We already have topics for sharing what games you’re playing, music you’re listening to, and what TV shows and movies you’re watching, but nothing about comics.
Because this may be a little bit of a niche subject, you can talk about DW comics, and comics from other publishers/franchises (Marvel, DC, etc).
So here you can share your favourite and/or rare comics, what comics you are currently reading, and just generally talk about comics!
One of my favorite comic series is Star Wars: Legacy. It’s a great story and when the main artist is doing the art, it’s amazing.
Great idea for a thread, I kept thinking it was weird we didn’t have one of these!
And god do I love me some comics
The ongoing series’ I’m currently Reading are:
DC Comics
Marvel
Other
I do love a lot of indie comics, but I tend to binge through them rather than reading them month to month, for example I read through all of Faithless (an erotic thriller comic) last month, and Fine Print Volume 2 is also on my to-read list
I’ve been going through “The Wicked + The Divine” recently and I’m really enjoying it
OH I LOVE W+D
Just so so good
I’m currently collecting and reading all the new X-books from Marvel.
The X-Men have always been my favourite Marvel characters, but when I started getting new comics, X-Men was about halfway through the Krakoan era, so not really a good place to start.
I was really excited when I heard about the new From the Ashes reboot, so now I read all the new X-Men stuff!
Another W+D fan here.
Growing up I was a 2000AD fan, Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Halo Jones 
I still dip in now & again. & also read a lot of Vertigo comics back in the day, a lot of UK creators were involved.
I mainly binge comics every few months rather than read monthly but not really into superheroes from Marvel or DC. Image comics do some good stuff, Saga is fantastic although I am quite behind on it. Anything by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips is pretty much essential.
A couple of years ago I made the rather foolish decision to try and read Marvel from Fantastic Four #1.
I haven’t got very far and I’m fully aware it’s a fools errand but I’ve started now. I currently have Marvel Unlimited which I like but it is expensive. But I also know where I can read them by other means…
I use an order on this website:
https://cmro.travis-starnes.com/
According to the tracker there I’ve read 270 comics in total - everything from FF to Thor to Iron Man to Sergeant Fury and the Howling Commandos.
My single main take away from this era of comics is how appallingly sexist the stories are. I mean, Doctor Who gets some flack for how the female companions are written in the classic era but they are streets ahead of the crap spouted by Stan Lee and his like.
Non Doctor Who comics?
While I talk about having watched the Sandman, I read the whole series in graphic novel form long before that. I also read a fair amount of the Lucifer spinoff, and all of Preacher and Transmetropolitan.
I read Superman: Red Son. Remember reading some Harley Quinn comics. Read Lenore, The Cute Little Dead Girl. Probably a fair amount of other stuff.
Also, manga. Ah! Megami-sama (Oh! My Goddess!), Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo, Maison Ikkoku, Excel Saga, Hayate the Combat Butler, and I’m sure plenty of others…
Oh god yeah, Anime/Manga could be a whole other thread
Definitely, especially when you consider that while I’ve watched at least some of the animes of all the mangas I’ve mentioned, I’ve watched plenty of animes that I didn’t read the mangas of. (Heck, I’ve read fan english translations of the light novels for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, even…)
Talking of classic Marvel comics, a few months ago I found this second hand bookshop selling these massive Amazing Spider-Man omnibus editions.
They were in really good quality, and usually go up for £200 online, but they were selling them £30 each!
It was an offer I couldn’t refuse, so now I have these two massive books on my shelf that will probably take me a few years to read!
I agree, for example the way the character of the Wasp is written, and the abuse Hank Pym (Ant-Man) just hurls at her, is just swatted away like it’s nothing.
People complain about Marvel and the like going ‘woke’, but what’s wrong with that? Imagine if the characters where still written like that today?
And don’t get me started on the original Shang-Chi. (If you though Talons of Weng-Chiang was racist enough, then yikes!)
I would have created this thread if it didn’t exist already! I’m having fun attempting to read all of the DWM comics at the moment and reviewing them as I go along. I’m starting with the new series comics, once I’m done with that I will work my way from the beginning. I have most of the magazines in question, but the first three collections I’ve had to get from my local library.
I get the comics being described as niche, but it really struck me how high a proportion of the stories on tardis.guide are comics. Seconded only by the audios. It feels like something I’d like to build a clearer picture of.
Here’s a review of one that particularly struck me: Review of The Widow’s Curse by 15thDoctor · TARDIS Guide
I’ve just started reading my first Titan comic in around 10 years - Empire of the Wolf. Blimey it’s good. Anyone know why so few Titan comics have been released in 2024? I’m new to this series.
Unknown why so few. But definitely check out Comic Club for more Titan goodness (or badness depending on your opinions).
Empire of the Wolf was good fun!
I don’t know the answer to that, but I can definitely recommend Doctor Who comic they are releasing at the moment.
The Fifteenth Doctor series is very good.
They’ve been going a lot slower since they ended the 10th/11th/12th doctor ranges and started 13th back in 2018, and then again in 2020 they slowed down a bit with Covid hitting the comics industry pretty hard, they published barely anything in 2023 at all.
Hopefully this 15th Doctor series will be able to cause a bit of a revival for them
I’ve been looking at the 15th Doctor series this morning. Wondering whether to buy the single issues or wait until comes out as a single volume in March.
I have these two nice graphic novels and kind of want to get the remaining, matching graphic novels (a lot of stuff to buy!) But I also like the idea of supporting the current series by buying the most up to date single issues.
Do you know if this Titan comics slow down goes wider than just their Doctor Who ranges?