the luba stuff after palomar is ok but kind of silly, and it's not really the same when the characters aren't in palomar, it kind of becomes all about who's fucking who. the maggie and hopey stories are just as good as they always were though.

I'm pretty proud of my comic/magazine collection. I've only been at it for less than a year now, on a severely limited budget, and have already filled an entire mag box - mostly horror. I've been playing catch-up through various back issues. I'm not too keen on graphic novels/collections, they almost feel like cheating to me. Although I'm probably just wiggling my fingers up my ass.

My collection is void of superhero books so far, which is a shame, because I'd love to break into some Spiderman, or Batman; but there are just so many issues, and storylines - I have no clue where to start! I had a few issues of Spidey as a kid, bagged and all. If only I had held onto them.

Anywho, my favorites thus far have been...

COMICS
Army of Darkness
Beavis & Butthead
Blood + Water
Chucky
Dr. Giggles
Frankenstein Mobster
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash (especially The Nightmare Warriors)
Friday the 13th
Hack/Slash
Heavy Liquid
Insane Clown Posse
The Mask
The Mask Returns
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Tales From the Crypt
Wake the Dead

MAGAZINES
Cinefantastique
Creepy
Draculina
Femme Fatales
Scream Queens Illustrated

Currently in the midst of reading almost all my Cerebus the Aardvark books. Just finished High Society and am about to move onto Church & State I. The last book I have is Going Home, but I think I might get rid of it...I'd rather think of the ending of Rick's Story as the end of the story rather than the series' real ending, which I understand wasn't very good.

Other graphic novels/manga I have:

Akira (all six volumes)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Volumes 1-11, getting Volume 12 soon)
Ghost in the Shell (a classic, check it out if you haven't already)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (good but a little hard to follow)
Watchmen
Batman: The Killing Joke
Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (think I might get rid of this one)

I own spiderman # 1.

I have all the beavis and butthead + ren and stimpy comics.

I have spawn # 1-100. Remember spawn? haha.

I guess I have a few pretty rare weird comics. But I'm just into them anymore.

oh, but preacher + love and rockets are my favs, yeah

Hack/Slash is my absolute new favorite. I just started reading it, but I'll be damned if it ain't the coolest thing ever.

Dr. Felix:

buy the Crossed series from Avatar press. I just finished Alan Moore's Neonomicon series from the same comic house, and it was fanfuckingtastic.

Jacen Burrows is a fucking god.



I think Avatar also makes the new Night of the Living Dead books....

^ That looks fuckin sick.

If you Google Image it, this is the second result...

You're talking about just Spiderman, right? The Todd McFarlane series, not the Amazing Spiderman?

This one (there's also a black alt. cover) :


I just won the first 25 issues of this, and the first 25 of the 1999 Peter Parker series for $30 at a comic auction. A damned good deal considering they're worth at least $3 a pop, and I got 'em for less than a buck each. Should be some nice reading in addition to the Amazing Spiderman annuals I've been snagging lately.

One of the coolest things about reading comics (back-issues) for me are all the retro ads. Especially those from the 80s/90s. It's so cool to me, to have a gem like Bonk's Adventure for the TurboGrafx16 professionally marketed towards me in the year 2011.

When I have more time, I plan on snapping some pics of my favorites, and uploading them on here.

Oh, and I also just won a copy of the first ever Hack/Slash comic (DDP - initial run), signed by Tim Seeley, off of eBay! Definitely the most prized book in my collection thus far.

I've been reading a few over at the free/donate site at electrocomics, recently read Chihoi's, Still Life, Papa and Sea, all recommended.

Recently got back into comics. FEel exhausted with movies/music/video games but comics are doing it for me. Lots of "graphic novels": 20th Century Eightball, Pussey!, Blankets, Jeffrey Brown's highly personal true stories (got 9 novels by him, great true stuff), I got ALL the Love and Rockets "collected" books (there's 8 and each one is about 300 pages, and a 9th one is coming out.. also got LOVE AND ROCKETS: NEW STORIES 1-3, which.. eh... are okay).. I'm talking about these sexy things:




...it's so great to have all these in big beautiful collections finally.

just finally got all of Preacher and 100 Bullets... Black Hole...

Also bought all the Groening "Life in Hell" books like SCHOOL IS HELL, WORK IS HELL, CHILDHOOD IS HELL, LOVE IS HELL. These things are fucking hilarious!

Downloaded some Crumb "Weirdo" stuff which is great.

