Good Starting Comics

[zerohour]

Just wondering what some good comics to start buying/reading would be. I never really got into comics, but since there's a store right down the street, I figure I might as well give them a shot.

So, what should I start with?

 

[Glimmervoid]

Depends what you want. I can't advice on ongoing series but some good ones are...

Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.: An extremely funny Marvel comic with some really weird stuff going on. Currently sort-of in continuity.

Empowered by Adam Warren: Very funny and very good superhero comic done in a greyscale manga style. Started off as a series of bondage fetish drawings (no nudes) and grew form there.

Villains United / Secret Six by Gail Simone. DC comic. Very, very good. Gail Simone is a excellent writer. The comic brings together a cast of villains and has them fight other villains. The inter character drama is great too.

Gotham City Sirens by Paul Dini. DC comic. Another villain cast, this time Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn. They team up and commit crime. A touch light hearted and a great read.

Noble Causes by Jay Faerber. Set in the Image 'universe' (quotes because Image has a very loose universe. Characters sometimes meet but the titles aren't really related in a strict sense). It follows the lives of the Nobles, a wealthy superhero family, verging on dynasty. Some superhero fights but mostly inter character drama.

Invincible by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Cory Walker. Another Image comic. Stars Mark Grayson. He's a normal high school student, save for the fact that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. Very Superman-ish in places but filled with twists, turns and revelations.

 

[NanuNanu14]

Pretty much anything by Garth Ennis, in particular, Preacher and The Boys.

 

[TC_Hazard]

Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.: An extremely funny Marvel comic with some really weird stuff going on. Currently sort-of in continuity.

Invincible by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Cory Walker. Another Image comic. Stars Mark Grayson. He's a normal high school student, save for the fact that his father is Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. Very Superman-ish in places but filled with twists, turns and revelations.

I'll especially second this two.

Nextwave is hilarious.

Invincible is a good action show which manages to avoid most of the pitfalls of long running comics. If you took the good parts of DBZ and Superman and put them together, you'd get something like this.

 

[spooky316]

Preacher.

I agree with this, but I should also point out that this series is hugely divisive.

For more recs, Sandman and Hellblazer.

 

[hiraishin]

Valliant's current X-O Manowar and Archer and Armstrong are good reads. Quantum and Woody looks like it'll shape up to be decent too