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Post by Confessor on Sept 29, 2016 23:18:13 GMT -5
How about Little Girls by Oingo Boingo, @bert ? That song has some serious "holy crap what a sick group of freaks!" vibe going on. Almost as disturbing as Steely Dan. And yeah, i'm kind of digging that song too. Why can't I just like Coldplay or something like everyone else? Because Coldplay is just bland, background dinner party music for people who don't really like music? Yeah, I'm not a fan.
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Post by Chris on Sept 29, 2016 23:19:10 GMT -5
Egyptian Lover is awesome. . but if you want some AMAZING (in the best/worst sense) late 70's-80's excess.. you cannot go wrong with the amazingly awesome: Boney MUtterly horrible. Love it. That is the catchiest, more dance-able tune about a dark historical figure that I have ever heard. Perhaps we should start a "Worst Music" thread? 'Cause I want ya to bring more pain.
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Post by Chris on Sept 29, 2016 23:22:08 GMT -5
Egyptian Lover is awesome. . but if you want some AMAZING (in the best/worst sense) late 70's-80's excess.. you cannot go wrong with the amazingly awesome: Boney MForgot to mention.... someone needs to do a mash-up of "Rasputin" with Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire."
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Post by Chris on Sept 29, 2016 23:23:46 GMT -5
Why can't I just like Coldplay or something like everyone else? Because Coldplay is just bland, background dinner party music for people who don't really like music? Yeah, I'm not a fan. Well, yeah, but why do I have to like such horrible, awful, sometimes-downright-evil music?
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 30, 2016 1:53:39 GMT -5
Were any of the British Spider-Man stories printed in Spider-Man Weekly and the other myriad of title names the series had overseas original? Not as far as I'm aware. Certainly, the UK Spidey comics that I read as a kid in the late '70s and early '80s, in titles like Spider-Man Weekly and Super Spider-Man, were all black & white reprints of the U.S. stuff. tingramretro could probably answer this question more definitively. EDIT: I still have a nice stack of slightly dog-eared, late '70s copies of Super Spider-Man that I treasure. Actually, there were several UK originated Spidey stories. The four part story that ran in issues #607-610 of the weekly in 1984 was a wholly original one by Mike Collins, Barry Kitson and Mark Farmer, which saw Spidey visit the London offices of the Bugle's sister paper The Daily Herald on assignment and end up tangling with the cyborg Assassin-8; this was an experiment to see how readers responded to home produced stories, as Marvel were unsure if their readership would accept Spidey's impending change to a new, black costumed look in the wake of Secret Wars. In the event, though well enough received, the story led to nothing (although it's definitely regarded by Marvel as being in continuity, as the character Thunderclap, who also debuted in it, later resurfaced in Civil War). The following year, however, a new Spidey story by Jim Shooter, Barry Kitson and Mark Farmer saw print in Secret Wars II #25; in it, Spidey returns to the UK and battles a stranded Skrull on the set of Saturday morning kids TV show The Wide-Awake Club. Neither story has ever been reprinted, to my knowledge. And later still, in the early 2000's, Panini published 223 issues of a Spider-Man weekly, many of which were wholly UK originated (at least one of these stories, which are not regarded as being in continuity, was later reprinted in the US in a Marvel Milestones edition).
