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Post by badwolf on Jul 2, 2023 16:04:46 GMT -5
Alias #24 (I think?)
Blood + Water #5
Captain America #15
Death at Death's Door (never did read it)
The Devil's Footprints #4
Empire #1
Fallen Angel #1 (freebie)
Flash #200
Formerly Known as the Justice League #1
Hellblazer #186
Incredible Hulk #57-58
JLA #83
JLA:Scary Monsters #5
Legion #22
Liberty Meadows #32
Marvel Must Haves #10 (because I missed the beginning of Jones' run)
New Mutants #3
Sentinel #4
Teen Titans #1
Trouble #1
Vertigo Pop:Bangkok #3
X-Men:Phoenix – Legacy of Fire #2
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Post by berkley on Jul 2, 2023 22:32:44 GMT -5
Terra Obscura #2
I don't recall much about this Alan Moore miniseries. I think it was only OK but at this point I wasn't interested in new superhero stories so there wasn't much here to attract me, in spite of Moore being my favourite comics writer. Yannik Paquette's artwork has never really grabbed me either, I thk partly because I don't care for the style of his regular inker.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 3, 2023 13:00:10 GMT -5
July 2003
Batman #617
Detective Comics #784
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 6:Fantastic Four Vol. 2 HC
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 7:X-Men Vol. 2 HC
Usagi Yojimbo #67
Usagi Yojimbo #68
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 2, 2023 23:13:26 GMT -5
     Battle of the Planets came to an end, without much of a conclusion. It seemed to end suddenly. Don't know if it was a rights issue (the Sandy Frank rights expired at some point, around that time, and passed to others) of just sales, or lack of destination, as it didn't seem to progress much. Smax explores Jaff Smax home country and family, as well as his mysterious past. Lots of fantasy-based easter eggs. Terra Obscura continues to be pretty interesting and Tom Strong continues with an alternate reality where Tom Stone, the mixed race son of Tom's mother and a sailor, continues on his heroic journey. JMS launched his take on the Squadron Supreme, with Supreme Power, which seemed like a redraft of Rising Stars, with the Suqadron characters. It started out well, but then he abruptly stopped working on it, though it was going astray before that. That got to be a pattern with him. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 3, 2023 9:57:29 GMT -5
August 2003
Batman #618
Batman:Nevermore #5
Batman:Tenses #1
Detective Comics #785
Green Lantern #168
Superman/Batman #1 [Variant A]
Ultimate Spider-Man #44
Ultimate Spider-Man #45
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 2, 2023 23:34:44 GMT -5
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 4, 2023 6:14:07 GMT -5
Out 20 years ago today:  I’d give this a 4.5 rating (yes, I’ve become Dave Meltzer, sue me, LOL).  It’s not quite flawless on every level. I’d certainly give 5 stars to the art. A 4 rating seems too low. I always did prefer the shared Earth approach of DC/Marvel crossovers, the separate universes thing felt a) contrived, and b) “designed” to suck the joy out of everything. I want Clark Kent and Peter Parker to be on the east coast, a hundred or so miles from each other, not in separate universes. Also, with the separate universes thing, it requires a set-up every time, involving a cosmic entity. We can’t just have Clark Kent in New York City, or Peter Parker on a photography assignment in Metropolis. We can’t have Batman keeping a file on the Hulk in his Batcave, or General Ross exchanging a phone call with Commissioner Gordon. No, we have to have cosmic explanations. That said, I do feel the story utilised the multiverse setting well, especially how different each universes are, and how the DC and Marvel superheroes pick up on that. This was the last DC/Marvel crossover, right? Shame. Stuffy Disney won’t play ball with DC again, and maybe DC has the same attitude. I *never* wanted DC/Marvel crossovers to be as routine as a WWE PPV, but I wanted some. For instance, 2016 marked 40 years since Superman VS The Amazing Spider-Man, it’d have been nice if Disney and DC could have collaborated on a 40th anniversary reunion/story - or simply another Superman/Spider-Man adventure. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 2, 2023 22:08:28 GMT -5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 1, 2023 12:30:23 GMT -5
November 2003
Green Lantern #171
Hulk:Gray #3
Silver Surfer #3
Thanos #2
Ultimate Spider-Man #49
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 1, 2023 22:29:51 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 5, 2023 0:18:46 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Dec 5, 2023 1:45:36 GMT -5
December 2003:
Catwoman #26:
I latched on to this the issue before because of Gulacy's art and stayed with it until he left, even though I didn't think Palmiotti brought out his best. Looking it up, I see it must have been my first comic written by Ed Brubaker as well. I liked it but it was mainly the art that kept me around.
Promethea #28:
As I always say, the best of Moore's ABC. Been too long to remember the details of this individual issue though.
Terra Obscura #6:
I read this entire series on the basis of Alan Moore's involvement but never found it more than OK.
and possibly:
Captain Marvel #17:
I'm pretty sure I was still reading this around this time, though the cover doesn't ring a bell - I know I started with an earlier issue than this one. This series and Simonson's Orion had been the first Marvel/DC comics I had read or even looked at in years, starting maybe a year or two before this.
Thanos #3:
similarly, I know I read at least one of Starlin's Thanos minseries around this time, in my tentative exploration of what was happening with Marvel/DC. I also know I didn't like it or them much. I see this one was 12 issues which makes me think perhaps I skipped it as I don't recall one being that long.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 5, 2023 11:48:30 GMT -5
December 2003
Hulk:Gray #4
Unfortunately this was the original Hulk and not the gray Hulk aka Mr Fixit. I hadn't really liked Tim Sale's art yet. But I would come appreciate it later. I saw this mini series to the end though I couldn't tell you a thing about it at this point.
Silver Surfer #4
The start of this series; Communion was a really good but different take on Surfer. It was less cosmic and more down to earth. Provided you believe in extraterrestrial life. It's called Communion for a reason.
Thanos #3
Do I need to even explain why I bought this? Thanos and Warlock all done by Starlin. *giddy fanboy noises*
Ultimate Spider-Man #50, 51
This one unlike GL I didn't read till the end. It seemed there was going to be the start of a lot of crossovers and events and then (when I stopped buying it with #112) we were in a pinch financially.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 6, 2024 15:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Jan 8, 2024 0:41:09 GMT -5
January 2004:
Global Frequency:Planet Ablaze TPB: I think this was the first Warren Ellis I ever read, unless it was one of the short, 3-issue miniseries he also produced around this time. I was impressed with it, but it sometimes felt like the whole thing had been designed with a view to getting it turned into a tv series.
Catwoman #27: as long as Gulacy was doing the art I was staying with this series. Brubaker made it readable, which was a bonus. I think he had the right idea in making it a crime series without forgetting it was also a superhero book, a balancing act some writers have found difficult to maintain.
Smax #4: As I mentioned in the recent Classics Christmas, in many ways I liked this better than the series it spun off from, Top Ten. To name a couple, the artwork was more to my taste and the fantasy/fairy-tale setting was more interesting to me than the US cop shows that Top Ten was riffing on.
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