Do you read comic books?

[EeveeElectro]

Not really. I read a couple webcomics, but I have a problem reading most comics.
Because of the way they seem to bold so many words. I don't really have a problem with it but it means I always read it in Shatner's voice.

And that's just distracting.

Oh great. Now that's something I'm gonna start doing Dx haha.
I always think they mean to emphasise certain words when it doesn't make sense. I just read it as "I made a CHEESE and pickle sandwich with EXTRA pickle then kicked SOME bad guys ass!"

OT: I do, I haven't had any in a while. I have mainly Batman, all of Scott Pilgrim, a few X-men and The Essential Avengers.
Getting a few good ideas from this thread... I would buy more but it's just the price of some of them. Stand alone comics are cheap enough, but collections usually end up being quite pricey.
I want to read The Walking Dead because I loved the show.
Also want to read the Kick-Ass comic too.

My favourite from my collection is either Mad Love and Other Stories or Prelude and Knock Knock Jokes.

 

[manic_depressive13]

you should try some of the real goods stuff

Preacher, Transmetropolitan or The Boys....and no superhero bullshit...well the boys is all about superhero bullshit..but its great if you don't like super hero bullshit...its just great period

I just ransacked my brother's comic book collection and discovered he has Preacher. I'll get back to you on that one.

 

[Royta]

Right now I'm reading:

Batman
The Dark Knight (actually good the last issue, everything before it was trash)
Batwoman
Nightwing
Batwing
Batman and Robin
Catwoman (hilarious)
Justice League
Batman Beyond
Walking Dead
American Vampire
BlackSad
Batman INC.

 

[Kerodohi]

..."I always think they mean to emphasise certain words when it doesn't make sense. I just read it as "I made a CHEESE and pickle sandwich with EXTRA pickle then kicked SOME bad guys ass!"" ...

That's one of my major peeves with comics as well. If the words they were bolding actually needed extra emphasis, that would be fine - it would add natural inflection to the character's dialogue. But the way it's written rarely makes sense to me and I end up with a head-narrator that sounds extremely stilted (as if some comic dialogue didn't have problems with that already...)

 

[GundamSentinel]

Generally, no. Especially not American comics, since they bore the shit out of me. I've read some manga in the past, but very little of that as well. As a kid, I used to read Belgian and French comics, and I still enjoy those on occasion.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Fair enough. I suppose I never really got into a particular comic series, so I never got to the point where I could notice such arcing plots.
However, and I forgot to put this in my post, I do have more of a thing about a lot of superheroes having relatively little brain matter.
For example, Batman doesn't carry a gun, correct? Well, if he did and killed the Joker in 'self-defence' then he would potentially save hundreds of lives which would otherwise be lost. Someone who doesn't do that is kinda a dick.
And I remember one scene somewhere, may or may not be canon, where Superman crushes coal into diamonds. If he can do that, why not go a step further and create uranium from a few other elements? He could solve the energy crisis, yet doesn't.

That's part of the drama and morality of the stories. Batman doesn't kill, he doesn't kill be cause he was created by the death of his parents. To him, what he strives for every day is a place were people don't get killed.

Yes, killing the Joker is quick and expedient. The storyline called Hush even had him considering to just snap the Joker's neck and be done with it. But the moral dilemma, the morality of Batman's story is that when he kills Joker, he becomes no better than Joker and thus no longer has the moral high-ground to do what he does. Commissioner Gordon even tries to stop him, even after the Joker tried to kill him, crippled his daughter (Batgirl/Oracle) and DID kill his wife. It's then Batman truly realizes he's not above morality, even if the Joker ignores it.

Superman probably could solve all our problems for us in a week. But that doesn't do anything for humanity as a whole. In the story No Man's Land. Gotham is destroyed and declared a No Man's Land by the Federal Government, if you stay there... you're not in the US, expect no help. Superman shows up to help Batman. Fixes a power plant with the help of it's former head engineer and defeats Mr. Freeze. When he goes back to the engineer he's collecting tribute in exchange for giving people electricity. He realizes its something we have to fix, not have fixed for us.

Goes back to the idea of superhero stories as morality places and tragedies. Yeah a lot of it could be solved by killing villains, solving our problems for us and just lording over us as the best people on the planet. But they don't because they represent the best of us, even the alien Superman (who was raised by human parents.) They are the ones who remind us that we can be better than the crap we perpetuate. That's what makes them admirable heroes.

And by refusing to kill, he dooms many people, likely in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands, to death at the Joker's hands, mostly because his parents were killed. That seems like a dodgy get-out at the very least, and blatant cruelty otherwise. To allow thousands to die because you have moral quandaries about killing one individual, and you could even do so legally. It just seems wrong.

This one is less easy to put down on paper. Although yes, there are things suitable for solving ourselves, I'm not sure uranium is one of them. But then, as you said, Superman could solve practically every problem ever if he wanted to, he just doesn't.

