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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 31, 2023 17:52:05 GMT -5
I know that my first exposure was probably a Warren cover, but the first where I was aware of a name attached was in the issue of MOKF where Black Jack Tarr sees a print of the Polar Bears pulling the sleigh down a mountain. That combines with my new love of Conan led me to the paperbacks, which begat... About 10 years later I did a year learning sign writing, in which my friend and I air brushed multiple(terrible) copies of Frazetta paintings instead of signs
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 24, 2023 16:06:20 GMT -5
1. The Legion of Super-Heroes If I HAVE to pick a run or an era it's the Baxter series in the mid 80's, 1 - 62 or so, Paul Levitz and Steve Lightle and Greg LaRocque.
I've probably written about this before, my first encounter with the LOSHs was in an Australian b+w reprint called Super-Heroes. I remember swapping with a classmate (who also became a lifelong fan) and being blown away by the art and then the story (The Infinite Man). Around that same time I was lucky enough to start finding the American issues in the bookshops here, a rarity in the late 70s early 80s. I came in as Pat Broderick gave way to a relative unknown Keith Giffen and within 6 months or so the Great Darkness Saga.
The Baxter series really blew me away, while I missed Giffen this young upstart Lightle had the goods and then they killed off Karate Kid, one of the greatest stories in comics IMHO.
Most other eras are pretty cool TBH from the simplicity of the foundational Adventure, the maturing Cockrum/Grell years, through the 5 years later and other reboot volumes. However it will always be Levitz and Lightle(and Giffen of course) who delivered MY Legion.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 24, 2023 13:14:31 GMT -5
2. Under Construction thanks Kurt Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Why you ask... Steranko pure and simple
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 22, 2023 16:33:18 GMT -5
3 . The AuthorityIts the late 90's, I'm broke, 2 kids and a busted ass job, scrimping together enough to buy a funnybook or 2 every now and then. Then these guys happen, spinning off from Stormwatch(as I know now) we have this amazing collection of everything superheroes should be like. Starting with the alternate universe space war I was just gone. I have an affinity for Alternate Worlds, and done right they can help comics transform themselves, become more than there basic selves. This book is done right, from Warren Ellis's words to the sheer jaw dropping art of Bryan Hitch. Love the characters, love the stories, love the fight scenes, hell I even loved the gay relationship.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 22, 2023 15:53:39 GMT -5
9. Hawkeye : My Life As A Weapon The GCD has no listing for a series of this name. Can you help a brother out and specify the year of publication?
Cei-U! I summon the statistical shortfall!
Im pretty sure the single issues were 2012 and the collection My Life As A Weapon was 2013. Sorry was just my way of specifying which era of Hawkeye I was preferring.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 21, 2023 21:06:02 GMT -5
4. WarlockIn the 80's Marvel reprinted Starlin's masterpiece in these beautiful Special Editions, along with his Captain Marvel and Steranko's Nick Fury and Captain America work. IIRC they are on Baxter paper, slightly heavier and nice shiny white pages. Oh hey, theres some cool story stuff and all that amazing Starliny arty stuff too.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 21, 2023 20:57:47 GMT -5
5. The Ambush BugHmm so was he Giffens Bugs Bunny? Hes annoying enough. The appearance in the Legion of Substitute Heroes book, the Action slot, the minis. Just freaking hilarious to me
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 21, 2023 20:48:42 GMT -5
6. The Thing-Marvel Two In One
So in the early 40's like maybe issue 42 theres a scene where Ben is sitting around, playing poker with a buncha saps, and eating this pizza which is all dripping and sh.. um stuff. THAT is the moment I fell in love with the book. I dont think we even had pizza here then, Id certainly never seen one, let alone eaten. Then there is the simple fact that Ben Grimm is the best Marvel character of all(and I love me some Captain America) so getting him away from that Richards loser is always a positive. Plus he got to go around with Thundra ...and Deathlok and it had that big Thanos story in it.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 21, 2023 20:37:57 GMT -5
7. Uncle Scrooge To be honest I hadnt even thought of Scrooge before everyone started to post(or yesterdays Jughead). However seeing those posts reminded me how special those characters are. I had read plenty of Disney books as a kid, they seemed to be as readily available here in NZ in the 70's as the British weeklies like COR!!!, and Whizzer and Chips etc etc The Scrooge books always stood out as far superior than the rest, I had no idea of creators, but loved the setting, Donald, nephews, Scrooge, and Beagle Boys in tow. Adventuring, exploring, losing, and winning, always with Beagles being mocked and coins being dived into. Sounds like the perfect comicbook to me.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 21, 2023 20:28:23 GMT -5
8. JugheadThere is just something about this fellow that I love, I cant explain, but the only Archie I read on occasion. I
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 21, 2023 20:20:53 GMT -5
9. Hawkeye : My Life As A WeaponIs good Bro...
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 17, 2023 16:26:02 GMT -5
10. WolverineIts kinda hard to admit that I was 18 when the Wolverine mini-series arrived. I had been a fan of Franks for a few years because of Daredevil. Ninjas were still cool. Wolverine wasnt in every team at the same time. Ninjas.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 17, 2023 4:58:15 GMT -5
11. The Black Panther Spinning (eventually) out of his debut in the Fantastic Four and subsequent membership in the Avengers we finally got to see something more from T'Challa. McGregor had our hero put through an absolute brutal battle, much more so than the fantastical adventures Kirby had waiting for him a year or two later. The art by Buckler, Kane, and Graham is better than it has a right to be, IMHO, as the good artists tended to be on the bigger selling titles. I clearly remember being awed by this cover and the scene it referenced, as above it was brutal, and to my then 12 year old self amazing that the Panther survived.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 17, 2023 4:30:13 GMT -5
Well here we are, better late than never 12. NightwingMy favourite (non-Legion)DC character had probably starred in a couple of stories by the time he left behind his previous alter ego in the pages of The New Teen Titans. There are of course One Shots and minis and very long running series to follow, however the initial year or so as Nightwing in Titans was a high point of the book. As an aside, could the NEW Teen Titans be classified as a spinoff book? The NEW teen titans quite clearly being different to THE teen titans...[/spoiler]
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 2, 2023 15:58:04 GMT -5
Have read these recently Garth Ennis and Steve Epting is instant buy for me so it was no surprise that they delivered. WW2 Russian female sniper with a kill count in the hundreds, very much like the book I finished earlier this year(The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn) about a woman sniper who ended up touring the USA during the war on a fundraising tour and spent some time with Eleanor Roosevelt. Kali by Daniel Freedman This was a pleasant surprise, post-apocalyptic hard-ass bitch doing hard-ass bitch stuff, stunningly illustrated. Plastic Hmm dont read this at work, and definitely dont read as a bedtime book to the littlies, Serial Killer doing his thang in defence of his significant other, who is like inflateable, you know wad i mean.
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