TheQuestionMan Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Greeting Herophiles, it was Comic Day on Wednesday and there was nothing there for me. Or rather nothing I wanted to spend money on anyway. 1. What Titles are you buying? 2. What Titles are you reading? 3. What Titles are beyond your comprhension? 1. JSA, Astro City: Dark Age, & Ultimates TPB. 2. Infinite Crisis, Batman (Family), & New Avengers. 3. Warlord (Not by Mike Grell???), Thunderbolts (WTF???), & Everything else Marvel. Cheers QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) I am buying: THING Was buying She-Hulk, but can't find it anymore. Will have to address that with my FLCS. Fantastic Four JSA Legion of Superheroes Astro City, when it comes out. Also if any more Arrowsmith come out, I'll buy those. Thunderbolts, but I may not continue unless it gets better. That's all I can remember, maybe there's another... Reading but not buying: Nothing Beyond my comprhension? : I don't comprehend "comprhension", so I don't understand the question. So how about -"Things I've dropped"- I soured hard on Avengers even before Disassembled. I was reading Amazing Spider-Man but once the tie-ins and cross-overs started, I dropped it. I sporadically picked up JLA over the past few years (like for the Busiek Crime Syndicate story) but overall it was very ehhh, so I didn't make it regular. I started into Titans, but crossover messes and impending Liefeld made me drop it. Thinking about, if I can find them: Catching up on She-Hulk Ms. Marvel some of the "One Year Later" titles (will want to see them first) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) I am buying: Cannon God Exaxxion Blade of the Immortal (but I think it's finished) Oh! My Goddess Battle Angel: Last Order (also finished, I think) Astro City (just started picking it up) Every once in a while, I think about the Marvel/DC titles, but what I hear about the modern works on this board discourages me from doing so. I've thought about picking up some of those collections of the early Spiderman comics, but haven't gotten around to it. A common complaint about American comics is that the burden of sixty years of continuity is crippling them. That's a problem that Japanese comics don't have to face. Each title is set in its own world, with no connection at all to any other title in most cases. For the most part, each title is the work of a single artist, which I usually find to be a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proditor Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) I'm buying more than I should be buying. Some of these are on my future list, and some will drop off as they end. Like 52 and Shadowpact aren't out yet, but Seven Soldiers of Victory will go from 3 titles to 1 soon. Most DC (JLA and JLA Classified, JSA and JSA Classified, Teen Titans, Outsiders, LoSH, Batman, Action Comics, Seven Soldiers of Victory and all linked titles, Secret Six, 52, Infinite Crisis, Warlord, Checkmate, Justice, Ion, Blue Beetle, Shadowpact. What can I say, I like group books.) Some Marvel (Thunderbolts, Young Avengers, New Avengers...for now, Ultimates, Ultimate FF, Ultimate Spipder-Man, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate iron Man, Iron Man) GI Joe (Mostly for nostalgia sake and it may get cut soon) Planetary Top Ten Astro City I dropped Wolverine after realizing they were never going to "fix" him, and I'm no longer collecting Manga because I'm just burnt out on it. Heck, I've been reading manga since Viz comics in the late 80's, so even though they can have some fresh ideas, I've seen most of the stories already and I don't see a staggering amount of originality. The same could be said of American comics, but I'm just more forgiving of those tropes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchellS Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Well my March pull looks like this: Action Aquaman Batman Blue Beetle Detective Firestorm Green Arrow Green Lantern Infinite Crisis JSA JSA Classified Omac IC Special Robin Squadron Supreme Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Supergirl Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes Superman Teen Titans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proditor Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Wow, I can't believe I forgot Squadron Supreme. Yeah, that's on my list as well, though the two mini-series were a tad disappointing to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) I haven't bought many lately, but my regular purchases were: Thor Exiles JLA Supreme Power New Avengers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Buying: Gold Digger Legion of Superheroes Street Fighter Lulluby Wildguard (thought it's far from on going he does put out some one shots) Manga/Manwha Marchen Approaches Romance (MAR) King of Hell Suikoden III Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Buying: Legion (now Supergirl and the Legion) JSA JLA Outsiders Teen Titans Green Lantern Green Lantern Corps (when it comes out in a few months) Ion Blue Beetle Auquman Superman/Action (while Busiek and Johns are co-wriitng it) Astro City (when it comes out) New Avengers Young Avengers Ms Marvel Excalibur Exiles Infinite Crisis Buckaroo Banzai. In Trades: Ultimates Ultimate FF Ultiamte X-men Ulitmate Spiderman any Ultimate Miniseries Planetary Rising Stars and Spinoffs PS 238 All the Star Wars trades Read the JMS Squadron Supreme stuff, still deciding on whether or not to buy it. All the Spidey Titles All the rest of the IC comics Nightwing Firestorm Supergirl As for what I don't "get". Nothing, but I don't read manga.... my wife does, but I don't. I've only read two in my life. Akira, and Battle Angel Alita. