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Post by The Cheat on Aug 28, 2015 15:49:20 GMT -5
Next Epic on the pile - Star Wars: Old Republic. Really enjoyed this. Never really been too into the Old Republic era of Star Wars, but this is a nice introduction to a fairly varied and interesting cast. A good mix of Jedi antics and regular sci-fi action, showcasing the strong points of the SW franchise. A quick read though compared to the more verbose 80s content Epics I'm used to. Next up - Captain America: Streets of Poison. Not really a Cap fan so will get this one out the way next. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 28, 2015 20:41:35 GMT -5
Just got finished reading this as I continue my trek through Fantastic Four from the beginning. There have been some good stories thus far, but this has been Lee and Kirby's finest hour up to this point in my opinion. My favorite FF story, my favorite Hulk story, my favorite Avengers story. I just read it a few months ago in a Marvel TPB I got from the library and I think it's time to read it again! I've loved it since the first time I read it in a Marvel Treasury Edition in the mid-1970s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2015 11:45:31 GMT -5
Just read a little American Splendor. I love how gritty these tales are. Not gritty as in crime and violence, but as in winter with no heat, rain with holes in your shoes, stuff like that. It really makes me think about how nice a lot of us have it today. Pekar had what I imagine to be a pretty decent job and still struggled with the kinds of things I'd have thought were restricted to the severely poor.
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Post by The Cheat on Aug 31, 2015 15:39:24 GMT -5
Next up - Captain America: Streets of Poison. Not really a Cap fan so will get this one out the way next. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Well... it wasn't too bad actually. The main 'Cap on Drugs' plot was a bit cringe worthy, but the Red Skull/Kingpin conflict going on in the background was enjoyable, the highlight being Fisk facing the Skull in single combat and beating him down pretty much without breaking a sweat. Not sure why they were running a main/backup split format through the title at that time, but I found the backups pretty consistently terrible. I'm pretty well read when it comes to Marvel, but I'd never even heard of the Battlestar character before. Next - West Coast Avengers Omni 2
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 15:47:18 GMT -5
Next up - Captain America: Streets of Poison. Not really a Cap fan so will get this one out the way next. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Well... it wasn't too bad actually. The main 'Cap on Drugs' plot was a bit cringe worthy, but the Red Skull/Kingpin conflict going on in the background was enjoyable, the highlight being Fisk facing the Skull in single combat and beating him down pretty much without breaking a sweat. Not sure why they were running a main/backup split format through the title at that time, but I found the backups pretty consistently terrible. I'm pretty well read when it comes to Marvel, but I'd never even heard of the Battlestar character before. Next - West Coast Avengers Omni 2 That story came out during the time Marvel was experimenting with the bi-weekly format during the summer months when more comics sold (this was the 80s and older newsstand sales patterns were more dominant, and more kids bought comics when school was on vacation than during the school year). The back ups were to keep the books on schedule for the main creative teams so they didn't have to rotate artists. Amazing Spider-Man and Uncanny X-Men were the first to get the bi-weekly attempt, then Marvel did it for basically the whole line eventually. It went bi-weekly for 6 issues, then monthly the other 9 months. I think Street of Poison was the second time Cap did it, with Bloodstone Hunt the first time I think. -M
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Aug 31, 2015 15:55:18 GMT -5
Ms Marvel #1-3
Great 70's art, good stories. I would not call it amazing but just enjoyable stories so far with solid art. I am surprised at how well it comes together considering the hodge-podge of people who worked on the first few issues (Romita and Buscema did some covers, then Hannigan...Claremont did some scripts, as did Conway on the first two issues. Sinnott is in there for inks). Overall though I am still feeling compelled to read on which is a good sign.
Also, I feel Sinnott is a name that sometimes go underappreciated in the world of comics. Just throwing that out there.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 17:45:18 GMT -5
I'm totally into Thieves & Kings right now. It's very prose heavy. Half of it is almost a novel with illustrated borders. The art is strangely inconsistent, with some pages being a beautiful example of 80's black and white comics, and other pages being closer to an example of what was wrong with 80's black and white comics. But overall, very fun series. Very interesting, and thanks to the prose, you get your money's worth. I like text heavy comics as it is.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Aug 31, 2015 17:46:15 GMT -5
I just reread all the Tank Girl strips from my Deadline Magazine #1-66) and it is still darn good fun!It's funny how even if it is magazine sized pages, you sometimes feel you need Newspaper size as so much is going on and the characters almost seem to actually struggle with 4th wall, but in a creative way.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 31, 2015 17:57:46 GMT -5
I'm totally into Thieves & Kings right now. It's very prose heavy. Half of it is almost a novel with illustrated borders. The art is strangely inconsistent, with some pages being a beautiful example of 80's black and white comics, and other pages being closer to an example of what was wrong with 80's black and white comics. But overall, very fun series. Very interesting, and thanks to the prose, you get your money's worth. I like text heavy comics as it is. I read a trade of that, but I don't think all the original issues were included. That'll go on my "something I should check up on someday" list.
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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 31, 2015 18:13:42 GMT -5
Next up - Captain America: Streets of Poison. Not really a Cap fan so will get this one out the way next. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised. Well... it wasn't too bad actually. The main 'Cap on Drugs' plot was a bit cringe worthy, but the Red Skull/Kingpin conflict going on in the background was enjoyable, the highlight being Fisk facing the Skull in single combat and beating him down pretty much without breaking a sweat. Not sure why they were running a main/backup split format through the title at that time, but I found the backups pretty consistently terrible. I'm pretty well read when it comes to Marvel, but I'd never even heard of the Battlestar character before. Next - West Coast Avengers Omni 2 I actually really like these Cap comics. If nothing else, probably the best work of Ron Lim's career.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 19:58:53 GMT -5
I'm totally into Thieves & Kings right now. It's very prose heavy. Half of it is almost a novel with illustrated borders. The art is strangely inconsistent, with some pages being a beautiful example of 80's black and white comics, and other pages being closer to an example of what was wrong with 80's black and white comics. But overall, very fun series. Very interesting, and thanks to the prose, you get your money's worth. I like text heavy comics as it is. I read a trade of that, but I don't think all the original issues were included. That'll go on my "something I should check up on someday" list. It's a pretty long running series so there's several trades. The originals can be bought cheap on eBay too.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 1, 2015 1:03:04 GMT -5
I've started reading the HC collection of Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez Superman stories. The very first story in the collection contains this...
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 1, 2015 9:46:01 GMT -5
I've started reading the HC collection of Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez Superman stories. The very first story in the collection contains this... And when it "comes out" it will be covered with super-poo. Will regular detergent get that out? Or does he put it on while covered with poo-of-steel and fly through the sun? Or maybe just take it to a Kandorian dry cleaner? These are the things I wonder about.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 1, 2015 16:13:24 GMT -5
It certainly paints an interesting and complex mental picture, doesn't it?
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 3, 2015 3:08:23 GMT -5
I just finished the Swamp Thing: Roots Of All Evil tpb, collecting issues #140 - 150, by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar.
Utter crap. What a waste of money.
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