Thread 150204918

Are these the best comics being published right now? If not, what are some better comics?

>>150204918 (OP)
nobody reads comics

>>150204918 (OP)
>Are these the best comics being published right now?
I rather like absolute Martian Manhunter anyway

>>150204918 (OP)
AMM, Dark Patters and Seasons are each on my pull and the first two are the only two DC is publishing that are worth reading. Power fantasy and ACE are complete ass juice though.

Haven’t read “we’re taking down…” but it doesn’t seem bad might give it a shot

>>150204918 (OP)
Seasons is super underrated and under the radar. And I love it. But I do think it could move faster plot-wise. I almost wish it was a guaranteed ongoing (feels like a stealth 12 issue maxi) and that it could wrap up this first storyline and just send the characters off on an adventure.

Absolute Martian Manhunter is incredible.

>>150204918 (OP)
bottom middle has a nice cover

>>150204918 (OP)
Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers has been consistently great, though he's only got one issue left.

>>150204918 (OP)
I only read the first two issues of Seasons before deciding to wait for the deluxe hardcover. First issue of Escape was pretty damn good and I'm looking forward to the next one.

>>150205410
>the first two are the only two DC is publishing that are worth reading.
Batman & Robin Year One has been surprisingly good.

>>150206377
I really didn’t like it from what I read. His comic with rossmo ws much better.

>>150206464
I disagree. It’s on my pull but only because I left it on for a few too many issues and Im not gonna take a mini off of it so late.

Dark patterns and AMM are legit gems.

>>150204918 (OP)
>>150205405
>>150205671
Eh, I thought it was okay.

>>150204918 (OP)
There's zero debate that DC is putting out better books than Marvel right now. The last two books from Marvel I liked were Clobberin' Time and Predator vs Wolverine (both minis), the ongoings have been trash for decades, and all the minis since I've put on my pull list (Wolverine: Revenge, Spider-Man & Wolverine) have been dog shit as well.

>>150204918 (OP)
You forgot : skybounds transformers,absolute batman,void rivals,absolute wonder woman and thats about that

>>150206679
>absolute batman
>absolute wonder woman
These are trash though

>>150204918 (OP)
I like the first two, and ACE has been on my To Read list.
The others are worth reading?

>>150205309
Can confirm.

>>150206822
Season is pretty solid but admittedly kinda slow. But you’ll enjoy it reading what’s already out.

>>150206833
Seasons*

>>150206852
The Seasons*

>>150207082
The Sneedsons*

>>150204918 (OP)
Literally all shit. There's no good comics right now.

>>150208153
What's specifically bad about each of them?

>>150204918 (OP)
>Absolute MM
Pretty good, definitely one of the best from DC right now at least
>Batman Dark Patterns
I don't care that much about Batman, never heard of it
>The Power Fantasy
Gillen is incredibly overrated, only skimmed the first couple of issues and was not impressed.
>Assorted Crisis Events
I've been liking Camp and the format is cool but it gets way more soapbox-y for my liking.
>We're Taking Everyone Down With Us
It's good enough so far, art could be better
>The Seasons
I generally enjoy Remender and this has been good so far but I'm waiting for it to wow me.

>>150208566
Dark patterns is genuinely good.

>>150204918 (OP)
I read the first three issues of The Seasons. Not super interesting amd the art is whatever. I don't think I enjoy Remender as much as others here. I felt next to nothing from three of his recent comics.

>>150204918 (OP)
I read the first three issues of The Seasons. Not super interesting and the art is whatever. I don't think I enjoy Remender as much as others here. I felt next to nothing from three of his recent comics.

>>150204918 (OP)
Absolute MMH is the new demon knights, everyone with a pull list is swearing its tbe best thing ever but the moment it ends you'll forget about it.

>>150208153
What's the last good comic you read?

>>150208566
I feel like the format of the seasons is just more to just have fun with the medium, its way more lighthearted and fun and campy than his other stuff as of late, but still carrying the ANY SECOND NOW bone of all going fuckways

Escape tho feels like a more hardcore regular Remender and Acuña's art is so on point, the first issue really hooked me.

>>150204918 (OP)
The fact people seem to be reading them and talking about them online is certainly an improvement over the last decade or so of big two comics. I hope they learn something from this

>>150204918 (OP)
>Absolute Martial Mind****er
I like it. Nice art, cool story. No notes. Definitely the best Absolute title and possibly the best thing DC has going on right now.
>Dark Patterns
It's Batman just the way I like him. A costumed detective solving cases, rather than a superhero saving the world. Good shit.
>The Power Fantasy
It feels a bit too much like Gillen trying to make his own Jupiter's Legacy. I don't hate it, it's just not gripping me so far. The heaven and hell stuff it's been going into does feel more interesting to me than the first few issues though.
>Assorted Crisis Events
Eh, not my thing. Too much navelgazing and while the atypical structures are interesting, he's just not telling an interesting story through them. It's more an attempt at artsy social commentary than a comic book. It's hard not to draw the comparison to AMM where there's also artsy gimmicks and social commentary, but they support the story rather than the other way around.

