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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 1, 2024 19:31:38 GMT -5
Maybe this is one for codystarbuck since it's the issue his nom de pleur debuted in, but has anyone ever commented on the fact that He-Man and Skeletor look like they're ripped right out of Jim Starlin's "Death Building" from Star*Reach #1? Our "hero" is named Steve Apollo and he has the same bowl cut as Prince Adam and he even wears a similar collared vest and to combat his skull faced nemesis he turns into a burly barbarian...only he takes acid to make the change instead of raising a power sword and calling on the power of Grayskull. But other than that the resemblance is uncanny. Did he ever raze a stink over it? This is my first read of the book and I just couldn't get over it.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 1, 2024 19:01:17 GMT -5
After finishing up my Solomon Kane reading I thought to reread some of my caveman comics after catching a screening of the 13th Warrior(a favorite of mine) at a cinema pub. I meant to do a smattering of old favorites like Anthro and Tor but when I got to Turock I just couldn't help myself and read everything I had. I need to go back and try to find some more collections of the early stuff as it holds up well both in art and story to this day despite its simplicity. Of the modern stuff I really loved the new direction the first Dynamite story took the concept, with instead of a valley of dinosaurs it was an alternate history where dinosaurs coexisted with man and were used as beasts of burden by crusaders and Gengis Khan. Was it ridiculous? Absolutely, but it was incredibly fun too.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 1, 2024 16:36:37 GMT -5
Not a new series announcement but news none the less, though not the good kind. Sadly, Ed Piskor apparently took his own life today. I had heard about the controversy about supposed interactions with under-aged girls, and the dm's released were pretty damning, but it's still terrible that he felt his only option was to take his own life. That the comments people made about what may have happened were what pushed him to do it is even worse. Grooming is certainly bad...but it shouldn't be a death sentence. I really enjoyed Hip Hop Family Tree and I'm pretty sad about his passing. Mental health issues are real, and there are always better options. If you know someone in need or if you are in need yourself you can dial 988 for help 24 hours a day, 365 days a week or if you think you'd have a hard time talking you can chat here with live councilors online as well. Be well everyone.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 31, 2024 18:17:53 GMT -5
^^ Yeah, there's definitely an agenda at play in that spreadsheet. To be honest, as a fan of all three principal players -- Lee, Ditko and Kirby -- that blatant attempt to sway my opinion and demonise Lee turns me completely off anything that guy has to say. He may have some good points to make, but such a blatant agenda makes me suspicious of the veracity of his evidence and conclusions. The whole point of it just seemed weird to me, is it really a common belief that Lee created everything or even the majority of the books back in the Atlas age?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 31, 2024 9:57:46 GMT -5
Another one of these??? No idea what it's about, but the trailer doesn't suggest much in terms of new ideas. Get them on Earth, already, as in the first Dark Horse black and white miniseries! Yeah, it was certainly a slick trailer...but it seems like a remake of the original film not a sequel. I'd love an infestation kind of film set on Earth, maybe playing off COVID fears.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 29, 2024 1:00:57 GMT -5
Picked up Green Arrow. Alan Scott: Green Lantern. Daredevil. Ultimate Spider-Man. All were good but USM was my favorite this week. I loved the end of Ultimate Spider-Man, "want to grab a beer?" Perfect.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 28, 2024 16:15:42 GMT -5
Episode 3 Way less convoluted than the Madelyn Pryor story arc in the comics. Seriously cool body horror, some decent cameos via Morph transformations. I love the way they tied together Cable, the tech organic virus, and Bishop's repaired time device.
Plus Forge and punk rock Storm!
Yeah, although I wished Madelyn stayed after the episode was over they handled pretty much everything else really well.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 27, 2024 17:27:08 GMT -5
And in the new Goon story by Powell (The Goon: Them That Don't Stay Dead)I think I just read the funniest sentence possibly ever written in the English language. Powell is usually good for a new gag, and I'm well past the age where bathroom humor tickled my fancy, but I dare you to read, "I'm a gentleman Norton, but my bowels have no such regard for common courtesy" and not crack a smile.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 27, 2024 16:59:42 GMT -5
While I loved the art on Batman: Dark Age...the story? I'm not sure what that was. It started out as a sort of twisted take on Bruce's upbringing after his parents death and then Pariah took over Wayne Enterprises for some reason. Superman: Space Age was certainly weird but it was comprehensible while this was...less so.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 27, 2024 15:35:04 GMT -5
The Maps story in Brave and the Bold continues to be utterly amazing. Kershel's art and characterization are both fantastic and idea of vampire Manbats is one that I can't believe hasn't been done before. I can't wait to see where he goes.
I also really loved the new Sgt. Rock story, the idea that he was somehow immortal seems like it should be a bridge too far but the idea of him being a timeless patriot just worked for me.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 26, 2024 15:23:28 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 I love the Poirot stories, I'll have to look for those!
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 26, 2024 13:20:25 GMT -5
OFF THE RACKS!Real Readers, Honest Reviews What did you pick up this week?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 26, 2024 7:25:00 GMT -5
I loved Magneto's speech, that was awesome!
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 25, 2024 18:29:20 GMT -5
Man, that DC Apes special was amazing! Though as fun as more Monkey Prince was, and as much as I loved seeing Joe Simeon return in the JLA(Jungle League of America) feature my favorite was definitely Phil Hester doing Detective Chimp. I always love seeing anything from Hester, but his art style really is just perfect for a detective story so it was doubly awesome here I was working when the comics came out, but I drive within a few blocks of the comic shop, so I stopped and got my comics pretty quick. And I missed the DC Ape special because of my haste! I’ll be over there tomorrow. I hope they still have it. Well worth tracking down, this was easily one of the best anthologies DC has put out.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 23, 2024 5:20:15 GMT -5
Ultimate X-Men had some beautiful art by Peach Momoko...but it didn't feel like an X-Men story at all. My biggest complaint for the issue was a technical one-the lettering. It was tiny. Way too small to read in the physical copies. Digital you can zoom to read small fonts, you can't in a physical copy. And when it is white lettering on a black background, and tiny, it is unreadable in the physical copy. Somebody-the letterer, the editor, the assistant editor, should have looked at a physical proof of the pages, not a digital one, and realized that. If someone is buying a physical copy, they should get a product they are able to read. There were whole dialogue balloons that I couldn't read, even with my reading glasses, unless I placed a physical magnifying glass on top of it to read and I wasn't about to do that. Needless to say, as much as I like Peach Momoko's art, I will not be buying physical copies of this book any longer. I preorded #2 already, so I will get that, but none I haven't already preordered. Hard to judge a story when about a third of the dialogue is unreadable and the rest you have to strain to read because they used such a small font size. -M I hadn't really thought of that, I read on my chromebook most of the time and I definitely had to blow it up to read it.
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