I haven't read any 1970's Thor in ages and now I remember why. Len Wein kills me with his dialogue that describes the illustration.

In one panel a robot is falling over and Wein has him saying "Balance disrupted...Falling!" No shit, Sherlock.

I read the first HC volume, and this was my impression as well.

That's why I struggle reading anything by Stan Lee.

Read Civil War in preparation for the upcoming film. Thought it was pretty good but seems like there's much more to it with all the various tie in collections. Not sure if those are worth getting too and if I want to commit to that much of the story.

I did exactly what you did not too long ago. After finishing Civil War I ended up checking out the Amazing Spiderman Civil War books. I found them to be a lot more compelling a story than the actual Civil War books. Since it focused on only one character, it was able to tell more story about that character. One could also argue that Spidermans story in Civil War was one of, if not, the most important stories among all the characters involved.

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.

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...

Just following in the footsteps of the films...

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

Finally read some of this acclaimed Scott Synder Batman and think I'm hooked.

I haven't read this since the original run. I've had this for awhile and finally started it.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

What an amazing book.

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

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.

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.

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.