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 30, 2016 1:57:09 GMT -5
I got the single issues for Starman.. maybe 2 years ago...e-bay lot that was around $75 for the whole run (a bit under $1 an issue)... I think it was a little cheaper than the trades, and I like having the comics better anyway Lol ... so I look at Starman on ebay out of curiosity, and of course on the first page both lots are #1-45 with the cost averaging less than a $1 each. If only it weren't the second half of the series I needed. I guess I'll look some more when I get home tonight. Edit: Anyone read the Roger Stern 1988 series of the same name? I did, still have the whole run. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything spectacular.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 30, 2016 7:35:41 GMT -5
Not as far as I'm aware. Certainly, the UK Spidey comics that I read as a kid in the late '70s and early '80s, in titles like Spider-Man Weekly and Super Spider-Man, were all black & white reprints of the U.S. stuff. tingramretro could probably answer this question more definitively. EDIT: I still have a nice stack of slightly dog-eared, late '70s copies of Super Spider-Man that I treasure. Actually, there were several UK originated Spidey stories. The four part story that ran in issues #607-610 of the weekly in 1984 was a wholly original one by Mike Collins, Barry Kitson and Mark Farmer, which saw Spidey visit the London offices of the Bugle's sister paper The Daily Herald on assignment and end up tangling with the cyborg Assassin-8; this was an experiment to see how readers responded to home produced stories, as Marvel were unsure if their readership would accept Spidey's impending change to a new, black costumed look in the wake of Secret Wars. In the event, though well enough received, the story led to nothing (although it's definitely regarded by Marvel as being in continuity, as the character Thunderclap, who also debuted in it, later resurfaced in Civil War). The following year, however, a new Spidey story by Jim Shooter, Barry Kitson and Mark Farmer saw print in Secret Wars II #25; in it, Spidey returns to the UK and battles a stranded Skrull on the set of Saturday morning kids TV show The Wide-Awake Club. Neither story has ever been reprinted, to my knowledge. And later still, in the early 2000's, Panini published 223 issues of a Spider-Man weekly, may of which were wholly UK originated (at least one of these stories, which are not regarded as being in continuity, was later reprinted in the US in a Marvel Milestones edition). Interesting stuff and I stand corrected. In my defence, I had stopped picking up the UK Spidey comic by 1984, since I'd discovered imported copies of proper U.S. comics by then and, frankly, there was no going back.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 30, 2016 8:21:28 GMT -5
Actually, there were several UK originated Spidey stories. The four part story that ran in issues #607-610 of the weekly in 1984 was a wholly original one by Mike Collins, Barry Kitson and Mark Farmer, which saw Spidey visit the London offices of the Bugle's sister paper The Daily Herald on assignment and end up tangling with the cyborg Assassin-8; this was an experiment to see how readers responded to home produced stories, as Marvel were unsure if their readership would accept Spidey's impending change to a new, black costumed look in the wake of Secret Wars. In the event, though well enough received, the story led to nothing (although it's definitely regarded by Marvel as being in continuity, as the character Thunderclap, who also debuted in it, later resurfaced in Civil War). The following year, however, a new Spidey story by Jim Shooter, Barry Kitson and Mark Farmer saw print in Secret Wars II #25; in it, Spidey returns to the UK and battles a stranded Skrull on the set of Saturday morning kids TV show The Wide-Awake Club. Neither story has ever been reprinted, to my knowledge. And later still, in the early 2000's, Panini published 223 issues of a Spider-Man weekly, may of which were wholly UK originated (at least one of these stories, which are not regarded as being in continuity, was later reprinted in the US in a Marvel Milestones edition). Interesting stuff and I stand corrected. In my defence, I had stopped picking up the UK Spidey comic by 1984, since I'd discovered imported copies of proper U.S. comics by then and, frankly, there was no going back. Ah, see, I discovered the imported copies in about 1976 or '77 but always bought both them and the Marvel UK stuff pretty much indiscriminately. Marvel UK were mostly reprinting stuff a couple of years older than the then current imports so iit was all 'new' to me, at least until the early eighties, when they started re-reprinting a lot of older material again, some of which I'd missed the first time. Also, it was Marvel's policy in the 70s not to distribute certain imported titles in the UK as they might impact on the sales of the UK produced stuff, so while pretty much every newsagent (in my area, at least) carried titles like Nova, Defenders and Howard The Duck, it was rare to find a copy of ASM or PPTSSM because we got the weekly instead!
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Post by Confessor on Sept 30, 2016 10:05:44 GMT -5
Interesting stuff and I stand corrected. In my defence, I had stopped picking up the UK Spidey comic by 1984, since I'd discovered imported copies of proper U.S. comics by then and, frankly, there was no going back. Ah, see, I discovered the imported copies in about 1976 or '77 but always bought both them and the Marvel UK stuff pretty much indiscriminately. Marvel UK were mostly reprinting stuff a couple of years older than the then current imports so iit was all 'new' to me, at least until the early eighties, when they started re-reprinting a lot of older material again, some of which I'd missed the first time. Also, it was Marvel's policy in the 70s not to distribute certain imported titles in the UK as they might impact on the sales of the UK produced stuff, so while pretty much every newsagent (in my area, at least) carried titles like Nova, Defenders and Howard The Duck, it was rare to find a copy of ASM or PPTSSM because we got the weekly instead! That's interesting because, while I've spoken before about how hard it was to find proper U.S. comics out here in the Home Counties, the one or two dingey shops near my house that did stock them, always carried the Spider-Man titles. I was even able to semi-regularly buy American reprint books like Marvel Tales.
