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Post by badwolf on Mar 20, 2017 10:27:54 GMT -5
Hi, I am trying to find the issue of one of the Warren magazines (Creepy, Errie?) where a husband and wife are shipwrecked. The wife eats something that turns her into a tree, and then the tree ends up returning the wife as a baby. The comic starts out with people finding the husband and the baby. Can someone help me? Thanks! James Knapper This isn't the story you're looking for, but it sounds suspiciously like one of the stories in Rich Corben's new series, Shadows on the Grave. Man and woman are shipwrecked, man eats fruit and turns into plant creature which she tries to escape from.
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Post by jjknap on Mar 20, 2017 14:45:07 GMT -5
Hi, I am trying to find the issue of one of the Warren magazines (Creepy, Errie?) where a husband and wife are shipwrecked. The wife eats something that turns her into a tree, and then the tree ends up returning the wife as a baby. The comic starts out with people finding the husband and the baby. Can someone help me? Thanks! James Knapper This isn't the story you're looking for, but it sounds suspiciously like one of the stories in Rich Corben's new series, Shadows on the Grave. Man and woman are shipwrecked, man eats fruit and turns into plant creature which she tries to escape from. Thanks! I did finally find it. The story was "Forbidden Fruit" from Creepy 127 (May 1981)
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 20, 2017 14:58:43 GMT -5
This isn't the story you're looking for, but it sounds suspiciously like one of the stories in Rich Corben's new series, Shadows on the Grave. Man and woman are shipwrecked, man eats fruit and turns into plant creature which she tries to escape from. Thanks! I did finally find it. The story was "Forbidden Fruit" from Creepy 127 (May 1981) Kind of a horror version of The Giving Tree.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 21, 2017 19:55:51 GMT -5
Is there a "sequel" or some continuation of Green Arrow Year One? I bought it and Arrow Vol 1 and my son wants more GA in the vein of the Arrow TV show. Not sure how he'd like old man Oliver.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 20:25:01 GMT -5
Is there a "sequel" or some continuation of Green Arrow Year One? I bought it and Arrow Vol 1 and my son wants more GA in the vein of the Arrow TV show. Not sure how he'd like old man Oliver. Jeff Lemire's run on the New 52 Green Arrow brought in a lot of the TV characters (albeit some in different ways). I've loved most everything I've read by him and I really think this is some of his best work period.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 20:26:47 GMT -5
Is there a "sequel" or some continuation of Green Arrow Year One? I bought it and Arrow Vol 1 and my son wants more GA in the vein of the Arrow TV show. Not sure how he'd like old man Oliver. If I recall, the Year One series reset the status quo for Pre-Flashpoint Ollie, and the series that came out around it were supposed to build off of i, but from what little I sampled of them, they weren't very good. Neither was the early new-52 Green Arrow stuff. The run by Lemire & Sorrentino was enjoyable, a little different than the tv show though, but I got frustrated with it when the DC events (the September villains month being my last straw) kept interfering with the story being told, but I later went back and read it in trade and liked it well enough. I have read the first Rebirth volume of Green Arrow, and liked it as well, but it is a bit different in set up and tone from the tv show. So I am not sure, other than a follow up volume 2 of Arrow, that you will find something really in line with the tv show. But the later new52 run by Lemire and afterwards, and he Rebirth stuff, were hoped to capture fans of the show. -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 20:29:29 GMT -5
Is there a "sequel" or some continuation of Green Arrow Year One? I bought it and Arrow Vol 1 and my son wants more GA in the vein of the Arrow TV show. Not sure how he'd like old man Oliver. Jeff Lemire's run on the New 52 Green Arrow brought in a lot of the TV characters (albeit some in different ways). I've loved most everything I've read by him and I really think this is some of his best work period. I would agree it's the best of Lemire's work for hire stuff (withthe Valiant 4 issue mini being it's only competition), but I have found any of his creator owned stuff I have read (and I have read a lot of it because I really dig his stuff) is head and shoulders better than any thing he has done as work for hire stuff, so I can't quite agree it's his best overall work. -M
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 21, 2017 21:01:08 GMT -5
Thanks for all the help. I think I'll start with the HV of Lemire's run and the following Arrow volumes.
Anyone know if Jock, the artist from Year One did more GA?
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Post by foxley on Mar 22, 2017 1:46:04 GMT -5
As far as I know, that is the only GA work Jock (a.k.a. Mark Simpson) has done.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 25, 2017 8:54:36 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of Alan Moore and absolutely adore things like V for Vendetta, Miracleman, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and, of course, Watchmen, but there are still some fairly sizable gaps in his oeuvre that I have yet to read. I'm thinking specifically about his notable work for the Big Two, like his runs of Swamp Thing and Captain Britain (I already own and love "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" and The Killing Joke).
