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Post by Bronze age andy on May 24, 2016 21:02:34 GMT -5
I want to say that no one in particular got me hooked. Looking back, though, I devoured anything Mark Gruenwald was involved in. His love of the medium was unsurpassed in his time.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 24, 2016 3:13:14 GMT -5
Bronze Age Brian
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 23, 2016 21:28:06 GMT -5
Toe to toe battle royal that lasts about 20 minutes...
Last hero standing...Captain America...
Because...Captain America.
Avengers by a nose.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 10, 2016 20:00:57 GMT -5
Good points mrp. And it confirms what I've always thought about my self. For good or bad, I'm horribly out of step with the comic buying public.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 10, 2016 18:43:58 GMT -5
The only thing missing from that wonderful Sub Mariner cover is the ubiquitous "The Prince and the Power" line.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 10, 2016 18:40:45 GMT -5
Image is "different" in the sense that the creators themselves are in complete charge of whether or not their books sell, and if they don't, there's no one else to blame. All Image "owns" is the Image "I" and the name itself Valiant is "Marvel" done correctly for a more modern era, same with IDW in terms of it's licensed properties Yes, Image is different in a way, but very few creators move on from their big payday character. Not that I blame them. Valiant today, to me, is Valiant '92 and Acclaim '97 redux. Same characters with some updates and a couple of spinoff minis and one-shot. Good stuff but like the previous Valiant eras have never grabbed me.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 10, 2016 18:20:50 GMT -5
Farrar
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 10, 2016 18:10:10 GMT -5
The only problem I have with superhero comics now is the lack of options offered by the big two and their lack of faith in anything but their big stars.
DC should ,in reality, be named the Batman/Superman and Friends Hour. Marvel likewise the X-Men/Avengers Super Spectacular.
I enjoyed Black Knight but was under no impression that it would make it 12 issues(it went 5). I expect the same for Red Wolf and the soon to be released Blue Beetle series.
I'd like to think that Image and Valiant are different but they're not. Their stars just have different names.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 8, 2016 21:37:45 GMT -5
My parents were from "putting childish things away when you become an adult" school.
But one time my mom was picking me up from the LCS and whilst asking me to wrap things up and go I saw her face change. She had spied an old copy of Little Lulu and just for a fleeting moment my mom was 8 years old again. Love my mom.
Similarly my father had a Blackhawk moment later at the same store.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 3, 2016 10:57:10 GMT -5
May 66. I can't believe I've still got Thor #128. Did a big sell off about 10 years ago but somehow this one stuck around. Thankfully. The only May 66 I've got.
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Post by Bronze age andy on Apr 17, 2016 7:27:15 GMT -5
Claremont's run on FF was...okay, but...felt like an Excalibur reboot.
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Post by Bronze age andy on Apr 16, 2016 7:18:47 GMT -5
You're both absolutely right. Great writers all the way through. I liked Fraction's run on it. Waiting for one of the new big dogs to grab Marvel and say "I got this!"
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Post by Bronze age andy on Apr 16, 2016 6:05:04 GMT -5
Remember when you had to be a top drawer writer to write the FF? Englehart's run in the 80's was my favorite. But he followed Byrne,Stern,Wein,Conway,Lee/Kirby amongst others . Followed by Simonson and DeFalco. They've had some great ones in the last 20 years yet Marvel's constant reboots have sapped the power of the Worlds Greatest Comic Magazine. Here's to hoping that the "powers that be" need the original "compass" to set every other title right. Just saying. It's weird seeing new comics on the shelf...and no FF.
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Post by Bronze age andy on Apr 13, 2016 22:33:58 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Thought I'd take this chance to change my username to Bronze age andy. Sort of a Droom to Druid thing.
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Post by Bronze age andy on Apr 13, 2016 16:31:43 GMT -5
Hey there! I was a hard core collector in the 80's and am slowly getting back into it after some time away. Been reading a lot of the threads as a guest and have enjoyed it thoroughly. Joining was the next logical step. As you might gather from my name I love the 70's and 80's era. I also love the Silver age as well as Marvel's Heroes Return. Though I don't collect Golden age I do love the reprints in the 70's. Anyway...Happy to be here.
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