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Post by Action Ace on Jul 1, 2015 19:33:18 GMT -5
I got a few... Action Comics #829: Nelson's inking makes John Byrne's art great again Adventures of Superman #642 All-Star Batman and Robin #1: the "We Built This City" of comic books, awesomely bad Amazing Spider-Man #522 Aquaman #32: picked up as a back issue Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #2 Batman #642 Batman: Dark Detective #5 and 6: The Englehart/ Rogers team concludes on a high note Batman: Gotham Knights #67 Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #193: Snow! Birds of Prey #84 Breach #7: bought as a back issue DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy #2: not much of a story, but it is Perez inking Garcia-Lopez! Defenders #1: the JLI team sets their sights on a new victim Detective Comics #808 Fantastic Four #529: bought as a back issue Flash #224 Gotham Central #33 Gravity #2: bought as a back issue Green Lantern #3 Invincible #25 JLA #116 JLA/ Cyberforce #1: bought as a back issue and yes I regret the purchase JLA: Classified #10 JSA #75 JSA Classified #1 Justice League Unlimited #11 Legion of Super-Heroes #8 Lex Luthor: Man of Steel #5: another back issue purchase I regret Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #2: back issue purchase Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #5: back issue purchase Marvel Team-Up #10: you were supposed to bring balance to The Force Kirkman!!! New Avengers #9: boy did I buy a lot of Marvel before Civil War Nightwing #110 OMAC Project #4 Outsiders #26 Plastic Man #17 Powers #13 Pulse #10 Rann/ Thanagar War #3 Robin #140 7 Soldiers: Guardian #3: my favorite of the mini series 7 Soldiers: Zatanna #3: loved The 7 Soldiers story from start to finish Spider-Man: House of M #2: damn Mark Waid Star Wars Empire #35 Superman #219 Superman/ Batman #21 Teen Titans #26 Teen Titans Goooooooooooooooooooooooo! #21 Ultimate Fantastic Four #21 Ultimate Spider-Man #79, 80 Ultimates 2 #7 Villains United #3 Wildguard: Fool's Gold #1, 2 Wonder Woman #219 World's Greatest Superheroes HC Young Avengers #6: TWELVE new Marvel comics in a month? 51 new comics, 8 back issues and a hardcover collection of OGNs I already had
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 1, 2015 23:18:47 GMT -5
Um, none.
But my compliments to those of you who could afford so many comics each month.
Even if I'd seen anything on the stands I liked, my budget couldn't have taken the hit.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2015 0:17:40 GMT -5
This was about three years before I started reading comics again, but a handful of these wound up in my collection anyway.
Exiles #66, 67 (In a collection purchase) Girls #3 Serenity #1 (yard sale) Silencers #1 Walking Dead #22 (Some guy from Facebook) Ultimate X-Men #61 (Collection purchase) Uncanny X-Men #462 (collection Purchase) Weapon X: Days Of Future Now #1 (Collection purchase) X-Men #173 (Collection purchase) X-Men:Kitty Pryde – Shadow & Flame #2 (Collection purchase)
Two of them I can't remember exactly where I got them. I'm thinking only The Girls still remains in my collection.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 2, 2015 15:15:27 GMT -5
I consider Morrison the greatest mainstream comic writer of the last 20 years I can talk politics with Republicans, theology with fundamentalists, and civil rights with bigots, but I absolutely do not know how to proceed with this conversation... He has really great ideas! His work is never derivative - It's always structurally, thematically, and conceptually different from everything his peers are doing, and almost always from other Grant Morrison projects. He finds new takes on established properties - X-men as wide scale metaphor for the integration between minority cultures and the mainstream - that totally make sense within their established milleu but nobody else would ever have come up with. Plus also incredibly good at staging large-scale action, giving his stories life-or-death stakes, and he's always respectful of comics history, not just whatever the continuity is this week. And since Seven Soliders (he was pretty terrible at this before) he's gotten really good at writing to the strengths of his artists. And in WE3 he (along with Quietly, and it WAS a collaboration) found ways to draw a comic book fight scene that I have never seen before. Again. He. found. new. never. before. done. ways. to. show. a. comic. book. fight. scene. IN 2004. THAT is something no writer in factory line comics has done in the last 20. Plus he generally seems to have fun with what he's writing. That means a lot to me. He also has serious mechanical problems in his writing, especially (as with Seven Solider # 1) in regards to pacing - which bugs the $%^^ outta me, because I focus a lot on pure craft when I'm writing. But the fact that his stuff is pretty much always going to be innovative, surprising, and challenging makes up for that in my mind. Honestly, I figure any artist worth a crap is gonna let their reach exceed their grasp occasionally.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2015 15:21:21 GMT -5
