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Post by Trevor on Feb 16, 2024 13:45:31 GMT -5
Natural causes I’m sure.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 15, 2024 16:29:56 GMT -5
I need to start following this thread. Pretty sure it was just about exactly 50 years ago when I was seriously getting into comics.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 15, 2024 16:28:23 GMT -5
I’ve been trying to fill-in my gaps on all these singles and was pretty close. But I imagine I’ll buy these omniboo too.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 13, 2024 15:36:34 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 6 of 52, ending 2/11/2024 Why Don’t You Love Me? by Paul B Rainey
As everyone probably knows, the less you know about this going into it the better. Ordered it months ago, probably when it was first mentioned on the podcast, but moved it to the top of the stack the other day.
Have always been pretty empathetic, and this one really moved me, to tears at that last panel. Having a wife and daughter diagnosed with depression certainly ’helped’ in that regard.
Loved how Rainey played with the art form here, using the Sunday strip format to write the novel. It gets a little difficult to read and samesy feeling the first half, but stick with it. I didn’t read a lot of OGNs from the last several years, but this may be the best one (so far).
Books like this is why I’m still a consumer and collector of the medium after all these decades.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 6, 2024 12:14:39 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 5 of 52, ending 2/4/2024 All-Star Western (2011-2012) issues 1-6
Didn’t read much last week, just this and my daily Swamp Thing issue, so this is a little bit of a best by default, but still an excellent read.
I only read a bit of the 2006+ Gray and Palmiotti run on Jonah Hex, but enough to love it and buy it all. Need to go back and read it from the beginning someday.
This book was an anthology, and that’s my jam, bringing my back to my collecting roots where it seemed like most of DCs output was anthology books, or at least main features with a backup.
The main Jonah Hex story was fun, integrating him into old Gotham, with nods to the modern via ancestors of Cobblebot and Arkham and Wayne. The writing is well done obviously, and I’m really digging the art from Moritat. I like the storytelling device of us seeing Arkham’s journal and also his psychoanalyzing Hex, introducing new or lapsed readers into what is going on and who Hex is. The backups were good too, with I believe to be a new character, The Ghost, and re-introducing El Diablo. I forget if I bought this series in its entirety back in the day, but I’ll have to read it all after that 2006-2011 run.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 2, 2024 9:45:29 GMT -5
Got this package today from Trident Studios, and it’s definitely at least an O’Closcar Contender for best package ever. I grew up with comics in almost every store and regularly present in cereal boxes and candy. As an adult, I’m always on the lookout for finding those nostalgia bombs, and have spent more than I care to admit on ebay for various mini and promotional comics of yesteryear. Well, here came like 30 of them in this set of unauthorized reprints. 17 DC mini-comics from Post cereals 1979-1981, 9 of them from Canada so unseen by me until now. The 8 DC secret origin comics from Leaf candies. 6 Marvel or Archie comics from Bubbles Funnies. And the topper, over 140 Hostess ads from Marvel and DC! Nicely reprinted and even enlarged by like 20-50%, except for the Hostess ads obviously. He sells a couple of these on Etsy and ebay, but can’t sell the DC ones because of DC lawyers. But message him and he’ll sell them to you, they’re about $8-14 each. Might want to hurry if you want the DC ones. ibb.co/qpJmTgB
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Post by Trevor on Jan 31, 2024 14:23:19 GMT -5
I apologize for the multiple posts, but we’re doing a weekly ‘best thing I read’ thread in my other forum, and I figured I might as well cross-post, and catch up.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 31, 2024 14:22:03 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 4 of 52, ending 1/28/24 Rachel Rising (2011-2016) issues 23-42
I read most of the series, one issue per day, back in my October 100 issues of horror marathon, but then real life deaths starting happening and reading much of anything just didn’t happen for a couple months.
Back tracked a bit and read basically the second half of the series last week. An amazing ride, glad I didn’t have to wait for this month by month, because it’s a page turner. Almost every issue had a nice reveal or cliffhanger ending, and I guess it’d be called a decompressed style because each issue is a very quick read.
Normally, that would bother me, but Terry Moore combines such beautiful art with storytelling that just draws you in and takes you on an emotional roller coaster. There isn’t a ton of dialogue, but the words he chooses and the facial expressions and body language convey true depth. I think I welled or choked up a bit at least twenty times as I read the series, you really care about these characters, even the minor ones and antagonists.
Went in almost completely blind, just knew it was horror from the SiP guy. Don’t want to spoil it, but I’d recommend this series to anyone.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 31, 2024 14:20:45 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 3 of 52, ending 1/21/24 Wonder Woman (2023) issues 1-5
Bit behind on the last year or so of DC, but rather than try to catch up chronologically like usual, decided to dive right in to a couple of the new titles.
Yeah, pretty much everything that Jason (praised on another forum) said a couple days ago. Love the the dual storylines, and the super kids backups are a hoot. Beautiful art and I’m hopeful that the story turns out as well as it’s shaping up to be so far.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 31, 2024 14:14:21 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 2 of 52, ending 1/14/24 Where the Body Was
Probably could have picked more early Swamp Thing, but let’s go with this Brubaker/Phillips joint.
I hate to admit this, but it’s probably the first thing of their’s that I’ve read to completion. I started Criminal and saw that it was perfect comics, so as I so often do, moved on to reading other stuff to find more perfect comics to stockpile. My save-the-best-for-last piles have won a thousand Eisners.
But am vowing to change that modus operandi and read the greatness on my shelves, and to also read more current stuff. Wow, went into this thinking it might just be a simple murder mystery, but it’s not really just a mystery, at least a murder one, and obviously not simple at all. He writes characters so well, you end up caring for everyone at least a bit. And the whole thing ends up being more about keeping secrets and other facets of the human condition all told in such a relatable way. Looking forward to reading more of their collaborations soon.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 31, 2024 14:10:34 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 1 of 52, ending 1/7/24 Swamp Thing (1972) issues 1-4, from the Absolute Edition
I’m (again) starting a quest this year to read all of Swamp Thing in chronological order, one issue per day. All the various series, guest appearances, even the three prototype appearances before the Wein/Wrightson series. So backtracking a few days to last week, the best thing I read was the beginning of this amazingly beautiful Absolute edition.
I’ve read this early issues a couple dozen times over the years, but this is the best presentation yet. I haven’t compared the coloring to the originals or the myriad other versions, but perhaps my love for a slightly oversized version would be too string to sway me away from this in any case. I get a little hard every night that I hold this thing, spiritually at least.
Heck, this book might be the favorite thing in my possession, ever. My collecting roots are in Swamp Thing, no pun intended, but ha!
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Post by Trevor on Jan 28, 2024 18:02:17 GMT -5
Wow, I need those. Only seeing the Marvel one on Etsy……
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Post by Trevor on Nov 27, 2023 18:53:11 GMT -5
Dark Horse Digital is 50% off everything for Cyber Monday, but then add code THANKS for another 50% off, so 75% off total.
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Post by Trevor on Oct 28, 2023 21:27:43 GMT -5
Looks like I missed the one last year. Lots of stuff I’ve heard good things about and want to read, but of course my backlog is 57 years long…
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Post by Trevor on Oct 27, 2023 9:25:01 GMT -5
Seems like maybe prices are getting better for the buyer on ebay again?
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