Spiderman - Maximum Carnage 1-14 and Hobgoblin Lives, the classics I grew up on.

Planetary, Vol. 4
Pluto, vol. 8

Sam

The Chainsaw Penguin - horror cartoon
 

Here is The Chainsaw Penguin: it's an animated short horror in true comic style!

Fables Vol. 3

Terminator 2029 #1 & #2
Best Terminator comic I've read in a fair while...interesting, unexpected twists, good dialogue, great art.
I'd reco it to the fans of the franchise.

Read:

• Kick-Ass! by Mark Millar - Fun, quick read with bitching graphics. Really want to see the movie, though am not a huge fan of casting Nick Cage as Big Daddy.
• Karney by Bryan Johnson - In this case, K is for Krap. Base. Gross. Unnecessary. Uninspired. Lame.
• No Hero by Warren Ellis - Loved it. Great artwork and fantastic story. My only complaint is that I think it could have been twice as long; it would have been stronger with some flashbacks and origin stories. Regardless, great stuff.
• Like a Velvel Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes - At first I was unimpressed by the bizarro absurdity, but taking in context, once considering it was written in 1989, I appreciated the book much, much more. David Boring turned me off Clowes, but I loved Like a Velvet Glove. An absurd journey of Lynch proportions. Weird and fantastic. And great art.
• El Borbah by Charles Burns - Lots of fun. Noir homage with a Mexican wrestler as your private dick.
• Transmetropolitan vol. 1 by Warren Ellis - Fantastic comic about a dystopic cyber punk future. Plus our hero, Spider Jerusalem, reminds me of our Ferox with his tats.

Currently reading:

• Transmetropolitan vol. 2 by Warren Ellis. Good stuff.

Can't get enough of comics and graphic novels right now. If you have any recommendations, please send them to me.

Have you read Ex Machina?

Great comic, and if you like it you might like Vaughan's Y the Last Man, about a guy who somehow doesn't catch a virus that kills all the men on earth.

Fables is also very good. I zip through them so fast because they are so well written. This one is about all the characters from fairy tales being forced to live in New York. It's also kinda written for girls I think. A lot of strong female characters who don't always need saving.

No - I shall put that on my Amazon wish list (I've started to budget a certain amount of money each pay period to buy comics now). WOW the graphics look fantastic on this one. Have you read No Hero? Reminds me of that a bit. Thanks for the rec - I think I'll like this.

Forgot to mention Y the Last Man - I read Vol. 1 and thought it was OK, but wasn't really impressed. I found the characters 1-dimensional and kinda silly. Plus I wasn't a huge fan in terms of how the women were written. The measure of how I felt about that comic: I took a TON of books with me on vacation to Puerto Rico. The books I didn't like, I left there. I left Y the Last Man there. heh.

I saw Fables in Newbury Comics the other day and was tempted to buy it, but wasn't quite sure - I trust your opinion; if I can find it used on Amazon, I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the rec.


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Finished Transmetropolitan Vol. 2 last night... WOW this comic is fantastic. What a blast - Great character and, quite frankly, I looooooooooooove the political and scifi outrage. It's really refreshing. I need need neeeeeeeeeeed to order the next volumes........

You'll probably enjoy Fables. I recommend an interlibrary loan instead of a purchase of volume 1, however. It doesn't start off as strong as it could. Later volumes however, are better stuff.

DC comics
"Brightest Day" and "War of the Supermen" #1's.
Both quite good...but yknow, knowing dc and their events all the time if you haven't read a few titles in a while you might wonder what's going on.

Okay, please don't yell and throw things at me, but I'm reading Watchmen for the first time. I've never gotten into comics, really, so this one clearly took me a while to get to between all the books and movies I'm trying to make it through.

I have maybe another 1/5 to finish.

I just read Greek Street vol. 1: Blood Calls for Blood, by Peter Milligan and David Gianfelice. It’s an interesting book – putting Greek myths into the middle of modern-day London – but there wasn’t enough here to get me to come back for volume 2. A shame, really, as I love mythology.

Sam

Justice League - Generation Lost #1.
You don't have to have read any DC comics before...I mean there's existing characters in it but the narrative takes care of everything very smoothly...I didn't think I would but I really enjoyed this comic, and it's one of my recos for the week.

Just finished PUSSEY! by Daniel Clowes. It was OK. Oddly enough, I enjoyed his Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron more (I say "oddly" because PUSSEY! is more fake-autobiographical, which is a genre a typically enjoy, and Velvet Glove is bizarro, a genre that I go back and forth with)... Found PUSSEY! to be a bit boring, to tell the truth.

