Chad’s Comments (group member since Mar 22, 2018)

Chad’s comments from the I Read Comic Books group.

Craig wrote: "Hi--just joined. My name is Craig and I'm a librarian at a community college in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. I've been reading (and collecting) comics all my life and will read just about anything, ..."

Hi Craig,

It's nice to see another goodreads friend here.

bailey wrote: "Recently been reading through Fantastic Four trades... about to finish the Marvel Knight run. What are everyone's favorite FF storylines?"

Hands down, Jonathan Hickman's run on FF and Fantastic Four. John Byrne's run is really great too. The FF assistant editor's month book is still one of the funniest comics I've ever read.

Ross wrote: "Hey Y'all :) I'm Ross from Charlotte, NC and I have been reading comics for about 12 years now. I graduated from college a year ago where reading comics was a little tricky due to the fact I was a ..."

Welcome Ross. You have good taste in comics.

Whitney wrote: "How was Unfollow? The premise seems right up my alley. "

I really liked the first 2 trades, but the third one felt like 4 years of plot stuffed into 4 issues as they tried to tie everything up.

Erin wrote: "I agree, the music was great! I still haven't read the book, but the Deadly Class Humble Bundle is realllly tempting me!"

The books are great, but a little too dour in places. Music is a large part of the comic too.

I finally watched the first episode. I really dug it. It definitely captures the look and feel of the comic. I loved the soundtrack. Hopefully they'll continue to use lots of 80's post punk / alternative in future episodes. The characters are dead on with the comic. The shows is just as dark and violent as the comic.

FYI, the above link from youtube no longer works but it is up on www.syfy.com

Francis wrote: "I looked up the old Shadowman comics I'd read, and discovered they were published as Acclaim comics. "

Those Acclaim comics are from when the Acclaim video game company bought Valiant and only kept the names of the characters. That was a dark time for Valiant as most of those were terrible. The original Valiant universe is very close to the current one.

Hermit wrote: "I'm an old man who used to read comics voraciously and then for years hardly read at all. I'm back with quite an appetite for various new-to-me creators, titles, characters, publishers, and arcs."


Welcome Hermit. If you're just getting back into comics, I suggest you try out www.hoopladigital.com. It's free from most libraries and gives you access to thousands of digital graphic novels.

Hermit wrote: "Picked up today:
* Rumble, Vol. 1: The Color of Darkness
* The Beauty, Vol. 1
* Hit-Girl, Volume 1: Colombia"

I'm a fan of Rumble and The Beauty. Hit Girl in Columbia, eh, not so much.

st.tea♡ wrote: "My all-time favorite comic is definitely Batman & Robin ran by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason. And yeah, Super-sons too, I guess. I love kids. Huhuhuhu."

You really can't go wrong with anything Peter Tomasi wrote. He's one of DC's unsung heros.

Welcome Solseit and Orestis.

There's still some good superhero comics out there. Have you read Tom King's Batman or Tom Taylor's All-New Wolverine run?

Kait wrote: "Wow, today I learned at Rosario Dawson is a comic creator! She was in Rent and also plays Claire in all the Marvel Netflix shows."

Don't forget Sin City and Lego Batman.

Erin wrote: "What did you think of it? "

I've been a busy beaver and not had a chance to watch it yet.

Geoff wrote: "I guess a different way to phrase a similar question: All things being equal do people think $60 would be better spent on a Marvel sale or a MU subscription? "

MU subscription, unless you don't think you'll read comics off it every month. I'm a big proponent of MU. You get access to thousands of back issues. I love reading all the obscure stuff I didn't even know existed along with being able to read celebrated runs.

Erin wrote: "I downloaded it to watch on the train up to Chicago tonight - so excited!"

I expect a full review. ;)

The first episode of Deadly Class is up on Youtube. Hopefully it lives up to the comic. Now to find time to watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcyUT...

Rachel Anne wrote: "Hi everyone,

I'm Rachel from Delaware. I have been reading comic books since 2016 (when I started doing the Read Harder reading challenge) so I'm still a fairly new reader. I even remember the fir..."

Welcome Rachel Anne!

Dark Horse has consolidated the essential Hellboy stories into 4 Omnibuses. There's a lot more than that to the Hellboy universe but those are a great point to start.

The Del Toro movies do a great job of capturing the spirit of the Hellboy comics and are definitely worth watching.

- Web Comics
- Kickstarter Comics
- Comic about a sidekick
- Comic focusing on a villain
- Comic from a specific decade.
- Post-apocalyptic / dystopian future
- A comic that a movie was based on
- A comic that is based on characters from another publisher. i.e. Squadron Supreme

Devon wrote: "Yeah Crossed can be a mixed bag."

...a mixed bag of body parts.