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doc thunder
04-28-2005, 08:58 PM
what good now a days from dc. looking for hugely awesome fights. between the villian and hero or heros.
Masked Revenger
04-28-2005, 09:14 PM
Green Lantern: Rebirth. Just picked this up (the first 5 anyway), and it's awsome so far. :D
Chris
Nightwing is starting a brand new story arc. But if you can get issues 100-106 it gives a bit of background history.
Identity Crisis and Countdown are both good. Leading up to Infinity Crisis the big year end event. Also recommend The OMAC project.
JSA is another good series. Classic heroes.
Majestic, though techincally Wildstorm, is still very much epic scale superhero stuff.
Seven Soldiers (vertigo line) is another maxi-series to get into. Having read through some of the sub series in this Myth Knight and Zatanna so far have been well done. Didn't like the Guardian (not the original character :mad: ) or Clarion the Witch Boy (never liked the character to begin with really).
Superman/Batman classic team up style stories. The first few issues are available in tpb.
Overbite
04-30-2005, 01:30 PM
The Superman/Batman series.
Magna Harrier
04-30-2005, 07:38 PM
Gonna have to agree with most of what Gaia said. Although, if you're surrendering to the onslaught that is the new Crisis storyline, be prepared for a LOT of books. Good ones, mind, if OMAC project and Day of Vengance are any indication.
doc thunder
04-30-2005, 10:17 PM
The Superman/Batman series.
thats a good one. i bought 8 to 11 from ebay. then i bought 12 and 13.
i am looking to get more possibly.
Overbite
05-01-2005, 04:03 AM
I have them all so far. Even an Autographed #1 by Jeph Loeb. :chuckle:
Stalking Shadow
05-01-2005, 05:46 AM
We need a fanboy smiley.
Lucianna
05-01-2005, 06:11 PM
Hands down my favorite DC books is Birds of Prey. Not a lot superpowers on display, the fights are more like what you'd see in a martial arts movie. Issue 80 starts a new arch with a family of legendary Chinese assassins.
doc thunder
05-05-2005, 07:23 PM
what else is good out there that you would recommend?
Epic scale stuff:
Day of Vengeance 4 part mini-series. crammed full of magic based/using characters and the Spectre without a human anchor.
Legion of Superheroes. Everything they are involved in is epic. :)
OMAC Project. Another mini-series leading up to Infinity Crisis.
Twighlight Experiment (wildstorm line but still a part of DC right). What happens when the son of the worlds most powerful hero finally is allowed to visit Earth after being raised in space.
Terra Obscura vol. 1 and 2 (ABC line but its Alan Moore! so its good) if you like your epic with an early silver age shine try this. It sprang from the pages of Tom Strong (another good series!)
Chain Lightning
05-06-2005, 09:03 AM
The Rogue war that's about to go down in Flash looks promising. I'd actually pick up some back issues, start at 215, and then go up to present, it's only a few issues. 215 first starts the tie ins to the Identity Crisis mini series, that leads to the Rogue war.
AfterglowNoMore
05-07-2005, 05:41 AM
Firestorm has been really good. I'd also reccomend Teen Titans and Outsiders.
Solario
05-08-2005, 09:01 PM
Terra Obscura vol. 1 and 2 (ABC line but its Alan Moore! so its good) if you like your epic with an early silver age shine try this. It sprang from the pages of Tom Strong (another good series!)
Actually Moore is co-writing Terra Obscura with Peter Hogan. Still, that doesn't make it bad.
Magna Harrier
05-09-2005, 03:00 AM
Villians United rocked (issue 1 just came out last week). Pretty much anything that's part od "Countdown to Infinite Crisis" can be considered important stuff, at this point, and none of it has been anything other than great, in my opinion.
azurite
05-09-2005, 05:10 PM
if youve got the time go pick up the crisis on infinate earths books, truly amazing set. of course its an older series with golden age art and confusing storyline, but in my opinion its Dc in every aspect if its DC its in there. and besides by the time your done with it you should have forgotten the beginning ne ways
Masked Revenger
05-09-2005, 05:20 PM
Villians United rocked (issue 1 just came out last week). Pretty much anything that's part od "Countdown to Infinite Crisis" can be considered important stuff, at this point, and none of it has been anything other than great, in my opinion.
