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So I’ve sort of been floating around comics for the last few years, buying a few comic here and there. Amassing a small collection of trade paper backs (TPBs) and at one point subscribing to Astonishing Xmen and Iron Man. But truly I’ve only been reading Marvel. Since their Saturday morning cartoon adaptations of their comics were what I grew up on, anyone else who was a kid in the nineties will know what I mean. Spiderman, X-men and Iron Man were personal favorites.
I jumped into reading Marvel just as Civil War kicked off, which actually rather helped, since it served as an event to re-describe everything, or for me to describe everything. And of course wikipedia could fill any gaps to my knowledge. So I began to discover the sheer depth to the marvel universe, reading everything I could. Though finally settling on the tales of the avengers and X-men. Since I no longer felt my childhood affinity for spiderman, and I really didn’t want to encourage Marvel to give him another title of his own.Slowly I treaded into a few non super hero titles, such as DMZ and then went into some more DC Vertigo comics. Specifically V for Vendetta and Wacthmen. But now I’m trying something that’s rather a challenge. I’m attempting to get into the DC Universe. My main problem has been that I’ve never really liked the DCU because it always seemed far more detached from reality than Marvel.
Frank Millar's two most esteemed Dark Knight tales
So Instead of jumping into the adventures of the man in blue and red tights. I’m reading up on some essential batman, specifically Frank Millar’s: Batman Year One and The Dark Knight Returns.But I would like to get in deeper with the DCU, so does anyone have any book suggestions for a DC newbie?
9 Comments
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Comment by SquirrelsOfWar on December 17, 2008 at 1:12pm - Impressive collection. The limit of my comic-book-ness are my 1950-60 batman comics
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Comment by Laird HexDSL on December 17, 2008 at 1:43pm - love comics, got no time any more. can confirm that the league of extraordinary gentlemen is EXCELLENT... read is last month.
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Comment by JoeH on December 17, 2008 at 1:44pm - Hmm yea, ever since I read V for Vendetta and Watchmen I've been wanting to read some more Alan Moore.
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Comment by Dave on December 17, 2008 at 1:57pm - Any way to read those two? V and Watchmen online for free? I like comics, but I'd rather spend my cash on video games or booze...
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Comment by JoeH on December 17, 2008 at 2:02pm
- Doubt it, not in any legal form anyway.
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Comment by Undead Prophet on December 17, 2008 at 9:06pm - I am jumping into comics to right now. You can Grab up all the New crypton comics, its up to 8 right now and is really good and easy to get into. Green arrow and black canary's last comic was the start of new arc and retells the whole series. other than that I have not really gotten into DC much, Getting into marvel is so much easier than DC, there are ludicrous amounts of universes in DC so its whacky. also just a not Dark knight returns does not follow year one, long Halloween does, may want to read that first.
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Comment by JoeH on December 18, 2008 at 12:16am
- Yea I know it doesn't ;) I just really want to read it, since it's supposed to be really good and I love the premise of it. Thanks for the advice, might see if my local store has some new krypton issues left ;)
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Comment by Hangman on December 19, 2008 at 10:07am - If you like batman then I would suggest The long halloween, and Hitman is a very nice interesting twist on the DC Universe.
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Comment by Country Sad Ballad Man on December 20, 2008 at 3:39pm - year one, DKR, and All Star batman all take place in the same batman universe according to frank miller. Long Halloween was pretty shitty and id avoid Loeb/Sale as much as possible. If you like stories that are rooted in a really detailed universe (like Marvel) id suggest Hellboy/BPRD. DC just released a great Omnibus of Starman, a series that is really tied to oldschool dcu lore and could be a great way to jump in. Kingdom come and New Frontier are both pretty good intros to the DCU as a whole. If you want an Alan moore book that is actually published by Vertigo Swamp thing is pretty damn good. If you have any interest in superman, All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely is fantastic.
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