I can talk politics with Republicans, theology with fundamentalists, and civil rights with bigots, but I absolutely do not know how to proceed with this conversation... He has really great ideas! His work is never derivative - It's always structurally, thematically, and conceptually different from everything his peers are doing, and almost always from other Grant Morrison projects. He finds new takes on established properties - X-men as wide scale metaphor for the integration between minority cultures and the mainstream - that totally make sense within their established milleu but nobody else would ever have come up with. Plus also incredibly good at staging large-scale action, giving his stories life-or-death stakes, and he's always respectful of comics history, not just whatever the continuity is this week. And since Seven Soliders (he was pretty terrible at this before) he's gotten really good at writing to the strengths of his artists. And in WE3 he (along with Quietly, and it WAS a collaboration) found ways to draw a comic book fight scene that I have never seen before. Again. He. found. new. never. before. done. ways. to. show. a. comic. book. fight. scene. IN 2004. THAT is something no writer in factory line comics has done in the last 20. Plus he generally seems to have fun with what he's writing. That means a lot to me. He also has serious mechanical problems in his writing, especially (as with Seven Solider # 1) in regards to pacing - which bugs the $%^^ outta me, because I focus a lot on pure craft when I'm writing. But the fact that his stuff is pretty much always going to be innovative, surprising, and challenging makes up for that in my mind. Honestly, I figure any artist worth a crap is gonna let their reach exceed their grasp occasionally. Except when you've read the non-fiction theoretical and/or philosophical stuff Grant's been riffing on, then it can read like Dan Brown taking you through a guided tour of other people's ideas about the Templars and calling it a novel. -M
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 2, 2015 15:31:20 GMT -5
He always seems excited about it, though! "Hey, I have to tell you guys about this great book I read! So I'm just gonna stop the story for a couple panels... " That makes it seem oddly endearing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2015 15:38:22 GMT -5
He always seems excited about it, though! "Hey, I have to tell you guys about this great book I read! So I'm just gonna stop the story for a couple panels... " That makes it seem oddly endearing. Well you know it beats when he takes over the letters page to ask the readership to participate in mass masturbatory sex magick ritual to increase sales on his book to keep it from being cancelled. -M
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 2, 2015 15:50:24 GMT -5
Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee. I'd forgotten about that.
(A) I prefer my entertainers to be a little bit crazy - or at least pretend for our benefit. It's like a little bit of extra entertainment in addition to the entertainment we get from their works. Like a cherry on a sundae, and (B) Well... Invisibles DIDN'T get cancelled, and that was up there with Jingle Jangle Tales, Brain Boy and Volid Indigo on the "Strangest mainstream American comic ever" list. And look how much longer it lasted! I'm not saying I believe that magic sex rituals increase comic sales... But I'm not going to completely discount the evidence.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 2, 2015 16:42:24 GMT -5
I consider Morrison the greatest mainstream comic writer of the last 20 years I can talk politics with Republicans, theology with fundamentalists, and civil rights with bigots, but I absolutely do not know how to proceed with this conversation... Yeah, forget politics, the way you and I judge the writing merits of Grant Morrison and Doug Moench is a bridge too far.
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2015 17:35:16 GMT -5
from Mike's News-stand for July 2005:
Godland #2 - amusingly quirky writing from Joe Casey with nice Kiryesque artwork from Tom Scioli
Seven Soldiers: Guardian #3 Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #3 - the Seven Soldiers thread is one of my favourite memories from the old CBR: great multi-lateral discussion with lots of different people contributing ideas and observations. The series itself is probably the only mainstream, non-creator-owned Grant Morrison story I really like. I was going to list Frank Cho's Shanna #6 but on second thought I believe I might have waited for the trade on that series. Very slight story but good artwork by Cho. Characters like Shanna were made for his style.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 2, 2015 17:38:45 GMT -5
from Mike's News-stand for July 2005:
Godland #2 - amusingly quirky writing from Joe Casey with nice Kiryesque artwork from Tom Scioli
Seven Soldiers: Guardian #3 Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #3 - the Seven Soldiers thread is one of my favourite memories from the old CBR: great multi-lateral discussion with lots of different people contributing ideas and observations. The series itself is probably the only mainstream, non-creator-owned Grant Morrison story I really like. I was going to list Frank Cho's Shanna #6 but on second thought I believe I might have waited for the trade on that series. Very slight story but good artwork by Cho. Characters like Shanna were made for his style.