Example: Lelouch vi Britannia. Now, Lelouch is a character in an Anime called Code Geass. His superpower, as it is, is a kind of mind-control, with limitations. Now, I'm not going into his specific drives and such, since it gets too complicated than I can bother to write. But, suffice to say, by the end he literally rules the world, after having killed the previous ruler and now controls the only equivalent to nukes in the setting. A month after this happens, he gets killed.
Afterwards, the whole series, him setting up the not-Rebel-Alliance, all his plans and motivations, get revealed to have been an intricate plan to get the entire world to hate him more than anyone else. Then, once he gets killed, the entire world is united due to their hatred for him. At the cost of his life, he united the planet.

That's a superhero worth reading about.

However, I know that there are possibly more comics than ears currently in existence, so if you know a series that is more suited to the darker, antihero-type character that can and will get people close to him to die, and quite possibly themselves, please mention it.

And I forgot to mention that I'm also reading V for Vendetta.

 

[NeoShinGundam]

Here's my pull list:

<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAR121174/Atomic-Robo-Real-Science-Adventures-3>Atomic Robo
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120273/Batman-Beyond-Unlimited-6>Batman Beyond Unlimited Essentially a sequel to both JLU and Batman Beyond.
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/APR120532/Danger-Club-3>Danger Club Kinda like Teen Titans meets Kick Ass.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120722/Deadpool-Vol-3-57>Deadpool The only Marvel book I buy anymore.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120256/Demon-Knights-2011-11>Demon Knights
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120249/Dial-H-2012-3>Dial H
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120253/Frankenstein-Agent-of-SHADE-2011-11>Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. One of the few good things to come out of the New52.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120608/Glory-28>Glory One of the pinnacles of Image Comic's second age.
AWESOME!!!
i, Zombie By my new favorite writer, Chris Roberson.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/APR120545/The-Manhattan-Projects-4>The Manhattan Projects By FF writer Jonathan Hickman.
you owe it to yourself to check this out.
The New Deadwardians Victorian murder mystery with an undead twist.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/APR120553/Prophet-26>Prophet EVERYBODY should check this one out!!! Trust me.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/APR120044/Resident-Alien-2>Resident Alien
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/series/4556/The-Sixth-Gun>The Sixth Gun
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120626/Skullkickers-16>Skullkickers
Spaceman Another cool sci-fi series.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/APR120362/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-11>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/JUL120319/Transformers-More-Than-Meets-the-Eye-Ongoing-9>Transformers: More than Meets the Eyes
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAY120368/Transformers-Robots-In-Disguise-Ongoing-7>Transformers: Robots in Disguise Two separate series. MTMTE is off-world while RID takes place on Cybertron.
<url=http://pulllist.comixology.com/sku/MAR120702/Zootanapuss-4-3-Copy-Incv>Zootanapuss By the guy who brought you Cerebus the Aardvark.

Every time I'm in the store I try to pick up at least one book I've never tried before, but these are the ones I'm subscribed to every month. And yeah, I spend about $50 a week on comics.

 

[CJMacM]

I read quite a few different webcomics but I don't really read comic books. I've read Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, and some other Batman comic with a name I can't remember.

I really do want to start reading comics more regularly but I don't really know where to start, or which characters I want to read about. If anyone has a recommendation, I'd love to hear it.

 

[Vault101]

Irredeemable has its faults. It starts off brilliantly but later on it starts to slide a bit. Almost every issue ending on a dazzling cliffhanger but the resolution is never as good as the build up. Still a very good read though.

I've read the first trade...there were a couple of times I was like "huh?..no one acts like that" mainly when plutonian revealed himself to his girilfreind and then the people in the office find out and are liek OMG! HEY EVERYONE..it all happned so fast...

but if you say its worth reading I'd like to stick with it

"So, why is he training them exactly? Have you guys ever seen these people use their powers? .

why would they? yould you rather run around fighting and doing work when you could be whoring and partying?

I think the Idea there is that just because you have super powers doesnt actually mean your going to be a great fighter..that was Vaught Americans mistake, they made thease supes to be walking merchandise money makers..thats pretty much all they are good for, when they tried using them for practical purposes they failed horribly because they were poorly trained and poorly organised (WW2 and 9/11) ...I guess it could have been possible, hence why vaught hd their other agenda

so they just kept the supes complacent to let the mony roll in, as for the supes go I'd say its very easy to become jaded and complacent given that lifestyle,though I found that even A-hole charachters like A-tran and jack from jupiter came across as "real" in a way

at first it confused me how the Boys could be so hatful towards supes whent hey had abilities themselfs...but then I realised being a supe isnt about your powers...its about the corporate backing

got a question about black noir though

[spoiler/] if he was created as a killswitch for Homelander...then isnt that just solving one problem with a bigger problem? are Vought American that dumb?[/spoiler]

 

[Vault101]

I I mean, going by Starlight, the implication is that everyone gets into superheroics to be a hero

I missed this part

thats the thing...I dont know if youve ead the whole thing but it makes sense when you find out how supes are actually created

lets just say no one is in it for the heroics

 

[Kargathia]

Yea, in addition to my RSS feeds on webcomics I also still have a batch of physical comic books.

Nothing involving spandex suits and top-layer underpants though.

