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When I was younger, I used to buy and read comics all the time, but I just kinda stopped reading them as I got older. Lately, I've been thinking about getting back in to them and was wondering what the state of the comic industry is in nowadays.

I just bought a copy of Spiderman and it was pretty entertaining but I have to admit that it seems you don't get very much story for what you're paying. I spend $2.25 for a comic that had about 20 or so pages and the story didn't move very much at all.

Anyway, what are some of your guys' favorite comics today?
 
The only stuff I've read recently besides older stuff like The Watchmen, are as follows:

Ultimate Spiderman (cool, it's pretty creative in reinventing Peter Parker & Co to meet today's reality)

Ultimate Xmen (Excellent as well)

Berserk (manga, sure, but damn good)

100 bullets (got one TPB, liked it. will get more)

I wish I had caught the Jim Lee run on Batman. I always loved his artwork.
 
i am a mega collector and as i am writing this I am in the process of bagging and boarding about 1500 comics that i just aquired. The prices are high these days and there are two ways of getting over it. A subscription at the store will give you 10-15% off cover. You need to have at least 10-30 titles on your list at the store though and give a deposit of like 10 bucks. This is if you wanna get a few titles every month. If you are serious I am currently getting 35% off cover price but buy a few hundred a month and use an online service that also gives free shipping with every box worth $80. I estimate that i probably could buy another BMW if i sold my comic collection, paying in cash and driving away. The comic industry has been the best its been in years fueled by comic movies doing so well. There are numerous titles every month that appreciate greatly from 2.50 when you buy it to 5 $ the very next week. You just gotta know whats hot and who is hot in writers and artists. Buy a Wizard magazine subscription or the new issue and it will educate you more than anyone you will ever find.
 
Hellboy is pretty good for telling a story in a single or a few comics. You should check out a graphic novel or the 25c promo 'the corpse' comic.
 
good comics to read now:
y: the last man (dc)
marvels entire ultimate line
anything written by garth ennis (punisher, dicks, etc.)
anything written by brian michael bendis (avengers, daredevil)
captain marvel (marvel)
the caper (dc)
supreme power (marvel)
amazing spiderman (marvel)
the authority (dc/wildcat)

comics to avoid like the plague:
all the supermans (dc)
all the xmens (marvel)
most of the batmen (dc)
the other spiderman titles (marvel)
anything written by chris claremont
 
dont listen about the supermans

IF YOU RUSH right now to the store you might be able to find one lonley copy left of the new superman title with art by Jim Lee and written by Brian Azarello. You gotta know who is hot and when to buy. Anyone who passes this up is like throwing away found gold. The small run these 2 guys are going to do on superman is golden and will never depreciate, ever.
 
Yeah, the comic I just bought was the Amazing Spiderman issue 506, which is the Book of Ezekiel: Chapter One. The story seems pretty damn cool, but like I said, I feel kinda cheated by how short it was.

But the story was so damn good that now I want to go out and continue buying them, but $2.25 for each damn comic is too much, IMO.

I've been thinking of getting a suscription to one comic book. But my problem is trying to find out which one I want the most.

Spiderman interests me alot because I've always kinda liked him. I read a lot of X-Men and Superman when I was younger, but not Spiderman a ton.

If I got one suscription to a comic, what would you guys suggest I get?
 
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Well, comics pays for my cheap ass games, so yeah, i like'em :)

My personal favorites at the moment include Y:The Last Man, Runaways, and Demo.
There are a lot more good ones, but im too tired to think right now.
 
This past Saturday was Free Comic Book day around the world, ya know. Greatest holiday ever! Check it out. Yeah, I love comics. I really want to see the new Transformers, Thundercats, and Robotech (I still live in the 80s, in terms of games, tv, music, comics, etc). And is it just me, or is Spider-Man popular right now? Wonder why. :lol: Yeah, comics rule.

http://www.freecomicbookday.com
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']This past Saturday was Free Comic Book day around the world, ya know. Greatest holiday ever! Check it out. Yeah, I love comics. I really want to see the new Transformers, Thundercats, and Robotech (I still live in the 80s, in terms of games, tv, music, comics, etc). And is it just me, or is Spider-Man popular right now? Wonder why. Yeah, comics rule. :lol:

http://www.freecomicbookday.com[/quote]

I always look forward to that but I always forget. Anyways, I'm not really as into comics as I was before. I just pick up the newest Jim Lee books, and whatever book intrigues me on review sites.
 
I used to collect comic back in the mid 90's but once the spider clone saga started I started to stop reading. From what I hear, I'm not the only spiderman fan that quit when that story cam around. I've read some TBPs at tower records, and I really like the Black Captian America comic. It sucks too since I have a indy comic show by my house every week so I never have to pay cover price for any new comic.

I also go to the comic con every year, but now it's mostly to see the movie, toy and japan stuff. At the comic con I may pick up a old 80's back issue I find.

I did however break down and get spiderman 500 a few weeks ago to see if anything good happend. I paid 5 bucks for it, I think I could have found it for cheaper but I lazy to look for it for lower. It was good book, nice read. Reminded me of the spiderman comics I used to read.
 
