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stardog wrote:Positives:
Batman and the Bat-Family
The JLA and the "big gun" members in individual books.
Green Lantern
Zatanna
Daredevil
X-Men
Writers I enjoy
Artists I enjoy, although it's a tougher sell if I'm not a fan of the writer.
Non-superhero material for variety
Negatives:
Writers and artists I don't enjoy or I'm not familiar with.
Marvel's tie-ins as I've felt burned by too many of those.
For the bigger lines of titles like X-Men, do you have trouble culling that down to a manageable list, or do you just buiy most of them?
I'm a huge Batman fan, but even I don't buy every title. I didn't pick up Dark Knight or Gotham City Sirens.
Great posts guys!
I am selective when it comes to the X-Men. There was a time when I was only buying Uncanny and X-Factor. I guess I listed X-Men because I do always have an X-book on my list. While I've grown tired of the overall state of the Mutants at times, I never totally break away (as I have with Spider-Man, the Avengers and Superman in the past). Right now I really like what they're doing with the X-books. I'm not buying everything, but I've been surprised lately at how much I'm enjoying the fairly new Wolverine family of books. I had gone without a Wolverine solo title for years, but Aaron pulled me back in and even more surprising, I really like X-23 and Daken. Two characters I had all but ignored until their latest ongoings.
With Batman I'm less selective. At one point I was reading everything but Confidential.
stardog wrote:Positives:
I am selective when it comes to the X-Men. There was a time when I was only buying Uncanny and X-Factor. I guess I listed X-Men because I do always have an X-book on my list. While I've grown tired of the overall state of the Mutants at times, I never totally break away (as I have with Spider-Man, the Avengers and Superman in the past). Right now I really like what they're doing with the X-books. I'm not buying everything, but I've been surprised lately at how much I'm enjoying the fairly new Wolverine family of books. I had gone without a Wolverine solo title for years, but Aaron pulled me back in and even more surprising, I really like X-23 and Daken. Two characters I had all but ignored until their latest ongoings.
With Batman I'm less selective. At one point I was reading everything but Confidential.
I am a big X-Men fan as well. It was really the first Marvel comic that I got on a regular basis. That said I don't get all the X-Men books. I tend to stick to the main books; Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Wolverine, and Uncanny X-Force. Not only are these the best X-Men books to me, they are written by the main X-Men writers, so you get what is going on throughout the X-Men family. I tried the other books but I couldn't keep my interest up. The other problem the X-Men books have now is Marvel is double-shipping a lot of them. It makes it even harder to keep up.
I thought it about i more and updated my list (in Bold):
Positives:
Batman family book
Green Lantern family book
Flash family book
Teen Titans family book
Justice League family book
Legion family book (Chris - we have the same tastes it appears) Avengers family book Favorite Writers: Johns, Morrison, Azzarello, Bendis, Hickman, Lemire, Fraction, Brubaker, Brian Wood, Scott Synder and Peter Tomasi Favorite Artists: Jim Lee, Bryan Hitch, Ivan Reis, Francis Manapul, Frank Quietly, Kubert Brothers, George Perez, Eduardo Risso
Interesting idea
Any new Vertigo book Stories that read well in both monthly and trade
Negatives:
Someone I never heard of before
Characters I am not interested
A new book that already has spinoffs solicited before the first issue Not a consistent art team (I am looking at you Marvel)
Double-shipping (unless it is a favorite book)
Back-ups that are fillers
fudd71 already mentioned this (his #5), but I thought it was worth saying again with what Boom's doing with Planet of the Apes in this month's catalog. They're releasing a cheap first trade and the issue after is only a $1. It's also good being able to order the the trade and the issue at the same time, as opposed to the trade that comes out 3 or 4 months behind where the monthly series is. This got me started on Morning Glories and Haunt, too. Makes it very easy just to hop on to a series.
