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Post by badwolf on May 30, 2022 18:05:37 GMT -5
I've recently bought and read Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez Defenders, which I liked a lot. Dr. Strange meets up with Masker Raider (one of the oldest Marvel/Timely characters, but there is somebody else behind the mask this time) to stop a scientist from travelling back in time using Sise-Neg's magic and recruits several Defenders to help them, including Betty Ross (now the Harpy), Cloud and the Silver Surfer. Rodriguez gets to do a lot of fun designs as the Defenders visit various universes, predating the current one, each with its own theme. I know it probably doesn't really matter, but how does Cloud still exist? Wasn't it returned to its original celestial form at the end of the first series?
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Post by Dizzy D on May 31, 2022 1:59:40 GMT -5
Strange summons the Defenders through a magic ritual (where he has no control over which Defenders get picked). As Cloud appears, they do appear as a cosmic nebula (and nearly destroy Strange's home before Strange casts a spell to give them their human form again).
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Post by badwolf on May 31, 2022 16:16:43 GMT -5
Ahhh ok!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 1, 2022 14:22:01 GMT -5
I was at the Montreal Comic Art Festival last weekend and bought a few neat comics, including something pretty awesome: a new book featuring Hugo Pratt's Scorpions of the Desert, set in Israel in 1973. It was the brainstorm of Montreal artist Forg (something of a Quebecois Jim Steranko, as far as multiple talents go) who, being a great Hugo Pratt fan, contacted the man's heirs to ask permission to create a new graphic novel. After showing them what he had in mind he got the green light, but publisher Casterman turned the project down. Undeterred, Forg went to kickstarter to fund it, and the result is just brilliant... and mostly done in artisanal fashion! Forg learned how to sew book spines Japanese style for the project and even hand-crafted a vinyl wraparound jacket (looking like a military file) for the whole thing. The result is amazing.
Forg didn't try to actually imitate Pratt's art, although he kept true to the man's aesthetics, so it's more like a loving homage than a sequel. The humour, delivery and sense of the absurd are however extremely close to Pratt's style, and this feels like an authentic, lost book chronicling Koinsky's further adventures.
Scorpions of the Sinai is the title. It wiped out any profit I might have made with my own sales, but it was definitely worth it!!!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 1, 2022 14:27:02 GMT -5
I read Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee by Régis Loisel and published in the U.S. by Fantagraphics. It's an interesting book. It's formatted to look and read like a 1930s Mickey comic strip adventure story. And it largely succeeds in that. The art is absolutely gorgeous. The story is maybe not quite as successful. It starts with a pretty comic plot with Mickey, Minnie, Horace and Clarabelle going camping. But Pete had nefarious things in the offing and they return home to a rich millionaire attempting to turn half the town into a golf course with a zombified (sort of) work force. Enter adventure Mickey with Horace in tow. And Minnie and Clarabelle get in on the action as well. Overall an in interesting experiment with great art and a decent, if unspectacular story.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2022 14:37:20 GMT -5
I read Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee by Régis Loisel and published in the U.S. by Fantagraphics. It's an interesting book. It's formatted to look and read like a 1930s Mickey comic strip adventure story. And it largely succeeds in that. The art is absolutely gorgeous. The story is maybe not quite as successful. It starts with a pretty comic plot with Mickey, Minnie, Horace and Clarabelle going camping. But Pete had nefarious things in the offing and they return home to a rich millionaire attempting to turn half the town into a golf course with a zombified (sort of) work force. Enter adventure Mickey with Horace in tow. And Minnie and Clarabelle get in on the action as well. Overall an in interesting experiment with great art and a decent, if unspectacular story. I want to read more of this kind of stuff. I’m intrigued. I’ve only read a few Disney comics in my life, published here in the UK by Egmont. Not sure if they were original tales or reprints. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 1, 2022 15:02:26 GMT -5
I read Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee by Régis Loisel and published in the U.S. by Fantagraphics. It's an interesting book. It's formatted to look and read like a 1930s Mickey comic strip adventure story. And it largely succeeds in that. The art is absolutely gorgeous. The story is maybe not quite as successful. It starts with a pretty comic plot with Mickey, Minnie, Horace and Clarabelle going camping. But Pete had nefarious things in the offing and they return home to a rich millionaire attempting to turn half the town into a golf course with a zombified (sort of) work force. Enter adventure Mickey with Horace in tow. And Minnie and Clarabelle get in on the action as well. Overall an in interesting experiment with great art and a decent, if unspectacular story. I want to read more of this kind of stuff. I’m intrigued. I’ve only read a few Disney comics in my life, published here in the UK by Egmont. Not sure if they were original tales or reprints. I'd say that the baseline start for Disney comics are Barks' Duck books (particularly the adventure stories) and Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse strips. And then there are Rosa's Duck books. I'm probably not well versed enough beyond there to make recommendations, because I tend to just sample here and there. shaxper might have additional recommendations. I did like that this book tried to do something a bit different while adhering to an older aesthetic. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2022 21:21:33 GMT -5
