http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited

Ten bucks a month.

Definitely read Saga from the bundle. It's awesome.

I am in need of recommendations too. Am considering buying a story arc of some description from the Marvel Universe, but it annoys me that every single one seems to start the blurb with "Following the shocking events of Blah blah Blah..."

Deadpool, obv.

Hit me up if you'd like to know "a good shop".

any Vol 1 from the New 52 is a good place to start with for DC.

Be careful here, the New 52 is mostly utter, utter shite. There's a couple of series that are decent* and some that much later on became okay** but there's so much jaw-droppingly bad shit in there I honestly don't know what the fuck they're doing.

*The Batman stuff mostly, and Brian Azzarello's weird mythical take on Wonder Woman continues to be very good.
**Jeff Lemire has pretty much quietly rebooted Green Arrow all over again to make it into something that's not completely embarrassing to read and the current Swamp Thing run's not bad.

My recommendation would be not to necessarily look at certain characters/teams because the quality is incredibly variable depending on who's doing the writing at any given time. I think your best bet is to look at the best writers and see what they've done you might fancy. A couple of picks for writers to look for be Warren Ellis and Keiron Gillen; there's very little the two of them have done that isn't well worth reading.

If you're willing to go back a bit, Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan series is completely stand alone and is just brilliant stuff from start to finish, but most of his own stuff is well worth reading. Super-hero wise he's done acclaimed runs on Iron Man, Thunderbolts (the issue where Norman Osborn finally completes his slow backslide from hero-of-the-hour to violent psychopath is honestly one of the funniest things I've ever read), and his original run on The Authority is top stuff.

Keiron Gillen started out with his own series Phonogram, a very British melding of magic and music that's well worth checking out. Since then he's done very good stuff with S.W.O.R.D., X-Men, Iron Man and Young Avengers. The best thing though is definitely his long run on Journey Into Mystery, which is a sort of Thor spin-off that he used to rehabilitate the character of Loki. It's funny and touching and just excellent all round.

Be careful here, the New 52 is mostly utter, utter shite.

I read the two Saga volumes from the bundle last night, they were great More like that please!

Deadpool, obv.

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A couple of picks for writers to look for be Warren Ellis and Keiron Gillen; there's very little the two of them have done that isn't well worth reading.

Thanks Bamba. The only problem I have is the same as Curio, the whole dropping into the middle of an established series, which I imagine will only be worse if I cherry pick particular writers unless I look at their standalone stuff?

Marvel's Civil War works as a standalone title, even though it references earlier stuff.

Other than the stuff already mentioned I'd single out Mark Waid's run on Daredevil and the Matt Fraction/David Aja Hawkeye, which are both all sorts of awesome.

I'm a seasoned shopper, but send it over

My current list of "shit to read"

y : the last man
preacher
batman : year one
100 bullets
superman : red son
Marvel : 1602
Fables
x-men - days of future past
Astonishing X-men
Planetary
Powers
Invincible
Deadpool
Spiderman : Brand New Day
Transmetropolitan

There are some good webcomics too, but that's probably something for another thread.

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Those of you that read Civil War, how did you go about what issues to include? I followed the reading order in this link and wondered if there are any other issues I need to include before I start reading.

Also, I've got a fuck-ton of stuff lying around and am happy to make any of it available for anyone who wants it. I've got an exhaustive list at home (on a spreadsheet of course), what's the best way to make that list available?

Publically shared google doc?

I loved the Civil War event, I thought it was a genuinely interesting discussion of the whole idea of super-heroes conducted in-universe and allowed for some brilliant character level stuff as well. I hesitated to recommend it because I read all the tie-ins and stuff (which would cost about a billion pounds) so wasn't sure how well it worked if you were only reading the main series. If it's coherent enough read like that then yeah, totally pick it up.

I seem to have found the full civil war series, with all the tie ins and in the right order, on my hard drive, if anyone wants a copy...

I seem to have found the full civil war series, with all the tie ins and in the right order, on my hard drive, if anyone wants a copy...

yes please

And me, please.

Here's my available list:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_P3-M ... sp=sharing

If you open it in Google Sheets it displays pretty much like the original spreadsheet with it's 40 tabs, whereas if you open it directly in Google Drive it's pretty horrible to view. The newest stuff tends towards the highest number tabs. Note that I'd only archive when a series ended (or when I'd accumulated a shitload of issues if it was long running) so even if something started in like 2007 it'll be in a more recent tab if it ran for a few years.

ETA: Actually I see there's a download option when you click on that link so just do that.

Does not open for me, but if I can 'review' any Judge Dread that you have

in both ie10 and chrome I get "spread sheet is too large download or edit in google sheets".

It does neither.

Than after page 9, judge dread child 5, it just lists stripxxx, the xxx being a number.

Another comic bundle at Humble.com

https://www.humblebundle.com/thewalkingdead

Pay $1 for
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 Issues 1-6
Invincible, Vol. 1 Issues 1-4
Witch Doctor, Vol. 1 Issues 1-5
Ghosted, Vol. 1 Issues 1-5

Pay over the average ($10 or so) to add
The Walking Dead, Vol. 2 & 3 Issues 7-18
Thief of Thieves, Vol. 1 Issues 1-7
Super Dinosaur, Vol. 1 Issues 1-6
Plus some other titles (which will be added in a week)

Pay over $15 to add
The Walking Dead, Vol. 4 & 5 Issues 19-30

Hmmm. Might pick that up.

I have The Walking Dead massive thing made of paper, so wouldn't be getting it for that (plus, quite disappointed with it). Also, Invincible is a bit 'meh' and was the weakest of the previous bundle I've read.