What's your favorite comic book and what's the last one you've read?

[Louis Tully]

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[saint]

Batman: No Man's Land. (1-5)

[Donkbaca]

Batman - hush was also pretty good

[wp34]

The Flash.

I'm reading the new #1 right now.

[NiN^_^NiN]

I can't say I read comic books but i have been reading the walking dead and I'm staying up to date.
If I get time i'll check out some of the other ones you guys recommend 

[opt2not]

I really haven't collected or read a comic in a long while now. I just even got rid of the last of the comics I collected when I was younger, but I saved only a few that I just had to keep.

The Dark Knight Returns - first and second series, though I love the first one better. So dark and gritty, and the artwork was amazing.

Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown - pretty cool plot, but the artwork was so wonderfully different. Done with water colour and inks, with very cool designs. When I was a kid, I used to catch myself just staring long at each panel.

No wonder I'm an artist.

[Ginsu Victim]

The only thing I read regularly now is The Walking Dead.

I never buy comics anymore, just trade editions and graphic novels.

Batman: The Killing Joke is definitely my favorite, though I love The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Year Two, and Gotham By Gaslight.

opt2not: You are correct, sir. Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown IS awesome.

I've also been buying The Dark Tower and Marvel Zombies hardcovers, but both of them have lost my interest over time.

Currently reading (while I await the next Walking Dead volume): Dylan Dog, Preacher, and Scott Pilgrim (which I started way before the movie, just never finished).

[jamesjones626]

The only thing I read regularly now is The Walking Dead.

I never buy comics anymore, just trade editions and graphic novels.

Batman: The Killing Joke is definitely my favorite, though I love The Dark Knight Returns, Year One, Year Two, and Gotham By Gaslight.

opt2not: You are correct, sir. Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown IS awesome.

I've also been buying The Dark Tower and Marvel Zombies hardcovers, but both of them have lost my interest over time.

Currently reading (while I await the next Walking Dead volume): Dylan Dog and Preacher

I use to have batman the killing joke first print when i was a teen, use to drive me insane anytime i seen the joker on some batman show or cartoon as some looney wimpy shmuck when he's really an insane killer.
I use to read uncanny x-men in the 80's and then the 2nd series x-men in the 90's.  I havn't kept up with comic books since i was 15 (im 31 now) so i bought some recent uncanny x-men comics mainly for the cover art and the nostelgia of going to the comic store.

[Ginsu Victim]

I use to have batman the killing joke first print when i was a teen

Still got mine.

[Rando]

I never buy comics anymore, just trade editions and graphic novels.

Ditto on this point,
I don't have time or patience to follow monthly books, so populate my Amazon wish list with books so people have something easy to get me for Birthday/Christmas.  I was out of comics for a while, and then I found a Podcast (iFanboy) that I found pretty good and they regularly make recommendations like "Best book of month" or "top 5 trades".  Using this I got some books to try out and pretty much everything that they've recommended I've enjoyed.  Below are some that stand out in my recent memory:

- Fables (ongoing) - Stories featuring characters from traditional fairy tales that live in our modern day world after escaping from their individual worlds.  (Ex: Snow White didn't really enjoy her time with the dwarves, Prince charming is kind of a womanizer having married and divorced several leading ladies, Little boy blue is kind of a badass that had to leave a lot of friends behind, story of the Frog Prince is sad sad sad...)
- Y the last Man (ended series) - Just what it sounds like, something happens, and all males of all species on Earth suddenly perish, except for one guy and his monkey.  I'm in the middle of these trades.
- Mouse Guard (2 HC books) - Heavy on visuals, low on words, really pretty books featuring Mice which reminds me of LOTR a bit.
- Scott Pilgrim (6 digest sized books) - Recently made into a good movie, story about a slacker and his quest to win a girl, which he can only do if he defeats her 7 evil exes.  Lot of video game references in movie & books.
- Pride of Baghdad (trade) - Really neat story about a pride of lions that escape from a Zoo in Iraq following US bombings.

