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Post by Polar Bear on May 4, 2015 15:32:01 GMT -5
I'm a political oddball, holding far-left economic/environmental views and far-right social views (except on crime, where I'm on neither side, plus I want more money for NASA) ... kind of the opposite of the Libertarian Party, I suppose, with occasional adjustments.
There's no way I'd vote for H. Clinton, O'Malley, Biden, nor Action Ace's picks, nor for the neo-libertarian R. Paul; I find all of them actively scary. Bobby Jindal I find amateur hour & opportunistic.
However, I'm attracted to both Sanders and to Huckabee, and I might be able to be talked into J. Bush. I'll probably donate money to the first two. If none of those three get nominated, I'll probably have to vote Third Party or Write-In for the fourth or fifth time in a row.
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Post by Polar Bear on May 4, 2015 15:21:47 GMT -5
I can't figure out where to post a comment about a Vertigo book that is more than one-year but less than ten-years old. But I recently read Grant Morrison's Joe the Barbarian (2010). I wasn't much impressed with this one. It's about a diabetic kid's quest through a fever-dream fantasy world etc. For an "obscure Morrison" experience you might prefer, try Seaguy. It's my kind of strange. For a "kid" + "barbarian" experience you might prefer, try the (non-classic) Birthright (Image). I don't know where it's going, but I want to.
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Post by Polar Bear on May 2, 2015 15:30:50 GMT -5
=snif=
Incredible to think how long I've "known" Captain Jim, whom I first met on CBG's CrossGen forum before meeting you fine folks on their classic comics forum. It's great that he has an award named after him. He could always be counted on to speak up whenever a discussion on ducks (Rosa & Barks) popped up.
He'll be missed greatly.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 30, 2015 16:31:53 GMT -5
I wonder if any of that ENB/Newton stuff will be in the 75 Years of Shazam! hardcover... Probably not. It would be nice to see it all collected in a nice package, given that it was concluded in miniature size (DC digests). I read #9-12 of Suicide Squad. Whaddya know? It got good. Ostrander got comfortable with the Wall's voice in #10, and soon after that, Father arrived. All's well.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 28, 2015 19:52:55 GMT -5
Hoosier X, thanks for the heads-up on the Catwoman book being mostly 1980s stuff instead of more vintage material. I'll try to see if I can find a table of contents online somewhere. They really should've done a 75 Years... book of her. (What, Lois Lane merits one, but Catwoman, who's held down her own title since about 1989, doesn't?)
Suicide Squad 2-8. Good, but still not amazing. I'm hoping it improves.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 24, 2015 15:50:32 GMT -5
Side comment: I just realized, available on the shelf and through Amazon are a Batman v. Two-Face volume; a 75 Years of the Joker volume; and a Batman: Arkham: Riddler volume. Why in the world is there no Batman: Catwoman volume featuring her best stories from the last 75 years, especially the ones with Batman in them, too? How did that omission ever happen, especially with the last movie actually featuring Catwoman??? There was one around the movie called Catwoman: Nine Lives of a Feline Fatale. I only remember it because it has a Bolland cover.
smile.amazon.com/Catwoman-Nine-Lives-Feline-Fatale/dp/1401202136/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429718904&sr=1-10&keywords=catwoman
I had no idea this existed. $22.39 + s/h for a mere 200 pages? Ouch! Too rich for my blood... Maybe I can find a copy for less money elsewhere... Thanks for alerting me to it, FS!
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 21, 2015 20:03:34 GMT -5
The Shadow: Year One, written by Matt Wagner. I know it's not classic, but it has that pulpy feel, so I'm writing about it anyway. Not bad, but not as good the critics had been saying it was, IMHO.
Side comment: I just realized, available on the shelf and through Amazon are a Batman v. Two-Face volume; a 75 Years of the Joker volume; and a Batman: Arkham: Riddler volume. Why in the world is there no Batman: Catwoman volume featuring her best stories from the last 75 years, especially the ones with Batman in them, too? How did that omission ever happen, especially with the last movie actually featuring Catwoman???
