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[bubosquared]

OKay. Fine. Fine. I give!

Hey, comic people on my friendslist? Anyone want to give a girl some pointers on how to get into this fandom? You know what kind of thing I like, I'm assuming, and I've sporadically read X-Men in the past, so I at least know who the players are, there. Well, sort of.

ETA: If it helps, from reading scans_daily, I seem to be developing an odd affection for this Bart fellow. Hm.

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Some of my favourite stuff:

Anything by Judd Winick. He wrote a really good run or so in Green Lantern v3 (#128 or so to somewhere in the #150s), and is currently writing Outsiders and Green Arrow. He's a pretty gay & women friendly comic writer. He tackles social issues.

Anything by Mark Waid. He mostly writes in the Flash continuity, so I don't real a whole lot of his stuff, but aside from some of this early Justice League Task Force stuff, it's all good.

The Ultimate continuity is a good place to start in Marvel because it is made up of re-writes of old storylines. Essentially a decrackified Marvel continuity. Ultimate Fantastic Four is good, and I'm awfully fond of The Ultimates. I hear Ultimate Spiderman is good.

Mark Millar is usually a dependable writer, as is Brian Michael Bendis (though I hear that his run on Avengers is crap) if you're looking for Marvelly stuff.

Anything written before about 1996 is by definition crack. Or at lest ridiculously melodramatic. Some of it is still really good. New Teen Titans is enjoyable in a soap opera sorta way. JLA v2 is occasionally hilarious and touching all at once. And in spite of the awkward dialogue, Green Arrow/Green Lantern issues from the seventies are actually pretty good.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I forgot Devin Grayson (who wrote a really good miniseries about Arsenal that I may have to send you), and Gail Simone, my two favourite female comics writers. Currently Grayson's writing Nightwing (which I don't read), and Simone is writing Birds of Prey. Grayson is a bit of a slasher who believes that Robin/Nightwing loves Batman, and it very much shades her writing, even if its not outright. Simone just writes really good stories. Both of them are comics fans first, and you can tell through their writing. (Simone is actually the woman who started the Women in Refrigerators (http://www.the-pantheon.net/wir/) site).

Accept that if you are not a feminist when you start reading comics, you will be in a month.