See, I picked that up, along with OMAC and Day of Vengence, and have to say I liked this one the least. I'm hoping it will pick up with issue two, though. This issue was kind of confusing.
I really liked OMAC, though. I was a fan of the John Byrn re-telling of the OMAC story back in the 80's (it was a mini-series done in a graphic novel format, I think it was 4 books all told), and I'm kind of curious how they are going to do OMAC as part of the mainstream DC Universe.
Looking forward to the coming Infinite Crisis, too. This is a good time to get into the DCU, as it looks like they are getting ready for a re-boot.
Chris
D'Arkaine
05-09-2005, 06:00 PM
well, the mini series leading up to infinite crisis have piqued my interest: villains united, day of vengeneance, omac project, and the upcoming rann/thanigar war.
ongoing series that i would recommend: teen titans, outsiders, nightwing (ok...im giving devon grayson the benefit of the doubt), Flash, Birds of Prey, & Gotham Central
Superman/Batman is a good read - kinda like a summer blockbuster movie.
Magna Harrier
05-09-2005, 11:23 PM
Yeah, Villians United is one that's going to have to pick up to be as cool as, say, the OMAC Project, but a lot of it's coolness comes from anticipation as to what's going to happen. Plus, I love both Catman and the Suicide Squad, so it's a no-brainer for me.
nightwing (ok...im giving devon grayson the benefit of the doubt)
Do you know how long she's been writing that series? Over 100 issues. One of the longest runs since Chuck Dixson, was on it. (She's a nice person too and answered a lot of questions from me at a comics show here)
Magna Harrier
05-11-2005, 06:15 AM
Did'nt she have a fairly long run on Catwoman as well back in the 90's, or am I hallucinating?
doc thunder
05-12-2005, 09:17 AM
Thankyou for all the great replies. i will look into some of the comics listed.
If you find anything else you 've read and liked post it here.
Did'nt she have a fairly long run on Catwoman as well back in the 90's, or am I hallucinating?
Actually that was Jo Duffy. Gave her a more feminine edge and brought in more female readers.
Magna Harrier
05-13-2005, 12:48 AM
CUrses! I must be mixing up my Bat-family titles. Truth be told, the closest thing to a Bat-book I read regularly is Batman/Superman.
Superman/Batman is awsome in and of itself. I have the Public Enemies hardback and hope to get the supergirl one soon.
AfterglowNoMore
05-14-2005, 12:43 AM
Superman/Batman is awsome in and of itself. I have the Public Enemies hardback and hope to get the supergirl one soon.
My Supergirl one came in last week, very good read.
D'Arkaine
05-14-2005, 10:33 PM
Do you know how long she's been writing that series? Over 100 issues. One of the longest runs since Chuck Dixson, was on it. (She's a nice person too and answered a lot of questions from me at a comics show here)
She hasnt been on it quite that long. She took over around 76 or in the 80s. She first took him off after Redhorn's wife who had files that could take down Blockbuster. She introduced the new Tarantula. Royally messed up Dick's life. Let him kill by inaction. Then she had to work into the war games stuff.
She wrapped up with Tarantula in jail.
Chuck gave us Nightwing year one. Totally Awesome. Doesn't really contradict the events in Teen Titans around the first appearance of Nightwing. (Judas Contract tradepaperback)
Now she is putting Dick undercover into the mob. Which I am liking so far.
(Dick allowing blockbuster to get shot - the trouble at Hailey's Circus, his apartment building burning down, etc. I really really did not like.)
ok...geek mode off. :)
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