WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN Trailer

[filkertom]

Four-minute promo for a new animated series. It looks decent, but I am sick to death of Marvel sticking Wolverine in every frickin' thing. And how many animated versions of the same universe do we need?

So, what comics do you buy (or want to buy collections of)? I'm looking at the JMS-written Thor, a few more Fables collections, and catching up on reprints of classics like Journey and Dr. Strange.

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[wookiee71.livejournal.com]

I want to finish up my Spirit Hardcover collection, the JLA trades from Morrison and Porter, more Fables and turn my issues in to get a Bone collected edition.

Bone needs to be an animated film. That would just RAWK! So would The Goon from Dark Horse. I always hear Brad Garrett's voice doing Lobo in the Superman animated series whenever I read Goon's dialogue.

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

Warner Bros. currently have the rights...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_%28comic%29#Animated_film

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

I'm also interested in the JMS THOR, and I'm enjoying my friend Bryan's book, THE MICE TEMPLAR. Right now, though, the nearest comic shop to me has closed, and it's not QUITE as easy getting my fix as it used to be. :-/

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

I've never quite gotten the obsession with Wolverine. There are way more interesting X-Men, certainly.

I got the TP collection of Whedon's run on X-Men for my birthday, and I'm waiting for Rising Son to really get going.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

About the only thing we want is the collected Sandman. If I could get the Mike Grell run on Green Arrow all in one place, I'd be happy, but beyond that, just not into it anymore.

[berimon.livejournal.com]

I cannot recommend Ed Brubakers Criminal highly enough, classic crime noir in a tightly interwoven setting. Get the issues for backup articles on noir movies/books, they won't be in the collections.

I also dig on PS238, probably my favorite comic at the moment, but I'd expect it to appeal to a smaller audience than Criminal.

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

SCUD: THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN! The final issue comes out TOMORROW!

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I don't really buy a lot of American comics anymore. I just can't bring myself to support Marvel again after their latest Spiderman fiasco.

There are some gems I do buy though.

PS238-Quite honestly it's one of the most brilliant and true to form superhero books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Aaron Williams really gets it and I'm so glad and thankful that one of my closest friends introduced me to it.

Gold Digger-Its got some great storytelling and even better pun like refrences to some great 80's cartoons. (C'mon who here wouldn't love Vaultron?) Very much an under-appreciated book.

I also get the Nodwick collections, which considering it's also by Aaron Williams isn't much of a shock ;)

Planning on getting the Zot! collection when it hits.

Also a big fan of the Sin City books. (I'm not a huge Miller fan but I do love that particular series)

Other than that I collect a lot of manga.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

With the ridiculous crap the Big Two have been pulling over the last couple of years, I've been on the verge of abandoning comicdom and fulfilling any cape jones through things like City of Heroes/Villains and tabletop gaming. However, I have to admit, the collected series of entire comic runs on DVD that Marvel and GIT are selling are tempting. The entirety, every single Incredible Iron Man ever printed, forty years on one platter... Goddess bless, they may get some money out of me, yet.

[pjhandley.livejournal.com]

I buy the Firefly/Serenity comics from Dark Horse. That's it.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Wolverine *supposed* to be with the X-Men? Now if it were "Wolverine and the Avengers" that would be merely gratuitous.

I'm just ironically amused because back in the late 70s/early 80's, the Marvel Productions team was balking a bit at making an X-Men cartoon with Wolverine because parental groups were concerned that kids would start imitating Wolverine and start clawing each other in the schoolyards. This is how I remember it anyway.

I'm going to sneak in around the Trend Du Jour and pick up back issues of comics that are NOT movies this year, like Sandman.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Currently I'm buying Dark Horse's new "Season Eight" Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic and IDW's Angel: After the Fall, both overseen by The Whedon himself; Dynamite's comics based on the new Doctor Who (featuring Tennant's Doc and Martha Jones), and their reprints of the old Dave Gibbons Who strips featuring Tom Baker's Doc as well as their new Battlestar: Galactica and Highlander books; She-Hulk and Uncanny X-Men from Marvel; and Superman and Justice Society of America from DC. Beyond that, I choose titles on a case-by-case basis.

[bathtubnz.livejournal.com]

For Comics I am buying Thor and The Twelve.

For tpbs I am working my way through BPRD and Y The Last Man.

[mythdude.livejournal.com]

I work at a comic book store so of course I've got some suggestions. :3

Knights of the Dinner Table. It's good gaming goodness, and it doubles as a good gaming magazine at the same time.

PS238, because as people have previously mentioned, it's a fun comic that the writer clearly enjoys. :)

Immortal Iron Fist for awesome kung fu fun! Brubaker's the man.

Justice Society of America has excellent art but seems to suffer from too many characters at the moment.

Shadowpact and Checkmate are the two most underappreciated DC comics out there right now. Shadowpact has great humor, while Checkmate introduces new elements to the DCU.

Invincible Iron Man has been going good for the past couple of issues, so I recommend that as well although I will admit it can be repetitive at times.

Want me to recommend some older storylines or graphic novels as well? There's a ton of good ones out there, but I get the feeling you might already know about most of them. :)

since you asked....

