What is everyone reading?

[yoda510]

So I haven't seen a what is everyone reading thread lately. I actually use these to get ideas on what might be worth trying. I myself am almost completely Marvel and DC free now. It is nothing personal against the big two they obviously have the best characters and great stories but they finally big evented, weekly, crossovered me out. So anyway here is what I am pulling:

Marvel:
Iron Fist

DC:
Legion

Dynamite/Devils Due
I always get these two mixed up, but I am doing Lone Ranger and G.I. Joe, America's Elite. One is with dynamite the other Devils Due I think

Dark Horse
Star Wars Legacy

Image
Casanova, Fell, Mice Templar, Dynamo 5

Getting in Trades
Hell Boy, Fables, Godland

[Generic Eric]

I haven't really been keeping up with too much of the monthly comic books lately. I'm mostly keeping caught up with trade paperbacks.

Dc Comics/ Vertigo

DMZ, Fables, Exterminators, Jack Of Fables, Ex Machina

Image

Casanova, Fell, Godland, Savage Dragon,

Marvel

Powers, Criminal, Punisher Max

Dark Horse

Hellboy, The Goon, BPRD

Miscelanious Indies

Courny Crumrin & The Fire Thieves Tale, Maakies, Billy Hazelnuts, 30 Days of Night, Wormwood Gentleman Corpse.

[Mike Smash!]

It's always a bit of fun to see what other Comm board CBRers read. Sometimes I've surprised to see that folks that I have strong agreements with on issues like politics and religion have very similar tastes in comic books. Like cactusmaac. Good taste, that guy.

What I'm reading these days:

Monthlies:

(MARVEL)

THE NEW AVENGERS
THE MIGHTY AVENGERS
CAPTAIN AMERICA
DAREDEVIL
THE INCREDIBLE HULK
THE HULK
MARVEL ADVENTURES HULK
THOR
X-FACTOR
ASTONISHING X-MEN
HEDGE KNIGHT II: THE SWORN SWORD mini-series
ULTIMATE HULK VS. WOLVERINE mini-series (if it ever comes out)

(DC)

BOOSTER GOLD
THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD
GREEN LANTERN
GREEN LANTERN CORPS
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
ALL-STAR SUPERMAN
BLACK ADAM
SALVATION RUN

(DC/VERTIGO)

Y - THE LAST MAN

(DC/WILDSTORM)

EX MACHINA

(DARK HORSE)

CONAN

(IMAGE)

THE WALKING DEAD
INVINCIBLE (in trade only)

(DYNAMITE)

THE BOYS

MR. COMICS

EMPIRE ON THE PLANET OF THE APES mini-series

[Jack Zodiac]

From Marvel, anything Ed Brubaker. Iron Fist, Captain America, and Daredevil are easily three of the best books Marvel's putting out. I'm also enjoying the way Nicieza's Deadpool book has been going since they dropped Cable out of it and he's been teaming up with miscellaneous superheroes for the past few issues, while toting around his sidekick HYDRA agent. There's also a pretty hilarious Howard the Duck mini-series coming out at the moment, too.

But most of Marvel's other titles I'm finding pretty lukewarm.

DC's, despite some ridiculously bad editorial direction, is actually putting out quite a few awesome books. McKeever's run on Teen Titans has been the only book since PAD's Young Justice that made me love reading about these characters. It's actually fun again. And Rogers and Albuquerque's Blue Beetle is one of the best new superhero books in the past few years. Dini's Detective Comics has been great, but Morrison's Batman has its ups and downs, though I've generally enjoyed it, and they're currently in the middle of "The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul" crossover with Nightwing (being written by the awesome Fabian Nicieza for the duration of the crossover) and Robin, which Chuck Dixon will be returning to after the crossover's done. Busiek's Superman and occasional Action Comics fill-ins have been a lot of fun, and Geoff Johns' Action Comics run with Donner has had a lot of promising moments. And Gail Simone has finally taken over as ongoing Wonder Woman writer, and turned the series almost completely around in one issue.

