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Post by String on Jun 9, 2018 11:00:46 GMT -5
Amazing Spider-Man #800 - usually I don't buy variant covers or at least buy multiple copies of the same issue to get all those covers but seeing as this was an extra-sized special issue, I decided to splurge some and bought the Romita Sr and Frenz covers of this issue, some really great shots they produced for this.
As for the issue itself, whew. I was exhausted after reading it. What a ride! What a conclusion!
Death has become such a trivial concept for comics these days however the death seen here felt impactful and insightful. That hurt.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jun 9, 2018 13:34:15 GMT -5
I liked the Moebius variant better. As for death, as you say it's quite a trivial matter at Marvel, so that made little to no impact in me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2018 23:47:52 GMT -5
Meant to post this a few days ago when I finished the volume, but been busy at work and tryign to finish up some projects around the house. I finished Touching Evil Vol. 1 The Curse Escapes, which collects the first 7 issues of Dan Dougherty's indy comic.  Ada is a defense attorney sent to meet with one of her firm's clients who has been incarcerated for several decades to inform him of his sister's death. While she visits him, he passes on a curse that he has carried most of his life-whomever he touches who is evil dies and their spirit is absorbed into his head for the rest of his life and he can "hear them" all the time. Oh, and the curse makes you essentially immortal while you carry it. Ada unwittingly takes the curse and frees him from it, unknown to the warden who uses the curse to intimidate the rest of the inmates who live in fear of the prisoner in the Ghost Block. Ada learns of the curse after she meets with a client she recently defended successfully but who was actually a mobster and he dies after she touches him. Others want to control the curse through Ada or take it form her and she is hunted and on the run while her family is threatened, and she doesn't know who to trust. It's a noir supernatural thriller well written and beautifully drawn. Some sample art (unlettered version)    And one lettered panel where Ada hugs her son (wearing gloves just in case)  -M |
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Post by urrutiap on Jun 11, 2018 10:04:40 GMT -5
This morning I just read Spectacular Spider Man 304. Didn't like it. I'm just not fond of time travel story arcs like that.
I wish issue 308 that has Sandman was in stores now instead of August
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 14, 2018 8:53:41 GMT -5
Just read Hawkman # 1 last night and loved it.
Excitedly waiting to see what happens with this series.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 14, 2018 9:09:10 GMT -5
Just read Hawkman # 1 last night and loved it. Excitedly waiting to see what happens with this series. Have to stop and pick this up. Like I said in a different thread: Hawkman is one of those heroes I will pick up in a new series with hopes of it being good. I like the concept and character and visual that much. So far I like the reviews and art i have seen for this new ongoing. Does it have legs to continue? Who knows, but if it remains good for awhile that is enough for me! Katar/Carter as the Indiana Jones of the long underwear circuit suits him just fine. |
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Post by urrutiap on Jun 14, 2018 23:25:38 GMT -5
Earlier tonight I read Letter 44 issues 18 to 22.
And IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles # 43
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 23:39:57 GMT -5
Read Cosa Nostra #1 by Dirk Manning and Dan Dougherty...  this is the limited Ghost Variant edition (only 100 copies produced) and is in black and white. The full release for the first issue is in July, and will have spot color added to the b&w art. It's a supernatural mob noir story. Mick Morelli is killed, but his ghost won't rest until he has revenge on those who betrayed him, so he coerces his twin brother Mark, a high school English and drama teacher, to help him with his quest for vengeance. It's the first of a limited series form these two creators. This is a superb piece of comic storytelling. Dirk's characters feel and read as believable, his dialogue feels natural, and the story draws you in and hooks you. Dan's art is effective, subtle and beautiful to look at. His visual storytelling in on point, and he gives his scenes a real sense of verisimilitude. They look and feel like they are taking place in the world I live in. If you get a chance to pick this up when it goes into full release (debuting July 21 at a mega-signing featuring Dirk, Dan and other creators at Seann's Anime & Comics in Sylvania, Ohio and available form either creator at appearances after that. No word if it will hit Diamond Previews or be picked up by a Diamond publisher yet. -M |
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Post by bran on Jun 20, 2018 0:35:10 GMT -5
This is maybe not considered as classic (yet), but it's certainly a Peter Bagge classic. Other Lives  It has something similar with Game of Thrones (novel). In Game of Thrones: Once upon a time there was a young and strong and handsome prince, and evil mad king. Young prince was fighting for the king, but one day he rebelled against king's oppression and tyranny. Price defeated the king, in that epic battle, married young, beautiful and rich princess from the Realm, and they lived happily ever after. Right? Wrong - Fast forward 15 years, and that's where our story starts: Young prince is now obese king who can hardly wear his over-sized armor (for semi-staged hunting escapades), beautiful princess is fornicating with her own brother (in fact all of her children were made with him), Realm is nearly bankrupted etc etc. Everything is turned around, it's obliteration of happy-happy joy-joy ending. In Other Lives the fairytale is college life and idealistic students, and our story starts some odd 15 years post graduation, in real life. Add early Internet and massive multi-player games into the mix, and there is plenty already. His art resembles Crumb, early Disney and even Fleischer brothers. |
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Post by Ozymandias on Jun 21, 2018 10:25:36 GMT -5
- Amazing Spider-Man #800
- Astonishing X-Men #11
- Avengers #1 & 2
- Black Panther #1
- Captain America #701
- Daredevil #602 & 603
- Doctor Strange #390
- Free Comic Book Day 2018 - Avengers-Captain America
- Hunt for Wolverine - Weapon Lost #1
- Incredible Hulk #716 & 717
- Invincible Iron Man #600
- Mighty Thor - At the Gates of Valhalla #1
- Punisher #224 & 225
- Spider-Man #240
- S.H.I.E.L.D. by Hickman & Weaver #1
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Post by urrutiap on Jun 24, 2018 13:00:06 GMT -5
Last night I read Letter 44 # 24 to 28.
