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Post by hondobrode on Sept 2, 2017 1:21:10 GMT -5
It's like Dr Strange, but it's a couple.
In time, even the dead may die...
Occult investigators Shan and Hwen Mirage lived their lives in the thrall of an epic love that few will ever have...until Hwen died tragically before his time. Now, after a perilous trip through the underworld, Shan and Hwen are reunited...but Hwen is still an intangible spirit of the dead - incapable of opening a spellbook or even touching his wife.
Their options exhausted, the death-defying Doctors Mirage are about to enact a dangerous spell to restore Hwen's solid form...and grant his ghost a second life. But, in the wrong hands, their ancient rite will become a tool of terror - and unleash a force of pure, homicidal evil that lusts for the murder of the living and the dead alike... a torturous death that obliterates not just everything a person ever had in this world, but everything their ghost will be in the next!
After multiple 2015 Harvey Award nominations, the most sought-after couple in comics returns with an all-new adventure from Eisner Award-nominated writer Jen Van Meter (Hopeless Savages) and acclaimed artist Roberto de la Torre (Daredevil)!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 10:06:24 GMT -5
Green Arrow by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (#17-34, also collected in deluxe HC) from DC, part of the new52...  Hawkeye by Matt Fraction, David Aja and others Marvel  -M I agree both these titles were excellent! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 10:29:46 GMT -5
 I also liked some of Dynamite's mini series like GH: YO. Or the Lone Ranger:  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 2, 2017 11:22:16 GMT -5
I'd definitely second Ms. Marvel.. best new character from Marvel in AGES. If you like her, you should then proceed to Champions, which is everything all the various and sundry 'Young Avengers' type books have ever wanted to be.
On the DC side, The Super-books have been excellent since Rebirth, with a great mix of character beats and good superhero action. I don't let Lex at all as a good guy, but they're actually making it work right now, and Jon is wonderful. Assuming you do like the new young Mr. Kent, you'll also want to get Supersons.
Nightwing and the Titans have been decent, but I don't like the direction they're going, so I wouldn't recommend them as strongly.
Astro City is always good, though I don't love 4th wall breaking purple guy, you can mostly ignore him.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 2, 2017 14:57:26 GMT -5
While it's not a superhero comic, the "weird western" The Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurt was an excellent series.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 14:59:41 GMT -5
While it's not a superhero comic, the "weird western" The Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurt was an excellent series. I love that series. I still need to get the spin-off minis collections, but I devoured all of the main series trying to find out what would happen next. I find Bunn's big 2 stuff hit or miss, but this and some of his other creator-owned stuff (Hellheim in particular) is tops. -M |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 3, 2017 20:56:00 GMT -5
I read the first ten issues of the Daredevil stuff by Waid from 2014...it was fine, but like I feel like I have already read the best of DD. Him battling the Purple Man seemed so simple for him. And the stuff with Shroud and Owl was also average...I feel like it has all been done before.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 21:04:10 GMT -5
I read the first ten issues of the Daredevil stuff by Waid from 2014...it was fine, but like I feel like I have already read the best of DD. Him battling the Purple Man seemed so simple for him. And the stuff with Shroud and Owl was also average...I feel like it has all been done before. When you have never ending stories for 50+ years that don't allow characters to actually grow and change and a fanbase that resists any real change to the characters, yes it has all been done before, and will be done again...and again...and again... That's the double edge sword of big 2 super-hero books featuring characters that are 50-75 years old and have had hundreds if not thousands of stories already told with them and you don't allow them to continually evolve and the stories to have real resolutions and consequences. There are still some interesting things being done, but they are fewer and farther between because so much of that ground has already been trod upon and the core of the character can't change to really fit well in the exploration of new territory. The Spider-Man story would be so much more interesting to me and have so much more room o explore if Peter had held the mantle, married MJ, passed the mantle onto May who in turn maybe adopted or fostered Miles and he now took the mantle with possibly May and Peter being older support mentor figures now than the have an endless cycle of Peter stories treading the same ground with the same villains over and over again ad nauseum exactly because it all has been done before. -M |
