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So what monthlies are ticklin' your fancy?

This past week I bought:

Kevin Smith's Green Hornet
Secret Warriors
The Amazing Spider-Man
Joe the Barbarian

This week I think I'm only getting:
Secret Avengers
Marvel Zombies 5

Superman
Action
Supergirl

Batman
Batman and Robin
Red Robin
Streets of Gotham
Gotham City Sirens
Detective
Return Of Bruce Wayne

Outsiders
JLA
JSA
JSA: All Stars
Booster Gold
Brave and the Bold
Secret Six
Legacies
Flash

Superfriends
Tiny Titans

Chew
Lone Ranger

Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers (if they ever put out anymore Franklin Richards, I'll get those)

Plus I have library card, so I read a lot of Vertigo trades and indy books that way.

Monthly I get:

Avengers
New Avengers
Secret Avengers
Secret Warriors
Wolverine
Weapon X
Punishermax
Hawkeye and Mockingbird
Daredevil
Thor
Invincible Iron Man
Black Widow
Thunderbolts
Green Arrow
Flash

All the Green Hornet titles

Probably forgetting some.

Monthly:
Avengers
Secret Avengers
Captain America
any Cap related mini-series
Iron Man
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Universe
Super Hero Squad

Going to give Top Cow a few months with their Artifacts crossover.

Right now I am reading

Invincible Iron Man
Captain America
Secret Avengers
New Avengers
Avengers
Daredevil
Brightest Day

I use to read almost exclusively DC but I am not very interested in what Batman and Superman have going on right now. I wouldn't mind getting back into Flash and Green Lantern. Also the upcoming Green Arrow storyline looks interesting.

Comics have been loosing thier luster for me lately.

However, the books that I will always read (when they come out) are:

The Walking Dead
Invincible
Proof
Atomic Robo

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I was bored with Green Lantern Corps last week. I'm hoping for more from Green Lantern today.

This is my current pull list.

Amazing Spider-Man
Ultimate Avengers
New Ultimates
Ultimate Spider-Man
New Avengers
Avengers
Secret Avengers
Nemesis
Thor
Deadpool (just deadpool)
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corp
Emerald Warrior
Flash
Mouse Guard
Irredeemable
Incorruptible
Pale Horse
X-Men
The Last Unicorn
True Blood
American Vampire
Batman Beyond
Transformers
Ironhide
Eternal Descent
S.H.I.E.L.D.

My Pull List right now is:

Batman
Detective
Batgirl
Batman & Robin
Superman
Green lantern
GLC
Flash
Brave and the Bold
Hellblazer
GI Joe/ Cobra
GI Joe
Spawn
Shadowhawk
Cowboy Ninja Viking
Daredevil
Secret Avengers
Avengers Academy
PunisherMax
Echo
Robocop
Sixth Gun

And I get DMZ in trade whenever the new volume comes out.

I think of everything I'm reading right now, the Avengers titles are really firing on all cylinders. Especially Avengers and New Avengers.

Spider-Man is kicking into high gear with Grim Hunt, but I worry about where it will wind up.

Currently collecting:

Hack/Slash: My First Slasher
Ultimate Spider-Man
Geen Lantern Corps
Star Wars Invasion: Rescues
Farscape(and all miniseries)
Deadpool
G.I. Joe
Starcraft
Ultimate Avengers 2
Batman Beyond
Transformers: Nefarious
Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth
The Flash
G.I. Joe: Origins
Ultimate X
Gotham City Sirens
G.I. Joe: Opperation H.I.S.S.
Green Lantern
The Unwritten
Deadpool: TEAM-UP
Gears Of War
Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War
The Muppet Show

Batman
Detective Comics
Batgirl
Streets of Gotham
Birds of Prey
Gotham City Sirens
Red Robin (under protest)
Brightest Day
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Zatanna
Jonah Hex
DCU Legacies
Power Girl
The Flash
Amazing Spider-Man
Ultimate Spider-Man
Avengers
Secret Avengers
New Avengers
Daredevil
SHIELD
Deadpool
Thor
Punisher MAX
GI Joe
GI Joe Origins
GI Joe Cobra
Green Hornet
Green Hornet Year One
Kato Origins
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Die Hard Year One
Darkwing Duck
Muppet Show
Incorruptible
Irredeemable
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Zorro
Battlefields
The Boys
The Dark Tower
Invincible
Walking Dead
Cowboy Ninja Viking
American Vampire
Daytripper
Fables
Hellblazer
Joe the Barbarian
I, Zombie

I think I may need an intervention...

