General Comic Thread

I'm something of a recent convert to comics,
I started reading Punisher MAX back in 2010 but left it there and I've only recently picked up alot more through digital downloads and I'm now hooked, you can read 1000's of them on a tablet (until now i thought tablets were a bit pointless)

I've mostly stuck to mature ones that are dark but I'd be open to more PG ones if people recommend them, Garth Ennis is probably my favourite writer.

One's I'd recommend are

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Transmetropolitan



Set in the future the main character is spider Jerusalem a mental case journalist, its the funniest one I've read and my favourite beside Punisher Max.

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Crossed



Sickest comic I've ever read and probably ever made, imagine the walking dead but instead of people turning into zombies they turn into maniacs that do the worst thing theyre minds can think of, its not for the faint of heart.

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Preacher



Probably the most popular in recent times (currently being made into an AMC series) follows a preacher possessed by a spirit who is the product on a devil and an angel which makes it more powerful than *, theres an Irish vampire in it too.

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The Boys



Set in a world where superheroes exist but are generally drug addicted * crazy * who kill tons of cilivians through collateral the boys are a unit set up to keep them in order and kill them if neccesary, its very good and the main characters from Glasgow.

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The Dandy playing the sash on that lamp post?

 

Started reading The Walking Dead comics and im addicted not a comic book person at all but like you say the more * gritty ones appeal to me. Theres one called Southern * that i quite fancy, maybe one you'd like to check out.

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im in to my superhero comics...dont really read them much any more but used to. World war Hulk was epic...

 

Frankie Boyle

 

Always been wanting to get into them but it's not happened. Read the first 4 volumes of The Walking Dead, had volume 5 for about a year and just haven't looked at it yet.

Like the OP, as much as I love superheroes, I reckon I'd prefer reading more gritty and mature comics/graphic novels. Although I do want to read some Daredevil and Punisher comics.

Preacher and The Boys are two I've heard are excellent, might give them a go.

 

Not sure if anyone's interested, but I found a couple of sites a while back that posts comics entirely online for free. They have all the new releases and quite a big collection of the older stuff as well. There's no downloads or anything like that either, just in case anyone's not fond of that. It uploads pretty much everything from Marvel & DC and most, if not all, of the stuff from the smaller publishers (Image, Dark Horse etc).

I had a quick look for some of the stuff mentioned here, and between them they've got pretty much everything listed here. In the case of stuff like The Walking Dead they've posted every issue up until the latest release last week.

If anyone's interested just say and I'll message you the links. I'd post them here but the sites ask that you don't, as it's apparently caused problems for them in the past.

 

Could you message me the links mate? Sounds really good.

After finishing Daredevil I'm tempted more than ever to read some Daredevil and Punisher comics.

 

For Daredevil the 'better' site I sent you uploaded the Man Without Fear story which the Netflix show was largely based on. It might seem a bit dated now seeing as it came out in the 80s/90s but it's apparently quite good.

His ongoing series at the moment by Mark Waid is supposedly one of the best comics out there as well. Both sites have the second volume which was part of a mini-relaunch by Marvel where a bunch of series started at issue 1 again, but for some reason neither has uploaded the first volume which the current series is a continuation of.

In regards to the Punisher, just stick with the Punisher MAX series. It's not canon, but it's regarded as best Punisher series out there. You could skip the last 12 or so issues as they're not by the same writer (and are really poor).

 

Funny you say that, as soon as I went on the first site that's what I searched for.:smiley-laughing002:

I'll check out Punisher MAX definitely. Cheers man.

 

Any chance yea can send me a link mate decided to give me self a challenge of trying at least 1 new thing every week so I said * it I'll give comics a go




Actually is there a comic book place in Dublin?

 

Apologies for not replying sooner, but thats me sent you the PM with the details.

I'm not from Dublin, but I'd be suprised if there wasn't a small comic shop of sorts; Google would probably be your best bet for answering that question though. I know most large bookshops usually sell collected editions of popular series, so that's probably an alternative option.