I haven't read the other two so can't comment on them. I'll probably check them out some time.

There's some other ongoings I'm enjoying right now including Absolute Wonder Woman, Resurrection Man, Moon Knight, Transformers, Void Rivals, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, Something Is Killing the Children, The Hunger and the Dusk, W0rldtr33, etc. though I wouldn't like to rank them in a top X list.

>>150204918 (OP)
You forgot 2000AD, but yeah those are good books.

>>150204918 (OP)
I don't know? I never read any of these comics. Too lazy desu.

>>150210246
>Absolute Wonder Woman, Resurrection Man, Moon Knight
Awful, just awful

>>150204918 (OP)
I had to agree, those are solid titles.

>>150210321
>2000AD
All of it, or select stories?

>>150211599
Excellent argument, my mentally handicapped friend.

>>150204918 (OP)
No. None.

>>150210246
>Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, Something Is Killing the Children
These are bad.

>>150210321
Right now, the progs are alright, but none of the recent stories have been all that memorable.

>>150210321
I like 2000AD but I can't recall any particularly recent series I really liked, it's mostly just waiting for one of the ones I really like to eventually come back like Brass Sun or The Order

>>150212402
It's an anthology book so pick and choose

>>150213954
>>150213987
Damn.

>>150213856
Radiant Black and Rogue Sun are unironically some of the most enjoyable cape comics coming out today. Which is arguably faint praise, but nonetheless. And while I can somewhat understand not vibing with SIKTK, as long as you ignore all the shitty spinoff titles it's a very good story.

>>150214302
I found them all incredibly boring.

>>150204918 (OP)
No idea

>thread talking about what comics people like
>half the replies are just mindless NPCs going HURR SHIT SUCKS without even bothering to pretend they're capable of having an actual opinion
/co/ is dead and all of you maggots are defiling its corpse.

>>150208325
What's good about them? If the story and art aren't working together, then I lose interest.
>>150210094
Do you mean recent or at all?
Saga of the Swamp Thing is the last good comic I finished. I don't even remember the last good comic I read that's released in years.

>>150204918 (OP)
No.

>>150210094
Kate Beaton’a Ducks. Pretty good. Horrible to read about her rape.

>>150210321
2000ad has has too many lacklustre rotating strips this year. Not a fan of this latest long term evil AI Sinister Dexter arc at all, especially now that it’s turned into another series entirely

>>150215627
Who cares about that bitch?

>>150204918 (OP)
if they are, comics are worse than i thought. this is hte kinda trash youd find in the YA/indie diversity faggot pile.

>>150216451
You read all of them? You read YA trash?

>>150216426
There’s this thing called empathy. Ever heard of it?

>>150216663
Don't waste it on people you have nothing to do with.

>>150216770
Pretty sociopathic take

>>150216806
No, I'm just not pretending to care.

>>150204918 (OP)
i think the rocketfellers is a neat read whenever it comes around.

>>150204918 (OP)
All that except Martian Manhunter. That one's art looks like crap.

>>150216922
It’s way too slow and the whole backstory for them fleeing is incredibly boring.

>>150216968
eh the pacing's the way it is because it ran into 2 delays and raina's backstory is currently being focused on.

>>150216922
Best Ghost Machine book?

>>150215352
Just ignore them, bro.

>>150217547
You shouldn't ignore all of them. Ignore the spammy ones, the ones that come off like bots.

>>150217443
eh, probably

>>150215511
>I don't even remember the last good comic I read that's released in years.
Damn...

>>150206464
Samnee's great but everything I've read with him as the artist sucks.

No New Ultimate comics?

>>150220474
Nope.

>>150204918 (OP)
dark patterns is overrated slop for people who liked jj abrams batman

>>150222111
I hated the reeves movie and find the cartoon to be reprehensibly woke and shitty. I also happen to hate Absolute Wonder Woman but Sherman’s art in DP is much better and the comic is fantastic.

So basically speak for yourself faggot.

>>150220240
That’s cause he’s always working with waid or some other hack like kirkman

>>150204918 (OP)
We're fucked if that's the case

>>150214302
Radiant Black has been spinning its wheels for so long now and killed any momentum it might have had. I'm honestly surprised it hasn't been cancelled. Rogue Sun was alright.

Anyone here read the Universal Monsters comics? I've only read a bit of Dracula but I really like the idea of handing the characters over to people who are up and coming in horror comics.

>>150222948
I thought Dracula was okay but mostly for the art

>>150222948
Frankenstein was really good and Invisible Man is promising.

I like the new GI Joe comic

>>150222736
Why do you say that?

>>150204918 (OP)
i hope not

>>150208796
People keep saying that, but no one ever elaborates on what's so good about it.

