Pondering comics choice

[burntcopper]

Okay, I know everyone has a preference on storylines. What I'm wondering is, where do people stand on the type of story?

People that know me know of my utter slavish devotion to noir. I read *Batman* for preference, for gods' sake. Closely followed by Green Arrow, Warren Ellis (who tends to slip between noir and completely fucked-up sci-fi nuttiness), 100 Bullets, Powers and suchlike. When they brought out Gotham Central I squeed like a mad thing. Detective no. 27, the Batman Elseworld (and yes, there are immense amounts of Batman elseworlds that are Raymond Chandler-esque - they just fit so well). One of my all-time fave minis was this little one from Image called Siren, which was like a pre-runner to Powers, only PI based with quieter powers. Sin City I loved pre-it going bloated and overworn. Gimme detectives and dark nasty streets and sleazy bars and I start salivating. This partially explains my deep, deep love of The Shield and other detective-cop based tv. If they ever bring on more Ultraviolet I'll be in heaven.

A seconder to that does tend to be anything with pulp overtones. Things like American Century, which is a long cruise through the Fifties pulps made flesh. Hopper paintings. Planetary, which loves to rework those pulp cliches. Edgar Rice Burroughs and anytime someone does an au in fic reworking Tarzan.

So what the hell do you lot favour?

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[qe2.livejournal.com]

I collected X-Men - and a couple of rather short-lived offshoots - in high school in the 80s, but stopped when I went off to college, as there was no decent (or even indecent) comics shop within hundreds of miles of my alma mater. I started back up again with Neil Gaiman's Sandman stuff - can't remember what got me there, actually, but although I didn't go issue to issue with those I did buy the QPs right as they came on sale from roughly the fourth collection on. I got some Hellblazer on the strength of those, and also the Books of Magic; I've found the latter uneven, but am reliably informed that the more recent issues have improved, so I'll probably hunt those up next time I have any disposable cash to speak of (like, say, in January when my next law-school loan comes in). I collected Strange Paradise for a while. I bought and loved the first collection of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; I bought and disliked enough to return the second such collection. I searched around and eventually found all six books of Omaha; it ended rather in medias res, which I find frustrating, but what there is is well worth it.

I've also got a volume of Queen and Country on my shelves, as well as all but one issue of Ellis's Global Frequency and the first four issues of 1602.