[naomi-de-plume.livejournal.com]

I adored X-men as a teen (80s). Collected every Dazzler comic and kept them lovingly in plastic with a cardboard mat. I even briefly flirted with the Power Pack and the Fantastic Four. I liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel, the Ghost Rider movie, Iron Man, etc. I think I’m pretty easy to please.... So why? Oh Why? is it that when I go into a comic shop I recognize nothing? The White Queen is now sleeping with Cyclops who's running things... uh, what? She was a bad guy! Anyway, I feel like I'd have to start over from day 1 to have any clue what's going on. What can I pick up that won't scar me -- I still have nightmares from a Constantine graphic novel. The bad man cut his dog's eyes out :o -- and won't require literally decades of back reading?

Re: since you asked....

[mythdude.livejournal.com]

White Queen's been a good guy for about six years now, and Cyclops took over when the X-Men ousted Professor X as leader. (Long story, but it was pretty well written.)

The reason things are so different after a few years is because most companies want to try to revitalize their characters and tell new stories but have to deal with such huge legacies. The X-Men, which had four series or so back in the 90s, now has one of the most convoluted backstories of all the comics. That's not saying it's bad, but it's hard for new readers to get in on it.

For dealing with the confusion issues, I recommend Wikipedia. No, seriously, it's great. Hardcore comic book geeks must update the site every Wednesday because it always has the most up to date information on characters. I know I've used it a thousand times. :P

The Ghost Rider series is still fairly young, only in the 20's or so, so I recommend picking it up in trade. The series is pretty interesting, with Ghost rider escaping from Hell and having to fight Lucifer who he has inadvertantly let loose as well. He later gets double crossed from an angel and now must find a way to Heaven to get his revenge. It's horror but it shouldn't gross you out like Hellblazer did.

I also recommend Invincible by Robert Kirkman. It's about a teenaged superhero who has had to deal with his father turning evil, his friends leaving him because they don't know why he disappears all the time, and the struggles of maintaining a relationship. Kirkman provides a lot of humor in this book along with really strong serioius moments, so if you want a book that pretty much runs the gambit between multiple things I highly recommend this.

Some other titles you might like:
Runaways, JSA, Superman: Red Son, Superman: Secret Identity (soooo, so good), Kingdom Come, Marvels, Marvel Zombies, The latest Thor series, New Avengers, Avengers: the Initiative, Spider-girl (it's hokey, but I enjoy it. :) ) and BPRD are all pretty good. If you need me to explain any of them just feel free to ask.

[johnpatrickmcp.livejournal.com]

I miss KoDT I had to give it up when it hit $5 an issue. I couldn't justify paying that much for a single book no matter how good it was.

[mythdude.livejournal.com]

*nods* Understandable, but it's still so good for me so I keep reading it. I love all the extra stuff in it.

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

My regulars are Fables (in the trades); Jack of Fables (monthly, cuz I need a Fable fix); Fell (Warren Ellis doing some tight, concise done-in-one pieces); Avengers and JLA (my old sentimental favorits); Jonah Hex and Ex Machina (though I'll probably move that to the trades).

Slowly picking up DC's Showcase reprints. Next ones on my agenda: the Sgt. Rock and Legion of Super-Heroes volumes.

I'm hearing that Jim Shooter's doing some good stuff on his return to the Legion, but I dropped that book awhile back -- I just couldn't get interested in these people who had familiar characters' names, sort-of faces and sort-of temperaments but, well, weren't my Legion. (My Legion ended back at Zero Hour, sigh.)

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I just found one called Rogue Angel that looks to be kinda interesting.

[sdelmonte]

To my surprise, I discovered that in any given month, I read about twice as many comics as I thought I did. I just didn't see that till I looked at the pile of comics I hadn't put away. There is still a lot I am unhappy with, and I have pretty much left Marvel behind again, but I think that in general the industry has a lot of gems.

Fables is still one. The recently concluded run by Darwyn Cooke on The Spirit was another. Anything with Joss Whedon's name on it that he created in the first place is good. The comic based on the Gargoyles TV show is great, but usually runs late. And Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All Star Superman is a wonderful reimagining of the Silver Age, free of continuity and angst, but if you don't like Morrison, this is not the place to start over with his sometimes visionary and sometimes bizarre work.

And yes, I am tired of Wolvie, too. I was tired of him a long time ago. I find him rather limited, compared to not only Spidey and the FF and Capt. America, but even most of his teammates.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

About the only comic I follow regularly anymore is Justice Society of America.

Batman said it best "The Justice League is a strike-force, the Justice Society is a family."

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

And how many animated versions of the same universe do we need?

How long is it going to take people to get it into their head to stop treating others like shit just for being different?

[johnpatrickmcp.livejournal.com]

I gave up comics during the whole Civil War (hey mega-arch titles almost killed comic books in the early 90's, lets bring them back!) arc but I wouldn't mind catching back up with Fables (I own every issue up till then end of Bigby's black ops mission into the homelands), PVP, Liberty Meadows (Was on hiatus for a year or two then came back the month I stopped collecting), and would give my right arm to see them finish the Red Star series.

I actually shelled out the 60 bucks to get the unlimited access to marvel online and have enjoyed going back and reading all the classics.

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

Mmm, could be interesting, but I really wanted to give every single female character a sandwich. The more realistic breasts were nice, but do we really want to see a group of Callista Flockhart clones saving the world?