What are you reading?

[Zombie Gunn]

What's your thing?  Find a new series you like or are just trying out?  Post it here.

Currently, I'm reading:

- The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead
- The Stand: American Nightmares
- House of Mystery

About to start reading:

- The Man With No Name

[Markus Stone]

I had an enormous pull list until about a two weeks ago.

Marvel:
ASM, all the X-books, all the Dark Reign tie-ins, all 3 Deadpool books although 1 was a mini, Incredible Hercules, War of Kings and tie-ins, Ultimatum, and that's all I recall right off the top of my head.

DC:
All the Batman books, Teen Titans, Justice League, JSA, Superman books, Green Lanter and GLCorps, Vigilante, the remainder of the Final Crisis books including Run and Dance, Adventure Comics was about to get picked up before I had to temporarily cancel. Once again that's all I can immediately recall.

Other:
The Boys, I've been trying to hunt down Kick Ass but haven't been able to find it lately, Invincible, The Sword, Killapolooza, and then whatever else catches my eye.

All in all I was spending about 170 a paycheck on comics, so it was a pretty comprehensive list. At the moment the only things I still make sure to pick up are War of Kings, Darkhawk, Nova, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

[Zombie Gunn]

Just started reading The Walking Dead. Don't ask me WHY I waited so long, but I guess I waited because I knew it would be this good, if that makes sense.

And yeah, I'm hooked.

Also enjoying The Man With No Name.  Just recently found GI Joe 1-155 and debating whether to read them before selling.

[Zombie Gunn]

Just found out they're doing Spider-Man 1602 in October (5-part series) and I'll be all over that.  I loved the original 1602 series and thought Spiderman (Peter Parquagh) was heavily underused.

[Black Death]

Just found out they're doing Spider-Man 1602 in October (5-part series) and I'll be all over that.  I loved the original 1602 series and thought Spiderman (Peter Parquagh) was heavily underused.

SWEET!

[Stoner]

Just found out they're doing Spider-Man 1602 in October (5-part series) and I'll be all over that.  I loved the original 1602 series and thought Spiderman (Peter Parquagh) was heavily underused.

I just lol'd at the thought of Deadpool 1602.  The 1602 series was made of greatness though.  Daredevil was awesome and the way they did t he Captain America made me wet myself with fanboyism.  Not to mention t he billions of times Pete was almost bit by a spider.

[Hondo]

I'm ready Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader, Volume Three.

I won't say where I'm reading it...

[Stoner]

I just read Deadpool 13 and 14.  Deadpool "On a Boat" so to speak.

[Jonny Worldbeater]

Don't know if I mentioned this comic before but I just picked up the latest volume of a comic called 'Empowered' by one of my favorite writers/artists, Adam Warren.

It's a manga art styled comic about a would-be superheroine who is frequently caught in a lot of humiliating Damsel in Distress situations and her insecurities about herself and being a laughingstock within the superhero community, and how she manages to overcome that image with the support of her Ninja Chick best friend and her former-villainous henchmen boyfriend and an omnipotent demon beast from beyond the stars trapped in a belt on her coffee table.

If that hasn't piqued your interest, you should also know it's an extremely well-written, structured and developed story. When it's funny, it's hilarious. When it's sweet, it's heartwarming. When it's sad, it's tragic. When it's scary, it's nightmarishly horrifying and when it's at it's best its a brilliant piece of work.

And then, on top of that, I've just recently read the final chapter in Garth Ennis' 'Preacher' saga, which kinda sucks because I didn't get to read all the lead-up to the end an I'm working my way backwards basically with little knowledge of what came before, but suffice it to say: Epic. Absolutely tremendous storytelling, and here, one of the things I like most about this story is that I could actually jump in at the end of it with little prior knowledge of the story and get a hell of a connection and understanding with the characters and their motivations within the story and what made it such an epic saga.

Also, here's a few choice lines from both of the recent volumes I've read:

Empowered - "Really, Mr. Lucas? You're unraping my childhood?"

Preacher - "Well, dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians."

If you like smart, challenging adult-oriented comics, I strongly recommend checking these out. Like, now-ish.

[Black Death]

Adam Warren is great artist , love his gen13 bootleg run issues 7-9  great stuff

[Jennifer]

Most recently read World War Z, which I found was a very interesting take on the zombie genre, both from the perspective of the way the plot itself ran and the way it was told (through multiple interviews with those with experiences of the zombie apocalypse).

There's also a comic I read recently called 'Dead Eyes Open' which also features people coming back from the dead, but well, it's not your traditional zombie story, again. I don't really want to spoil it, but it was a very good read, so I'd recommend it to anyone interested in this kind of thing.

[Zombie Gunn]

There's a WWZ comic!? ZOMG!

[Jennifer]

lol, WWZ and Dead Eyes Open are unrelated. I might have phrased that badly.

[Zombie Gunn]

Ah man, don't get my hopes up like that.

[! JDM The Professional !]

- The Man With No Name

JESSE!!!

Theres a Man with No Name book!!!! :O