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Post by Icctrombone on May 14, 2024 9:36:36 GMT -5
kirby101. This cover isn't great but I think Lee Weeks could have been a superstar if he did more regular work. I looked at a lot of Weeks covers and thought that one was great. Different strokes. You still got my vote. Is this the first time someone voted for a cover they didn’t like ?
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Post by Icctrombone on May 14, 2024 8:11:35 GMT -5
kirby101. This cover isn't great but I think Lee Weeks could have been a superstar if he did more regular work.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 13, 2024 5:08:48 GMT -5
Journey into Mystery Annual #11965 "When Titans Clash!: Thor Vs. Hercules!" Comments:Not much to add, as this amounts to being a simple slugfest lacking any real plot. I have to confess that this tale was a disappointment to me. I feel like there was a mandate to produce an annual that reprinted older issues and that the 15 pager was slapped together just for the occasion. Kirby's layouts are lacking their usual zing. But for the first time , I will blame Colletta and say that it looks like this was just laid out by Kirby, maybe breakdowns, and that the inking didn't add any details to the visuals. See, kirby101, I can be fair about Vince sometimes. An example is this page where the faces are obscured. Yeah, In guess the book introduces Olympus to the Thor cast and Stan will gage the response to them for future possible use. Contained in this Annual is a 2 page map of Asgard which is pretty cool.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 12, 2024 9:00:14 GMT -5
Happy mother's day to all the moms on our forum! Rags . Anyone else ? Back in the day, I was known as a ba-a-aad mutha- Your turn. It feels like I got the Shaft.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 12, 2024 8:03:15 GMT -5
I thought it was bold move , but I'm not a big fan of street level characters . That prevented me from buying any of it. Years later, I read the Kevin Smith DD run. It was okay.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 12, 2024 7:18:17 GMT -5
Happy mother's day to all the moms on our forum! Rags. Anyone else ?
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2024 20:48:09 GMT -5
You’re just vacuuming these Archie’s up.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2024 20:27:40 GMT -5
I might have read JIM annual #1 in Marvel Unlimited. I don't know if I remember much of it, but I don't remember it being tied to any continuity connected to the current storyline. So it's possible to review it anytime before Hercules appears in the monthly book. But I await your analysis of the book.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2024 17:16:51 GMT -5
Got this in the mail today. This completes my long journey to acquire every book that Kirby did in his Fourth World masterpiece. It's a low grade copy but it's all mine !
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2024 17:15:09 GMT -5
I'm trying not to buy so much stuff these days but this caught my eye and had to get it It caught your eye and it almost poked my eye out. . Nice book .
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2024 16:48:16 GMT -5
You like to break the law.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2024 4:15:46 GMT -5
Well, this time around, I'm gonna be Captain Obvious, and pick a long-time favorite of many, Justice League of America #200... As I've many times before, there's just so much awesome between that amazing wraparound cover by Perez. Conway's story is just perfect (action-packed, with serious stakes, but still unceasingly fun) and the art, by not only Perez in the bridging sequences, but also individual chapters by Brett Breeding, Pat Broderick, Terry Austin, Jim Aparo, Dick Giordano, Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino, Frank Giacoia, Brian Bolland and Joe Kubert, is spectacular. I have this book and bought it from a comics store when it came out. While I appreciate the jam method of the artwork, I felt the story was a bit subpar. I still like opening it up , though. That Boland page was beautiful. I wish he had done more interior work back then.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 11, 2024 4:08:06 GMT -5
I'm feeling melancholy tonight, so please bear with me... We don't die as long as people remember us, I heard. If that's the case, I'd like to reiterate my affection for Dr. Yvonne Dold-Samplonius and Dr. Albrecht Dold, the lovely couple who welcomed my wife and I (when we were WAY younger than today!) as tenants in their lovely house in the early 90s. They were mathematicians who warrant their own their Wikipedia page, and a lovelier pair you will never meet. Albrecht was soft-spoken, frail-looking and insanely kind and intelligent. Yvonne was equally smart, but seemingly made of iron; just picture Judy Dench as M. Although Germans (well, Yvonne was Dutch) tend to be more Vulcan than Tamaranean when it comes to interpersonal relationships, we always knew that they cared for us. At one point they invited us two dumb Canuck kids to see Der Fliegende Holländer at the Mannheim opera (and thank God for my father initiating me to Wagner's works), where we told them my wife was expecting our first child. They were thrilled, in their reserved way, and we felt as proud as can be. Years later, we were deeply chagrined when we learned that Albrecht had suffered from Alzheimer's disease before passing away, and that Yvonne had followed him soon after. I expected her to bury old Father Time, honestly; her passong was pretty hard to accept. My elder son, when backpacking across Europe, went to look at the house and met a neighbour. She didn't know who he was talking about. But my wife and I remember, Yvonne and Albrecht, and your memory is a blessing. You still live in our hearts, and you are still loved. So sorry. I understand. Yesterday , I was also not feeling 100% emotionally and thought about my pop a few times. I am more stoic about things like death and the passing of loved ones, but it sneaks in every so often. You and your wife were blessed to have them in your life, try to think on that.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 10, 2024 13:00:32 GMT -5
This weeks entry is Superman #227.
It's a bit personal with this one for me. My father used to play baseball on Sundays in the Spanish leagues in New York. He used to practice in Red hook Brooklyn during the week. This was the time before he learned to drive or had a car. We took the train from Manhattan to Brooklyn every week and the stop was Smith and 9th in Brooklyn an elevated train. I remember going down long stairs or escalators to get to the street. Well, at the street level there was candy/Diner/newstand that sold comics.My pop bought me this book too keep me occupied while he practiced. In 1970 I was 9 , so this has to be one of the earliest comics bought for me. In 2020, my pop passed away( not from covid) and I immediately went online to pick this book up. Previous weeks entries
Avengers #4 Flash ( 1987) 1 Thor #126 Kamandi #10 What if? v1 #3 JLA v1 # 91 Marvels Greatest comics # 31 Master of Kung Fu ( Special Marvel edition) 16 Iron Man # 150 Alpha Flight #12
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Post by Icctrombone on May 10, 2024 7:43:49 GMT -5
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