The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Loves Crappy Variant Covers

Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

SSJmole said:
My Joker's Asylum - Joker came in the post today and I picked up the remaining ones from Comic shop near me today to complete collection.


Going to take one more trip to the comic store tomorrow and buy off ebay and amazon before I stop and read through all of these. so out of curiosity and people name in their opinion :

Best non-death of, superman story?
Best Spider-man story
Best X-men story (Note: needs to be easy for non-x-men readers to follow and must have wolverine)
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My favourite Superman stories are Red Son (by Mark Millar, deals with what would happen if Superman crash landed in Soviet Russia instead of America), All Star Superman (I think you've read that and didn't like it), Birthright (by Mark Waid, the updated origin of Superman), and Last Son (the first arc by Geoff Johns and Richard Donner, which continues on in the rest of Johns's run). All are available in trade and all are worth a read.

Best Spider-Man stories... I don't know. You've probably read more than I have.

As for X-Men, there are two runs I would recommend. The first is New X-Men by Grant Morrison. It is long and has lots of great ideas which are explored. However, I have a feeling you will not like this. So skip ahead and get Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted. This is by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. Basically, it is New X-Men fanfiction. But it is good fanfiction. Quite easy to read and since you're already familiar with Whedon's work, I think you'll like this.
 
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Thanks dude. Is Birthright that new secret origin that was talked about on this board or the origin before that?
 
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SSJmole said:
Thanks dude. Is Birthright that new secret origin that was talked about on this board or the origin before that?
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The new origin is by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank. It will probably improve on Birthright and incorporate other bits of Superman, like the Legion, his villains, his history etc. If it's anything like the Green Lantern: Secret Origin Johns did, then think of Birthright as the origin of Superman but this new Secret Origin as the origin of the whole Superman mythos.

But yeah, Birthright is a good read anyway, stand alone or not. Great art by Yu too.
 
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Cool thanks, I've wrote them all down and I'll see what I can get.


Oh my brother told me of a comic today in which Joker is realised from Arkham as he has reformed and is now sane but it doesn't last long. He said it looked really good. Any ideas what that is?
 
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SSJmole said:
Cool thanks, I've wrote them all down and I'll see what I can get.


Oh my brother told me of a comic today in which Joker is realised from Arkham as he has reformed and is now sane but it doesn't last long. He said it looked really good. Any ideas what that is?
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Yep, that's The Joker OGN we were talking about in that thread. It's pretty good. Very similar to The Joker in TDK. I would recommend it.
 
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ProjectX2 said:
Yep, that's The Joker OGN we were talking about in that thread. It's pretty good. Very similar to The Joker in TDK. I would recommend it.
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Oh I heard of that but didn't know the plot. I'll write that down. It's just called "Joker" right?
 
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SSJmole said:
Oh I heard of that but didn't know the plot. I'll write that down. It's just called "Joker" right?
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Yeah, looks like this:

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:shock:

*runs off to brush his teeth, floss and gargle*
 
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E said:
I don't like what you're implying here.
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I'm saying that's a huge one I have. I have very few superman books, I have more supergirl than Superman (Though that's because i prefer her character to his. In fact shes one of my top 3 dc characters ) Its just there have been very few that made me go "huh that looks cool" but Death of was a huge deal I just have it.
 
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SSJmole said:
I'm saying that's a huge one I have. I have very few superman books, I have more supergirl than Superman (Though that's because i prefer her character to his. In fact shes one of my top 3 dc characters ) Its just there have been very few that made me go "huh that looks cool" but Death of was a huge deal I just have it.
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Oooooookay.....

I thought you were saying it was good. :D
 
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E said:
Oooooookay.....

I thought you were saying it was good. :D
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No I wasn't. But Death of IMO was good. However Return of was horribly done.


Ice said:
That's NOT what she said!
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Damn you! :x


But I liked that one, It gets you a

 
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Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

They didn't have a lot of the ones on your list ProjectX2 but I managed to get :

  • All of Birthright
  • Superman : Last son of earth
  • Joker

And the guy said to me "You wanted superman comics right? and your interested in Joker check out this"

So I also got something called "Lex Luthor : Man of steel" The guy said it was both superman based (that bit was obvious) and done by the guys who did Joker. So I thought "that could be cool"
 
Re: The All About Comics Thread 4: Gemini Is Reading Watchmen?!

Superman: Man of all Seasons is worth checking out.
 
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SSJmole said:
Best non-death of, superman story?
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Solo-wise, I love Birthright. His best comic origin.... ever.

Best Spider-man story
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A collection of the first hundred or so issues?:)

I also really liked Spider-Man and Batman. It's not the best Spidey story ever but I definitely think you'd find it worthwhile.
 
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Planet-man said:
Solo-wise, I love Birthright. His best comic origin.... ever.
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Agreed.

I reread it the other day, and I realized that they managed to make the infamous giant spider ****ing awesome.
 
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