One of my favorite comics is getting a rerelease.

[A Black Falcon]

Hmm... which Mario comic is this? Is this the Mario World one that ran opposite the Zelda LttP comic? Sorry, as I said in the other thread I remember liking the Zelda comic more for sure, that was my favorite Nintendo Power comic. The various Mario comics in NP were amusing though, from what little I remember... it has been a long time since I read any of them, I haven't read a compilation version of them, unlike the Zelda comic.

I like "sweet with a short fuse" Peach way more than "eternal sunshine and light" Peach as she's portrayed in the current stuff. She's just a lot more fun, and frankly she does more in this comic than the brothers do. It's also got solid comedy throughout. This comic still makes me laugh.

I kind of think what happened here is that the more interesting version of Peach is now Daisy, while Peach became the not great and incredibly negatively (gender-) stereotyped character we know. But Daisy never appears in the platformers, only the party game stuff, so it sidelines the more interesting version of Peach, unfortunately.

I wonder, will Nintendo ever stop being so sexist?

My all-time favorite comic (note that I'm not an avid comic reader, so I've got like maybe half a dozen I bought mainly due to very insistent recommendations) is All-Star Superman, but this comes in very close. That's right. My favorite comic is a Superman comic that embraces everything silly about Superman (like dino-people in the center of the Earth), does it straight, and somehow makes it work. My second favorite is a promotional tie-in comic printed in a magazine made to sell me toys. Watchmen's pretty good, but I guess I just like happier more positive stuff than the grim darkness so many stuff goes for these days.

I've never actually regularly read a superhero comic book series. That said though, I recently found a box full of all the comics I bought as a kid, which was pretty cool to look through! It's a smallish collection, half a bag full of comics, but they seem to all be there. I thought those were gone forever years ago, but here they were... awesome. They are mostly Disney comics of course, stuff like Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and the like. Disney's comics were my favorites for sure. The few non-Disney comics are mostly a handful of issues of Archie comics; the one Ninja Turtles comic I had, which is not one of their normal issues but instead a more kid-focused '90s eco-themed double issue (one story has them taking on people dumping toxic waste in Bigfoot's forests, the other illegal whalers); and a few other cartoon comics like an issue or two of Woody Woodpecker, some Harvey (Casper the Friendly Ghost) comics, and the like.

My favorite "comic" series ever, though is, by a lot, The Cartoon History of the World series and its sequel, The Cartoon History of the Modern World books. I read the first two volumes over and over back in the '90s, and the three later volumes, which released in the '00s, are also fantastic. Of course I love history, but Larry Gonick did a fantastic job of making it both informative and funny at the same time! Incredible series.