On the flip side … Invisible Girl is so amazingly useless in the early FF stories.

But these are from comic store employees, so presumably the recommendations focus on titles that one could actually find in the store.

Kree/Skrull War is great. It's cosmic but more grounded than, say, Warlock.

And it's a good point that it really depends what kind of stories you're into. As someone said, comics are a medium not a genre.

I'll have to check that one out.

That's quite a few comic books.

This looks really interesting, and the art looks fantastic. I wasn't all that crazy about Secret Avengers. (I thought it was enjoyable enough.)

"Except Batman"

Yeah, that's for sure. For me (and caveat, I'm pasty white) that aspect is just so blatant, I can accept it on its historical terms. i.e., it's awful, but there it is.

I guess Stilt Man doesn't require a lot of back story :-)

Tho' I imagine that some of the humor in Bryne's She-Hulk requires at least passing familiarity with the Marvel comics it is spoofing.

Yeah, definitely. I like them because they are loopy even by Golden Age standards, and because WW is a genuinely strong female hero. (Compare how useless the original Invisible Girl was, 20 years later.) But also very much of their time.

For Golden Age WW, go with the "Chronicles" editions.

I picked up Archie #1 mostly on account of Staples, but it's pretty fun.

space western

Yeah - that stuff is typical but somehow it feels even more so in this particular run. Or maybe I just shouldn't be reading it on the heels of Queen & Country and Criminal… That said, the art is great.

I understand about whitewashing, but Hawai`i is exactly where you would find a haole woman named Ng.

Criminal v1 ("Coward") - liked this quite a bit more than Sleeper. Genuinely noirish and I actually cared about the characters.

I'm reading "Avengers Epic Collection: Behold … the Vision" and I'm finding Roy Thomas' dialog painful. It's a weird blend of incredibly portentous, as if everyone is Thor, mixed with awkward wise cracks. Plus, in almost every panel, the characters explain at great length exactly what they are doing and why. It's like…

Ah, OK. (I was going entirely by the one-line description in the article…)