So, I thought I would start this thread and discuss comic books.

Let's start off with this: My Favorite Comic Books (in no order)

1. Spawn
2. Spiderman
3. Fantastic Four
4. Calvin and Hobbes
5. The Green Hornet
6. Superman
7. Daredevil
8. X Men

~Andrew

I really liked DC Comics the best when I was younger. Batman: Gotham Knights was one of my favorites.

Hellblazer;
Watchmen;
Preacher;
Swamp Thing (when Alan Moore wrote it).


Phil

Never read any of those Phil. But DC comics are AWESOME!!! I really enjoyed the comic book American Splendor by Harvey Pekar (I think I spelled that wrong). Did any of you see that movie? It was a great movie. paul Giamotti is a GREAT actor.

-Andrew

Watchmen was one of the greatest superhero tales ever, in part because they were not really that super.

It's about 15(?) years old now, but WELL worth tracking down.  And rumors of a movie persist to this day...

Only Doctor Manhattan was superpowered, which is what made the series so good.  Everyone else just had a costume and style. There's a website for the Watchmen movie.  There's very little on it, mostly speculation as to who will play what.

We should start a thread on who we think should play who.

'V for Vendetta' is also being made into a movie, starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman.  I'm looking forward to that, too.

Yes, there is very little on the Watchmen site aside from the very, very cool logo (which deserves to be checked out in and of itself).

I'll believe it when I see it...

The big problem with a Watchmen movie is that there is too much from the series to put into a two or three hour movie.

I remember reading someone saying that it should be made as a mini-series for HBO or Showtime.  That would be the way to go.


Phil

As I'm sure some of you will know, I love comic books! My favourite comic book series is probably The Punisher from Marvel Comics (although the movie didn't do it justice). My favourite graphic novel is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller. One of the greats.

I read some comics from time to time, when im at the card store playing a draft/tournament, usually magic the gathering.

I grew up with x-men, so i usually read xtreme x-men, uncanny x-men, and others.

Anything by Kevin Smith

how about the sin city comics?  i love them!  so awesomely stylish.  violent, yes, but stylish also.  movie and comics are comparable in a very amiable manner.

I'm probably the oldest person on this web site.  I'm going to share with you some of the great comic heros that helped us get though WWII in the 1940's.

Captain Marvel (When he said, "Shazaam" all sorts of crazy suff took place)
Captain Marvel Jr. (I forgot his magical name that took him into super hero status)
Superman and  Superboy (yeah, I know - don't call me "boy".)
The Green Lantern and I think ther was a Boy Lantern also.  
Wonder Woman (she was my first woody generator chick)
Plastic Man, first example of the problems with toxic waste.
Batman, Batwoman and all of the other BAT stuff.
Archie Comic . . .not super heroes, but hot chicks in comic motiff.

Cheers,
Bill McIntire
 

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IIRC, Captain Marvel Junior would shout 'Captain Marvel,' while Captain Marvel and Marvel girl would shout, 'Shazam!'  There was also and Uncle Marvel who didn't have any powers but pretended he did.

I don't recall there being a Lantern Boy, though....


Phil

thank you for your insights, bill

i bet comics seem fairly different now.  even well known series like archie and superman.

these are my favroite comic books. More into horror comics.

Escape of the living dead
Predator
Alien
Nightmare on elm street
Spawn
Friday the thirteenth
Halloween
Batman
Star wars
Simpsons

Quoted from Alan_Holman The best comic of all...

Hey, that is pretty good.  I love the picture with the drool.  I only wish that it were longer (the comic itself, of course, not the drool).

It was all right, not the greatest manga i ever read, could have been longer as well.

My favorite comic book/graphic novel is The Sandman.

Blade
Spiderman
The crow
Lucifer
100 Bullets
Spawn
Daredevil
X-Men
Captain America
The Punisher
      + lots more


BP.

Mine is Land of the Dead, The Walking Dead, and Alien

But somehow you shouldn't be surprised...

Sean

I recently got back into reading comics with the Marvel's Ultimates series.  It's like they've hit the "reset" button on some old favorites - Spider-man, Avengers, Iron Man etc.  I like 'em what can I say?  

Sin City all the way. I looooooooooooove Frank Miller's comics.

Kind of difficult to say specific titles since I haven't read comics regularly since the mid-90s, when multiple-version tin/holographic/3D/whatever-other-gimmick-ya-got shenanigans got to be too much for my raised-in-the-80's sensibilities to take.

So, I'll just list some series or storylines instead...

Kraven's Last Hunt (80s Spider-Man titles)

Phoenix Saga

Watchmen (THE greatest comics story ever told, period, IMO)

The "Possessed" storyline in Savage Dragon

Gen 13 - first limited series

The Weird (80s DC limited series)

Secret Wars

Pretty much any 80s Fantastic Four issue by John Byrne which featured Dr. Doom

Beauty and the Beast (old Marvel limited series featuring X-Men's Beast and Dazzler)

That Yellow Bastard (Miller's Sin City)

Alpha Flight (first 25 or so issues)

The Scourge of the Underworld stories which appeared throughout the majority of Marvel's titles in the 80s -- these were great because The Scourge only seemed to target all the really lame C-List characters in Marvel's rogues gallery.

