TPBs Bought/Thought Thread

[Manic]

I just finished The Boys vol. 2. This book is too funny for its own good.

 

[Spike_x1]

Just got Kirkman's Capes trade. Damn, this thing is a sweet read. I enjoyed Bolt and Kid Thor's small appearances so far, scattered around other Image books, but now I think my fondness for them is starting to approach the same level as my liking of Invincible.

 

[Addendum]

I picked a copy of M by Jon J Muth and Wanted. Both are the Hardcover version.

Edit: Here's the cover for M

 

[TheCorpulent1]

My friend read Wanted and said it was the absolute worst drivel he'd ever laid eyes on. I had no desire to read it until he mentioned that; now I'm morbidly curious...

 

[Anubis]

I thought it was pretty good.

 

[nite-owl]

I read JMS first Thor trade the other day it's very good.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yay, another convert.

 

[film_geek]

Huh... I loved Wanted. it's Fight Club with comic book villains.

Addendum, how's M? I've seen that in the store a few times, been thinking of picking it up.

 

[Addendum]

I've never seen the film, and I've not yet read the book. However, I flipped through the book and I found the artwork to be amazing and bought it then and there just on that. The last time I did that was when I bought the trade of Kingdom Come 12 years ago

 

[Max J Power]

My friend read Wanted and said it was the absolute worst drivel he'd ever laid eyes on. I had no desire to read it until he mentioned that; now I'm morbidly curious...

It's alright. It has some interesting ideas that it doesn't explore very much and has pacing issues, but it's entertaining. Probably the worst Mark Millar book I've read, though.

Anyway, the trade I bought and read recently was the first hardcover collection of Mark Waid's Fantastic Four run. And it was great. It collects issues 60-70 and 500-502, which were originally collected in the Imaginauts and Unthinkable trades. I love the way the way the characters are written; Waid really fleshes out each one of four with depth. The first arc's plot is good, and sets a good tome for the book, but the second arc is the real star. It takes Dr. Doom in a different direction and does it very well. Unthinkable is one of the best Marvel arcs I've read from recent years. Finally, Mike Wieringo's art is perfect for the book. I think I liked it more with every page.

I'm sure many of you have read this book, and I highly recommend it if you haven't.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Waid/Ringo's run is one of my favorite FF runs.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Just finished the Boys Volume II. God this series is chock-full of laughs, violence, and irony!

 

[Manic]

Just finished the Boys Volume II. God this series is chock-full of laughs, violence, and irony!

"If it has a hole, I can **** it!" Best ending ever.

 

[Mladen]

The Surrogates

ordered it on a whim since the description mentioned william gibson and I liked the cover.
Interesting book, I quite enjoyed it, would recommend it to fans of anything cyberpunk.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

"If it has a hole, I can **** it!" Best ending ever.

Hahaha! There are so many good lines in this book. I liked this one:

Love Sausage: "You kidding? This **** (Fermented Grapes and Brake Fluid) would probably kill AIDS virus. ::drinks:: HHAAAHH! Makes Balls revolve like spinning dervishes..!"

The scene that probably made me laugh the most was when Hughie took a dump in Tek-Nite's cave.

 

[Dread]

I bought two trades last week that I never got around to commenting much on.

The first was UNION JACK: LONDON FALLING, the 2006-2007 mini series from Gage & Perkins. People recommended it to me since I seemed to like Gage's Marvel work whenever I saw it, so I was on a lunch break at work last week and bought both trades. This naturally is a story about Union Jack finishing off some vampires before getting into the thick of things defending London from superhuman AIM terrorists alongside Sabra, the new Arabian Knight (who is much cooler and less cheesier then the last) and Valentina the SHIELD agent (who, at least according to SI, was probably a Skrull at this time). The story features many clashes with some B and C list villains who all manage to come off threatening, even Oddball and his Death Throws! Gage plays off the tension between Sabra and Arabian Knight while portraying Union Jack as a people's champion, someone who relies on skill and guile more than powers and gadgets (even if he does have mystically enhanced strength); not unlike James Bond in a mask. When his boss turns out to have been manipulating things to advance his career on the sidelines, Joey makes sure the bastard is exposed, even at the cost of his career. I got to really like this character and it is a shame he isn't a part of CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI-15. It was a brisk, taut read. Some could even see it as a little sister series next to Brubaker's CAPTAIN AMERICA, considering Union Jack guest starred there a few times in Cap's battles against Red Skull, AIM, and London terror.

