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1. Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 1-22
1. Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 1-2 (after the crazy apocalypse crap....which I would love to read more about if you have suggestions)
I plan on getting...
1. Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 3
2. Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout (I assume this will complement the transition?)
3. Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Volume 1-2
I hope the newer stuff is still as good as the old Ultimate series.
edit: Also, I am looking to fill in the gaps near issues 7-8 of Venom. It is Spider-Island stuff, so would I be good just getting the Spider-Island trade? I am waiting for issue 9 of Venom to arrive, so I don't know if things are cleared up there or not. End of issue 8 said continuing in Spider-Island (I think).
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Volume 3 : DoSM Prelude
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Volume 4 : Death of Spider-Man
Ultimate Comics Fallout
and then this is the first volume of miles morales
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Volume 1
you may also want to check out Ultimate Doomsday
While it is not primarily a spider-man story, it is written by bendis, and Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and Aunt May's house has pretty decent parts in it.
I am talking about UC Spider-Man vol. 3.
How do you guys store your single issues? Do you put them all in individual sleeves? I think that is what I am going to do. I am going to sell most of whatever old crap I have and throw in sleeved new stuff into my cardboard thingy. I might need to get a smaller storage box. The one I have is huge.
Although I'm a little sad by lack of iron fist/immortal weapons/chang chi. I'll have to grab the deadly hands of kung fu tie ins for that won't i?
Behance Portfolio I Amazonian I PSN- Subtle_Ties | 3DS: 3840-5210-2008 (Subtle)
Just be careful or you'll end up like me! I can't fit more in my Box closet ( which was originally just a single box way back in the day!) now I'm working on a second closet of boxes. First closet has them 7 boxes high and 6 boxes wide.
Damn, I am a packrat.
You feel good after you fill up your first longbox. Then it's the second, third, fifth, tenth....
Then your whole storage room is filled with thousands of comics and you start to feel...a bit off.
I got Batman & Robin and Detective Comics on my iPhone through Comixology. I love it. I just wish I had an iPad to read them on instead.
So, is the Venom arc in Secret Avengers done once the AvX issue comes along?
Here are a number of favorites I must recommend. They're kind of obscure (maybe?) but you can find them all on Amazon. I gotta say though, they're slice of life, so if they're not your bag, well, skip them? Haha. I lurked for quite awhile here, but I may have missed someone posting these, so I apologize if they're repeated.
Level Up, American Born Chinese, and Prime Baby by Gene Luen Yang
Solanin by Inio Asano
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Koko be Good by Jen Wang
Yotsuba& by Kiyohiko Azuma
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi (not really slice of life, rather an autobiography!) I'm sure everyone's heard of Persepolis by now, her bigger book. But if not, check that one out too, and the movie! It's beautifully animated.
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol (it has a ghost in it, so it might not be slice of life anymore).
Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran (I know, it's a webcomic, but good and in print now!)
And one that isn't slice of life, but still really good is Ayako by Osamu Tezuka. Maybe I'm just a coward, but this one gave me nightmares. It's good, but really twisted.
For some reason I thought of Amazing Spider-Man #121 where Gwen Stacy's neck snaps due to Spiderman's webbing. In the next issue, he's a man on the edge, with every intent of killing the Green Goblin, but doesn't. I'd like a story such as this (where the meaning could be interpreted over 2 issues #121 - #122 without having much knowledge of previous issues) but where the superhero actually gets revenge (although the Green Goblin does die). The reason I'm not going for these comics is that they're pretty damn expensive and I think there may be cheaper, more relevant ones out there. With that said, I would buy a more expensive comic if it portrayed exactly how I feel and maybe wasn't as grim.
I really enjoy reading comics, although I'm no expert on them. I can't think of any that would symbolize what I want to say and so any suggestions of cool yet romantic comics would be appreciated.
Thanks guys
(btw I didn't know if this was the right thread to post this in)
Action Comics #766 is a great Lois & Clark story where Superman is dying from Kryptonite poisoning, but is trying to find Lois who was kidnapped by the Parasite. Batman comes in to help play detective, and you see how much Clark loves her even as he's dying. Really good issue.
It's in the "Life and Death of Spiders" trade ( preceding stories in the trade show Peter without MJ, pining for her return.)
Do not get One More Day/One Moment in Time.
Marvel's stuff is a bit more complicated. What Marvel does do is put out issues that are marked with a .1, like Avengers 24.1, and which are supposed to serve as good jumping on points. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't - like Avengers 24.1 would probably just confuse the hell out of you. It also doesn't help that they have a pile of continuity tie-ins going on at any point, like the giant event Avengers versus X-Men going on right now.
What's probably easiest is for you to tell us some stuff you're interested in, whether that's specific characters you've seen in shows, games, or movies; or specific styles or ideas (like I want a big space-y scifi adventure) and we can help you find some specific things out.
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Does anyone offer 'buy this physical copy and get a free digital' type thing?
Also is Runaways a good comic?
Comixology is the best solution, because it works on multiple devices (and the web), Only thing is you'll have to buy the DC books on the web(they'll sync to your kindle fire though) because of some silly tiff amazon and dc are having. Starting in June all 3.99 Marvel books will come with a digital code.
This is the most accurate list for comics, as it's from the distributor.
Marvel and DC have finally gotten around to making sure their books ship on a monthly basis, but Image is still pretty loose with schedules because it's more a middleman between creators and their stories they want to tell. Nick Spencer's other work, Infinite Vacation, had something like 4-5 months between issues in the beginning.
