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What's the last TPB/collection you read?
We have all kinds of threads like this over the rest of the forum; so I figured that we should have them in Comic Book Talk too. They might be fun, and spur some additional conversations.
The first book in my DC Continuity History reading project is complete. I'm reading all 7 of the Crisis on Multiple Earths books, and perhaps a couple of other old Silver Age books, before opening up my Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths. |
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Tonight, I read
Thor: Gods, Gladiators & the Guardians of the Galaxy (only recommended if you're a fan of mid-list 70s Marvel) The Killer volume 4 by Matz and Luc Jacamon (a great French series about a hitman, but I recommend starting with volume 1) The Hive by Charles Burns (I'm not sure I can form an opinion on this until I see the concluding volume of the trilogy) I'm also partway through the 2nd volume of Fantagraphics Popeye reprints (awesome!) and the 2nd volume of Prophet (Brandon Graham is a mad genius) |
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Last thing I read was Extremis as well, on my Kindle Fire. Read it after watching Iron Man 3 back in May, and was let down.
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^^ Holy crap that's a lot of reading in one day Jason!
^ Fumanstan, let down by the film, or book? What's the deal with the book? Warren Ellis is writing it now? Any of his run decent? |
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Originally Posted by Trevor
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^^ Holy crap that's a lot of reading in one day Jason!
Also, I was motivated -- my New Year's resolution was to reduce my pile of unread TPBs and HCs by at least 5 books per month. And I wound up having 6 books show up in the last 72 hours. Four preorders (the Thor book, the Killer book, the newest Avengers collection, and the newest Fairest collection), one relatively recent book I forgot to preorder (the newest Prophet collection), and one Kickstarter reward (Xenozoic). Fortunately, having finished the Prophet book earlier this evening, I am back to where I need to be. For the record, here's what I read this month: Spoiler:
Here's what I bought this month Spoiler:
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Originally Posted by Trevor
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^ Fumanstan, let down by the film, or book? What's the deal with the book? Warren Ellis is writing it now? Any of his run decent?
I just read it since I heard the movie borrowed from it, and was actually one of the only Iron Man specific comics i've read. I had wanted to go back and read Demon in a Bottle and Armor Wars, but never did. |
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Finished:
http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net...4l/3246383.jpg Reading: http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net...60l/295677.jpg I actually liked Extremis quite a bit. I had read it several years ago, but I've been getting back into comics lately, mostly through trades and wanted to revisit it. It's interesting to see how much the movies borrowed from it, particularly the first and third flicks. The origin story was updated in an interesting way, and felt contemporary and modern, without trying overly hard to be "hip" and "edgy," like some of the Ultimate books. |
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The last one I finished was Batman: Knightfall Volume 1. It's not bad but not the strongest Batman story. I'm close to the end of Batman: Knightfall Volume Two Knightquest. Not really a fan of it truthfully. I don't really like Jean Paul Valley as Batman at all. The whole "system" shit is kind of dumb and Jean Paul just is generally unlikable.
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I just finished the last Starman omni. I've been reading the series off and on since Christmas
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This reminds me that despite the omnibus releases slowing, I still have a gigantic backlog to go through:
Byrne FF 1 Simonson Thor Milligan/Allred X-Force Liefeld X-Force (hey, I was a fan!) Claremont/Lee X-men volume 2 Secret Warriors argh. Plus I'm way behind on Hellboy Library Editions. Too much good stuff. Back on topic, if you take out manga (of which I just read the last volume of Bakuman and Hunter x Hunter), the last thing I read was probably the last Invincible HC, which made me go back and read the other Invincible HCs first to remind myself what was going on. That's the consequence of reading stuff year to year... |
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I've got the nastiest backlog possible. Probably 15 to 18 omnibuses and something like 30 hardcovers. All three of Perez' Titans omnibuses is where I will first stage an attack.
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My backlog laughs at your backlog, PhantomStranger. Here's what's on my to-be-read pile:
Spoiler:
The latest GN I read was I Kill Giants, and it is so, so, so very good. It moved me to tears. It's amazing. It's about Barbara Thorson, a troubled 10-year-old girl who gets in trouble at school over her antisocial behavior and her obsession with giants, who she insists are coming, and who she insists only she can defeat (with the help of her mystic hammer, Coveleski). Over the course of the story (originally published as a 7 issue series in 2008), we learn whether Barbara truly is a fantasy heroine, or if there is something else going on. It's just an amazing book with gorgeously expressive black and white art and a compelling story. By the way, I just sort of meander through my unread list at random, but if anybody has a recommendation, let me know and I'll bump it to the top of the pile. |
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I Kill Giants is great. Bought the Hardcover and it went to the top of my pile.
