Good comics that I haven't read: the impossible task!
I like reading comic books. There have been some tremendously great runs by various authors, and some tremendously great stories to come out of comic books. There's just one problem
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Actually the first Miller Daredevil run is the setup for everything after that, and it's pretty good too. (Miller as an artist ony at first, and I can't at the moment recall who wrote it, but it was awesome.)
Cerebus, up to and including Church and State. Everything beyond that is just tedious, but until then it was great.
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Never heard of Cerebus, so I'll check that out, thanks.
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I've heard good things about the Darkhorse Knights of the Old Republic comic by John Jackson Miller and Brian Ching.
If you're into that sort of thing.
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Just... if you happen to find it an affront to all that is good in the world, don't get too mad at me. I like comics, but I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to them.
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Now,next time don't forget to complain about empire:total war's bugs.
Anyway,about Fallen Angel i can honestly say it's interesting.
I recommend The Sword by Luna Brothers and Star wars: Knights of the old republic(you did play kotor,right?!) from Dark Horse.
People love Casanova though i find it overrated and didn't read the last few issues.
Astounding wolf-man is meh but people seem to dig it.
Universal War from soleil and published by marvel in US.Ythaq can be considered too though none of those two can be called "great!".
Personally,i like iron man-extremis storyline.
And HULK from Loeb(that was for the medicine talk!-hahaha!)
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Morrison, Kyle and Yost, Bendis, Johns, Abnett and Lanning, Brian K. Vaughan, those guys are my top guys. I like almost 100% of everything they've done.
But for actual comics there's Planet Hulk, Bendis' Daredevil, Morrison's New X-men and JLA, Kyle and Yost's New X-Men, Lucifer, Seven Soldiers of Victory, Morrison's Batman and Final Crisis stuff (which should all be read together), New Avengers up until Civil War, JMS's Spider-Man up until One More Day, Incredible Hercules, and Abnett and Lanning's Nova.
But my top list changes quite a lot, so it's better to say which authors I like rather than which specific works.
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I know you read a lot of Vaughan - have you read his The Escapists? It's good stuff.
Recent read: Jonathan Hickman's Nightly News. Intentionally provocative, but very well done, and an intriguing use of graphic design in combination with art.
Richard Donner's Last Son.
Assume since you've read No Man's Land, you've read Cataclysm?
Umm... I love Brian Wood's DMZ and Brian Azzarello's 100 Bullets. Although 100 Bullets isn't that interesting, IMO, until the 2nd trade. Good, just nothing special.
There's probably more that I can't remember. I'll let you know if I think of it.
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I have the Escapists in Hardcover, particularly since I was a fan of Kavalier and Clay.
I've checked out Hickman's Nightly News, and the art and storytelling style is pretty interesting. It's what made me start reading his Nick Fury series and take an interest in him in general.
Read Last Son since that was a collaboration with Geoff Johns, if memory serves.
Cataclysm is the earthquake one? I think I read that one. Or maybe it's the disease one. I think I read that one too. Aside from Morrison's Batman, I tend to stick to just reading his event trades, and even then I'm usually disappointed.
100 bullets I tried a bunch of times and could never get into. It wasn't bad, it just like you said. Nothing special. DMZ I've thought about reading before, but something always kept me from it. I guess I should finally check it out.
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100 Bullets takes a little work, I won't lie. I think it's worth it, but I get why others might not. I really dig DMZ.
OH! Ed Brubaker's Scene of the Crime. Good detective stuff. Also Sleeper.
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It's appropriate to me that Brubaker and Rucka team up so much, cause they're both on my list of overrated authors who write what they seem to think is grittey crime drama and I tend to think is ridiculous garbage.
I may try to get into 100 Bullets again. There are plenty of books I've tried, gave up, and then came back to later only to find I loved them. Alias, Planet Hulk, Morrison's New X-men, all of those are examples. So I'll try to get deeper into it before making a judgment.
And despite my Brubaker distaste, I'll give Scene of the Crime a shot. After all, I like Millar's Ultimate universe stuff but tend to think the rest of his stuff is pretty bad, so maybe Brubaker is better when he's doing his own stuff.
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THe Faith arc was a fun story, and Faith doing the my Fair Lady thing was cool, but I agree the set up for it was OOC. I have a hard time believing the Scoobies would let Faith live in a rathole doing the jobs to bad for the nice Slayers.
The Angel series needs Cordelia.
As for good stuff to read look for Back issues and TPBs of the most recent Blue Beetle series. THe main character is named Jaime Reyes. Especially issues 12(or maybe 13) to 25. It even has a couple of cool GL moments in there with Guy Gardner.
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