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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 29, 2015 7:04:24 GMT -5
Newbie here. I'm from Paris but moved nearby Stockholm in Sweden about two and a half years ago. I started buying american coic books in 91 at 14. I say buying as I was irregularly buying french or swedish magazines compiling US/UK material, but it wasn't until 91 and my discovery of the pre-Vertigo stuff that I jumped fro regular euro stuff to comics. As I live in the middle of nowhere, I have my old parisian comic shop puting aside the new stuff for me every week, which I tend to visit every 5 months on an average. I also buy old stuff online and in various LCS I encounter through my travels (I'm a musician). I have about 12500 comics here at home, so obviously a lot of it remain yet unread, more to discover for me  Oh, and I don't buy collections, almost ever, only floppies and OGN. So here I start with this months few reads (please let me know if i entered all this wrong and how/where to edit) : Hellboy : They That Go Down To The Sea Ships Hard to come buy little hellboy story, nicePenthouse Comix : 27, 28, 32, 33 My collection is now almost complete. those later issues can't compare to the early marvels of this title, ye some good stuffNorthlanders : 9, 10 I really like Dean Ormston, so these were some of the few issues I yet had to read and had interest inVertigo Pop : Tokyo : 1-4 Nice ok story, gorgeous Seth Fisher artwork, will probably revisit!Comics Journal : 263 Quite good Ed Brubaker ITW and Cerebus essayFantagor : 3, 4 I'm a huge fan of Corben, so it was nice to read those in their original form, with some short stories/gags exclusive to these early publications.Horror In The Dark : 1 also an old Corben anthology I was missing, very niceGrimwit : 2, 4 More old CorbenAnomaly More old CorbenOne Green Tree Educational Jim Woodring comicsJupiter's Legacy : 4, 5 Beautiful, Akira like, not very original past it's high concept premiseSuiciders : 1, 2 Much better than I anticipated.October Faction : 1 Kinda regreted oordering it, but it was quite alright in the end THB : 69, Ashcan Early Paul Pope gretanessGrendel War Child : 1-10* Still as good as everI love they that go down in ships |
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Post by Jesse on Aug 31, 2015 4:03:41 GMT -5
August total: 116
Highlights: Howard the Duck volume 1 continues to be an excellent read.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 16:31:42 GMT -5
57 issues for August. A pretty good mix of stuff. Current, modern but from my back issue pile, and classic. Even a couple graphic novels.
Best read: Impossible to choose. Most of it.
Worst read: A Game Of Thrones was the only thing that didn't totally win me over. It was okay. Out of the books, TV series, and comic, the comic is by far the worst and does not do the property or fantasy comics in general justice.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 31, 2015 19:07:17 GMT -5
57 issues for August. A pretty good mix of stuff. Current, modern but from my back issue pile, and classic. Even a couple graphic novels. Best read: Impossible to choose. Most of it. Worst read: A Game Of Thrones was the only thing that didn't totally win me over. It was okay. Out of the books, TV series, and comic, the comic is by far the worst and does not do the property or fantasy comics in general justice. I wanted to like the GoT comic but the art just turned me off. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 19:57:36 GMT -5
Yeah, all art at Dynamite is just terrible to me. And there's no shortage of fantastic fantasy artists out there. GoT would have been great with some Heavy Metal talent on it.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Aug 31, 2015 20:17:50 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 31, 2015 20:24:26 GMT -5
Round up of August:
I ended with 155 comics read ,the second highest total of the year. As I posted before, I made an effort to read 4 comics a day before opening my computer in the PM after work. That method helped me to not waste time surfing the net for hours doing nothing. I made a big dent in the comics that I purchased this year as a result.
The Good:
Thor v.1 271,275, 304, 305,309,310,312,313,325,327,328,332-336,
I love Thor and even the Meonch run was enjoyable. Colletta draws some nice looking women.
Ten Grand 3,4
This series by J. Michael Straczynski’s is a nice solid read which involves a man who takes on supernatural cases for 10 thousand each and when he helps to balance the good in the universe, gets to see his dead wife for 5 minutes each time.
DV8-Gods and Monsters 2-8
This was a surprisingly interesting take on the DV8 characters that were part of the Wildstorm line. They are trapped in another world and each start their own tribe.
Captain America 344-354
Cap loses his uniform and shield after refusing to be an errand boy to government politicians. This run introduced Johnny Walker as the replacement Cap and was one of my favorite Cap stories because it examined what it takes to be the Symbol that Captain America is.
Kazar (1974) 17-19
Flying sharks in a fantasy world. Nuff said.
The Bad:
Young Avengers (2013) 7,10,11,13-15
This book was crap. I can’t believe it lasted 15 issues. A young Loki? C’mon.
The Ugly:
Civil War 1-7
It was ugly to see my favorite heroes attack each other and betray each other because of a law that was passed requiring all Superheroes to register.
It was ugly seeing Tony, Ms. Marvel, Reed Richards, Tigra among others act like total PR**KS.
It was Ugly seeing Iron Man almost tear Caps Jaw off with a Armored Punch.
It was ugly seeing Richards and Tony create a clone of Thor who Murders Bill Foster.