I follow creators rather than characters and between family, economics, and the need to be writing my own stuff there's little room for "extra" stuff in the budget. Plus, I've been feeling disillusioned with a lot of the comics I'd been reading over the past year. To that end, I've cut back what was already a small list. But here's what I'm excited about (keeping in mind, I lean heavily toward the indie side of things):

Fantastic Four - Hickman is killing it with this - the right balance of family and wonder. FF is about crazy ideas, strange worlds, cool-ass retro-style sci-fi.
The Brave and the Bold - JMS's stories in this run have been so fun. Not tied into current continuity, he's been able to pair up characters in a novel way to tell some fun, emotional stories. If you're not reading this, you should.
Love & Rockets - it's only published annually now, but Los Bros Hernandez always deliver. This is the book I would continue to buy if I ever dropped comics for good.

and some things I'm really looking forward to:
Alan Moore's Neonomicon - Moore doing Lovecraft with Jacen Burrows on art. Can't go wrong.
Phoenix without Ashes - from IDW, Harlan Ellison adapting his own original story. It's Harlan Ellison. no-brainer for me.
Strange Science Fantasy - Scott Morse doing crazy 50s style sci-fi as focused through his unique perspective. Guaranteed fun and an instant classic.

chris

In trades, I'm loving all of the IDW GI Joe stuff. Of course Invincible and Walking Dead as well.

ok...here goes my modest list...

Fantastic Four
SHIELD
Secret Warriors
Iron Man
Uncanny Xmen
Captain America
The Unwritten

(when these come out, they're automatic...)
Casanova
Umbrella Academy
Criminal

(and depending on how things shape up...)
Secret Avengers
Avengers Academy
Thor
New Avengers
Avengers

...
yeah.i'm a zoMbie... so what?

MARVEL:
Uncanny X-Men
New Mutants
X-Men Forever
Amazing Spider-Man
Invincible Iron Man
Powers

DC:
Batman
Detective
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps

IDW:
GIJoe
GIJoe Origins
GIJoe Cobra
GIJoe: A Real American Hero
Transformers

Image:
Invincible (hardcover)
Walking Dead (hardcover)

Dark Horse:
Conan (TPB)
Savage Sword of Conan (TPB)

By dropping JSA All Stars, Legion of Super-Heroes, and Justice Society of America this month on my DCBS, I think I just dropped the last of the regular DC floppies I was buying. I still pick up the occasional Showcase or whatever Gary Frank is working on.

I am jumping on the Avengers relaunch bandwagon. We'll see which ones last but I'm in the mood for some Avengers. I haven't warmed to Bendis' writing and am still stubborn in my old school beliefs that Wolverine and Spider-man should not be on the team (Logan is on too many teams and Spider-man is better as a solo character or a team-up with one other).

I'm always buying Captain America and any related titles. Spitfire. Steve Rogers. Forever Allies. Invaders. The Patriot Cap mini coming. I'll eat it up. I'm a fan. A collector. And I'm lucky that many of the Cap books have been good for the past few years.

I like the Marvel Cosmic but am a little miffed that my favorite books, Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy, are on hold during the Thanos Imperative. I hear they will be back, I just hope it isn't a relaunch. Fans of the books were worried that they were canceled and the editors did a bad job of fueling those rumors by keeping those fans in the dark. Maybe they just didn't know as these decisions are not always made 6-8 months out but they didn't quell to the cancelation rumors a few months back.

Agents of Atlas did relaunch but, I guess, I'm just glad they are still around. I'll get the spin-off minis too like Gorilla Man and the Marvel Boy one. It is so hard to keep these mid-tier books selling and they have been trying hard with Atlas by seeding the characters into other books. If this book fails, it won't be from lack of trying, maybe just the $4 price and fans just wanting more Green Lantern and Deadpool books.

Fantastic Four is an interesting one. I was a big defender of this book when many were bashing buff Reed and the art. I do like it but I was starting to get a little turned off by the one shot stories that were wrapping up things on the last text page rather than in the sequentials. Comics are a "show me" medium and it felt like they were padding it out with too much decompression and less dialogue and they weren't getting to Hickman's full story. And then they felt like stories left off without the potential being explored. Thankfully, the last issue I read seem to tied many of the recent stories together, which is what I was looking for. But Eaglesham was only doing half the stories and is now off the book? Disappointing. I don't think the replacement guy is enough to keep me on the book.

That is about it. I'll get Age of Bronze from Image and the Love & Rocket quarterly trades but my money is mostly tied up in Marvel and trades and art books with a couple Twomorrows mags thrown in. Much of the indy titles or anything based on a movie or TV show just don't appeal to me.

I also think I need an intervention however I'm getting better:

All the monthly X-Books and Wolverine, except Weapon X, I get it in HC
Avengers
Secret Avengers
Captain America
I Zombie
Joe the Barbarian
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Flash
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corp
Brightest Day
JLI Generation Lost
DCU Legacies
All Star Wars Monthlies
AVP Three World War
Terminator 2029/1984
Zatanna
Haunt
Ultimate Comics X
Batman Beyond
Shield
Nemesis
Dark Tower
Green Hornet (Kevin Smith)
All the Stargate monthlies
Cowboy Ninja Viking
Super Hero Squad
Buffy

TPB
All the reboot GI Joe books
Walking Dead
Northlanders
Madame Xanadu
Chew
Irredeemable
Star Wars omnibi