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Post by coke & comics on Jul 5, 2015 16:16:36 GMT -5
Let's roll the dice!
6...
1: The first bookshelf
11th book... It's the 5th book in an 8-book series. Hmm...
I'm going to cheat again. I rolled Book 5 of Buddha. Buddha is simply put one of the greatest comics I have ever read. But I've only read it once. It's long past due for a reread. But I think I'd prefer to read it beginning to end again rather than pick out a single story. I will use this dice roll as a spur to making rereading Buddha a priority in the near future. And, when I do, I will mention it somewhere on this forum.
Next: We return to our favorite era of Spider-Man...
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Post by coke & comics on Jul 26, 2015 15:13:40 GMT -5
Let's roll the dice! Rack 3: Spidey/X-Men comics Box 7: Spectacular Spider-Man through Spider-Man 5th comic in... Spectacular Spider-Man #238 Marvel: 1996  That cover confused my eyes for a long time. I somehow thought I was looking at a lizard head. Like the space to the right of the page was its eye and you could see a tree reflected in his eye, and like the muddy bit was actually the gums of his mouth and it was eating that photo. I finally reoriented my mind to decide the cover was about a foot. But it took intense concentration to reach this conclusion. The second Spectacular Spider-Man comic to show up from the Clone Saga. We jump ahead almost 2 years. (Why yes, the clone saga story continued about 2.5 years) Let me see if I can fill you in on what's happened in those 2 years. Mary Jane got pregnant. Dr. Octopus died. Jackal came back to life. Aunt May died. Some confusion about who the real Peter Parker was. More clones. Mary Jane pregnant. Peter quits being Spider-Man. Peter moves to Oregon. Peter loses his powers. Now Ben Reilly is the one and only Spider-Man. At some point around this time, Peter moves back to New York. Also, sometime around now, Onslaught kills every superhero Marvel owns the movie rights to. I think that's about where we are in this entirely sensible saga. The titles have finally stopped deciding that every arc needs to cross over amongst all titles and creative teams. But things are changing so rapidly that the continuity remains rather tightly knit and convoluted. I am really not a fan of the Buscema/Sienkiewicz combination. See also Aparo/Sienkiewicz. This is a decent issue that sidesteps the madness of the Clone Saga and focuses on Curt Conners. His state of mind, his recent attempts to cure himself of the Lizard persona, and the monster those attempts created, a new Lizard. Spider-Man only appears on about 2 pages. Only about 20 more issues of this Clone Saga. And then the Spider-titles get really bad... Grade: C Next: Remember when I claimed all comics with "Force" in their name were terrible... |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 27, 2015 19:00:25 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of Sienkiewicz and anybody.
I don't know if the next era was worse than The Clone Saga, but it was terrible in the few issues I read before leaving as quickly as I could.
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 1, 2015 19:04:05 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of Sienkiewicz and anybody. I don't know if the next era was worse than The Clone Saga, but it was terrible in the few issues I read before leaving as quickly as I could. I love Sienkiewicz' own work, things like Daredevil: Love & War. But his very contrastful pairing with the likes of Jim Aparo was always jarring to me. The Howard Mackie days are rough. The focus is on Norman Osborn now turned into a copy of post-crisis Lex Luthor and builds to "The Gathering of Five", probably the single worst Spider-Man story of all time. And then the reboot of the franchise with new #1s. Which is also terrible. Until finally Jenkins followed by Straczynski come in and save the franchise from the dark years. |
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