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Sept 3, 2017 21:39:53 GMT -5
I also liked some of Dynamite's mini series like GH: YO. Or the Lone Ranger: Green Hornet: Year One was excellent (and Mark Waid's run was pretty good too). I don't remember which Dynamite Lone Ranger series I read, but I really enjoyed that too. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 5, 2017 20:48:22 GMT -5
I read the first ten issues of the Daredevil stuff by Waid from 2014...it was fine, but like I feel like I have already read the best of DD. Him battling the Purple Man seemed so simple for him. And the stuff with Shroud and Owl was also average...I feel like it has all been done before. When you have never ending stories for 50+ years that don't allow characters to actually grow and change and a fanbase that resists any real change to the characters, yes it has all been done before, and will be done again...and again...and again... That's the double edge sword of big 2 super-hero books featuring characters that are 50-75 years old and have had hundreds if not thousands of stories already told with them and you don't allow them to continually evolve and the stories to have real resolutions and consequences. There are still some interesting things being done, but they are fewer and farther between because so much of that ground has already been trod upon and the core of the character can't change to really fit well in the exploration of new territory. The Spider-Man story would be so much more interesting to me and have so much more room o explore if Peter had held the mantle, married MJ, passed the mantle onto May who in turn maybe adopted or fostered Miles and he now took the mantle with possibly May and Peter being older support mentor figures now than the have an endless cycle of Peter stories treading the same ground with the same villains over and over again ad nauseum exactly because it all has been done before. -M It's true, there would have to be something that strikes me as a little special to get me interested in reading a new FF or DD series or whatever the case may be, even if it was only an artist I really liked a lot or something. With some series that "something special" might be a writer who has a view of the character that's similar to mine, as was the case with the Warren Ellis Moon Knight. That doesn't happen very often, I'm sorry to say. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 6, 2017 4:55:09 GMT -5
Non-superhero new stories: some of DC's Hanna Barbara revivals have turned out be interesting, especially the Flintstones which was very, very good.
I'm quite enjoying the new Doom Patrol.
Really enjoying Coates' Black Panther, but it takes a bit to get started.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 6, 2017 10:09:32 GMT -5
While it's not a superhero comic, the "weird western" The Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurt was an excellent series. I love that series. I still need to get the spin-off minis collections, but I devoured all of the main series trying to find out what would happen next. I find Bunn's big 2 stuff hit or miss, but this and some of his other creator-owned stuff (Hellheim in particular) is tops. -M I have all the spin-offs but haven't read them yet. I love that setting and hope Bunn returns to it someday soon. I'm far more interested in this than anything he's been doing for Marvel or DC, that's for sure. |
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Post by Randle-El on Sept 6, 2017 22:22:42 GMT -5
A lot of the ones I would have said have already been suggested, but one that hasn't that I'd recommend is Invincible by Robert Kirkman. It's technically from before the last five years -- I think it started in 2003. Besides the fact that I enjoy the series, I'm mentioning it because it is ending its run a few months, so pretty soon you'll be able to read the entire story from start to finish. And since it's an independent title, the characters actually age and develop over time rather than just re-hashing the same status quo. I especially enjoy it because it homages all the typical superhero comic cliches, but it does so with a wink and nod, poking fun at some of the absurdities when its warranted, and always putting its own spin on things.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 7, 2017 12:03:05 GMT -5
I've come to really enjoy that series as well.
I'm currently at 105.
Looking forward to finishing out the series.
Didn't think I would, but I really like the Guardians of the Globe as well.
They're more than just cheap knock-offs.
Favorites include Robot, Monster Girl, Allen the Alien and Joe Biden Cecil Steadman
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Post by shawnhopkins on Sept 11, 2017 21:05:01 GMT -5
I'd recommend Sweet Tooth. Best Vertigo comic in many years.
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