What Percentage of DC books you read do you like?

**Menacer** · 02-20-2021, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by married guy

Nearly 100%, but I only buy Flash and Aquaman.

List your 5 or 10 favorite volumes of Flash.

3 of your favorite volumes Aquaman

I wanna check out these guys more

**SJNeal** · 02-20-2021, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by MajorHoy

For DC comics?

Hmmmm . . . I bought all three issues of Batman: Three Jokers and felt the 1st issue was interesting, but it went down hill for the other two.

I bought the Rebirth volume of Batgirl until issue #38 but gave up after that.

I was buying Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, but DC ended that with issue #50 back towards the end of 2019.

Other than that, I was buying occasional issues of things like Detective Comics #1000 and #1027 as well as The Flash #750. Those issues were mixed bags of good and mediocre stories, but not good enough to get me to start buying them on a regular basis again.

Understood, thanks!

I'm trying to think of anything out there that you might have missed and might find interesting (with a Golden Age sensibility perhaps?), but I'm coming up short... :-/

**Ascended** · 02-20-2021, 09:15 PM

Voted "nearly 100%"

But I drop books I don't enjoy pretty quickly. One or two issues go bad and I drop out of the arc. I'm well past the point where I'm willing to spend money on something I don't enjoy, and the forums here give me an easy way to keep tabs on things so I know when I might want to jump back into a title.

**Robanker** · 02-20-2021, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Menacer

Which characters are your favorite that are missing???

They're in his signature.

Originally Posted by Menacer

List your 5 or 10 favorite volumes of Flash.

3 of your favorite volumes Aquaman

I wanna check out these guys more

For Flash, the Waid and Johns runs are excellent and the Morrison/Millar interlude was solid. Everything before wasn't bad, but Waid was when it really got going.

For Aquaman, I love the silver age but it's a very acquired taste and of its time. You have to take it warts and all.

Aquaman has been pretty great since New 52 though. You can start with Johns and continue until KSD and only really need to skip the Bunn issues (New 52 volume 7).

**Vakanai** · 02-20-2021, 09:47 PM

Nearly all. But then, I buy only so many trades and graphic novels and such a year, often after reviews or a lot of hype and such so I get a good idea of what I'm in for. I know I'm likely to enjoy it before I read it.

**SJNeal** · 02-20-2021, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by Menacer

3 of your favorite volumes Aquaman

I wanna check out these guys more

I know you didn't ask me, but I'll chime in anyway!

You should check out Will Pfeifer and John Arcudi's 2004-2006 runs; the latter follows the former without missing a beat and is collectively known as the "Sub-Diego" era. It's collected across 3 TPB's that are out of print, but still available online for decent prices.

**Menacer** · 02-20-2021, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Robanker

They're in his signature.

For Flash, the Waid and Johns runs are excellent and the Morrison/Millar interlude was solid. Everything before wasn't bad, but Waid was when it really got going.

For Aquaman, I love the silver age but it's a very acquired taste and of its time. You have to take it warts and all.

Aquaman has been pretty great since New 52 though. You can start with Johns and continue until KSD and only really need to skip the Bunn issues (New 52 volume 7).

Lol never read signatures! But yes... icic

Yah I own waid volume 1 and johns volume 1.

Waid seemed to old for me and I had to many other books so I never continued... maybe i just need to buy a later volume and work backwards...

Johns grabbed me for sure... then i became distracted with other books... any big events any of his volumes cross over with? I like big complicated stories. I could buy a set of books.

The only major story I've read with aquaman playing a big part was Flashpoint. I'll check out what my used books store has for new 52 aquaman ... im a fan of 52 materials

**Menacer** · 02-20-2021, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by SJNeal

I know you didn't ask me, but I'll chime in anyway!

You should check out Will Pfeifer and John Arcudi's 2004-2006 runs; the latter follows the former without missing a beat and is collectively known as the "Sub-Diego" era. It's collected across 3 TPB's that are out of print, but still available online for decent prices.

Nice! Thank you Ive added to my list. I'll see what my used book store has and go from there.

**SJNeal** · 02-20-2021, 10:33 PM

These might be helpful.

**9th.** · 02-20-2021, 11:37 PM

100%

I don't buy books just keep up with certain characters that's what forum sites and wiki pages are for, if I don't like a book i'm not giving you my money unless it's the first issue. It makes zero sense to me. (If you count books you're just trying out you can knock that score down to 99%)

I don't consider myself a collector so that may be part of why I feel this way.

**lemonpeace** · 02-20-2021, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by 9th.

100%

I don't buy books just keep up with certain characters that's what forum sites and wiki pages are for, if I don't like a book i'm not giving you my money unless it's the first issue. It makes zero sense to me. (If you count books you're just trying out you can knock that score down to 99%)

I don't consider myself a collector so that may be part of why I feel this way.

this exactly. I may pick up a story that I'm critical of to support a character I'm invested in but if I'm not enjoying the book more than I'm critical of it I can't justify continuing. I tried that with Doomsday Clock and it just made me more annoyed with the book.

**Sutekh** · 02-21-2021, 01:33 AM

Currently only reading Far Sector, which I enjoy, and Legion of Super-Heroes, which I have not. So 50%.

(I will never not buy Legion of Super-Heroes, even if I wish it were better. I won't be that guy who complains about it, but then never buys it and gets used as an excuse for why the book failed. If it fails, it ain't my fault!)

**Arsenal** · 02-21-2021, 02:34 AM

I went with 80-90%.

I generally only follow a small handful of titles from DC at a time so generally I enjoy what I buy. The 10-20% tends to be when a run I was enjoying goes south (Nightwing), a book I like has a weak arc (Red Hood, Superman) or some big book fails to deliver (3 Jokers). Being stateside and having access to DCU to screen runs before buying them generally made it easier to screen out which runs weren’t worth my time.

**LifeIsILL** · 02-21-2021, 02:54 AM

Originally Posted by Menacer

List your 5 or 10 favorite volumes of Flash.

3 of your favorite volumes Aquaman

I wanna check out these guys more

Search for Mera and Death of a Prince, both stories were ahead of its time.

**Avi** · 02-21-2021, 03:32 AM

Almost 100%.

While I follow some characters, I'm dropping titles fast if they aren't to my taste. The one-month wait makes that pretty easy to judge as well because if I forget about a monthly title before it's out again and then feel no excitement when I'm reminded of it, I don't care enough to pick it up once more.

Trades I sometimes get on a whim, but I haven't yet read anything that I consider a waste of money.

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