The Outsiders. Stock superheroing with some great dialogue, characters, and art. Bonus points for using the DC Universe's past without becoming its bitch.
Fallen Angel. Love love love. I love the new universe Peter David has created here. I love the hints. I love the art.
Birds of Prey. Read Outsiders recaplet.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Lotsa interesting stuff going on in this one. Splinter is dead, Mike and Don, both have new jobs, Raph has been bitten by pseudovampires, and Leo and The Foot investigate a man from a dimension where Al Gore is president. Oh, and April finds out the weirdness of her origins, even if the readers don't. Finally, the four page letter column (I know you're jealous) and more Segway madness from Peter Laird.
New X-Men-Waiting for the last TPB. I'm seriously going to miss Morrison, and can't understand what Marvel is trying to do with the reload. And I LIKED Magneto on drugs!
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The Outsiders. Stock superheroing with some great dialogue, characters, and art. Bonus points for using the DC Universe's past without becoming its bitch.
What a great (and totally accurate) review of OUTSIDERS!!
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Legion - C'mon, gotta stay loyal to Legion! Even if I don't like a story, I've been able to rely on the art for a few years now... Runaways - Beautiful art and awesome premise. Dialogue is usually really funny too. Teen Titans - I never really followed Titans but I'm like the new series a lot. Ultimate X-Men - Consistently better quality than X-Treme and Uncanny X-Men. New X-Men - Irregardless of the quality fluxuation, I am eternally an Xwhore, especially to Morrison's run.
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1. New Mutants (soon to be New X-Men) -- great story telling with an excellent mix of old and new characters. The art's been unfotunatley week, but with Randy Green taking over (and Emma Frost and Dust joining the cast) things are reallly looking up for this title.
2. Birds of Prey -- I just started reading this, I'm not sure why I like it yet, but I certainly do. I'm not quite as enamoured with the art as others here are, a little to, um, chesty, for my taste, but it doesn't take away from the book.
3. Legion -- It's not that the tilles bad right now, but it feels like it's treading water. The story's just not going anywhere right now. The art's great though and after reading BoP I'm really looking forward to Gail Simone's take on the team.
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Legion - as I'm not overly offended by decompressed storytelling and a more modern style of art, Legion has been less annoying for me that it's apparently been for some...
Powers - erratic shipping schedules can't disrupt my enjoyment of this title. Even since the fall of Top Ten, there's not been a comic that I really liked that makes good use of the 'super-powered policing' high concept.
Planetary - If absence makes the heart grow fonder, there are a lot of Planetary fans out there who are very very very fond of Planetary. Take a look at a world where pulp fiction meets science fiction meets comic fiction; you won't be disappointed.
Wildcats v3.0 - The superheroics of the boardroom... with a splash of salacious deviousness thrown in for good measure. Wildcats v1 showed superheroes in a war, v2 showed the shellshocked survivors and what they did when they realised the war was over, and v3 takes the conflict to a completely different arena. Any comic that can cripple a gunslinger (Grifter) for over a year and still keep him amazingly interesting is a good book, IMO.
Ultimate Fantastic Four - Again, I don't mind my stories taking a few issues, so I'm finding this comic wonderful. If however, you'd like to see the FF get their powers and blast off on their first mission over a couple of pages, stay very far away.
Honourable Mentions to: B.P.R.D./Hellboy - if it was Mignola's art and shipping a bit more regularly, it'd be definite Top 5 material. Flash - the return of Howie P! Yay! Global Frequency - slick, diverse, mind-expanding, classy. Marvel 1602 - unfortunately coming to an end. Supreme Power - a slow build that will hopefully avoid the limbo-ish fate of Rising Stars. Teen Titans - hmmmm. If only there were more YJ influences, and less 80's Titans ones. Ultimate X-Men - always quality, but strangely hollow in recent issues. Ultimates - pull your finger out, Bryan!
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I forgot to add that NYX is pretty cool, most cause of the art but also cause of the character tied to X-Men Evolution that they revealed in the last issue. Josh Middleton is an awesome artist (I met and talked to him for a bit at San Diego last year) and it'll be said if/when he leaves. Too bad this title has been on the late track.
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Flash - Geoff Johns' best work of all his current books.
JLA - Still a favorite. I wouldn't mind a break from the "whole world about to be destroyed" story and get a few character stories.
New Mutants - nice, crisp, clean.
Exiles - Still waiting to see where Austin takes the title characters. I did like the Weapons X story.
Outsiders - Good so far, but I am now wanting some character developement.
