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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 12, 2015 19:16:39 GMT -5
Manga isn't a bad idea either. I've read some. Some Tezuka, Lone Wolf & Cub, Gon... but have avoided the more modern popular series like Dragonball or Naruto. Dragon Ball is good, but once you get to the Dragon Ball Z stuff it just gets really repetitive. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 13, 2015 10:23:36 GMT -5
I concur, the first series of Dragon Ball is almost the same kind of fun as Barks/Don Rosa comics, but with more humor and many inuendoes. The second it becomes Dragon Ball Z it loses almost all of its appeal, especially artwise.
Naruto is IMHO downright terrible from the get go, at least visually. The story is not really interesting either, maybe for young kids...
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 13, 2015 14:27:28 GMT -5
I interlibrary loaned Terry & the Pirates vol. 1 and 2. Hopefully they'll be here before the end of the month. I love Caniff's work soooo very very much. If you like it his Steve Canyon is even more polished. And if you want to read one of his main influences, look for the book collecting Noel Sickles' Scorchy Smith. Neat. I'll get those next. (I'm only allowed 3 inter-library loans.) Really the ONLY classic adventure strip I've ever read was Eisner's Hawks of the Sea. I'm pretty clueless about older comedy strips, too, but I've at least read good chunks of Little Nemo, Krazy Kat and Pogo. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 24, 2015 2:05:36 GMT -5
I got Terry and the Pirates Vol. 1 and 2. I just finished reading the separate sunday pages in volume 1 - The dailies and weeklies were telling a different story for a while, but joined together about a year and a half into the run.
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It's good fun - certainly better written and drawn than most golden age comics! Terry and company and their "hillarious" ethnic (in this case, Chinese) companion spend most of their time captured by pirates until they get captured by other pirates, and then the first pirates come and "save" them... and then everyone gets captured by another band of pirates. I'm hoping for a little more variety, story-wise, as the series goes on.
It's both surprisingly funny for an adventure strip - The gags have a much better success rate than, say, Blondie and quite sexy for an all ages publication from 1935. Supposedly the strip gets better as it goes, so that's something to look forward too.
I also got Magnus: Robot Fighter Archives vol. 1. Although not super outside my comfort zone, I haven't read much Gold Key. And I like picking up stuff that's the subject of a review thread here!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 24, 2015 8:33:47 GMT -5
One of the cool things about reading Terry is watching Caniff grow as an artist and as a writer. His art gets tighter and better over time. And you can see the influences of Noel Sickles creep in and then watch Caniff take the influences and run with them and make them his own. Probably 1937-41 is the prime of the strip. The focus shifted with U.S. entry into World War II, not to mention Caniff working on Male Call and other war related items. He left for Steve Canyon, which is brilliant, after the war and poor Terry was never the same.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 25, 2015 18:10:15 GMT -5
I'm enjoying the dailies more than the weekly strips. Terry and the gang spend less time captured and not doing much and more time running around a desserted island trying to make the pirates believe they're being stalked by a tribe of giant cannibals. Good fun!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 25, 2015 18:20:48 GMT -5
I'm enjoying the dailies more than the weekly strips. Terry and the gang spend less time captured and not doing much and more time running around a desserted island trying to make the pirates believe they're being stalked by a tribe of giant cannibals. Good fun! Sunday strips were a weird beast. They had to either have a continuity of their own or at least stand alone if they were part of the daily continuity because not all papers carried both daily and Sunday strips. Also, the Sunday's were generally viewed as being aimed at a younger audience. The general view was that kids read the Sunday funnies, while adults read the daily funnies. Whether that was ever actually true is up to question, but that was the perception. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 25, 2015 18:22:58 GMT -5
They do seem to be more violent - girlfriend Dale Scott is flat-out mowing bad guys down with a pistol in an early strip. And sexier, too! Looking ahead there's a sequence where one of the innumerable potential love interests is yelling at Pat Ryan "You won't make love to me because you're a coward!"
Man, 1936. I did not expect that from you!
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Post by coke & comics on Sept 26, 2015 13:46:52 GMT -5
I have thus far failed at this challenge. But I have purchased, but been afraid to start, Naruto.
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Post by Trevor on Sept 26, 2015 14:00:58 GMT -5
I'm a big time failure this month. Don't think I've read a comic in over a week.
Will try to make up for it with a 200 book effort in horror next month.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 2, 2015 17:13:36 GMT -5
Finished Terry and the Pirates vol. 1. Took me a long time - this was dense stuff with (at least in this edition) teeny little type, but quite good.
Now I gotta hurry up and finish vol. 2 before it has to go back.
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