Comics

I know there are a few comic readers here. I'm curious as to what you guys read.

It's mainly horror comics for me, like The Walking Dead and Crossed, though I'll give anything post apocalyptic a chance. I also dabble in Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja but prefer the original REH Conan stories over the comics. I also really like Radical's Hercules miniseries for its more grounded portrayal of the character and his world. And while I like superhero movies, the comics in general have never really appealed to me all that much.

I did read quite a bit of Conan in the past. Older issues...

Do you know what series it might have been? Publisher? Or was it just too long ago?

DC mostly, also books based upon swords and Wing Chun.

Oh gosh, I completely forgot to reply to this thread when you made it. Yes, I do read a lot of comics. I actually started reading Crossed again when you reminded me of it in the OP. At the moment (as physical books) I read The Walking Dead and Deadpool. I just finished the entire Deadpool Killogy. Apart from those, I recently ordered the Fall of Cthulhu omnibus, the second Black Tower book (based on Stephen King's novels) and a bunch of Adventure Time comics just to see what those are like, since I enjoy the show itself. Oh, and I also recently read the Silent Hill omnibus, which was pretty good.

Obviously I also love to read anything Resident Evil related. Yes, I know, most of them are either manga or manhua but the Western ones are rather good, too. Out of those I have the 1996 one-shot from Marvel, the entire series based on RE5 by Ricardo Sanchez and the colelcted edition of Fire & Ice that also happens to include quite a few of the Official Resident Evil Comics. Still waiting for physical, translated editions of Heavenly Island (I know, manga) and I so, so wish the Code: Veronica comics weren't so damn expensive. One day, my pretties...

Isn't Crossed just the most fucked up thing ever conceived? XD Honestly, it's the only post-apocalyptic IP that leaves me with no hope whatsoever at the end because the Crossed virus is so terrifying.

I had been really enjoying the +100 series, but the art started getting really bad beginning with issue #11 to the point that I just couldn't bear it anymore. Now I mainly just read Badlands.

I actually read all my comics here: http://viewcomic.com/ Granted, it takes longer for newer issues to be posted, but it's easier on my wallet.

I just can't read any sort of books on my computer screen, unless I actually have to. Paper format is easier on my eyes. Of course, it's more expensive, but I guess I just have to live with it.

Also yes, Crossed is very messed up. I don't think I can ever get the image of a man murder raping a dolphin out of my head.

There were attempts made to get a Crossed movie or TV show made, but honestly I think the material might be a little too extreme even for premium networks like HBO.

I mostly read Marvel stuff, the darker anti-heros. Wolverine, Ghost Rider, The Punisher etc. The only manga i currently read is Shingeki no Kyojin.

Ghost Leader wrote:

I actually read all my comics here: http://viewcomic.com/ Granted, it takes longer for newer issues to be posted, but it's easier on my wallet.

Oh good i'm not the only one. I was worrying i was being too much of a cheapskate. To be fair i pay when i feel its worth it, and finding hard copies of manga in english is hard.

Bulls-3ye wrote:

Oh good i'm not the only one. I was worrying i was being too much of a cheapskate.

No, you're just a bad person.

This is another site I use.

http://readcomiconline.to/

It has a bigger library and new issues seem to get added quicker.

Yeah that's the one i use too, i prefer it over others i've tried. I usually read my manga here.

http://www.mangareader.net/

Seems pretty good, though i only use it for AoT. So i can't really speak on the extent of it's library.

I used to read Archie Comics, most Sonic before I quit

Resurrecting this thread...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/transformers-terminator-crossover-comic-launching-1263829

I suppose that's good, I guess. TBH, those two IPs don't mix all that well in tone, IMO (unlike, say, the Terminator/RoboCop crossover), but why not? Apparently fans have been dreaming about this for more than three decades, though this is the first I've heard about that. It can't be any worse than the Terminator/Painkiller Jane crossover, I guess.

I've... never even considered crossing those two. I mean, yeah, they're both about killer robots. But they're both so different!. Still, at the very least it should be pretty cool. In a bash your toys together kinda way.

If Robocop and Terminator can get a crossover then sure, why not.

Mass Distraction wrote:

If Robocop and Terminator can get a crossover then sure, why not.

Yeah, but RoboCop and Terminator are tonally similar and it wouldn't be hard to imagine them occupying the same universe. The original trailer for RoboCop even used the Terminator soundtrack.



This is like crossing Grand Theft Auto IV with Rugrats.

Well I mean... Transformers have apparently also crossed over with both the Avengers and Ghostbusters as well.

Mass Distraction wrote:

Well I mean... Transformers have apparently also crossed over with both the Avengers and Ghostbusters as well.

Properties which are more or less aimed at kids, though. Terminator, not so much.

It's like the 80s and 90s are back with all the wierd shows and stuff to market films clearly for adults to kids. You know, stuff like the Robocop and Killer Tomatoes cartoons.

Mass Distraction wrote:

It's like the 80s and 90s are back with all the wierd shows and stuff to market films clearly for adults to kids. You know, stuff like the Robocop and Killer Tomatoes cartoons.

The 80s and 90s were so awesome like that. Conan the Adventurer and RoboCop Alpha Commando are the ones I remember most dearly. I'm surprised there was never a Terminator series, the Judgment Day sequences were perfect material to base one in the vein of GI Joe on.

Ghost Leader wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

It's like the 80s and 90s are back with all the wierd shows and stuff to market films clearly for adults to kids. You know, stuff like the Robocop and Killer Tomatoes cartoons.

The 80s and 90s were so awesome like that. Conan the Adventurer and RoboCop Alpha Commando are the ones I remember most dearly. I'm surprised there was never a Terminator series, the Judgment Day sequences were perfect material to base one in the vein of GI Joe on.

That's true. I always wondered the same about how there was no cartoon based on Terminator. I mean, there was a whole toy line based on the movies as well.

So, here's another interesting read I found. It's called The Last Zombie. Two years after a zombie outbreak, a team of soldiers and doctors is dispatched from a military bunker complex in Colorado and sent on a cross-country trip to another bunker in Virginia that they've lost contact with.

https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Last-Zombie

One spoiler I will give is that it's not a normal zombie apocalypse story like The Walking Dead because all the zombies have rotted away and the only foes that the characters encounter are humans populating a pretty lawless United States. The above link goes to the first five-issue series, but all five five-issue series can be found on the site. Just type "The Last Zombie" into the search bar and they'll come up.

It's a good read.

Ooooh! Bookmarking that for later, thanks!.