[quote name='KingDox']I used to collect comic back in the mid 90's but once the spider clone saga started I started to stop reading. From what I hear, I'm not the only spiderman fan that quit when that story cam around.
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Yup, that's when I stopped collecting Spiderman. I stopped collecting altogether shortly thereafter, but Spiderman stopped immediately upon reading the filth that was the "Peter Parker is fake, loses powers, moves to California" story arc. I don't care that they recinded that later on and brought the real Spiderman back into the series, I won't read main-line Spiderman again. Ultimate Spiderman was a return to what was good about Spiderman, and I was about two seconds from buying that massive 50-issue book so I could have the series all in one place. Now if they could just bring back Spiderman 2099...
 
For all you collectors...

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I also am someone who stopped around the horrid Clone Saga, lost my passion for it and hadn't touched a comic in years. But recently I downloaded the Thunder Cats comics and I was floored, when I get paid on Friday i'm running around to go track down a graphic novel or something. Oh and I also collect the Berserk Manga.
 
[quote name='coolsteel']I also am someone who stopped around the horrid Clone Saga, lost my passion for it and hadn't touched a comic in years. But recently I downloaded the Thunder Cats comics and I was floored, when I get paid on Friday i'm running around to go track down a graphic novel or something. Oh and I also collect the Berserk Manga.[/quote]

I stopped at Clone Saga too. Looks like they killed off a LOT of fans with that one..
 
[quote name='coolsteel']I also am someone who stopped around the horrid Clone Saga, lost my passion for it and hadn't touched a comic in years. But recently I downloaded the Thunder Cats comics and I was floored, when I get paid on Friday i'm running around to go track down a graphic novel or something. Oh and I also collect the Berserk Manga.[/quote]

Berserk v27 is sweet as hell. Can't wait for v28!
 
[quote name='Grave_Addiction']
I just bought a copy of Spiderman and it was pretty entertaining but I have to admit that it seems you don't get very much story for what you're paying. I spend $2.25 for a comic that had about 20 or so pages and the story didn't move very much at all. [/quote]

Comic prices have doubled since I read way back when. . .

I don't really have any interest in getting back in to them. I'd consider back issues, but then I get to pay 5 or more a pop - that gets expensive fast the way comics work.

At least I still have all of my old ones.
 
I was only in to new comic books when I was in highschool, because my study hall teacher would get 10 new comics every Wednesday. It was awesome. Since then I have just been getting old collections to catch back up. I'm a fan of Batman and a lot of the DC Vertigo offerings, i.e. Sandman and Preacher.
 
I'm a ridiculously old bastard, so I remember buying comics for a measly 25 cents. I used to read Spiderman, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Avengers, and occasionally Batman, although that felt like betrayal to my usual Marvel loyalty. I stopped reading them for a long time somewhere around the late 70's-early 80's.

I tried picking the hobby up again years later, but everything about comics had changed so much that I just couldn't get back into it. The artwork in some of the comics today is amazing; much more detailed and sophisticated than what I used to read in many ways, and yet..... I still prefer the old style. To each his own, right?

I read Futurama and Radioactive Man from Bongo Comics now, but that's not even within shouting distance of being the same thing.
 
[quote name='Danimal']I tried picking the hobby up again years later, but everything about comics had changed so much that I just couldn't get back into it. The artwork in some of the comics today is amazing; much more detailed and sophisticated than what I used to read in many ways, and yet..... I still prefer the old style. To each his own, right?
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I know it's not quite the same thing, but the art difference between early 90s and year 2000 stuff - - I can't stand it. That's another reason I won't be reading them.

ESPECIALLY stuff like "Ultimate Spiderman" - the same goes for all these new-age cartoon shows like X Men EVolution, new TMNT, and whatnot.. hurts my eyes.
 
[quote name='WildWop'][quote name='coolsteel']I also am someone who stopped around the horrid Clone Saga, lost my passion for it and hadn't touched a comic in years. But recently I downloaded the Thunder Cats comics and I was floored, when I get paid on Friday i'm running around to go track down a graphic novel or something. Oh and I also collect the Berserk Manga.[/quote]

Berserk v27 is sweet as hell. Can't wait for v28![/quote]

I've been collecting as Dark Horse releases it here but I have been keeping up with the digisub versions online, I agree i'm more and more amazed as the series goes on. I don't see how it could possibly end anymore, the odds are so stacked against Gutts it isn't even funny.
 
I think American comics should take a tip from the way manga in Japan is distributed. Glop a whole bunch of different comics together in a big monthly magazine, then release the individual comics quarterly/semi-anually in volumes. I'd still collect comics if I could subscribe to receive volumes of comics every couple of months. I just don't feel like I'm getting my money's worth when $2.50 only lasts me about 10-15 minutes of reading time.
 
2.50 doesn't even get me 10 minutes, I got to the point where I was reading a comic within 5 minutes, much later on I realized the reason for that was so much sparse dialogue. But as for the Shonen Jump type idea I have to disagree, one of the reasons I let my subscription die was because comics I didn't care about got more space then the ones i did, Naruto for instance caught up with Shonen Jump in in just two graphic novels or so. Just comes out too slow.
 
I have a ton of old comics that my grandpa gave me years ago, but I dont really read comics. I enjoy comic movies, and I watched all of the Spider Man 90s Fox cartoon, and a few episodes of X Men.
 
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