The Official Recommendations Thread

[Ben Urich]

Has anyone read Unstable Molecules? I remember it being announced a couple of years ago,but I don't remember hearing anything else about it...

It's pretty friggin' cool.

 

[Movies205]

Get Green Lantern Rebirth.

I got it in issue form The last issue of Rebirth is when I stop buying monthly

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Rex Mundi's about a murder mystery in the catholic church in 1933. Or, an alternate 1933 where the prodistant reform never happened and the Vatican retained an enormous amount of political influence.

Hey, has that been collected in any TPBs yet?

 

[Norkie]

Hey I just wanted to know if any one could recemend any comics that I should start to collect I mainly have just been colloecting x-men and other x-titles. I dont have any knowlege of the rest of the marvel universe and I want to I have only been collecting for about a year and Im only 15 so I want to start collecting on a larger bases.


Thankyou.

 

[Elijya]

Norkie - THERE'S AN ENTIRE THREAD YOU CAN READ THROUGH HERE

 

[Movies205]

Yo you salty ass *****s, YA YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALK TO, YOU!!! Give me the 411 on the latest and baddest TPBs/HCs, that's right I'm talking about storylines I'd have missed in the last 2 years... In the last two years I picked up a lot of the Countdown to INfinite Crisis TPBs, should I pick up Infinite Crisis? Should I pick up Green Lantern: Recharge? Or Green ARrow: Headlights? I'm def. picking up New X-Men Omnibus! Along with Peter David Hulk Visionaries Vol.2, Y: The Last Man VOl. 2, Swamp Thing Vol. 6, and Punisher Welcome Back FRank HC! Anything else I should be on the look-out for.

Is anyone going help a brotha out

 

[hippy fascist]

THE BOYS

GARTH ENNIS DARICK ROBERTSON​

Ok so it's ennis writing about badasses yet again but they key difference between this and most of his recent work is that these are Ennis's own characters. The thing for me that sets preacher apart is the characterisation. Each individual in those books had a significant part to play in the overall telling of the story. This allowed Ennis to achieve the kind of scale and scope with his storytelling that is sadly missing from most comics today. The Boys is already planned out for the first 3 years. This will not be trade paperback friendly 6-issue arcs, it will be a constantly evolving universe unto itself.

The boys concerns a CIA sponsored team of enforcers whose job it is to police the superhero community. He uses this as an opportunity to throw in every piss take imaginable on superheroes and generally screw with the genre. For me this illustrates perfectly the fact that ennis should have been given a civil war tie in. Butchers Men are fascist bully boys but in this book Ennis has the balls to suggest that superheroes aren't perfect and somebodys gotta pay the piper at some point.

However, for my mind the thing that really sets this book apart is the fanboy's wet dream nature of some of the backstories here. If you were superman would you not be tempted to use your position and fame to
[BLACKOUT]get a ******* off the latest hot young recruit to the JLA?[/BLACKOUT]

THESE ARE THE INPORTANT QUESTIONS PEOPLE!

This is a great book with bags of humour and Ennis's trademark "gritty" dialogue and it really needs to shift units because maybe...just maybe if books like this start to take off the big two will realise that fans want stories that aren't over before they've begun. That don't have a convenient begining middle and end and that have longterm ramifications.

Who watches the watchmen? These guys would have kicked the **** out of them...

BUY THE BOYS

IT'S AWESOME! ​

 

[MyPokerShirt]

Best newly released trade? (of the last month or so)

 

[WallCrawl]

Is anyone going help a brotha out

Everyone's already gone to the trouble of compiling recommendations here. Why don't you just go through the thread and pick up whatever's been recommended but you haven't read?

 

[The Hero]

This is all you need,Movies:

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235880

Whatever happened to making that thread a sticky?

 

[Mr. Green]

THE BOYS

GARTH ENNIS DARICK ROBERTSON​

​

The Boys looks awesome. I will probably get it when it comes out in trades.

 

[hippy fascist]

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The Boys looks awesome. I will probably get it when it comes out in trades.

It is indeed awesome.

 

[Not Jake]

Best newly released trade? (of the last month or so)

Bru's first volume of Daredevil

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Ill be getting 80 dollars [US] in the first second week of December.I plan to spend 20 or 40 dollars on comics...i just want to buy a TPB that i know will be worth the money.Can anyone name some?

 

[Darthphere]

[/CENTER]
The Boys looks awesome. I will probably get it when it comes out in trades.

Looks can be deceiving.

 

[The Question]

Title: Give Me Liberty

Writer/Artist: Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Genre: Polotics, espionoge, war.

Summary: The United States are a mess. After the 22nd amendmant was repealed, a very corrupt president was continually re-elected, bringing the country furthur down into decadence withe every new term. The country is constantly on the brink of civil war, new terrorist groups are forming by the day, and poverty is at an all time high. All of this is told from the perspective of Martha Washington, a young black woman from the Chicago slums who joins the United States military to get out of the ghetto and see the world. The story is equal parts political thriller, war epic, and political satire, as Frank Miller takes jabs at both the right and the left, saying that it is not specific political groups and ideas that are and will bring this country down, but incompitance and corruption on both sides of the arguement.

Plus, there's one part where the military fights a giant fire breathing mech that looks like a fast food mascot.

Format: Four issues, collected in trade.

