After being halfway done listening to GWC 86 (and not seeing a listing for this already) let’s see what comics people read around these parts…(and try to avoid the fanboy debate!)
The Family List:
Countdown
Superman/Batman
Green Lantern Corp
Teen Titans
Booster Gold
Justice League of America
Justice Society of America
Knights of the Dinner Table
Birds of Prey
(yes, we’re a DC family.)
Fables
Ultimate Spider-man
Silver Surfer (espically the two new mini-series’ that came out)
Star Wars Legacy
Sandman
The Tick
Wonder Woman
Batman/The Dark Knight
X-Men
Buffy Season 8
Fray
NightWing
Never got into comics. In 1991 on the heels of the release of the Thrawn trilogy, I did pick up the Dark Horse - Dark Empire Series.
While I was in the store, I saw Spider-man 2099. It caught my eye and I thought it looked really cool.
Umbrella Academy
Star Wars Legacy(but I’m behind on that on)
I have too many to mention, but among my very favorites are Ghost in the Shell, Gunsmith Cats, and Bone
Mostly BATMAN
Some Green Lantern Corps, some JLA. Plus I read a few Superman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Hero Turtles?) as a kid.
Some MAD (does that count?)
Plus, I read Watchmen, V for Vendetta and some Sandman.
Oh, and I’m totally looking forward to the a new Star Trek mini-series called ASSIGNMENT EARTH, which will be starting in May, about the adventures of the agent from the TOS episode Assignment Earth.
Some preliminary artwork can be found here
Spider-Man 2099 #1 and #2 are available on my Marvel digital comics subscription, so I gave 'em a spin. Looks like fun. Sadly, I’m going to have to go searching for the rest. Are they hard to find?
Y: The Last Man
100 Bullets
XMen
Runaways
I like Fables but I haven’t gotten around to buying any yet!
Well I dunno why it would be hard to find on marvel’s site (I haven’t used the Digital Comics) but the series only ran until Aug 1996.
I seem to find more and more titles in Vertigo that are just plain awesome maybe because its mature comics and the fact that it doesn’t really deal with characters that are not in other series’ so you can’t kill them off or anything. Thats one of the reasons I really like fables (Bill Willingham even said thats a big reason why he did fables so he wouldn’t be restricted as far as killing anyone) and I need to start buying the novels of Y I just see nothing but good from the series.
It’s awesome! It’s the first comic book/graphic novel I ever bought on a recommendation from the USA Today’s PopCandy blog. It sucked me in and now I’m hooked. Since there’s not a comic book store within 200 miles of my house, I buy the graphic novel versions via the internet. And now there is talk of a Y: TLM trio of movies!!
Astonishing X-Men (by Joss Whedon)
Captain America
The Immortal Iron Fist
Runaways
Y: The Last Man
Ex-Machina
X-Factor
At the top of the list should be the original run of the Tick, which was written, drawn and created by Ben Edlund, who wrote your favorite episode of Firefly, “Janestown” (he also executive produced the show, and has producer and writing credits on “Angel” and “Lost”). Really cool guy.
Everyone needs to read “Watchmen”. It is truly one of the most amazing examples of the heights of sophistacation the genre of sequential art can achieve. Written by comics grandmaster Alan Moore, it’s a great work. And on that Alan Moore kick, you really should track down “Whatever Happened To the Man of Tomorrow”, which is the self-proclaimed last Superman story. If you have never appreciated what could be done with the character who has it all, it’s an amazingly subtle and touching story about the Man of Steel. And while I’m pimping hard for Alan Moore, check out “Promethea”, which is his take on the Wonder Woman mythos (it’s a meta-fictional story that treats the character as real, as generational, as fictitious and a archetypal…really fun). Oh, and “Top Ten”, which is a police procedural drama, but in a Super-City policed by super-heroes and science fiction characters. Funny as all get out, and a “Where’s Waldo” of comic and sci-fi easter eggs.
For Audra, she should check out “Bone”, “Rose” and “Castle Waiting” for her fantasy fix. They are all just great epics with a wonderful fantasy/adventure feel to them. Great educational and literary reads.
For Sean you should check out X-O Manowar, an old Valiant book created by Bob Layton and Jim Shooter (who was Marvel’s old editor in chief, and the tallest person I’ve ever met). It’s about this Visigoth barbarian who gets abducted by space aliens and who steals one of their super-armors, destroys their ship and gets stranded in modern day Manhattan (in the 90’s). It’s Conan in a can, and is still one of my favorite titles.
Anyways, those are my picks for you. Happy hunting.
Aaron
It’s not so hard to find if you know where to look: it’s in a great collection of Alan Moore’s work for DC which is definitely worth its weight in krypton, as it also contains one of the greatest Batman stories of all time, “The Killing Joke”
that being said, thanks a bushel for your reading suggestion, I think I’ll take a look at Top Ten, it sounds very interesting.
You’re very welcome for the suggestions? Top Ten is a hoot.
Another couple of great epic reads are “Preacher” by Garth Ennis. It’s a story about a Preacher with a voice that makes you do whatever he says, his ex-girlfriend and their Irish vampire buddy hot on the trail of the Almighty, who has abandoned the world. It’s bloody beautiful, disgusting and downright raunchy. You’ll never be able to eat another hot dog, but damn, you’ll learn new variations on every cuss word in existence.
And every sci-fi nut should read “Transmetropolitan”, which follows a futuristic Gonzo-journalist patterned off of Hunter Thompson named “Spider Jerusalem” on his rantings and ravings against the Establishment. He’s got a three-eyed kitty cat that eats iguanas whole and smokes Russian cigarettes. Priceless.
I’m off to go get the Direct-to-DVD “New Frontier”, which is an adaptation of the DC comics miniseries about the Justice League in the 1960’s. Featuring Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman.
I’m gonna get the comic books right away
And if you like Preacher and Transmetropolitan, you’ll most likely enjoy “The Boys” by Garth Ennis and Warren Ellis’s run on “The Authority.” Both series have a different take on superheroes that is irreverent, violent, and often hysterically funny (well, to me at least) 
Be forewarned that I’m not kidding about the violence in either book and Garth Ennis has a bit of a potty mouth. At least his characters do. Chuck’s fondness for all forms and usages of a$$ has nothing on Ennis’s characters ability to paint filthy word pictures that would make a sailor blush.
Still, they are really good. Ellis’s Authority stories are in trade paperback, as are the first 12 issues of The Boys (in two volumes).
Highly recommended.
Also, check out “Wanted” by Mark Millar, which is about the son of the world’s best superassassin having to take his father’s place after his father is killed. This 6-issue story is set in a world where the supervillians won and control everything. The movie coming out this fall with Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, and Morgan Freeman is loosely based on the story.
As for monthly titles, I’m a DC guy and read Countdown, Justice League of America, Justice Society of America, Legion of Superheroes, Green Lantern (sorry Sean!), and a variety of other DC titles. I also read the aforementioned The Boys, Drafted, and Star Wars Legacy.