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Not read, but I was going through a box of random trades I picked up decades ago that I didn't really go through before and I found a 1st edition 1974 "Marvel Origins by Stan Lee" TPB. It's in pretty good condition too.

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I've been reading the Superman Doomed hardcover of late. It's bigger than I imagined and has started out decently. If you are looking for over-the-top action and violence, look no further.

Comic book writers feel no qualms these days killing off thousands and millions of people at once in their books. I don't know what that says about our society...

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Just following in the footsteps of the films...

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That's where I read a lot of those origin stories for the first time. I had all of these.

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Finally read some of this acclaimed Scott Synder Batman and think I'm hooked.
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I haven't read this since the original run. I've had this for awhile and finally started it.

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On the one hand, it's no secret anymore, but I still dislike how they spoil the reveal of the big bad with every cover of the tpb they've put out. That was such a big moment when it was revealed.

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Totally agree. That's probably the only time my floppy experience was better than the TPB would've been.

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Wolverine: Blood & Sorrow. Wish I hadn't bothered... a random collection of random stories that were neither particularly good nor particularly inreresting (or even in character). I guess single-issue storytelling is becoming a lost art (if it isn't already).

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I just started Archie Vol. 1 and I'm really liking it so far.

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Daredevil: The Man Without Fear- not overly familiar with Daredevil but picked up a few trades of him recently. I thought it was a really good origin story. I've always heard that Frank Miler's run on the character was good and going off of this I want to pick up more of his run.

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So I finally bought and read through the Neal Adams Batman Omnibus - now, I was fairly familiar with the classic issues, as I had read many of them before so, new coloring aside (which is fine), it was exactly as I remember. But then I got to Odyssey, which I had never read before, and holy shit, what the fuck is this crap? Seriously! Did Adams lose his mind? The art looks fine, if a little overdone, but it's such absolute nonsense, even for comics. Yikes!

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Slowly working my way thru New Frontier for the first time. It's so freaking amazing, story and art, that I'm savoring it a few pages a day. So sad that we'll miss years of more Cooke.

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Neal Adams developed some very odd ideas if I remember correctly after his success in the 70s. He was practically a pariah for some time after being the medium's number one artist.

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I borrowed a copy of the "Wonder Woman Earth One" HC from my county library. Good production quality, and Paquette's art is appealing, very much in the vein of Adam Hughes or Terry Dodson. Grant Morrison's story started well enough, but fell apart for me once their version of "Etta Candy" ( Wonder Woman's traditional sidekick) is introduced and its written and drawn as Rebel Wilson as "Fat Amy" from the "Pitch Perfect" movies. It's very obvious, and feels like they're pitching it to the actress (or attempted to). It immediately took me out of the book.

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Those Earth One books all feel like aborted Hollywood pitches made by DC.

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What an amazing book.

The way the epilogue ends had me running to my comic book room to grab my Justice League omnibus.

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Just finished the second hardcover of The Walking Dead. Still really enjoying the story. I am having a bit of trouble keeping track of some of the characters. First, there are a lot of characters, and not all of them appear in the television show. The ones on the show I am good with for the most part. I read something in the extras of the first hardcover i believe, that there was talk of doing a "facebook" for The Walking Dead. I think that would be a really good idea.
The artwork that is in color at the end of the hardcovers, I assume they are reprints of the original covers?, are really great. The black and white art is great to begin with, and then to add color it makes it even more impressive.

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I enjoyed reading the Superman Batman: Absolute Power trade a great deal. This is a wild arc by Loeb where villains abduct Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne in their very formative years, altering the time line by raising them to be the world's Fascist leaders. It's a fun ride that touches on many signature DC characters. The art by Carlos Pacheco is beautiful, I love his cleanly rendered Superman design. It may be the purest Superman art we've gotten since the Curt Swan era.

My only quibble with it is that the story felt designed to be a bigger, more impressive tale. It's a five-issue arc that could have easily been expanded to 8-12 issues without much trouble.

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I just read "Superman HC Vol 01 Before Truth" (that's the "Official" title, though I don't know why it's suddenly Vol 1 again). Of all the cover art they had to choose from representing SUPERMAN #40-46, but they chose a terrible piece by Romita, that looks nothing like the character and isn't very compelling. Frankly, I didn't enjoy it in the least, but I'm an old, old man and this version (pre-"Re-Birth") of the character and his world just isn't appealing to me. I just found it lacking in depth and hard to connect with, which I didn't feel when Geoff Johns was writing the title.

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Just finished ALL NEW WOLVERINE Vol 01 and was surprisingly impressed.

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Recently read Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D which collected that recent entire short-lived series that sprang out of Secret Wars iirc. I was automatically going to purchase it because it contained not only Man-Thing, but Orrgo, a monster created by Jack Kirby in 1961!

While it wasn't as fun as I had hoped, minimal contributions from my two favorites there, I did enjoy the premise and seeing them explore the "mind" of Dum Dum Dugan. Would have been nice to see the series last a bit longer, but I imagine some of the characters or even the entire team may make future Marvel appearances.

