Talk about what you're currently reading

Frank · Oct 29, 2010

Since there is no currently open thread for discussing your Wednesday comics, I made a new one.

Anyways, I've spent the better part of the last 5 or so hours reading Fables (since I just got all the trades I was missing.). I'd forgotten why I loved it so much, that is, until I got to the Great Fables Crossover, which was bad enough that it almost made me never want to read Fables again. I'd never cared for Jack of Fables, and this also served to remind me why. Just fucking terrible.

Now, to finish up Ex Machina.

SpecialKO · Oct 29, 2010

The Great Fables Crossover is what made me stop reading.

Was anything after that worth it?

Frank · Oct 29, 2010

Once they get back to the Mr. Dark stuff and the goings on outside of that travesty it's getting back to being enjoyable again.

linglingface · Oct 29, 2010

Ugh I still need to finish Y The Last Man.
I'm missing the second-to-last book... I was buying them 2 at a time, then forgot which ones I still needed.

I ended up buying the last book without realizing I still needed another. Gotta get on that... Maybe I'll read it all over again since it's been a little while now. Ahaha

Covar · Oct 29, 2010

Fantastic Four continues to be <pun censored>. The Bruce Wayne the Long Road Home books have been good.

I picked up all five trades of the Amazing Spider-Girl. What a good series, I feel bad now that I never gave it a shot.

ThatNickGuy · Oct 30, 2010

I stopped reading Fables after the defeat of The Adversary (sp?). I'm about 90% sure that, originally, the book was going to end there (like all Vertigo books save for Hellblazer). That was going to be the original ending. But, of course, Fables was a huge freakin' success and now it's become a brand of its own, with spin-off books, novels, a possible TV series, etc. So, I jumped ship.

As for what I'm reading lately? Haven't had a lot of time for comics, with school kicking my ass, but I've had some time for a few. Just this week, I picked up the fourth volume of Northlanders, which is always great, and the second Parker graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke.

I've heard a lot of great things about Hickman's run of Fantastic Four, but...I don't know. I flipped through the latest issue and saw...

Ben Grimm turning human and the coming of Galactus!

...which are two of THE most overused plots in all of Fantastic Four, save for Doom.

Frank · Oct 30, 2010

Fables outside of the Great Fables Crossover is still really good. Mr. Dark/Dullahan/The Boogeyman is a pretty rad villain.

ThatNickGuy · Oct 31, 2010

Oh, I'm sure it is. Unfortunately, it's getting through the GFC that bothered me too much to continue. I couldn't honestly even get halfway through that book. I enjoyed Fables for being a hip, indy (well, Vertigo non-mainstream indy), self-contained book. Now it's become this big franchise, with spin-off books and all that crap. I tried Jack of Fables and wasn't crazy about it and then the Great Fables Crossover was basically forcing me to buy more of JoF to understand it fully. Fuck that. That's the drivel that I was trying to ESCAPE from by reading Vertigo books and the like outside of DC and Marvels crossover nonsense. If I go from Volume 10 to Volume 11, I should be able to just continue reading uninterupted.

IronBrig4 · Oct 31, 2010

I just finished reading the first compendium (Books 1-4) of The Walking Dead. Now I'm super-psyched for the TV series premiere tonight. And I also finished Sgt. Rock - The Lost Battalion. Easy Company is sent into the Vosges attached to the Texas Division. They get surrounded and have to hold out until the 442nd RCT (Nisei from the Pacific Coast and Hawaii) relieve them. It's a great book and the author researched it as thoroughly as any master's thesis.

Covar · Oct 31, 2010

Is that a Joe Kubert SGT Rock story?

Sparhawk · Oct 31, 2010

I love Jack of Fables, the irreverent look at him and the wild stuff he goes through. I'm still catching up on Jack to get to the Crossover, but have read the Cinderella trade and thought that was pretty good for a spy/thriller spin on a character.

IronBrig4 · Nov 1, 2010

Covar said:
Is that a Joe Kubert SGT Rock story?

Billy Tucci. I saw the guy at Comic Con at a panel about the military in comic books. After that we met and talked about the research because I have a professional as well as a personal interest in it. Interesting fellow.