And, of course, there are great books like All-Star Superman by Morrison and Quitely and The Spirit by Cooke, J. Bone and Dave Stewart, who will soon be replaced by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier. Really, a lot of the stuff DC is putting out is pretty good to great, unless it gets mangled in the crossover hysteria of Countdown.

What else? Uh... Mike Allred's doing another Madman series with Image. Ennis and Darick Robertson took The Boys to Dynamite. Also, there's a book called Superpowers coming out this month, I think, by Alex Ross, using a bunch of public domain characters like the original Daredevil and Mandrake the Magician as characters. At Dark Horse, as always, the Hellboy and BPRD books are seven kinds of awesome, and there are at least two of their books coming out every month for the foreseeable future as Mike Mignola's gearing up for the big third act in the Hellboy saga. Also, an insanely awesome Lobster Johnson mini-series is about halfway done. Also from Dark Horse, Gerard Way (the singer from My Chemical Romance, but don't hold it against him) and Gabriel Ba (co-artist from Matt Fraction's awesome book, Casanova) are writing a mini-series called The Umbrella Academy about a misfit group of mutants who grow up as superheroes and become a big, dysfunctional family trying to save the world from the apocalypse. And in the vein of superkids, there's an awesome book nobody's reading called PS238 from Do Gooder Press by Aaron Williams that's at least worth checking out. It's a fun book, really accessible (which is great for me, because my shop doesn't always get it) and worth sharing.

Oh, and then there's Mouse Guard: Winter 1152, but I don't know how regularly that's coming out since I only have the one issue. I'm pretty sure the second one hasn't come out yet.

[Gary_B]

I'm not much of a Marvel/DC fan but I read these...

Dark Horse:
Hellboy
BPRD
Lobster Johnson
Usagi Yojimbo
Umbrella Academy

Archaia:
Mouse Guard

Waiting for Trades:
Criminal
Y: The Last Man
Fables
Fell
Scott Pilgrim

[Jeff Brady]

Oh, and then there's Mouse Guard: Winter 1152, but I don't know how regularly that's coming out since I only have the one issue. I'm pretty sure the second one hasn't come out yet.

It is out.

My list:

All-Star Superman
Madman (missed #4, dammit)
The Spirit
Planetary (just waiting on #27)
Amelia Rules!
Castle Waiting (thanks for the reminder, Puma!)

[Puma]

From my pull box yesterday:

Angel #1
Buffy #8
Astonishing X Men #23
Mice Templar #2
Fables #67
The Boys #12
X Men #205
Jack of Fables #17
American Virgin #21
Castle Waiting, Ch. 8

[mattx110]

Absolutely nothing!

Which means...
I need to catch up to the last 20 issues of Daredevil,
get all of Iron Fist,
half the Captain America series,
90% sold on Casanova. All I've seen and heard about it shows it to be exactly the kind of book I would write if I'd thought of it first.
I think ASB+R might be picking up.
And I've been getting all the Zombie Marvel books, I'm getting a little sick of them, but they're fun and the characterization ain't bad, even though they're zombies.
For DC, whatever books Chuck Dixon is taking over might be on my bookshelf soon.

I need to find some more "outside of the box" type stuff.

[blackdragon6]

What is everyone reading? this thread :p

[Xevious]

oh my. let me see. I am slowly cutting back on everything I'm reading. I'm buying a new car next year and dropping $30 a week on books is stupid.

so.
Marvel:
Thor
Amazing Spider-Girl
Immortal Iron Fist
Any and all Earth-2 limited series (last planet standing, fantastic five, Avengers Next, blah blah blah)
Daredevil
Ultimate Spider-man Hardcovers
X-men/Astonishing/Uncanny/ whatever is in mesiah complex
Star Lord
Annihilation Conquest

