....My local library system. We just implemented this catalog/request system that enables you to search libraries (public and university) throughout this state, Arizona and Nevada. And you can request books from any of them. For free. And they arrive within a week. Between all of these libraries I have yet to find a book (and even better, a COMIC book) that I cannot request and have delivered to within three blocks of my house within a week, for free. (Or movie for that matter I suppose, but I have Netflix for that.) This is without a doubt the most awesome and amazing service ever in the world. I will never complain about the asinine tax level here again. I'll just pretend all of my personal tax contributions are going to support this.

Anyway, my other motivation for this thread: who has a comic book (or hell, regular book) recommendation? I can get it all now. I've already requested a bunch of Batman (Hush, Long Halloween and Knightfall) and the first four volumes of The Sandman (a big hole in my classic comic reading) but any other--particularly Green Lantern or Iron Man. Or anything by Greg Rucka or Gail Simone. I'm ready to go nuts here, and I need your help!

AH, Usagi Yojimbo, got it! Should I just start with the first tpb, or is there a better place to start?

Thanks for the reminder about BoP, aeonic. I've read all of her Secret Six, but haven't read the old BoP run (except the first volume.)

Iron Man noir huh? I love me some IM but (admittedly only after briefly flipping through the first issue) decided it wasn't my thing--at least not enough to invest in the whole thing every month. I may well check it out after it hits trades though.

Oh yes. I started seriously reading comics just as Blackest Night was starting and have read all of that, and am currently getting Brightest Day. (Which is okay, I guess, but Blackest Night was a LOT better imho.)

Oh totally. I think the *potential* inherent in BD is actually far greater than that of BN. Zombies rising from the dead and the various Lantern Corps having to band together to destroy them is cool, no doubt. But twelve people brought back from the dead, for reasons they don't understand, with a guy whose whole SUPERPOWER used to be being dead as the current key to LIFE? That's freaking amazing, both on a plot-potential level and a character-examination level.

SO WHY HAS THE WHOLE THING BEEN PRETTY MUCH BORING AS ALL HELL????

/rant

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

You just got this system? Are you able to do search and reserve the books from your home computer, or do you have to do it at the library? If you can't do it from home, you're behind the times!

Well we've always been able to request from within the San Diego County library system, but they just opened it up to allowing us to request from literally like 500 libraries across three states, to include a bunch of University libraries. And yeah, we can absolutely make the requests from home computers.

Thanks for the info Usa; I'll just start from 1 and go from there.

Oh god I love Deadpool so much! THANK YOU for reminding me to look for those!

Despite my love for him, most of the comics he's in right now are horrid. I think the biggest assripping I've given a comic as a reviewer to date were the issues of Deadpool Corps I reviewed (frigging awful). I wasn't too kind to Wade Wilson's War either.