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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 17, 2024 14:49:14 GMT -5
I just love pence variants....and love it when dealers treat them like second-rate distant cousins to their US counterparts and sell them off cheaply...it's estimated only 1%-2% of the total print run made it to actual UK retail (after damaged copies were removed) so they are genuinely scarcer.
I'm trying to add as many bronze-age UK variant #1s to my stash, even if they are books I don't usually collect (like Omega the Unknown)...Ghost Rider #1 will be my biggest prize if I score one.....
Me, I'd exchange my pence copies for cent copies in a heartbeat, I like round numbers, and those odd prices on the UK variants kill me. But I usually get them cheaper, being close to the UK and all.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 17, 2024 14:43:47 GMT -5
I'd say Kirby and Ditko were the manufacturers and Lee was the salesman. With a caveat, Lee had some input on the product.
As for "liar", the definition doesn't specify how often one should lie to be considered as such.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 10, 2024 11:45:00 GMT -5
In an effort to make comics more " realistic" writers after the 2000's wrote characters with more nuance. People get depressed in real life and do things that are foolish. Gwen made a mistake. She was supposed to be in love with Peter, and she just couldn’t resist the mysterious magnetism and strength of a control freak and tyrant like Norman Osborne, who she knew was an awful father and an abuser to her friend Harry. That’s not a mistake. That’s character assassination. Having read the comics involved, it's safe to say that your supposition is a valid one. Which didn't prevent her from kicking his ass out of home when he (apparently) mistreated her father. But sure, she was of such weak moral fiber that someone inflicting pain on a friend didn't rub on her one way or another. If he was a hot daddy it made perfect sense for her to fall for it.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 10, 2024 11:36:25 GMT -5
Actually, I am interested in your thoughts and was glad you took the time to read the arc. But obviously we don't agree on its merits and neither of us is likely to change our minds on that score, I would think. So probably best to move on. Yeah. You sound like you’re really interested in my thoughts. 😆 You have to learn to read "tone".
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 9, 2024 2:18:08 GMT -5
Even Linkara tried to warn me! But I wouldn’t listen! I'm not feeling sorry for you on that one, own it!
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 9, 2024 2:16:04 GMT -5
But those issues of Journey into Mystery were the highlight of the weekend! I'm sorry for your loss then, because I have those at 3.5/10. Can't imagine how bad the others were. The decision of starting to review issues individually only from the point where ToA begins, was the right one. The first year of Thor was appalling.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jan 7, 2024 17:30:13 GMT -5
I've been reading some of the First run of Nexus, which I find really interesting. I've read it in bits and pieces forever, but haven't sat down and run a chunk until now. I'm wondering what people think is the best era...I think Rude's art soars in the early Dark Horse mini series (Origin, Alien Justice) but I can't recall how the stories read. There doesn't seem to be a consensus on what stories are the best, which I think speaks to how sttange the series is overall... The first 20 issues or so are the best. Some of the Dark Horse minis from the 90's are also worth reading.
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 30, 2023 15:54:30 GMT -5
It is advertised as such. The series had already declined by then, both graphically and narratively. And that's without even going into the self-borrowing:
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 30, 2023 5:31:37 GMT -5
Story wise, I always found Den II more interesting.
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 27, 2023 10:50:30 GMT -5
What happened to your site?
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 14, 2023 10:33:05 GMT -5
No, I'm saying that's not where the evolution's trace would lead you to.
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 14, 2023 1:02:44 GMT -5
You aren't talking evolution, but the accumulation of scenery, props, anecdotes... In the question itself, there was already a reason. The question pre-supposes your answer. My answer is no. I don't see any reason that the evolution of SF in literature or movies means you can't look at its evolution in comics. It's like saying you can't look at literary noir because that term was first applied to films noir. Or vice-versa because the films absolutely came out (by and large) of adaptations of the literature. I didn't say you can't, I said there's not much sense in searching for something where it's not. Of course you can, and you'd be losing your time.
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 13, 2023 16:53:52 GMT -5
In the question itself, there was already a reason.
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 13, 2023 16:11:04 GMT -5
Does it make sense to talk about ages, based on the evolution of, say, western or sci-fi in comics, when most of their evolution took place in cinema or literature?
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 13, 2023 15:20:59 GMT -5
The superhero genre is the only one that's evolved exclusively in the comic medium. It's the only one where talking about ages makes sense.
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