DC (this is where I really need to cut back from)
Batman/Detective
Teen Titans
Spirit
Checkmate
JLA
JSA
JLU
GL/GLC
Brave and the Bold
anything with mr. terrific
Crime Bible
Gotham Underground
Bat-Lash (when it comes out)
Booster Gold
Metal Men
Black Adam
Salvation Run

Other stuff:
Buffy
Invincible Trades
Y Trades
Fables Trades
Ex machina Trades
DMZ trades
100 Bullets Trades
Powers

I'm sure I'm forgetting something. but I'm dropping at least 50% of this starting this month. as certain story archs finish I'm dropping books. I just don't know which ones yet.

[mattx110]

Oh god I forgot Booster Gold. Not a big fan of Johns's previous work, but that book is the best use of the DCU in a while.

[Matt Algren]

My list is surprisingly similar to Jeff's.

All-Star Superman
Astro City
Bone (as the color version comes out)
Castle Waiting (Is it just me or has it been forever again?)
Conan
Madman
Metal Men
Mouse Guard
Planetary (just waiting on #27)
Powers
The Spirit
Umbrella Academy (haven't read an issue yet, but I'ma try to find a copy today)

[Mike Smash!]

Oh god I forgot Booster Gold. Not a big fan of Johns's previous work, but that book is the best use of the DCU in a while.Oh yeah, I love that book!

[Mike Smash!]

anything with mr. terrific

I, too, love the new Mr. Terrific and wish he'd be used more often in JSA. He really ought to still be chairman.

[berk]

Speak of the Devil, the miniseries Gilbert Hernandez is doing for Dark Horse. The latest installment, #3, was the best yet. Too bad it's only 6 issues, I'm getting into it to the point where I'd like to see it go on for longer. I read pretty much everything the Hernandezes do, including Love and Rockets, which apparently will now be a single large (100+ pages) issue annually.

Countdown to Mystery, The Dr. Fate thing Steve Gerber is doing. Unfortunately it's paired up with sonther series I have no interest in at all, Eclipso or something. But the Gerber Fate is looking good so far, 3 issues in, though I would prefer to see him working with his own creations rather than established characters.

Godland, which I might drop. The quality has tailed off a little, especially the most recent issue, #20. Or maybe I'm just losing interest.

Ellis's Desolation Jones and Fell, when they come out.

Suburban Glamour, by Jamie McKelvie. I might try to make myself wait for the trade rather than carry on buying the individual issues for this one. Love the artwork.

[yoda510]

[QUOTE=berk;5907397

Godland, which I might drop. The quality has tailed off a little, especially the most recent issue, #20. Or maybe I'm just losing interest.

I agree, Godland really hasn't gone anywhere in awhile. I think he needs a love interest or something. It needs a little more character development.

[Jack Zodiac]

It is out.

Aye! I just found it at another comic shop in town. Nuts, too, 'cause I was thinking of just waiting it out for the hardcover, since I'm probably gonna get it anyway, but there it was, so I folded and bought it.

[Jack Zodiac]

Ellis's Desolation Jones and Fell, when they come out.

Ah, yeah, I love [i]Desolation Jones[/quote], but I'm a little less pumped about reading it anymore since I heard they switched artists. I can wait forever for Williams' art.

[DubipR]

DC/Vertigo:
Jonah Hex
Spirit
Vinyl Underground
Army @ Love
Scalped
All- Star Superman

Independent:
Love & Rockets
Angry Youth Comix
Scott Pilgrim
anything from Richard Sala
anything from Steve Weissmann
anything from Daniel Clowes
anything from James Kochalka

Marvel's made it easy for me to drop every book I was wearing and go exclusively trades with them.
and lots of Vertigo trades: 100 Bullets, Exterminators, DMZ, Fables, Y

[glue]

I'm only reading five current books (all in trade).