Batman - The return of Bruce Wayne #1
...well, it's hard to say they're not heavily borrowing from the whole Captain America thing...but, I actually found it a pretty interesting read, with pretty cool art.

Hellsing Vol 1-3.

Trying to get my site linked to you Sam. PM or e-mail me.

loving the Night Of The Living Dead comics from Avatar

Justice League - Generation Lost #2.
This comic title is GREAT...it's a title within itself, you dont REALLY need to know any of the characters involved to pick it up...but yeah, in my opinion the villain pulls off just about one of the best schemes I've ever seen.
Won't spoil it, but you should take a look.

Night Trippers, by Mark Ricketts and Micah Farrior – a comic about vampires in swinging 60s London. Not very far in yet, so I haven’t formed an opinion.

Sam

not in comicbook forum but should still count, im going back an checking out the Last Blood & Crow Scares webcomics both very cool!

Sam & Max: Surfin`the highway.. Goes hand in hand with some hours playing season two, on xbox arcade.http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/be...2008/371-1.jpg

BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL No.44: "Batman Versus The Undead," part one. Batman teams up with a reformed vampire to hunt down a mad scientist hell-bent on using voodoo to reanimate the dead. While not rated for "mature" readers this dark romp through the French Quarter of New Orleans has a couple of truly shocking scenes. Even the cover is unusually gruesome showing you what dreadlocks are really useful for. Written by Kevin Vanhook and drawn by Tom Mandrake who, if I recall correctly, brought us the SUPERMAN AND BATMAN VERSUS VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES mini-series from last year. Part two just came out this week. So far it's worth the time and the money.

thats a really good issue, I liked it alot, well like anything with undead people in it so haha, i like what there doing with that batman series alot,it's pretty awesome

I agree. Read the first issue in the new Gunslinger series today, THE DARK TOWER. Looks like another winner.

Starting Scott Pilgrim today. Hope it's as good as I hear it is, thought I prefer my comics more macabre or super hero filled.

Read the first two issues of THE RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE mini-series by Grant Morrison. Good stuff so far. The superstitious quagmire of the Puritans in issue 2 really made me angry.

Deadpool - Wade Wilsons War #1
Might just be the best deadpool comic I've read in AGES...I'd recommend it to the fans of the character who are sick of the stupidity factor of the current running titles and are looking for something a little darker.

Justice League - Generation Lost #3.
Still IMO dc's most original comic title in years.

Red Hood - The Lost Days #1
Also pretty cool, and I'm sure will answer some questions.
I still have hope for some kind of redemption for this character...always liked him, regardless of which mask/face he was wearing.

I think you'll be pleased. It might not be gory and it's not superhero stuff but it's a fun, weird, examination of geek culture and heroism in today's lazy, banal low income world.

I was rooting for him to get the cowl. Him or Tim.

Just started reading Ennis' The Boys. First impressions is that it's vulgar and misogynistic, which I understand is the point, but it seems to revel in it a bit more than I'd prefer. I keep hearing good things about it, though, so I'm giving it a chance...

New Avengers #38.

As it progresses, there gets to be a bit more of an emotional center to the series. I really enjoyed the latest volume. Ennis is a smart guy that sometimes gets bogged down in the business of being offensive and provocative. Preacher for example, makes some played theological arguments as well as presenting some very fresh perspectives on our relationship to the divine.

I thought that Preacher was incredible. One of my favorite comics. Ever. I've gone through Volume 2 of The Boys now and I'm still feeling very meh about it - But there are two very intelligent people whom I know who like the series (you and another friend of mine), so I will continue to give it a try...

Transmetropolitan Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard. LOVE this comic. LOVE this series. Makes me want to cheer with every page turn. This volume was especially brilliant. Really can't put it down. REALLY wish I had requested the next couple of volumes from the library to go along with it... I want more Spider...

The Couriers and The Couriers 02: Dirtbike Manifesto. Pretty much mindless shoot-em-up manga-like stuff. Fluff. Not bad, but not great. It'll be a better movie, if it pans out...

Deadpool Corps #1.

I'm very fond of Transmetropolitan. Spider Jerusalem is one of the greatest heroes in comics history.

Thoroughly agree. Quite possibly my favorite comic ever. It makes me want to cheer. That doesn't happen very often.

Started reading Fables. Thanks MM for the rec! It's a blast - So incredibly clever and well-written. Thoroughly enjoying it.

The Walking Dead...
And they are making it a show!
Woot! :p