What comics I'm reading.

[Sithwitch]

Yay, comics!

The Unwritten: Consistantly at the top of my buy pile every month, and a must-read if you're a literary nerd. I'm planning to do some in-depth nerding about two of my favorite issues elsewhere--a character who wouldn't be out of place in a Guy Ritchie movie gets dropped into a Beatrix Potter-esque world and things get weird and it's a fun diversion from the main plot of "What if Harry Potter/Christopher Robin were real and then the lines between fiction and reality got really blurry?"

Torso: Brian Michael Bendis is one of my favorite comic writers and I picked up this trade as an early birthday present to myself. It's based on the true story of Eliot Ness hunting down a serial killer in Cleveland, and it's superb.

Nonplayer: One of the guys at the store I buy at held the last copy for me, thinking I might be interested in it and I am so glad he did. It's absolutely gorgeous, almost art noveau. (Which, of course, means that it'll take forever to be complete, but I'm fine with that!) If you like MMOs and/or thought that the New Cap City plot of Caprica was awesome or ever wanted the Cylons' projecting abilities, you'll probably like this. Or if you just love good art.

Ex Machina: Finished last year and I'm not quite caught up, but I spoiled myself and know how it ends. I love Tony Harris' art, Brian K. Vaughan is another author I love, and it's a great story.

Fallen Angel: IDW is putting it out currently, though DC just released an omnibus of the 30 issues it ran. The current miniseries, "Return of the Son," is wonderful. And last year's miniseries was a crossover with Angel, featuring Illyria. Lee is one of the best written female characters I've seen, and the background characters are great. And it's Peter David doing the writing, which is awesome. I love theology turned on its head, which is also a big selling point for me but might be less so for others.

[Default Prophet]

I feel like Ex Machina kinda.....died off like the last year of release or so. At times it was REALLY good but not recently

[Zombie Survivor]

Woo! Friday was payday so I hit the local comics store. I grabbed, among other things, a copy of Xmen, Days of Future Past. I'm not exactly sure where this story took place in the timeline, but I think it's just before the Dark Phoenix stuff. You might remember this being adapted into a 2 episode arc on the mid 90s cartoon series. There was quite a bit of stuff changed for it to fit into the cartoon's xmen world, but it was done quite well.

This is basically Terminator, but replace "time machine" with, "psychic time machine." In the future, sentinels have taken over North America and forced all mutants into concentration camps. A few have escaped or evaded capture and operate as resistance cells. One of these groups, who's members includes Wolverine and Kitty Pryde, have a plan that may save them. By using a psychic link, they'll project Kitty's mind backwards through time, into her body when she had just joined the Xmen. Then she'll convince the Xmen to go and stop the catastrophic event that leads to the horrible future where mutant hating computers rule the world. Meanwhile, back in the future, Wolverine will have to defend Kitty's body from detection and attack, so the psychic link isn't severed before the job is done.

This is a really fun, fairly quick read. You have to know a bit about the Xmen supporting cast, but nothing major other than names and abilities. I found it to be basically the story of Terminator, with the characters from the Xmen. How could it not be good? It's also fun to note that this was written in 1981, 3 years before the release of the First Terminator movie. James Cameron's got some 'splainin to do.

[Omra]

It was after the dark phoenix saga (77-80), I remember because I was alive back then and still collecting X Men, yeah the alternate future thing was a big hit with the fans. And everyone freaked when Wolverine got toasted, all that was left was the smoldering adamantium skeleton, cool but sad...

And if I remember correctly it introduced some new villans as well. One of them could see a few moments into the future..

[Zombie Survivor]

Yes, this was before Wolverine was elevated to god-like power levels. When after he had a battle, he'd have to hang at the mansion drinking beer for the weekend to get back into shape. Now he can leap out of a spaceship and go through re-entry, and like 3 hours later he's all shiny again.

[Zombie Survivor]

I went back and cracked open my hardcover of Batman: The Widening Gyre. I read the floppies a while back, and 3-4 months ago I ordered a hardcover release direct from the artist. I'm not sure if he's still got the deal on the table, but you can call him and he'll autograph and do a doodle for you in the inside cover. At release he wasn't charging extra, but you'd ave to pay for shipping direct from his store. I've been talking to him about hockey all season, and so he was nice enough to put a Batman endorsment for the Canucks. So far, Batman's got a good pick for the playoffs.




The book is really fun, and I'd say that it's a good introductory book to someone who's familiar with the character, but doesn't know all the depth of the Batman universe. It's a great nostalgic romp through Batman's rogues gallery, showing off the big names like The Joker all the way down to Crazy Quilt. It's a follow up to Batman: Cacophany, which introduces the main villian for the 2 books, and there's a sequel in the works, which the artist has been hard at work on. I'm going to try and bug him for a preview picture, but I'm not holding my breath. Anyways, I loved the book a lot, and there's some crazy twists to the story so I don't even want to get into it for fear of spoiling any of it for the poeple who haven't read it. I really just wanted to show off my awesome custom backman drawing. If the Canucks manage to win the finals this year (could it really happen?) I'm going to fly to New Jersey and have the artist add a Stanley Cup to the picture for sure.

[Bucket]

I just started Green Lantern: No Fear. So far its pretty good, not as awesome as Rebirth, but plenty of nice Hal character moments and I think he's just about to start punching the blue suited angry guy (Don't know much about GL yet xD)

[Zombie Survivor]

I've been eyeballing some Green Lantern stuff. To be honest, I've never been a big DC fan. Vertigo books are generally amazing, but I never got into the superhero lineup. I only recently started reading Batman books, and Green Latern is another character that I was thinking about picking up. I'll add those to my list of future aquisitions.

Been reading through vol. 1 of Wolverine: Enemy of the State. Great story so far. I like a less stylized depiction of the Xmen, but the art is amazing, personal preference aside. If you're a fan of Wolverine and you haven't read this one yet, get it on your next trip to the book store. It does a pretty good job of introducing all the characters and factions involved, but if you have zero knowledge of the Marvel Universe, it might be better to wait till later to read this one.

[Bucket]

I've been eyeballing some Green Lantern stuff. To be honest, I've never been a big DC fan. Vertigo books are generally amazing, but I never got into the superhero lineup. I only recently started reading Batman books, and Green Latern is another character that I was thinking about picking up. I'll add those to my list of future aquisitions.

Been reading through vol. 1 of Wolverine: Enemy of the State. Great story so far. I like a less stylized depiction of the Xmen, but the art is amazing, personal preference aside. If you're a fan of Wolverine and you haven't read this one yet, get it on your next trip to the book store. It does a pretty good job of introducing all the characters and factions involved, but if you have zero knowledge of the Marvel Universe, it might be better to wait till later to read this one.

From my limited experiance, i'm leaning more towards DC than Marvel, mostly because of GL and Batman. But that might be because the two Marvel TPBs ive gotten (Civil War and Planet Hulk) have been dependent on mythology and really bad respectively. I have read a few issues of the Wolverine/Deadpool reprints they sell over here and liked it despite a bit of confusion, where would you recomend starting with Wolverine?

[Default Prophet]

From my limited experiance, i'm leaning more towards DC than Marvel, mostly because of GL and Batman. But that might be because the two Marvel TPBs ive gotten (Civil War and Planet Hulk) have been dependent on mythology and really bad respectively. I have read a few issues of the Wolverine/Deadpool reprints they sell over here and liked it despite a bit of confusion, where would you recomend starting with Wolverine?

Read Annihilation. One of the best events of recent years.


Also you didn't like Planet Hulk? It's great...