Yesterday I asked a person I consider to be a knowledgeable and enthusiastic comic book fan to walk me through the New Comic Book Day shelves and recommend to me a bunch of titles I may or may not be familiar with. I was not able to buy everything, but I purchased 8 of the recommended titles:
Booster Gold
Big Hero 6
Hellblazer Presents: Chas The Knowledge
The Incredible Hercules
Daredevil
Criminal
House of Mystery
Justice Society of America
As I've said, some of these titles I have read before, and some are brand new.
Now I'm going to jump in and read them and gauge what level of "old skool comics appreciation' each title engenders in me. Will let you know.
Is anybody reading these books?
The Incredible Hercules... Greg pak does a very good job of weaving Hercs Mythos into each story... and Amadeus Cho is one of the best characters in the marvel U.
ReplyDeleteI read:
ReplyDeleteBooster Gold
The Incredible Hercules
Daredevil
House of Mystery
Justice Society of America
If you haven't, you should be reading Matt Fraction's Invincible Iron Man and Uncanny X-men, as well as Mike Carey's X-men.
They are wonderful titles.
I read Hercules. It tickles me on a 'Sandman meets Bruising Battles' plane. I like mythology, so that's fun for me. The art's been (mostly) good to excellent.
ReplyDeleteBooster Gold was really good when Jurgens/Giffen/Johns were all grouped up on it, still....even with Remender it's still not half bad.
ReplyDeleteIncredible Hercules is GREAT...I maybe get three or four titles anymore from Marvel and this is one of them, initially thought that the premise, "a hercules-esque" ,series was doomed from the start but the writing on this thing really threw me for a loop. Unexpected goodness here :)
Justice Society of America is lacking, and I am a guy that really digs Geoff Johns writing. Too many characters and a plot that's been drawn out for awhile make this title hard for people to get into and stay with.
I adore House of Mystery is great, JSA is one of those titles that is impossible to review because it is so good when it comes out.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading JSA.
ReplyDeleteReads and loves Booster Gold and Hercules... they are very far from perfect but for me they evoke that happy little bit of nostalgia when comics were just fun. Not brain surgery, just fun and charming.
ReplyDeleteHaven't got the Chas book over here in sweden yet, but I will.
Booster Gold - Yes, and so far enjoying it greatly. Doesnt' take itself too seriously, characters you can identify with. Only problem recently has been with rotating cast of writers.
ReplyDeleteBig Hero 6 - Only read ones issue so far, and not familiar with previous incarnations, but this was very new reader friendly. It also managed to draw me in and want to read the next one.
Daredevil - Not bad, but not, not, not new reader friendly.
JSA - Been following for years. It has its slow issues, but overall runs have never failed to please.
I would add Captain America if you haven't been reading it.
I'm reading JSA currently. It's been pretty great for the whole ride. Geoff Johns certainly knows what he is doing with these characters.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading JSA, Booster Gold, and Big Hero 6. They're all pretty good, although Booster Gold is currently in "fill-in" mode until the new regular writer takes over, and Big Hero 6 #2 got a little muddy toward the end. Still kind of neat that that the relatively obscure Big Hero 6 characters got a second mini-series and that Chris Claremont is writing it. The back-up reprints and handbook profiles are pretty good too.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day.
George Morrow
Booster Gold, Hercules, Daredevil, Criminal, and JSA are among the best books today. Criminal and Daredevil are pulpy noir gold. Booster Gold is pretty funny and fun, old school superheroics.
ReplyDeleteJSA is kind of taking awhile, but I like having the huge cast. Booster Gold is a delight and is only going to get better once Dan Jurgens is writing.
ReplyDeleteI read Daredevil, Criminal, and JSA. JSA is hit or miss with me, mostly due to the large cast involved. DD & Criminal are great, two of my favorite books.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading and enjoying Booster Gold and JSA. I read the first Incredible Hercules trade but I wasn't impressed enough to keep buying.
ReplyDeleteBooster Gold - This has been a good book so far. As said earlier, when the original line-up was involved it was stellar, but it hasn't degraded much yet.
ReplyDeleteBig Hero 6 - The $3.99 tag turned me off. I'll probably pick it up in discount bins one year.
Hellblazer Presents: Chas The Knowledge - My only Hellblazer experience is Constantine. Sad, I know.
The Incredible Hercules - I hear good things, unfortunately this is one of the titles I've yet to catch up on. I'm almost there, though!
Daredevil - This was the only book Bendis ever got right, and Brubaker's no slouch either. Great read.
Criminal - I got every issue so far, but I only read the first arc. Another I need to catch up on, although I don't think I'm gonna keep up with it once I do.
House of Mystery - I wanted to check this out, but my LCS never got it.
Justice Society of America - This book started off really great, I rather enjoyed all the recruiting stories and don't mind the ginormous cast. This latest arc, though, has gotten very stale very fast and needs to come to an end ASAP.
I'm reading Criminal and Hercules. Both are the textbook example of consistent greatness, month to month. Sadly can't say the same for those X-Men books.
ReplyDeleteIncredible Hercules came out yesterday? Fuck, I have to get back to the store.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading a few of them -- Booster, Daredevil (in trade), Criminal, House of Mystery (just shifted to trades) and JSA.
ReplyDeleteOf those, Criminal is my favorite, with JSA close behind (as one of my favorite superbooks). JSA seems written with an eye for the collection right now, which I think is giving us a pretty cool story in some somewhat unsatisfying chunks. (Actually, "tantalizing" might be a better word -- I like what I get from JSA, but I always want more.)
I decided to skip the Remender/Olliffe issues of Booster Gold; I hope they're good.
It was nice meeting you yesterday, btw!
I dislike Incredible Herc, but that's mostly because I'm a teenager and Amadeus Cho is LOLWILLINGTODIETOHAVESEX and fuck I see that everywhere else so fuck it. I know I'm overreacting because it was a joke and Amadeus does all this other awesome stuff but that's just really OOC for the 7th smartest person.
ReplyDeleteDaredevil is great. Lady Bullseye fails hard, but Dakota North and Foggy Nelson are awesome, and so is Matty.
Herc rocks!
ReplyDeleteBest fun read in marvel at the moment.
JSA was good for a while but recently got bogged down. Should pick up again once the Gog and Magog stuff is over with. If you know you DC past JSA is always a great read.
Booster Gold. I think its should be more fun also his sisters costume needs fixing.
Criminal is currently my favorite comic. I just adore it. I want to marry it.
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