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Post by brutalis on Oct 17, 2019 9:11:47 GMT -5
I absolutely love:Cap's Kooky Quartet Batman in the 70's/80's before becoming the Jerk Knight Superman of the 50's/60's/70's/80's The Flash Archie comics Kid Colt Rawhide Kid Two-Gun Kid The Outlaw Kid The Ringo Kid The Creature Commando's Unknown Soldier Blackhawk The Haunted Tank Enemy Ace Dinosuaur's in War books from DC Monkeys in comic books The Doom Patrol original and Morrison Hawkeye: 1st "applicant" for Avengers. The classic original purple clad big mouth, arrogant but heart of the Avengers Adam Strange Hawkman Metamorpho Spider-Man Tomb of Dracula Werewolf by Night Captain Marvel: both the Big Red Cheese and the Kree Captain Adam Warlock Deathlok the Demolisher Kilraven Man-Wolf Both Muck Monsters Swampy and Manny New X-Men the classic Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne years Micronauts ROM Spaceknight Star Trek Star Wars Planet of the Apes Conan the Barbarian: the classic Marvel years, both color and black and white Solomon Kane John Carter, Warlord of Mars Godzilla/Giant Kaiju's Shogun Warriors Mike Grell's Warlord Tarzan Flash Gordon The Phantom Mandrake the Magician Universal Monsters Judge Dredd Strontium Dog Rogue Trooper Valerian Corto Maltese Kamandi Mister Miracle Etrigan the Demon Eternal's Machine Man Scrooge McDuck Atlas Monster/horror/Suspense from Kirby/Ditko/Heck and others Elfquest Cerebus Groo Ms. Tree William Messer Loebs Journey Nexus Badger Grimjack Usagi Yojimbo Captain Britain in the old Red and Yellow Avengers Invaders JSA JLA Fantastic Four Defenders The Legion of Super-Heroes Power Man and Iron Fist Blue Furry Beast in Avengers Iron Man the Golden Avenger before he became robotic looking Transformers GI Joe Thundercats He-Man and the Master of the Universe Manga and Anime: especially Giant Robots Batman's gallery of Villains Flash's Rogues And the list could go on endlessly...but you get the general idea, I love comic books
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 9:58:50 GMT -5
^^^ Nice List brutalis !!! ... I'm pretty much a fan of comic books from 1950 to 1999. After that, not much love at all.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 17, 2019 12:38:11 GMT -5
I love the old half page Super Turtles.
I love the Bullpen Bulletins about softball games, famous visitors, or people marrying or moving to the opposite coast.
Anything Marie Severin worked on.
I love the Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert or Murphy Anderson Hawkman & Hawkgirl team working together.
I love when the Marvel Value Stamp is still in a '70s comic (this could've been in the I hate thread as I do hate the whole stamps thing they did).
I love the house ads (just saw one for Hulk #181 featuring the first Wolverine in a Thor #229)!
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 17, 2019 18:21:02 GMT -5
I love how Graham "Ghastly" Ingels depicted the undead. Claw-handed ... hunched over ... knees touching ... putrescent. That's some good revenant.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Oct 18, 2019 11:36:23 GMT -5
"Aesthetic Space Comics" Where can I get that series? One quality a lot of the '60s undergrounds had was the classic epitome of comic book-ness visuals, it made it more fun to see things being twisted. Wonder Warthog might still be the best of all super-parodies too... I have the images of him pushing a baddie through a meat grinder circa 1965, and standing in a line in the '70s to sign up for welfare... some brutal realism there! And people think Watchmen was at the forefront of puncturing the form...
WWH is undoubtedly my favorite satirical hero. The welfare tale is probably my favorite as well ... but you left out that the old guys he's in line with are actually Captain Marvel (see the eyebrows), Superman, and Robin, more or less.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Oct 18, 2019 11:36:50 GMT -5
The wackiness of Weisinger-era Superman!
I do too, but that splash page is a new one on me. Wow.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 21, 2019 8:10:08 GMT -5
I absolute love...
The diversity of artwork you will find in comic books. Over the decades you can enjoy from the simpler stylizing to hyper realism and everything in-between!
Kirby Ditko Boring Swan Premiani Fradon Maneely Barks Rosa Perez Byrne Adams Romita Sr and Jr Buscema Bro's Davis Eisner Cockrum Sienkiewicz Steranko Gulacy Zeck Day Kane Colan Heck Aparo Windsor-Smith Kubert Sr and sons Infantino Hernandez Bro's Starlin Wood Crumb Dillin Toth Rude Garcia-Lopez Alcala Chan Nebres Redondo Wrightson Sakai Truman Grell Manning Heath Ayers Chaykin Sim Pini Doran Rogers Aragones
and the list goes on and on and on. Every month brings new artistic talents to blow our minds...
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Post by brutalis on Nov 4, 2019 8:17:56 GMT -5
I absolutely love...
The creation of DVD's! I can watch any movie or television series I want, when I want and however many times I want and NOT have to wait on syndication repeats showing in the middle of the night when I am asleep or sitting through loads of commercials.
I have nearly cut out ALL of my Prime-time viewing for television shows anymore as I prefer to watch those I like on DVD. Immersing yourself into the series world via "binging" provides a much more pleasurable viewing atmosphere IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2019 8:31:41 GMT -5
Good point!
