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Hello guys I need little help
I Never read any comics or even thought I will want to read some but as big fan of Batman, Spiderman or X-men I decided to give it a shot. Just look at guys from The big bang theory TV serial how happy they are at Comics nights ^^
Im compleatly lost. I have no idea where I can get some. I was looking for some Batman comics 1st cause Bruce Wayn is THE BALLER. But I cant find any. I was lurking the pirate bay but they have just one or two, yes they have X-men comics but they are HUUUUUUUGE and I cant download 2gigas right now. And second problem is when I get em how I also need program to read em.
And No i cant get comics from shop cause I have no idea where is comics shop here and they will be probably really expensive.
Have you guys any ideas ?
Are you comics fan ? If yes what are you reading right now ?
thanks for help : )
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find the program called CDisplay for reading comics.
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I dont like Comics because they are filled with huge amount of text per panel and the reading feels very slow.
Spawn was great though
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the walking dead!!! best comic, recommended by day9 ^^
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If you download comics from the internet they're normally compressed with rar or zip.
My favorite Batman comic is The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
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Such a shame you can't buy comics, they are seriously so much better in paper.
If you are looking for super hero comics (which in my opinion are pretty lame) I guess the classic The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller is an obvious recommend. If you like mindless violence and stuff in comics, go for Sin City by Frank Miller- probably my favourite series.
idk, some stuff to start with- there are lots of comics threads on TL with some good recommendations.
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Netherlands6142 Posts
I've read Watchmen from download - great comic. Also downloaded stuff like 300, TMNT and Batman from time to time but never read much. The real thing is handier.
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United States4796 Posts
The Killing Joke (Batman) is amazing.
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thanks guys a lot for tips
Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller reading right its OK
Downloading Walking dead that looks promising
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You should check out the sin city collection. (Also by Frank Miller)
Amazing, and not that big.
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Unfortunately comics have a 50-60 year history and jumping into it is not that easy, there are a lot of old storylines that you won't understand or references that are tough.
If you're interested in Superman, you should read Superman: birthright because that's a re-vamp on his origin, written by Mark Waid, fairly recent. The first 30 issues or so of Superman/Batman (the most recent version) are pretty good reading, as those were still canonical stories at the time, tells the origin of the current Supergirl.
If you're interested in team ups, then start from JLA (Justice League of America) version 3, which was the revamp started by Grant Morrison in the late 90's. That series brought it back to the core 7 members (Superman Batman wonderwoman GL flash martian manhunter aquaman) instead of having 3 or 4 different JL teams at the same time.
Those are good starting points...getting into individual comics is tough, if you just jump into Green Lantern or the current Batman comics you'll be missing a LOT. The best is to start at the beginning of new storylines, or when they reset the numbering for a new version of the comic.
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The public library might have comics. Enjoyed these in our local one:
The Watchmen by Alan Moore
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola
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I really recommend Ultimate Spiderman!
In fact, I recommend that over Watchmen, The Sandman, or any other big "classic" style comic book. In a sense, if you've never read comics, your brain probably isn't used to reading comics. Watchmen was one of my first ever reads, and it just didn't really "click" for me. I had to re-read it after I'd been immersed in comics for a few years and THEN I loved it.
Ultimate Spiderman is great because it's just so pulpy and action packed. The dialogue is great, and they read really quickly. Moreover, you don't have to worry about the classic issues of "knowing a million characters." The Ultimate line of comics was written with the intent of bringing in new readers, and I think they do a fantastic job.
So start there!
I also recommend Bone or Y:The Last Man for the same reasons (you can just pick them up and begin reading them and they _rule_).
Walking Dead still is my favorite comic series of all time :D
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Another +1 for reading The Killing Joke, definitely my favorite
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On December 04 2010 01:40 Teejing wrote:
the walking dead!!! best comic, recommended by day9 ^^
Lol when did he mention The Walking Dead?
But I am reading The Walking Dead as well, I am highly enjoying it as well.
