"Do You Still Read Comics?" Topic

I've dusted off and some of my old ones, which led me to start reading other old runs.

Now I started following the current ‘Immortal Thor'.

nope. Even as a kid I only read them occasionally. My preferred comics back then were Sgt Rock and the Haunted Tank (if I recall the titles correctly). Super heros didn't do anything for me

No gave that up decades ago.

No.
I also don't watch cartoons.

I draw comics

No, but I might just buy one for my grandson.

Yep, Phantom comics.

Recently picked up a comic book continuation of the Batman: The Animated Series "universe." Not bad, though I didn't like its inclusion of some main DC nonsense elements (Jason Todd, blech, Dick Grayson/Nightwing's rift with Batman, also blech, Azrael, meh. Tim Drake is okay, but wasn't necessary— should have just stuck with the original Robin as in the TV series— there's no need for the character to age.)

A few years ago I read the Squirrel Girl compilation series The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, which is hilarious.

There was a "between the movies" Star Wars comic series which took the original heroes through the gap time between the original film and The Empire Strikes Back— it was quite good, though I'm usually not a fan of Star Wars comics.

For the most part, I stick with re-reading classic stuff. Modern comics have become too explicitly political (and usually nonsensical on those points). But if I hear of a good one with entertaining stories, I will seek it out.

Once long ago I would buy 1 of everything Marvel/DC put out and now none. They became popular in the 1990's and it was only about future value. What is the worth of a Comic book encased in a plastic case ( thats not air tight) which you can never read.

Nope. I was still attempting to stay relatively on track with Batman up until around 2012-2014, and then realized that when comics books errr… "graphic novels" are now starting to be five bucks an issue, plus they simply weren't that enjoyable anymore, I stopped.

I started reading them again when my kids were small and got pulled in. I have read the new Sgt Rock and Strontium Dog among a few others.

I still try, but they aren't cooperating often these days. Propaganda over story-telling, and ham-handed attempts to make me buy a dozen issues to read a single story.

I am enjoying Marvel's recent weird partnerships contained in a single issue. Dr Doom and Rocket Raccoon, for instance. And DC did a nice 12-part with the Penguin not too far back.

Nope. Not in a long time.
I can recall comics being 12˘ when I was a kid. I also preferred the war comics, Sgt. Rock, Enemy Ace, Unknown Soldier. I still have them, but they're out in the garage, probably not the best place. Once comics went up to 50˘ I started to age out of them, but I did collect The Nam until they brought in The Punisher which I did not "get."
Have some House of Secrets/Mystery, Turok and other miscellaneous stuff, a few undergrounds like the Freek Brothers, Zippy, etc.
Still have the first issue of Weird War, too. That's a keeper. I should be taking better care of my comics, I may need to auction them off someday (soon?).
Murphy's right, five bucks for a comic? Too rich for my blood. I have a lead addiction to support nowadays.

Not since back in the previous century. Way back.
When a "monthly" had to come up with a new plot once the current one had ended, they all doubled down on "Dumb".

And this is exactly why Superhero movies derailed also. The original ones were entertaining. But comic book canon based on the need to come up with dumb ideas affected the movies too.

Even though really hot women hang out in Stuart's shop… I'm looking at you Denise.

I read Graphic Novels.

I have a very large collection of LSH which I try to read every so often. Not as much as I did in high school when they were 35 cents or less.

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"I read Graphic Novels". Me too.

Newspaper comics but not the other kind since 1967.

Stopped with DC and Marvel in the mid '80s. Read a few like Nodwick and P.S. 238 while they lasted. Does Knights of the Dinner Table count as a comic?

Not any more…

Once in a while when a new series or mini-series catching my attention. Last one was Scooby Doo Team-Up which was brilliantly done.

Did recently back the Archie reproductions Kickstarter for some of the iconic early originals.

"I can recall comics being 12˘ when I was a kid."

You ARE a kid. I can remember the first time I saw one labelled "Still 10 cents!" I thought then it was a bad sign. Not even a "cents" key on my keyboard any more.

Graphic novels and on line comics, not comic books.

Does Calvin and Hobbes count?

No. I just look at the pictures. ;)

With TNLM, I get trade papers of series. Keeping up with Hellboy and did a number of Vertigo series when they in the earlly 90's.

We sold all my old ones. I think the lot took SWMBO and I out to dinner.

I buy the occasional Rivers of London "graphic novel", but that's it.

My collection is only about 300 comics, mostly 80's indies (FFFB, Eagle Dredds, other really bizarre stuff) bought like 30 years ago, no Marvel/DC (I thought they were garbage back then, too ;-)
I looked through about half a million(!) comics in 3 days at a Giant Comic Book Warehouse. One of the times I was there a kid found a #1 Iron Man in a box. The owner let him have it for a buck (it was fair game, being in with the general stock.)
Someday I'll drag my collection out and re-read them all again… ;-)

Just comics in the Sunday paper.

Parzival

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Batman 66 is a continuation of the TV series Batman. Very good. It is the TV series without limits caused by budgets. So the bad guys can have a dozen henchmen instead of three or four. The omnibus edition is very long and includes all the stand alone stories.

