I didn't expect to see Armory Wars on the release list, I'm tempted to check it out! I wasn't sure they would finish out the Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV series but apparently the second issue of the No World For Tomorrow story arc is releasing.
The series has been such an absolute mess but I'm fascinated by the Coheed and Cambria world and love a lot of their music so it's been interesting seeing the characters and the story told in a straightforward way instead of just interpreted through their song lyrics and band interviews. I might wait until it's all done and all the issues are wrapped up into a nicely priced volume but I may just get an issue if reviews say it's good as it goes along .
Scarlett #1 - Been fairly interested in the Energon Universe and so far have only read Transformers. Feels like a good entry point to see if I'll like the G.I. aspect of the universe.
Kaya #19 - This continues to be one of my favourite indies. Wes Craig has crafted a really fun world with excellent characters. #19 is probably going to be the start of a new story arc.
X-Men #35 - I always struggled to really get into the X-Men comics longterm, but following the hype of X-Men '97 I figured might as well try again, especially considering that this issue is supposed to be a transition to their new era.
Birds of Prey #10 - Really looking forward to this. Birds of Prey is the best ongoing Big 2 book imo and one of the few I regularly check out.
Grim #17 - Grim has been solid throughout but one of my main criticisms was that the characters weren't super fleshed out. However character focused interludes like this one really help.
Read a couple of DC stuff today including Wonder Woman #9 which continues be really good.
Oh Briar #5 is out. It's been a year since #4 but I remember liking the first arc. I think the hype for it was kind of killed by the release schedule.
Doom #1 was pretty good but the plot was a little thin. I feel like it was carried insanely hard by the art.
X-Men: Forever #4 - A very important moment for a bunch of main characters that gets some real emotion out of me. Unfortunately it continues to struggle with the incredibly rushed feeling of the Fall of X.
Dawnrunner #2 was excellent. At this point basically anything Ram V. (especially his indies) are an immediate pull for me. Doesn't hurt that he's constantly working with phenomenal artists.
Yeah it was! I'm on that wave too, I'm pulling creature from the black lagoon mostly because of his name, but I won't be buying anything he does that isn't indie as I'm really mostly an indie guy.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks 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. ;)
Re: Primer #1 - Make sure you check out an old book from the 90s called "The System", done entirely by legit graffiti artist Peter Kuper. Amazing stuff!
Back in the day, the editor in chief at DC, Julius Schwartz, had an opinion...
If you wanted to boost sales on any given comic, put a gorilla on the cover.
Weirdly, the sales stats seemed to back him up and so throughout the late 50s and 60s, a BUNCH of primate related covers turned up across all of DC.
"I followed every single magazine that we produced and I was able to see how certain themes would sell. For example, I discovered that gorillas sell. We had gorilla covers on Star Spangled War Stories or Wonder Woman - you name a magazine, we had a gorilla on it. You know what happened? Sales exceeded our expectations."
"In the period of 1951-1970, Julius Schwartz oversaw a total of 22 ape covers on books he edited, followed by the editor of all Superman titles Mort Weisinger with 18. Jack Schiff, who handled a wide variety of books including Batman (and co-created Batman's Bat-Signal) oversaw 17 ape covers in this period."
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