Books marvel is currently handling well?

[BobBretall]

You are absolutely right, the writers on these books are doing excellent work and I love reading them. However one of the things that makes comicbooks so special is the marriage between the writing and art and if one of them is not as good as they could be... Well they both suffer.

Given the nature of your complaint, I'd say you need to be reading more creator-owned books.

This kind of stuff will tend to happen to stuff owned by a corporation.

[Hornhead]

Given the nature of your complaint, I'd say you need to be reading more creator-owned books.

I am and I'm loving it

[Dean S.]

After the crossover, there was one issue with art by Kano (which seemed to me in the same vein as Rivera & Martin).
After that Rivera was back on #9 & 10.  Then we got Khoi Pham on 10.1 & 13 and Marco Chechetto on #11.   I know art appreciation is totally subjective, but these guys seem to fit in OK with the general style school laid down by Martin & Rivera.  #12, 14, & 15 gave us Chris Samnee, who is on the top 10 list for a LOT of people.

This is kinda thread hijacking, but that's never stopped me before....

I found DD to be really interesting in how fragile my attachment can be to a title.  I'm not a huge DD fan, but I loved the first 8 issues of Waid/Martin/Rivera.  Then I saw the crossover and the Khoi Pham issues coming and told the LCS to take it off my pull list.  My intent was to start reading digitally once they put a good artist back on the title.  

Now I SHOULD be buying the Samnee issues.  I love Samnee.  But for some reason I've been reading other stuff and nothing compelled me to push the "buy" button.  Now, I'm several issues behind and I'm assuming that Samnee will be leaving the title in a few issues.  Plus, he's going to be doing that Rocketeer miniseries and I'm looking forward to THAT.

Plus, it's digital....so if I want to read it as back issues, I can easily do that.  

I might have been a little harsh to say "crappy artists" or whatever I said, but trading Martin/Rivera for Pham/Chechetto is a big step down and for me....it was something that made me lose interest in the title.  

[Jeff B.]

Most of my marvel reading is in trade but I read a few in monthly issues still.  I am enjoying:

Uncanny X-Force
ASM
Punisher
Daredevil
Incredible Hulk

[jdudley]

Personally, I love how Waid's DD run has been peppered with phenomenal artists. The fact that it has seen a roster of fantastic artist has actually been in keeping with the tone of the book for me. It's so fresh and exciting and I think the different artists will make thE collected-form reading feel fresh too.

[Lawrence]

The only Marvel titles I still read monthly are, X-Force and Iron-Man.

I believe X-force is handled extremely well. I am only still buying Iron Man because I have bought all of Fractions run and I do enjoy it but at this point I mainly just want to at least finish the story.

I do read DD in hardcover so I have the first two volumes and think they are great.

I also read ASM in hardcover. I love reading it that way, I switched after Brand New Day, so I started my HC collection with Big Time. I think there has been 7 or 8 hc's since then. ASM is probably my favorite title at Marvel right now. I hear people complain about Slott but I love what he does on that book. Also, Humberto gets all of the love on that title but I really think that Stefano Castelli deserves more credit. He is doing the bulk of the work on that book and it is damn fine work.

[PozrDu]

Given my regular issue-to-issue reads, I guess I'd have to say
none in terms of regular issues, because I'm not buying
any Marvel issues on a regular basis anymore.

I hope to read many Marvel titles in trade that I hear are great like:
Waid's Daredevil,  Brubaker's Captain America/Winter Soldier,
Hickman's Fantastic Four/FF, Parker's Thunderbolts
& Slott's (particularly Spider-Island), but intention isn't sales.

My last regular Marvel title was Venom, but double/weekly shipping
(plus my LCS missing a few that I had to hunt & fill) got me so behind
that I couldn't financially justify just building stacks of unread issues.
When I catch up on my backlog I may pick it up again in trade.

[jdudley]

Most of my marvel reading is in trade but I read a few in monthly issues still.  I am enjoying:

Uncanny X-Force
ASM
Punisher
Daredevil
Incredible Hulk

Forgot to mention Punisher. Reading it in trade. Absolutely awesome. Rucka is nailing it.

[Collarbone666]

I look forward to Winter Soldier most out of all Marvel's current books.

[BobBretall]

I might have been a little harsh to say "crappy artists" or whatever I said, but trading Martin/Rivera for Pham/Chechetto is a big step down and for me....it was something that made me lose interest in the title.  

As Hornhead pointed out, Marvel's "incessant double shipping" necessitates rotating artists on most series.  People are likely to drop books they would not otherwise drop when confronted with an artist they really don't care for if they don't want to just "ride it out" for a few issues.

Getting someone to re-engage on something they dropped is MUCH harder than getting them to drop the book.  This is something Marvel should think about a bit more.   I think their overall declining sales over the past year or so are influenced by this factor (e.g., dropping is easy, coming back is harder).

[Dean S.]

As Hornhead pointed out, Marvel's "incessant double shipping" necessitates rotating artists on most series.  People are likely to drop books they would not otherwise drop when confronted with an artist they really don't care for if they don't want to just "ride it out" for a few issues.

Getting someone to re-engage on something they dropped is MUCH harder than getting them to drop the book.  This is something Marvel should think about a bit more.   I think their overall declining sales over the past year or so are influenced by this factor (e.g., dropping is easy, coming back is harder).

Hear, hear.....It isn't that I'm reading less comics.  It's just that there is often something from my Regina pile that I want to read more.

[LA Rabbit]

Trying to cut back on singles but Dark Avengers and Avengers Academy are two books I am keeping on with singles. 

[Steve Raker]

I'm very much enjoying Fantastic Four, FF and Daredevil month after month. 

I realize big changes are coming for FF books, so we'll see if the peak turns towards a valley!

Thunderbolts would also be on this list, but to me it's entirely dependant on whether Osborn's second (and pathetic) wave of 'Dark Avengers' sticks around or not....jury's still out as the story is still progressing.

[Former Poet Laureate]

The only Marvel book I read monthly is Winter Soldier. ASM, X-Factor, DD in HC's.

So I guess my answer would be Winter Soldier.

[timber-munki]

Garth Ennis & Goran Parlov's Fury MAX (With covers by Dave Johnson and colours by Lee Loughridge). Gorgeous to look at and Ennis's character work, especially the framing device of Fury recording his memoirs. I'm itching to see how they handle Dallas 1963.

Peter David's X-Factor, because it's Peter David's X-Factor  .

[Kenney]

I can't say what they are and aren't doing well, because I'm not reading much Marvel at the moment. However, that first batch of Daredevil issues just felt like a breath of fresh air. It, much like the Stephanie Brown Batgirl book, felt so good to me because it wasn't deconstructive or cynical in any way. It was just sunshine by way of comic book.

[Bobgar Ornelas]

I'm really digging Wood & Lopez² on X-Men. Not digging the covers though

[malpractice]

Only still buying Winter Soldier and Fury MAX, and might give this new Hawkeye book a shot.

I was loving Uncanny X-Force and Wolverine and The X-Men, but i feel they have mishandled those books in wake of the whole AvX thing. The high price, double shipping, changing artists, and crossover tie-in issues finally got to me.

[Collarbone666]

... but i feel they have mishandled those books in wake of the whole AvX thing. The high price, double shipping, changing artists, and crossover tie-in issues finally got to me.

Totally agree. After the Marvel NOW relaunches, I don't know how many X books I'll be picking up. Currently getting:

Wolverine & X-Men
Uncanny
Astonishing
Legacy
X-Men (Vol. 2)

I had already decided to start trimming my X reading before the relaunches started getting announced.