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Post by G on Dec 1, 2010 14:49:38 GMT -5
If you could tell someone who was looking for new comics what series to pick up in 2010, what would it be? What series stood out for being a must read month after month? What comic series consistently outdid itself and put shame to the competition?
What series would you urge someone to buy from 2010?
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Post by cyberstrike on Dec 9, 2010 18:08:34 GMT -5
Mini-series: The Spectacular Spider-Girl/Spider-Girl: The End.
Tom DeFalco does a great job of distilling years of history into simple and easy to understand plots and even though I hadn't a series about the character in a very long time he made it feel like I never left. I knew who was who and what was what. The only bad thing about it was it being the last MC2 comic. The heroes are good and villains are evil. It's simple Silver Age heroics but in a good way and the book's logic doesn't insult my intellengece. Guys like you and DF1 are aways bitching about how bad the modern super-heroes are well do yourselves a big favor and try out the now defuct MC2 line and see what you have missed.
Now while I actually prefer 3 other mini-series over it Mass Effect: Redemption, Dragon Age, and The Transformers: The Last Stand of the Wreckers but all three them require a lot of knowledge of their respective universes and might make it harder new readers to understand what is going on. Especially with Mass Effect and Dragon Age because of they are RPG video games with so many different decisions to make and how you play can determine things in the games come to be, plus add in two Dragon Age prequel novels and 3 Mass Effect novels (one prequel to Mass Effect 1 and two interlude novels set in between the first game and the second game, and the third novel set in between Mass Effect 2 and the upcoming Mass Effect 3) and you get a lot of stuff to explain.
Ongoing series: X-Factor
I'm only reading 3 ongoing series at this time: The Transformers, X-Factor, and Darkwing Duck all three are GREAT read but if I pick just one I would go with X-Factor because it's been around the longest and Peter David seems to keep a group second and third string mutant characters that other writers would have thrown away much more interesting, amusing, and dramatic as the more well known mutants.
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Post by AC on Dec 12, 2010 13:02:10 GMT -5
Always been a big fan of the Giffen/DeMatteis era JLI... really digging the current Justice League: Generation Lost maxi series. Didn't expect to think too much of it, as I really haven't been a big fan of Judd Winick's writing... I was hoping none of his preachy-ness would be present (don't want Skeets to somehow contract robot AIDS or anything), and so-far it's been a great run.
It's always the first book I read when I get home, and the fact that it's a bi-weekly title makes it even better. I'm hoping they somehow continue the JLI after the Generation Lost series ends.
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Post by G on Dec 19, 2010 0:50:30 GMT -5
I haven't bought enough comics of any one particular title to rate a comic series of the year properly so I can just mention what I picked up more than once and seemed to be going good.
I've felt that Captain America is pretty decent every time I actually read an issue. Ed Brubaker seems to find a way to make this title seem better than it should be. I remember for years, maybe even a decade or two, Cap has been only moderate or so-so. Brubaker has made the book seem so much more interesting. I'm never disappointed when I read one.
I did read a nice run of Thor's this year. Actually this could have easily been one of my favorite series of 2010 when I read a good 6 or 7 in a row. The story and art was excellent. But then they recently changed artists and I cannot bring myself to buying it. I just don't like the new guy's style.
I've only read a few, but Crossed has been a real fun read when I do read it. It's like a guilty pleasure to actually like it.
That's about it for me. Everything else I've picked up in drips and drabs. The whole idea for me in 2010 was to figure out what I liked and weed the rest out. 2011 will hopefully allow me to follow what I figured I did like and stop buying the things I didn't.
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