Other Publishers and General Comic Book Discussion Thread

LOL no matter how bad it’s gonna be i have to get svc vol1 out of obligation for being the beast of svc!

Since i’m still new to comics i pretty much planned out exactly what i’m going to buy for the next year or two so first here are the books i currently own:

absolute watchmen
absolute hush
batman year one HC
arkham asylum HC
dkr HC
batman gothic
long halloween+ the sequel dark victory
preacher vol1 n 2
the ultimates vol1 HC
ultimate ironman vol1 HC
300
ronin
young avengers n runaways (all 4 issues)
civil war 1-4 (lol i know i need to catch up on alot)
street fighter the ultimate signed edition HC

And heres what i plan to buy…eventually lol:

single contained GN’s:
(all crisis reads in chronological order thanks to p. gorath’s help)
crisis on infinite earths: absolute edition
identity crisis HC
prelude to infinite crisis (when i typed it in on midtowncomics.com the search had 0 results?!)
superman:sacrifice
day of vengeance
rann-thanagar war
villians united
infinite crisis HC
superman infinite crisis

batman:killing joke HC
batman: the cult HC
batman black and white vol1+2 HC
batman: child of dreams HC
wolverine; enemy of the state HC
marvel zombies HC
absolute sandman vol1 HC
52 HC (when it comes out and as i understand it takes place AFTER crisis stuff so when i’m done reading all the crisis books this will have to have come out lol)

Heres the on-going series’s i plan to buy:
the ultimates
ultimate spiderman
ultimate x-men
ultimate ironman
civil war+tie ins
sin city HC’s
preacher
street fighter2
eternals

Is there anything in there that i should add or take out in any of those lists? wether for it not being worth buying or something really good i forgot to include.

are there any good captain america, transformers, tmnt, or new avengers HC’s or TPB’s?

What is worldwar hulk, ultimate annhilation, and house of m?

Any reccommendations u guys may have i’d prefer to have in HC form is possible thx.

Agent X was great. It’s 15 issues, but I only have 5 at the moment. The rest are in back orders though.

I also have the Taskmaster mini, and i dont think it’s that hard to get. I’m still looking for UDON’s Deadpool issues, they did the last 5 (65-69?)

Too bad about the SVC comic, I was planning to get them for pretty cheap too

There’s way too many fights in SVC Chaos for me to break everything down and I don’t really have time to dig through the series right now. Maybe during the weekend when I work on putting all of my comics away, but I’m missing I think about 2 issues in the story. The cliff notes are Ryu defeated the Goddess Athena and Kyo defeated Red Arramer, that’s how it ends.

The SVC comics are pretty hard to locate if you miss a back issue, they don’t print that many copies. I missed issue 5 and had to go through the net to find it, first site I ordered from didn’t have it and refunded my money, got it on the second try. So if you see it in a store and are remotely interested, get it. It’s one of those books that will vanish or be tricky to track down if you sleep on it since they have a very low print run.

You could always get the trades. They’re not that hard to get a hold of

They sell the book in TPBs, that’s what I’m talking about. They didn’t/don’t release the books in seperate comics in the US.

Hey if you can find them by you, it’s all good. Things like this may vary from where people live and stuff… Maybe it’s just 'cuz I’m in NYC and all the Chinatown Fair Arcade SNK freaks buy them all up or something… but the print run is pretty low compared to say… Marvel and DC stuff, or even Dark Horse. Some of their KOF and KOF Maximum Impact stuff is even trickier to locate going the back issue route.

Ah I didnt know that. My shop always got them because of a regular buyer here, and I live in Europe. They’re the same US prints, but my comic book guy has a fetish for overstocking on stuff, that’s why I think he had em.

after re-reading, I will suggest taking out Superman: Infinite Crisis (there are really only 2 issues in it that you need - the IC Secret Files and Origins annual and the one superman issue that expands upon IC#5 - the rest a just filler) and getting something like Teen Titans: Life and Death instead, oh, and you definitely need the Infinite Crisis Companion tpb

The lack of true Geoff Johns writing in Orochizoolander’s list makes me cry. It’s a shame really.

Funny, there’s a new printing of the first volume of the SVC Chaos comic coming this week… suppose that’s their answer to the small print run?

Get Nighwing Annual #1 and #2 is coming out soon, Nightwing Year one, get teen titans whole titans east arc.

civil war 7 was weak as shit

the good - bishop head stomp
the bad - everything else. some firemen taking out cap? give me a break

need a new series to download now…

I’m itching for Black Bolt to shit all over The Sentry.

the ridiculous number of fights was wat i liked about it lol

Wait…what the shit?! What’d he do, punch a falling drop of water so it became a deadly projectile or something?

Ion has some damn good art, but the story is a bit up and down at this point. the plotting in particular seems awkwardly paced.

I stopped at golden apple last night and got 4 comics from the 5 for a dollar bins - 2 issues of NOW’s the terminator, stray bullets #40, and an issue of X-O Manowar I think I already owned

If memory serves he was in a waterfall and flicked a drop of water at him… yeah, charged with ki and all that…

Again, don’t take this stuff too seriously… well, how could you…

Here’s an amusing take on Civil War #7. Someone went through the trouble of scanning the entire issue and rewriting the dialogue. Obviously, this has spoilers because they didn’t change the art, only the text.

I like Civil War #7 the way it was, but even I have to admit this was entertaining. I’m betting those of you who don’t like the real comic will think this is an improvement.

yeah they’ve been doing it for every issue. The one where punisher shows up was especially hilarious

Just picked up the latest three issues of 52. Pretty nice that they’re actually continuing/concluding some of the storylines. I liked Ralph Dibney’s storyline.

A new Spiderman cartoon announced for 08 on kids WB
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=103394