How is Godland? This is the first I've ever seen of it. Looks kind of interesting.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 2, 2015 21:16:43 GMT -5
I know I got All Star Batman and Robin, Gotham Knights #67 and LotDK #193 but my favorite was Hellboy: The Island #1
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Post by JKCarrier on Jul 2, 2015 21:41:17 GMT -5
Batman:Dark Detective #5 Batman:Dark Detective #6 Plastic Man #17 Seven Soldiers:Guardian #3 Seven Soldiers:Zatanna #3
...and probably a bunch of stuff from publishers like Oni and Top Shelf who aren't listed.
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2015 23:08:39 GMT -5
from Mike's News-stand for July 2005:
Godland #2 - amusingly quirky writing from Joe Casey with nice Kiryesque artwork from Tom Scioli
Seven Soldiers: Guardian #3 Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #3 - the Seven Soldiers thread is one of my favourite memories from the old CBR: great multi-lateral discussion with lots of different people contributing ideas and observations. The series itself is probably the only mainstream, non-creator-owned Grant Morrison story I really like. I was going to list Frank Cho's Shanna #6 but on second thought I believe I might have waited for the trade on that series. Very slight story but good artwork by Cho. Characters like Shanna were made for his style.
How is Godland? This is the first I've ever seen of it. Looks kind of interesting. I fell behind reading the issues so I'm only about 3/4 of the way through, but I liked it quite a lot. I was very sceptical when I first saw samples of it online - Scioli's artwork struck me as too Kirby-derivative in a kind of ironic, almost patronising way, as if he were saying, "Look how crazy that Kirby artwork was with its crude anatomy and wild machinery, etc"; similarly, Casey's writing felt a little too self-consciously cool and hip, as if he was trying too hard to surprise the reader with odd references and apparent non-sequiturs. What changed my mind was reading the first issue in its entirety after Image put it up online for free - a marketing practice I cannot praise highly enough, because if they hadn't done that I almost certainly never would have given the series another chance. Reading that first issue in full allowed me to warm up to both the artwork and the writing, so that it no longer felt like the work of a couple smart-alecks trying to impress the reader with how "with it" they were. Rather, it felt like the work of two enthusiastic creators who were having a ton of fun with their new toy. Scioli's art now looked more like a genuine tribute to Kirby's energy and power instead of a slightly contemptuous parody; and I was able to get into the right frame of mind to enjoy the odd speech patterns of some of Casey's bizarre characters. It's a bit of a shock to me to be reminded that it's been ten bloody years since the series began! I'll probably start over again from the beginning instead of picking up where I left off reading it issue by issue, somewhere around the mid-20s in issue #s.
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 1, 2015 22:49:34 GMT -5
moving on to... AUGUST 2015Action Comics #830 Adventures of Superman #643 Amazing Spider-Man #523 Aquaman #33: as a back issue Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #3 Batman #643, 644 Batman: Gotham Knights #68 Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #194 Birds of Prey #85 Breach #8: as a back issue Captain America #9, 10 DC Special: Return of Donna Troy #3, 4 Defenders #2 Detective Comics #809, #810 Fantastic Four #530: as a back issue Flash #225: last Wally issue for Geoff Johns Gotham Central #34 Gravity #3: as a back issue Green Lantern #4 Invincible #26 JLA #117 JLA: Classified #11 JSA #76 JSA Classified #2 JUSTICE #1: this is among my favorite comics of the 2000s Justice League Unlimited #12 Legion of Super-Heroes #9 Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #3: as a back issue Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #6: as a back issue Marvel Team Up #11 New Avengers #10 Nightwing #111 Noble Causes #13 OMAC Project #5 The Pact #4 Powers #14 Rann/ Thanagar War #4 Robin #141 Robin Archives Volume 1: if a volume comes out every 5 years, I should get one this year ... not gonna happen 7 Soldiers: Klarion the Witch Boy #3 7 Soldiers: Shining Knight #4 Spider-Man: House of M #3 Supergirl #1 Superman #220 Superman/ Batman #22 dropped Teen Titans for 2 issues when Rob Liefeld did the art Teen Titans Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo#22 Tom Strong #34 Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct #1 Ultimate Fantastic Four 322 Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual #1 Ultimate Spider-Man #81 Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1 Ultimates Annual #1 Villains United #4 Wonder Woman #220 Worlds Finest Archives Volume 3: two archives a month...those were the days......... Young Avengers #7
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