Comic books

[Evan3]

Hey,
I love movies, but I do love comics more ( yes I am a dork, but I do have a girlfriend). Anyways, here are two comics that I highly reccomend that you borrow, steal, maybe even buy especially if you like horror films.

Shadow Reavers- put out by black bull comics, a new twist on werewolves, golems, and warlocks, with really cool other stuff, like a revised history on vampires.

Inferno: hellbound- Image comics- Hell is invading Earth, and all we have to go against them are ex-cons (it sounds stupid..... but its not). Image also makes really good Tomb Raider comics for those of you who like that.

Of course nothing beats Marvel comics (Blade, Spider-man, X-Men, Daredecil, Black Pather), but just wanted to share my knowledge. Also, if you have any reccomendations for me Id appreciate it.

[marvel fan]

Good idea!  I prefer thundersbolts of Marvel or the Team-ups. Batman is also a good one for sci0fi mystery nuts. Star Wars Tales (that is what it is called) is good for Star Wars geeks. Action lovers go for Predator, Aliens, and Punisher. Anime fans go for Raijin comic(it has Fist of the Blue Sky). The over all best is Captian Marvel it is a
sci-fi, action, and comedy all in one. That is my thoughts I could be wrong
Thank you for your time as in Cowboy Bebop `_~
"See you space cowboy..."

[chris]

Vertigo's Y: The Last Man is really good.  Also, Powers, The Filth, League of Extrodinary Gentlemen 2, The Ultimates, 100 Bullets and Point Blank are worth getting.

[Vermin Boy]

Personally, I think the greatest comic ever is the original 12-issue run of The Tick.

"Hey, don't knock crazy, Arthur. The Romans were crazy, and they got ALL the girls!"

[Pete B6K]

I'd never been into comics but recently was intorduced to 'Lenore'. Really funny mildly-twisted comic about a dead girl. Has anyone else read them?

[Chadzilla]

I'm rather scatterbrained when it comes to comic (so many, many things to collect, so little money and credit to do it with - comics are really, really low on the list).

Some of the comics I have really like having around though

Jonah Hex (written Mr. Mojo himself, Joe R. Lansdale)
Zombie World (from Dark Horse)
The Thing from Another World (another Dark Horse series, this one spin-off from Carpenter's thriller)
Widow (X) - Mike Wolfer's half girl/half spider erotic thriller.  It just rang my bell.
Ragdoll - Mike Wolfer again, this time it features a patchwork girl getting revenge for the various body parts that make up her new body.
Purgatori - From the now defunct Chaos comics, a red skinned vampire queen - not bad, and she was cute (and porn queen Hypathia Lee looks to have been born to play her in a live action movie, like that would ever happen)
Razor - I check these out every now and then, I just like dark and nasty stuff filled with blood, breasts, and beasts.

Haven't been to a comic store in quite some time, perhaps a visit is in order...

[John]

The only comics I ever bought were anthology horror ones like The Witching Hour, Twilight Zone etc. It's not that the others didn't interest me, I just didn't like how everything is a continuing series and any one book is just a portion of an incomplete story. Since I've never been there to catch the very first issue of any of them, you're always joining the story in progress. Unless you want to spend outrageous amounts of money to collect all the back issues.

[Mofo Rising]

John wrote:
>
> The only comics I ever bought were anthology horror ones like
> The Witching Hour, Twilight Zone etc. It's not that the
> others didn't interest me, I just didn't like how everything
> is a continuing series and any one book is just a portion of
> an incomplete story. Since I've never been there to catch the
> very first issue of any of them, you're always joining the
> story in progress. Unless you want to spend outrageous
> amounts of money to collect all the back issues.

Yeah, the monthly format is not a good one.  Sort of a slave to tradition and the collectable mentality.

You might want to look into the world of trade paperbacks.  They usually just collect larger chunks of a continuing story, but there are some that are actually full and complete in themselves.  Most continuing stories, outside of superhero canon, collect their back issue in trade paperbacks.  Cheaper and easier to find at least.

[Megafury]

I keep running out of money and all the close by comic shops have closed down by me. I have to drive pretty far now. Anyways, anything by Evan Dorkin is hilarious, Milk & Cheese and Dork are my favorite comics, published by Slave Labor Graphics. Spider-Man Tangled Web is the best Spidey out now, and the new Hulk where he's a fugitive and shaved his head is a great simple story.

[oggypip]

i don't really read comics, but i've found some that i really like. JTHM: director's cut and Squee. both by jhonen vasquez. they're really great if you have a morbid sense of humor and can laugh at horrible and unspeakable things

[Evan3]

Just some mainstream comics that are really good and graphic and they have non convoluted story lines, so u can pick up whenever you want. All put out by Marvel: Ultimate X-Men, Daredevil:Yellow Spider Man: Tangled Web, and if you can find it this semi-old four part series called Deadline (about the adventures of a reporter).
One EXCELLENT drawn and written series is Fathom by Top Cow but I reccomend a trade paperback if you want to read it.

[John]

>You might want to look into the world of trade paperbacks. They usually just
>collect larger chunks of a continuing story, but there are some that are actually
>full and complete in themselves. Most continuing stories, outside of superhero
>canon, collect their back issue in trade paperbacks. Cheaper and easier to find
>at least.

 I saw those for the Dark Horse Aliens comics, but only like volumes 3+, not the first two. At the time I didn't know anything about finding stuff like that on the net, so I just checked the local stores.