And the other was TECH JACKET, yet another short lived Image superhero series from Kirkman that got merged into his "Invincible-verse" (Tech Jacket appeared in the second HC of Invincible). It started in 2002 before Invincible #1 and lasted 6 issues before Kirkman cut it at the end of the first arc due to low sales. He bares some regrets about it in the intro, but I can see why it struggled. It is a bit too generic. Don't get me wrong; if you like meat-and-potatoes superheroes, then this is for you. Kirkman covers all the bases well; introduces Zack, a typical high school kid who stumbles across a suit of alien armor and an intergalactic war (and whose father seems to have mobsters hassling him). Turns out because humans are physically bigger and stronger than the alien Geldarians without their "tech jacket" bio armor, he is the strongest warrior among them, which comes in handy battling their enemies, the Kresh. Artist E.J. Su draws some incredible artwork here and while it has a manga feel to it, it still works and flows well with the story. Still, despite all that, it is a fairly typical "sentai" story. 2002 was an era where NEW X-MEN from Grant Morrison was a Top 10 book; no wonder it got buried. Frankly, CAPES had more originality. Still, INVINCIBLE hardly hit it's stride until the end of the first year, so in time this series might have overcome that slump. Considering all the alien stuff in INVINCIBLE, it is surprising that Zack hasn't shown up more there. Basically, if you like Kirkman on superhero stuff, this will be an enjoyable read. The trade was reprinted last year with a new cover that is more in line with the "Kirkmaniverse" hero books by E.J. Su, and it fits in well with that library.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Marvel Zombies wasn't bad as long as you don't think too hard about it..

I have,which is why I bought Excalibur classic volume 1. I want a guaranteed worth my money paperback..it's a shame Alpha flight classic is only 1 volume,I wish there was more..

 

[Gilpesh]

The Surrogates

ordered it on a whim since the description mentioned william gibson and I liked the cover.
Interesting book, I quite enjoyed it, would recommend it to fans of anything cyberpunk.

Have it. Loved it.

Although the ending is quite um... yeah.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I'm thinking about getting some Invincible tpb's as I heard they were good. Would this be a good choice?

 

[DBM]

My friend read Wanted and said it was the absolute worst drivel he'd ever laid eyes on. I had no desire to read it until he mentioned that; now I'm morbidly curious...

Wanted is the only comic Mark Millar's written that I really enjoyed. It's well worth the read. There has never been a better "bad guy" book than this. And it's a lot better if you take the time to figure out who the Marvel/DC analogues to the villains in Wanted are. (Hint: Mister Rictus is the Joker x100, and The Professor is essentially evil scientist Lex Luthor)

I just re-read it last week since I keep seeing trailers for the movie version coming out. It's sad that the movie looks like it is going to be so different from the book, because had they really based the movie on the book it would have been unique, but the movie just looks to be a generic action movie now.

 

[Anubis]

That's the way i feel about it. Secret society of Assassins. Pfft, been there, done that. Never seen a movie about Supervillains that rule the f**king world.

 

[Addendum]

Bought:
The New Frontier Absolute Edition (now I just have to find a spot for it in my bookcase)
Fables: The Good Prince
Rex Mundi: The Guardian of The Temple

Maybes:
Paradise X - I enjoyed Earth X, but Universe X became tedious halfway through. I'm reluctant to spend 50 bucks on something similar
Rex Mundi Volumes 2 thru 4 - Once I read the first book, then I'll make my decision regarding the next 3 books, just like I did with Fables last year.

 

[skimmy]

Im making up 15 years of a break from Comics.

What I've read in the last year:

Preacher: awesome
Y the Last Man : super duper awesome
Bone: awesome
Ex Machina: really awesome
The Invisibles: Really cool, can't believe the Matrix ripped it off so bad, but it's also disturbing in the way reading Avant Garde literature makes me feel disturbed. Think Kafka or William S Burroughs
Fables: It was ok.
100 Bullets: very cool. Needs to get somewhere.
Scalped: Quentin Tarantino over embellishment of reservation life. I felt it was very over rated.
Powers: Could barely finish this I disliked it so much.
Authority: Didn't like it at first, but loved it towards the Millar run.
Planetary: awesome.
Hellboy: ****ing awesome
BPRD: More ****ing awesome than Hellboy.
League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Awesome.
Top Ten: Awesome.
The Ultimates 1 and 2 hardbacks: I loved the beginning, thought it started to cheeze out at the end with the 'traitor' in the midst story.
Invincible: Really fun traditional super hero ****. Nice and violent too.
The Boyz: Ok, but disturbing.
Global Frequency: Very good, but I'd like to see more serial arc to it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

So, I read Wanted. It wasn't as bad as my friend said, but it certainly wasn't that great either. The underlying plot is a good one, but the presentation was just abrasive and irritating a lot of the time. I kept thinking "this would probably be much cooler if I were a 13-year-old boy." Jones' art was fantastic, though. I don't know if it was Millar's influence or what, but Jones seemed to be channeling Bryan Hitch in some areas.

 

[Anubis]

Hey Skimmy, Fables doesn't really get get until about volume four, stick with it dude, you wont regret it.