Comics you're reading

[aaronking]

I used to be big into comics. HUGE into comics. I bought the best superhero stuff, the hot literary stuff, the acclaimed manga, the little gay minicomics from young queers at zine fests, old stuff, new stuff, and everything in between.

I no longer work at a bookstore, my disposable income is currently next to nothing, and I'm still not ready to go back to zine fests. So please tell me about the comics you're reading! Or your favorites from the past! Have you ever made a comic? Please show me!

I am currently reading Dorohedoro volume 1 by Q Hayashida. I like it because a big reptile man eats the heads of annoying little sorcerers and a buff pretty lady kicks the sorcerers and also makes good food.

[Authenticity Trip]

Let’s see, what am I reading? One of my favorite manga of all time, Zatch Bell, just had a SEQUEL series start up which absolutely NO one saw coming. So I’m really enjoying reading the new monthly chapters of that! A fun little romance manga called Cigarette and Cherry just wrapped up as well, really liked that one. And I really have to catch up on Tynion IV’s Department of Truth, because god DAMN is that shit the shit

[forktwenty]

I've been working my way through Paper Girls, DIE, Once and Future, Chainsaw man, and the Gundam Origin manga all at a pretty slow pace but loving it!

[selkie]

I don’t read comics much but when I was a kid I was obsessed with the manga Children of the Sea by Daisuke Igarashi and ended up rebuying the whole series as an adult. It’s got a netflix movie too.

I’ve also got a bunch of issues of Snot Girl that I thoroughly enjoyed

[Authenticity Trip]

I've been working my way through Paper Girls, DIE, Once and Future, Chainsaw man, and the Gundam Origin manga all at a pretty slow pace but loving it!

Oh yeah, I've really gotta check out DIE. The game is really interesting, if a little on the chunky side for my personal taste

[HorsePondMine]

I will take every opportunity to sing the praises of Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett. What if the Hulk was a horror movie monster with a healthy dose of weird Jungian nonsense and Cronenberg body horror. You don't need to know a thing about the Marvel universe either.

[Serket]

I'm reading every current x-men comic since 2019. I got into comics via Kieron Gillen (my friend sent me The Wicked + The Divine) during the pandemic. It's really nice just to have something to look forward to every Wednesday and an excuse to get out of the house.

I recommend starting from 2019 with the event "House of X / Powers of X" (HoXPoX) by Jonathan Hickman, which is a soft reboot for x-men related things. You don't need to know anything going into it.

[AirborneHam]

Just found this thread. I am a very slow and bad reader but I love reading so comics and graphic novels are how I get to read without having to reread pages over and over again. I've got a lot of favorites, most of them not superheroes or from Marvel/DC.

• Descender is great sci-fi, followed by Ascender the fantasy sequel which isn't as epic but still very good. But pretty much anything by Jeff Lemire is great.
• A Jeff Lemire list worth reading: PlutonaThe Black Hammer stuff is some of the only superhero comics I read. Sweet Tooth which is much darker and more upsetting than the new Netflix show them made. The Nobody Is an interesting take on the Invisible Man.
• Trees is incredible, thoughtful, and terrifying. But pretty much anything by Warren Ellis is worth reading while acknowledging the allegations against him mean he's probably a gross abuser. Obviously Transmetropolitan.
• Revival is a good mystery and interesting take on zombie apocalypse fiction, and takes place in Wasau WI which is really close to me so it was fun to see Tim Seeley's take on rural midwest.
• A more YA read but still very fun is Skyward by Joe Henderson. A world where gravity stops existing and rich people get to live on the ground with magnet boots while poor people live in the upper levels of cities trying not to "fall" off the Earth. Lots of interesting, if goofy worldbuilding.
• If you're open to web comics, Rice Boy is very good, full of weird little guys, and fantastically epic in scale. It has very little text so it's a fast read and well worth it. I think a physical copy is available, and Evan Dahm's other work is good too. Vattu just wrapped, but I have only gotten a few hundred pages in.
• Currently I'm anticipating every issue of What’s the Furthest Place from Here? by Matthew Rosenberg & Tyler Boss. It's really compelling coming of age story in a strange post-apocaypse. I love it.

I'm making my list of what to try and read in 2023. I really want to diversify my reading this year because the classic "best comics" are very white and male from decades of the comics industry being run by white dudes, so if anyone has any recommendations for series or books written by women, BIPOC, or queer folk I would love to hear them.

[silas]

currently reading Rubber Match by Elizabeth Brei. i backed it on kickstarter and though i got it a while ago, i'm just now cracking into it! it's a queer romance about pro wrestling!