Comics You Collect?

[dweezil2]

Went through a bit of a UK comic collecting phase not so long ago and picked up a full run of Warrior and Starlord, with that hard to find summer special.

Any Toxic! or Crisis or is that on your "to do list"?

Yeah LT thought about Crisis and Revolver but I'm seriously lacking in the funds department at the moment so may have to put that idea on the back burner, also unsure of the over all quality of those two comics to warrant collecting.

[Mabs]

Don't really know if this thread applies to just singles comics or collected trades. To be honest except for 2000AD i gave up on single issues a while ago, too time consuming and expensive. Better off getting the trades as they cost a lot less then the single issues. Anyway, i love collecting tbp's and hardcovers, last series i finished was Y...



The hardcovers are really great, oversized which helps to bring Pia Guerra's artwork alive. I'm also halfway through collecting all the Punisher Max series, i gotta agree with dweezil2, i just couldn't get into Greg Rucka's stuff too. Ennis is by far the best writer the series has had.

[mygrimmbrother]

Hellboy, BPRD and all related titles
Baltimore
Saga
Conan The Barbarian
The Massive
American Vampire (though it's just gone on hiatus)
The new Brian Wood Star Wars
Fatale
Manhattan Projects
Lot 13
Black Beetle
Dark Horse Presents

Think that's it.

[sheldipez]

Hellboy, BPRD and all related titles

I got the first two TPB's of Hellboy and I love Mignola's art but the actual stories didn't do much for me, does the series get better or are those two a good example of the writing? Every volume seems to have glowing reviews so I've been a bit hesitant to pick any more up.

[I, Cosh]

Since The Boys finished I'm not buying anything other than 2000AD. Debating whether to keep going with Unwritten in trades and there's a couple of things like Prophet and The Massive which I'm considering giving a go the same way.

[Mabs]

Hellboy, BPRD and all related titles

I got the first two TPB's of Hellboy and I love Mignola's art but the actual stories didn't do much for me, does the series get better or are those two a good example of the writing? Every volume seems to have glowing reviews so I've been a bit hesitant to pick any more up.

Yes it does mate! I too felt a little underwhelmed with the first two trades, but Mignola's artwork is just beautiful to behold. However, once you start getting into the next volumes starting from The Chained Coffin storyline the stories start matching the art. One of my favourite volumes is Vol 10: The Crooked Man. Its one of the best stories i have encountered in a long time, not only is it bloody scary but Richard Corben's artwork is magnificent. My advice is don't stop - carry on with the series, you won't be disappointed!

[Satanist]

Action Comics – Just cos its Morrison
Walking Dead – Better be some zombies soon as its on thin ice with its [spoiler]Governer V2.0[/spoiler] story
Crossed – Ennis is back on this issue 25. Its been hit or miss so far, more miss TBH.

Theres not a lot floating my boat at the mo really.

[Hawkmumbler]

Toothy and the Meg, naturaly.
Weekly Shonen Jump and Jump Squared- MANga! See what I did there? Fuck it. I sometimes pick up the Yen press package that includes Soul Eater and Black Butler, but I buy them collected mostly. Also the occational Shojo Beat.
IDW's Doctor Who series- Hit or miss tbh. It's good fun mind.
Not alot from either DC or Marvel of interest tbh.

[I, Cosh]

Action Comics – Just cos its Morrison

Is it any good? I've not really heard anything about it.

[Colin YNWA]

Whoops I took the aim of this thread to be back issue type stuff you collected. My regular pulls are at the minute.

From DC:

Action Comics (I really enjoy it The Cosh, not Morrison's best, but like most of his work I'll read again when his runs complete and re-evaluate, often does it the world of good) finishing with issue 18 I believe it is now. Not fussed about the Andy Diggle run.
Animal Man
Swamp Thing (might give the new fella a go, not sure yet)
Bat Wing (might not last long)
Earth 2 (hhhmmm running out of steam a little?)
Batman
Batman Inc. (I think up to 12 is it, we'll see who takes over after Mr Morrison)
Wonder Woman
All Star Western
Red Lanterns in trade

Marvel:

FF
Daredevil in trade

Others:

Mud Man (back at last YAH!)
The Massive
IT Girl and the Atomics
Nowhere Men
Fatale
Li'l Depressed Boy
Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm You need to all buy this as it looks like it might be for the chop as sales are low and its bloody fantastic.

Get Battlefield and Rocketeer mini's when they appear and I'm going to have a look at East of West, Sex and Uber to see how they are. Oh and Liberty Meadows but to call that ongoing seems too naively hopeful even by my standards!

[chaingunchimp]

Not pulling too much new stuff at the moment.
2000ad and the Meg, Batman (until the end of current joker storyline) and Evil Ernie,
But I'm always trying to finish off some of my bigger collections such as:

Dark Horse Aliens and Predator comics.
Any and all Chaos comics (ah how I miss this company)
Pretty much any Clive Barker comics (especially the Epic Hellraiser stuff)
And a stack of other indie comics.

Not really feeling the marvel and dc superhero comics as much anymore, to the extent that I'm looking to off load most of em soon.

[Link Prime]

Action Comics – Just cos its Morrison

I used to be the same...til I realised that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be a good comic.
Gave 'Action Comics' 3 issues...I genuinely thought it was mediocre at best, and nowhere near as good as his 'All Star Superman' run.
Still digging his 'Batman Inc' though.

[mygrimmbrother]

Hellboy, BPRD and all related titles

I got the first two TPB's of Hellboy and I love Mignola's art but the actual stories didn't do much for me, does the series get better or are those two a good example of the writing? Every volume seems to have glowing reviews so I've been a bit hesitant to pick any more up.

My favourite volumes of Hellboy are the Fegredo-drawn ones - Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt and The Storm & The Fury are, for me, where it all begins to cohere into a really solid and dramatic tale, shot through with all the best bits of British folklore. Now that Mignola is back on art duties I really miss Fegredo! (Heresy I know).

[Satanist]

Action Comics – Just cos its Morrison

Is it any good? I've not really heard anything about it.

Its alright, as said above not a patch on "Allstar" but enjoyable enough. I'd actually bought over 12 issues before I started reading it so just recently read it as a straight run through. Alternate world Superman issue was my fave. I'll prob knock it on the head once Morrisons run ends though.

[sheldipez]

Guess I'll continue on with Hellboy then after the recommendations, Masks and Monsters sounds decent read.