It was an uncomfortable series that I fear will be an even more uncomfortable Movie next year.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 20:32:24 GMT -5
Yeah, that Uncanny art looks good. Probably the first thing I've seen from Dynamite that wasn't a cover that I liked.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 23:07:08 GMT -5
Big, big reading month for me, breaking the 300 mark with having read the equivalent of 316 comics worth of comics or comic related prose. Enjoyed most of it, with only the 4 issue Jack of Hearts mini and the 6 issue Ghost Rider mini by Grayson and Crain being the real standout stinkers of the bunch. The best of the best...Steranko's Nick Fury in Strange Tales, Kubert's Hawkman form Brave & Bold, Englehart's Doc Strange saga in which Eternity destroys and remakes the Marvel Universe with Doc being the only survivor of the old MU (was it the 615 before that?  ), Grell's Warlord, Gil Kane's His Name is Savage, and for more modern standouts, Brubaker's Point Blank, Sleeper Season One and Two, The Fade Out Vol. 1, and Velvet Vol. 1. Busiek's Autumnlands Vol. 1, Bunn's Sixth Gun Vol. 2 and 3, Aaron & Latour's Southern Bastards Vol. 1. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 1, 2015 0:19:05 GMT -5
114 for me. By far the biggest month of the year.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 1, 2015 11:27:14 GMT -5
@ ICTrombone - I never liked kid Loki either, but most people do.. he got his own title after that and everything. Young Avengers tries too hard to be hip, IMO, but it a decent book in spite of it. 114 for me this month...kinda low... mostly due to reading a few novels... I also may have forgotten to record a couple things. I was really surprised at how good Jupiter's Legacy was.. that's two in a row from Millar I liked. This one was certainly more Millar-y, but still really good. Hoping to get through more review stuff this month  |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 1, 2015 12:03:20 GMT -5
83 books in August, eclipsing July's total by one. Pretty average month for me keeps me on track to hit my 1,000 book goal this year, but the last four months of the year are always tough for me to read as school, church, and sports activities start up for my girls and I am constantly running around with little chance to sit and read.
Best thing I read in August was the beginning of the Walt Simonson run on Thor. Such a huge improvement over the previous three years worth of books that seemed to be just running in place without going anywhere.
Worst thing I read this month was a tie between the Morbius issues of Fear and Eltingville Club #2, for different reasons. Fear was something that was so out there and so obviously influenced by a incredible amount of drugs, the stories made little sense and didn't connect with me.
As for Eltingville Club, I'm a huge Evan Dorkin fan. Love Milk and Cheese, love Dork and previous incarnations of the Club, but this was just mean and spiteful and crude and violent and misogynistic (too many uses of a certain vulgar term for a woman) for my tastes. Usually when I buy and read something this bad, I will take it to Half-Price Books and get a few pennies for it, but for this, I'm just throwing it away, because I don't want to be responsible for another human being possibly reading it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 2, 2015 21:14:06 GMT -5
I think I'm dedicating this month to classic runs that I own. I started on Kamandi, Starman, Savage Dragon, and Teen Titans. I plan to move on to Moores Swamp thing , Suicide Squad next. I'm thinking to read 6 issues of each and move onto the next run.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 18:09:00 GMT -5
60 issues for the month, making it my third most productive month so far this year. Not bad considering this is my busiest month at work since I quit my second job. I had a lot of fun reading this month and read more classics than usual lately.
The good:
Thieves & Kings vol. 1 - I need to get the next trade asap. Good dense series with lots of prose pages, to the point that it's almost an illustrated novel. The artwork is oddly inconsistent, with some pages being fantastic and others being pretty poor. But a fun fantasy read regardless.
Age Of Bronze - I've read a handful of issues before, out of order. Not enough to get into the story but enough to know I enjoyed the art and the historical detail. So reading through the series from the beginning for the first time has been great so far.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vol. 1 - Can't believe this is the first issue I've read ALL YEAR from this series. Reading the non-Eastman and Laird issues has been a little bit of a grind. But there is hidden treasure in them, particularly issue #33, which is full color and illustrated by Richard Corben. I wouldn't have minded if he illustrated every issue in the series.
There was no bad, but a couple of the modern series I've been following are starting to grind. Only one more issue of The Fiction so I'm going to finish it. Not sure where Rebels is going to go now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 22:44:40 GMT -5
Slowed down a bit from the frantic pace of the past two months of reading, but still read the equivalent of 154 comics this month.
Highlights included: Chase, the end of the Nick Fury run in Strange Tales by Steranko, Velvet Vol. 2, Rachel Rising Vol. 1, the Marado the She Wolf stories by Bolton and Claremont, the first year's worth of Jon Sable Freelance, Five Ghosts Vol. 3 and a chunk of Priest's run on Black Panther...
on to October...and what horrific delights await me there.
-M
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), Grell's Warlord, Gil Kane's His Name is Savage, and for more modern standouts, Brubaker's Point Blank, Sleeper Season One and Two, The Fade Out Vol. 1, and Velvet Vol. 1. Busiek's Autumnlands Vol. 1, Bunn's Sixth Gun Vol. 2 and 3, Aaron & Latour's Southern Bastards Vol. 1. 