The also did Batman 66 Meets XXXX various other period TV shows such as the Avengers, Wonder Woman, Archie, Man from UNCLE, these are not included in the omnibus edition and some are available on Kindle.

I have all of them and have read all of them twice, or more.

As a kid I read GI Combat, where the Haunted Tank was one of many story lines, along with GI Robot. I also liked the War that Time Forgot, GIs versus Dinosaurs! I also liked Fantastic Four and a few other mostly war comics.

I have a couple reprinted collected editions of Haunted Tank, and Fantastic Four.

Mike

I read online comics, graphic novels, some newspaper comics that are still available on line, and annual compendiums of monthly or bimonthly issues of select comics series I like that are third party and not Marvel (Chew and the Department of Truth being good examples, both come and gone as with so many modern comics). There have been real gems in the online comics: Schlock Mercenary, Space Trawler, the Water Phoenix King, Dumbing of Age, and some Atomic Robo story lines. Most of the comics are trash, but then so are any other media.

Zephyr1, it's such a weird hobby. I buy a comic, bag and board it, add it's entry into a comic collector app, toss the comic in a comic box, and then toss the box into a closet never to be seen again! LoL.

Actually… it's a lot like buying miniatures to paint "some day" or models to build "some day".

Sigh. Why do all my hobbies involve stuffed closets? :-)

Seriously, I've been reading mostly Omnibus versions of silver and bronze age. I also have rekindled a love of old Valiant comics. Modern DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, et al all went off the rails long ago with their social agendas I do not agree with.

I read the odd graphic novel sometimes comic compendiums (I enjoyed the Marvel Darth Vader series a few years ago), but not really.

I never cared much for "American-style" (i.e. Marvel and the like) comics. About the only one that I've liked was Gaiman's Sandman.

I did read quite a lot of Franco-Belgian comics when younger, chiefly Tintin and Asterix.

I still regularly read newspaper or online gag-a-day comics, though by now I guess xkcd is alone in supporting the "regularly" part of that statement.

Yes, very much so.

Thanks to recent Comixology sales (especially those $1.99 USD per digital volume DC sales in december), and various Humble Bundle and Fanatical Bundles, I've really gotten back into comics/graphic novels recently.

It's been fun to revist the weird semi-random series that I'd only read in parts back when I was buying singles from the discount bins, and catch up on a bunch of excellent series and runs that I missed out on.

I still prefer physical volumes where it makes sense (for beloved series, and stuff that has no digital version or is cheaper physically), but I already have multiple packed bookshelves in my home, and I'm out of wall space for another one (just the bundles alone would fill a couple by my reckoning).

Why do all my hobbies involve stuffed closets?

Your real hobby is buying stuff..?

Ok … maybe one of your related hobbies. Like if you sew, you might also take up batik printing, and end up with a stash of printed fabrics yet to be made into clothes, bedding, and what-not.

These two hobbies are no immune to the lure of the buying stuff hobby. You could also end up with a stash of plain fabrics not printed, a stash of purchased fabrics not sewn, some really cool, shiny, bespoke printing tools never used, and that one grommeting tool that you use for six grommets on one lace up shirt five years ago.

Yes

I object to the implicitly pejorative term "still".

Graphic novels, yes. Comics, sometimes. I usually check them out of the public library or find them online.

The drawing style is far more important to getting me interested in the book than the story.

I still read 2000 AD.

After a long hiatus from my teen years, I started reading them again with the Simpsons. That led to a few other non-Marvel/DC lines. Then Bongo went under, and they stopped all the Simpsons titles, and I pretty much stopped overnight. I have a few long boxes in my basement of obscure titles (anyone else remember M.A.R.S. ?) but I have not added anything to the lot in years.

I don't read comic books but I do read the "funnies" online.

US and UK comics were entirely different creations when I was a child in the 60's
There was some snobbery here about the US ones and they were not stocked in WH Smiths and we only saw them randomly in places like the caravan site shop on holiday so you never saw the next instalment.

Here it was the jokey cartoons like the Beano and Dandy, and lots of adventure ones like Eagle [Dan Dare Pilot of the Future], Valiant, Tiger, Lion, Hurricane etc

TV Comic was a vehicle for various TV shows including Doctor Who, the Telegoons, and Star Trek, and in the case of the latter made me realise they were not all in grey shirts.

Best of all was a quality product TV21 which was a vehicle for the worlds of Gerry Anderson, but inexplicably also the Daleks.

But no, I dont even know what if any comics are now on offer , its more a case of graphic novels in the SF section of the shop.

I remember M.A.R.S. Patrol, jgawne. Wally Wood, at least for the early issues, but as I remember it trailed off without a conclusion. Some series don't need one. That one did.

A very select few of the new/current ones. But I have about 6500 old issues dating back to the 50s and 60s onward, plus a few shelves of trade paperbacks and graphic novels.

A very select few of the new/current ones. But I have about 6500 old issues dating back to the 50s and 60s onward, plus a few shelves of trade paperbacks and graphic novels.

This topic has appeared a second time, by the way.

Have digital copies of Captain America up to 400s or so along with Iron Man, Fantastic 4, Avengers, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, etc. Picked up a bunch of them.

Amazing stuff really. Absolutely essential if you are a Supers gamer if you ask me.