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meredith44

Day 4 - Comics ramblings (And I /mean/ ramblings, sorry! :P )

Sep 13, 2013 01:16

When I was a kid, I adored Wonder Woman. I had the Wonder Woman underoos, I dressed up as Wonder Woman for Halloween (I totally wish I'd grabbed a picture of me as such. Maybe I'll add it when I go to my mother's tomorrow), and I watched every episode of the Lynda Carter television show when it reran when I was a kid. I also have always adored ( Read more... )

x-men, tl;dr, comic books, rambling, the universe posting challenge

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everythingshiny September 13 2013, 08:09:45 UTC

YAY COMICS :D

i love emma too, but i tend to avoid X-men comics (i just have enough to read already) but i liked her a lot in Astonishing X-men.

Comics are consfusinggggg

meredith44 September 14 2013, 04:10:26 UTC

LOL. I understand that. See my policy of currently pretty much ignoring everything that is not X-Men. There are just so many potentially interesting things out there that it is overwhelming!

YES! SO MUCH SO!

everythingshiny September 14 2013, 05:35:54 UTC

ahahaha
it is overwhelming!!! some days i spend a few hours just trying to catch up

meredith44 September 16 2013, 06:35:33 UTC

A few hours a day playing catch up? From someone who is already fairly ensconced in comics? I'm so never going to have time for this. :P

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thewonderkitten September 13 2013, 14:27:56 UTC

Read as:

"I read a lot of stuff Kit has forced me to read.

I like the characters Kit has forced me to read about.

I look forward to continue doing so."

:P

(and I KNOW you're putting those Logan comics into your shrine)

meredith44 September 14 2013, 03:59:15 UTC

Yup.

Yup.

Yup.

:D

Nope! (I mean, they're library books after all, so even if I wanted to, I couldn't put them in a shrine.)
However, I may have scanned parts of them for decorations for my cozy brain nest. :D

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meredith44 September 14 2013, 03:55:31 UTC

I do so love Spiderbaby. I've heard good things about Young Avengers and from what I've seen, I think I'd like it. When you say Captain Marvel, are you talking Carol Danvers? Because I've really liked what I've seen of her and might end up trying to read her stuff. And when I get to Avengers stuff (in, like, 20 years) Avengers Assemble might be one I check out.

I've heard of Saga, but didn't know much about it. I just looked it up, and it seems really intriguing. So that may be another one I might end up checking out. Thanks! :)

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meredith44 September 16 2013, 06:39:35 UTC

I well understand that feeling of books looking at you and wanting to be read. :D

The library by my house has at least the first volume of Saga, so I think I'll check it out when I make it through the things I have now to read.

draganaoftv September 13 2013, 22:11:47 UTC

So it looks like I'm going to be bookmarking all your entries for this challenge. What, that's not creepy. :P

I've been eyeing the X-Men comics for a while now and I just didn't really know where to start and which ones would be good and what they'd be about etc. Until I finally borrowed some last week without really having much of an idea what I'm doing. But now here's a nice list of things with some details and impressions and things that can be useful.

meredith44 September 14 2013, 03:34:23 UTC

LOL. You have only bookmarked two. That's not creepy. :P

There are some lists places that can help. Especially if you want to go through a particular character's stories. Like I did with the Wolverine ones. Let me know if you want any links.

Also, if you go off of this list, I tweaked it a little so it flowed better. House of M should be read before Messiah Complex. (And apparently there is a "Generation Hope" series that should be read before Messiah Complex too, but I didn't.)

I would recommend Astonishing X-Men (not so much the last one), New X-Men by Grant Morrison, and House of M, as general X-Men titles and decent places to start.

draganaoftv September 14 2013, 12:16:51 UTC

Well, let's wait till you get to ten and count then. :P

I don't really have any character in mind so that's not helping my quest. Because comics are just HOW DO YOU COMICS for me, my head starts spinning when I try looking.

Ok, good to know, thanks. :D

Sounds good, got it.

meredith44 September 16 2013, 06:40:51 UTC

So far, so good. :P

Yeah, that was pretty much me. And actually still is. I'm doing X-Men team right now. And then apparently Wolverine. And then possibly Emma Frost or Magneto family. After that, though, I'm going to be back to going "WTF do I do now?"

Good luck!

blaze2242 September 16 2013, 02:43:59 UTC

Comics ARE convoluted. I decided to get into comics following the recent films I really liked, and attending GeekGirlCon and going to panels about comics I hadn't read, and the DC New 52 felt like an opportunity to get in at some semblance of a 'beginning'. I'm the type of person who likes to read ALL of something, and I hate reading things out of order too... so that was always a hurdle for me with comics.

meredith44 September 16 2013, 06:43:37 UTC

I'm the type of person who likes to read ALL of something, and I hate reading things out of order too... so that was always a hurdle for me with comics.
OMG, so much me! I hate reading things out of order. It's why I started with some that were more self contained series types. But now I'm looking at getting into some longer titles (there is one with Emma in it that I'm specifically looking at) and I'm like, uh, how do I enter this?

I heard some things about the DC New 52 that I wasn't fond of, so I don't know if I'll end up going into it much. Although, considering I haven't even made a dent in X-Men stuff, forget Marvel at large, I don't even know if I'd have the time to really start with DC. I want to get into comics, but wow, is this time-intensive!

blaze2242 September 16 2013, 16:44:54 UTC

Yea, comic book aficionados keep saying that it doesn't really matter when/where you start, you can just sort of jump in at any point, but ... I can't quite make myself do that. I have heard a lot of negative rumblings about New 52 also, and... I don't love most of it. I'm reading Wonder Woman and Birds of Prey, which were two titles I got turned onto at Geek Girl Con, as well as Captain Marvel (obvs Marvel). Wonder Woman is ... ok. I like some things, but the plot is kinda... meh for me at this point. I'm liking Birds of Prey more, although they did this weird 'and now we're in space!' thing that kinda lost me. I LOVE LOVE Captain Marvel, and it's pretty new, a re-imagining of the original character in some ways. And it just did a crossover series with Avengers that I'm trying to get the rest of. My husband reads mostly DC, he's into Superboy and Supergirl in a big way, as well as Batgirl. So it's a Universe he knows a lot, so that made it easier. If I get confused I can ask him and he usually knows. There really is so much out there ( ... )