When you visit this forum, we can all assume that you love two things: comics in general and 2000AD as your favorite comic publisher. Simple question who are your "second" favorite publisher of comics is?
- DC
- Marvel
- Dark House
- Dynamite
- Image
- Ahoy comics
- IDW
- AWA
- Cinebook
- Boom
- Valiant
- DC Thomson
- I have one son only thank you
- You missed my second favorite son his name is.........
I'm no longer a brand loyalist - used to be a big DC booster - but I don't really favour one publisher over another, though to be fair I probably read more Image than anything else these days.
All that said there is one publisher there that I probably favour more than any other on that list and its
Cinebook
Look, if I'm honest about where my monthly comis-spending money goes, it's almost certainly Marvel as my number 2.
BUT I'm only buying 1 or 2 from them at most these days, and if you consider how expensive chunky graphic-novel sized comics are, my second fave is gonna be in the more pretentious realm of D+Q or Fantagraphics.
Yeah, if my wallet is any judge it'll be Marvel. But that s largely due to Spidey, Daredevil, the FF, Thor and latterly Conan.
However, I'm constantly pissed off with the standard and presentation of modern comics, and if you want to know who I think is putting out the *best* titles on a regular basis, that'd be Aftershock and Cinebook.
So I'm going to say Cinebook so it has two votes.
SBT
Forgot about Aftershock so it is an option too
Not going to vote, because I work for several of those, but if Aftershock is on the list, can I respectfully suggest that so should Vault (for a great spread of non-cape books) and also Titan, who probably deserve to be on the list for their excellent Blade Runner titles alone...?
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 06 July, 2022, 09:07:12 AM
Not going to vote, because I work for several of those, but if Aftershock is on the list, can I respectfully suggest that so should Vault (for a great spread of non-cape books) and also Titan, who probably deserve to be on the list for their excellent Blade Runner titles alone...?
As Jim said we can add
Vault and
Titan as well
Cinebook
sorry to choose ones that, yet again, not on the list, but fantagraphics. always. and honourable mentions for the brilliant scout comics of the last couple of years and the 77 stable.
Judging by my shelves, it'd be a toss-up between Dark Horse and Image. I'd say Image edges it.
Judging by my shelves, it'd be a toss-up between Dark Horse, Titan and Image. I'd say Dark Horse edges it.
How about Shift?
But I guess it's more a reprint vehicle for stuff that has appeared in the elsewhere before.
I only read 2000AD. I've not even heard of some on that list. I'm not saying I wouldn't like any of it, just that life's too short and there's other things to read/watch/do. Same reason I don't subscribe to most of the streaming platforms - there's just too much out there and I can get enough entertainment from the few channels that I do watch.
There are other publishers?
Quote from: Funt Solo on 06 July, 2022, 06:21:11 PM
There are other publishers?
Someone spread a vicious rumour, we must nip in the bud
2000AD was the oasis in the Cursed Earth when I took the long walk from comics several years ago.
However, I still have a soft spot for Marvel after reading Marvel comics for so many years. I'll vote 80s and early 90s Marvel.
I have one son only thank you
little to no interest in capes
Wednesday is the last day to choose your favorite second son
Quote from: gogilesgo on 07 July, 2022, 05:43:16 AM
I have one son only thank you
little to no interest in capes
To be fair many - in fact most - of the publishers listed and voted for have very little to do with 'capes'. Always important to fight the illusion that comics and superheroes are the same thing...
..unless you were making a tangental sartorial comment?
I think one of the problems is that the majority of people view comics as capes only and not for the vast diversity that comics actually brings to the party
Quote from: broodblik on 10 July, 2022, 12:19:21 PM
I think one of the problems is that the majority of people view comics as capes only and not for the vast diversity that comics actually brings to the party
yeah, that was probably too dismissive of me. A sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Looking at my selves there are a few non-Tooth titles: Southern Bastards and some Brubakers from Image, Arab of the Future, Maus, the Darwyn Cooke Parker adaptations.
And of course I consider Alan Moore's output (LoEG, Nemo, Watchmen, Providence) to be cousins to 2000AD.
But I'll still stick with
I have one son
There's a handful of publishers I look at, but either only for specific things (Fantagraphics - the Carl Barks library; Jonathan Cape for Grandeville - now finished) or for everything but their output isn't that daunting (Hibernia). So, I have one son.
I don't have a second favourite publisher; when I buy something that's not Rebellion it's because I was attracted by the name of the writer. I have a lot of Garth Ennis graphic novels (Preacher, The Boys, War Stories, Hellblazer) and they're all from DC. But I didn't get them because I saw the DC logo.
Whoever publishes Viz, the only other comic book I've read regularly for decades. If that's not allowed, then DC. Not really a superhero fan but I've liked a lot of the Vertigo material (as well as the proto-Vertigo 'mature readers' stuff), and the 'special' Batman GNs - The Killing Joke, DKR, etc.
Viz is now an option
Careful now, there is Viz the comic and Viz the manga publisher.
Voting Closed
This was a close with a draw but at the end I felt Cinebook should take the laurels
Quote from: broodblik on 13 July, 2022, 04:50:14 AM
Voting Closed
This was a close with a draw but at the end I felt Cinebook should take the laurels
Which publishers did it tie with?
It tied with I do not care for the other publishers my only son is 2000AD