I dunno, just got a ton of random ass shit..

OHHH!

Got PRISON PIT 1-2 and the collected ANGRY YOUTH COMIX stuff, this shit is priceless..





I dunno, anything really really personal or anything weird or anything really funny is what I want.

Yeah, these comps are what I'm talking about. There are 8 of em now, though, with a 9th one coming soon.

I loved them all except I thought BEYOND PALOMAR didn't really have much in it that was interesting.

The volume called PENNY CENTURY was actually one of my favs... obviously all of Jaime's stuff is great, the grey-cover one with mario doing some comics was pretty funny. They're all worth getting, but I found BEYOND to be the least essential.

now i'm buying marvel/dc stuff

all kinds of batman, batmen beyond, batgirl, batwoman, batman incorperated
batman the dark night

and then i have some lucifera, horror, old conan the barbarian

I want to mention blankets again




this thing is essential. some of the best art ever, great storytelling, etc.

AxCx, what book is your sig from?

It's Love and Rockets.

Glow in the dark Ghost Rider cover.

 

 

 

 

My whole collection was about 30 comics in total. About 90% Marvel and some D.C.(GreenLantern) Unfortunately in 2003 my roommate stole my collection when I moved out of our apartment as we hated each other and I still do. Finally this year I accused him of taking my collection of comics and more. He lied about it of course. Oh well, there's nothing I can really do about those sweet comics now. I doubt he even knew anything about comics anyway. He was probably thinking they were worth a lot of money cause I had about 5 Spiderman#1s. Those #1s are simply from a series around 1992. The real comics worth money are the original series in the 60s and earlier. My most valuable comic was Wolverine#2 worth about $15 tops. Damn, I miss those comics now.

That's what I figured. Thanks!

really beautifull artwork
i like the new combination of drawing and computer effects

Superhero comics are for fucking idiots with no taste/class.

I need to check out Love & Rockets. I wish I knew more comic writers.

Blankets was really good, beautiful and sad. Jimmy Corrigan is cool, and has tons of stylistic innovation. From Hell is pretty nasty. I had a sour face while reading about 20 pages of this one particular scene.

Logicomix is truly awesome. The life of Bertrand Russell through comics and it's truly interesting and moving. Really well done.

Y'all should check out Misery Loves Comedy by Ivan Brunetti. It's some raunchy, black humored nihilistic shit. Funny too, if you're in the mood.

Calvin & Hobbes is always amazing; it is probably the first written work I really got into on my own and devoured the whole series as a child.

I have some bizarro stuff lying around from my father like The Collective Unconscious of Odd Bodkins, Crumb's stuff, Zap, and other underground 60's/70's stuff.

OH, and I HIGHLY recommend anyone with any interest in comics to get this immediately:

http://www.amazon.com/McSweeneys-Qua...6881842&sr=1-2

It's got a shit ton of different artists with all different styles and makes for an incredible reader. Totally essential. You're guaranteed to find stuff you never knew existed and new stuff to love. GET IT NOW.

You're a buffoon.

i just saw that you posted this earlier today and recognized the title.
i picked it up and started reading it.

i read the whole thing in one sitting.

absolutely beautiful art and story.

That's what I did too, read it in one sitting -- nearly 600 pages but so damn addicting!

Glad you dug.

COMIC FANS:
Go to demonoid.. they have, like, every fantagraphics book ever.. all the acme novelty books and angry youth comix.. so much great shit!

I'm on a mission to get all the KRAMERS ERGOT issues.

I have 4, 5, 6, and preordered 8.

1, 2, 3 all go for around between $150 and $500.

7 went for $125 new, goes for $180 used in bad condition. So yeah.

If anyone wants to sell me any, email me.

OH! If you want to know what they are, look them up. They're basically THE COOLEST FUCKING THINGS I'VE EVER SEEN. I'm not one for "WHOA!!!!! THOSE GRAPHIXXXX" or "wHOA! NICE PACKAGING!!!!!!" or anything, I'm usually not impressed by stuff, but these books are like.. art objects.. I'm already making it sound cheesy. Basically, think of the most eyepopping, visually exciting, VISUALLY mindblowing things you'v e ever seen, make it 300 pages long, and there you go.

Hopey Glass is sexy.


later:

I'm the buffoon that reads comics WITHOUT advertisements in the middle of them... go figure.

no need to dis the artwork
you can dis the commercials
if it not good enough for you ...