Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Your Current Pull List

I dropped the book after the 4th issue. It was a bit slow, and I lost track of when it came out. But I did like the story and plan to buy it in trade.

OM, your list makes me wish you were posting more in January, our "Comic Book Review Month", as I'd love to hear your opinions on various comics you're collecting.

- I've been loving Zorro. I really feel like I missed the boat on Lone Ranger and am trying to hunt down the earliest issues. I hope these series are continuing but I can never tell with Dynamite's solicits.

- How is the Weird World of Jack Staff? Is this a quarterly comic? I really should pick it up but never pull the trigger.

- Also curious about Black Terror and Project Superpowers, as I'm a longtime student of comic book history. I love those old Lev Gleason covers particularly!

Keep us updated on what you're collecting! I have a very high opinion on *your* opinions!

I've been losing interest in Doom Patrol, and will likely drop it after the current story ends. This means that the only ongoing titles on my pull list going forward will be Adventure, plus the forthcoming Legion and Atlas titles.

There will still be a few limited series and individual issues that I'll be picking up, but for the near future, I'm going to cut down my comics list to save money for some of my other hobbies and for travel.

I believe all these books are supposed to be continuing, though Lone Ranger and Jack Staff have always had problems coming out regularly.

Jack Staff is writer/artist Paul Grist's shot at creating a superhero universe mixing English comic archetypes and his own creations. It's a lot of fun. Somehow he manages to give his characters enough story beats that everything works despite the large cast.

I've decided something.

I dropped JLA, as well as the rest of the Arsenal mini and any more issues of Green Arrow. I'm extending my personal ban on anymore books with "Justice League" in their title, as well as anymore Titans books.

Miner, you convinced me to give Lone Ranger a try and I liked it well enough that I went back and picked up several back issues. I'm going to try to get all 20 or so and start from the beginning.

I also will give Jack Staff a try as well, I think. The more diverse my pull list the better these days.

Meanwhile, I had a briefly sad feeling tonight as I read through a stack of about 12 comics, in a way that affects my pull list. Dan Jurgen's Booster Gold run is ending (and I'm really cautious about how I'll feel about Giffen and Dematies coming on, as I much prefer the new status quo for Booster), and GotG and Nova are going on hiatus--hopefully not forever, but who knows? That means 3 really solid sci-fi superhero comics are kind of coming to an end; and lately that's been my favorite sub-genre of superheroes. I usually would read the DnA Marvels with FF and actually rope in Booster every month because the energy and sci-fi felt like it fit in there.

Here's hoping GotG and Nova start back up after this Thanos thing.

Legion of Super Heroes
Adventure Comics
Flash
The Walking Dead
The Brave and the Bold As long as JMS lasts)
Chew
Green Lantern
Secret Six
Jonah Hex (Damn you Cobie!)

Tell me about it. Everytime I turn around, Lardy recommends a comic to me I never heard of and its the most brilliant thing I've ever read in my life!

Glad you liked Lone Ranger. I'm still enjoying as well, though decompressed does not begin to describe the storytelling at the moment.

Hope you like Jack Staff.

I dropped Booster Gold because of the upcoming Generation Lost connection. Nothing against Giffen, I'm just not interested.

I'm not surprised about GotG and Nova. Despite their quality, I think it's been the crossovers and events that have kept them going. Sci-Fi is such a hard-sell in comics these days. I hope they do survive in some form.

I'm definitely keeping Booster Gold on the pull list for the immediate future. Like Cobie, I'm a little trepidatious that evrything Johns and Jurgens did will be totally dumped in favor of slapstick. But given the pedigree of the creators and their love for the character, I've gotta give it a chance. If nothing else, I'm betting it will be absolutely hilarious--and there are worse things to get out of a comic than a few belly laughs every issue.

A-hem. MY pull list.

Action Comics
Adventure Comics
Batgirl
Batman
Batman and Robin
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Batman: Streets of Gotham
Black Terror
Booster Gold
Brave and the Bold
Detective Comics
Doc Savage
Fables
First Wave
Gen13
Gotham City Sirens
Grimm Fairy Tales
I... Zombie
Jack of Fables
JSA All-Stars
Justice Society of America
Marvelous Land of Oz
New Mutants
Power Girl
Project Superpowers
REBELS
Secret Six
Spirit
Supergirl
Superman
Superman: War of the Supermen
Tiny Titans

SK, love to hear your thoughts on Black Terror and Project Superpowers! What do you like? Dislike?

I personally love the history of these characters (I'm a Golden Age history buff) but I just never pulled the trigger on buying these...Alex Ross's writing leaves me cold sometimes (whereas I love his art).

For one thing, they actually RESPECT their characters.

Forgot to add I Zombie and Gen13 to the list.

Except for maybe the ones they've killed off or had go evil.

How many compared to DC?

And in all honesty, most of the ones they kill come back two issues later.

That's completely irrelevant, especially since DC's been publishing a lot longer.

The point is that the Project:Superpowers guys (and I like the series too) aren't afraid to kill or maim or twist characters when it suits them to do so.

Hmm, you do have a point.

Hm, I don't think Lardy or rogue have ever posted their pull lists. I'm curious! Do it!

And you too Reboot--I'm worried that you're gettign competely burnt out on comics in general and hardly collect anything anymore. I need your strong opinions on LW to balance out everyone's comments.

PS - as an update, I picked up Jack Staff too but haven't read it yet. I'll definately post my thoughts when I do.

PPS - I *may* pick up a Project Superpowers or Black Terror issue sometime soon. Unsure yet. I'm leaning more towards Black Terror as there is more than enough ensemble comic books out there these days but not enough solo comics based on characters with awesome death/pirate motifs.

And yet, when Marvel or DC do it, fans cry foul! I'm going ot have to check out these Dynamite books eventually aren't I?

My reason is that it would take too damn much work! Honestly, after recent Gym'll's activity, I can't think of any surprises left for you amongst the stuff I pick up.

Aw, what the hell--I might just do it soon, anyway...

Makes sense.

The other P:S characters do show up on a fairly regular basis in Black Terror, though he is clearly the star of the book. Just an FYI.

It gets "worse".

Just recently, they not only killed off a character but his costume and ID were taken up by....a black man. The "horror".

Yes.

The latest issue of iZombie had a preview of Revolver, an original graphic novel, and I suspect it will appear in most of Vertigo's comics this month. I thought it was really freaky and interesting! I might pick this up some point in the future.

It's only a few pages but it reminded me of the film Memento, which I liked quite a bit.