Comics you're revisiting/catching up with

[Rurik]

I figured we should have a place to talk about old series we are currently reading.

I'm reading through The Authority for the first time. I have pretty mixed emotions on it. At the same time as I find it interesting, I also find so like... IN YOUR FACE EVIL CORPORATE AMERICA.

[Agent Orange]

Blue Beetle v6, Black Panther v3, Cosmic Marvel, Fear Agent, Resurrection Man, Tintin.

[DocMercury]

(08-20-2011 07:04 AM)Rurik Wrote:  I figured we should have a place to talk about old series we are currently reading.

I'm reading through The Authority for the first time. I have pretty mixed emotions on it. At the same time as I find it interesting, I also find so like... IN YOUR FACE EVIL CORPORATE AMERICA.

Warren Ellis's run on the Authority is interesting because the plots (evil Fu Manchu-type supervillain with disposable henchmen, alien invasion, Giant Planet-devouring monster) aren't particularly fresh, it's just the lens through which they're viewed (decompression, 'cinematic' art, come the demon Etrigan.) that adds a new veneer to the stories. If anything, the first twelve issues owe a lot to early Marvel ("The Coming of Galactus" as a nineties post-Watchmen arc) only the anti-communist sentiment is replaced by the "Evil Corporate America" thing, which comes up more with Millar's issues anyway.

[Rurik]

(08-20-2011 07:14 AM)DocMercury Wrote:  Warren Ellis's run on the Authority is interesting because the plots (evil Fu Manchu-type supervillain with disposable henchmen, alien invasion, Giant Planet-devouring monster) aren't particularly fresh, it's just the lens through which they're viewed (decompression, 'cinematic' art, come the demon Etrigan.) that adds a new veneer to the stories. If anything, the first twelve issues owe a lot to early Marvel ("The Coming of Galactus" as a nineties post-Watchmen arc) only the anti-communist sentiment is replaced by the "Evil Corporate America" thing, which comes up more with Millar's issues anyway.

I definitely get the sense that it's intentional beyond actually being in the face of corporate America, but it seems just so over the top in takes-itself-serious way. I laughed for a while when I found out that blue alien British royals turned all of China into a rape camp. It's extreme to the point of being funny, so I have a hard time taking the book as serious as it seems to call for.

[Mr. X]

I'm currently re-reading the Age of Apocalypse because of Remender's Uncanny X-Force. There's some good stuff in there but man were the 90s goofy sometimes.

[Alan Moores Beard]

Catching up on Ultimate XMen at the moment. 16 issues in, only 84 left to go.

[feliciano2040]

The Long Halloween.

I didn't like it the first time, then again, I read it all too fast and wasn't very familiar with comics at the time, so I'm giving it another chance.

I'm barely beginning part 2, and I'm loving it so far.

[othersteve]

Planetary. Got the "digital omnibus" that Comixology offered for cheap a while back, and I'm liking it so much. I read it in singles originally, but between the delays and my tendency to not re-read stuff that often, it's almost like reading it for the first time.

[Rossini]

A (non-comic fan) friend of mine talked me into watching Constantine last week... and so to restore my faith in the world, I started reading Hellblazer again.

Apparently this is the first time I've read a lot of them since seeing Red Dwarf for the first time... I'm up to Paul Jenkins era and the goits and smeg-heads are sticking out like a sore thumb! What is that about!?

[Rurik]

(08-20-2011 07:55 AM)Rossini Wrote:  A (non-comic fan) friend of mine talked me into watching Constantine last week... and so to restore my faith in the world, I started reading Hellblazer again.

Apparently this is the first time I've read a lot of them since seeing Red Dwarf for the first time... I'm up to Paul Jenkins era and the goits and smeg-heads are sticking out like a sore thumb! What is that about!?

I saw Constantine before I got into comics and it actively kept me away from Hellblazer until very recently. Let it be known that bad comic movies can harm potential readers.