From what I can gather it would be Uncanny X-men, starting at Poptopia - does that sound right to you? I also wanted to read Generation X, but I can't work out where that fits and I see Chamber is in Poptopia....arg it's all so complicated...

Generation X ended shortly before New X-Men: E for Extinction/Poptopia/X-Treme X-Men Vol 1 (which all happened roughly at the same time, but you might not want to read all of them... the first arc of X-Treme X-Men actually comes first but the comics came out at the same time).

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BANEOFTHEVERSE

Friday, July 29, 2005 9:51 PM

I'm mostly a graphic novel person...so i'll re-tout Sandman by Gaiman, Watchmen by Moore, and Rising Stars by Straczynski...but I also liked:

From Hell, Leage of Extraordinary Gentlemen, & V for Vendetta also by Moore

Sin City and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller

any Batman by Jeph Loeb, Hush being my favs

Ghostworld by Dan Clowes

Maus by Art Spiegelman

JTHM and Squee by Jhonen Vasquez (sorta backed into em after liking the Invader Zim cartoon series as much as I did...another show cast down before its time )

...and I'm a Gaiman junky, so I loved the Stardust novel redone as a graphic novel and also the Death spinoffs of Sandman.

Arkham Asylum was good, but just for the Dave Mckean artwork...that man is a deranged genius.

SOPRANOSBROWNCOAT

Friday, July 29, 2005 10:21 PM

Just got back into comics a few years ago, but currently reading Bendis' Daredevil, Nightcrawler, Runaways, New Avengers, Astonishing X-Men (cause, you know, it's by Joss), all of the Ultimate titles, The Pulse, Ex Machina, Black Panther, and a bunch of other titles that I'm too lazy to list at the moment. I was pretty big with most of the Dark Horse Star Wars titles for a while, but the prequels just slowly burned out the Star Wars geek in me, so picking up those monthlies now feels strangely like eating lunch at a really bad restaurant. Other than that, there's the classics like Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Sandman, and Sin City, and I read as much "classic" material as I can, i.e. Miller's run on Daredevil, David's run on Hulk, etc.

And in all this time, I've learned two things:
1. Reading comics is a gorram expensive hobby.
2. Storing comics could be great training for smuggling.

CHRISISALL

Saturday, July 30, 2005 12:58 AM

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Originally posted by SopranosBrowncoat:
Storing comics could be great training for smuggling.

Ain't it funny all the nooks and crannys that get filled with our most recent reads? And the unfindable dark and cool areas that house our oldest stuff?
*chuckle*

Pack rat Chrisisall

GROUNDED

Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by StarPilotGrainger:
Quote:
Originally posted by Grounded:
Cheers for that :) I'm still a little fuzzy on what fits where, but that did help. Basically, before I read this, I was planning on starting at New X-men: E is for Extinction (and I think they recommend that) and I wanted to know which books ran alongside from that point. From what I can gather it would be Uncanny X-men, starting at Poptopia - does that sound right to you? I also wanted to read Generation X, but I can't work out where that fits and I see Chamber is in Poptopia....arg it's all so complicated...

Generation X ended shortly before New X-Men: E for Extinction/Poptopia/X-Treme X-Men Vol 1 (which all happened roughly at the same time, but you might not want to read all of them... the first arc of X-Treme X-Men actually comes first but the comics came out at the same time).

Thanks for clarifying that :)

SOPRANOSBROWNCOAT

Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:30 PM

Did anybody here ever read a comic called The Crusades? It didn't last long, only about 18 issues or so, from DC's Vertigo Imprint about 4 years ago. It was a decent series that IMHO had some potential, about a knight on horseback attacking criminals in San Francisco. None of my friends ever read it, and I don't know anyone outside of my crew that ever heard of it, mostly because I was always telling them to read it. So anybody familiar with it? Or was I the only person in existence who read it, because if so, that means I helped keep a comic going for 18 issues.

YT

Thursday, August 4, 2005 10:35 PM

Collect: None

Own:
Watchmen, collected ed'n, 4 copies (2 of each cover)
Dark Knight Returns, collected
Sandman, collected (Edit) Preludes & Nocturnes
Serenity #1, Jayne & Inara covers, but I won't get any more 'cause I think it sucked
Preacher 1, 2 & 3
Booze, Bullets & Broads (or some combination thereof)
Civil War, a Narrative, by Shelby Foote, 'cause I can't afford the hardcovers, & it takes so long to read I may never open 'em again
Lord of the Rings, similar reasons (although I may also have hardbound editions -- I thought I did, but can't find 'em)
Kim Stanley Robinson's California series & Mars series, 'cause by the time I heard of them, I coundn't find new hardcovers
Probably about a dozen or so other hardbound collections of comic series, but nothing memorable. Aside from the Watchmen, who were retired, superheroes bore me.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . .

CHRISISALL

Thursday, August 4, 2005 11:13 PM

Anybody get Catwoman in the last year? It had great artwork by Shiny Paul Gulacy....

Chrisisall

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