What are some other superhero comics of this caliber, meaning they go the extra mile with the medium and/or genre, at least, more than usual?
Aside from other Moore, Miller, Morrison, and Milligan, unless you want to bring one up specifically.
These types of superhero comics are the most engaging to me.
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Unironically you seem like the kind of person who would enjoy Tom King's work.
No, I dislike Tom King. I've given him too many chances.
Thanks, though.
>Half of those aren't even good.
Incorrect. These are all good. At least half of them are great.
>So you're basically asking for artsy-fartsy crap?
I'm looking for entertainment with a rock solid foundation that stands above the usual fare. The unshakeable towers in a city of mud huts.
>Rising Stars
>WildC.A.T.s 3.0
These are the only ones I haven't started. I have to finish the rest, except for Planetary and Foolkiller, which I thought were good.
Wildcats seems daunting because heard it builds upon prior material, which is about 100 issues. Is this true?
Thanks.
I've read these and somewhat memory-holed them, but I may reread them. Thank you.
>Wildcats seems daunting because heard it builds upon prior material, which is about 100 issues. Is this true?
You really don't need to read any of the previous stuff.
>Wildcats seems daunting because heard it builds upon prior material, which is about 100 issues. Is this true?
You should read Joe Casey’s run from Wildcats volume 2. It’s just as good as 3.0 and lays the foundation for it. The first arc was co-written by Lobdell so it’s rough and is only to be read if you don’t want to feel a bit confused at the start of Casey’s solo run
You and people like you are the reason why the comic book industry is dying.
Nah that was the two largest companies selling to monstrous media corporations that have no interest in putting in the money and manpower to actually make their subsidiaries good. And I guess the US government pretending the Sherman antitrust act can't be enforced on anything smaller than a literal satire-tier monopoly.
Pretentious twats did as much to ruin comics as anyone.
You dorks are the pretentious twats though.
Let me think.
Seems like you're a homosexual with shit taste so maybe gay porn is more up your alley
Half of those aren't even good.
So you're basically asking for artsy-fartsy crap?
Here's a list of stuff that I think you MIGHT like:
Shade, the Changing Man (Peter Milligan)
Foolkiller (Steve Gerber)
Starman (James Robinson)
The Spectre (John Ostrander)
Rising Stars
Planetary (if you count that as "superheroes")
WildC.A.T.s 3.0
Ex Machina
Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset
It's alarming how many people don't consider Planetary a superhero comic. It is a painstaking effort to synthesize the influences and roots of capes (pulp, Victorian serial fiction, monster films, spy films and westerns) and then present the idea of a future that elevates the genre rather than keeping it in its stagnancy. Very obvious and in your face about it too.
>Ex Machina
I Love that one, Cinemaphile never talk about it, but it is a really good comicbook.
It's alright. BKV gets old pretty fast.
That comicbook was from before BKV became famous. Is an old comicbook.
Which ones aren't good? If you think those are bad, what books do you actually like?
Why are you taking it personally? It's his opinion. Personally, I think he's right. You can't say that books like Watchmen or Promethea are similar to Stern's Spidey or Johns' GL.
brat pack and maximortal
I'll third Rising Stars
Alright. Sounds like a must then.
It coudn't be more of a superhero comic, I agree.
Okay, thanks.
I have a question; what else would work then? Hickman's stuff? Stephen King's in comic form?
If any of these, give me a list and for anything else cause I'm bored AS FRICK! And i mean reading order btw
Why are you asking me?
I mean uh do they work?
If you want some absurdly up-its-own-ass superhero shenanigans, then read The One by Rick Veitch. Alan Moore called it one of the 100 best comics ever made.
I already read these. Thanks.
I have never heard of this one. Will check out. Thank you.
Dial H, pic related
Peter Cannon Thunderbolt, it's a very good Alana Moore imitation.
Dial H new 52, wasn’t that bad?
Thunderbolt Peter was a comic?
All Fall Down
You ever read Cerebus OP?
Yes, I read Cerebus, though I'm asking about superhero comics.
I've read or started those already, except Lemire's Moon Knight.
>Roger Stern's Amazing Spider-Man
>Geoff Johns' Green Lantern that go above and beyond with the medium
They don't, but thank you anyway.
Cerebus does have a ton of Superhero parody especially towards the start. But sure it's not a Superhero comic. I just figured 300 issues would keep you occupied if you hadn't read it.
>They don't, but thank you anyway.
shit like this is why I don't bother with these threads
You sound like a twat.
Ex Machina
Punisher MAX
Sandman
Doom Patrol
Hellblazer
Immortal Hulk
Moon Knight by Jeff Lemire
The Long Halloween
Kingdom Come
There are also comics like Roger Stern's Amazing Spider-Man, Walter Simonson's Thor, and Geoff Johns' Green Lantern that go above and beyond with the medium, but are probably not to your taste because they embrace superheroes in a positive way.
Maybe there aren't any. It's not like every person working on a comic was given the chance to be an auteur. 99% have always been constrained by different factors.
There has to be more. Some of the forgotten 80s comics, maybe.
Of all the Roach bits, Swoon (The Sandman parody) was probably the funniest.
80s and 90s would be the time. Paradax by Milligan/Mccarthy is good but there's barely any of it. There's a Milligan book called Skreemer I found in a dollar bin I haven't read yet but it aleast looked cool visually, not 100% sure it's full on cape. Speaking of Milligan, you read X-Statix?
>you read X-Statix?
I have not. I've been saving that one.
He had already started Y: The Last Man by then.
Buzzkill
Huck
Luther Strode
Major Bummer
Marshal Law
Peter Cannon Thunderbolt
The Cape
The Mask
The Middleman
The One
The Pro
Ultramega
Animal Man - Grant Morrison
Dial H - H-E-R-O
Doctor 13 - Architecture & Mortality
Green Arrow - Mike Grell
Hellblazer
Hitman
Justice League - Earth 2
Justice League - Formerly Known as the Justice League
New Gods - Orion
Superman - Alan Moore Trilogy
Superman - Joe Casey's Adventures of Superman
Superman - All-Star Superman
The Demon 1990 v3
The Flash 1988 v2 #15-61
The Question - Dennis O'Neil
The Spectre 1987 v2
The Spectre 1992 v3
Captain Britain - A Crooked World (a.k.a. Jasper's Warp)
Captain Marvel - The Death of Captain Marvel
Daredevil - Born Again
Wildstorm - Point Blank & Sleeper
Wildstorm - Wildcats 3.0
Dennis O'Neil's The Question
Peter Milligan's X-Force/X-Statix
(IF you like Batman Year One, then) Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper
Mike Grell's Green Arrow (I'm really not sure that this'll be your thing, but I think it's worth mentioning)
Hulk Annual #13 by Bill Mantlo (TRUST ME)
Doctor Strange by Steve Ditko
Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Jim Steranko
1963 by Alan Moore
Supreme by Alan Moore
The Authority by Warren Ellis
Supreme Power by JMS
Marvel Fanfare #40 (Angel story)
Elektra Assassin
Archie Goodwin's and Walt Simonson's Manhunter
Grendel (if this counts)
Batman Annual #8 (for the art)