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Post by Spike-X on Sept 11, 2017 5:44:28 GMT -5
Purple
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 11, 2017 5:35:34 GMT -5
Nobody mention Howard the Duck ... He's 2 feet tall! To be fair, that's actually pretty tall for a duck.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 10, 2017 19:19:05 GMT -5
Ship
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 10, 2017 19:14:30 GMT -5
Fantastic Four #26 and Avengers #5 The main thing that's interesting about these two issues is that the events of FF #26 lead directly into the events of Avengers #5, marking the first real effort at "cross continuity" between titles. The FF and Avengers battling the Hulk and getting in each others way gave the story an extra dramatic wrinkle but it's the continuity between these two issues that made this "feel" like the Marvel Universe, really for the first time. It's great going back and reading these old issues, and seeing the Marvel Universe being built from the ground up.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 10, 2017 19:08:30 GMT -5
OK, if we're doing that, I call Ant Man I, Ant Man II, Ant Man III, Yellowjacket II, Yellowjacket III, Atom II, Atom III, Dyna-Mite (Marvel), Sting, Bluejay, the Micronauts and Micro-Force. And also 2000 AD's Banzai Battalion. You forgot the Wasp. Both of them.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 9, 2017 5:18:40 GMT -5
Man
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 9, 2017 5:07:56 GMT -5
IT'S NOT UNDERWEAR!!!
There, I yelled it.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 8, 2017 20:03:21 GMT -5
Carroll
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 8, 2017 19:52:34 GMT -5
The Hold Steady namedropped themselves in pretty much every song on their first album.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 8, 2017 19:48:05 GMT -5
Australian band Flowers changed their name to Icehouse after their song Icehouse became very popular.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 8, 2017 19:44:50 GMT -5
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 7, 2017 23:20:25 GMT -5
Valentines
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 7, 2017 23:14:24 GMT -5
The first comic that I threw out because it was just awful was an issue of Fantastic Four that was obviously an inventory story they'd thrown in as a fill-in. It was by Danny Fingeroth and...I dunno, some hack artist. I tore that sucker in half before I threw it out, I was so mad that they'd sold me such crap.
The second comic that I threw out was the first Tom deFalco/Ron Frenz issue of Thor following Walt Simonson's brilliant run. I was disappointed that Simonson was leaving, but I'd enjoyed the DeFalco/Frenz run on Amazing Spider-Man, so I figured I'd give it a try.
I opened it, saw what looked like a warmed-over Lee/Kirby pastiche, and tossed it in the bin.
I also threw out the first two or three issues of Warren Ellis' City Of Silence (or Shitty Of Silence, as I still refer to it), most of them unread, because it was just crap. Ellis is one of my favourite writers, but when he's bad, he's really bad.
I also had to throw out an issue of...Cerebus, I think? Because I spilled chocolate milk on it.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 7, 2017 22:56:43 GMT -5
Wash your hands before you read it! Don't smudge that beautiful artwork!
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 7, 2017 20:49:19 GMT -5
Yeah, Sweet Tooth is pretty great. His current series from Image, Descender, is really good. And the art is absolutely beautiful. I've picked up the first 3 trades (I think, have to double check, I.m current but another is due to be released soon I think) and love this series. One of my current favorites. -M The 4th volume of Descender came out a few weeks ago.
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