BPRD (thanks to gary bolt)
The Goon
The Simpsons
Futurama
Conan (but I think I'm a trade or two behind)

[Xevious]

Oh man, have you picked up the Goon Graphic Novel Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker? I picked it up today but didn't haven't read it yet. I Heard it's good.

[glue]

I didn't know it was out.

[Xevious]

I just saw it at my LCS today and gobbled it.

[Rabid Trekkie]

I read everything in trade which makes things a little easier for me in that I can find out here if its good and I don't have to worry about missing an issue. So far what I'm collecting is:

Powers (got up through 5)
Paul Dini's Batman (lack of funds has kept me from grabbing the second one)
Cable and Deadpool (1-4)
Star Wars Empire (just need the last volume before i get into Rebellion)
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
JSA (only got the first three)
BPRD (only have the first two)
Conan (I have the four volumes but don't have any of the side trades yet)
Rex Mundi (can't wait for the next trade)
She-Hulk (got the first one on a whim and loved it)

The ones I'm most looking forward to getting soon are The Spirit, World War Hulk, Annihilation Conquest, All Star Superman vol 2, Star Trek TOS season 4 and Klingons: Blood Will Tell.

Of course now that I'm trying to save up to go to a real college it means I'll have even less money for my comics, but hopefully I'll find someway to get them.

[Expletive Deleted]

Oh man, have you picked up the Goon Graphic Novel Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker? I picked it up today but didn't haven't read it yet. I Heard it's good.It's excellent. There's this one sequence of wordless, full-page panels . . . man, I can't even describe how perfect it is.

[Expletive Deleted]

As for me . . . it's mostly Marvel, these days. Shocking, I know.

Marvel:
Nova
New Avengers
Mighty Avengers
Avengers: The Initiative
Captain America
Fantastic Four
Daredevil
Iron Fist
The Order
The Hulk
Incredible Hulk/Herc
Official Handbook
Criminal
Powers
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate Fantastic Four
Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius
Marvel Adventures: Avengers (digests)
Plus a few random mini-series, like Captain Marvel, Annihilation: Conquest, and MODOK's 11.

DC:
Batman (when not in crossover mode)
100 Bullets
All-Star Superman
Ex Machina
Fables

Other:
Casanova
The Boys
Empowered
Scott Pilgrim
Godland (TPBs)
Age of Bronze (TPBs)
Hellboy/BPRD (TPBs)
Invincible (TPBs)
The Goon (TPBs)

Then there's a bunch of stuff that never comes out (Astro City, Planetary, Fell, Desolation Jones, and some others that I'm probably forgetting).

[Sabrina_Fried]

I think I have finally pruned my read list down to a manageable level. Here is what's left:

Monthlies:

Star Wars (all of them)
Usagi Yojimbo
Conan
Groo and/or anything else Sergio Aragones puts out

Occassionally released:

Path of the Assassin
Satsuma Gishiden (although I think DHC has cancelled this one)
Age of Bronze TPB (when "regular means once every 3 years, why not?)
Y: The Last Man TPB
Chronicles of Conan TPB reprints
Blade of the Immortal TPB
Peacemaker
Vagabond

Interestingly, alot of the series I am following right now are going to be ending in the next year or so, which means I may be calling something up from the "Audition" List soon. Here is what is on the audition list right now:

Hellboy/BPRD (Kind of hoping DHC releases some Omnibusses for these)
Mouse Guard
Fables


Sabrina

[Perry Holley]

but they finally big evented, weekly, crossovered me out. I know how you feel. I recently dropped X-Factor because it was forced into the latest Crapover Du Jour (and have taken a few shots from outraged posters on the X-Books forum as a result).

I'm probably forgetting a few titles - I don't have my pull list readily handy - but here's what I'm getting:

Marvel

Daredevil
Astonishing X-Men

Marvel/Icon

Powers
Kabuki

DC

Jonah Hex
Legion of Super-Heroes
The Spitit
All-Star Batman and Robin (hey, it's a guilty pleasure, okay?)
All-Star Superman
Suicide Squad

DC/Vertigo

Army @ Love
Fables
Jack of Fables

DC/Wildstorm

Astro City
Planetary (hey, there's still one more issue to go, right?)