I have "Walking Dead" and "War Stories" to read but haven't broken into them yet.  All above are fairly recent non-traditional comics, I've heard the latest run on FF4 is really good and is on my list to get.  Some of the recent DC reboot (Wonder Woman anyone?) looks good as well, but will probably be a few years before I get to try any.

[EDIT: Didn't read full request, some of my all time favorites: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (non Archie version), Uncanny X-Men, Grendel.]

[SavannahLion]

I used to work at a comic and card shop a few years ago and I never really got into the comics. I think the fact that there were guys who looked like Comic Book Guy (Simpsons) who came in and purchased short boxes full of comics on a monthly basis, talked down to you if you didn't know what exactly was said in Batman #34 page #6 panel #4 and never ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- a woman unless it was the whore on the street corner at the last Comicon kind of turned me off to the whole thing. In the two or three years I worked there, I only amassed approximately 1 1/2 short boxes of comics. And the majority of those comics where gathered after I quit the shop. In any case....

I don't have a particular favorite. Most of my collection consists of Animal Mystic most of which I never actually got around to reading. I did have a particular fondness for Yosagi Yojimbo but got into it just before all my suppliers quit the business and I never really got back into comics again.

[saint]

- Fables (ongoing) - Stories featuring characters from traditional fairy tales that live in our modern day world after escaping from their individual worlds.  (Ex: Snow White didn't really enjoy her time with the dwarves, Prince charming is kind of a womanizer having married and divorced several leading ladies, Little boy blue is kind of a badass that had to leave a lot of friends behind, story of the Frog Prince is sad sad sad...)

I will double, triple, and quadruple concur with Fables. If you haven't checked it out I *highly* recommend it. I bought the first graphic novel, read it, then bought all the rest as soon as I could afterwards.

[Donkbaca]

I'll check some of this stuff out.  I have a comic reader on my phone and have um... a means of acquiring digital copies of the books for free.  Its a neat way to read stuff on the go, and its free...

[Rando]

Have read:

TMNT 1-13

LT,
Is this the orginal 1-13 from Mirage comics?  Black & white and more gritty than the movies/tv shows?  The series got funky at times but was good most of the time.  My favorites were when Eric Talbot was involved in the artwork:



One of my all time favorite single issues was the somewhat silent Leonardo one-shot that leads into TMNT #10 where Leonardo is out alone and fighting to get back home:

[misfit1138]

I'll ALWAYS say Amazing Spider-Man is my favorite comic no matter how bad/terrible/good/great it is at the time. I can't quit you Spider-Man.

Last one I read though is the one I co-created. The Pound [shameless]http://www.frozenbeachstudios.com/pound[/shameless]

[Necro]

Green Lantern and all variations (Corps, Emerald Warrior, etc.)

Just got through all brightest day and caught up.

[Well Fed Games]

Ah, yes, Fables, Y: The Last Man, Watchmen, all favs of mine as well. I was big into Marvel (X-Men, Spider man) in the 90s, like a lot of people. Currently only thing I read that is "new" is the Dark Horse Buffy, Angel, and Serenity Comics. Bought Buffy season 8 issue by issue but got tired of trying to grab one of the (apparently) three copies my local shop ordered each month. Now it is graphic novels off of Amazon for me.

[fallacy]

I stopped liking comics when I was 14 and superman died and then they made 4 different superman’s after the funeral.
One was his reanimated cops- he had all these electricity powers.
One was his genes mixed in with a cyborg Skelton.
One was a clone of him as a teenager.
And the 4th was some jerk off that made a full metal suite and called himself superman. I did not get that one.

Anyway at that time everyone was collecting these comics saying this was some epic time in comic book history and that these comics would be worth a lot some day. It was then that I realized comic books would never be worth anything ever again.  18 years has past and I was right!  

[Well Fed Games]

It was then that I realized comic books would never be worth anything ever again.  18 years has past and I was right!  

Yeah, I collected around the same time. Not a lot, a couple of longboxes, have never sold one for more than the cover price.

