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Post by Confessor on Apr 2, 2023 11:43:49 GMT -5
I liked it quite a bit at the time, but I didn't hang on to my issues of that mini-series for very long (got rid of them in the 90s). That leads me to believe that it likely didn't age well, as I transitioned into an adult. Wild Dog was one of those vigilante characters, likely inspired somewhat by Marvel's The Punisher. I recall the comic being very much off its time and back then I thought he was very cool with his hockey mask, football jersey and sub-machine gun. It was one of those late 80s grim and gritty comics, and was more "adult" than a lot of DC's superhero fare at the time. I've never had any desire to re-read it though. IIRC Collins said Wild Dog was an attempt to play out a masked vigilante in the "real world." Part of the mini was setting up four possibilities for who he was (so, he had a secret identity). I enjoyed it, but don't remember much about the follow-up in ACW. Yeah, I recall the series continuing in the new format Action Comics Weekly. However, I dropped AC when it was reformatted as an anthology comic, so I never really read any of those Wild Dog stories. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 2, 2023 13:23:09 GMT -5
I liked it quite a bit at the time, but I didn't hang on to my issues of that mini-series for very long (got rid of them in the 90s). That leads me to believe that it likely didn't age well, as I transitioned into an adult. Wild Dog was one of those vigilante characters, likely inspired somewhat by Marvel's The Punisher. I recall the comic being very much off its time and back then I thought he was very cool with his hockey mask, football jersey and sub-machine gun. It was one of those late 80s grim and gritty comics, and was more "adult" than a lot of DC's superhero fare at the time. I've never had any desire to re-read it though. The was also the aptly named DC character "Vigilante" which, from what I've heard/read, actually had {Spoiler: Click to show}
the main character die and have someone else pick up the mantle IMO, Vigilante is a better read than Wild Dog. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 2, 2023 14:49:23 GMT -5
The was also the aptly named DC character "Vigilante" which, from what I've heard/read, actually had {Spoiler: Click to show}
the main character die and have someone else pick up the mantle IMO, Vigilante is a better read than Wild Dog. Having covid is better than reading Wild Dog. Oops , sorry TPhantom... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 16:08:35 GMT -5
IMO, Vigilante is a better read than Wild Dog. Having covid is better than reading Wild Dog. Oops , sorry TPhantom...
If Liefeld did Wild Dog you'd have 'em all.
Woof!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 2, 2023 16:13:15 GMT -5
Ask and you shall receive:  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 2, 2023 17:05:43 GMT -5
Having covid is better than reading Wild Dog. Oops , sorry TPhantom...
If Liefeld did Wild Dog you'd have 'em all.
Woof!
Yes. Yes I would. |
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Post by badwolf on Apr 3, 2023 8:28:40 GMT -5
But can he draw paws?
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Post by Confessor on Apr 7, 2023 4:06:28 GMT -5
I'm gonna put my Essential Daredevil Vols 1-4 trade paperbacks up on eBay this week and use the money I make from selling them to buy some of the Epic Collections of the same issues. I can't handle Daredevil in black & white; the early Bill Everett and Wally Wood issues do look nice in B&W, but when you get into the Gene Colan era, man, you really NEED that colour to best appreciate the art.
There! I said it.
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Post by berkley on Apr 7, 2023 11:34:11 GMT -5
I'm gonna put my Essential Daredevil Vols 1-4 trade paperbacks up on eBay this week and use the money I make from selling them to buy some of the Epic Collections of the same issues. I can't handle Daredevil in black & white; the early Bill Everett and Wally Wood issues do look nice in B&W, but when you get into the Gene Colan era, man, you really NEED that colour to best appreciate the art. There! I said it.
I feel the same way about colour comics in general, with very few exceptions: the inked but un-coloured art looks wrong to me, empty and dead. Now if they published the un-inked pencils with no colour I'd be very interested. They usually loook good to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2023 13:40:31 GMT -5
Punisher Max is an astounding series and my favourite Marvel title 2001-10.
There, I F-bombed it.
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Post by impulse on Apr 7, 2023 14:08:13 GMT -5
Punisher Max's original run by Ennis was fantastic and single-handedly justified the existence of the MAX line.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 7, 2023 20:59:07 GMT -5
Punisher Max's original run by Ennis was fantastic and single-handedly justified the existence of the MAX line. You mean gratuitous violence and profanity weren't enough? The line I mean...not Ennis, though Ennis swears better than most comic book writers. Most sound like teenagers reciting Tarantino dialogue; he sound's like a drill sergeant who hasn't had his morning coffee. I haven't done it yet, but Ennis is the first writer who has made curious enough to maybe read a Punisher comic (one newer than the Steven Grant & Mike Zeck stuff). That's saying something, because I loathe the character as anything other than someone for Captain America to lecture and scold. Ennis is one of the few modern writers who seems to understand a soldier and almost no one who has been anywhere near the Punisher has had that knowledge. Certainly not Gerry Conway and not the gang who wrote him through the 80s (and that includes Chuck Dixon, who has written some fine characters of the type or similar adventure stock). |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2023 4:52:23 GMT -5
Wish this was reprinted in one compact comic, and in glorious colour, and maybe used as an insert in the new album due at the end of 2023.
There I said it while playing Girls on Film.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 8, 2023 9:53:39 GMT -5
Wish this was reprinted in one compact comic, and in glorious colour, and maybe used as an insert in the new album due at the end of 2023. There I said it while playing Girls on Film.
I assume that strip appeared in Look-In, right? They also did a Beatles biography strip too, and an Adam Ant one in the early 80s (though if memory serves, that was a weird fantasy adventure strip starring Adam Ant, rather than a biographical thing). |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2023 17:20:44 GMT -5
I assume that strip appeared in Look-In, right? They also did a Beatles biography strip too, and an Adam Ant one in the early 80s (though if memory serves, that was a weird fantasy adventure strip starring Adam Ant, rather than a biographical thing).
Yep, I think there were 6 pages in all spread over 6 issues in 1985.
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