Haven't looked at your entire list, but I think it's easiest to knock off stuff like We3 first, since it's pretty short and self contained. Or continue on the Starman omnis (I'm assuming these are the omnis of the Robinson run) because the stuff is so cohesive that you'll want to read it pretty much together, and you've already read a couple. Also, I didn't list my entire backlog, and it's nowhere near yours but it is pretty sizable. And my digital backlog, from all the 99c sales, is pretty gigantic too. It's no wonder that I barely miss monthly collecting (though the itch is still there...) |
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Not a bad idea on Starman. I'll probably go back and skim the first two since it's been a while since I read them, then read the rest.
I'm a little scared to read We3. Like I said, I Kill Giants made me cry -- I can't imagine what We3 will do to me. |
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Those Essentials/Showcase volumes are the killers because they're <s>so damn long</s> such great value, and often not conducive to gorge-reading. Bronze Age Marvel is fine for me, but DC just doesn't work. I was a big Haunted Tank fan back in the day, but after reading several stories in the Showcase volume I wanted to hurl myself on a landmine.
I have a couple of those THUNDER Agents volumes and like them, but again I can't read them all in one sitting. I had bought like six Showcase volumes at a year-end sale at cheapgraphicnovels or one of those places, and before my Hawaiian vacation I looked through them and decided to take Hawkman (Blackhawk, Enemy Ace, Unknown Solder, Teen Titans, Adam Strange are the others). One of the good things about Hawaii is the flight is about the perfect length for me to finish one of those volumes. Unfortunately I got distracted watching Buffy DVDs on the way over. I was feeling bummed about my heavy luggage on the way back so I avoided the DVD player (I was out of Buffy anyway, and Game of Thrones isn't great airplane-watching) and just read. I didn't get to Hawkman, but I did read some other big volumes. More on that later. |
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I don't think I've ever brought a large volume on a plane, if only because it's just one more thing to lug around on the plane and then on vacation/the trip. That's where having Digital volumes (pre downloaded) is awesome.
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They're a load, no question. That's another good thing about the B&W newsprint volumes--they're much lighter than the color prints. E.g., the Marvel Masterworks TPBs are not worth their weight on a plane.
I originally got my wife a Kindle so she wouldn't have to take a stack of books on vacation, but that isn't a solution for me yet. :) |
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Oh, we are counting Showcases/Essentials? I've got nearly all of them, almost entirely unread. I really don't like reading uncolored artwork though, so they mostly remain as a last resort in case the developed world implodes and we all have to live off the grid.:lol:
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Yeah, I grabbed a ton of those because it was a cheap way to collect them, but I've been getting rid of them quickly.
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My problem (well, one of too many to count) is that I can never make my mind as to what format to buy/keep/read my comics in.
In a perfect world I'd own the single issues of every comic ever printed. I want the full color, the old ads, the letters pages. But I'll never be able to afford or have the space for even the titles I really really want. So the trades like the essentials are nice to be able to cheaply acquire large runs. But as I read some of them and decide I love the title I wish I had waited for or bought better editions (full color, etc) or single issues instead. And while I'm loving my fairly recent foray into digital comics, and sometimes wish I could go "all digital", I'd miss my boxes of single issues. |
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I recognize the limitations of the Essentials/Showcase format, but do enjoy them as cheap, convenient reading. A lot of my favorites have taken a long time to be reprinted in color or may never be. One of my favorite titles as a '70s kid, The Defenders, is finally starting to trickle out in ungodly expensive Masterworks editions, which are great and I'm buying them, but who knows when or if they'll come to TPB. There are a few titles that I've been able to rebuy in color, but I'm reluctant to then dump the B&W when it's pretty convenient to just have there on the shelf. It's not like it's completely useless like a VHS copy of a movie you own on DVD.
The color TPB reprints are my ideal format right now. E.g., I have the Byrne FF Omnibus but I'm still holding onto the TPBs for ease of reading. As much as I like the omniboo, I just don't read them that often because they're such a pain. :lol: |
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Man, where do you guys shelve all this stuff? I went from getting tired of boxes and boxes of comics, to getting tired of filling bookshelves with hardcovers and tpbs. There's just no room anymore, which is largely why I go digital for a lot of recent stuff, especially if it's on sale.
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Yep, space issues suck. I currently have four fully loaded bookcases dedicated to graphic novels, with enough excess to fill another two perhaps.
We're currently thinking about buying a single family home that would double our space. I'd end up with a room about 12 by 12 dedicated completely to comics and trades. |
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Shelf space is always an issue, but I just took a look at my collection and it's not THAT bad. My trades are pretty much on three separate bookshelves, with about four shelves each of Marvel and DC (one each of Bat-family and Legion of Superheroes). Toss in a shelf and a half of omniboo, about a shelf each for Dark Horse and Vertigo, maybe a couple shelves of Image (Walking Dead and Invincible, the only two trades I read as soon as I get them), a shelf of Tintin/Asterix/European, sword/sorcery, and Disney. While I love trades, I've only been collecting them for about a decade or so when I had a comics rebirth, and I've never bought them in huge volume. I do have a number of boxes from years ago that I'll need to do something with eventually.
