books i'd recommend: y the last man watchmen 100 bullets pride of baghdad GIRLS Meltdown any x-men, search online for read orders stories that are interesting so far (ongoing) gemini genius (pilot season) anna mercury
That was kind of the problem with X-men to me I was an avid fan for years now . .. . I can not keep up with the storylines because it goes through about 15 books Marvel has turned the X-men into the major w**** of profits which includes convoluted bad stories spread out through 15 books It maybe better than when last i tried a few years ago but it left a major bad taste in my mouth Rocket River
Buy the trade paper backs. Let them do all the job of sorting things out for you and give you a nice self contained storyline.
Thats exactly what I did. I hadn't touched X-Men in years either. The Astonishing TPBs brought me back (along with a few select torrent files). You read what? 4 years worth of Astonishing in hours. X-Men was trash when I stopped reading around Onslaught, I skimmed through things like the 12 eventually, they sucked too. I hear it all sucked. But now the books seem great. If you wanna hop back on now is definitely the time to do so, they are kind of doing a fresh start with Astonishing 25, UXM 500, etc... Read Messiah Complex the hardback, answer the questions that arise via wikipedia, and read the issues up to UXM 500/all X-Men Legacy (its only like 10 issues total) and you will prepared for the new era. Astonishing seemed somewhat optional actually, but its damn good. Not a good/necessary story, just enjoyable reading. Like a decent joke that is delivered really well. Holy hell lots of rambling huh... Note: I am not a geek
Surprised not more Alan Moore comics mentioned other than the Watchmen: 1.) League of Extraordinary Gentleman series (third volume just came out this past year) 2.) V for Vendetta 3.) Top Ten series 4.) Saga of the Swamp Thing 5.) The Killing Joke (Batman Comic) 6.) From Hell (need to have patience and/or an interest in Jack the Ripper mystery for this one). Then of course Frank Miller's Batman contributions: 1.) Year One 2.) The Dark Knight Returns
I'd rather download from rapidshare/megaupload/mediafire, seems so much quicker and you aren't depending on how many other people are seeding for older stuff.
I've tried it both ways and greatly prefer the torrents in this case. Looking at Demonoid right now, there are 4733 seeded comic torrents, ranging in size from single issues to complete Marvel and DC chronologies. New releases have hundreds of seeds (600-900 KB/s minimum). The older torrents are slower but even the ones that are several gigs are usually done if I let em go for a day or two. Also, I like being able to choose 1 or 2 files out of a torrent if I'm just looking for a couple issues or want to sample something instead of having to download the entire archive, which is particularly handy for the weekly release packs. I hate entering captchas on the Rapidshare/Megaupload sites, waiting 90-200 for the download to start, small download limits, passworded and split archives, no parallel downloads, dead links, etc.
Oh and here's a fun picture: That's just the Batman folder I only started downloading comics last month (Dark Knight got me in the mood).
Hmm my memory is terrible. It's actually Wanted that got me back into comics - I wanted to see how different the movie was from the source. There sure were a lot of comic movies this summer!
Big Batman and Spawn fan growing up and finally got around to checking out Absolute Batman. I haven't read comics in years and started casually reading them here and there between real books for goals and other real-life priorities. I was sold on it five minutes in lol, definitely going to check this out and the new DC Absolute universe when I have time.
