Anyone recommend any good ones?

Amazing Spiderman "Coming Home" by JMS

Rising Stars "Born in Fire" by JMS

The Sandman: "Preludes & Nocturnes" by Neil Gaiman

Any books by Grant Morrison as well. A great comic book writer, well worth a look. (No I'm not just saying that 'cos I used to live 10 minutes away from him at all, he is really good.)

Will possibly go buy some next month, there are quite a few out there I fancy.

Ones I have already got:

DC ARCHIVES COLLECTION : BATMAN VOL 1

THE GREATEST SUPERMAN STORIES EVER TOLD

THE BEST OF STAR TREK

THE BEST OF STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION

UNDERWORLD

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRODINARY GENTLEMEN VOL 1

not many for someone who used to be the biggest comic fan like I was!!

well added 4 today as you can see in the LAST THING YOU BOUGHT thread:

Essential Spiderman vol 1
Spiderman - Coming Home
Batman of the 60's
JLA - year 1!!!

anyone else read any of these? i know some of you have read 'Coming Home' one but what about the others?

I was flicking through JLA Year One earlier today (well, yesterday). Haven't read it, but it looked quite good.

Just ordered

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN vol 2 from AMAZON !!!

When I was in 'Another World' yesterday, they had both volumes of TLOXG.

Preacher Volume 4 will be next on my list, but not until after payday I don't think :lol:

After seeing HELLBOY tonight I have ordered one of the HELLBOY books from AMAZON to see what the original material is actually like!!

Good call Ken. If you enjoyed the movie (as I did btw) you will love the original series. The movie is amazingly true to the source material (making it a rarity in hollywood today).

To all the nay sayers who decry the movie I say :guns: :guns: :P

I take it you have some of the original material my friend?

Which ones have you got?

was there ever a B5 comic book?

Yep, there were a few as I recall. I know there's at least one TP, I've got it somewhere, although I wouldn't recommend it, it's highly spoilerish at this point. That goes for the majority of the novels as well ;)

Havent seen any of the novels anyway but thanks for the warning.

Got tons to read at the moment anyway and still about 4 more books to arrive sometime next month from AMAZON before the new STAR TREK NEW FRONTIER that I have preordered arrives in NOVEMBER.

There have been 2 Babylon 5 comic series. The first lasted for 13 issues until it was cancelled by DC (owned by Time Warner, go figure!!) It was co-written by JMS himself. All 13 issues are reprinted in 2 trade paperbacks. Well worth hunting down (and not too spoilerish as they are set during season 1)

The second series was a 3 issue mini series written by Peter David (does that guy sleep??) It would be far too spoilery for me to tell you who stars in it and what they get up to. Maybe after you've seen season 3 I could go into more detail ;)

Isn't one of the TPs titled In *****'* Name ?? ;)

I'd stay away from that one until the third season for sure :lol:

Is the David one set on Mars ?? (can't remember offhand). Again that's another one to avoid for now.

;) No the Peter David one is the story entitled "In *****'s name" and it is set aboard what is left of a "1000 year old space station" hint hint. ;)

The first two trades are set within season 1 of the show and should therefore be mostly harmless for newbies to read :D

I really should get around to re-reading that one at least :)

Think it's at Mum and Dad's somewhere though :rolleyes:

You had better watch out that Oxfam haven't benefitted from your "generosity" while you weren't looking ;)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

She wouldn't dare. I'll take a look for it the next time I'm down there. Last time I went digging I found X-Men Onslaught Volume 1. :thumbsup:

gone from having only a few of these to a nice little collection in the last month. Two more today (see What you last bought thread!!)

I am sure your mum wouldnt throw anything away without asking you first would she?

No, she's quite good like that. Thank God :)

I've still got a couple of volumes of Preacher to get through. Started volume 2, Until The End of the World last night. I'd forgotten just how brilliant that one was.

The Invisibles, and Transmetropolitan are also well worth the read. ;)

Has anyone read the books STAN LEE's BATMAN or STAN LEE's SUPERMAN
and if so are they any good?

Haven't read either of those, but how does that work Ken ?? Aren't Batman and Superman both DC properties ?? Was Stan moonlighting ?? :lol:

Incidentally have you seen that the Japanese are producing a Manga version of Star Trek ?? :thumbsup:

Just saw the two books on Amazon today. I guess it was a special that STAN LEE did with DC's blessing.

As for Japanesse star trek I heard a rumour somewhere do you know any details?

Only the details that Trektoday released. I've placed a quoted post in the general Trek forum.

It was a bit of a coup for DC, getting Marvel's head honcho to re-imagine their biggest characters as though he had created them originally (basically a marvel style take of the characters). The books all read like Marvel "What if?" books.

I own the Wonder Woman book, which is "interesting" but only read it once.

They let him loose on all the big properties, Green Lantern, Flash, Batman, Superman, JLA, Wonderwoman, but all of them were very cliche and had Stan Lee's typical writing style all over them.

The X-Men aside, I've always preferred DC over Marvel anyway.

So what did you think of Joss Whedons recent ressurection of Colossus? it was sneaky how he made us think he was bringing Jean back (again! Is it just me who feels that is sooo passe now). He has gotten off to a great start with the book.

Haven't checked out X-Men since Whedon's been over there Jamie. Sad to sy, I haven't had the time :angry:

I would make the time if i were you. The book is lining up to be amazing. Sorry if I spoiled the surprise for you re the resurrection :( It is still worth reading regardless. Joss seems to have a good understanding of the characters and their motivations. The reappearance of Kitty Pryde and Lockheed the dragon (hardly my favourite characters ever) is turning out to be a genius move on his part also.

Go read it now.

Yes, i mean now!!!

So little time, too many things to watch/read. :rolleyes:

It's stored away for future acquisition. I'll pick up the TPBs as they come out ;)

Have ordered a copy of the Batman and Superman ones. (They were only £1-25 each)

Will let you know what I think to them when they arrive.

Looking forward to STRANGE issue 2 later this month.

So you managed to track down issue 1 then?

It's obvious that JMS has a real passion for the character (his appearances in JMS's spidey run really told me that) But as always a firm, but clear handle on storytelling. The pacing was fabulous and the art just felt right somehow.

I can't wait for issue 2 myself :D

Yes, got it from SHEFFIELD SPACE CENTRE, going to go straight there for issue 2 and beyond, not bothering looking elsewhere.

We're quite lucky here, we have Another World about 10 minutes drive away :thumbsup:

There are some mail order/online stores that do subscription services Ken for those people who are comic shop deprived.

example?

You could try here...

Paradox comics

Or

Comicana

Out of the two, comicana has the best reputation for reliability

Give them a try ;)