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Post by Trevor on Aug 15, 2015 17:00:11 GMT -5
Gonna do an actual re-read of the Bone comics, I think. How long do I have to get through 60 issues? They read pretty quick, I bet you can do 6 issues an hour. And thanks for the reminder. I read the first 3/4 a few months ago and was waiting for August to finish things. Maybe tonight. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 15, 2015 17:04:01 GMT -5
Ok. It's been a while since I read it. (I was buying the individual issues for years.) I have the one volume edition on the hold shelf at the library, but maybe I should try the color editions - Although I have a hunch the recolored editions are gonna bug me.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 17, 2015 11:59:35 GMT -5
Just finished up six volumes of a book called El Mercenario which I uncovered at a used book store today and it was amazing! I've never heard of it before but it's by a Spanish artist named Vicente Segrelles and his comic work is all done in oil paint like those paperback fantasy books of yore.  Is this the story of his which was serialised in Heavy Metal years ago ? I don't know if it ever was or not but the art would fit in nicely over there. Like I said, this was a total chance encounter for me, I've never heard of the book before so I know next to nothing about Vicente Segrelles |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 18, 2015 14:32:29 GMT -5
That does look cool.
I'm 900 pages deep in the Bone one volume edition.
Volume 1 and 2 are A + best comic ever - I think Smith was refining this material for years in various formats before BONE proper - with multiple serious belly laughs in each issue. Everything from volume 3 up is more plot focused and, sadly, the plot is somewhat generic fantasy. Still Smith's cartooning never lets you down and he can draw ANYTHING - humor, horror, landscapes, large scale epic battle sequences, weather... ANYTHING.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Aug 18, 2015 16:43:14 GMT -5
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Aug 18, 2015 16:47:57 GMT -5
I have to say thanks for the challenge guys, it pushed me to try Fables again and it is simply amazing. From the Kirby influence in the art, to the fantastic dialogue, and the slow release storytelling, I am fully impressed and glad to be moving away from the usual superhero fare.
Also while I have been happy to claim it as fantasy, American Vampire is another title I have tried just because of this challenge and it too is a blast. What a great TV series it would make.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 18, 2015 19:30:35 GMT -5
Have reread up through issue 51 in Fables and the first arc (five issues) of Jack of Fables.
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Post by Dizzy D on Aug 19, 2015 1:35:43 GMT -5
Finished Madame Xanadu, got a European comic last week which fit into the challenge, though it's rather new:
Les Mille et Autres Nuits by Desberg and Reculé. (Translation: A Thousand and Other Nights), based on Middle-Eastern folk stories.
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Post by Trevor on Aug 19, 2015 6:59:15 GMT -5
As much as I was loving Fables, I decided to take a break from it. I've been concentrating on Dark Horse books the last several days.
The Amazing Screw-On Head was quirky Mignola goodness. One of these years I plan to tackle a complete Hellboy/BRPD read-thru.
Ragemoor was an unexpected little horror from Jan Strand and Richard Corben.
I'm leaving on a week long cruise this weekend, and my plan is to read a bunch of Conan.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2015 3:06:52 GMT -5
Another dip into Warlord, #51-54 this time. 51 reprinted Warlord #1 and started a new back-up, the Dragonsword by Levitz and Yeates, which featured a banana eating monkey squire-how can you not love that. The back up story wrapped up in 54, as did the 3 issue story ar detailing Jennifer Morgan's training and emergence as sorceress (supreme) of Skataris. It also featured Grell's last artwork and the assumption of the art duties by Mark Texeira in his first regular gig and Mike De Carlo.
Not comics, but fantasy-I have been dipping into the non-Howard prose Conan stories from the first Ace/Lancer volume of Conan with deCamp and Carter doing original pastiches or building pastiche stories from Howard fragments. I am not, however, reading the deCamp & Carter edits of the Howard originals as I just finished reading all the Howard stories and prefer to have his versions be the one that stands in my memory.
That's 33 fantasy comics for the month, won't make 100 fantasy comics for the month at this rate (even though I will likely top the equivalent of 200 overall comics for the month, but there's an outside chance I might get to 50 depending what comes up on the ole randomatic reading generator for the rest of the month.
-M
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Post by Confessor on Aug 22, 2015 11:05:42 GMT -5
Have reread up through issue 51 in Fables and the first arc (five issues) of Jack of Fables. I think that's as far as I ever got reading Fables. I have the next 3 or 4 TPB volumes, but I've never got around to reading them. I don't know why though, I absolutely loved the series as far as I read it. I really should get round to digging my TPBs out and re-reading (or just reading) them. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 22, 2015 13:46:44 GMT -5
Finished the Bone one Volume edition. Starting on "Rose." There's that, Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures, and the novels.... is that all the Bone stuff or am I missing something?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 22, 2015 14:02:20 GMT -5
It's not classic, but I read the Conan/Red Sonja crossover from Dark Horse/Dynamite.. pretty meh. It's 2 done in ones at early points in the timeline (one that is supposed to be their first meeting, the next when Sonja was a privateer and Conan with Belit), then a 2 parter from after Belit dies.. the common thread is Thoth-Amon as the bad guy using a alien plant to try to take over the world. Lackluster story and medicore art.. I wouldn't bother unless you're a completist.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2015 15:02:11 GMT -5
It's not classic, but I read the Conan/Red Sonja crossover from Dark Horse/Dynamite.. pretty meh. It's 2 done in ones at early points in the timeline (one that is supposed to be their first meeting, the next when Sonja was a privateer and Conan with Belit), then a 2 parter from after Belit dies.. the common thread is Thoth-Amon as the bad guy using a alien plant to try to take over the world. Lackluster story and medicore art.. I wouldn't bother unless you're a completist. That's pretty much how I've felt about the Dark Horse Conan stuff since Conan the Cimmerian ended. I was slightly excited for the Cloonan art with Brian Wood on Conan the Barbarian, but she only did the first arc and only the arc drawn by Declan Shalvey was even worth checking out after that, and I gave up the ghost with Conan the Avenger. I even put all the post Cimmerian issues into my purge pile. Dynamite's Red Sonja on the whole has been hit and miss since it started a decade ago. -M |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 22, 2015 17:41:39 GMT -5
I liked the King Conan stuff, but, yeah I agree Wood's stuff is pretty blah (what I've read, anyway). Van Lente with 'Avenger' is decent, but just not worth $3.50 an issue, IMO.
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