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troll Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Capt. America Thunderbolts She Hulk JSA JSA Classified Astonishing X-Men Young Avengers Ultimates Ultimate Iron Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GestaltBennie Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) All-Star Superman Astro City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) I and a friend chip in together.... mostly by subscriptions. Buying: Captain America New Avengers Thing But, I also find used trades when ever I can, and occaisionally get a comic that isn't among those as well. I read anything I buy. I'm sorry, there's no point for me otherwise... but I also read the trades my friend gets and she reads mine. She's bought a lot of Teen Titans stuff for her kids. I get to peek at them ...mhwhahaha. I like to think I comprehend the stuff I read. Sometimes I see something in them that others might not and vice versa. If I were wealthy enough, I'd surely be buying a lot more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jhamin Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) PS238 And I've been picking up alot of the "classic" trades (Kingdom Come, Moore Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Dark Knight Returns, Sandman) I'm seriously considering expanding my collection of Marvel Essentials. ... And thats it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodstone Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) ::looks at other people lists:: ::looks at stack from February:: Let's just say I buy and read "a whole lot" of comics. It would take me quite a while to sort and list all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikathos Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) #1 and #2 Green Arrow JSA JSA Classified 52 Justice (Limited Series) Infinite Crisis (Limited) Next Wave The Ultimates Hawkman (Soon to be Hawk Girl) Fantastic Four The Thing The Astonishing X-men Teen Titans Jack Staff Blue Beetle All Star Superman Powers Supreme Power/Squadron Supreme Marvel Zombies (limited Series) Thunderbolts (TPBs) And I just picked up The Essential Iron Fist (nice stuff) A few others I forget, that's most of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) As for what I don't "get". Nothing, but I don't read manga.... my wife does, but I don't. I've only read two in my life. Akira, and Battle Angel Alita. Well, you're making up in quality what you lack in quantity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Catwoman JLA Most of the stuff I read these days are reprint collections. For example, I've bought all of the Showcase Presents titles to date, except Jonah Hex. I guess I just like old school Silver, Golden and early Bronze age stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Well' date=' you're making up in quality what you lack in quantity.[/quote'] Yeah. The reason I read those two is the in each case I've had multiple people say "this is the single greatest manga ever written." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Captain America New Avengers Uncanny X-Men Batman and Robin (miller lee) Justice I did have a lot more a few months ago but new job, less pay = less titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Buying: Nothing Reading: Nothing Confused by: Anything crossover. I'll get back to reading, just not yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) this is my current standing order i usually grab one or two more comics as well to try out i'll be getting 52 and blue beetle when they start too as i want to start getting more dc titles but didnt want to start till after the crisis concluded Dc Green arrow Infinite crisis Seven soldiers Vigilante Jack cross Vertigo Y the last man DMZ Fables Wildstorm Captain atom Armageddon The Authority the magnificent Kev Albion Desolation Jones Planetary Ex machina Top ten Team zero jaxton thunderbolt Marvel All ultimate titles Runaways Exiles Generation M New Excalibur New avengers New x men X factor Marvel zombies Image Invincible Walking dead (from #25) Top cow Freshmen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transmetahuman Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Buying: none. Due to recently finding a suprisingly large selection at my local public library, though, I've been re-/introducing myself to these in TPB: Ultimate X-Men (first 13 books - 78 issues! ) a few other scattered Ultimate universe books Astro City (4 books) Planetary (4 books) Transmetropolitan (tons of em, oddly enough) The Authority (just the 2nd book though - more engaging than I expected) Looks like there's a bunch of JLA & X-Men stuff to put on hold when I'm done with this crop, too, and I'll be combing the catalog for whatever else I can catch up on. Couldn't find any Top Ten, the other title I wanted to check out based on these boards. I stopped buying long ago from a combination of being poor, the crossover cons (and X-plosion of spinoff titles), and the way the tag-team writers were twisting my favorite characters to ridiculous, soap-opera levels of unrecognizability. I also pretty much hated the ongoing contest for More-Bada**-Than-The-Last-Guy in characters. Reading the synopses on uncannyxmen.net almost makes me want to never pick up an x-title again (except Ultimate, and I'm curious what Whedon's doing (did?) with his book). But I seem to like the iron age more than I thought I would, so long as there's some writer continuity. If I find myself with unallocated disposable income, I might start buying Ultimate X-Men/FF/Spider-Man, Planetary, and definitely Astro City so far. Gotta try to find that Thing series, too, according to whoever it is on these boards that keeps plugging it. And maybe the library will turn me on to some others, and pull me back in to comics after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectrum Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) I've been buying mostly the various Spider-Man and X-Men titles as well as New Avengers, Nightwing and Green Lantern. I've also been getting stuff in Marvel's Ultimate line. I normally read all of them but I've either haven't had the time or made time to read any of them and as a result I'm over a year behind in all my reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) Catwoman JLA Most of the stuff I read these days are reprint collections. For example, I've bought all of the Showcase Presents titles to date, except Jonah Hex. I guess I just like old school Silver, Golden and early Bronze age stuff. What you don't like Western comics in general or do you have some objection to "Jonah Hex" in particular ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Re: What Comic Book Titles are you Buying (Not Reading, Buying) What you don't like Western comics in general or do you have some objection to "Jonah Hex" in particular ? Indifference to Western comics in general. I wasn't hugely enthusiastic about getting the Metamorpho volume either, though it actually turned out OK. OK enough that I keep sketching outlines for characters influenced by him. (He's a bit too complicated to directly build). I've got the Superman Family and Teen Titans volumes on order. I have high hopes, especially for the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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