2012 what are you reading thread

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.

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

I tuned in to Hawkeye after all the recommendations ... and I gotta say, I'm genuinely shocked at how much of a ripoff of Year One and Born Again it is (I've only read the first issue). Are they just figuring people have forgotten those books, or haven't read them? Or is it some sort of ultimate fanboy homage? This is a bit like Giffen aping Munoz ... but worse, because every last detail is being stolen of story as well as art (the Hawkeye series is played much more for laughs and is not nearly as brutal and harrowing as Born Again, in fairness though).

prophet continues to be excellent

I like a lot of what Fraction does, the Iron Man run was great in patches. If I hadn't devoured the Miller/Mazzucchelli stuff when it came out, maybe I wouldn't have this visceral reaction. It's like having somebody ring your doorbell dressed as your dead sister.

I kind of see that but I don't think the comparison stands past first issue? Hawkeye is pretty goody and comedic

It grows out of that? Ok, yeah, I'll check out the rest of the run.

In other WAYR news am digging the Dredd Case Files reprints, I haven't read this stuff in years so it's a total nostalgia blast

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