[Louis Tully]

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[saint]

OK - I'm actually at home with my collection, so:

Batman: Cataclysm (precursor to Batman: No Man's Land, read it first)
Batman No Man's Land (1-5)
Fables
Batman Knightfall (1-3)
Girls (1-4, The Luna Brothers) - it's a bit out there
Grimm Fairy Tales (1-?)
The Sandman (1-?, Neil Gaiman)

[Mikezilla]

Since I just bought my house, I have had a resurgence in comics because I had to move them out of storage and keep em in my man cave. I stopped reading comics when they made Spidermans clone come back, tore out wolverines adamantium, killed off Superman, and when Bane broke Batmans back. I swear they did it all at the same time. But as of late, I started buying up comics after going to comic con here in SD. I never bought any of the comics with the Spider clone in them, but I started buying up the novels explaining the story. So. Here is what I have been reading:

Spiderman:Complete clone saga
The dark knight returns - awesome story, but I cant stand the artwork
Batman Killing joke - GREAT story
Batman Hush - Jim lee is one of my favorite artists of all time, and the storytelling is wonderful. Batman is very well written
Robocop series by Dynamite - Art and story were great, discontinued
The Infinity Gauntlet TPB - art and story are amazing. Good old school 90's comics
Kingdom come
Red Son
Wolverine: Old man Logan - This is an awesome story as well, if you like wolverine, you should pick it up.

[Donkbaca]

I haven't read in a while but generally the wolverine miniseries are good; the Batman story arcs are good; knightfall, cataclysm, no man's land, hush, etc. and when actively read in the mid 90's I used to think that Daredevil was criminally underrated.

[drventure]

The Flaming Carrot

 

[Pixelhugger]

Danger Girl

[danny_galaga]

I'm not a huge comic fan, but I dabble (",)

Probably the last two I read were The Ballad of Halo Jones and a Corto Maltese book called The Ballad of the Salt Sea. My favourite comic title is Iznogoud, which I read when I was a kid. With the advent of ebay, I decided I needed to have them again. Of course, since there was only ever one edition of them in English, they were pricey. I reckon I spent over 600 bucks on 8 issues over a period of a couple of years. The year after, they re issued them in Engish. You can buy them brand new for 10-15 bucks now  

Was worth it though. When I finally re-read that first issue, maybe 30 years after I had last read it, I damn near teared up...

[robertwillton]

Unlike arcade games and pinball, I actually managed to outgrow comic books.  I have made my way through a couple of graphic novels lately, and they've been okay.

 

Even i am fond of going through graphic novels.Its interesting.I am not a big fan of reading comic books.

[Rando]

Anyway at that time everyone was collecting these comics saying this was some epic time in comic book history and that these comics would be worth a lot some day. It was then that I realized comic books would never be worth anything ever again.  18 years has past and I was right!  

Yep,
Speculation market of the early 90's.  On the positve, new companies with creative rights for artists and writers emerged, and all kinds of new stuff was coming out.  Lots of ideas, lots of books, interesting time.  On the negative side, everyone expected their comics to be worth something, so people were buying and preserving multiple copies, variant covers and bagged issues appeared, etc.  Quality declined, everything was overpriced and nothing ever did become super-valuable, and lots of people left the market.  I started hearing buzz again about books in the mid-2000's, and there are some really good stories/books out there to read.

Two things:
 - Recommended this before, but if you have the time, check out ifanboy.com and their podcasts.  3 comic guys that went through the speculation crash above and give their recommendations each week, best of the year, etc.  Good picks and perspectives.
 - Bone - Disney meets LOTR type story involving 3 odd looking brothers that are run out of their homeland and find themselves in a valley inhabited by quiet townsfolk, evil rat creatures, and possibly dragons.  Can now buy in a single phonebook sized edition for complete story.

(Incidentally, Bone helped to fuel the speculation market, as it was a VERY low run book (self-published) initially so the first few issues were super-expensive for a bit.  Then they hit the 5th printing and anyone that wanted it had it.)

