The Official Comic Book Thread
 

A couple questions to start this off:
Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Crisis on multiple earths, Crisis on infinite earths, which came first?
My first question here is which of these storylines came first?

I know Graduation day kinda started it all and I'm currently downloading all these via torrent.

My second question is: is there anywhere online to read comics free? Hopefully including these comics?

number 3: what else do i need to read to understand these series?

number 4: What are your fav comic's series/ graphic novels?

My top 5 right now are:

1. Watchmen
2. Dark Knight Returns
3. Sandman
4. Spawn (I loved Spawn/Batman mcfarlane and Miller together= amazing)
5. Sin City is tied with Stray Bullets

Which storylines do you mean? I'm assuming you mean Teen Titans and Young Justice.

Nope. Your best bet is going through torrents. Or, y'know, go to an actual comic shop and buying the issues.

Well, just going back and reading the old Titans comics would be a help (they've got whole volumes of it in paperback and whatnot)

1)Kingdom Come- Waid and Ross's masterpiece, and IMO the greatest superhero story since Action #1.

2) Superman: Birthright- The new version of the Superman origin. It's badass.

3) Batman: The Long Halloween- A retelling of the origin of Two-Face. The story is great (I love Jeph Loeb on Batman) and Tim Sale's artwork is fantastic.

4) Hellboy: Strange Places- So far the last Hellboy story, though I'm sure there'll be more to come. Mignola's artwork is outstanding, and discovering the secret history of the world is very very cool.

5) Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?- A fantastic piece by Alan Moore which shows the last days of the Silver Age Superman. I know most people consider Silver Age to be incredibly campy, and it is for the most part, but when done right, some of the stories (particularly this one) are absolutely amazing.

Honorable Mention: Mark Waid's Golden Age/Silver Age novels, Superman: Red Son, Batman: Hush, Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn, Invincible, Alan Moore's run on Supreme and pretty much anything he did with Batman back in the day (Killing Joke, Mortal Clay, etc).

Watchmen and Sandman are both spectacular, though I've always found Frank Miller to be incredibly overrated. I especially loathe his Batman, since all he does with it is turn Gotham into Basin City and turn Batman into Marv (this is especially obvious in All-Star Batman and Robin) But then again, DKR has a huge fanbase (mostly people who got a kick out of watching him wail on Superman- and don't get me started on that), so it's all a matter of taste, I suppose.

Dude, comics are like 2.50

Just go to the store and buy them.

1. Kingdom Come
2. Dark Knight Returns
3. Infinity Gauntlet
4. Wolverine- Enemy of the State
5. x-men Fatal Attractions

Civil War is probably the best story in years. Gonna wait til it ends, before I lay more praise.

Ooops! I edited out the beginning of this! Shit!

the original title was infinite crisis, indentity crisis and the crisis on infinite earths! that should make the questions more understandable!

can you give me this knowledge?

by the way thanks everyone for this, i'm dling stuff right now.

I'd buy it all but a lot of it is extremely hard to find and I don't know where to start.

Even though this is "spoiler" worthy for those who haven't read it yet.... but this really was the best image from the entire IC series:
















http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...1/Sprimepr.PNG

thanks. my rep is shit so I'll get Kalyx and Alvy to rep you guys.

For a really really good guide to Crisis on Infinite Earths, look up Alan Kister's article on Monitor Duty.

So in order I should read Prelude, Countdown, Omac, Rann Thangar, Day of Vengeance, and Villians United?

I mean *Spoiler* is shown dead right in the begginning of OMAC So Should I read Countdown first or as the site you linked me to suggests should I read Countdown half way through? and what of prelude?

any tie ins I should read first? I'm about to go and look at every book by date lol.

I mean I need to read Crisis On Multiple Earths, then Crisis on infinite earths, then Identity Crisis, then those above? am I correct?

thanks a lot guys. I'm reading Kirstners article right now.

I suggest:

Y: The Last Man
Fables
Preacher
100 Bullets
Sleeper

I'm reading Y: the last man

I am getting fables
I've heard of preacher

100 bullets looks crazy interesting

never heard of sleeper, must be a... SLEEPER!

Read Preacher or a Clint Eastwood lookalike will blow your brains out

I just finished Downloading it.

Any more recs?

Ex Machina.

Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but I don't really wanna make ANOTHER comic thread in a movie forum.

Has the Onslaught Reborn story come out yet? I've read that it comes out in 2006, I think it's a 4 issue mini-series or something (this thread is about certain stories right?).

I just picked up American Virgin 1-6 and the first Nightly news. Both look very promising.

Also I got Amazing Spiderman 529 or something.

Astro City.

http://www.marvel.com/videos/ONSLAUGHT_REBORN

Issue #1 should be out sometime this month.

*EDIT*

Info for Issue #1: http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?book_id=5532

I got gen 13 and Star wars dark times today, and some old fantastic 4

Woah, thanks for that. That got me pretty hyped up. I can't wait for this. I loved the original Onslaught Saga, so hopefully this should be good.

My only concern is that by the looks of it it doesn't have the X-Men...? I dunno, from what I've seen/read it seems to focus more on the Heroes Reborn characters, such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Considering how Onslaught came about being because of Professor X and Magneto, I'd assume it'd have the X-Men.

Still, as great as the Onslaught stuff is, my ultimate story has yet to be written... :(

I asked this in the civil war thread but I guess asking here won't hurt.

Which of these should I read (and in what order) before Civil war.

I downloaded a Civil war and lead up torrent and it had these files:

Avengers Dissasembeld
House of M
Generation M
son of M
the 198
Decimination
Deadly Genesis

I'd say read Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Decimation, Son of M, Generation M, Deadly Genesis, The 198.

Honestly, as long as you read House of M first (the Avengers one isn't even totally necessary) you'll be fine.

Preacher is being made into an HBO series. Could be awesome if they don't screw it up.