What comics do you tend to re-read regularly?
What comics do you tend to re-read regularly?
I usually re-read something Starman related once a year, it may be an arc or several trades. I LOVE that series so it is easy to read again without getting tired of it.
Several arcs of Wally’s run I will re-read from time to time: Dead Heat, The Return Of Barry Allen, Terminal Velocity, etc.
Last, would be JSA related usually Prince of Darkness or The Return of Hawkman.
AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's New 52 Batman run.
The Green Lantern saga starting with Green Lantern: Rebirth up to Brightest Day.
Batman/TMNT by James Tynion IV.
All-Star Superman.
Some Geoff Johns Superman stories (Secret origin, Brainiac, Last Son, Legion of Superheroes)
Supergirl by Sterling Gates
I also think Superman Smashes the Klan will be one I frequently revisit in the future.
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“Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.”
- Grant Morrison on Superman
James Robinson's The Golden Age is something I usually read once a year; Priest's first thirteen issues or so of The Ray (with Porter on art); Grant Morrison's Animal Man run; the first few years of the Roy Thomas written All-Star Squadron.
Lately I look over Abnett's AQUAMAN quite a bit.
I reread FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING often. Moore's Swamp Thing. Veitch and Acala's Swampy, too.
Justice League of America #139-146, 149-150 - Steve Englehart and Dick Dillin
Legion of Super Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga - Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen
New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract - Marv Wolfman and George Perez
Justice League/International/America #1-60 - Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis, Kevin MaGuire, Adam Hughes (and others)
Justice League Europe #1-35 - Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis, Gerard Jones, and Bart Sears
L.E.G.I.O.N. '89-'93 #1-50 - Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, and Barry Kitson
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes/The Doll's House #1-16 - Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg
Superman: Death and Return - Dan Jurgens and numerous others
Batman: The Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
Kingdom Come - Mark Waid and Alex Ross
JSA #1-25 (Justice Be Done/Darkness Falls/Hunt For Extant/Return of Hawkman) - James Robinson, David Goyer, Geoff Johns, Stephen Sadowski, and Michael Bair
Justice - Jim Krueger, Alex Ross, and Doug Braithwaite
I only reread for lore refresher so everything that contains lore that I forget. Origins, deaths, resurrections...
The New Teen Titans by Wolfman and Perez
The Legion of Super-Heroes by Levitz and Giffen
The Fury of Firestorm by Conway and Broderick
Batman and The Outsiders by Barr and Aparo
The All-Star Squadron by Thomas and Ordway
Warlord by Grell
Justice League of America by Conway and Perez
The Spectre by Ostrander and Mandrake
Just to name a few of the best.
I don’t do it every year, but I find I revisit certain things far more than others:
1. Starman, which seems like a popular choice.
2. Sandman Mystery Theatre.
3. Green Lantern, from Emerald Twilight through the present.
4. Flash volume 2, the whole thing. From Baron to Waid’s second stint.
5. 90s/early 00s Batman. I have a nostalgic soft spot for the bombastic crossover era. I’ll usually start with Contagion and read through War Crimes. Even though it’s remarkably different in tone, this will also typically lead into a Morrison re-read.
6. The Reboot Legion, from Zero Hour through the end of The Legion.
7. JLA, Morrison/Waid/Kelly.
As you can tell, I got into comics in the 90s.
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AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
I re-read Multiversity a lot. I love multiverse shenanigans and it's a nice contained story to boot.
I've been unhappy with the current run of The Dreaming, so I've gone back to the 'original' series, and I'm enjoying it a LOT.
Age/Bronze, Age/Reptiles, Alex&Ada, Anne Bonnie, Astro City, Bone, Briggs Land, Cerebus, Criminal, Courtney Crumrin, Eleanor & the Egret, Fables, Fatale, Fell, Grass Kings, Green Valley, Goon, Gotham Midnight, Groo, Hellboy, Hillbilly, Incognegro, Jack Staff, JL8, Jonah Hex, Kane, Lazarus, Little Nemo, Lone Wolf, Next Wave, Popeye, Powers, Princess Ugg, Resident Alien, SiP, Squirrel Girl, Stray Bullets, 10G, Thief of Thieves, Tuki, Uncle Scrooge, Usagi, Velvet
All-Star Superman and Morrison's Action run
The Sandman
Moore' Swamp Thing
Morrison's JLA and Doom Patrol
Rucka's Wonder Woman (both runs)
Wolfman/Perez NTT
Englehart and Rogers on Batman
Rucka and Williams III/Blackman on Batwoman
Moore's Superman stories
Geoff Johns' first Flash run
Alex Ross's Justice
Would probably have to be Geoff John’s Green Lantern: Rebirth and his 2007 Justice Society of America run.
"It's fun and it's cool, so that's all that matters. It's what comics are for, Duh."
Words to live by.