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Well for Batman you're kind of screwed if you're looking for a ground floor to get into because just about every DC character has been and retooled so many times there really isn't a single continuity to follow. Batman in particular goes through phases. When I stopped reading he was in the "isn't he just as crazy as his enemies?" phase, which seems to be the question most writers go for when writing about him these days.
Nevertheless. For some good Batman stories I recommend Year One by Frank Miller, followed by Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb, as these are somewhat related in continuity, and Batman himself is closest to his current persona in other media. I second The Killing Joke as well, but be careful as a lot of the writers and stories it inspired are downright terrible. Also maybe stay away from anything Miller and Loeb have done recently with the character.
X-Men is tricky. I don't know anything about the Ultimate universe so I can't vouch for it, but I've read every X-Book from the Lee era to Giant-size X-Men#1 to about 2005ish when they finally lost me. Allow me to illustrate Day[9]s point by providing you with a crude guide on which books to read in order to experience the entire continuity.
+ Show Spoiler +-The run starts as X-Men #1 by Stan Lee, and runs under various authors until its cancellation sometime in the 70s. This can mostly be safely ignored. Nothing important happens and they range from terrible to nostalgic. If you know the main characters and their origins you can kind of skip it because it bears no resemblance to the later books. -Giant Size X-men was released around 1975 and was a special issue. It details the formation of the more well known team, and kicks off the current era of X-Men stories. For all intents and purposes it might as well be the first issue. It's the only "special issue" worth reading from that time, so make sure any collection you get includes it. -From then on the story continues as "Uncanny X-Men" and starts with issue #94. Here's where you get all the famous stories you probably saw in the cartoon or the movies such as Proteus and the Phoenix Saga. Also Magneto is more sympathetic, no longer an angry guy in a bucket hat with Stan Lee magic-physics-powers. -Along the way you'll see crossovers with other books such as the Avengers and sometimes Spiderman or Thor. These are part of big multi-book storylines. You can safely ignore the 80s ones without missing much, but it sort of became a money-making scheme in the 90s, so the stories won't make much sense without reading all the other titles in the crossover. The 90s one will say something like "continued in Avengers #326" or something so you know what to read next. -There are three key spinoff books that were spawned from Uncanny X-Men. One is X-Factor which deals with a reunion of the original team and features guys like Apocalypse a lot. Another is New Mutants, which started off good then got written by Rob Liefeld. The last one is X-Men, also called adjectiveless X-Men, and it started in 1991 and will be pretty relatable to people who watched the cartoon. Start reading it side by side with Uncanny X-Men at issue #272 of Uncanny. -A lot of crappy X-Men stories were written in the 90s, but the continuity is sort of straight forward. If you're still reading them now you might as well slog it out. Age of Apocalypse is a bright spot, Onslaught is a soul crushing failure. No one will blame you for skipping right ahead to 2001. -From 2001-2004 X-Men was renamed as New X-Men and became 1000x more awesome. Grant Morrison started writing, and I just pretend nothing else came after his run. You need to be somewhat familiar with past events, or have a reference handy, but if you can overcome this minor obstacle it's definitely worth reading. Do not make the mistake of reading Uncanny-Xmen or (ugh) X-Treme-Xmen during this period unless you are a completist. Or unless you like stories about mutant prostitutes and rapture inducing evil communion wafers. Oh and Nightcrawler as the pope. -You're on your own after 2005. I lost interest, but if you made it this far you never know.
If you can put up with all that bullshit you'll have a blast becoming a self-loathing X-Men continuity nut like myself. If it looks utterly impenetrable do as Day said and pick up an Ultimate.
Just one final thing. Make sure you eventually read Watchmen/Sandman/Akira etc. Watchmen in particular is pretty enjoyable right off the bat, but once you get a feel for the comic book as a medium you'll start realizing little things about it that it does perfectly, and your appreciation for it will jump to a whole new level. Sandman is extremely accessible to anyone who just loves storytelling in general. Akira is just huge in scope and extremely well done.
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I was blown away at how many comics my local library had. There were full series of at least a dozen popular series (DMZ, Fables, and Walking Dead among others).
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