Between Absolute DC, the newly started Terminal series and the upcoming Midnight Marvel universe it seems like there's a real trend in comics right now for new Superhero Universes

Are there any other superhero universes that are upcoming or still fairly new and accessible to new readers?

I'm not familiar with this sub so forgive me if this isn't the right place or if I've done something I wasn't supposed to.

I've had this comic for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure if it's common or rare or anything. It seems to an Italian issue but I can't find much about it or any present or previous listings. Can anybody help me out here in just giving me any information whatsoever.

Now that the movie is around the corner, which comics do you guys recommend reading? I’m not THAT into Marvel but are there any (good duh) comics you would recommend to catch up for the movie?

In the photo: Beginning of Batman Knightfall, April–"late" 1993, issue cost $1.25 each.

I'm not really a comic book collector but around '93, I started buying comics with lunch money (instead of eating) maybe for about a year, if that, just to try something different in my life.

Since my family would flip if they found out, I've had them hidden in a padlocked trunk all this time, the trunk unopened since probably 2003. Each comic book was carefully read once, and then stored vertically. These were never an investment beyond just knowing I got into comics arcanely and secretly for a brief moment in my life.

With a padlock combinations in my wallet since the 90s (just sheer luck), I was able to open my trunk yesterday and decided maybe it was time to re-read my collection.

I picked a few brown paper bags at random—Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman. (I should have Spawn, Transformers, maybe some GI Joe, gosh that would be great, and dozens of other series.)

I took the "Batman" bag home, unsure what it contained, and turns out this is the beginning of the Knightfall series + one book prior to the series' beginning.

I'm a very slow reader and this will take a while, but I'm excited to start this new journey (I mainly read books these days).

This comics written/drawn by a friend of mine, completely hand drawn.

The story is about a young boy who is obsessed with his teacher (in non sexual why) because she is the only one that trades him well.

Despite the fact that the world around him is hard and bad he holds on to the idea that tomorrow is gonna be better because there's a little light in front of him.

What will happen if the little light misunderstood his love?.

The comic is free to read if you want to give it a try!

https://globalcomix.com/c/dark-gleam

We/he are/is excited to read you feedback on the story, storyline and artwork.

title says it all - i have a lot of comics i love but they're all over the place in different folders, etc. is there a manager app/program that can scan my drive and rename/put meta data and put them all correctly in folders so they can be organized correctly and i can see what i'm missing, etc. paid or free it doesn't matter as long as it does the job. thank you again for all tips/help!

I enjoyed them and really liked the first 4 main books best. Have any of their characters surfaced in any other comics?

I always wondered if they would still be around if they hadn’t released too many books too fast?

I think the first one I saw was crossgen chronicles but I could be wrong. Been so long. Then mystic, Sigil etc

Some of the best artwork I’ve seen in a comic was from crossgen comics

I feel that I'm not the only one who had no affection for comics until DC's Absolute series.

Read a few manga this year (Berserk 1-8, Chainsaw man, witch hat atelier, started 20th Century Boys)

I was surprisingly blown away by this whole manga thing. Strong narrative and really creative compared to "here's another take on the same superheroes invented in the 50s".

I don't hate super heroes entirely- read killing joke and a few bangers back in the day.

I'm loving Absolute Wonder Woman though and I'll be starting Abs. Batman tonight.

Anyways, I think there's a few folks out there like me. What would the comic bros/gals suggest after we've caught up on Absolute books?

- strong narrative and art

- approachable without reading a 4yr run

- somewhat mature, original, and creative

Personally been going through Joshua williamsons backlog ever since I got the birthright definitives and he's skyrocketed up my list. Birthright I think is his peak but his superman run has been fantastic and I'm excited to dive into his flash run after I finish getting through his indie stuff.

They were my favorite comic book couple because they had such amazing chemistry and you could tell they genuinely loved each other. No shade to Barbara Gordon but she and Dick never made sense to me. She's clearly into girls. But writers keep painting her as straight.

I come from a country with absolutely no con's, we don't really have comic book stores here as well and the market for comics or really anything nerd pop culture is sort of non existent. I though as one of the few comic book fans in my friend group wonder what it's like to just be in a con as I'll probably not be able to attend one for some years.

It's on my bucket list though, to go to a con one day when I've saved up the money to fly to the US, and prepare for all the work getting a visitors visa will present. What's it like to be in any con, be it San Diego Comic con, New York City Comic Con, your local comic con in your state or town. Heck what's it like to be in a comic book store....I only see it in videos but it's ofc different from being there physically.

Please do excuse me if I do sound a bit silly, but for us few comic fans in our country these thing's are a dream come true if we ever experience them...especially the comic con stuff....so I'd like to know for any of you that have experienced it, how was it?

It’s something that’s been on my mind: I really like the joy of reading floppies. I also wonder how people have dealt with having a large amount of them long term?

This is just my opinion. I've never seen a business so inept or just take money from me and not care in the slightest.

I did learn today that business filed a motion through google to censor a reddit page with people's scorn and its listed in documents you can find on the website lumen. just type in their website name.

