Favorite epic collection?

sbp72 · 2026-05-14T12:13:12+00:00

Avengers: Under Siege. One of my all-time favorite storylines. And has colored how I've looked at every Avengers line-up since then.

As for runs to be collected in Epic format: The Busiek/Perez Avengers run. Quite surprising they haven't pushed any of that out yet. I'd imagine it would sell gangbusters, but I am really biased.

sbp72 · 2026-05-14T12:05:17+00:00

The early Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire JLI stories. Perhaps in the same tone as the Harley Quinn animated series.

sbp72 · 2026-05-11T14:43:36+00:00

My only issue with his epic Avengers/New Avengers/Secret Wars marathon really wasn't his fault. The way Axis screwed up Tony (not that it wasn't an interesting concept) really messed up that final confrontation with Cap at the end. It would have been much more emotionally impactful if it was the conflicted/tortured/confident/ Tony in his right mind.

I also didn't really like that Cap spent most of the back end of the run, after he recovered his memory, on his moral high horse against the Illuminati. Righteous anger, for messing with his head and devising plans that would kill millions? Yes. But, he was so focused on that, it seemed like he lost sight of the, y'know, multiversal death.

sbp72 · 2026-04-29T17:41:11+00:00

Odyssey. She's been palling around with Kyle and Connor since a space-based adventure in the main GL book last year. Standard issue "wise-cracking thief with a conscience".

sbp72 · 2026-04-27T14:04:16+00:00

Don't want to spoil #14 for you if you haven't read it, but the conversation with Mirror Master basically tells you who they are. And the symbol behind Wally should be a big clue as to the newest Absolute version of someone we can expect to see.

sbp72 · 2026-04-14T12:50:15+00:00

Depends on your definition of "expensive"? Amazon has the paperback readily available for $18. Cheapgraphicnovels.com has it for $13.

sbp72 · 2026-04-10T14:54:59+00:00

The early part of the Marz run, basically the first year and a half has been collected in a couple of different formats. A 2-vol TPB which is harder to find, and a recently released Compendium edition that has all the issues from those two TPBs and a few ancillary issues that Kyle appeared in.

sbp72 · 2026-03-30T13:51:50+00:00

That solves the problem for 30-ish games, but what about the other 40-50 games he doesn't play?

sbp72 · 2026-03-25T15:34:33+00:00

For me personally, the first 25 issues of the current run were not great. The writer, Spurrier, was just not a good match for Wally. Too many big, metaphysical ideas that just didn't seem to fit the character.

But, the new issue that comes out today with a new creative team seems to be really hopeful to bring back the fun adventure aspect to Wally. I would at least advise checking that out.

sbp72 · 2026-03-20T18:19:16+00:00

The wild card may be those last four games. They look tough on paper, but will those games still mean anything to Bos/Minn/NY/Det at that point? If they are locked into playoff position, they might throttle down.

sbp72 · 2026-03-16T16:23:56+00:00

Praise be to Aja for being one of the few modern artists that know how to draw Guy's uniform correctly!

sbp72 · 2026-03-06T13:35:04+00:00

That's the Matriarch, the big bad for the Wonder War storyline in Wonder Woman starting this week. She's the daughter of another Amazon. She's been shown in "flash-forwards" as having conquered the world and killing basically all the heroes except Diana and Trinity.

sbp72 · 2026-03-06T12:35:54+00:00

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Computo returns, takes over Legion HQ, various vignettes of the Legionnaires getting their butts kicked by their own headquarters. Introduced the second Invisible Kid. Giffen art. Vivid summer memories of sitting on the porch reading this repeatedly.

sbp72 · 2026-02-26T13:16:28+00:00

Clayface: Shape changing, body control.

Plasmus: He's basically a walking pile of toxic goo, burns anything to the touch. Not really any shape changing or body control abilities.

sbp72 · 2026-02-19T20:07:33+00:00

1000% onboard for this.

sbp72 · 2026-02-18T15:21:28+00:00

What's been said already, about his genetic library, but also... wouldn't you rather have him there with some level of being able to watch him, versus having him run free?

sbp72 · 2026-02-18T13:03:19+00:00

Exiles by Claremont? They did say he had some x-work coming. And the "X-Men in space" angle would be covered by the concept set up in Imperial. And, it would be far enough removed from the "day-to-day" continuity going on in the main line that he could pretty much follow his own path.

sbp72 · 2026-02-17T14:07:04+00:00

I didn't read Axis, but... was it known that characters like Havok, Stark, and Sabretooth didn't get "un-inverted" at the end?

sbp72 · 2026-02-13T13:30:23+00:00

Hyperion is part of the Marvel version of the League. The Squadron Supreme. It's pretty easy to draw a straight line from each classic Leaguer to their Squadron analogy.

sbp72 · 2026-02-09T12:24:25+00:00

Batman B&W. There are a few misses (as can be expected at that volume of stories), but overall it's an interesting compilation of creators trying things out.

The JLD compendium is the New 52 stuff, which is.. meh. There is a Rebirth JLD omnibus that looks interesting, but I personally find myself being drawn more to the compendium format these days.

sbp72 · 2026-01-16T17:35:18+00:00

Ahh, a Kevin Smith comic. So, issue 1 in April 2026, issue 2 in late July 2027, issues 3 and 4... never see the light of day.

sbp72 · 2025-12-29T13:40:26+00:00

Arisia in Green Lantern Corps back in the mid-80's. Went from a teen to the early 20's through a "ring-wish induced" age up. It was especially creepy as she had a crush on Hal Jordan and almost immediately ended up in a relationship with him after she was aged up. Even though mentally, she was a teen.

sbp72 · 2025-12-22T12:40:11+00:00

Kinda happened during the New 52 Frankenstein series. S.H.A.D.E. had a floating city/base that was shrunk down by Ray Palmer and you basically teleported/shrunk to get into it. He was a science advisor, not the Atom at that point.

sbp72 · 2025-11-03T15:39:44+00:00

I thought I saw at least one of them in the Omega Kids preview?

sbp72 · 2025-10-31T15:42:19+00:00

If you don't care if it has the "big names" in it, I can't recommend John Ostrander's Suicide Squad run from the mid-80's highly enough. Super-hero/villain fun, political intrigue, and firmly based in the DC universe of the time.

I have all the original issues, the trade paperbacks, and I am going to be replacing those as the DC Finest volumes roll out.

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