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Post by String on Mar 15, 2016 19:58:30 GMT -5
Black Widow is being done by the former DD creative team of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee. I quite enjoyed their first issue, which honestly, consisted of one long chase scene, with Natasha only having two lines of dialogue throughout. But those two lines and the inherent mystery they set up regarding Natasha's actions have my interest and hopes raised for this title.
I was reading Damian: Son of Batman and We Are Robin for a bit before the budget once again became tight. Ever since encountering Tim Drake under the reigns of Chuck Dixon, I've been more of a Robin fan so I plan on checking out the Robin War crossover at some point.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 15, 2016 22:01:43 GMT -5
Black Widow is being done by the former DD creative team of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee. I quite enjoyed their first issue, which honestly, consisted of one long chase scene, with Natasha only having two lines of dialogue throughout. But those two lines and the inherent mystery they set up regarding Natasha's actions have my interest and hopes raised for this title. I was reading Damian: Son of Batman and We Are Robin for a bit before the budget once again became tight. Ever since encountering Tim Drake under the reigns of Chuck Dixon, I've been more of a Robin fan so I plan on checking out the Robin War crossover at some point. I'll check out the Black Widow series. It sounds interesting. I liked Robin War for the first chapters that I read (Chapter Three and Chapter Four, I think) but it went South FAST toward the end. It had one big problem for me. But I'll get to that later. I'm expecting to get Robin War #1 and two of the tie-in issues in a few days and I'll read the whole thing and write about it in a week or so. |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 15, 2016 22:42:23 GMT -5
Black Widow is being done by the former DD creative team of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee. Crap: another trade I'll need... |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 16, 2016 9:02:05 GMT -5
I found an eBay dealer selling Black Widow #1 for $2.44. He had several of the variant covers. I got this one: He had a bunch of fairly recent comics for prices ranging from $1.83 to $2.89 or something like that. I got a couple more issues of FF (including #1) and a couple of issues of the recent Bat-Mite series and I also took a chance on a few issues (#35, #36, #37, #44) of the current Catwoman series. I was reading The New 52 Catwoman series for a while (the first 18 issues) and I liked it OK but it was really kind of marginal. Of the 16 comics I was reading when I quit in 2013, only four are still being published - Batgirl, Catwoman, Detective Comics and Wonder Woman. I've already decided to start getting Detective and Wonder Woman again. I'm thinking of picking up Batgirl again. I've looked through the most recent issues at Barnes and Noble, and it looks pretty good. But then I see Black Canary's white hair and I don't think I can support that. Is she a supporting character or is she just guest-starring in a few issues? So now I'm thinking of starting up again with Catwoman. I love Catwoman, but I won't read her comic if it's too stupid. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 16, 2016 9:29:54 GMT -5
I heard good stuff about Valentine's run on Catwoman, quite original and back to the noir roots of Brubakers run, but on a different scale. But I haven't actually read it...