I want to read more of this kind of stuff. I’m intrigued. I’ve only read a few Disney comics in my life, published here in the UK by Egmont. Not sure if they were original tales or reprints. I'd say that the baseline start for Disney comics are Barks' Duck books (particularly the adventure stories) and Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse strips. And then there are Rosa's Duck books. I'm probably not well versed enough beyond there to make recommendations, because I tend to just sample here and there. shaxper might have additional recommendations. I did like that this book tried to do something a bit different while adhering to an older aesthetic. That's a pretty sound launching point. I could never get into Gottfredson myself, but every Mickey writer I've loved since was trying to emulate him, so I may need to go back and give him another chance, or at least start with a later point in his career instead of the beginning. Barks writes the best Disney adventure stories, hands down. Rosa writes the best "small" stories. And Casty's Mickey Stories are rocking my world. Of course, slam is apparently too humble to plug his own review thread here, even if it would be incredibly appropriate to do so: Carl Barks and the Adventures of Donald, Scrooge, and Family  |
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Post by badwolf on Jun 2, 2022 17:34:28 GMT -5
I read Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee by Régis Loisel and published in the U.S. by Fantagraphics. It's an interesting book. It's formatted to look and read like a 1930s Mickey comic strip adventure story. And it largely succeeds in that. The art is absolutely gorgeous. The story is maybe not quite as successful. It starts with a pretty comic plot with Mickey, Minnie, Horace and Clarabelle going camping. But Pete had nefarious things in the offing and they return home to a rich millionaire attempting to turn half the town into a golf course with a zombified (sort of) work force. Enter adventure Mickey with Horace in tow. And Minnie and Clarabelle get in on the action as well. Overall an in interesting experiment with great art and a decent, if unspectacular story. I love Loisel's stuff. I recently read his "prequel" to Peter Pan and it was dark and wonderful. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 2, 2022 18:11:43 GMT -5
I read Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee by Régis Loisel and published in the U.S. by Fantagraphics. (...) I love Loisel's work, so I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for this one. Otherwise, I really wish someone would get around to translating the Mickey stories by Denis-Pierre Filippi and Silvio Carboni (Mickey and the Lost Ocean, Mickey and the Old World) into a language I understand (English preferably, but even Croatian, etc.). That stuff is just gorgeous and I'd love to read it: |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 2, 2022 22:36:57 GMT -5
Funny how something as American as the core Disney characters are some much more popular overseas than in the US!
Read Lemire's Moon Knight Series... I didn't realize how much the show borrowed from it.. seemed more like a set up for the next thing than a story by itself... and 14 issues was WAY too long, but pretty good.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Jun 3, 2022 9:54:35 GMT -5
Funny how something as American as the core Disney characters are some much more popular overseas than in the US! Read Lemire's Moon Knight Series... I didn't realize how much the show borrowed from it.. seemed more like a set up for the next thing than a story by itself... and 14 issues was WAY too long, but pretty good. I visited Germany in 2009/10/12 and Disney comics of all kinds were plentiful in every train station newsstand I was in, containing stories I believe spanned many decades. I was really impressed. The Germans really know how to live, all you need is beer and Mickey Mouse comics |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 3, 2022 13:18:30 GMT -5
Funny how something as American as the core Disney characters are some much more popular overseas than in the US! It's the same with Lee Falk's Phantom
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2022 23:30:52 GMT -5
Belit & Valeria: Swords vs. Sorcery #1 from Ablaze is one of the worst comics I have ever read in my 49 years of reading comics.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 14, 2022 19:16:17 GMT -5
Belit & Valeria: Swords vs. Sorcery #1 from Ablaze is one of the worst comics I have ever read in my 49 years of reading comics. -M Gotta disagree with you there, it's not even he worst Belit comic... that goes to Marvel's horrendous Belit Orgin story... but I'll admit its a close run thing. Belit as a sex crazed zombie with a death wish is definitely not what I was expecting. I'm torn between buying it anyway (because I like Ablaze and I want them to keep trying) to dropping it for obvious reasons. |
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