2012 what are you reading thread

and Blake & Mortimer and Spirou are still the super-racists we know and love

Like I've said somewhere else (in this thread?), the censoring thing thing is really stupid, since I'd imagine 99,5% of the folks who actually buy these Cinebook titles are adults who can handle seeing a pair of boobs here and there. And the more kid-oriented stuff they publish, like Lucky Luke or Blake & Mortimer, obviously doesn't have anything they would need to censor. Also, the censored panels are pretty obvious, like a scene where a woman is lying naked on a bed except for a modern-looking bra, even though the comic is set in the 18th century.

Thor: God Of Thunder is pretty super.

I'll have to check that out. I lost interest during the Fraction run.

I was surprised how much I liked the new X-Men title that Bendis is doing. I'd been expecting that the reason for the old original X-Men showing up in the present day would be a big mystery, drawn out endlessly. But the how and the why are laid out right there in #1, and with reasonable motivation that ties into current continuity.

The X-Men are askew! Beast is having issues! Cyclops is having issues! Only the X-Men of the past can fix them!

I'm sad, I feel like Fraction's ideas get more diluted over his runs (but are fun!), Bendis is too everything-at-once despite being by the book, and Hickman has done solid work but only got trusted with a section of books that were self-contained. I liked his Fantastic Four/FF work despite not being really into those books, and was so-so on the SHIELD backstory historical book but liked how he did Secret Warriors. His Ultimate arc was good.

Aldo reads Marvel NOW! (even though you are, and he clearly hasn't learned his lesson)

Thanks again re: Dungeon. Just bought (and received) the whole set via Amazon and Gosh.

Some volumes are going fer craaaazy prices on Amazon, thanks to Amazon's crazy robot pricers:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1561634778/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

so silly.

London ILCers (do they exist?) take note -- Sfar is doing a talk at the Inst Francais this Saturday.

just picked up anya's ghost, sailor twain, unterzakhn, and right state on recommendation of salon.com and not the israel my parents promised me on recommendation of amazon.com's if you liked X you'll like this harvey pekar book about israel

I haven't read it yet, or been reading it, but the spoiler I've just read for Amazing Spider-Man 699 has made me want to pick up the recent issues. Then rinse my mind out with bleach.

what's that then?

Ok, needless to say SPOILERS SO DON'T COMPLAIN

Peter was thought to be dead but it turns out to have been mind transplanted into Doctor Octopus' body. This (somehow) gives him access to Doc Ock's memories and he is experiencing them as if he is there.

Like when Aunt May and Doc Ock had sex that time before they got married.

aaaaaghh nooooooooooo

ewww WHAT? He better be praying for another Mephisto mindwipe.

I thought that is the opposite of what was happening?

ah, I misread, that is pretty much it. Peter in Doc Ock's head, and vice versa, and they can remember each others lives.

lol, so glad i don't follow marvel's current lines these days; had no idea he was dead.

yeah today's posts are making me feel pretty morbs-y about current superhero comics

Only one line, in fairness - Marvel still def. have the advantage over DC.

uh don't Marvel have 616 and Ultimate and Zombie and kid-friendly lines? While DC under Nelson are so desperately ramming everything into one line that Vertigo has been bleeding out for three years, and Voodoo and Deathblow: Byblows are now in The DC Universe Stories Of Alan Moore TPB? (Are there any Johnny DC titles left past "whatever Art Baltazar has going"?)

because they have the worst editorial staff on the planet

TBF, 616 Spider-Man has been varying shades of terrible since the early '90s. I think it's safe to say that his story has run its course and then some.

eh, they did a fairly decent run in recent years, including a great Lizard story someone clued me into. I won't universally defend it by any means, but they wiped away all the angsty Spider-Man garbage of the 90s pretty effectively

The Waid stuff in Brand New Day was ok. I tried Spider Island but was kind of undreadable.

I've read everything from the beginning of Straczynski's run up until just before the Gauntlet stuff and I was pretty uniformly unimpressed. I guess there's a window between where I left off and the point when Slott (one of the most puzzlingly overrated mainstream writers these days, imo) took over full-time that's somewhat more lauded but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

I'd be a much bigger fan if the whole line were a loosely-connected series of Tangled Web-esque minis and one-shots.

Spider Island was such crap. I've had Slott's run pushed on me by several people but everything I've read is meh.

I liked the Dr. Strange/Spiderman book that McCarthy did. that was also the only time I have read a Spiderman comic since the 80s tho lol

yeah it's 90% crap but at least he's not raging at stuff all the time now

I like Spider-Man in the Avengers and FF books, lol

I still harbor a dark and secret desire to buy all of the clone-era trades (I already have two). I don't know where this masochistic streak comes from. It's at least partially related to the fascinating backstory, but that certainly doesn't explain it completely away.

Yeah when I said "only one line", I meant don't blame the rest of the Marvel U for the spider-books. The thing is, he's still a great character in a team book!

I really haven't minded him in the Avengers books, it's true.

fuck marvel in the fucking eyehole, by the way:

http://srbissette.com/?p=16292

that's so wrong.

Well, fuck Disney, more accurately.

yes, true.

wau

nah, fuck Marvel too, and many times

fuck em all let the lawyers sort it out

Tales of the Bizarro World

is what I'm reading (with my daughter) that is

There's a DC B&W phone book of Weird War coming out next month. Gonna get it.

Hawkeye remains excellent, predictably. Aja aping a scrolling coin-op in the Avengers bit = swell.

I can't read that book. But then I can't really read any Fraction book anymore. "Yeah, I know it's a terrible idea, but still it's THE BEST IDEA I AM SO CLEVER." #gah

"Getting Dead" by David Collier - definitely a "wow" moment reading this. Gotta let my thoughts gell.

"Getting Dead" by David Collier - definitely a "wow" moment reading this. Gotta let my thoughts gell.

― HOLY MOPEDS (R Baez)

What's this and how do I get it? I tried searching online, but couldn't find it. Is it maybe a story in one of his collections or something forthcoming?

It's a bio piece on Collier's grandfather. Collier's typically very straight-forward but his narrative voice takes a backseat - the story is just a torrent of anecdotes and memory that ceaselessly hopscotches backward and forward in time. Like I said - wow.

It's in his Portraits From Life collection, which, according to the book, was published in 2001 by D&Q.

ALSO:

Dustin Harbin's Boxes is pretty amazing as well.

It's in his Portraits From Life collection, which, according to the book, was published in 2001 by D&Q.

― HOLY MOPEDS (R Baez)

Thanks, I ordered this today - I'm a bit behind on the Collier books! I see he has at least three more that are more recent.

I'm a bit behind on the Collier books! I see he has at least three more that are more recent.

Is Chimo among them? If so, I kinda envy you your first reading of that.