Substitute DE for a New Decade

[sdelmonte]

Everyone knows about Sherlock Holmes and Avatar and Doctor Who and Supernatural and Harry Potter. But what about the things that you love and that everyone else hasn't read or seen (or even heard of), but should?

I'll start off with Marvel Comics' Nova, the story of a space-faring super-hero who is the last member of the storied Nova Corps (Marvel's surprisingly interesting version of the Green Lantern Corps). It's a little continuity-heavy at times - it grew out of one crossover event and gets sucked into several others - but the stories seem to work on their own, the writing by Abnett and Lanning is crisp and witty, the art is very good, and the hero himself is likeable and about as heroic as anyone I've encountered in a super-hero comic in ages.

ETA: I should probably also mention that DC Comics has reprinted the first 30 issues of The Question in five trade paperbacks, with the last coming this year. It's not just prime canon for my pup, but it's also one of the most influential and highly regarded comics of the 80s, written by Denny O'Neil at his peak.

Your turn.

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Have you read any of the recent Iron Man stuff? I picked up a story from last year that wasn't half bad. Good character play for Tony and Pepper, as well as a holdover from his Director of SHIELD days named Maria Hill. But the plot was an outgrowth of the bad crack that has infested Marvel of late.

[wakeupnew]

Meh. I was reading for a while last year, but I just don't like modern-day Marvel. The most recent anything that I've liked was Cable and Deadpool, and that A) was canceled, and B) is an anomaly in my patterns. I just don't dig anything that they're doing these days. I follow Iron Man enough to know what's going on (or I did, anyway, up to the point where Pepper got her own suit)

[(Anonymous)]

urg, it cut off my comment. I was going to say: I read about Iron Man and half follow what's going on, but they haven't done anything to interest me in picking it up on a consistent basis. And the War Machine series was just bad.