Other than news shows and political programmes, which wouldn't work if you watched them later on, I watch everything via Blu-ray or streaming now.
People will talk to me about adverts, but I have zero clue what they are talking about. "Have you seen the advert on TV for Burger King?" No, I haven't because I just don't watch TV for that now. And during ad breaks for news or political programmes, I just go and do something else. I am not interested in adverts at all nowadays.
It's a lot of time wasted, anyway. The average US episode of a vintage drama was probably 42-43 minutes yet when they aired here in the UK, they occupied an hour-long slot. So that was 2-3 ad breaks telling me to buy washing-up liquid or chocolate. Go away! No interest in that in 2019.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 4, 2019 12:53:31 GMT -5
^^^ Nice List brutalis !!! ... I'm pretty much a fan of comic books from 1950 to 1999. After that, not much love at all. You've got me beat by about 10 years. I can only make it up to comics to around 1989, though I'll admit there's some pretty good DC stuff from the 90's.
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 4, 2019 13:06:20 GMT -5
The creation of DVD's! I can watch any movie or television series I want, when I want and however many times I want and NOT have to wait on syndication repeats showing in the middle of the night when I am asleep or sitting through loads of commercials. That's how I felt when I bought my 1st videotape machine... back in November 1979. They didn't even have "video stores" back then, I just recorded stuff off the local channels.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 4, 2019 13:15:27 GMT -5
The creation of DVD's! I can watch any movie or television series I want, when I want and however many times I want and NOT have to wait on syndication repeats showing in the middle of the night when I am asleep or sitting through loads of commercials. That's how I felt when I bought my 1st videotape machine... back in November 1979. They didn't even have "video stores" back then, I just recorded stuff off the local channels. Oh I cannot tell you how many hours I used to spend recording current television shows and pausing during the commercial breaks to make my own VHS sets. As Dr. Zachary Smith would say; oh dear the pain, the pain!! Me and my then room-mate went in together and bought a VHS 4 headed dual deck VHS recorder brand new from Sears. Probably around $1500 at the time. We would work out which shows each of us wanted to record and if things were opposite or crossed times we had to "discuss" what would be recorded. Thankfully not too much of that occurred. The great part was after recording some things I would "rent" them out to friends and people I worked with. The rental covered the cost of buying new VHS tapes and the "rental" was always a "copy" made from the original just in case the rental copy was eaten or damaged.
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 4, 2019 16:29:31 GMT -5
Some shows were easier to edit out commeraicls than others. "HILL STREET BLUES" was the best. The screen would go black, the sound would come up, the picture would come up. when they went to commercial, the image faded the black, then the sound would fade to silence... THEN the commercial started.
It was much worse when some shows started just CUTTING to commercial in the middle of a sentence without any warning. I'd have to let the tape run a few seconds, hit stop, run it back, hit play, then hit pause at the exact point I wanted it to stop. You couldn't keep it in PAUSE long, because it wore out both the tapes and the heads, and many machines automaticaally went to STOP mode after a few minutes.
When I taped JONNY QUEST off of Cartoon Network-- Saturday nights at 3 in the morning-- they had ONE commercial break in the middle, and ran the show uncut. But that one break was longer than the machine would stay in pause mode. So I had to let the tape run, hit stop, then rewind. WAIT 2 minutes, hit play, then pause, then record. The prints were MUCH better than the ones I copied off USA network many years earlier. (Of course, the episodes were run completely out of any sensible order. There is a subtle continuity on that show... but NOBODY on any network or syndication channel has ever run them the "right" way.)
Very early on, I noticed that when you hit stop, the tape would get rewound slightly back into the cassette. Also, wherever you hit stop, the machine would go CRAZY when you played it back, as the auto senbsor was trying to figure out what speed it was supposed to play at, and there was nothing there! So I had to make sure there was a gap of several seconds at the end of anything, or, between episodes, so the machine would not flip out during playback. I also figured out early on how to hit the switch to shut off the INPUT and record a BLANK space... like the silence between songs on a music album.
I've still never actually edited video DIGITALLY. I'm looking forward to that one of these days.
I did TONS of "copy-editing", where I had to record a show when I was not home, or alseep, then use 2 machines to make a copy, removing the commercial breaks as I did. Of course, with videotape, the picture quality also dropped. One should NEVER, EVER copy anything at the 6-hour speed, the result looks like S***. (Sadly, my best friend does it all the time......I've seen the tragic results.)
They no longer make VCRs with a 4-hour recording speed, only 2 and 6. That's because they know 4 is the best speed for recording shows & movies... and they want to sell DVDs.
I've had some things in my collection so long, it's now worth my time and money to REPLACE them with DVDs where I can. Better quality, less effort, and way CHEAPER.
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Post by badwolf on Nov 4, 2019 17:27:40 GMT -5
Two hours was the highest quality speed for VHS tapes.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 4, 2019 22:11:14 GMT -5
I used to tape Star Trek the original series and only realized later on that they would cut out 5 minutes or more of actual show to fit in more commercials. It wasn't until I saw the collections that I enjoyed the missing scenes. Nothing beats Dvd's.
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