Mike’s Comments (group member since Jul 09, 2016)

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

Kelly wrote: "Rocket and Groot. (I’m interpreting “couple” kinda loosely here.) Everyone deserves family that understands them that well."

This is incredibly wholesome.

I'LL ALLOW IT.

X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever - One of the best X-Men miniseries I've read in along time.

Over the last week, we broke 300 members in this Goodreads group (as I write this, we're at 307 members)!!! To celebrate, we at IRCB want to do a giveaway!



The winner will receive a $10 comiXology gift card! Yes! $10 for all your comic reading needs!

To enter:

1. You must be a member of this Goodreads group (I Read Comic Books)
2. You must comment on this thread between today 2/16/2018 and 11:59pm EST 2/28/2018 with your favorite comic book/comic book character

And that's it!

The winner will be selected at random using random.org and will be announced on March 1st, 2018. We will message the winner directly on March 1st, 2018.

crying profusely

Invincible #144 - The last issue in this 15 year-long series. This is the end and I am very happy with it.

Rogue's outfit for a while when she was leading a team in X-Men: Legacy (a renaming of the flagship X-Men title) is one of my FAVORITES.



To this day, I want to find a way to dress that cool.

Also, we did a whole episode back in the day about this! Episode 61 | Skin Cape!

IRCB Podcast Team Recommendations:
[x] Mike: Buzz!
[ ] Kate: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
[ ] Zander: Out from Boneville
[x] Nick: Secret Weapons
[x] Tia: 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank
[ ] Paul: Asterios Polyp
[X] Brian: Vader Down
[ ] Kara: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon vol. 1: New edition
[x] Jeff: We Stand On Guard
[x] René: Dream Thief Volume 1
[ ] Kait: Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy

IRCB Group Members Recommendations:
[ ] Daniel: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
[ ] Phillip: Essex County
[ ] Wayland: The Books of Magic
[X] 47Time: Scars

Hey Gregory! Thanks for joining us.

What's your latest favorite comic?

Trying my hardest to get caught up on Dept H by Matt and Sharlene Kindt. I managed the first 12 issues last weekend, aiming to read #13-20 this week.

Oh snap. This is an easy one.



Rogue & Gambit. FTW.

Thanks Phillip!

Whew. I put reading this book off because I knew it was going to wreck me. Reading it a second time, and in one go, was way more gut wrenching. That whole last chapter had me in straight-up tears.

I knew the damn ending and I still cried.

This book sets you up to have fun with some quirks but with a heavy, heavy cloud over head. How we get to the end is the most important part, and watching Barbara lose control, chapter after chapter, is the roughest part of the story. You know something bad looms, and yet she somehow tries to persevere with witticisms and, in most cases, lashing out under the guise of "giant killing."

I cannot express enough how fantastic of a read this was. Going head-first into this book, not second guessing anything, it is a testament to the fantastic creative delivery made by Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura's work.

Fantastic pick, Danny and Phillip.

Ryan wrote: "Hi I'm Ryan,

I live in Chicago, I read a ton of Valiant, Image and Dark Horse. I'm the hugest fan of anything Mignolaverse. Of late I've also been trying to go back and read older stuff as they m..."

Got a favorite Mignola story? I've only dabbled in Hellboy...

finny wrote: "Mike wrote: "finny wrote: "Hi! My name is Finny and I'm excited to have found this club.
I currently live in Denver, CO and I have been reading comics since I was 10! I started collecting when I wa..."

Oh boy, the only Transformers comics I've read are MTMTE. Totally changed the way I looked at those comics. I love the intrigue that book offers.

Got a link to the Wreckers? I'd be willing to check it out...

finny wrote: "Hi! My name is Finny and I'm excited to have found this club.
I currently live in Denver, CO and I have been reading comics since I was 10! I started collecting when I was 13 and had the chance to ..."

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE! THIS BOOK IS AWESOME. Currently on the 6th volume. I love it.

Motor Crush, Vol. 1 by Brendan Flecher and Babs Tarr

Ether, Vol. 1: Death of the Last Golden Blaze is on sale right now for $3.99 on comiXology until January 22nd. This is a killer book that is somehow lighthearted and incredibly sad.

ABBOT by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivela

From the site:

Hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband from her. Forces she has sworn to destroy.

After Black Bolt, I am 100% willing to try anything Ahmed is writing. Plus, I hear Kivela is a pretty solid artist--at least from what I've seen/heard about Beautiful Canvas.

Wayland wrote: "I'm enjoying it. It's almost the classic team, minus the substitution of I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Logan. That line up has a special place in my heart."

lmao this is the best way to name Old Man Logan.

Phillip wrote: "Here are some of my favorites that I read in 2017:

Lighter Than My Shadow
Generations
Midnight Nation
Heathen Vol. 1
Jeff Lemire's Moo..."

Oh man! I have been meaning to read Midnight Nation for a long while. What did you think of it?

Anyone else reading this? I flipping loved the first issue. Never has the history of the X-Men been so perfectly shown.

With this book, I can now tell someone: "You want to get caught up with the X-Men? Here's where you start."