Over the past few months I've read and re-read quite a number of series and well, I need something new.

Very recently I've finished the four book series known as the:
Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist

Before that, like the author of the comic and many others I had been banging out:
The Sword of Truth

Like most folks that are into epic fantasy I've finished off anything LOTR related as well as The Wheel of Time.

On the sci-fi level, the only real series that I can say I've gotten into was Dune.

There are a number of other series and stand alone books that I've knocked off but I'm not going to name them as I don't think they'll be named.

I'm looking for a new series to start in on. I'm a fan of sci fi and fantasy. I also enjoy that cliche storyline of simple youth being introduced to a grand epic adventure and such. I used the comics author "current reading" as a neat cheat sheet but I'd like some input. As I said, I'd prefer a series with likable characters and adventure, preferably long but I'll take what I can get.

Any help would be appreciated.

Oooh, then I have the series for you.

The Dragonlance series, stating with the Dragons of Autumn Twilight. If you haven't read those, I may shoot you. Multiple times. In the groin.

Another good series is the Obsidion Trilogy by Mercades Lackey and James Mallory. The first book is amazing, but apparently the second isn't as fast. Anyways, I couldn't tear myself away. Also, the Sovereign Stone Trilogy by Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It starts slow, but gets really good about 1/4 way though.

The HALO books are pretty decent. Good for if you have nothing else to read.

And be hardcore and read the Silmarillion.

Go out and get PREY, by Michael Crichton it's Sci Fi ish

The Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey, start with Magic's Pawn and go from there. They're broken up into trilogies and the like but they're all based in the same world with mostly the same characters.

I'll second the suggestion of the Dragonlance Chronicles, although depending on your age you may find them a little simplistic. I read them for the first time when I was 14 (far too long ago now) and have re-read them many many times since.

Anne McCaffrey's Pern books

Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long books. Again, not so much a series as a load of stand alone books that have characters in common. The first one of his that I read was Number of the Beast which I found to be great fun, whilst keeping your brain on it's toes, so to speak

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books.

When you've finished that little lot, ask me again

I personally loved these books (I've read them over and over again".I guess they loosly fall in the genera of fantacy but without further adu heres the info and alittle tidbit

Covenant with the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul, by Jeanne Kalogridis. Delacorte, 1994.
This is a "pre-quel" to Bram Stoker's Dracula, in which Vlad Tsepech's great-nephew, Arkady, is compelled by a family pact to return to Transylvania to "care" for his strange relative and is horrified by what is expected of him-to provide Vlad with the victims he requires. Followed by: Children of the Vampire (1995) and Lord of the Vampires (1996)