[shateredsoul1979]

Currently I'm reading The Walking Dead  and Habibi. Habibi touches themes you'd never see in a normal comic, it's more of a "graphic novel" but it's comic style. I'm going to read Maus next. Then go back to Y the last man. Fables was sorta cool too, seeing how those kid fairy tales would live in our society seemed interesting (having sex, killing each other, and more).

I really recommend Habibi though. From the back cover "Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards for Best Graphic Novel and Best Cartoonist"

[shateredsoul1979]

found Habibi (Hardcover) for $15 less than cover price!  


http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/Habibi-Hardcover/5622208/product.html?rcmndsrc=2

I guess I can consider that a donation toward the local comic book shop

[Howard_Casto]

The only two I read anymore are The Walking Dead and Kick Ass Book 2.  Of course Kick Ass Book 2 is a bit of a challenge to read namely because they never release the damn thing.  It's been a solid year and we are only up to issue 3. 

I also reccomend the Buffy Comics and to a lesser degree the Angel comics. 


As for the super hero books they've been a mess for a long time.  I used to read Thor, but there have been too many universe changes to bother anymore. 
DC universe is equally screwed due to "the new 52". 

[Ginsu Victim]

Of course Kick Ass Book 2 is a bit of a challenge to read namely because they never release the damn thing.  It's been a solid year and we are only up to issue 3.

Yeah, I figured I would just wait for the hardcover. I loved the first book, and the movie was almost as good.

[wp34]

OT - Has anyone found a good frame for comics?  I have a few Silver Age comics I would like to frame and hang in my "game room".  I want something that will not damage the comic.

[Well Fed Games]

OT - Has anyone found a good frame for comics?  I have a few Silver Age comics I would like to frame and hang in my "game room".  I want something that will not damage the comic.

I just bought a few... the craft store chain Michael's sells a "Magazine Float Frame" under their "Studio Decor" brand name that are 11in x 13in, and it sandwiches the comic between glass. I have yet to get comics in them, and I am not putting anything very valuable in them (probably obscure Dark Horse stuff), but they seemed like a good way to go. I think they run about $10 normally, I got a bunch on sale for $4 a pop a few weeks back.

[wp34]

OT - Has anyone found a good frame for comics?  I have a few Silver Age comics I would like to frame and hang in my "game room".  I want something that will not damage the comic.

I just bought a few... the craft store chain Michael's sells a "Magazine Float Frame" under their "Studio Decor" brand name that are 11in x 13in, and it sandwiches the comic between glass. I have yet to get comics in them, and I am not putting anything very valuable in them (probably obscure Dark Horse stuff), but they seemed like a good way to go. I think they run about $10 normally, I got a bunch on sale for $4 a pop a few weeks back.

I looked at those and really liked them but was not sure how safe they would be. $4 is a great deal.  I may pick a couple up to try out if they get that low again.  Thanks.   

[Howard_Casto]

The thing about comics, or anything printed on paper is that sunlight will do far more damage than anything else.  The only way to preserve them is by not displaying them. 

[shateredsoul1979]

I liked this on-line comic strip my brother shared, someone translated it from Japanese to English. I'm not sure if there's more, check it out (scroll down to see the beginning of the comic)

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue

[Rando]

I also reccomend the Buffy Comics and to a lesser degree the Angel comics. 

The trade for FRAY is good if you like Buffy, Slayer story based in future.

DC universe is equally screwed due to "the new 52". 

If I were following the monthly books I would agree, but imagine this would be a great time to jump on if you liked characters but never knew where to start.

[Well Fed Games]

I liked this on-line comic strip my brother shared, someone translated it from Japanese to English. I'm not sure if there's more, check it out (scroll down to see the beginning of the comic)

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31&weekday=tue

Never thought a comic could make me jump...

I also reccomend the Buffy Comics and to a lesser degree the Angel comics. 

The trade for FRAY is good if you like Buffy, Slayer story based in future.

Yes, Fray is very good.
I am hoping they tone things down a bit in Buffy season 9. Being that they had no budget/FX constraints, some of the plot points seemed a little... much. But it is Buffy, not like I am not going to buy the season 9 TPBs either way!

[Louis Tully]

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