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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 14, 2015 19:46:52 GMT -5
Aw damnit, Herb Trimpe and Percy Sledge have both passed away. Yeah, I'd heard about Herb Trimpe. All the news sites were talking about the Hulk and Wolverine, but Twitter was mostly posting his Shogun Warriors and Godzilla pics. That was nice, actually.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 14, 2015 19:42:51 GMT -5
Mys-Tech Wars ... yeah, that was it.
I read Secret Origins issue w/Suicide Squad & the #1 of that title by Ostrander & McDonnell. Not a fantastic penciller, unfortunately, but the definitive one for this title. I'm planning on going through about #40. I'm not, er, blown away yet, but my memory is that its power is cumulative.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 8, 2015 18:01:37 GMT -5
I was one of Crossgen's biggest fans. I absolutely loved Sojourn and Negation in particular, but Ruse was really great, too. I really miss that company.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 8, 2015 17:48:23 GMT -5
There was some Marvel UK title in 1993 that was a huge megacrossover... it may have had B. Hitch artwork... it was much more violent than U.S. CCA comics of the time, and I was quite startled, since Spider-Man, etc. were in there, too. Both in story and art, it was stronger than much of the stuff being published at the time, despite my not remembering its name.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 8, 2015 16:27:19 GMT -5
My kids have been hearing about the Crisis since they were, like, 6 or 7. The oldest is now 17. I just last week dug CoIE out of the back issue boxes to share with them.
They're pleased. They have occasional questions, but they're very happy with the quality of the series overall.
My having waited until post-Flashpoint has had certain unforeseen advantages, too, such as their being able to see how cyclical the whole thing is.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 8, 2015 16:21:06 GMT -5
I really like this series, glow-in-the-dark covers and all. I know Dover books is reprinting Paul Johnson's Mercy (written by JM DeMatteis), and this seems like the kind of series they'd be interested in. I'm not sure how the Frontier comics contracts were structured, but unlike Mortigan Goth: Immortalis and Dances with Demons, there are no Marvel Universe links in Children of the Universe. (Actually, I think there may be a passing mention in DwD, but not much more than that. That would be an interesting book to get back in print as it's early work by The Walking Dead's Charlie Adlard. Not as good as Children of the Voyager, which is probably as close as Marvel ever got to having a book like Sandman.) Glad (and amazed) someone else remembers this! There was apparently an 8-page epilogue published in Marvel Frontier Unlimited, or something like that, but I never picked that up, so I never read it. All the more reason for a collected edition. I just read The Lone Ranger Movie Story, Dell, 1956, 96 pages, art by Tom Gill. Kind of an odd story--it's about how badly the Native Americans were mistreated by whites, yet it has some really unfortunate stereotyped speech of said Native Americans (e.g., "Now Angry Horse fix-um!"). You can't make this stuff up, can you? The issue also has several mildly interesting text pages giving background info, almost OHOTMU-style, on the Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Silver, much of which I hadn't known despite having followed the character on and off for years. The issue was in poor condition, one buck at the LCS (and worth every penny). I fixed it up with some book tape and wood glue on the spine, as I don't think it could've even survived a single reading otherwise.
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Post by Polar Bear on Apr 7, 2015 18:10:34 GMT -5
I've actually been reading a lot of classic comics lately; I'm kind of back in the habit again.
-Shockrockets 1-6 (Buseik/Immonen). Great stuff. It's a shame there was never a volume 2 of this. -Secrets of Sinister House 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16. Lots of good stuff by Nino, Alcala, and Redondo. Of particular interest are #7, with "The Hag's Curse/The Hamptons' Revenge," which reads like a subconscious influence on a somewhat famous time-tripping Greyshirt story by Alan Moore, and #12, with a surprisingly creepy little tale called "August Heat" by W.F. Harvey and adapted by E. Nelson Bridwell that looks like something Warren Ellis could have written if he'd been constricted by the CCA. -Children of the Voyager #1-4 by Abadzis & Johnson, published by Marvel Frontier (UK). I'm surprised someone hasn't brought this back into print, because it's quite good, and it's really held up well. -Frankenstein #1 by Dell, 1963. Distinctly odd; a mishmash of the Karloff movie and King Kong (yes, the monster goes to NYC and hits something like Vaudeville). -Superboy #71, Action #265, World's Finest #144, Adventure Comics (starring Superboy) #229. Nothing spectacular; let's move on. -Switchblade Honey GN by Warren Ellis. I'll buy pretty much anything Warren Ellis writes. He may be mean-spirited at times, but he has more creativity than some counties I've lived in, and he sure can craft a sentence. (This may be a matter of taste, of course, but I'll at least say his writing lines up with my thinking pretty well.)
I'll try to post here more often.
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Post by Polar Bear on Mar 12, 2015 16:31:13 GMT -5
Awesome! Thank you, Phil! Much appreciated!!!
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Post by Polar Bear on Mar 11, 2015 5:31:05 GMT -5
If you have #21, with Captain America on the cover, could you look up something for me, please?
There's an essay in there by Thomas Inge, "A Chronology of the Development of the American Comic Book." What page numbers does this essay appear on, please? I need the info for the bibliography of an article I'm putting up for sale as a Kindle eBook, and I unfortunately took incomplete notes way back when I was actually writing the essay in the late 1990s. :^(
Thanks!
--Polar Bear
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Post by Polar Bear on Feb 24, 2015 16:00:50 GMT -5
Thanks--poking around there gave me a lead to Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library, which does indeed have that issue. They'll be emailing me a scan of my article within 48 hours. I appreciate your help!
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Post by Polar Bear on Feb 24, 2015 6:12:46 GMT -5
I know it's a very low chance, maybe zip. But I'm trying to find an article I wrote way back that I don't have a computer backup of.
First, does anyone here have a copy of this old issue of CBG? If not, does anyone know what college/university might have a copy?
Thanks so much, --Polar Bear
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Post by Polar Bear on Jan 1, 2015 9:56:53 GMT -5
I think the Brood saga was the last great X-men story, actually. It's certainly the last "saga" I fully enjoyed.
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Post by Polar Bear on Dec 30, 2014 7:24:36 GMT -5
I was in a hurry, so the only thing I really considered that didn't make it in was one of the Baxter reprint issues of Deadman, probably #2 or 3. And if I could re-do it, I'd kick something out to put in that Avengers Special I mentioned in Day 12.
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Post by Polar Bear on Dec 29, 2014 13:43:59 GMT -5
Day TwelveBatman Annual #7, anthology issue, various creators (but a lot of Dick Sprang artwork), 1964 Ace, the Bat-Hound? Bat-Mite? The original Batgirl and Batwoman? Batman II and Robin II? All origin stories?? What a treasure this issue is, with delicious Dick Sprang artwork throughout! Coverless you may be, but you're beautiful, baby! Food for the imagination! This was one of the earliest comics I got, probably paying all of $1 for it at some science fiction convention somewhere around 1976, and that money was well spent! Hurrah!
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Post by Polar Bear on Dec 29, 2014 13:34:58 GMT -5
12 days of Classic Christmas #1
Avengers Annual #2 Roy Thomas Don Heck Werner roth Vinnie Colletta 1968
This is the one. Oof. This is my first real woulda-coulda-shoulda. This comic DEFINITELY should have been on my top 12 somewhere. I goofed. Good job, ICTrombone, in getting it up here somewhere ... and in a good position, too!
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