>>150225130
Because.

>>150225130
I'll read it in a bit

>>150217443
I like Hyde Street.

>>150204918 (OP)
I don't get the love for The Seasons. It's very cliched, decompressed, flimsy, and dull. It has no spark whatsoever, certainly none of what makes Ghibli or Tintin enjoyable.
Jordi Lafebre drew this nice cover, and it's the only good thing about this comic. Too bad it's a fucking variant cover.

>>150226633
ok

>>150206488
I'm not liking that one.

>>150204918 (OP)
I forgot to keep up with Assorted Crisis Events, thanks for reminding me.

>Dark Patterns
Boring garbage for morons, so no wonder your average Batman fan enjoys it.

>>150228118
Okay, I take that back. Issue 1 of ACE was this fun story that had broadstrokes theming about Covid or Gentrification or something, it was a great setup for the broader setting and how different places in that city could have different stories involving the TAZ events.
Issue 2 followed up on this, but the chopped & ground up timeline of events felt kinda forced to fit the narrative allegory, and the ending was too much of a downer.
Issue 3 felt way too on the nose. Sometimes humorously, but I would've preferred something a little more light-hearted, subvert our expectations by having the town motto triumph in the end.
It was after realizing both of these had terribly depressing endings I went back to issue 1 and reread it with the framing of "this is a oneshot for this character, we'll never get a follow up" and it's just as dreadfully overbearing in its depression as 2 & 3.
These Strange Apocalypse scenarios are mixed with Contemporary Issues into a thin gruel of masturbatory pessimistic nihilism. The punchline of issue #1 doesn't feel like dark humor anymore, it just feels like it hates its audience for expecting light at the end of the tunnel.

>>150228643
Issue 4 actually makes good use of its scifi premise to deliver an entire life over the course of a single comic by presenting us with a protagonist who has enormous gaps in his memory. As depressing as any other issue, but not as vindictive in how it delivers it.
Issue 5 does something a little different by separating the trauma of witnessing spousal abuse from the trauma of witnessing a single instance of spousal abuse as a seemingly endless timeloop. It still fits the allegory of how that defining moments seems to play itself over and over like a broken record in the victim's mind, but it also stresses that the protagonist (the daughter of this mutually abusive couple) is experiencing mental strain from the loop itself. This one actually ends on a better note - after a botched suicide attempt, we learn she's sharing her story at Temporal Trauma Anonymous in the hopes hearing it from her can help someone else avoid trying what she did. Shocking that it took that much to get something even remotely approaching positivity.
Time to forget this comic exists again.

>>150204918 (OP)
I read the first issue of Dark Patterns. I like certain aspects of it: the art for the most part (sometimes, Batman looks too skinny), the investigation (even if it's just Batman telling you everything), the gruesomeness of the crimes. I'm still iffy about how Batman is characterized.
A couple of odd things. One is regarding the tongue and teeth being pulled so that the victims are unable to scream. What? Another was Batman going for the Wound Man's solar plexus, but he's actually going for his throat.
Still, I'm willing to stick with it for a bit.

>>150228643
>>150228763
I was looking forward to it. Oh well.

>>150204918 (OP)
>Rick Remender
Confirmed garbage.

>>150214302
Rogue Sun got really annoying with how the MC still hates his dad but is stuck with him for the fourth time or whatever and his dad is still a piece of crap his son hates for the fourth time. It's a dynamic that's gotten super stale, either get over it or get rid of it.
My thoughts on Radiant Black suffers from it being a monthly that I'm just not invested enough in to stay monthly. I read it in fits and starts, and that trial arc was too god damn weird to half ass a binge and follow it as it released.

>>150217443
From what I remember of Ghost Machine, that's faint praise. Not insulting praise, but faint. Redcoat or whatever was the best I remember, and that was only alright.

>>150229193
he was good more than 10 years ago.

>>150229974
He was never good.

>>150205309
Can confirm.

doubt it

As I'm reading through these, I'm slowly realizing that the non-readers were right. These really aren't very good. I do this every so often: I give new comics a chance to see if I can find at least one worth keeping up with, hopefully more, but they always disappoint. What the fuck happened? I read older comics and they're a blast.

>>150232845
Which ones did you read?

>>150229160
Don't take my words as a dismissal of it entirely. It wasn't for me, but you could potentially still derive enjoyment from it. Aside from how pessimistic I personally find it, it's still very intelligently written. Use my words to set your expectations appropriately so that if you do end up disappointed it won't be so immense, but don't skip it entirely. I'm just text on a screen, you'll know whether you like it or not better than I could.

>>150233533
I dislike a lot of the stuff you mentioned. I'll still give it a shot.

>>150229974
>>150230240
Which is it?

>>150226633
What a cringe Ghibli wannabe piece of shit lol

>>150235369
Did you read it?

>>150236088
of course she didnt