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Post by Spike-X on Oct 23, 2017 3:14:08 GMT -5
I'm up to the earliest Beast Boy stories, and I noticed in his first appearance he was called 'Craig', before they changed it to 'Gar' without explanation a couple issues later. Craig Logan - wasn't he in Bros? You went deep for that one, man. I'm impressed.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 21, 2017 20:40:41 GMT -5
I'm up to the earliest Beast Boy stories, and I noticed in his first appearance he was called 'Craig', before they changed it to 'Gar' without explanation a couple issues later.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 17, 2017 5:18:57 GMT -5
I'm half way through the second tpb. Such a great series. Loved the Flintstones series. Are you going to read the 6 issue Jetsons series? You know what? I just might.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 9, 2017 19:31:16 GMT -5
I just finished Flintstones volume 2, this was a great series. I'm half way through the second tpb. Such a great series.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 6, 2017 21:45:19 GMT -5
Chainsaw
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 6, 2017 21:37:58 GMT -5
I finished the Mark Waid/Chris Samnee Black Widow series this week. Not as great as their wonderful Daredevil run, but still a good, solid story. 8/10 would read again.
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with Captain America.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 6, 2017 21:35:11 GMT -5
...this Jordie Bellaire chick... Really?
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 6, 2017 21:33:33 GMT -5
Yeah, fair enough.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 6, 2017 21:30:12 GMT -5
The art was a major part of it. I have both Absolute volumes (finally!), and it's just gorgeous in that oversized format.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 6, 2017 19:46:35 GMT -5
Which reminds me that she also had the first issue of the Smax limited series, which I read over lunch hour and I've been wanting to read the whole thing ever since. I've had the HC sitting in my unread pile for ages. I really should get stuck in.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 6, 2017 19:45:23 GMT -5
I think it's weaker than most other Astro City, but it does read better read as a whole than it did when it was coming out. It just drug on so long at the time. If you can dive in and read the whole magilla it's a better read. That's actually how I did it; borrowed the hardcovers from the library and plowed through both of them. I just didn't dig it.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 4, 2017 23:15:57 GMT -5
Now that I've read every issue of Silver Age Captain America, I was thinking I should broaden my reading a little and not read so much Silver Age Marvel. (And I'm getting pretty close to reading all of the Marvel Silver Age comics. I'm using December 1970 as the end of the Silver Age (a fairly arbitrary date, I admit) and I only have these comics to read: A few issues of Iron Man and The Sub-Mariner; a few issues of Marvel Super-Heroes; about 20 issues of Captain Marvel; the Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD series; and 40 or 50 issues of Sgt. Fury.) I was going to tackle the first few story arcs in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol. But I find myself very interested in Astro City: The Dark Age. I read a couple of issues of Book One last week and got really interested, and now I'm up to the first issue of Book Two. So I'm going to finish The Dark Age before I move on to Morrison's Doom Patrol. And to be perfectly honest, I know I can count on Busiek not to write pretentious drivel. He delivers pretty close to 100% of the time. (I read The Legend of Wonder Woman #2 fairly recently and I love it as much now as I did when I read it the first time in the 1980s.) Morrison on the other hand ... As a meta-commentary on comics in the 70s, The Dark Age worked really well. I didn't care for it as a story, though. I found it joyless, depressing, and went on far too long. It's about the only Astro City story I haven't absolutely loved, so that's not a bad track record. Morrison's Doom Patrol is bonkers.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 3, 2017 1:14:02 GMT -5
Doll
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 1, 2017 20:14:25 GMT -5
Well, they've ordered a pilot. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 1, 2017 20:06:39 GMT -5
That's one of my favourite comics of all time. I shelled out for the Absolute Edition, and it's worth every cent to see that gorgeous art in all its glory. I think it might be aimed at nostalgia buttons that I just don't have? I was really excited for the follow-up to WE3, but I mostly just thought this was boring. I've read it a couple times and I can't remember anything that actually happened in All Star Superman.
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