What comics are you all reading? What do you think?

So it looks like reading Saga has set me off on a comic reading trip.

Yesterday I read Gerard Way's Umbrella Academy Vols 1 and 2. I'd borrowed it years ago from a friend and enjoyed it and I fancied reading it again. Couldn't believe how much of the story I'd forgotten.

I've also got Neil Gaiman's Dreamhunters. I'm a big fan of his Sandman series and I've no idea why I haven't read this before. I also picked up Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan Vol 6. I've been following this and it's high time I got back into it.
 
Matthew Hughes said:
Banana Triangle is strange and brilliant. Could be post-apocalyptic. Could be lost souls trapped in Purgatory. Could be a shared nightmare.

It appears thrice weekly on the web, but new finders should go to the GoComics archive and binge read it from the beginning.

http://www.gocomics.com/banana-triangle
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I have been a devoted reader of this every day since it started in 1997 until he stopped doing new ones about 10 years ago
http://www.userfriendly.org/ But I still drop by a few times a month just in case he starts up again like Bloom county https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/
https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybr...dB94hQ6wvUc7WXZLY7wuQ/260325030664924/?type=3
 
Deadpool, Deadpool, and then more Deadpool. I also threw in a few Guardians of the Galaxy in between the Deadpool for good measure, but mostly it was Deadpool. I picked up a HUGE collection of his graphic novels that took a long time to get all the way through. Rocket and Groot helped immensely.
 
I just got a nice comic haul for my birthday, so my upcoming reads will be including:
Spider-Gwen, Vol. 0 and 1
DC Bombshells, Vol. 2
Monstress, Vol. 1
Rat Queens, Vol. 1

Other than that I just finished reading Volume 1 of Jupiter's Legacy tonight. It was a good (though very dark, which doesn't bother me) comic that deals with super heroes and how they choose to use their abilities (for power, good, etc.)
 
Finally got to read volume 2 of Saga. I'd been itching to read it since finishing volume 1. Now I'm wishing I had volume 3 on hand to read because of the cliffhanger in volume 2. lol
 
I've had a few friends asking to read the KOTOR series which I've hoarded up over the years. But before I let anyone borrow it, I went through the first couple of volumes myself. When I first read this series it blew me away like no comic or novel had done before. The scope of it, the plotting, and even the depth of the characters was unlike anything I'd read before. Reading it now still holds a grand quality to it. It's not as monumental as it was to me before, but it still stands up as one of my favorite stories EVER.
Also, decided to read some Wolverine Weapon X graphic novel, because why not? Holy crap, that guy has seen some stuff. Like, he had seen some stuff. I'm surprised that guy was allowed to be a hero; he's clearly a traumatized psychopath.
 
Recently finished volume 1 of Giant Days. It was a really fun and cute read with enjoyable characters. :)
 
Stuff I'm enjoying the most right now: Paper Girls; Captain America: Steve Rogers; and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.

If you read one thing from 2016, check out Tom King's 12-issue run on The Vision. It's collected in two paperbacks at this point.
 
I have just acquired Alan Moore's Supreme which was issued here in 4 volumes titled Golden, Silver, Bronze and modern age respectively. Not as good as Tom Strong - his later work on non bleak super heroes comics- but still very fun.
 
I took a trip to my local Forbidden Planet for a comic haul thinking I'd pick up Alan Moore's Swamp Thing Vol 1, the first volume of Hellblazer and continue Transmetropolitan and Hellboy. As usual they had everything except vol 1 of Swamp Thing and Hellblazer, vol 7 of Transmetropolitan and vol 6 of Hellboy. Thanks Forbidden Planet. I hate reading comics out of order.

So instead I picked up Ray Fawkes Constantine Vol 1: the Spark and the Flame. Petty good but not as good as what I remember Hellblazer being, so far anyway.
Mike Mignola: BPRD: Plague of Frogs. Really enjoyed this. Just as good as Hellboy.
Brian K. Vaughn: Y: the Last Man Book 1 which I've heard is really good. I'll get round to reading that soon.

I've had a reread of Pat Mills; Requiem Vampire Knight Vols 1-5. I love this series but I'm concerned that it won't get translated from French. It's been over five years since Vol 5 came out in English and I've heard nothing about Vol 6.
 
