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Post by brianf on Dec 6, 2020 4:39:27 GMT -5
When I was buying comics as a kid in the 70s & 80s I really disliked Infantinos art. While I can't say I love him or look for his work, now days I appreciate his unique style - you ain't gonna confuse him for anyone else. To my eyes a lot of modern comic art - while nice looking - has no real personality. Except for a few exceptions, most modern comic book art is kinda indistinguishable to me.
I miss the days when most artists had an identifiable style.
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Post by brianf on Dec 6, 2020 4:29:30 GMT -5
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Post by brianf on Dec 5, 2020 19:51:58 GMT -5
While I'm not a huge fan, I love the 1st Deadman story by Infantino Some of his Spiderwoman was fun too
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Post by brianf on Dec 5, 2020 19:46:00 GMT -5
Micronauts Karza #1 - #4 (Image, 2003) (W) Jim Krueger (P) Steve Kurth (I) Ray Snyder (#1 & #2) / Bard Schulz (#3 & #4) (Covers) Steve Kurth / Angel Medina (#2) Issue one begins with Ryan Archer fighting side by side with the other Micronauts - he falls into a cave where the Time Traveler takes him to Karzas past and even gives Archer the option of killing a young Karza, but he chooses to try and reform him instead. So he whispers to Karza while he sleeps. It doesn't work. A Pharoid priest joins the story and carries a lot of the plot as we hit the mid point of the mini-series. By the end of the 4th issue - like most time travel stories - we loop back and return to where we've begun. While this isn't great, it is a different take on an origin story, the art is good and over all I liked what I read.
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Post by brianf on Dec 5, 2020 15:27:18 GMT -5
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Post by brianf on Dec 4, 2020 15:28:54 GMT -5
I'm enjoying your reviews - heres hoping you continue to at least the Fleischer/Aparo Spectres. Thank you! Given that my interest in writing these reviews stemmed from my love of the earliest Siegel/Baily stories and that we won't see a return to that Spectre until those Adventure Comics issues roll around, I think continuing through those makes sense. Wonderful news! And just an FYI - I finally got a copy I was missing from the excellent Ostrander / Mandrake run - #54 - found for not too much. If you ask me you can't have enough Spectre.
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Post by brianf on Dec 4, 2020 1:57:17 GMT -5
A few years later my mom moved to Anchorage Alaska and I followed. Anchorage didn't have a comic book store when I moved there, so the only place to buy old comics was at this really weird business called Magic In Advertising - this creep Chuck ran it. My mom thankfully wouldn't come into the store - the dude would some time be playing pornos and he was really creepy. His actual job was making cheap late night TV commercials for local businesses. One year he ran for mayor of Anchorage - maybe 1985? - and I remember me & my comic books friends jokingly voted for him in the primaries, but he only got like 20 votes total. I couldn't find anything online about him. Weird times. I do remember an actual legit comic store opening on Spenard Blvd sometime in the mid 80's
Just for fun I did find a compilation of some Alaska commercials from the 80s, plus heres a video by one of my favorite local punk bands of the era, The Psychedelic Skeletons
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Post by brianf on Dec 4, 2020 1:37:19 GMT -5
reading through this subject made me look up some of my old haunts. So I grew up in Miami Florida and started collecting comics in 1979. I'd usually buy off spinner racks at drug stores, 7-11s and a place called Als News. Al was a crotchety old weirdo - I loved rooting around Al's News - it stunk of cigar smoke and musky old paper. It was within bike riding range of my house, so I'd go there all the time. I can't count the number of times I was told that that wasn't a library. My parents got divorced and my dad wanted to spend time with me so he'd drive me to Bird Road - a decent distance from my house - and take me to A&M Comics & Sunshine Comics. Google tells me Sunshine comics is now a gaming place, but A&M is still open - wild!
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Post by brianf on Dec 4, 2020 0:50:33 GMT -5
I'm enjoying your reviews - heres hoping you continue to at least the Fleischer/Aparo Spectres.
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Post by brianf on Dec 3, 2020 2:17:17 GMT -5
I dunno, I've read my fair share of decent Harley Quinn comics. The Seattle Public Library had tons of graphic novels available to check out, so I read a bunch of her comics and while I never bought any she did have more than her fair share of solid comics. I don't mean her monetary value. She sells, so she'll be pigeonholed into various narratives. I'm just saying from a storytelling standpoint, it's hard to justify why Amanda Waller would put someone like Harley on the squad. She has no special powers, isn't a train solider, is a nutcase, and would just serve as a liability more so than an advantage. Sometimes she legit just has a mallet or a baseball bat, and is supposed to be a threat. Just no. I'd have to go back and reread the comics to argue with you, but since I don't own them I'll just re-iterate my point - I liked what I read. With fiction anything is possible. Is she over used? yep. But so is Batman, and he has no special powers either. Imagination is wonderful!
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Post by brianf on Dec 2, 2020 23:34:04 GMT -5
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Post by brianf on Dec 2, 2020 22:50:27 GMT -5
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Post by brianf on Dec 2, 2020 22:47:45 GMT -5
I dunno, I've read my fair share of decent Harley Quinn comics. The Seattle Public Library had tons of graphic novels available to check out, so I read a bunch of her comics and while I never bought any she did have more than her fair share of solid comics.
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Post by brianf on Dec 2, 2020 20:20:19 GMT -5
RIP Hugh Keays-Byrne He was Toecutter in the OG Mad Max film & was Immortan Joe in Mad Max : Fury Road. Bummer.
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Post by brianf on Dec 2, 2020 20:00:49 GMT -5
Orcas aren't really killer fish, but this contest needed some Namor
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