First off all, they seemed to lack much in the way of story progression. Not the perfect analogy but it felt like when I was a kid, a comic was sort of like a TV show - it had a beginning, middle and end and may or may not have been part of an overall story across books. It felt like the first few I picked up this weekend were more like one segment of a TV show and it would take months just to get any real story out of them. Is this because the New 52 are just starting, or is that something that's shifted in general? For example I grabbed Batwing (because I thought the African setting was cool) and Swamp Thing because the artwork looked really awesome. Batwing seemed extremely brief in content in the first two issues.
Second - I'm debating between digital and physical. I don't want to become a psycho collector buying everything in sight and filling my game room with books (which is something I tend to do when I collect something, I tend to go all Catch em All on things). I prefer the printed format - but thought if I grabbed a cheap android tablet I might like the convenience of digital. Are there any hidden advantages/disadvantages of either format I might not have considered?
Finally in catching up on a few series...what are the advantages of single issue vs trade? Pricing? Paper quality? Which route should I go if I want to catch up to a series in bulk?
I switched to trades years ago and haven't looked back. It's a personal preference, but I've never really liked reading digitally.
Not really anything surprising other than a "Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe" book
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/05/08/hachette-releases-marvel-catalogue-for-end-of/
This is definitely a thing that you will find with most comics these days. Over the last couple of decades, single issues have changed from being a whole story in 22 pages to telling just part of a story arc. Not all comics are that way, and not all of the ones that are that way feel so incomplete, though. Comics twenty years ago had a lot more dialogue per page, whereas comics these days showcase the art a lot more. It's one of the reasons many people just buy trades instead of individual comics these days.
Other advantages to trades are that they have a better binding than just two staples, and there are no advertisements in them. The only real advantage in buying single issues is that they come out about six months before the trades do. Buying single issues is basically paying a premium to keep up with the story as quickly as possible.
If you want to catch up to a series in bulk, definitely browse trades on places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, eBay, etc. You can often get many trades dirt cheap on the internet.
I have an Android tablet that I read comics on, and I definitely recommend it. You save a lot of space and it makes your collection extremely portable. Also they often give away free single issues of various books.
How large a tablet do you have? Financially I don't know if I want to jump on a 10" but I'm concerned the smaller sized ones might be too small to read?
"NO KILLING EVER OR YOU ARE HITLER"
"I JUST WANT TO BE NORMAL STOP JUDGING MEEEEE"
"I'M A SUPERHERO PUNCHING OTHER SUPER HEROES AND SEXING EVERYTHING THAT MOOOVES (also doubles for) I'M A VILLAIN! RAPE RAPE RAPE!"
"I AM A SOUNDING BOARD FOR MY WRITERS POLITICAL BELIEFS, REPUBLICANS ARE EEEEEVIL."
Things I like:
"Holy shit! Is that a paramilitary superhero force fighting Taliban agents with giant crabs and snappy one liners?"
"Sweet, I like how that character is super heroic and noble, and also not a pussy."
"Ha ha, oh CRAZY CHARACTER X will your inventive murdering never change?"
I'm also interested in jumping into the hideously deep waters of Marvel-dom, I love the Avengers film verse and I have a decent collection of DC, so it's time to branch out.
Help plz.
Based on my investigations, is this a good "Essentials" list? I like mostly movie Captain America, Iron Man, Deadpool and SHIELD. Secret Invaders are also cool from what I've seen and remind me of the Suicide Squad. Basically I like a balance between old school and new school superheroes.
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Iron Man: Extremis
Secret Invasion (What was the SHIELD volume?)
Uncanny X-Force vol 1
New Invaders: To End All Wars (this is the one with all the crazy USagent, Blazing Skull and Union Jack stuff right?)
Any tips for finding and/or cost saving on trades?
Based on your recommendations I'd start here.
http://www.amazon.com/Captain-America-Soldier-Ultimate-Collection/dp/0785143416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336507946&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Invincible-Iron-Man-Vol-Nightmares/dp/B007F7TQ3S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336508053&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Warriors-Vol-Agent-Nothing/dp/0785138641/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1336508072&sr=8-4
I also like that Amadeus Cho kid, he's got moxy.
It sounds like 99% of what Mark Millar does would be up your ally, like Kick Ass, Supreme, Nemesis, etc.
Scott Snyder's Detective Comics run, in a hardcover called the Black Mirror, it's fantastic.
You have to be careful with Captain America, as Winter Soldier is a good story, as is the Vampire story following it, but then it gets into Civil War and since then Steve Rogers became much more political and grand standing than he did in previous years. Now Mark Waid's Captain America run from the 90's, it's been collected and starts with Operation Rebirth, that's just good old fashioned superhero stuff.
Iron Man Extremis is a good story, and the follow up stories by the Knauffs and Patrick Zircher are good as well (the follow up to Extremis is a story called Execute Program). That whole Iron Man run was good until they cancelled it, don't know how much they collected.
Secret Invasion wasn't that good. There's a new Punisher series that just launched, by Greg Rucka, it's been getting good reviews, buy that instead.
Uncanny X-Force, all of it, buy it.
Another recommendation would be Mark Waid and Andy Kubert's Ka-Zar run, it's two trades, and it's basically tarzan in New York City, good clean fun.
Best example I can think of from DC is Suicide Squad. You have some really messed up people there, and they take no shit, and manage to do some good in-spite of themselves. They also have bombs in their heads like any sane person would do using super villains as black ops agents.
I have a huge soft spot for C-listers like JLI, Booster Gold, Blue Beatle and the like.
Not that others are dumb for liking what they like, it's just what *I* like.