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 30, 2016 10:24:32 GMT -5
Ah, see, I discovered the imported copies in about 1976 or '77 but always bought both them and the Marvel UK stuff pretty much indiscriminately. Marvel UK were mostly reprinting stuff a couple of years older than the then current imports so iit was all 'new' to me, at least until the early eighties, when they started re-reprinting a lot of older material again, some of which I'd missed the first time. Also, it was Marvel's policy in the 70s not to distribute certain imported titles in the UK as they might impact on the sales of the UK produced stuff, so while pretty much every newsagent (in my area, at least) carried titles like Nova, Defenders and Howard The Duck, it was rare to find a copy of ASM or PPTSSM because we got the weekly instead! That's interesting because, while I've spoken before about how hard it was to find proper U.S. comics out here in the Home Counties, the one or two dingey shops near my house that did stock them, always carried the Spider-Man titles. I was even able to semi-regularly buy American reprint books like Marvel Tales. Oh I think Marvel Tales and other reprint titles like Marvel Triple-Action, Marvel Super Action and Marvel's Greatest Comics were pretty widely distributed, as was Marvel Team-Up. It was the two main Spidey titles that rarely turned up in my area, at least until about 1980 or '81 when we suddenly had full distribution of the entire Marvel line (excluding limited series') in most newsagents.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 30, 2016 13:14:08 GMT -5
That's interesting because, while I've spoken before about how hard it was to find proper U.S. comics out here in the Home Counties, the one or two dingey shops near my house that did stock them, always carried the Spider-Man titles. I was even able to semi-regularly buy American reprint books like Marvel Tales. Oh I think Marvel Tales and other reprint titles like Marvel Triple-Action, Marvel Super Action and Marvel's Greatest Comics were pretty widely distributed, as was Marvel Team-Up. It was the two main Spidey titles that rarely turned up in my area, at least until about 1980 or '81 when we suddenly had full distribution of the entire Marvel line (excluding limited series') in most newsagents. Right. Well, it was 1982 when I first found proper American colour comics near my home, so that would, I guess, explain why ASM and PP:SSM were as readily available as any other title. Interestingly though, I never ever saw an American copy of Star Wars imported. It wasn't until the late '80s that I first saw U.S. issues of that title in back issue shops. I always wondered if Marvel didn't distribute that title to the UK because Marvel UK's Star Wars Weekly comic was doing so well?
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 30, 2016 13:17:59 GMT -5
Oh I think Marvel Tales and other reprint titles like Marvel Triple-Action, Marvel Super Action and Marvel's Greatest Comics were pretty widely distributed, as was Marvel Team-Up. It was the two main Spidey titles that rarely turned up in my area, at least until about 1980 or '81 when we suddenly had full distribution of the entire Marvel line (excluding limited series') in most newsagents. Right. Well, it was 1982 when I first found proper American colour comics near my home, so that would, I guess, explain why ASM and PP:SSM were as readily available as any other title. Interestingly though, I never ever saw an American copy of Star Wars imported. It wasn't until the late '80s that I first saw U.S. issues of that title in back issue shops. I always wondered if Marvel didn't distribute that title to the UK because Marvel UK's Star Wars Weekly comic was doing so well? Got it in one. Sorry, I forgot to mention Star Wars: no, unlike the other licensed titles, neither SW nor the US Doctor Who reprint title were distributed in the UK outside comic shops, and I believe it was purely because DWM and Star Wars Monthly were Marvel UK's mainstays.
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Oct 3, 2016 8:16:23 GMT -5
Just letting everyone know that Neal Adams drew the Funky Winkerbean Sunday Oct. 2 comic strip. I'm sure it can be found on the web somewhere.
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 3, 2016 9:38:05 GMT -5
Who'da thunk ?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 26, 2016 1:22:00 GMT -5
I got this CD from the library yesterday. Now, I'm looking at the cover and thinking, I recognize this from somewhere. In fact, I think I recognize this from someone posting it on these boards. So, my question is-Where is this image from?
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