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 16, 2016 9:58:55 GMT -5
I heard good stuff about Valentine's run on Catwoman, quite original and back to the noir roots of Brubakers run, but on a different scale. But I haven't actually read it... That's good to hear. I actually hadn't been thinking about picking up Catwoman again. I haven't seen it at Barnes and Noble to flip through it and see what's going on. And I didn't really think about it at the comic-book store. There's SO MANY comics! (That's probably why I didn't see Black Widow until I saw the ad.) But then I found out it's one of the few comics I was collecting three years ago that's still viable. And I got a few issues for less than $2 each. I'm looking forward to it now. Which reminds me. My nephew reads The Walking Dead, Invader Zim and some other stuff I'm not too interested in. But last time, he picked up Scarlet Witch #1 and I've been meaning to take a look. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 16, 2016 10:09:24 GMT -5
My favorite series from the 2011 to 2013 period:  I only got issues 2, 3 and 4 before I quit buying comics for a while, but I've read those issues over and over. I got #5, #6, #7 and #8 last week and I just ordered #1 and #10. I hope to have the whole run in a few months. The Fantastic Four are going on vacation and each member picks someone to take his or her place in the organization while they are gone. So the FF is Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Green She-Hulk, Medusa and Miley Cyrus (or maybe Ariana Grande?). No, it's actually the Torch's pop-singer girlfriend Darla Deering wearing a Thing suit. I love it! Of all the comics I was reading in 2013, this is the one that I most wanted to start reading again, and I was disappointed to find out it only made it to #16. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 16, 2016 15:10:49 GMT -5
I found an eBay dealer selling Black Widow #1 for $2.44. He had several of the variant covers. I got this one: He had a bunch of fairly recent comics for prices ranging from $1.83 to $2.89 or something like that. I got a couple more issues of FF (including #1) and a couple of issues of the recent Bat-Mite series and I also took a chance on a few issues (#35, #36, #37, #44) of the current Catwoman series. I was reading The New 52 Catwoman series for a while (the first 18 issues) and I liked it OK but it was really kind of marginal. Of the 16 comics I was reading when I quit in 2013, only four are still being published - Batgirl, Catwoman, Detective Comics and Wonder Woman. I've already decided to start getting Detective and Wonder Woman again. I'm thinking of picking up Batgirl again. I've looked through the most recent issues at Barnes and Noble, and it looks pretty good. But then I see Black Canary's white hair and I don't think I can support that. Is she a supporting character or is she just guest-starring in a few issues? So now I'm thinking of starting up again with Catwoman. I love Catwoman, but I won't read her comic if it's too stupid. Black Canary in the New 52 (at least the Batgirl part of it) is the front person for a Rock band, and has her own book. She still has the sonic powers and fights crime on the side. She's definitely friends with Batgirl (I think they where both in Birds of Prey, but were both pretty different there).. it almost a mentor/student relationship. Incidently, Batgirl got completely changed around the time it sounds like you stopped reading it.. after Gail Simone left they did almost a reboot... she's younger (at least appears to be), moved into a new neighborhood, and is alot less dark. If fact, 'Batgirling' is now a thing people say in regards to doing a non-reboot reboot to a character. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Mar 16, 2016 15:44:37 GMT -5
I found an eBay dealer selling Black Widow #1 for $2.44. He had several of the variant covers. I got this one: He had a bunch of fairly recent comics for prices ranging from $1.83 to $2.89 or something like that. I got a couple more issues of FF (including #1) and a couple of issues of the recent Bat-Mite series and I also took a chance on a few issues (#35, #36, #37, #44) of the current Catwoman series. I was reading The New 52 Catwoman series for a while (the first 18 issues) and I liked it OK but it was really kind of marginal. Of the 16 comics I was reading when I quit in 2013, only four are still being published - Batgirl, Catwoman, Detective Comics and Wonder Woman. I've already decided to start getting Detective and Wonder Woman again. I'm thinking of picking up Batgirl again. I've looked through the most recent issues at Barnes and Noble, and it looks pretty good. But then I see Black Canary's white hair and I don't think I can support that. Is she a supporting character or is she just guest-starring in a few issues? So now I'm thinking of starting up again with Catwoman. I love Catwoman, but I won't read her comic if it's too stupid. Black Canary in the New 52 (at least the Batgirl part of it) is the front person for a Rock band, and has her own book. She still has the sonic powers and fights crime on the side. She's definitely friends with Batgirl (I think they where both in Birds of Prey, but were both pretty different there).. it almost a mentor/student relationship. Incidently, Batgirl got completely changed around the time it sounds like you stopped reading it.. after Gail Simone left they did almost a reboot... she's younger (at least appears to be), moved into a new neighborhood, and is alot less dark. If fact, 'Batgirling' is now a thing people say in regards to doing a non-reboot reboot to a character. I believe "batgirling" a title means making it young/new reader friendly, cute and hip, with a balance of light-hearted story and real life topics, social conscious ones. And that Batgirl incarnation indeed is one of the most joyfull comics around, most of the time. |