I'm not a big fan of Whedon, but I read the first volume of Astonishing X-Men and thought it was pretty good.
 
A few comics I absolutely love so much are:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
Lone Wolf and the Cub series by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.
I seriously recommend the check them both out if you haven't yet. Nausicaa is epic and emotional "coming of age" meets epic post nuclear survival story and Lone Wolf and the Cub embodies everything that is hard to fathom in the samurai era Japan and their honor code.
 
Ghost Rider Issue 69
A pretty good issue where a Motorcycle Cop pursues Ghost Rider shocked to find out the Rider isn't human after seeing his face, and drives through the Hellcycle, also Ghost Rider easily created after pointing his hand to a side, the villain is a believable villain Harry a drunk man and jealous because he believes Shirley is his woman, uses a earthmover to create destruction which is no problem for Ghost Rider that is able to move him out of the earthmower and slams on the break which again Harry drops out of the earthmover.
Ghost Rider defeats this brave adversary Harry by burning him with his mystical flame to the core of his psyche sees the blackest depths of his soul, and can't stand what he sees.
It would have been great if it was Duel for 5 or more pages.
The incredible speed of Ghost Rider's hellcycle was shown which is fantastic including leaving a trail of hellfire.

Ghost Rider issue 7: Obsession
A great story that has Scarecrow with a pitch fork as the main Super Villain.
Dan's motorcycle moved on it's own, Ghost Rider Hellcycle, Blackout a vampire that wants vengeance harming someone That Dan cares about, Scarecrow is quoting Oh Captain my Captain and rewriting it.
He is a brillant unique super villain because he brings up the fearful thing with Captain America which he wants to defeat him so no doubt he knows what he does is predatory and wrong but like Mr.Hyde he can't control it, great supernatural feats for the Hellcycle including a long jump to another building while Scarecrow wrapped by the chain

A decent fight with Ghost Rider (DanKetch) and Scarecrow with Ghost Rider, and defeats him by throwing him on his Pitch fork which no doubt killed him.
 
I just finished the limited 12-issue run The Vision by Tom King, which ran mostly in 2016. Hands down the best comic I've ever read. Adult storyline, powerful, complex writing and haunting art. He draws from Shakespeare, several classics, Marvel's deep history, and comes up with a story that is tragic and fascinating. Through a bizarre type of foreshadowing he sets up a sense of dread that he maintains through the whole story. And that throw-away panel in book 1? It becomes the central plot point of book 11, but you never see it coming. That happens constantly. In case it didn't come though, I highly recommend it.
 
I'm on the third and final collection of John Byrne's Alpha Flight stories, Alpha Flight Classics Vol 3. For me, there's no better super hero group, even if individually they are less than the sum of their parts. The visuals and stories are continually astounding.
 
I don't read a lot of comics or graphic novels but when I do it tends to be in the winter for some reason. So since finishing Alpha Flight I've moved on to something a bit more grown up - The Sculptor by Scott McCloud. I'm a big fan of his Understanding Comics book, and so far The Sculptor - about a down on his luck young artist in New York - is very interesting. I'm not sure how I feel about the three-colour palette: at times it works really well, especially with the dialogue-free panels which can have a real power; at other times it just gets boring on the eyes (but this is coming from someone who's just read a collection of 1980s Marvel!) The story is vaguely SF in the style of Bruce Almighty but has elements of A Christmas Carol or something like Requiem for a Dream. It's a fun read so far.
 
I stopped reading comics a long time ago but discovered Judge Dredd last year, and now I'm hooked. Call me ignorant, but I never thought there would be any interesting Comic "Heroes" out there, just the usual ones from Marvel & DC, so I was positively surprised to stumble over this rough, violent but principled cop in a bleak future. I decided to read the Case Files in chronological order, should be interesting enough to follow this character's development through the years.
 
Frau Blücher said:
I stopped reading comics a long time ago but discovered Judge Dredd last year, and now I'm hooked. Call me ignorant, but I never thought there would be any interesting Comic "Heroes" out there, just the usual ones from Marvel & DC, so I was positively surprised to stumble over this rough, violent but principled cop in a bleak future. I decided to read the Case Files in chronological order, should be interesting enough to follow this character's development through the years.
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Valiant, and Image. You might find interesting heroes from those publishers.

Also Hellboy of Darkhorse.
 
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