Happy Thanksgiving to all our American listeners and readers. As a little celebration, I thought it would be nice to see what comics everyone is thankful for at present. What books brighten up your day every time they ship?<\/p>\n
For me, there are a handful of Marvel titles that are really singing right now. Incredible Hercules<\/em> has got to be the best thing either of the Big Two are publishing at the moment, although it seems to be sailing under a lot of people’s radars. It’s fun, it’s action-packed, it’s doing big, epic stories with little nuggets of juicy characterisation and it’s got the best double-act in superhero comics front and centre every issue. It’s also now got an Agents of Atlas backup strip, just to tip it over into completely awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n As a New Warriors fan, Avengers: Initiative<\/em> is essential. It doesn’t hurt, of course, that it also features a load of other B-to-H-list Marvel heroes and villains, which as a devotee of OHOTMU <\/em>are my bread and butter. Dan Slott and\u00a0Christos Gage have done first-rate work with this book.<\/p>\n Marvel’s cosmic books, Nova <\/em>and Guardians of the Galaxy,<\/em> are hugely enjoyable and do a great job of topping the previous month’s cliffhanger every issue. Bring on Realm of Kings, I’m ready for it.<\/p>\n Over at Image, Chew<\/em> is wickedly entertaining and full of great twists, Elephantmen<\/em> is one of the most coherent worlds in comics, Viking<\/em> is inventive and\u00a0compelling stuff\u00a0and Phonogram<\/em> has some of the best examples of the craft of comics in the field today.<\/p>\n DC’s Detective Comics<\/em> blows my mind every month. The stories are first-class Bat-books fare, and the art shows what you can get it your artist is never content to rest on his or her laurels. Scalped<\/em> is the best Vertigo book going at the moment (alas, poor Young Liars<\/em>), and Jason Aaron deserves all the good reviews he’s been picking up – pick up his Ghost Rider<\/em> run in tpb to see the best stories that character’s ever been in.<\/p>\n Lastly, I have to mention The Goon<\/em> – Eric Powell’s stories manage to be laugh-out-loud funny and get-choked-up sad at the same time, which would be some achievement even without his gorgeous artwork.<\/p>\n That’s what I’m thankful for at the moment – what about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Thanksgiving to all our American listeners and readers. As a little celebration, I thought it would be nice to see what comics everyone is thankful for at present. What books brighten up your day every time they ship? For me, there are a handful of Marvel titles that are really singing right now. Incredible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}