Image

Killing Girl
The Mice Templar
The Walking Dead (in TPB format)
Special Forces

Dark Horse

Conan
Grendel: Behold The Devil
Hellboy (in TPB format)
B.P.R.D. (in TPB format)
Fear Agent
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Avatar

Doktor Sleepless
Streets of Glory
Black Summer

Other Publishers

Knights of the Dinner Table
Nexus

[Michael P]

I know how you feel. I recently dropped X-Factor because it was forced into the latest Crapover Du Jour (and have taken a few shots from outraged posters on the X-Books forum as a result).


You won't get any from me, but I hope you come back after. It's still a good book.

Anyhow, I'm currently reading:

Spider-Man, but I'm 99% likely to drop it after One More Day.

All the X-Books during the current crossover, dropping back to Uncanny, X-Men and X-Factor afterwards. And Astonishing, but that almost doesn't count thanks to the continual delays.

She-Hulk, Runaways, the upcoming Young Avengers mini, and Fantastic Four. FF I will probably drop when Millar and Hitch come on, as I haven't been able to stand a goddamn thing Millar has written this millennium. Runaways, I'll stick out through the current arc, and give Terry Moore and Humberto Ramos at least a try.

Lethem's Omega the Unknown is weird, but good. It'll probably read better in trade.

Cable and Deadpool is almost over, which makes me sad.

I've been catching up with Ed Brubaker's Cap, Daredevil, and Iron Fist in trade. Most people probably haven't noticed it, but he's Marvel's best writer right now.

Marvel Adventures: Avengers gives me hope and joy.

All-Star Superman and The Spirit make me happy. I have high hopes for the new Spirit team.

Wonder Woman got off to a really strong start. Teen Titans is finally good. Birds of Prey and Legion of Superheroes, I'm looking forward to seeing what the new creative teams can do. Justice League, I'm putting up with the art so far, so I hope McDuffie can really wow me.

Blue Beetle is the best book I'm buying in trade right now. Well, tied with Y and Fables.

Astro City, when it comes out, is the best book I'm buying, period.

Invincible, Fallen Angel, and Gargoyles round out the pack.

[Gary_B]

I'm only reading five current books (all in trade).

BPRD (thanks to gary bolt)
The Goon
The Simpsons
Futurama
Conan (but I think I'm a trade or two behind)

You're welcome!

[glue]

You're welcome!

I put 4-6 on my Xmas wish list, but I think I'll have them all bought and read by then. Seriously, the best thing I've picked up since The Goon.

[Generic Eric]

Hellboy/BPRD (Kind of hoping DHC releases some Omnibusses for these)

Hellboy is getting the hardcover treatment early next year. Hellboy Libary volume one is an oversized hardcover collecting the first two trades and an extended sketchbook section and stuff.

[Lee Kaye]

Well, I am relatively new to comics, so have been catching up with TPBs of all the best works out there for the past year. I want to start reading monthly comics now (as per the 'normal' convention) so I am going to get Fell (if it carries on beyond 8 in the TPB?) and depending on how the first TPB for The Boys is, get that as well. I read all of Preacher and think it's one of the best things I have read (I have read many, many 'proper' books) so I have high hopes for The Boys.

Other than those two, I will have a look round and see what else grabs me.....

[Rabid Trekkie]

Well, I am relatively new to comics, so have been catching up with TPBs of all the best works out there for the past year. I want to start reading monthly comics now (as per the 'normal' convention) so I am going to get Fell (if it carries on beyond 8 in the TPB?) and depending on how the first TPB for The Boys is, get that as well. I read all of Preacher and think it's one of the best things I have read (I have read many, many 'proper' books) so I have high hopes for The Boys.

