thepuremood

November 17, 2012 3:45 am Comic review sites LOVE issue number ones for superhero books, despite constantly complaining about them. Expect to see a lot of NOW!'s in the right hand corner, boys and girls. I'd say ZAUCER OF ZILK, PUNK ROCK JESUS or X-MEN LEGACY was my pick. Probably ZAUCER! Get Zaucy, everybody!

October 9, 2012 7:24 pm Shingen is my new hero. I don't get how anyone could 'stress' about a hobby...doesn't that defeat the purpose?!?

September 10, 2012 3:29 pm Man, so many comics freaks I know are into the New Wave. I wonder what the correlation is there. I guess Godard did use a lot of the iconography of comics and other mass media in some of those mid 60's movies. JLG FOR LIFE

May 14, 2012 1:34 pm My stack is a strong, over-fed wildabeast that threatens to devour me every Wednesday. It only ever seems to grow, never shrink - like THE BLOB, the movie, not the X-Men villian. It seems a lot of longtime readers get fatigued - I guess humans, as much as we can be creatures of habit, also hate to fall in ruts. And I think picking up a bunch of stuff every week that no one else seems to care about can demoralize a person. But man, not me. FLEX MENTALLO, and a lot of Morrison's work, that speaks to me so much because it's like, that IS what the world is to somebody who reads that many comics. 52 wise, I've only dropped two books - BATWOMAN and JUSTICE LEAGUE, though I started picking up GREEN ARROW starting with Nocenti's run and have been loving it. That book has an unstoppable pace and energy and I reccomend it to everyone. My other DC books, SWAMP THING, WONDER WOMAN and THE FLASH, especially THE FLASH, just keep killing me with their creativity, the characters, the world....I can't go on enough. And the heavy hitters like Synder's BATMAN and ACTION COMICS have been great, too. Vertigo's new series have really suprised me as well...I love THE NEW DEADWARDIANS way more than I ever thought I would, and SPACEMAN and SAUCER COUNTRY continue to bowl me over every month. Marvel still kills me every day I think about it. When CIVIL WAR was going on, I thought I'd just about had to give up hope. There was some stuff I was into here and there, but man, that just wasn't the place for me. I feel like, now it's the AGE OF MARVEL. They even have an event going on that only takes up a handful of their books, of which I'm only reading one! And I pick up a TON of Marvel, so I really think that was the right choice. But yeah, THE DEFENDERS, DAREDEVIL, THE PUNISHER, WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN, UNCANNY X-FORCE, THUNDERBOLTS, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, there's just way too many to list... it blows me away how good all of their comics are right now. Dark Horse is still the king for gothic horror. I love BPRD, I love ALABASTER WOLVES, I love RAGEMOOR, I absolutely loved the newest LOBSTER JOHNSON mini. And Image? I can't say it better than a lot of people on this site have been saying. SAGA, THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS, MUD MAN...they are putting out some of the best in comics right now. And, oh man, my cherished all ages books! The new Spidey series with Templeton, the new GL book, SONIC, MEGAMAN, not to mention Image's REED GUNTHER...there are so many killer all ages book that are telling a great story with great characters and never talk down to their audience. These are the comics I love the best, at the end of the day. I just feel like, I guess I get how frustrating picking up comics can be...I guess? But I just can't fathom how people aren't throwing up their hands in joy when we've got a new Azzarrello/Risso joint, Waid/Samnee/Rivera DAREDEVIL, a new Brian K. Vaughn creator owned book, Morrison writing Superman and Batman...I mean, if that doesn't get people excited, what does? Oh, and CASANOVA. Any year with new CASANOVA is the greatest year to be alive. So yeah, 2012. I think years down the line, when I'm no longer a gangly awkward twenty year old, I'll look back and think of it as one of the pinnacle years in modern comics.