Ok issues but I was getting bored of the stuff that was going on on Earth while there wasn't much anything great in space.
Not fond of the weird robot aliens using religious undertones such as 666 for Earth to be saved or whatever
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Post by Duragizer on Jun 24, 2018 23:13:56 GMT -5
 I wasn't too crazy about the art, but I did like the story. It's enough to get me to check out Action Comics #1000, but I remain doubtful I'll ever become a regular reader of the Superman titles again ( My Superman effectively disappeared after the triangle era come to a close, and Birthright outright killed him. I haven't been invested in the comics since.) |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 27, 2018 17:04:28 GMT -5
March, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell. A trio of biographical graphic novels about John Lewis’s involvement in the civil rights movement in the United States. It’s a powerful story of courage, resilience and principles. I mean, I would never had had the fortitude to stick to a non-violent credo in the face of such intense hatred, racism and injustice. Lewis and his comrades-in-arms (arms extended in peace, that is) are true heroes. This kind of book should be found in every school, honestly. And be required reading!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 0:23:36 GMT -5
I just finished reading Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod.  it's a post-apocalyptic kung fu epic, set in a time where human life is on the wane and there are not enough people being born for all the souls of the dead to reincarnate so some are coming back as zombies, and the Emperor himself is a ghost. Eight immortals failed to stop the emperor, so now have vowed not to directly interfere but chose to train disciples to carry on the fight, but 5 of them were corrupted by posion kung fu styles and now serve the Emperor, a sixth was killed by his fellow disciples when they turned, and only one remains faithful to the Immortals cause (Moog, a character based in looks and style on George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic and oozing with Blackspoitation kung fu charm). The last immortal has yet to choose his disciple and this is essentially his story, form his choosing until his final confrontation with the corrupted disciples and the Emperor to restore balance to the world. If you are a fan of kung fu cinema, you should like this. It is gorgeously illustrated and McLeod has a flowing line ans style that informs his art so that it feels like a martial arts film translated to the page. His panel and page layouts flow and he sometimes goes several pages without text just letting the action and art carry the story (especially in the kung fu combat sequences). Here's a sequence of Moog in action, his special kung fu allows him to separate and reattach his limbs, providing a unique fighting style...  a page from early in the epic before the disciples revealed their poison kung fu...  another silent page of kung fu action, this time with the last disciple in action against one of the corrupted disciples...  and one final page from early in the last disciples training...  McLeod is a phenomenal visual storyteller. His body language and expressions convey everything you need to know about the character's emotion and mindset, his story flows from panel to panel, page to page, his characters are distinct, and his action sequences are well choreographed. He is very good at speeding up and slowing down the reader's eye by his layouts and choice of whether or not to use dialogue, as needed by the story. Speeding up things through action sequences to build towards climaxes and slowing down things when the story is quiet so you can take time ot get to know the characters and gain a feel of their world. There is quirky humor and grotesque horror as the story demands as well. If your only experience of martial arts comics was Marvel; Master of Kung Fu or Iron Fist, this will be a vastly different read, but well worth it. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 22:28:04 GMT -5
Just read Head Games the Graphic Novel by Craig McDonald and Kevin Singles adapting McDonald's novel of the same name. Published as an OGN by First Second Publishing and clockingin at 160ish pages.  Hector Lannister is McDonald's protagonist, a hard boiled, hard drinking pulp writer born in 1900 and living through and discovering a kind of secret history of the 20th century. From becoming friends with Hemingway after their experiences together in the Spanish civil war to serving with the American troops who fought Pancho Villa, to an on again/off again affair with Marlene Dietrich and a contentious relationship with Orson Welles, Lannister is embedded in the fabric of the 20th century. In this story, set in 1957, Lannister gets involved in a caper with a poet named Bud Fiske revolving around the lost skull of Panch Villa, running afoul of the Skull and Bones Society, and the adventures ensue. If you like crime comics, twentieth century history, or just a rousing good yarn,check this book out. The artist is Kevin Singles and this is his first work. It uses a limited color palette (similar to Cooke's Parker adaptations, and Singles style to me seems influenced by Darwyn overall. Here are some samples of his art...    I quite liked these, but didn't know what to expect from it. McDonald is an Edgar award winning wiriter, but I was unfamiliar with his stuff. There are ten books in the Hector Lannister series overall, and Head Games was the first published (though not the first chronologically in the story of Lannister's life), it is also the only one so far to be adapted into a graphic novel (not sure if there are plans for more). It was also adapted into a screenplay, but I am not sure if the movie itself was released. I may have to check a few of the novels out. Kevin Singles though was a revelation to me. This was his first professional comics work, and it is a stellar debut. He is someone I will need to keep an eye on and see how his art and style grows. -M |
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