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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 15, 2024 14:02:15 GMT -5
Jeffrey Veregge, cover artist for Marvel, IDW, Valiant and others, as well as known for his murals, died last week from a heart attack (as a result of a long battle with the Lupus) www.jeffreyveregge.com/
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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 11, 2024 10:01:50 GMT -5
So, er... forgive my lack of knowledge of current events, but fan websites pretty confused when it comes to such things. Is Charles Xavier still dead? Why is Magneto in a wheelchair, are there no mutant healers anymore? Are Scott and Jean still married since death did do them part (a few times over)? Has the school been destroyed once again? Did Banshee ever come back? What about Moira? Did Beast ever recover from whatever happened at the end of Bendis's run? AND WHEN WILL EL TIGRE BE REVEALED AS THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN PULLING THE STRINGS ALL ALONG???
We're currently in the middle of a storyline and I'm a bit behind (up to Immortal X-Men volume 4), so answers so far:
- No, Charles Xavier is currently (end of Immortal X-Men volume 4) alive and has been for the past few years. - Magneto is currently dead, but as there is a mini-series running now called "The Resurrection of Magneto" which today had its final issue published, probably not for long. - I don't know if they are legally married, but they lived together during House of X/Power of X and its follow-ups. - School is abandoned for now, but will be in use again when the new series will start later this year. - Banshee is alive and well the last I checked. - Moira ... long, long story. She currently is an evil cyborg (which was a terrible bit of writing of Benjamin Percy, because that is definitely not where Hickman left her when he left the series). - I haven't read Bendis X-Men, so I don't know what happened there. As far as I know (haven't been following the series myself); there are currently two versions of Beast running around: the original who is at odds with basically everybody and a younger version from around the time he was with the Defenders who now lives together with Wonder Man. - El Tigre was revealed as the mastermind behind the Nimrod Project in the Extremely Important X-Men #5 last year.
These are the upcoming series that have been announced so far:
X-Men by Jed McKay and Ryan Stegman. Cyclops, Magneto, Beast, Psylocke (I guess), Magik, Kid Omega, Oya and Juggernaut
Uncanny X-Men by Gail Simone and David Marquez: Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Nightcrawler and Jubilee.
Extraordinary X-Men: Eve Ewing and Carmen Carnero, Emma Frost, Kate Pryde and a lot of new students. Seems to be focused on the school aspect.
X-Force by Geoffrey Thorne (his first comic AFAIK, normally screenwriter) and Marcus To: Forge, Tessa, Surge, Rachel Summers and Betsy Braddock (and somebody I don't know)
Phoenix by Stephanie Phillips and Alessandro Miracolo: Solo Jean Grey series, cosmic adventure.
Details on NYX and X-Factor have not been revealed yet.
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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 5, 2024 2:20:35 GMT -5
If JLX is left out, wouldn't the Magnetic Men also be left out for the same reason?
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Post by Dizzy D on Apr 1, 2024 4:57:57 GMT -5
Valero is the co-writer, the art is by Lapone.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 31, 2024 16:40:20 GMT -5
G.O.D.S. #6 by Jonathan Hickman, Valerio Schiti and Marte Gracia
What Happened Before: Wynn is a mage working for The Powers that Be, the Principal of Magic. His ex-wife Aiko is a scientist working for its countrpart: The Natural Order of Things, the Principal of Science. The Centivars, agents of the Natural Order of Things, have suffered heavy losses recently, fighting against a rogue Mage and to fill those spots, Aiko recently recruited the young mage Mia, but Wynn has told Mia that by doing so, Mia's growth as a mage will be stifled.
Plot: Aiko feels guilty for changing Mia's fate without her knowledge and wants to reverse her actions is willing to go up to the Living Tribunal itself to make amends, but the paths of magic are treacherous and prices must be paid.
Art: Most of the characters and designs in this one have been seen before in this series. New is the Preordained, an agent for both Oblivion and the Living Tribunal (which is kinda weird as I'd see the Living Tribunal as outside of the Universal Principals like Eternity, Death, Chaos, Order etc.) Their design does not really appeal to me for a being of that much power as she fits more into a regular superhero or villain type design (though the mechanical, golden snake-like companion she has is an interesting design). I'm also not sold on this new design for the Living Tribunal.
Writing: I do enjoy the writing on this issue (though some things are spelled out a bit too much for my taste, so a reader does not need to draw their own conclusions). Aiko is offered choices at various points how she'll pay for services of several beings and it is a nice myth-like story where seemingly simple stories have huge consequences. Aiko is revealed to be a mostly good person; when choices are offered that harm either her or others during the trip, she'll take the choice that would harm her rather than risking an innocent. I also am interested in Wynn and Aiko both getting fed up with them having to pay for the actions of their godlike masters.
