Calling All Comic Geeks!

[VinylGuy]

yeah me too...already looking for Low...lets discuss some weird books...anyone read Black Hole, from Charles Burns?

[bada]

Ha, I say weird but I really just mean non super-hero comics which are the norm for me. Saga is pretty different, but Black Hole is weird! Too weird for me!

[Kaius]

bada: if you enjoy the tights and cape superhero type comics you would absolutely love Invincible by Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead creator). Start from the beginning though! It starts out as your typical teenager becomes superhero story but is very unconventional in how it gets there and where the story goes.

It has everything you'd ever want in a comic! Humor, action, great villains, great hero team-ups, romance, dopey cliches, and lots upon lots of unexpected twists!

I jumped on last year, and seriously burned through the first 100 issues in about a month give or take. You can get the first 96 issues in either tpb's or omnibus' 1 & 2.
The art in te first 20 issues or so is subpar, but after that Ryan Ottley takes over an he is phenomenal!

[Kaius]

I just hopped on the "weird" books wagon last year, which essentially means I'm buying a lot of Image books. I've always been a Superman, Batman, X-Men, etc. comic book reader, but just got a little burnt out and decided to try out some new stuff. I went to the Image shelf and picked up the likes of Invincible and Saga and I haven't looked back!

[VinylGuy]

Guys, you should read Black Hole. Its different, its uneasy, it leaves you with a weird chill.

[HardTI]

This sounds really cool!

IGN: You have your new series, which is Low. Go ahead and pitch it to me.

Remender: Sure. Low, the elevator pitch on it is that it's in the distant future, and the sun has begun its inevitable expansion to consume our solar system. Mankind has not found an inhabitable planet to move to, so while they're stalling out, while probes are searching the galaxy for another inhabitable home for mankind, humanity moves into giant, blast-shielded cities at the very, very depths of the ocean. Tens of thousands of years pass, and no probes come back with answers, and the cities begin to crumble. Mankind begins to fall into war, and things begin to go sideways. The end result is enough time passes that there's only two cities left -- a lot of pirates floating around from the remnants of the fallen cities -- but there are only these two cities left. Hope is pretty low. There's crime and drug abuse in the cities. The city where we start our story is sort of capitalistic run amok -- you know, bartering humans and things; it's gotten pretty ugly. This one woman there, Estelle, the mother of the family that we follow -- a family of hunters responsible for gathering food for the city -- she remains incredibly optimistic and spends every morning searching for probes with information. She's the last person doing it. Everybody else has resigned to the idea that we're done.

So what ends up happening is, one of these probes returns with a broken communicator and crashes on the surface with the location of an inhabitable world. But nobody's been on the surface of Earth in 30- or 40,000 years, and nobody has any idea what's up there. Even probes you send up to go to the top of the ocean get destroyed by any number of mutated life or pirates -- there's a lot of crazy shit up there. We've done a map of the levels of the ocean, and the first 25 issues are just getting through the layers of the ocean and what exists. It's so much fun to build that stuff. Then when you get to the surface itself, we've got all these f***ing nutty ideas about what's up there, mutated, and what life exists. So it's a story about one woman's optimism in the face of inevitable and true doom that we are looking at as a species, because eventually this will happen, albeit many millions of years from now. Her journey to find a new home for the remaining population of mankind who are mired in war and hopelessness.

That cover is stunning. I need to read this.

[Kaius]

yeah me too...already looking for Low...lets discuss some weird books...anyone read Black Hole, from Charles Burns?

This is the first I've heard of it, but I'm gonna check it out!

[Kaius]

I like what Remender has done on Uncanny Avengers ,and Black Science is cool so far, so I'll probably check out Low.

[Kaius]

Does anyone want to help fund my comic book addiction?

[HardTI]

HardTI I'm checking out Peter Panzerfaust this weekend. You and Kaius are getting me into all these weird books!

I'm excited to see what you think!.
Kaius, I couldn't afford to keep up with my habit. Unfortunately I went now went the tablet route and get my digital comics....
Wish I could pay for them like I used to.

[bada]

Read the first five issues it was way different than what I expected. For some reason I was thinking it was a straight fantasy comic not a WW2 one. Probably cause the name Peter Panzerfaust seemed whimsical to me? There were a couple characters that looked so much alike I mixed them up from time to time but it was pretty neat overall.

[bada]

Reading this week:

All New X-Men 22
Avengers 25
Conan The Barbarian 24
Deadly Class 01
Eternal Warrior 05
Hawkeye 16
Justice League 27
Superior Spider-Man Team Up 09

[Peeps]

ill be getting battle of the atom monday (shipped) and cataclysm next month (when it ships)

[bada]

Will be curious if you find Battle Of The Atom and tedious as I did. Sometimes I wonder if I even like the X-Men anymore. Thinking about jumping into some Ultimate comics after Cataclysm.

[Peeps]

Will be curious if you find Battle Of The Atom and tedious as I did. Sometimes I wonder if I even like the X-Men anymore. Thinking about jumping into some Ultimate comics after Cataclysm.

im an old grumpy guy. to me the xmens best days were in the outback. i realize every writer comes on and injects their own spin on things but if they had stayed there a lot longer i would have been happier

storm
wolverine
psylocke
havok
dazzler
rogue
longshot

maddie
gateway
jubilee


claremont writing, silverstri at his finest


*sigh*

[bada]

[Peeps]

exactly...by far the best "season" of the xmen (right next to the Mutant Masacre)

[Kaius]

A light pull for me yesterday. I hadn't gone for 2 weeks so I was a bit surprised. May daughter had 3 out of the 4 books in my file

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #15
My Little Pony: Friends Forever #1
The Powerpuff Girls #5
Batman #27

[bada]

Your daughter is a Batman fan? Cool! Enjoy your pony stories Kaius.

[Kaius]

Bookworm made his debut in the main title, and it looks like it's Pinkie Pie versus Applejack in a bake off over in Friends Forever. I can't wait!