Other than those two, I will have a look round and see what else grabs me.....

If you haven't read Neil Gaiman's Sandman series yet then get that. It was the first TPB collection I got and its better than I can describe.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Pretty DC heavy:

Action Comics
All-New Atom
All-Star Superman
Batman
Birds Of Prey
The Brave & The Bold
Daredevil
DMZ (looks like it trades for me on this one)
Ex Machina
The Flash
Justice League Of America
Justice Society Of America
Madame Mirage
She-Hulk
The Spirit
Welcome To Tranquility
Wonder Woman
Y: The Last Man (just one more, then... buh-bye)

[Forefinger]

I'm currently buying, and enjoying, all the Invincible TPBs. Last time I was at the comic shop, I told the guy to stop pulling books for me, except for Powers, and I only bought one of the Invincible TPBs.

Monthy......I've cut way back, but I think that I still get most of these:

Batman (Morrison issues only)
Daredevil (I think I'm about to drop this one)
Punisher MAX (if the next arc isn't really good, I may drop it and only buy TPBs of arcs that are great)
100 Bullets. (at this point I'm really just buying this one so I'll have the complete run, and see how it all turns out in the end. This is nowhere near the book it was a couple of years ago)
Powers (not as good as it used to be. I think that Bendis is streching himself too thin writing so many books, but it's still better than most things out there)
Wolverine: Origins (one issue I'll read this and say "I'm dropping this if it doesn't get better" and then the next issue is really good so it makes me buy the next issue and the cycle continues. I've always been a sucker for all those "Wolverine's secret origin" stories. Now there is a whole series made up of them! I'm a sucker)
Fell (I get this whenever it comes out)

I'm currently collecting Invincible, New Avengers, Squadron Supreme and some of the other books that came from Supreme Powers in TPB format. At some point, I'll just go to that altogether, but I can't get over buying some books each month.

[Lee Kaye]

If you haven't read Neil Gaiman's Sandman series yet then get that. It was the first TPB collection I got and its better than I can describe.

Ah, yes, thanks. I have read pretty much all the major works apart from that. I should really get it ordered.

[frankiedetroit]

I used to read about 30 books a month. But that was years ago.

My reading fluctuates. If I don't enjoy something for more than a few months, I drop it. But these few have been good choices for quite a while now:

Ex Machina
Fables
Jack of Fables
All-Star Superman
Astro City

Odd, there are about 3 or 4 others, but I can't remember them. Age.

I had been picking up Hulk and World War Hulk. But, even though I could see a major letdown coming from miles and miles and miles away, I'm still disappointed and have dropped both of them.

[Lance]

Collected-
The Killer HC
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 3 HC
Super Spy
I Am Going To Be Small
Every Girl Is The End Of The World For Me
Sloth HC
Percy Gloom HC
The Goon: Chinatown and The Mystery of Mr. Wicker HC
Palestine HC
Deogratias
I Killed Adolf Hitler

Singles-
Speak of the Devil
Black Summer
Doktor Sleepless
Desolation Jones
Thunderbolts
Fell
Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse
30 Days of Night: Red Snow
Punisher MAX(till Ennis is gone)
Streets of Glory
The Boys
Crossing Midnight
Faker
The Programme
Omega The Unkown
Terror Inc.
The Goon
Hellboy
BPRD
Lobster Johnson
Umbrella Academy
The Spirit
Killing Girl
DMZ
Local

Anything J. H. Williams III related. I wish he'd do an ongoing series.

[Xevious]

I just wanted to say that issue #11 of the spirit is my favorite single issue of a book all year.

[Jeff Brady]

I just wanted to say that issue #11 of the spirit is my favorite single issue of a book all year.

Shit, I'm behind by two issues.

[jmusic33]

The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson Amazing. Dynamite Publishing
Losbster Girl by J. Morvay and Shelley Bergen Dark but powerful images Dakuwaka Publishing