DVDs are a much bigger problem for me. But I'm sure both issues are best addressed in other Trevor threads. :) |
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Originally Posted by Trevor
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Yep, space issues suck. I currently have four fully loaded bookcases dedicated to graphic novels, with enough excess to fill another two perhaps.
We're currently thinking about buying a single family home that would double our space. I'd end up with a room about 12 by 12 dedicated completely to comics and trades. |
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Originally Posted by fujishig
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Man, where do you guys shelve all this stuff? I went from getting tired of boxes and boxes of comics, to getting tired of filling bookshelves with hardcovers and tpbs. There's just no room anymore, which is largely why I go digital for a lot of recent stuff, especially if it's on sale.
Originally Posted by davidh777
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I'm reading the Path of the Assassin series from Dark Horse. Apparently 16th century Japanese men raped women every other day or so.
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I found this at the library and checked it out. What the heck, since I never read it and have heard a lot of snark about it. I recognized the covers so clearly it was from the time I was buying comics, but I wasn't buying Spidey. (I never did as a kid, except for my Marvel Team-Up subscription.)
Overall, it was OK. Interesting concept, but a little lame in how Spidey kind of ho-hummed the big revelation Spoiler:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...CL._SY300_.jpg Another vacation read: I found this on my shelf and remembered reading a bunch of FF Essentials, but I flipped through this one and decided I hadn't read it. As it turned out, I'd read random floppies of issues 161 and 168 back in the day but nothing in between. I've said this before here, but one of the best things about reading TPBs is filling in the blanks that I never read before and might have only seen referred to in flashbacks and recaps. I'm only partway through it, but it's always nice to see George Perez art. I was annoyed at the Perez FF TPB they released a few years back because they skipped the issues that he didn't pencil and left gaps out of the stories. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...qL._SY300_.jpg
Originally Posted by starman9000
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I'm in the process of moving this week and am really hating my collection. A box full of TPBs, even if it's not very big, weighs a ton. :(
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Took a break from my DC Continuity Journey and started my first New 52 TPB, Justice League Dark. I'm only a third of the way in but am enjoying it. I'm very biased though, as these are largely the characters I've loved since the 1970s. Add frequent guest appearances from Swamp Thing and The Demon and this series may as well have been designed solely for me.
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Finished:
http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net...60l/295677.jpg Reading: http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net...8l/2185510.jpg Mutant Genesis was just awful, almost unreadable. Chris Claremont's last run on the X-Men, at least for a few years, and he is at his bloviated worst. It's also the start of Scott Lobdell's run on the title, so it is just garbage all around. And while I won't argue that Jim Lee is a talented guy, I was just never a fan of his style. All of the panels are cluttered and noisy, every character has the same facial expression, and most of the time it is incredibly difficult to tell just what is happening. Not to mention the dialogue and captions, which are so cluttered and dense, that it is often hard to tell exactly what order they are supposed to be read in. Such a joyless chore to get through. I had re-read Claremont's Uncanny run recently, from #94-140, and was amazed at how fun and fresh they still feel. None of that energy or charm was here though. |
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I could never get into X-Men, which is probably a good thing given my completest OCD. I enjoyed the first year or two of The New Mutants though.
I hope you enjoy the Justice League book more. The goofiness bothered me at first, but I ended up really enjoying the Giffen Maguire stuff. |
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Sat down and re-read Maus today.
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Im finishing up first volume of Preacher and gonna start watchman. both are first time reads.
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Originally Posted by The Valeyard
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Sat down and re-read Maus today.
Originally Posted by terrycloth
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Im finishing up first volume of Preacher and gonna start watchman. both are first time reads.
With Watchmen, I suggest reading it intently to get the most out of it, don't skip any of the text or backup stories. It's a dense read, but well worth it. |
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Im finishing up first volume of Preacher and gonna start watchman. both are first time reads.
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I just read Capote in Kansas. Outstanding.
Starman9000, I'm also working my way through the Starman Omnis per your suggestion. I'm near the end of volume 4. I had read bits and pieces of Starman back in the day and thought it was pretty good, but it really does read so much better as a cohesive whole (not surprisingly). |
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Originally Posted by JasonF
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I just read Capote in Kansas. Outstanding.
Starman9000, I'm also working my way through the Starman Omnis per your suggestion. I'm near the end of volume 4. I had read bits and pieces of Starman back in the day and thought it was pretty good, but it really does read so much better as a cohesive whole (not surprisingly). I know I need to read Starman someday. I have a few floppies and trades, but those Omnis sure look tempting. |
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Read Deadpool Classic Vol 1 and Deadpool Vol. 1 from Secret Invasion. First time reading Deadpool specific comics, and enjoying them.
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