What series/characters do you read?

[BatHobbit]

The title says it all. What comics do people read? Of course the focus should be on Dynamite but if there is something else you love it wouldn't hurt to mention it.

My picks:

Favorite Dynamite:
Green Hornet
Zorro
Phantom
Project Superpowers

I will read the Shadow as soon as the trade is out.

Favorite Non Dynamite
Dynamo 5
Batman Beyond
Green Arrow
Zatanna
THUNDER Agents (modern series)

[tony ingram]

From Dynamite, I read Red Sonja, all the ERB related stuff, Green Hornet, and I'll buy anything related to the Phantom or the Shadow. I also buy a lot of Marvel stuff, IDW's Doctor Who titles on the rare occasions that I can find them, Vertigo's Fables and Hellblazer and a few British titles I doubt most people on here have ever heard of, notably 2000AD. I used to buy a lot of DC, but dropped everything they published outside of the Vertigo books when they rebooted their universe last September and flushed 76 years worth of history down the toilet. On the whole, as far as my wallet is concerned, DC's loss has been Dynamite's gain.

[positronic]

Oh come on, Tony, give us dumb Americans a little credit. I used to love 2000 AD back in the day (meaning, the 1980s), or to be more accurate the Titan Books album reprints (and the Eagle/Quality/Fleetway Comics American comic-sized ones as well) of Judge Dredd, Judge Anderson, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, A.B.C. Warriors, D.R. & Quinch, Nemesis the Warlock, Zenith, Future Shocks, Time Twisters, and a few others. Never cared for the cheap newspaper format of 2000 AD of that time, though, and always felt they read better in bigger chunks. Had almost the whole run of Dez Skinn's WARRIOR magazine before it was reprinted by Eclipse and DC, too. Just lost track of the characters over the years, but still feel those early ones are classic. One of these days I'm going to get a nice complete set of reprints of the classic Dan Dare strips from The Eagle (have a few odd reprint volumes packed away somewhere).

I read about half (maybe more) of the books Dynamite publishes. Started with Project Superpowers and Avengers/Invaders and kept adding new ones as they were introduced. Mostly all the "classic" properties and some of the TV & movie based titles. Probably easier to list the ones I don't read: Red/Queen Sonja, Thulsa Doom, The Boys/Butcher, Jennifer Blood/Ninjettes, Vampirella (except reprint collections and Vampi vs Dracula), Army of Darkness, Battlestar Galactica, Voltron, Bring the Thunder... blanking on the rest. Also read all of Bongo Comics' output, and a few titles from Moonstone, IDW, and Boom! Studios.

Very few Marvel or DC books since last year. The Twelve is my last remaining floppy Marvel title since Punisher MAX ended, for DC I have Batman Beyond Unlimited, Young Justice and Green Lantern Animated -- at this point I'm switching to trade paperbacks. Will be getting about a half-dozen DCs (Aquaman, All Star Western, 3 Green Lantern titles, and Legion of Super-Heroes), even fewer Marvels (I think just Captain America/Cap & Bucky, Iron Man, Daredevil, and Fantastic Four).

Most of my money is going to hardcover & softcover reprints of classic comic stuff: from old newspaper adventure strips to Golden & Silver Age comics, to weird alternative/indy stuff from Fantagraphics.

[tony ingram]

Oh come on, Tony, give us dumb Americans a little credit. I used to love 2000 AD back in the day (meaning, the 1980s), or to be more accurate the Titan Books album reprints (and the Eagle/Quality/Fleetway Comics American comic-sized ones as well) of Judge Dredd, Judge Anderson, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, A.B.C. Warriors, D.R. & Quinch, Nemesis the Warlock, Zenith, Future Shocks, Time Twisters, and a few others. Never cared for the cheap newspaper format of 2000 AD of that time, though, and always felt they read better in bigger chunks. Had almost the whole run of Dez Skinn's WARRIOR magazine before it was reprinted by Eclipse and DC, too. Just lost track of the characters over the years, but still feel those early ones are classic. One of these days I'm going to get a nice complete set of reprints of the classic Dan Dare strips from The Eagle (have a few odd reprint volumes packed away somewhere).

