The Amazing Spider-Girl - I am
sooooo glad they started Spider-Girl back up. Tom DeFalco brings just the right mix of new school hero and old school storytelling. Now if they'd just bring back Spider-Man 2099, too . . . having him in Exiles is pretty neat, but not really the same.
Cable & Deadpool - Fabian Nicieza is one of the best damn comic writers out there, and his take on CnD is oh so delightfully demented. Or, well, maybe just D now since C went all 'splodey. And D is just a great character anyway, no matter who's writing him. And who couldn't like Bob, Former Agent of Hydra?
Spider-Man - I've been reading Spider-Mans off and on for the past twenty years, and I've been on again since the very first Civil War junk started up. It saddens me deeply to hear that Friendly Neighborhood is getting cancelled . . . hopefully they'll still have Peter David writing Spidey somewhere in the rest of the titles. Or maybe they could put him on a Spidey 2099 revival . . .
Sonic the Hedgehog - As much as Archie has pissed me off over the years, I still keep buying these 'cause I'm
hardcore, yo.
Cope wrote:Jackhass wrote:Cope wrote:Only Sonic the Hedgehog these days.
Is Archie comics still making those things?
Ho yeah. I've been loving it since Tracey Yardley and Ian Flynn started working on it.
Ah, good ol' Ian "the Potto" Flynn. Used to read his
fanfics as well as his fancomic Other M for a while, and I believe we were members of the same Sonic mailing list way back in the day. Good guy.
Several times better at comic writing than that complete chucklehead Bollers and the sadly degraded Penders. I definitely like that he's been working to make the Archie Sonicverse so much more cohesive than before, actually picking up characters and plotlines that had been so casually tossed aside before and doing something with them.
But!
A few of the things he's done just don't make any sort of sense whatsoever. The biggest, most recent, and most mind-boggling of all of them being Sonic and crew
letting Eggman go! They had him!
They had him! There could've been no more war! They could've ended the whole thing right then and there, he kept trying to attack them even though he was in their power, and they just kept saying "You run along now, buddy, shoo!" like he was just a stray dog that wandered into their yard! Idiots! Stick his ass in a deep dank dungeon cell forever and have done with it!
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Other - Besides those main four (or so), I tend to just pick up whatever else tickles my fancy at the time. Which, due to financial concerns, isn't often very much. Comics were always an expensive hobby, and damn if they aren't just getting more and more that way.
I probably would go back to reading X-Men if I could, since I used to be a huge X-reader back in the 90's . . . but every time I pick up an issue nowadays, I get seasick from trying to figure out just what the heck is going on anymore. At least Spider-Man is still Spider-Man no matter how they're trying muddle his origin story now. You can still pick up an issue of Spider-Man and be reasonably sure that it's still
Spider-Man you're going to be reading about. These new X-people? It's like they all got replaced by Skrulls a few years back or something.
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