My question is whether you think that someone who loved the likes of V for Vendetta and From Hell would automatically love Moore's Swamp Thing and Captain Britain?
And while we're on the subject, what about his non-Big Two stuff like Top 10, Promethea or Tom Strong? Or his more recent Cthulhu Mythos stories, The Courtyard, Neonomicon and Providence (I've been a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft for decades)?
Lost Girls too has always fascinated me, but I'm unsure whether it would appeal to a reader who liked things such as From Hell or Watchmen?
Any advice from those who are better read on Moore's works than I would be gratefully received. Thanks!
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 25, 2017 9:11:09 GMT -5
His work on the Swamp Thing made his legend in the US. I really enjoyed the Top Ten run. I was more meh on the Tom Strong stuff and the rest of his ABC offerings.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 25, 2017 9:16:01 GMT -5
I read most of those as they were being released. Never re-read them so you'll understand my perspective
Swamp Thing-Started off very well and just got better and better. Moore introduced the whole Green legacy to DC Comics among other great concepts and built a beautiful relationship between Swampy and Abby. And, my god, the artwork is the epitome of a lush forest
DC released a tradebook that collected Moore's superhero work such as his GL Corps stories. It's OK, worth a read, not extraordinary
ABC Comics-I got a kick out of his Tom Strong stories. Fun,retro tongue-in-cheek. Top 10 started very well as a superhero pastiche of the TV cop show Hill Street Blues. It kind of petered out towards the end. Promethea again started of strong but then got mired into a lecture by Moore on mythological claptrap that was as exciting as a college lecture by a professor who can't stop droning. JH Williams artwork is the only thing that saved it. Tomorrow Stories was Moore's anthology book. His Jack B. Quick stories always elicited a chuckle from me
I read his initial League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel. Decent enough
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 25, 2017 9:24:55 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of Alan Moore and absolutely adore things like V for Vendetta, Miracleman, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and, of course, Watchmen, but there are still some fairly sizable gaps in his oeuvre that I have yet to read. I'm thinking specifically about his notable work for the Big Two, like his runs of Swamp Thing and Captain Britain (I already own and love "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" and The Killing Joke). My question is whether you think that someone who loved the likes of V for Vendetta and From Hell would automatically love Moore's Swamp Thing and Captain Britain? And while we're on the subject, what about his non-Big Two stuff like Top 10, Promethea or Tom Strong? Or his more recent Cthulhu Mythos stories, The Courtyard, Neonomicon and Providence (I've been a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft for decades)? Lost Girls too has always fascinated me, but I'm unsure whether it would appeal to a reader who liked things such as From Hell or Watchmen? Any advice from those who are better read on Moore's works than I would be gratefully received. Thanks! If you enjoyed Marvelman/Miracleman and Watchmen, I'm fairly sure you'd enjoy his Captain Britain, I realize I'm a bit obsessive over it but I really think it's some of his best work, and one of the best things Marvel published in the eighties. Swamp Thing is harder to judge since it basically depends on how wide ranging your tastes are; it's very hard to categorize, but it's somewhere between a horror story and a gothic romance, certainly not a superhero book. Personally, I loved it, I think it's incredibly well written for the most part. Actually, if you're a Lovecraft fan...yeah, you should read it. Definitely. Neonomicon might well appeal, too. Lost Girls is a very different beast from Moore's other work, I think. It's well written, but it definitely requires an open minded view of sex.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 25, 2017 13:16:18 GMT -5
I'm a bit biased as a Swamp Thing fan since his original run in the 70s, but I consider Moore's Swamp Thing to be his finest work. If you're going to read it, I'd suggest reading at least the original ten issues by the late great Bernie Wrightson first. Moore heavily builds on the initial run, and I think you'd appreciate the little homages and nods in the later work. Pretty sure you'd still enjoy it without that background, but I really think it'd add to the experience.
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 25, 2017 13:35:36 GMT -5
Swamp Thing was brilliant at the time, and still stands up very well today.
Tom Strong is very enjoyable pulp-flavoured action adventure.
Top Ten is a cop show set in a world where everybody has some kind of super power, mecha armor, or is a talking dog. Worth reading just for the eleventy billion easter eggs in the background.
Promethea did what it set out to do, and by all accounts did it very well. I just wasn't interested at the time in what it was doing.
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