So how many people here acutally read the comics?

[WompuM]

How many people in here keep steadily up with the DCU? I realize Smallville doesn't stick with the DCU continuity and it's its own mythos and that's grand and all but how many of y'all actually read the comics???

 

[TheCaptain22555]

I didn't know the Smallville comics existed until this thread. Now I'll have to try to check it out.

 

[avidreader]

How many people in here keep steadily up with the DCU? I realize Smallville doesn't stick with the DCU continuity and it's its own mythos and that's grand and all but how many of y'all actually read the comics???

I dont. I find the dialogue boxes too distracting and I therefore cant follow the storyline. Does that make me a bad person?

 

[triplet]

How many people in here keep steadily up with the DCU? I realize Smallville doesn't stick with the DCU continuity and it's its own mythos and that's grand and all but how many of y'all actually read the comics???

I read some Superman TPB comics sometimes, but it's expensive to catch up.

I used to read comics a lot when I was a kid and started back up thanks to Smallville.

 

[Kaboom]

wait .......they make a comic abuot superman?

 

[AgentPat]

wait .......they make a comic abuot superman?

You kill me! LOL

I didn't know the Smallville comics existed until this thread. Now I'll have to try to check it out.

They're actually quite entertaining. You can probably pick up back issues from your local comic shop.

 

[Morg]

It use to be monthly but haven't seen any new ones out for awhile

 

[AgentPat]

It use to be monthly but haven't seen any new ones out for awhile

Yeah. That's why I suggested back-issues. They went into special-only publication about two years ago, though they've yet to print a... *wait for it* .... "special" issue since then. LOL

 

[Cmill216]

I only have 1 issue. It was a Season 3 story just before Lana left for Paris. Pretty interesting stuff. I wanna get those back issues to see what it's like.

 

[Serene]

How many people in here keep steadily up with the DCU? I realize Smallville doesn't stick with the DCU continuity and it's its own mythos and that's grand and all but how many of y'all actually read the comics???

I read all sorts of comics as a young kid. I stopped for the most part, probably around junior high.
I think it was Neil Gaiman's Sandman that rejuvenated my interest the the medium. I have a constant stack of TPB's in my To-Read pile.

A few of you who know me better might laugh at this, but honestly.. this was my favorite comics line that I remember as a kid: Comics
LOL...I think I may have been one of those freaky little kids.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

I think he just means the comics in general not the SV comic.

I've been reading them since about 1979 when I learned how to read. I stopped for about 10 years from 1991-2001 until Smallville reinvigorated my interest in Superman.

As for SV not having anything to do with the DCU mythos, hell half of the stuff in the DCU doesnt have anything to do with the DCU or at least it wont whenever they do their next retcon, so I dont know why thats relevant?

 

[RKromwell]

I started reading comics in 74 or 75. Have a closet full of long boxes of both DC and Marvel. Last time I looked at the list I had a hair over four thousand. I still read every now and then. The "Up Up and Away" arc in Superman and Action Comics was pretty damn good. I love the "Supergirl" arc that was in Batman/Superman.

Oh and I think Hal Jordan should still be dead...

 

[Fried Gold]

I've never really seen the point of a comic based on a tv show based on a comic.

 

[04nbod]

not smallville or superman comics but supergirl and legion- yes

 

[AgentPat]

I've never really seen the point of a comic based on a tv show based on a comic.

Where do you stand on a comic based on a film based on another film based on a comic?










Yeah.... I'm in one of those moods this morning.

 

[Eros]

I read both Action comics and Superman, monthly. Have been since i was a young kid.

 

[Zorex]

Where do you stand on a comic based on a film based on another film based on a comic?

Yeah.... I'm in one of those moods this morning.

I actually was rather unimpressed by that comic. But let's play nice and not get into that.

I used to read comics fairly regularly, from later in grade school through mid high school. Between then and now I've picked up TPB once in a long while, but earlier this winter I started picking up regular issues again. I've taken a shining to the Superman Confidential series. I don't quite understand the appeal of the All-Star Superman series. And I just recently read Superman: Red Son for the first time. Wow, a little late. And wow, was I wowed.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

I've never really seen the point of a comic based on a tv show based on a comic.

What about a movie based on a Broadway play that was based on a movie?

 

[Spider-Gamer]

What about a movie based on a Broadway play that was based on a movie?

Hairspray or am I wrong?

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

I was thinking of the Producers but you may be right was well

 

[Zorex]

Actually I think you're both right. Woo, kudos.

 

[AgentPat]

I actually was rather unimpressed by that comic. But let's play nice and not get into that.

I haven't read it, so I wasn't trying to be snarky. It could have been fantastic for all I know. My point is, books inspire films, films inspire books, TV shows inspire comics, etc. Entertainment is a pretty cyclical medium where ideas flow in many directions and often back again. I bought the DarkHorse comic, The Fog, which was a prequel to the film, which of course was itself a remake of an earlier film. I thought the comic was more lame than the film. Both of 'em.

 

[Zorex]

Bahaha
I've yet to enjoy any comic adaptation of a film. Maybe, someday...

[although I do think the original Fog is fun, and wins for being...well, the original. Plus it had that kickass recurring percussion "theme" in the score. *boom boom boom boom BOOM boom boom boom BOOM boom boom boom*... you get the idea )

 

[Bruce_Wayne29]

I read Superman/Batman monthly and I try to keep up with the best Superman tpb's out there. I used to read Superman comicsall the time when I was little but I stopped because of the lame writing. Fortunatly SV has made me believe in the character again and made want to check comics again. Thankfully post-SV the writing of the character has been alot better and exciting returning to what we really love the most about it, it's essence and it's mythology and not focusing all the time on how he's like a God and virtually unbeatable. That's what killed Superman comics sales in the late 80's/early 90's and was the kiss of death to a certain movie...
So now I try to pick up where I left but just like Triplet says it's really expensive to buy everything so I have to make a selection based on who the writers or artists are on a particular story arc.

 

[Super_Child]

I Read THE Comics.