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Revox said:
The Power Fantasy - an alternate take on life sharing a world with beings capable of terrifying levels of destruction. The first issue has a telepath wipe out scores of WH staff from the President down as a conciliatory measure to calm down another superpowered guy from destroying an entire state in retaliation for an assassination attempt. It just gets wilder from there, including a magical pyramid scheme, an angel, and an artist whose mood swings can summon Godzilla* if she gets too upset, which makes meeting art critics a delight, and has her girlfriend treading very lightly 24:7.


* Actually, the way everyone is in abject terror of her losing composure, I get the feeling it may actually be more like Cthulhu, or The Void
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I wasn't aware of this one.... After reading the reviews I think I might check out the first couple of trades.
 
Happy Birthday, Marvel!

August 31st, 1939.

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It was on this day 86 years ago that the world first heard of a little company called Marvel. They published their first comic book, and since then they've gone on to do a few things.

You've all heard the story. Martin Goodman, a publisher of paperback novels, pulp magazines and crossword puzzle books, decided to get into the field of comics. He contracted with Funnies Inc, a firm that produced and packaged comics for various publishers, and they produced Marvel Comics number one. It was a huge success, selling 800,000 copies. The title was later changed to Marvel Mystery Comics. Later that year, Martin hired his wife's cousin, 17 year old Stanley Martin Lieber, as a gofer and general office assistant. In 1942 Stan was promoted to Editor-In-Chief, head writer and art director of the comics line. He changed his name to Stan Lee and the rest, as they say, is history.

So thank you. Marvel, for 86 years of the world's greatest comics, tv shows, movies and cartoons. It's been a blast.
 
Nothing historical, but we moved a couple of years ago and I've had a bunch of stuff in storage ever since. I finally got it moved and now all my comics are under one roof. I have about 50 short boxes of comics.
I've started to catalog them and it's been fun looking through all this stuff that I really haven't paid attention to in 20 years.
 
I haven’t kept up with comics for the last 15-20 years, only reading sporadically and cherry picking stuff like Ed Brubaker and Brian K Vaughn. Seeing the galleries above makes me want to read more contemporary titles.

Can I get some recommendations on favorite Marvel/DC runs from the last 10 years or so?
 
Immortal Hulk. Mark Waid's World's Finest. The current Ultimate Spider-Man (Hickman, not Bendis). The current Fantastic Four (Ryan North). More stuff than I'm thinking of in these few seconds. People always say comics aren't good anymore conveniently once they've stopped reading them, but the truth is there's always quite a bit of good stuff out there if you're actually interested.
 
Yup, I've only read Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Batman so far, but both were great. And anything Waid is doing over in the main DCU is worth reading. I'm a bit of an outlier in that I've gotten real tired of Tom King, so I dropped his Wonder Woman, but otherwise I'm interested in eventually checking out a lot of what's going on with DC in trade format when the time comes.
 
akajomiha said:
I haven’t kept up with comics for the last 15-20 years, only reading sporadically and cherry picking stuff like Ed Brubaker and Brian K Vaughn. Seeing the galleries above makes me want to read more contemporary titles.

Can I get some recommendations on favorite Marvel/DC runs from the last 10 years or so?
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If I'm defined by any comic era, it's 2005–2020. Most of the titles in the graphic SDC posted are excellent.
  • Captain America by Brubaker
  • Annihilation crossover (one of Marvel's best events, period)
  • Thor by JMS
This dovetails nicely with the list I posted on page one:
  1. Fantastic Four, Avengers, and Secret Wars by Hickman
  2. Uncanny X-Force by Remender
  3. All-Star Superman by Morrison
  4. Daredevil by Bendis, Brubaker, Waid, and Zdarsky
  5. Astonishing X-Men by Whedon/Cassaday
  6. Batman by Snyder/Capullo
  7. Spider-Man: Life Story by Zdarsky/Bagley
  8. The Vision by King/Hernandez Walta
  9. Batman: White Knight by Murphy
  10. Hawkeye by Fraction/Aja
I'd add:
  • Immortal Iron Fist by Brubaker/Fraction
  • Planet Hulk/World War Hulk by Pak
This Marvel list is comprehensive, though it's missing everything published after 2015.
 
Thanks all. I've previously read Brubaker Cap, Iron Fist, JMS Thor, Hawkeye, Waid/Bendis/Bru DD and Astonishing X-Men.

I've got vol 1 and 2 of the World's Finest by Waid and Mora TPBs to read this weekend (that was an easy sell since I'm familiar with Waid and I've seen enough of Mora's art to know I like it). Will be checking out some Hickman, Remender and North stuff, Immortal Hulk, Annihilation and the DC All-In/Absolute titles as well.
 
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