List is up! Short list for me but one I’m excited about:
Bat-Man First Knight #2 - 1930s The Bat-Man (just had to lable it that way instead of “Batman” huh?) #1 was great!
Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees #5 - You know me, love this series
I Hate Fairyland #13 - This one is right up my alley as well
Napalm Lullaby #2 - #1 was ok, not sure I’ll stick with it.
What’re y’all reading?
So I am still new with comics, only started reading them 3 months ago. I am currentl making my way through X-men and Batman first year, but there are so many comics out there.
If I look at this list it is daunting how many there are released every single week. I have been googling some of your interests, and they look cool. How do you know from this long list what catches your interest?
Tbh I’m still pretty new too, like maybe 6mo in lol. Welcome to the club!
Yeah there are a lot for sure, for me it’s easier because I’m not super into super heroes or manga so I can ignore like, most of it. Usually I look to the creator owned side of things for something horror or SF sounding (or most issue #1s) and check out the cover, if it looks good I’ll give it a chance at least. Or recommendations from other people and googling it like you’re already doing lol. And sometimes some cover in my local shop will just catch my eye and I’ll have to investigate it at least, I don’t always buy em buy I’ll flip through and maybe buy em if they look like I’ll be into it.
Awesome, thanks! And you also welcome to the club!
I’ve been doing it 50 years so at this point I pretty much know what I like. :)
There are certain writers I follow, certain artists I follow, and certain publishers as well.
There are two new independent publishers who I’ve signed up for all their stuff, Ghost Machine, which had 3 new #1’s drop last week, all of which were good, and DSTLRY which has been doing magazine sized books.
Starting this week is a new storyline in the Superman books called “House of Brainiac” which should be pretty good. I don’t typically buy the Supes books, but ever since DC soft rebooted their universe last year under “Dawn of DC” they have ALL been really good.
Batman / Dylan Dog was fun, a crossover between Batman and an Italian comic I had never heard of before. Dylan Dog has appeared in English, rarely, but this is my first experience with it. Good read!
As Arcane noted, Bat-Man First Knight - A retelling of the first Batman story with modern art, is also quite good.
Green Lantern #10 - because I’m an old time GL fan. :)
Outsiders #6 - An official/unofficial continuation of an indie book I always liked called “Planetary”. This new version just set in the DC universe.
Aliens What If? From Marvel is interesting, written in conjunction with actor Paul Reiser, the premise is Burke from the Aliens film somehow survived. The book goes into “What if?” that had happened.
There’s other stuff I’m picking up, mostly out of habit at this point. The current X-Men books are winding down as they are going to re-boot it all again in about 2 months time, around when X-Men 35 comes out.
This last X-Men run from House of X / Powers of X a few years ago was stellar up to a point, then it kind of ran off the rails and hasn’t been the same since. :( I’m not sad to see the current run go and hopefully be replaced with something better, but I am an OLD school X-Men fan with a complete run of the original book.
Cool thanks! I will check those out as well :)
Best advice? Browse your local shop, see what you like. Keep in mind too, your local library is a good resource for free access to collections.
And aside from that, we don’t link to them here for legal reasons, but there are a ton of resources on piracy sites. I know, I know, but if it helps you discover something you want to buy and find you like it, then buy it!
For example:
When the Ghost Machine imprint launched, I found it was rolling up 2 books I had never heard of before… Geiger and Junkyard Joe.
Both had 6 issue runs, there was a Geiger 80 page special and a follow up 2 issue mini series, so 15 books total.
What I had seen was interesting enough to make me want to read them, but I didn’t know yet if I wanted to BUY them or not.
So, yeah, I read them online, then hit my local comic shops and bought what I could, picked up the missing issues by mail order and I’m picking up all the new stuff now as it comes out.
A good mail order site:
Pretty much, if they don’t have it, nobody does.
So the current run is Ghost Machine #1, Geiger #1, Redcoat #1 and Rook #1. There will be more.
Previous stuff was:
Geiger 1-6
Geiger 80 Page Special (1st Redcoat)
Geiger: Ground Zero 1-2
Junkyard Joe 1-6Thanks for the thoughtful response! They really help.
Piracy was actually what got me into reading and buying comics in the first place. I came across Saga which peaked my interest and I have been reading since. From there went to a local store and picked up Sandman.
I dont have a local shop too nearby, which makes it harder to go to stores and just browse or get advice. But I will try to make some time soon to go browsing :)
Well the good news is stuff like Saga and Sandman both have large collections that you can buy pretty much anywhere, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, anywhere.
Same with most big titles that hit the larger media markets like The Walking Dead, I scored a nice set of that in hardcover using Amazon points after paying for my kids college on my Amazon card. ;)