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 20, 2015 10:56:34 GMT -5
Batman '66: The TV Stories trade paperback. Some decent stories of historical note, including some that aren't frequently reprinted. I think my favorite of the new reads was the Riddler's 1948 appearance with art by Dick Sprang (from Detective 140, perhaps?).
Very odd that there isn't a single Catwoman story in there, given that she's on the cover. Also, I don't think the introductory essay by M. Uslan did its job (for example, mentioning some stories that weren't collected, and omitting some stories that were)--I'd rather that each story had had its own little introduction.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 20, 2015 7:50:28 GMT -5
Naturally, we are relieved that they will not be visiting Kenya. We are also pleased and excited for them to be embarking on this important humanitarian journey [to Brazil]. I've wanted to go to Africa as long as I could remember. I truly have no idea if I'll ever get to fulfill that dream; I'm already 45, and I don't feel like I have the finances yet. I would feel sorry for my Mom, who'd always wanted to go to Brazil (the subject of a research paper she did in high school, back in the 1950s) before she passed this spring, but given that she traveled to five continents, I think feeling sorry for her would be awfully silly. Have your daughters say "hi" to the country for Peggy Rae, though.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 18, 2015 8:25:39 GMT -5
... the one who ... was with us at the CCF dinner earlier this month... I obviously need to maintain my new habit of coming by here more often. I wouldn't have been able to make it anyway due to a family health issue, but I'd like to know about the next one. What thread should I visit to see what I missed, please?
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 18, 2015 8:20:29 GMT -5
Wow. Prayers to all those struck by misfortune of late.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 18, 2015 8:18:07 GMT -5
Reading a smorgasbord of stuff lately.... - Claw the Unconquered #1-12 - Skull the Slayer #1-8 - Micronauts #12-18, Annual 1 - Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #11 - Arak, Son of Thunder #26-34 - Tarzan of the Apes (Gold Key) #179 (1968) & #204 (1971) I like your taste in random issues I'd be all over these like turkey gravy over mashed potatoes.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 17, 2015 18:26:57 GMT -5
Peter Parker was often a really good read in the 80s. I know at times it was my favorite of the Spider-man titles. Oh, definitely. I went through my Spidey back issues the other day, and I was quite startled that PPTSSM is usually hands-down my preference over ASM--the Bill Mantlo era, the Peter David run, the J.M. DeMatteis/Buscema team supreme ... whereas ASM really didn't have much to get me excited after, say, #105 or so (except the J.M. DeMatteis/Bagley run, which was pretty good, I think).
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 16, 2015 17:33:14 GMT -5
I do love the old Marvel continuity, also. That's exactly what I'm enjoying about Marvel's Agents of SHIELD TV show, actually. #ItsAllConnected in a very, very old-school-Marvel-continuity way. This week, I read the Batman v. Two-Face trade paperback, which inexplicably omitted Batman Annual #14 (written by Andy Helfer). Now I'll have to buy that one individually. Rats.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 16, 2015 17:29:48 GMT -5
I saw the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer that dropped today. It evokes the feeling of the original trilogy ... better than the original trilogy does. Wow. Unrelated, what are you guys reading these days, new or old? I've been in a rut with comics and generally ignoring them aside from The Walking Dead. Is there anything that is grabbing anyone's interest right now that's on the shelves or a classic? I wouldn't mind rekindling my interest about now. New, I've really only been enjoying the classic licenses published by Dynamite: their King titles (Phantom, Prince Valiant, etc.) and pulp properties (Justice Inc., The Shadow, etc.). The rest of it's too darned expensive, and I'm limited to buying it in the trades. Classic, check out the "What Classic Comics Have You Read Lately?" thread; I particularly enjoyed a couple of stories in Secrets of Sinister House I mentioned on the first post of p. 90.
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