What's in your box? A story about comic book recommendations.

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I've been wondering lately, who here still reads these picture books? I've been seriously reading and collecting for about a year now, after a very long hiatus. I'd pick up the occasional Star Wars comic every now and then, but I don't think I'd read a superhero book since the dawn of the Ultimate universe.

If you're like me, what got you back into comics? When did you start reading them? What do you think of the New 52? Marvel Now!? Anything you pick up on a regular basis you'd like to talk about? Favorite writers or artists? Got any recommendations?

I'm pretty much an Image whore these days. Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina were great, but I was not prepared for Saga. It's fantastic. Rick Remender's Black Science is a funky Lost in Space-esque story that leaves me slack-jawed with each new installment, and his new book Low is about a future earth whose denizens now live in a city underwater because the sun is nearing the end of its life cycle. East of West is the last of my obsessions, a weird alternate history science fiction western about religious Armageddon. It is smurfing amazing.