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Just a lame joke about how anime tends to take a premise and iterate it with every possible permutation. I mean, villainess anime seems to be taking off as a genre...

 

New Gotham City Sirens run is fun, I like it more than last year's. It's nice having them team up for an annual romp

 

After enjoying the new FF movie, I started reading some of their comics for the first time. Started with the 2022 run and I'm loving it. It's really well written, and tbh, I knew nothing about Alicia prior to this and I love that the writers give her so much to do for a character who doesn't have super powers. She feels like a real member of the team. Also really like that every storyline is just 1 or 2 issues.

I know I could have started from the beginning but TBH I'm not the biggest fan of the art style in older comic books and some of the corniness that comes along with it. If anyone has suggestions of other good, more modern FF comics I'd love to hear them!

 

My two favorite FF runs are probably the Waid run and the Hickman run.

Both are fairly accessible.

 

Hickman’s is definitely the best modern run, imo. Really cool and epic and heartfelt, and has subplots/themes that then get carried into Hickman’s New Avengers run & culminates in the 2015 Secret Wars.

You could also go a little further back and read the Waid & Wieringo run, which is a bit more bombastic. There’s a case to be made that it’s the best modern gateway for a certain kinda reader.

Going another decade back, I also like shouting out the early 90s work by Walt Simonson. Underrated run by the guy who had previously done the best Thor run. That Mobius guy from the TVA comes from there, and there’s also dinosaurs at one point.

I know you said what you said about old comics, but like… I do think it’s worth trying to read some 60s Jack Kirby comics and develop a taste for that. It’s brilliant stuff that’s so foundational for superheroes and comics of today. (I would say Kirby was the biggest influence on the movie, followed by Hickman.)

 

JMS also had a moderately fun run, as I recall it, though I admit that it’s been a while since I’ve revisited it.

 

Already caught up with the North run heh. A few issues into the Hickman run. I'm enjoying it, but I definitely preferred the North run so far. I'm gonna stick with it, though!