His Swamp Thing is amazing, but the first LOEG series was an okay read, but the part II and beyond I hated. With the exception of the art work Kevin O'Neill is brilliant, the art was what sold me on the omnibus. I figured it would be at least a decent read, but could not even finish the second book. Thankfully I got the omnibus extremely discounted from my LCS.
Overrated:
Dini's Detective run...has some GREAT stories like Slayride and the Facade story, but many just kinda suck or really underwhelm, didn't like his new Ventriloquist either, I've always hated Harley
Hickman FF
Dan Slott Spider-Man
Astonishing X-Men By Joss Whedon & John Cassaday Omnibus
Underrated:
Absolute Batman Incorporated...just amazing colorful superspy fun
Punisher Year One
Gothic by Morrison
Morrison's New X-Men Omnibus (underrated by many X-Men fans)
Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Ironic. I'm listening to Paul Dini on smodcast right now.
Only comic book by Hickman that I enjoyed was Secret Warriors. I liked first two issues of Manhattan Projects, but fell off for whatever reason. Everything else I tried of his I couldn't even finish, like Nightly News for example.
Punisher year one by abnett and lanning? absolutely love that one
Well, since I was just complaining about it in another thread here is one:
anything by Scott Snyder
pretentious and boring, all the reveals fall flat and disappoint. So far that's true for me for anything he wrote. N52 Batman the prime example, just hate that run. The Wake started okay then the halfway turn just ruined it. Gave Wytches an issue, couldn't care less. Black Mirror was okay, still, gonna give my copy away for someone who will appreciate it a lot more.
Other that Snyder's work I think I can make my peace with almost anything that is critically acclaimed or a fan favourite, even with the NOW Deadpool. People love it but I just can't stand it. But it's a humour book and probably it's just not my kind of humour.
Still on the fence about Gillen's Young avengers.
Underrated:
-Atomic Robo. It pains me that most of the population of Earth just doesn't know how badly they need it in their life
-Tarpe Mills' Miss Fury Sunday strips: such an important series. First female hero from a female creator, really good characters and even the villains are 3dimensional.
Nazi villains! In the 40's! 3D!
And it's really engaging and entertaining.
The art is good, obviously not a Prince Valiant level but it's good and people should talk about it. For me Miss Fury > Golden Age Wonder Woman (which doesn't mean WW is bad)
Nope, they did a kickstarter for HC versions but the european shipping was heinously expensive (more than doubled the cost of the books). You can get pretty cheap single volume paperbacks or IDW have been churning out 3-in-1's volume one and volume two.
yeah, as drd wrote. But I remember there were non kickstarter hc-s promised in a podcast, I've even posted the things in one of the threads, but can't remember exactly what Clevinger said.
Still, the 3 in one tpb-s are good quality, although I think the best decision with Robo would be some cheap paperback like the chunky DC ones for a tenner so people can pick them up without too much hesitation and give them to their kids to read them over and over again.