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 16, 2016 19:39:35 GMT -5
3. Nightworld (4 issue mini series, Image, 2014) superheroes meet horror channeled through a Kirby-crackle lens. Mad genius by Adam McGovern and Paolo Leandri  -M LOVED Nightworld. This was probably my favourite discovery from last year (thanks to everyone here who recommended it). Loads of fun and I look forward to more from McGovern and Leandri. I too got this because of the recommendation off this board, otherwise I wouldn't have known it existed. Wish we could see a sequel |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 17, 2016 3:08:06 GMT -5
My favorite series from the 2011 to 2013 period: The Fantastic Four are going on vacation and each member picks someone to take his or her place in the organization while they are gone. So the FF is Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Green She-Hulk, Medusa and Miley Cyrus (or maybe Ariana Grande?). No, it's actually the Torch's pop-singer girlfriend Darla Deering wearing a Thing suit. A choice that appears to have been made solely in order to allow Marvel to have a character called 'Miss Thing'...  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 10:49:14 GMT -5
My favorite series from the 2011 to 2013 period: The Fantastic Four are going on vacation and each member picks someone to take his or her place in the organization while they are gone. So the FF is Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Green She-Hulk, Medusa and Miley Cyrus (or maybe Ariana Grande?). No, it's actually the Torch's pop-singer girlfriend Darla Deering wearing a Thing suit. A choice that appears to have been made solely in order to allow Marvel to have a character called 'Miss Thing'... Darla Deering is hilarious. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 17, 2016 11:06:47 GMT -5
I was looking through my 2011 to 2013 collection and reading the last issues that I bought of some of the New 52 comics to see if I need to buy a few comics to resolve some of the dangling storylines left over when I dropped out.
(I've already finished off my runs of Red She-Hulk and Journey into Mystery (starring Sif). They both lasted a mere four issues after I quit and I got lucky in finding all the Sif issues at the local comic-book store and getting all the Red-She-Hulks (as a good discount) from an eBay dealer.)
Among the New 52 comics, almost everything was in the middle of a storyline. But here's only two that - after reading the final issues reminded me what was going on - I am feeling a little impatient about finding out what happened.
Batgirl #18 was the aftermath of Death in the Family. And James Gordon Jr. is still walking around free. It ends with a cliffhanger as James Jr. tells his mother to meet him at the aquarium or he'll kill Barbara and feed her to their father.
James Jr.'s mom knows he's not exaggerating.
I need to get the next two issues of Batgirl. James Jr. is super-creepy. One of the best Batman stories in that 2011 to 2013 era was the James Jr. arc in Detective Comics #879 to #881.
The other must-read storyline was in Birds of Prey. #18 ends with Mister Freeze kidnapping Starling! I'd forgotten about Starling. She's great. I love her to pieces. Her relationship with Black Canary was one of the main reason I stuck with New 52 Birds of Prey. (It was kind of uneven.) This storyline continues in #20 and #21, so I'll have to get those soon.
I'll have to find out what happened to Starling. Is she in Black Canary's rock band? Or did they write her out of Dinah's life so Dinah could be a supporting character to Batgirl?
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 17, 2016 14:31:40 GMT -5
So when I decided to go back to the comic-book store and check out what was going on with Batman after I was out of it for three years, here's what happened. I got Detective Comics #44, #45 and #47, and each one is a single chapter of a different multi-part story. #45 is the first part of a two-part story featuring the JLA! Cool! (I just read the conclusion a few days ago.) #47 is Chapter Three of a cross-over called Robin War. (I have read Chapters Three through Six and one of the tie-ins. I ordered Robin War #1 and the other two tie-ins and should have them in a day or two. I'll still be missing Chapter Two (Grayson #15) but I'll have enough of the story to talk about it with a little more authority.) Did you get any issues with ful art by Manapul? I fear you might have gotten issues righ t after he was finished. If so, I urge you to check those out as the art and storytelling is some of the best the title ever had, really impressive stuff. When Manapul was on the book, it was great! SMALL SPOILER COMING UP; BEWARE I loved the scene where Bullock handcuffs Batman, and in the next panel Batman is just gone. That was funny! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 17, 2016 14:33:52 GMT -5
I don't think I know who Starling is, so either they de-superheroed her to make her part of the band, or something bad happened to her.
The James Jr. arc is definitely a good one... you should totally go get that It kinda went down hill from there until the re-boot.
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