I'm really considering anything here other than DC and Marvel (or their spin-off lines like
Vertigo), from about 1985 and up, but mainly the more recent stuff in the 21st Century.

I'm not buying much now, but I think I would like to start again. What's new and good?

'85 and up?

The usual answers are Invincible, Powers... both have TPB's now.

Concrete.

I just read the first issue of Image's HP Lovecraft story. Very entertainng.

Of course I have no idea when it is from, I think it is newish(?!)

In the past, whenever a new publisher emerged, I always loved supporting them.

My first was probably Atlas/Seaboard Publications in the 1970s. As a kid, that was the
coolest thing in the world—to be on the cutting edge as new characters and concepts
were being introduced. The Grim Ghost, the Destructor, Planet of the Vampires, and so on....
Sadly, within a year, the company was finished.

In the early 1980s, came Pacific Comics with Jack Kirby's Captain Victory and Silver Star. Lot
of other good stuff including The Rocketeer, Groo, Starslayer, and Ms Mystic. At lot of the
Neal Adams work continued on at Continuity.

Somewhere in there I started picking up Richard and Wendy Pini's Elfquest. Beautiful stuff.

Capital Comics arrived bring me Nexus and Badger, but a lot of these ended up at Eclipse.
Eclipse Comics early on brought me Detectives, Inc. by Marshall Rogers, and then later
branched out into comic books like Eclipse Monthly, Airboy, Ms. Tree, Aztec Ace, Masked
Man, Miracle Man, (continued on) The Rocketeer and Groo, and Zot! Dozens more.

I loved Justice Machine from Nobel Comics (later at Comico, along with Jonny Quest; Mage,
the Hero Discovered; Evangeline; and Elementals).

First Comics in 1983 started bringing me titles such as E-Man, Grim Jack, American Flagg,
Dreadstar, Jon Sable, (and continued on) Nexus and Badger. This was some outstanding material.

Smaller companies came and went, and I would always look at their output: Eagle Comics
brought me my first real taste of Judge Dredd. And Warrior Magazine brought me a lot of the
rest of the British up-and coming creators. It really was about the creators, and allowing them
to create something, something of their own. The 1980s were a great to be buying comics.

I just want some of that excitement all over again.

I quite enjoyed Mike Allred's Madman. That felt right and good.

I want to enjoy Dynamite's books, but apart from Zorro—which I am buying just because
it's Zorro—nothing has grabbed me much.

I've liked some of the recent effort from Boom! Studios, like the Muppets and the
Incredibles, but I'm hardly their target market, and I feel too old for it.

I bought a Concrete trade a long time ago, and liked it. The stories were good
and the artwork top notch. I should probably get some more of that.

Eric Powell's The Goon
Jeff Smith's Bone (complete series) - available in black and white and color.
Casanova - two trades, the first by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba and the second by Fraction and Fabio Moon
The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
Fell by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith (be warned it's on an extended hiatus after issue 9 due to Ellis losing several scripts when his computer died, and the book being done by both in between paying projects, but each issue is done-in-one)
Y, the Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra (completed series)
100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (completed series - this is the creative team doing the Batman strip in Wednesday Comics)
Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Queen and Country by Greg Rucka and various artists
Fables by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and others

I tried a few Invincible issues, and they were good. Just not what I was after
these days. Powers... hmmm. I like Michael Avon Oeming—drawing his OWN
stuff—so I shouldn't let the fact that I have ODed on Bendis get in the way here.
Maybe I'll pick up a trade.

I recently read the whole Bone series, and I quite liked it. At first, it was hard for me
to get past how much it looked like Walt Kelly's Pogo's work, and I think I resisted it
because of this, but either I got past it, or the story line picked up (or both), and I
greatly enjoyed it. I bought the nine color Scholastic volumes.

Damn it. I bought a trade or two of The Goon when my shop had a big sale, but I tucked
them away because I had no time to read them. I forgot about them. Will have to dig
those up.

Have heard some really nice things about the Umbrella Academy.

I'll look for it. That's some pretty interesting artwork, and it's just a four-issue
mini-series, and it sounds like Ron Howard is supposed to be directing an
adaptation of it maybe.

I also like the paperback look to the covers. I haven't seen this in the shop.
Looks like two, maybe three issues are out.

Weird Tales is prominent in the first issue, which makes one think of Stephen.

Not even Lone Ranger? I loved at least the opening sequence of the series, which retold the origin, and had a great sequence from when he found Silver.

I resisted The Goon for a LONG time. I finally started it a few months ago, for a similar reason to yours. The trades were heavily on sale. I love it. It's kind of a mix between Eisner's The Spirit, Schultz's Xenozoic Tales, and maybe a little bit of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Oh, and throw in a bit of Day of the Living Dead. I love the series. And so far, I've been able to keep it to just the trades.

Kinda lazy today, so I'm just listing:

Elfquest (first three runs anyway)
Cerebus
Nexus
The Crow (first run)
Hate
Peepshow
From Hell
The Jam
Baker Street (kind of a punk Sherlock Holmes alt.reality)
Grendel
Omaha The Cat Dancer
Dragon's Star (just the first trade)
Northguard
Miracleman

I picked one up around issue 7, I think. Just wasn't grabbing me. Maybe if I had been
around at the beginning. For the Zorro, they were drawing heavily upon Isabel Allende's
novel, which was fine—sort of a Zorro: Year 0 approach. But I think the mistake was
trying to tell a split story, Zorro in the present day, and Zorro as a young boy. They
should have just told it sequentially in my opinion..

Yep. Some good stuff there all right, plus a few I should check out, like The Jam. I
think I bought one, but it deserves a second look, I think.

Yep, I'm reading it as it comes out and I love it.