For new readers: It's a bit cryptic at some times, but in basis this is another story that most new readers should be capable to follow. Aiko feels guilty for her actions towards Mia and wants to make amends and is set on magical quest , visiting various magical entities that are not to be trusted
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 31, 2024 9:21:58 GMT -5
I've bought volume 1 of Gentlemind by Juan Díaz Canales (writer on Blacksad and the recent Corto Maltese), Teresa Valero (who I have never read anything else by) and Antonio Lapone (Greenwhich Village) Set in the 1940s, Navit is a young, beautiful woman who is in a relationship with artist Arch Parker. Sketches of her draw the attention of Parker's boss, Powell, who begins an affair with Navit. After his death, she inherits Powell's Men's Magazine "Gentlemind". It took a while for me to get into it, but I really enjoyed this first issue. The work has been out in the US and other countries for a few years so the dutch translation is pretty late, but I'm eagerly awaiting issue #2 coming in a month or 2.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 31, 2024 9:03:14 GMT -5
X-Men Red Volume 4 and Coda Volume 1 (I actually thought this was the collection of the new Coda mini-series (which actually will come out in a month or 2) because it was on the New Releases stand, but it was a collection of the first series volume 1, which I had in singles. Oh well). Immortal X-Men volume 4 should have come out, but they didn't have it yet.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 26, 2024 16:16:02 GMT -5
Some of the covers of the various adaptions, below. Paquet has done 9 Poirots, 2 Miss Marples and a few others. Then there were 5 adaptions in the 90s by Frank Leclercq.
In the 2000s publisher Emmanuel Proust, reprinted those 5 (I believe they reprinted all) and also published about 20 other Agatha Christie adaptions. Some of which had been translated to English by Harper Collins. And Dellcourt one-shot 7 Detectives and it's spin-off Detectives had Miss Crumble and Ernest Patisson which both were basically tributes to Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Nice looking covers on some of those, might have to check them out. A lot would depend on the interior artwork, for me.
It's a very mixed bunch of artists, between them we have like 25 artists on maybe a total of 40 issues, some of them I really don't like, some of them acquired tastes and some of them are pretty good. And most of them I don't know at all. Upside is that it's very rare over here to have different cover artists from the interior art and for most of them you can find easily some interior sampples on these titles.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 26, 2024 2:58:44 GMT -5
Speaking of whom, has Poirot or any other Agatha Christie character ever been adapted to comics?
There are 9 Poirot GN published by Paquet beginning in 2017. They are in French and I am not sure if they're available in English translation or in the North American market. In the US market Harper Collins has done a GN adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express published in 2023. They had previously published Five Little Pigs in 2010, Murder in Mesopotamia in 2008 and handful of others. (Mystery of the Blue Train '07, Big Four '07, Hallowe'en Party '08, Dumb Witness '10, Dead Man's Folly '12, Murder on the Links '12, Cards on the Table '10, a different version of Orient Express in '07, Death on the Nile '07, Murder of Roger Ackroyd '07) I can track down the exact issues, but Poirot has also been parodied in both Mad and Cracked. There have been other adaptations done as part of mystery comics anthologies, in other foreign editions, etc. So yes, quite a bit, just not by publishers whose main distribution is the American direct market. -M Some of the covers of the various adaptions, below.
Paquet has done 9 Poirots, 2 Miss Marples and a few others. Then there were 5 adaptions in the 90s by Frank Leclercq.
In the 2000s publisher Emmanuel Proust, reprinted those 5 (I believe they reprinted all) and also published about 20 other Agatha Christie adaptions. Some of which had been translated to English by Harper Collins.
And Dellcourt one-shot 7 Detectives and it's spin-off Detectives had Miss Crumble and Ernest Patisson which both were basically tributes to Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 19, 2024 5:26:34 GMT -5
If the X-Men were never revived in the 70s, some other superhero team would have been created where ancient comic fans can years later lament about.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 12, 2024 13:58:10 GMT -5
I really liked a lot of the comics in the Krakoan Age (especially the first issues of Duggan's Marauders, William's X-Factor, Ewing's S.W.O.R.D./X-Men Red, Spurrier's Way of X/Legion of X, Hickman's Inferno and New Mutants and Gillen's Immortal X-Men), but the moment they decided to wrap this up, my interest went with it. Yea I'm reading Marauders right now from 2019 been fun so far 😊
I think after issue #16 the series loses direction, but until then it was my favourite of the X-Men titles at the time.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 11, 2024 16:40:16 GMT -5
I really liked a lot of the comics in the Krakoan Age (especially the first issues of Duggan's Marauders, William's X-Factor, Ewing's S.W.O.R.D./X-Men Red, Spurrier's Way of X/Legion of X, Hickman's Inferno and New Mutants and Gillen's Immortal X-Men), but the moment they decided to wrap this up, my interest went with it.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 5, 2024 10:25:42 GMT -5
Mm.. I didn't get any subscription or login on that page, but it may be geo-blocking. Can you open these: www.furoremagazine.com/author/piet/ (original article from 2020) otherwise, this is an example page from the link in my previous post:
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 5, 2024 5:40:27 GMT -5
Just a note, last week (28th of February) I am Their Silence - A Barcelona Murder Mystery by Jordi Lafebre was translated and published into English by Europe Comics. This was my favourite comic from 2023 (though YMMV).
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 5, 2024 5:27:47 GMT -5
Don't know if this is the right thread on this, but this was a recent article in the newspapers over here: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/02/29/plagiaat-vrijwel-heel-stripalbum-over-caesar-nagetekend-van-prince-valiant-strips-a4191573Back in 2020, Dutch comic artist Lucas Smeets wrote an article about Joe Orlando's plagiarism of Prince Valiant issues for his " Caesar's Conquests" in "Classics Illustrated" (1953). This was not news at the time as there were already incidents of this known at the time. Smeets has now published a book about it (available in English), "Prince Valiant meets Julius Caesar" where he took the time to source all the panels in the Classics Illustrated to the original panels in Prince Valiant and basically the entire Caesar's Conquests is redrawn Prince Valiant panels (Smeets said that for the few panels he couldn't source, they probably are still copied, but he hasn't found the original source yet).
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