Haven’t read any American Flagg since the 80’s… That was some cutting edge stuff back then, and I loved Chaykin’s art.
Thanks for the heads up on Planetary. Bought Volumes 1 & 2, man that is some good sh*t dere.
I think the third volume of Planetary has some of the most fun stories and Volume 4 brings it together amazingly. Don’t hesitate to buy the other two volumes.
[spoiler]Volume 4 has this amazing penultimate story which gives a nod to the Marvel universe. When you realize just how long Ellis has been forecasting this reveal, you see the true brilliance of his writing.[/spoiler]
There’s also 3 or four other volumes outside the main run. I haven’t gotten a hold of the other stories, but there’s a JLA, Batman, and Authority crossover books. The Batman one seems of particular interest because it somehow includes Bob Kane’s original Batman, the Adam West version, as well as Frank Miller’s Dark Knight. I can only imagine how he links all these different versions together. The Authority crossover book apparently has an HP Lovecraft cameo, as well as a story inspired by his writings. Once you read the next two volumes you’ll see why I would be excited about the JLA book.
Comixology has all the original New 52 #1s for $0.99 now for people like me who have fallen behind.
I think I’m going to pick up Justice League, JLI, and Birds of Prey sometime this week to try them out.
Well, I got those. I think I’ll start working on catching up with Justice League and JLI, but I wasn’t particularly satisfied with Birds of Prey. Depending on how long the $0.99 lasts, I might get one or two more #1s.
Also, DC is doing a Smallville Season 11 in comic book form, written by one of the writers from the show. They’re doing roughly weekly $0.99 releases on Comixology that come out to about 1/3 of a comic book. Not sure if they’ll be releasing physical copies, but the 3 they have out now were pretty good, and most of the characters looked like a match for the show.
Planetary is one of those rare series where the delays that took forever for the final issues were SO worth it. I’d also recommend Ellis’ Desolation Jones… The second (incomplete) arc has nods to PKD…
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I read the first issue of Birds Of Prey as well and it didn’t blow my mind exactly either xD If you want a few reccomendations, my favourite DC Comics at the moment are
Animal Man
Swamp Thing
Wonder Woman
Batman
Demon Knights
Batwing
The main reason I gave it a try was because I’ve been a fan of Black Canary in the comics (not so much in Smallville). Of course part of that is my idea that Yvonne Strahovski should play her in either a stand-alone or Justice League movie. :groucho:
This is an idea I can full get behind 
Just got my iPad. App/service recommendations?
The Comixology app is quite handy. You can sync it with both the Marvel and DC comics accounts, so if you’re buying the physical books with the free downloads, they can all be read in the one app. Comixology also downloads locally, so you don’t need to have an internet connection to view the comics. I believe the Marvel app requires a connection, so if you sync the account, and then read via the Comixology app you can circumvent that. That’s about all I know about digital comics apps for iPad.
I know a few people who do almost all their reading in digital form now, and they’re about 50/50 split on how they read. Some prefer the comic apps, which do a nifty panel to panel breakdown for reading. Others prefer to go with either scans or CBRs and view the whole page on screen as this way it reads a bit more like a physical comic book. I enjoy both methods. The one draw back of the CBR or scans is that on lower resolution or smaller displays it can look pretty crumby, and require some zoom and pan work to read. This should be a non issue for the iPad 3 since it has that nifty retina display. If it is an issue, this is where the comic apps with panel to panel viewing are much better since they show a much smaller portion of the page at a time. They also still have the option of viewing the entire page so you can still zoom and pan around the big splash pages to really absorb the artwork.
To start with I’d definitely get the Comixology app and download some of the free issues to see how you like the panel to panel style of reading. Can’t really help you with and CBR readers since I have no with what’s on the App Store.
The best option for at home comic viewing to me is Cdisplay with cbrs/cbzs . Two pages displayed at once on a 1080p monitor? Super slick, can read everything and still retains the scale of the comic book
In a nice coincidence, I went to my local comic book store today and it ends up the first JL and JLI TPBs of the New 52 era just came out.
I just finished reading the JLI one, and while I wish they had a different Lantern, I’m definitely going to stick with it for a while.
I continue to enjoy JLI month to month. Lot’s of conflict between the characters and with the villains. I also enjoy how the story is really driven with the action, so there’s no shortage of either.
The first six issues of Justice League turned out pretty good. I didn’t like it as the flagship for the relaunch, I don’t think it really fit that role, but once that first story arc wrapped up it all came together as something really good. Moving on from the origin story that book got really cool and went places that, in the past, got writers fired from DC.
I’ve started reading some of the Point One stuff from Marvel, and a few collections of Batman e.g. Year One, Dark Knight Returns, and that sort. Trying to get back into the swing of comic reading, actually.
Snyder’s Batman run has been amazing. This past weeks issue, #10, totally punched me in the face with the big reveal. Snyder should be writing some sort of awesome TV show.
[spoiler]There is a sequence where Bruce Wayne is trying to solve the current mystery he is caught up in. He’s sitting in his study with two bullet casings in his fingers, idly spinning them about in his hand as he is deep in thought. It wasn’t until Alfred said, “let me put those morbid things away,” that I realized what they were. That is such a dark turn for the character that totally blew me away.[/spoiler]
I was out of it since like right before Fear Itself. Got back in slowly starting with Schism. Then Fear Itself. Now I’m caught back up on all the Avengers and X-men(Except X-Factor and Wolverine solo), Cap, and the Ultimate universe(Except Spider-man). Feels good
They’re up to number 9 on the Smallville Season 11 digital comic. I think they have 3 more digital/1 more paper release in this first “episode”, which is introducing Hank Henshaw. And they’re introducing someone else in the next one. The next 5 month arc has the episode name “Detective” :shifty:
Also just got the most recent JLI and Earth 2 releases.
EDIT: OK, just read Earth 2 #3. That is a VERY different take on Solomon Grundy than anything I’ve seen. And even though I knew about it before, I don’t understand why they have a completely separate Green Lantern origin for Alan Scott than all the others despite their powers being so similar. Hawkgirl hinted at Dr. Fate and they said that The Atom will be introduced in the next episode, so who do you think is left for their version of the Justice Society after this?
Between work and family I’ve been mostly feeding my Minecraft addiction so I’m way behind in my reading. I did mostly catch up on Suicide Squad today at work though. It’s still a good book but once Harley tortured Deadshot it kind of peaked. It’s really hard to follow up that scene, though the return of Yo-Yo was pretty cool, and gross at the same time.
There’s only a couple of books that I make a point of reading the day I buy them, one of which is Batman. The court of owls arc has wrapped up and man what a story. If you haven’t gotten the monthly issues, I highly recommend you grab the trades of this book.
Just found out that they pulled the plug on Justice League International 
Well, at least Comixology has been adding the 2007-2011 Booster Gold series, so I’ve been buying back issues of that as well as Smallville Season 11, Earth 2, and Justice League.
I guess Batman got his way.