If rating his stuff that I've read, it'd probably go (starting with my favorites)

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
V For Vendetta
Watchmen
Top 10
Terra Obscura
From Hell
The Killing Joke
Swamp Thing
Collected DC stories (GL, Superman stories)
Marvelman
Supreme
Lost Girls
Tom Strong
WildC.A.T.s
Promethia
Neonomicon


of those, I'd say pretty much everything above Supreme is worth reading, everything above Swamp Thing being amazing.

Cool. Actually I've read the Killing Joke too.

I've never read Top 10, Terra Obscura, From Hell & Swamp Thing. I need to get on those, and I think From Hell is what I'm going to read next. I've definitely been wasting my time with Tom Strong although the art is great.

League is probably my favorite of his, too.

I love the idea of League, but was so turned off by the movie I'm afraid to pick up the comics.

You have no idea how sad that post makes me, mutty. The terrorists have won.

I saw the movie when it came out. I don't remember anything about it, and I think that'll work in my favor when I dig into the comics.

haha - OK, let me rephrase that - I WAS afraid to pick up the comics. Now that I'm reading again, I'll give them a chance.

The art and story of the League books (at least the first 2. Loved 1910, but the Black Dossier just got a little too insane for me) alone make it one of the better books ever written. I thought I knew a good deal about most of the characters used until I read the companion books by Jess Nevins, which literally go through each panel and further point out what's going on. Amazing.



Yeah, I've never been able to get into Tom Strong, but for some reason I absolutely loved Terra Obscura, even though it's a spinoff of that book. It just feels weird and pulpy in a good way.

Top Ten and related books are all a hell of a lot of fun. Some of Gene Ha's art (in the main book) bothers me a little, even though I usually love his stuff and his art in the prequel book (Top Ten: The Forty Niners) is gorgeous.

From Hell is really good, but feels like it was written and drawn by crazy people. Probably the intent, but after awhile it makes me head hurt. Also, I have trouble telling some of the people apart.

SPOILER

soo it was Johnny Storm. huh.

Also, has anyone read Mystery Society? I just got through the first issue (they only had 2-4 at Meltdown and so I had to buy it online) and liked it more than almost anything that Steve Niles has ever done. I'm psyched to get through the rest of the issues tonight. oh and today's books, which I haven't even looked at yet but I think it's a big day.

I've been reading Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol lately. That guy is scary sometimes.

But fuck you anyway, Cotton. Christ, I knew I shouldn't have opened this thread. The fucking book just came out today. I haven't even taken the damn thing out of the black bag.

I read the first two issues of Mystery Society and they did nothing for me.

for what it's worth, it was in the NYT a few days ago, and I actually read the issue last night, so I thought it was already out.

my bad.

It doesn't really matter so long as that doesn't really ruin the story. Which in the larger scheme of whatever it is Hickman's doing, it probably won't.

I just saw a Grant Morrison interview DVD called something like "Talking with God" or something. I'd really like to watch that sometime.

there's a Canadian doc. series they did about comics a while back whose name escapes me, but Morrison was so awesome in it. He's sitting there in his pinstripe suit as happy as I've ever seen any sort of writer, which is kind of amazing once you've read enough of his work to know how fucked up he is. Apparently, his attitude is that keeping an eternally sunny disposition is the ultimate punk rock thing to do, which I am inclined to agree with.

also, his obsession with Japanese weirdness (as evidenced in the current Batman, inc.) is pretty awesome

FF was amazing. Like seriously one of the best issues of anything

i have a bunch of comics i got a couple weeks ago and haven't even glanced at them yet. been busy i guess.

also, i'm pretty close to just selling off my 20+ longboxes of comics. i kind of want to go through them and pick out things i really want but part of me doesn't want to be bothered with that either.

My marvel mail subscription for FF is supposed to start on issue 586. I wonder how long I'll have to wait... and what condition it'll be in when it arrives. Maybe I'll mosey on down to the store and get a copy today.

SO I rec'd the Fantastic Four 587 today from Marvel Subscriptions... and the corner is all chewed to hell. I'm really bummed, because this is the fourth book I received in the mail and the other three are in perfect shape. I'm happy, though, because it's this cover:

I'm kinda surprised that they replaced him with who they did. Also, his freakishly ugly costume.

goddamn, Thunderbolts!

I am not surprised at all - isn't he in every title now? Him or Wolverine. How many damn costumes does he have now, anyway!?

I'm really unhappy with my podunk town comic shop... They are very nice, but get almost zero books in that aren't requested. I sometimes think the only comics that hit the new shelf are ones that people had pulled, then changed their minds. And there is no backstock of old issues either - maybe 10 longboxes of crap.

spider-man has always been pretty closely tied to the the fantastic four and had a fun rivalry with johnny. in hickman's first arc he was revealed as franklin's idol. in the current amazing spider-man series, he's now doing big science.

it's perfect.

I'm currently reading Astro City for the first time and it's blown me away. I can't believe I put off reading this for so long...

Oh yeah, it's a quality book, pretty much all the way through.

I'll go ahead and tell you, though, that the whole "Dark Age" thing that wrapped up a while back is probably the weakest of the whole series. But the stand-alone character specials that came out between the volumes of that were great, especially the Samaritan one. (I still haven't read the Silver Agent one that came out after it, but I'm looking forward to it.)

Kurt Busiek is capable of quality stuff, when not suffering from mercury poisoning. I thought he had said Astro City was supposed to get back on a monthly schedule once the Dark Age was all wrapped up. Not sure what happened. Maybe, it's just been a victim of Wildstorm being dissolved, or maybe he has mercury poisoning again.

Anyone else reading Unwritten? It's taken a while to really get into the meatier parts of the plot, but it has been awesome lately.

Unwritten is more or less my favorite book and pretty much the only book I am still buying in single issues.