xhonzi said:
I was really enjoying Green Lantern from Reborn -> the start of Blackest Night. Can't say I really enjoyed Blackest Night, though I did read almost all of it. I read Brightest Day 0-8 and determined to give up on it.
Do you mean Green Lantern: Rebirth? Cause if so I've read it too and I thought it was awesome. I read it from the Death of Superman storyline, which I can't recommend highly enough. The Death of Superman graphic novel is pretty good, but The Return of Superman/Reign of the Supermen is one of my favorite graphic Novels of all time, and it's the beginning of the whole Emerald Twilight > Rebirh storyline with Green Lantern (which is probably something worth reading right before the movie comes out this summer).
Of course, if you're reading DC, you should definitely read Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the late 80's DC decided to clean up their convoluted, confusing comics history with one huge, overarching storyline. They were the first to do this, and they did it right. The art was amazing, some of my favorite. Of course, they ruined their cleaned up universe very shortly, and now there are Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis crossovers as well. Infinite Crisis was actually pretty good though, I read that a few years back when it came out.
But if you're interested in X-Men, then do I have a comic for you. Astonishing X-Men. It came out shortly after the second film so as long as you've seen them you don't really need much other X-Men history in order to read it. But it's brilliant, won some Eisner awards even. Read Whedon's run, #1-24, if you get the chance.
Another great series to start at #1 with is Brian K. Vaughn's Runaways. It's about a group of kids who find out that their parents are villains, and part of a crime syndicate, so they decide to run away and start their own lives as heroes. Vaughn is one of the best writers in comics right now, and this was his baby. I've read the first two volumes (#1-#18 & #1-#30) and loved them.
I'll write about more later.... I love comics (even the comedians).