Comic Books & Graphic Novels - What are you reading?

[Forlorn Drifter]

There's that one, not sure if it would interest your little ones, that has dinosaurs in it. I want to say its super dino, or something along those lines. I can not think of the name currently though.

[jmbarnes101]

There's that one, not sure if it would interest your little ones, that has dinosaurs in it. I want to say its super dino, or something along those lines. I can not think of the name currently though.

Image's Super Dinosaur by Robert Kirkman of Walking Dead fame?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dinosaur

[Forlorn Drifter]

Yep, that's it. The few bits of it I've read were pretty well done in my mind.

EDIT: After look at some stuff today, I'm honestly bothered by how many artist are pumping out beautiful, very artistic covers for comics, yet we hardly see anything even close to that inside the comics. I understand that a comic isn't likely to flat out change its art style to go with a new one,but when the cover art is so jarringly different from the art inside it sometimes feels like a copout.

[darsparx]

May be weird posting in a topic a few years old but it fits what I wanted to post anyways: As weird as it may seem I've tried to get back into comics now(read a lot of Archie when I was younger and may go back to it). But now reading up on Detective comics(1937-2011), I know it doesn't really fit into the current continuity(which I need to get to the points that created those extra worlds eventually), but this older batman stuff is interesting to say the least. It's even better since i'm reading in the DC Comics App/Comixology since I could never afford Detective #27 physically anyways(that one apparently goes for several million but I think it's a freebie on the dc app). I'm already 7 issues in and wishing I would've done this sooner, what's great about it is it seems to be the original artwork for the series so it's great looking at it like this(too bad the archives aren't on here somehow so I could get them in a bigger chunk at a time)

[DeadPark]

i just finished reading every comic in marvel's ultimate imprint. that started out so good and had such promise. but it crashed and burned into a giant fireball instead.

for those of you who have never read it, i'll just point out a few key notes of the later parts of the imprint

-mr fantastic of the fantastic 4 becomes one of the greatest super villains
-peter parker is dead
-90% of all mutants are dead or depowered
-every asgardian is dead except thor
-tony stark has a brain tumor instead of a piece of shrapnel threatening his life
-that brain tumor is actually self aware and has it's own personality which tony talks to

there was no happy ending for anyone.

[jmbarnes101]

IMO that doesn't seem all that different from the normal Marvel Universe which other then a few books, Brubaker on Cap for example, has mostly been hot garbage since Bendis took over as their primary a decade ago or so. Dr. Octopus was Spider-Man and Peter was in Doc's dead/dying body, female Thor, etc... The only real difference is that the Marvel Universe has to reset itself.

DC's New 52 Universe is just as bad though, Joker is even more psychotic and demented and the entire universe is so dark there is no light, so I'm only reading a few books like Scooby-Doo Team-Up and Astro City.

I'm older now and my sensibilities have changed a lot. I still enjoy pre-Flashpoint DC and some of the older Marvel stuff, just in HC and TPB.

[Nemoide]

On the subject of "the big two" I need to say that The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is probably my favorite Marvel comic they've ever published. I'm completely loving the hell out of that series.

May be weird posting in a topic a few years old but it fits what I wanted to post anyways: As weird as it may seem I've tried to get back into comics now(read a lot of Archie when I was younger and may go back to it).

If you used to like Archie and are now interested in dark horror stories, I highly recommend checking out Afterlife with Archie. If you're not into dark horror, I know I'm planning on reading the Fiona Staples/Mark Waid Archie #1 that's due out tomorrow. Archie vs. Predator is also a comic that completely lives up to whatever you could hope for from a comic with that title.

And Golden Age comics can be a lot of fun! Some of those stories are so weird compared to what gets made nowadays.

[darsparx]

Funny thing is I still have the archie comics(though the glue has worn off in some places on some of the comics, if comixology has those I may be digitizing them if they aren't too expensive). Though I will admit it's quite fun reading the detective comics(almost feels like reading some of the Archie's that i've read just with how the art is done). Problem is though I can't seem to find a list of releases by date(I want to try and go through these by their release date and read them like they were originally written, though that also confuses me where the other stories especially the ones that tied into the 90's shows come in). If action reads like detective I'll definitely catch some of those(marvel will come in at some point, all i know is I've got a lot of reading to do, but it'll be something productive for my lunches and breaks at work to do)

@jm - kinda sounds like some of the events in the arkham games(but a lot darker than some of this, though there are some moments that I wonder how close they are in darkness to what you're talking about). I guess I'll just see when i get up to that point, it's going to take awhile already put a dent in my comic budget right now with the sale going on that will at least have me set for when I get to those points in the timelines.

[ninjainspandex]

does this topic include Manga? If so I just bought last 6 manga I needed to complete my 28 book series of Rurouni Kenshin the Wandering Samurai. Probably the best Manga I have ever read and the Anime is just as good. I have also just started Attack on Titan after hearing rave reviews about it and am 3 books in. So far I love it.

[jmbarnes101]

Funny thing is I still have the archie comics(though the glue has worn off in some places on some of the comics, if comixology has those I may be digitizing them if they aren't too expensive). Though I will admit it's quite fun reading the detective comics(almost feels like reading some of the Archie's that i've read just with how the art is done). Problem is though I can't seem to find a list of releases by date(I want to try and go through these by their release date and read them like they were originally written, though that also confuses me where the other stories especially the ones that tied into the 90's shows come in). If action reads like detective I'll definitely catch some of those(marvel will come in at some point, all i know is I've got a lot of reading to do, but it'll be something productive for my lunches and breaks at work to do)

@jm - kinda sounds like some of the events in the arkham games(but a lot darker than some of this, though there are some moments that I wonder how close they are in darkness to what you're talking about). I guess I'll just see when i get up to that point, it's going to take awhile already put a dent in my comic budget right now with the sale going on that will at least have me set for when I get to those points in the timelines.

What are you wanting a reading map of? I can either provide one or point you in the right direction depending on what you want. There is a really good Batman Chronology Map located at this link.

http://www.therealbatmanchronologyproject.com

If you want it in publishing order I can help with that as well, depending on how big your scope is.

Comixology is having an 80% off DC Collected Editions sale right now, not sure what all is covered though.

As for books I have four on their way and just got JSA Omnibus vol 3 the other day. The ones incoming are Uncanny X-Men Omnibus 1 & 2, JSA Omnibus 2, and Batman: Black Glove Deluxe Edition HC. Prior to that I picked up Morrison's Animal Man Omnibus, Dial H Deluxe HC, and Superman: Red Son Deluxe HC. Dial H was a very interesting read and recommended. The other two are still sealed.