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It changes all the time, but here's a baker's dozen of the ones I'm enjoying most lately:
Tom Strong Tom Strong Adventures Promethea Smax Planetary Astro City JSA Hawkman Teen Titans Exiles Supreme Power Age of Bronze Reign of the Zodiac
I would probably put Ruse and Sojourn in there as well but I fell way behind on my reading and I have about six months of CrossGen sitting on my dresser waiting to be read.
If I had to take it down to just 5 then I'll go with:
Promethea Planetary JSA Exiles Astro City
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1. The Legion: It's the only series I buy monthly anymore.
2. Ultimate Spider-man: I love this title. If I weren't buying the trades, I would definitely pick this up monthly.
3. Nightwing: I used to buy this monthly, but went to the TPBs a few years back. I don't regret that decision, but it always seems to be a good read when I get around to it.
4. Exiles: Alti-verse meets Quantum Leap in the Marvel universe... What's not to like. I can't think of another "vehicle" that would make me go near an "X" title... that's not entirely true. I pick up the Ultimate X-men because there's a chance that Ultimate Spider-man could make it in there someday, that's how much I like Ultimate Spidey.
5. Batman Family Trades: I like the long sweeping arcs of No Man's Land and Bruce Wayne: Fugitive and the like. I don't like trying to track down all of the titles so I just wait for the trades.
Honorable Mentions:
6. Birds of Prey: Series started out bad for me, just bored me. The latest trade, Of Like Minds, is very good though. Has a chance to rival Nightwing on my list if it sustains it's current excellence.
7. The Clone Wars Trades: Everybody likes Star Wars right?
Note: I used to get Young Justice but heard bad things about Graduation Day so I didn't switch over when YJ got cancelled. With the good buzz about the ongoing, I may pick up the Teen Titans trades if and when they ever get collected.
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1. Legion (will always be on my top 5, unless they let Liefeld take some crayons to it).
2. JSA
3. Teen Titans
4. Flash
5. Daredevil
And I have been picking up the Outsiders title, but honestly I haven't been impressed. I guess I'm still nostalgic for the BatO book, with Halo, Katana, GeoForce, Black Lightning and Metamorpho (not the dupe). Guest appearances of these folks just aren't doing it for me.
I just don't care about the new characters at all. And I'm also one of those annoyed with the results (however temporary) of "Graduation Day". What a load of hogwash that was...
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1 - Legion: Even though I have not been impressed with recent stories, it's still the one I look forward to the most every month.
2 - Flash: I am totally digging this series. Wally has become the most relatable character that I have read in a long time.
3 - Wonder Woman: I've just been picking this up since the new team took over. She is probably the least relatable character in comics today, but I'm still being entertained.
4 - Hawkman: Good run by Johns. I'm concerned about the new team, though.
5 - Fables: The only Vertigo book I've ever read on a regular basis. Fantastic characters. Fun all around. Rapidly rising in my rankings.
Honorable mention -
Aquaman - So bad, it's... well it's not much good at all. But it looks like it'll be getting better.
JSA - Black Reign was fantastic. But Johns has to start putting out some quality stories on a regular basis if I'm going to become a regular reader again.
Teen Titans - Sorry, guys. I just don't like it. Too much of the (really whiney and annoying!) kids and not enough of the 80's group (you know, the ones who put the Titans on the top of the charts). We've been seven issues and not much has really happened.
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Mines-- as TEEN TITANS is DC's # 2 seller according to the top 100 list, its being traded is likely a sure thing.
Awww, SLK, reread those Titans issues-- not much has happened?
SPOILERS!!!!!
Superboy & Krypto: together again for the first time! The total re-invention of Impulse! The return of Jericho! Deathstroke and the surprise former-Titan-all-new Ravager! Raven: back at last! Starfire kicks Wonder Woman's ass! Wonder Girl's dangerous new lasso! Brother Blood! Oh, and Cyborg & Beast Boy are there too (okay, maybe they need some more attention...!).
There's TONS of stuff going on!
My only gripe is, Grummet's art is nice on his fill-ins, but he doesn't do McKone's version of Superboy justice. Which is odd considering how many years he spent on SUPERBOY.
ummm....sorry, I don't know of any other books that are in the same league as these. If you're not reading these three, you're missing out. (In my oh-so-humble opinion, of course.)
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Parasitic Twin, I see you're reading My Faith In Frankie. I think this book is great myself, I can't wait for the next few issues!
In fact, I totally recommend this book to everyone! The main character, Frankie, is a high-school girl cutie that is very likeable and is stuck between a dilemna of two boys: a deity and her childhood boyfriend brought back from the dead! It's really a cool book and very well-written.
The way it's written reminds me of something that you would like Lash, the character Frankie is very sweet and the type of character that is usually loved by people here on Legion World!
Oh, and it's a four issue mini by Vertigo.
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