Hah! Yeah, sorry, I should have worded that differently; I think everyone's heard of 2000AD even if they haven't read it, and yes, the eighties were definitely its golden era, though it's still pretty good more often than not. Good to find another Warrior fan, too. Dez, Alan Moore and the rest did some great work there. I know Dez, slightly, and he's still very proud of it, I know. It broke new ground with regard to creator's rights in the UK. It's just a shame it didn't last longer, but I don't think it ever really recovered from the loss of Marvelman.

[eric_trautmann]

Hah! Yeah, sorry, I should have worded that differently; I think everyone's heard of 2000AD even if they haven't read it, and yes, the eighties were definitely its golden era, though it's still pretty good more often than not. Good to find another Warrior fan, too. Dez, Alan Moore and the rest did some great work there. I know Dez, slightly, and he's still very proud of it, I know. It broke new ground with regard to creator's rights in the UK. It's just a shame it didn't last longer, but I don't think it ever really recovered from the loss of Marvelman.

I would commit non-specific murders to write Rogue Trooper.

I love a lot of that Warrior and 2000 a.d. stuff, and re-read Charley's War as often as possible.

A pity the Wildstorm Battler Brittain series didn't take off (pardon the pun), because I would dearly love to see more of that character, or at least a decent reprint collection. :/

-E

[tony ingram]

I would, too. There were a lot of great characters and concepts created by IPC in fact, and I really don't understand why Wildstorm never made more use of them, or why so little has been reprinted aside from Charley's War, Darkie's Mob and a handful of other strips. They never even finished reprin ting The Spider, which I'd have thought would have sold pretty well just because of having Jerry Siegel's name attached to it.

[Red Bryan]

Dynamite:

Red and Queen Sonja, but not very interested anymore
Jungle Girl, very good, but no issues anymore
Vampirella Archives, because this is really great stuff!!!

Ex-Dynamite-reads:

Vampirella, but cancelled because of lack of Vampirella
Man with no name, what a desaster!! worst series I read in a long time
Battlestar Galactica, hm, not really good, sorry
Army of darkness, sorry, but I like the extended ending of the movie and the comics continue the "original" ending

Non-Dynamite:

Hellraiser
Lady Death
Supergirl
Berserk
Witchblade
Buffy
Tarot, Witch of the black rose
Grimm Fairy Tales
Wonderland Trilogy
very much classic stuff, Marvel Omnibusses, Masterworks, Essentials, TPBs, I loved CrossGen
I look very much forward to the "Terror on the Planet of the Apes" reprints of the classic Moench-Marvel-stories. I waited for them almost 30 years!

[positronic]

Seems like almost all the original 2000 AD series were based on very simple, high concept "fusion" genres -- Judge Dredd is a sci-fi DRAGNET, Rogue Trooper a sci-fi World War II story, Strontium Dog a sci-fi spaghetti western, etc. They should all be made into (faithfully adapted) movies. Still hold out a bit of hope for the DREDD remake next September.

[Captain Canuck]

...at this point I'm switching to trade paperbacks.

Yeah. Me too, at least for DC (I don't buy Marvel at the moment), with the exception being Batwoman and perhaps the Earth-2 books. I was buying Deathstroke but Liefeld taking over that book is my cue to leap.

Someone mentioned Dynamo 5 and I need to buy Vol 3 of that soon. That's a fun book.

[tony ingram]

Seems like almost all the original 2000 AD series were based on very simple, high concept "fusion" genres -- Judge Dredd is a sci-fi DRAGNET, Rogue Trooper a sci-fi World War II story, Strontium Dog a sci-fi spaghetti western, etc. They should all be made into (faithfully adapted) movies. Still hold out a bit of hope for the DREDD remake next September.

Actually, while I agree with your assessment, Strontium Dog wasn't an original 2000AD series (it began life in Star-Lord in 1978) and Rogue Trooper was a comparatively late addition, starting in 1981. Even Dredd wasn't in 2000AD from the very beginning; his debut was delayed until issue #2 after John Wagner walked out in a dispute over creator's rights. There's an overview of 2000AD's history at the link below, to celebrate its 35th anniversary.

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdow...ll-these-years