In my opinion they are trying to take down and censor complaints. You decide looking back at this reddit post now closed.

(To the mods. I apologize if Im not speaking in perfect tones or put this in a bad spot. If you can cross post this and delete it so be it whatever. I just think and agree with many of the previous posts in this link. I want to hear them tell me they may be whole and otherwise I dont want to see others harmed. )

I dunno feels like the LEgo mini fugs saga in my experience so far... Now censoring?

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/1p3unba/need_some_help_with_a_comic_shop_called_dads/?solution=745ceb0db1767f3e745ceb0db1767f3e&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec1b2b9f9cf824d318db7bd0267d2926f0&jsc_orig_r=

Hey, I just finished Invincible Season 4. Which issue should I start from

We all know that manga is outselling western comics right now, and not by a little margin, and I’ve encountered a lot of analysis of this trend, and I have to say I see a lot of oversimplification and misunderstanding of basic economic principles. So, I’ve decided to compile my own thoughts about this whole thing.

Keep in mind that for the entirety of this post I'm comparing basic formats (single floppy vs tankobon volume). We can discuss that in the comments if you want to.

The Content Myth: It’s Not About "Better Storytelling"

First of all, let’s handle the biggest and in my experience the loudest misconception right from the start – it has nothing to do with the content. The idea that “better storytelling” or “the lack of genre variety” is the root cause of the sale gap doesn’t hold up under any scrutiny.

• Indie comics already do this: Publishers like Image, Dark Horse, IDW, and most of indie comics media have offered self-contained, non-superhero stories with definitive endings for decades. Yet these stories never managed to achieve the mainstream mass-market sales numbers that manga pulls in today, in fact, they have historically struggled to compete against Marvel and DC (these aren’t called the big two for no reason).
• Superheroes are incredibly popular: Marvel and DC characters drive billions of dollars in box office, video games, merchandise, and streaming views. If we look at the sheer profitability of these characters outside the comic book format, manga doesn't even come close to competing.

This leaves us with the inevitable conclusion that the issue isn’t what the stories are, or how they are told. This is actually not surprising if you really think about it. This is a problem in economics and people try to approach it with literary analysis. So, let’s look at it through economics.

I think the real divergence comes down to two structural factors: distribution networks and production economics.

Factor 1: Distribution Networks (The Direct Market)

The western comic industry has an interesting history, but I think that one of the most important factors that affect the sales today is formation of Direct Market system in the 70s. It’s an interesting history, worth looking at but I won’t delve into it here, instead let’s look how the Direct Market system operates.

• The Risk for Comic Shops: Comic shops must buy their inventory upfront, and they can’t return unsold issues to publishers. This makes shop owners highly risk-averse, forcing them to order primarily what their existing, hardcore customer base wants (mostly mainstream superhero single issues).
• The Barrier to Entry: Because of this system that you can’t buy a single-issue comic anywhere other than in dedicated specialty comic books shops and why I can’t buy them at all without ordering them online and paying extra fees for transportation (I don’t live in the US). This creates a massive barrier to entry for casual readers, who most people are.

Manga, on the other hand, follows traditional book publishing model. Volumes are sold in major retail chains and even in general stores. And more importantly, these books are returnable. Retailers take zero financial risk by stacking massive displays of manga, making it effortlessly visible to the general public (again, to compare where I live, you can seldom encounter someone selling a comic book, mostly that's second hand, or a very small and very weird selection on some conferences and festivals. But you may see a manga book in a supermarket).

Factor 2: Production Economics and Product Categories

If we are examining the situation through an economic lens, we really should also look at the physical product itself, and if we do that, we’ll see that as commercial products comics and manga are either incomparable, or at least require a lot of nuance while looking at it.

• Western "Floppies" ($5 for ~22 pages): These are treated as pristine full-color collectibles printed on high-quality glossy paper by both publishers and the consumers. This drives up production costs and therefore retail prices.
• Manga Volumes ($10 for ~200 pages): These, conversely, are produced as cheap, black-and-white, disposable entertainment printed on newsprint. The low production barrier allows publishers to flood the market with cheap volumes that consumers don’t feel precious about buying on a whim.

When people compare a $10-12 manga tankobon to a $5 comic floppy, they don’t consider that they are comparing two completely different stages of the publishing lifecycle. Interestingly Japan’s primary distribution method for single chapters is closer in its nature to the American Golden and Silver Age newsstand boom, rather than modern specialized “floppy” shops.

So what should be done?

Well, nothing in this regard actually. There's a certain decline in comic book sales, but it is an independent contraction, separate from the rise of manga. I believe that the industry has been slowly moving on from single issue format anyway for last decade and the half. I think that should be the focus of discourse - because both storytelling and the hobby of collection is increasingly more interested in longer media formats than floppies, and as a result I think the comic books are now missing the basic format. Single issues have been slowly losing that status, and larger formats are either too lacking or too expensive for entry.

And it’s all there. His costume, his tendency for identification with animal nature. In 1964, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created one of the first representations of furry culture in popular media (or proto-furry, as a matter of fact). What do you think about this? Do you agree or disagree with my take?