So many more they're not even coming to me right now.

Anyone read the new Marvel alternate storyline comics "Marvel Zombies".

I think it's totaly cool.. comic book are changing this strip is an excat example..more matured, more horror. It won the Scream Award last year.

My favourite comic book is most definitely "Ed the Happy Clown".

Back in the day, the main ones were,

JLA (Giffen/DeMatteis)
Punisher (Jim Lee)
Alien Legion (Carl Potts)
Excalibur (Alan Davis)

etc.

Well since this thread was brought back, for whatever reason,  I thought I'd share this since it's quite topical......


Captain America....is dead!


Yes, in the new issue it appears that one of the greatest superheroes of all time was gunned down by a sniper while walking out of a courthouse.

What is this nonsense?  How long before he comes back, because the Cap is near the tops on my heroes list and I think this is utter garbage.

Quoted from Shelton What is this nonsense?  How long before he comes back, because the Cap is near the tops on my heroes list and I think this is utter garbage.

About as long as it took to bring Superman back when he supposedly died.

Why do the comic book publishers think that we actually belileve that they would actually kill off a major character?  They can't seem to keep the minor characters dead for that matter.


Phil

I grew up reading Superman and Batman. Then I discovered European comics and my (comic) life was never the same.

While US comics almost entirely comprised of unrealistic Superheroes, it's European counterparts are all about realistic characters, day to day people that we can relate to, and I'm sure French and Belgian members on this site will know what I'm talking about (Ric Hochet, Dan Cooper, Alex and Luc Orient).

It's very sad that these comics never reached US soil and were never translated to English... for reasons that I still don't understand. They are virtually unknown to US comic readers.

I've read some European comics in my day (mostly from Heavy Metal).  While I found some to be pretty interesting, I found most of it to be very pretentious.

If you can, try to dig up issues of DC Comics' Hellraiser.  Very good stuff.


Phil

When I was a kid I loved Tin Tin which I think is French and Asterix which might be French as well. Tin Tin was my favorite though.

Quoted from tomson When I was a kid I loved Tin Tin which I think is French and Asterix which might be French as well. Tin Tin was my favorite though.

Pia, TinTin's creator is Belgian. Hergé.
Astrix is French.

I have the whole collection of both...and many more. Some of which is considered rare nowadays.

Phil, I have an idea on what you're talking about (DC Comics) and it's not bad actually.


By the way some of the big name writers in Europe started out in Disney, in the mid 40's and 50's.

Could you copy the European comics with silly putty too?

Silly putty
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Background:
The history of silly putty is quite amusing. In 1943 James Wright, an engineer, was attempting to create a synthetic rubber. He was unable to achieve the properties he was looking for and put his creation (later to be called silly putty) on the shelf as a failure. A few years later, a salesman for the Dow Corning Corporation was using the putty to entertain some customers. One of his customers became intrigued with the putty and saw that it had potential as a new toy. In 1957, after being endorsed on the "Howdy Doody Show", silly putty became a toy fad. Recently new uses such as a grip strengthener and as an art medium have been developed. Silly putt even went into space on the Apollo 8 mission.


Is this what you're talking about?
I just looked it up, never heard of it before.

yah that's the stuff,
you'd press it on the comic pages and pull it off and see the picture on the silly putty.
Then u'd just roll the putty around til it disappeared.

I believe Spielberg is going to make a movie out of Tintin. That sounds kind of fun. Maybe I can borrow someone's kid and go see it when it comes out.  

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_en_mo/film_tintin

Tintin is super, but my fav would be Frank Millers 'The Dark Knight Returns'.

Hehe. I read both Tintin and Asterix when I was a kid. Tintin was alright. I never really got into it. Asterix was a favorite, though. I read the English versions, of course, but I think I had a couple of the original French comics lying around, for collecting's sake. Funny, I actually learned a lot about history reading those comics. Stuff people are probably learning now from HBO's Rome... or in school.

I still dabble in comics from time to time. My favorite is Preacher. I dig the Hellblazer (Constantine) comics as well but they don't hold a candle up to Preacher. Word has it they're finally making the HBO miniseries that the fans have been asking for. I'm not sure how I'd feel about that but somehow I don't think it'll come to pass. Like Watchmen, Preacher has a history of failed attempts to be produced.

Quoted from James McClung (Constantine) comics as well but they don't hold a candle up to Preacher. Word has it they're finally making the HBO miniseries that the fans have been asking for.

Preacher on HBO?  Could be interesting....


Phil

Actually speaking of comics I just finished reading Kingdom Come graphic novel I just brought through Amazon. Now that was a F-ing sweet comic. Awesome!

I used to hate DC heros as a kid but now as an adult and having immersed myself in Greek, Norse, Hindu and every other mythology under the sun I adore Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lanten and the gang for their almost mythical, Godlike quailty.