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Just read the fantasy series from Dark Horse and writer Dan Abnett, Dark Ages. I enjoyed the premise and setting quite a lot, and while the plot and action weren't too complex, the themes of faith and salvation were intriguing.

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Afterlife With Archie #10, Interview/Interlude with the Pussycats. A very interesting, alternate universe take on Josie and the Pussycats. Just the use of the color palette makes it a way above-average comic book. I really think Archie Comics should actually do more with this AU version of Josie and the Pussycats--like maybe at minimum one story per year to be released in early September as a complement to the upcoming new monthly comic book series.

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Deadshot: Beginnings. I got a bit interested in the character after seeing Suicide Squad and picked this up a while ago and just read it. Pretty good miniseries giving some background on the character which I found interesting. He has more depth to him than I originally thought. There are also some issues of Batman/Detective Comics featuring him in the trade that are okay but not as Interesting as the main miniseries.

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:jawdrop: Blasphemer! Detective #474 is part of the Englehart/Rogers run and thus considered part of the holy Batman scriptures.

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Zenescope - Grimm Fairy Tales Age Of Darkness Volume 2

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:lol: The stuff at the beginning of that issue with Batman and Robin ribbing each other is so cornball.

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But seriously, I'm going to report you to the mods.

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X-Men Mutant Massacre Digital TPB - It has been many ages since I read any of the issues that comprised the Mutant Massacre storyline, and wow...the storyline still packs a punch. The scene with Colossus still makes me flinch.

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I had a long post last year in this thread about the IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle revival. I had blazed through the first 10 volumes (as well as all of the various tie-ins) in the span of a few weeks and loved just about every last bit of it. I finally got around to continuing the series and have now read up through volume 13. Volume 13 (Veneance pt.2) takes us up to issue #50 and is pretty much the ultimate culmination of the first 4 years of this 2011 relaunch. I won't waste everyone's time getting into a lot of the specifics. I'll just say that this series is freaking fantastic and that anyone with an interest in TMNT (or even those without) should be reading it. It gets my highest recommendation.

p.s. Don't forget all of the tie-in minis and annuals. They pretty much all matter. IDW just launched a second ongoing series (TMNT Universe), and I'd imagine that most of what had been put out as mini-series, will now be published there.

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I picked up the first two Premier editions of Mark Waid's Irredeemable and have read through the first volume. This is not new material to me, I had read Irredeemble as singles when it came out. It's still one of my favorite recent comics from this century.

I really like the sewn binding and how the pages lay flat, leading to virtually no gutter loss. I'm not sure the art from Krause holds up in this deluxe format, though it's not terrible or anything.

I have to believe Mark Waid pitched this story to DC as an Elseworlds at some point and got shut down. That or he saw how DC handled Watchmen after Alan Moore left.

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Somehow I doubt DC would have let him use Superman for that, even in an Elseworlds.

I know people generally dislike Millar's stuff, but have you read Jupiter's Circle and the related books?

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I read a number of volumes of Irredeemable and the other one but then I started getting the two series confused. :)

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Jupiter's Circle has been on my potential reading list for a couple of years. I generally like Millar's overall plotting and his basic story ideas, but I've always found his work very flimsy in detail. Too many of his comics read like simple movie scripts. He's not particularly interested in the grunt work of fabricating entire fictional worlds.

The companion series to Irredeemable is Incorruptible. A decent read but I did not find it as compelling.

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Batman: Under the Red Hood- for some reason I never read this but really enjoyed the animated film that came out a while back and finally decided to pick it up recently. Really good story overall and the animated film is actually fairly faithful at least in the parts that are used. Obviously the full story is more fleshed out and I'd say it's one of my favorite more modern Batman tales.

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I've read every issue of Thor up to this book and feel that modern Thor comics are pretty bad overall but this, by far, is the worst I've encountered. I hated most of Matt Fraction's work on the series and found that Alan Davis art was the book's only redeeming quality.

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Just finished the Marvel Civil War story arc - really, really good. I am thinking of continuing some of the story lines like Spiderman's, Captain America's and Iron Man's. Also thinking of trying the Civil War II story arc.

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My binge reading of the entire run of Thor is reaching an end as I'm approaching the female Thor books, so only 3 or 4 to go before I'm done.

This one was okay:
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I've heard almost universal praise for Aaron's Thor stuff, though I haven't gotten to it myself.

Finally got around to reading Remender's Uncanny Avengers omnibus. I really liked it, even though the Rogue/Scarlet Witch cattiness and the general mutants vs. avengers theme kinda tired me out. I liked that Havoc actually got some of the spotlight on a non fringe X Factor team. Then I read his followup, Axis, and that got all thrown down the drain. I hate it when I'm reading something enjoyable and then the inevitable crossover screws everything up again. But the Omnibus itself was pretty self contained, I guess.

I feel like the whole mutant persecution thing worked when the Marvel Universe wasn't as tightly connected and the X-men only crossed over with other books occasionally. But really it makes no sense why people would persecute those born with powers vs. those who gain powers through other means and wear silly costumes, especially when the powers usually don't manifest at birth anyway.