Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
So this is a thread for talking about monthly (or weekly, or quarterly) ongoing comic series. What's good? What's bad? What should we read and what should we avoid?
Currently, I'm keeping up with 2000AD, which as always generally solid. I haven't loved the line up for the last month or so, but Dredd has remained solid, and some recent series have been very strong- Brink is just fantastic, like everything Dan Abnett has ever touched. Next week's jump on issue promises to be good, in case anyone's thinking of getting on board. Haven't been keeping up with the Megazine, though; hard to feel that the actual amount of comics justifies the cover-price, especially when weak lineup can last months rather than just weeks.
I've been keeping up with Hellboy and Lobster Johnson, naturally, although I'm not up to speed on the other Mignolaverse stuff; still working my way through the trades on those. Dark Horse's Conan series remains decent, in that it's very much Conan.
I've also been enjoying Red Rising: Sons of Ares, which I picked up on a whim. Dystopian sci-fi, nothing terribly original, but it's well put-together and the art is pretty striking. It's a prequel to a series of novels, which I'll probably look into at some point.
I also want to gush about Headlopper. (It's honestly about 40% of reason I started this thread.) The art is really just beautiful, somewhere between Hellboy and maybe, I guess, Adventure Time? It bills itself as a "quarterly adventure comic", and that's just what it is, swords-and-sorcery adventure, unpretentious without being clichéd or naive, a Samurai Jack take on Robert E. Howard, and with more of an emotional punch than you'd initially expect.
The third issue of the second arc has just come out (although it always seems to take an extra week to reach the UK, so I've yet to get my grubby little mits on it), so you can probably find the first two (that is, 5 and 6 over all), or go straight for the first trade. I'd highly recommend either.
So what have youse all been reading?
Currently, I'm keeping up with 2000AD, which as always generally solid. I haven't loved the line up for the last month or so, but Dredd has remained solid, and some recent series have been very strong- Brink is just fantastic, like everything Dan Abnett has ever touched. Next week's jump on issue promises to be good, in case anyone's thinking of getting on board. Haven't been keeping up with the Megazine, though; hard to feel that the actual amount of comics justifies the cover-price, especially when weak lineup can last months rather than just weeks.
I've been keeping up with Hellboy and Lobster Johnson, naturally, although I'm not up to speed on the other Mignolaverse stuff; still working my way through the trades on those. Dark Horse's Conan series remains decent, in that it's very much Conan.
I've also been enjoying Red Rising: Sons of Ares, which I picked up on a whim. Dystopian sci-fi, nothing terribly original, but it's well put-together and the art is pretty striking. It's a prequel to a series of novels, which I'll probably look into at some point.
I also want to gush about Headlopper. (It's honestly about 40% of reason I started this thread.) The art is really just beautiful, somewhere between Hellboy and maybe, I guess, Adventure Time? It bills itself as a "quarterly adventure comic", and that's just what it is, swords-and-sorcery adventure, unpretentious without being clichéd or naive, a Samurai Jack take on Robert E. Howard, and with more of an emotional punch than you'd initially expect.
The third issue of the second arc has just come out (although it always seems to take an extra week to reach the UK, so I've yet to get my grubby little mits on it), so you can probably find the first two (that is, 5 and 6 over all), or go straight for the first trade. I'd highly recommend either.
So what have youse all been reading?
Which is why it has almost 6000 floppies...
