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Post by bran on Apr 15, 2017 2:38:43 GMT -5
Batman may not be the best example as he has no super-powers, just like Punisher. Definitely - it's not every-man's Superman.
Occasional satire is not really ill-fated, it's tongue-in-cheek, and it's broader than "being unbeatable" aspect. For example - the hard truth is: Common thug is a God and common men are cowardly. Alien creature (or human with super-powers) is just a small man's fantasy on how to stop it (via proxy no less). He kind of plays of that, it's certainly not a comfort-fiction.
Steven Grant's Punisher is also in more realistic setting, more compatible with Ennis's (crime/noir).
Chuck Dixon's run, and I haven't read all of it, would be let's say action/crime. He even made a western version (art - full Buscema) - A Man Named Frank.
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Post by bran on Apr 14, 2017 16:37:21 GMT -5
Mickey Spillane wrote several comics himself. Full list.
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Post by bran on Apr 14, 2017 16:03:44 GMT -5
Garth Ennis's Punisher is pretty much a classic crime (with dark humor, social commentary and even super-heroes genre satire). Starts with "Welcome Back, Frank", the rest is history. Here, Punisher killing his opponent with the most lethal weapon of all - a morbidly obese neighbor :
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Post by bran on Apr 10, 2017 16:18:04 GMT -5
Here is one grossly under-appreciated timeless classic: Medusa ChainI always wanted to read Medusa Chain & many of the other DC graphic novels from the '80's, but never did due to having limited funds as a kid. There's actually quite a few cool ones that came during that era, including "Star Raiders", "Warlords", etc. - most of these didn't have any connection to the DC universe, and were stand-alone. Unfortunately, AFAIK most of these have never been reprinted, with the exception of "Hunger Dogs" - which was connected to Jack Kirby's Fourth World universe. Here's an interesting article on '80's graphic novels - very underrated, and most of these have been forgotten today: blindedmewithcomics.blogspot.com/2009/05/80s-graphic-novels-aka-remember-those.htmlYeah, distribution is the king. If you dig space operas here is another one, underappreciated big time: Lost in Time There are 10 novels altogether. As for translation that I don't know. Just reading latest Meta-Baron series (Wilhem-100), English translation is mediocre at best. Humanoids need to hire an American, who is also cb fan, Jodorowsky fan in particular, and who is bilingual. Can't be that hard.
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Post by bran on Apr 9, 2017 8:34:13 GMT -5
Here is one grossly under-appreciated timeless classic: Medusa Chain
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Post by bran on Apr 8, 2017 4:55:25 GMT -5
Just because I never heard for it (until yesterday) doesn't mean it's underrated, but it's damn good read: JR JR art, Frank Miller script and Janson ink, it doesn't get any better than that. They should collaborate more.
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Post by bran on Apr 6, 2017 15:17:19 GMT -5
1. Jodoverse Places like Golden Planet or City-Shaft alone are just awesome, huge and entertaining as hell. These are visited frequently. Others, and there are many, only ones. Diversity in characters and eco-system/nature is breathtaking. [If you are not familiar, Taris from SW KOTOR comic book somewhat resembles a combination of Golden Planet and City-Shaft. Yes, even Jedi masters checking out news on tv, and ordinary people shouting at and spitting at young padawan accused of murder, that's a direct reference - nice.] 2. Hyborian Age It's the might of a sword-hand that makes it right there, you like it or not. 3. Westeros Adapted in comics by Daniel Abraham and Tommy Patterson. Unlike their TV counter-parts didn't jump the shark (Arya-Terminator, Daenerys-New Found Humanist etc), and it hopefully never will. George RR Martin being a comic book fan himself has a hand in this, and it shows. Suffice to say, scenery, buildings, ornaments, arms being not limited by a budget look spot on.
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Post by bran on Apr 6, 2017 6:46:17 GMT -5
The original Stan's run 1-110.
Stern's first run (Hobgoblin arc) was great.
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Post by bran on Apr 6, 2017 6:43:21 GMT -5
This just reminded me of a question I wanted to ask: was Romita's Peter Parker too handsome and well-built to convincingly play the downtrodden nerd? Or had the character grown out of that phase by the time Romita came along? I haven't re-read any of these issues since the 70s, so my memory may be at fault, but I think that by the Wein/Andru run that was certainly true - Parker was a competent, respected college student, though of course always getting into problems because of his secret life. But Romita came right after Ditko, there must have been a bit of a transition period at least. Later artists followed the Romita visual model, I think, certainly Andru did. Yeah during Conway/Andry run Peter Parker is less of a nerd, and Spider-Man is less cocky but duality remained. Depending of the script-writer of the day it would be occasionally merged into a singular persona.
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Post by bran on Apr 6, 2017 2:52:08 GMT -5
Redbeard. Old-school adventure, in the vain of Treasure Island, and more recent tv-show Black Sails:
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Post by bran on Apr 6, 2017 2:34:09 GMT -5
Alfonso Font's Prisoner of the Stars Tales of an Imperfect Future
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Post by bran on Apr 6, 2017 2:26:47 GMT -5
Storm / Don Lawrence
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Post by bran on Apr 4, 2017 18:22:59 GMT -5
Romita's homage to Akira (pinup):
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Post by bran on Apr 2, 2017 5:05:07 GMT -5
We also meet Crowe, a Half-breed soldier who instantly became my favourite character in the series back in the '70s. Bascom wants to chase down the raiders, and when the column meets an Apache tribe in the process of moving from one camp to another, he orders an attack (even if those people look totally innocent of any wrongdoing). Crowe steals the spotlight from Blueberry right there. He is a lot like Blueberry but with a more interesting background from the getgo and with that loyalty conflict (and cooler outfit). JMC reused that later in youth where we learn that Blueberry is a southerner (who fights for the north).
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Post by bran on Mar 31, 2017 16:47:41 GMT -5
This is probably meant to be the chain he still wears in twilight of the grim grey god (CtB#3), but we must also account for the thing in the crypt (CtB#92), which is also sets after Conan escapes from Hyperboreans. Just how many times can one lad escape the same jailers? My own take on it is that CtB#92 simply omitted to draw the chain on Conan's wrists That kind of drasatic chronology omission can happen to anyone - not to Roy. My take is that The Thing in the Crypt happens after events recorded in issues 2 and 3 (not in between as stated in intro; or keep words in between and replace 2 and 3 with 3 and 4). That however means he went north after the Brythunian border war (and not further south). So "snow adventures" (Lair of the Beast-Men etc) go next, and then he goes south.
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