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

I I mean, going by Starlight, the implication is that everyone gets into superheroics to be a hero

I missed this part

thats the thing...I dont know if youve ead the whole thing but it makes sense when you find out how supes are actually created

lets just say no one is in it for the heroics

See, I can get why the don't do heroic things, what I don't get is why no-one in the Boys universe for the last 60 years has pointed out that they don't do heroic things. I mean, asides from the Boys, we don't appear to have any detractors to the Super-hero overlords and that seems... unlikely. Are there no old man who can stop and say "Wait, the Homelander hasn't actually stopped a bank robbery at any point in his life, WHY are we worshipping the ground he walks on?" Aside from the 'cross-overs' at Herogasm, I don't see why the general public is A-OK with them doing sod all.

As for the Black Noir question... yeah, considering Stormfront, I'm actually surprised they didn't just keep going with that solution "Old lady who swallowed a fly" style. I mean they tried to teach him how to fly a jet for cripes' sake, making terrible decisions seems to be Vought's M.O. See, everything they've ever made or done besides Compound V.

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

This one is less easy to put down on paper. Although yes, there are things suitable for solving ourselves, I'm not sure uranium is one of them. But then, as you said, Superman could solve practically every problem ever if he wanted to, he just doesn't.

Example: Lelouch vi Britannia. Now, Lelouch is a character in an Anime called Code Geass. His superpower, as it is, is a kind of mind-control, with limitations. Now, I'm not going into his specific drives and such, since it gets too complicated than I can bother to write. But, suffice to say, by the end he literally rules the world, after having killed the previous ruler and now controls the only equivalent to nukes in the setting. A month after this happens, he gets killed.
Afterwards, the whole series, him setting up the not-Rebel-Alliance, all his plans and motivations, get revealed to have been an intricate plan to get the entire world to hate him more than anyone else. Then, once he gets killed, the entire world is united due to their hatred for him. At the cost of his life, he united the planet.

That's a superhero worth reading about.

However, I know that there are possibly more comics than ears currently in existence, so if you know a series that is more suited to the darker, antihero-type character that can and will get people close to him to die, and quite possibly themselves, please mention it.

And I forgot to mention that I'm also reading V for Vendetta.

Lelouch united the planet, for all of ten seconds. Even if Suzaku carries on the Batman like legacy of striking terror into people and being on the run for the rest of his life with his (under a well worded Geass) manservant that's still just until HE dies and then... war again. Because I'm just a little TOO jaded to believe the world leaders all followed Nunnally loyally.

Though the series you're asking for is Hellblazer, one of the only comic books where the protagonist ages in real time and once got asked if a recently killed bystander was a friend of his and replied "Must have been, he's dead". It also makes no bones about the fact Constantine is never going to 'win', because it's a serial and he's fighting demons and devils and angels THEY can't be killed or 'lose' permanantly, he just gets a stay of execution each time.

Though the Batman/Joker thing is really a problem with the legal system more than a problem with Batman, he's handing a guy over to the cops to go to trial but they can't convict him? REALLY? Insane Asylum he breaks out of every week over execution?

 

[Vault101]

See, I can get why the don't do heroic things, what I don't get is why no-one in the Boys universe for the last 60 years has pointed out that they don't do heroic things. I mean, asides from the Boys, we don't appear to have any detractors to the Super-hero overlords and that seems... unlikely. Are there no old man who can stop and say "Wait, the Homelander hasn't actually stopped a bank robbery at any point in his life, WHY are we worshipping the ground he walks on?" Aside from the 'cross-overs' at Herogasm, I don't see why the general public is A-OK with them doing sod all.

As for the Black Noir question... yeah, considering Stormfront, I'm actually surprised they didn't just keep going with that solution "Old lady who swallowed a fly" style. I mean they tried to teach him how to fly a jet for cripes' sake, making terrible decisions seems to be Vought's M.O. See, everything they've ever made or done besides Compound V.

ah ok, that makes more sense

I may have to pull fank-wank and guess that..similar to Herogasm Vought comes up with "publicity" type stuff to give the impression the supes actual do stuff, I got the impression Vaught keeps tabs on that kind of thing though to keep them from screwing up

like when capes for christ (or the young amercians can;t remember their names) hlped with the disaster releif

and then interestingly I remember vaugly tek knight (bat man obviously) was talking about chasing *cat woman counterpart* with his side kick and remembering "the good old times" which indicated doing stuff...however mabye that could have been early in the seres where he wasnt 100% done figuring out the small details...that happnes somtimes

 

[Zeckt]

No. Curious, why no poll?

 

[Soumen Majumdar]

Kudos to Herge.... Tintin Rocks!!..Blistering Baranacles!!
iOS Developer [http://www.xcubelabs.com/]

 

[JohnDoey]

I've been reading avenging Spider-man, Spider-men, and the amazing Spider-man and picking up Batman,Saga,Batman and Robin, AvX,Aquaman,Nightwing,Red Hood and the Outlaws, and Blue Beetle.
EDIT: Forgot one, Justice league.

 

[Arina Love]

only manga.
now i'm reading
Ah my Goddess
History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
Fairy Tail
KissXSis
Zettai Karen Children

 

[MorganL4]

I read all the Green Lantern books, and I also read Justice League.

That is about it, but I do look forward to them every month.