Amazon.com listing: http://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Liberty-Frank-Miller/dp/0440504465/sr=8-9/qid=1163048507/ref=pd_bbs_9/104-2072711-5291914?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

[hippy fascist]

Ill be getting 80 dollars [US] in the first second week of December.I plan to spend 20 or 40 dollars on comics...i just want to buy a TPB that i know will be worth the money.Can anyone name some?

MIDNIGHT NATION

 

[MaskedManJRK]

WANTED
Written by Mark Millar
Penciled by J.G. Jones
Published by Image Comics

While Watchmen is generally seen as hugely influential on superhero comics since the mid-1980s, not many creators have paid homage to that landmark series by attempting a similar story; my guess would be that Watchmen was so critically and commercially successful that writers and artists who were inspired by its style and substance may have been intimidated by the idea of creating a new work that would inevitably be compared to its inspiration. It will come as little surprise to readers of Mark Millar's Authority and The Ultimates that he is not easily intimidated.

In a world where comics creators often go out of their way to shock readers, Millar has made a name for himself by giving us believable characters who act in appallingly realistic, wildly entertaining ways. In Wanted Millar and artist JG Jones explore the inner world of a super-villain as he learns his trade. Wesley Gibson is inducted into "The Fraternity" after his (previously unknown) father is murdered. Turns out dear old Dad was a master villain named The Killer, and Wesley -- lost in a bad relationship and kind of pathetic overall -- is tracked down and told he can inherit his father's vast fortune if he takes up his legacy.

In the manner of Alan Moore in Watchmen or Kurt Busiek in Astro City, Millar creates a new, dangerous world out of whole cloth. References to a greater community of super beings and a convincing look at the ones onscreen serve to deliver a genuine sense that this is an established universe we are exploring, while organically-introduced details about Wesley and his life deliver a sympathetic character by which we can explore.

As a creator-owned project, this is the next logical step for Millar after books like The Authority and The Ultimates -- a harrowing exploration of power and perversion that shocks and entertains, with no editorial restrictions or corporate involvement interfering with Millar's story. As you might expect after the exquisite visuals he delivered on Grant Morrison's Marvel Boy, artist JG Jones gives us a summer blockbuster-type level of action and detail that make the book visually addictive and totally in the spirit of The Authority and The Ultimates in the best way possible. Jones is really underrated, in my opinion, and is a top superhero action artist every bit as compelling and exciting as peers like Bryan Hitch and Frank Quitely.

Read this at my shop today, and I must agree--it kicks monumental amounts of ass. t:

 

[Darthphere]

I disagree completely. I thought Wanted was pure shock and awe with no substance and overly pretentious drivel that ive come to know from Mark Millar.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Title: Give Me Liberty

Writer/Artist: Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Genre: Polotics, espionoge, war.

Summary: The United States are a mess. After the 22nd amendmant was repealed, a very corrupt president was continually re-elected, bringing the country furthur down into decadence withe every new term. The country is constantly on the brink of civil war, new terrorist groups are forming by the day, and poverty is at an all time high. All of this is told from the perspective of Martha Washington, a young black woman from the Chicago slums who joins the United States military to get out of the ghetto and see the world. The story is equal parts political thriller, war epic, and political satire, as Frank Miller takes jabs at both the right and the left, saying that it is not specific political groups and ideas that are and will bring this country down, but incompitance and corruption on both sides of the arguement.

Plus, there's one part where the military fights a giant fire breathing mech that looks like a fast food mascot.

Format: Four issues, collected in trade.

Amazon.com listing: http://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Liberty-Frank-Miller/dp/0440504465/sr=8-9/qid=1163048507/ref=pd_bbs_9/104-2072711-5291914?ie=UTF8&s=books

I remember reading another story featuring Martha called "Martha Washington Saves the World," which I thought was pretty good.

 

[GNR]

I disagree completely. I thought Wanted was pure shock and awe with no substance and overly pretentious drivel that ive come to know from Mark Millar.

Please don't tell me you're calling Mark a crappy writer.

Sure his MKSM,Trouble,Wanted and UXM after #6 were pretty wack.

But this is the same guy who did Ultimates,Chosen,Wolverine and Ultimate F4.

IMO,he's one of the best writers today,nobody does unapologetic badassery like Mark.

 

[GNR]

Ill be getting 80 dollars [US] in the first second week of December.I plan to spend 20 or 40 dollars on comics...i just want to buy a TPB that i know will be worth the money.Can anyone name some?

JLA Year One or Golden Age

 

[Darthphere]

Please don't tell me you're calling Mark a crappy writer.

Sure his MKSM,Trouble,Wanted and UXM after #6 were pretty wack.

But this is the same guy who did Ultimates,Chosen,Wolverine and Ultimate F4.

IMO,he's one of the best writers today,nobody does unapologetic badassery like Mark.

I dont believe I called him a bad writer, I said his work presents a pretentious and holier than thou attitude. Like Ultimates is really "Mark Millar hates America". Wanted just represented a trend within his writing which is pretty much anti-establishment hidden within big explosions and **** and ass. Its him trying to do something deep and important, and failing miserably doing it.

 

[GNR]

I dont believe I called him a bad writer, I said his work presents a pretentious and holier than thou attitude. Like Ultimates is really "Mark Millar hates America". Wanted just represented a trend within his writing which is pretty much anti-establishment hidden within big explosions and **** and ass. Its him trying to do something deep and important, and failing miserably doing it.

Mark Millar hates America=one of the best books to come out of Marvel since God knows when.

 

[Darthphere]

Mark Millar hates America=one of the best books to come out of Marvel since God knows when.

Laugh worthy really, but I understand this to be a popular belief.