Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Sept 11, 2015 5:25:27 GMT -5
Read the 2nd of 3 volumes from Dark Horse collecting the complete Herbie. Just a wacky bunch of 60s comics, nothing comparable at that time. This volume contains the first appearance of his super-hero persona, The Fat Fury. Ogden Whitney's art is perfect for this series. I know I read one or two issues of this book back when it was being published but an adult would appreciate it more than a kid A great change of pace light read I have all three of those Dark Horse collections and, yes, I agree that they are funnier/weirder read from an adult perspective than than that of a child. I love me some Herbie Popnecker.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 11, 2015 22:49:10 GMT -5
Read the 2nd of 3 volumes from Dark Horse collecting the complete Herbie. Just a wacky bunch of 60s comics, nothing comparable at that time. This volume contains the first appearance of his super-hero persona, The Fat Fury. Ogden Whitney's art is perfect for this series. I know I read one or two issues of this book back when it was being published but an adult would appreciate it more than a kid A great change of pace light read I should check that out some time. It's The Original Writer's favourite comic, I believe.
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Post by spoon on Sept 11, 2015 23:27:26 GMT -5
I just finished the first TPB of Cerebus. I really liked it. The early issues have a lot of pastiche or parody of the barbarian genre, but then there a lot of take-offs on the super-hero genre. It has just the right dosage of cynicism. My least favorite part of the book was probably Lord Julius, but I'm aware that he's a long-running character. He gets some nice Groucho-esque quips now and then, but grates after a few issues.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 0:03:32 GMT -5
I need to start reading Cerebus again.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Sept 12, 2015 0:12:25 GMT -5
I'm right in the middle of a huge Cerebus binge as we speak, some 60 or so issues this month so far, at approx 155 now. Well past where I read him to in my heyday and loving it. Lord Julius is fantastic IMHO, love the Grouchoness, as well as Mick'n'Keif...and all the others.
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Post by fanboystranger on Sept 12, 2015 1:55:12 GMT -5
I just finished the first TPB of Cerebus. I really liked it. The early issues have a lot of pastiche or parody of the barbarian genre, but then there a lot of take-offs on the super-hero genre. It has just the right dosage of cynicism. My least favorite part of the book was probably Lord Julius, but I'm aware that he's a long-running character. He gets some nice Groucho-esque quips now and then, but grates after a few issues. The good news is that Cerebus only gets better in its next volume. The bad news is that Lord Julius is everywhere in it, but I suspect he'll start to grow on you. He's a pretty amazing supporting character, and when everything starts to explode as the book hits its midway point, you realize how cunning Julius has been all along, even if he often acts like an idiot (intentionally).
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Post by spoon on Sept 12, 2015 11:18:07 GMT -5
I just finished the first TPB of Cerebus. I really liked it. The early issues have a lot of pastiche or parody of the barbarian genre, but then there a lot of take-offs on the super-hero genre. It has just the right dosage of cynicism. My least favorite part of the book was probably Lord Julius, but I'm aware that he's a long-running character. He gets some nice Groucho-esque quips now and then, but grates after a few issues. The good news is that Cerebus only gets better in its next volume. The bad news is that Lord Julius is everywhere in it, but I suspect he'll start to grow on you. He's a pretty amazing supporting character, and when everything starts to explode as the book hits its midway point, you realize how cunning Julius has been all along, even if he often acts like an idiot (intentionally). I didn't totally hate Lord Julius. But relatively speaking, it started to drag toward the end of those Palnu issues. The pace (for me) picked up when the setting changed again.
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Post by Spike-X on Sept 12, 2015 17:48:02 GMT -5
It starts getting really, really good with High Society.
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Post by spoon on Sept 13, 2015 10:36:11 GMT -5
I just bought a copy of High Society online.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2015 20:26:26 GMT -5
Those phonebooks are super cheap. As soon as I've caught up with a handful of other series I'm slowly reading through I'll probably start buying those up
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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 14, 2015 3:05:39 GMT -5
I finally received my copy of Hectic Planet volume 2 (which collects material from the late 80s/early 90s). I hope to get the time to write up a piece on that series as I really love it.
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Post by dbutler69 on Sept 14, 2015 13:18:27 GMT -5
I'm reading through the first 13 issues of Marvel Presents, from 1988, and anthology with Wolverine, Man-Thing, and Master of Kung Fu stories, thus far.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 14, 2015 20:10:42 GMT -5
Just read Batman: Dark Knight Dark City (issues 362-364). Enjoyed it, pretty solid Riddler story and I like the Mignola covers.
Also read X-Men #258. I really dislike Psylocke on that cover but inside she looked great in her ninja-esque attire.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 24, 2015 23:45:57 GMT -5
OMG! I got Detective Comics #325 in the mail today and it is so crazy! It's the third (and final) issue of Catman's Silver Age story arc and he deduces that the reason that he cheated death at the end of his previous two appearances is because of his magic costume that gives him nine lives!
We find out in a flashback (it's a story that was not revealed in his earlier appearances) that he bought a carving of a cat that was made by the natives of a Pacific island where they worship cats. (If I was writing a DC story, I would have the characters go to this island for a vacation. It's perfect for Power Girl and the Huntress!) The carving came wrapped in a blanket that Catman used to make his costume. The blanket had an inscription that said the wearer would have nine lives, but Catman just laughed that off until he kept surviving all those deadly incidents.
Then Batwoman shows up! 1950s Batwoman is so awesome. In the previous Catman appearance, Catman fell in love with her and made a Catwoman costume for her, and it turns out he made it from the same cloth he used for his own costume, so the Catwoman costume is also magic! (Selina Kyle had been a no-show for almost 10 years at this point but she would return in Lois Lane within two years or so.) Batwoman has the Catwoman costume in her modest trophy room and she assumes that the nine magic lives are spread out between the two costumes, so she puts it on AND STARTS PURPOSEFULLY PUTTING HERSELF IN DANGER, thus using up the lives that Catman thinks he has.
She confronts him at the end and warns him "I used up four of the lives, Catman! So HA!" and he's counting them up: "Hey! I only got one left!"
Then Batman and Robin show up. And Catman's escape plan was to jump out a window because he thought he had so many lives left, but it's not such a good plan now, bucko!
He gets captured and Batwoman gets congratulated for being such a WHACKO FREAK!
Two issues later, The New Look started.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 24, 2015 23:57:31 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that I haven't even read the Martian Manhunter story yet!
Also, there's a house ad for the latest Batman that features "The Batman Creature," which I just read last week in The Black Casebook. (In my opinion, Grant Morrison's best work was choosing the stories for The Black Casebook.) The house ad also features the latest issue of World's Finest, which has a story called "The Clayface Superman." Which sounds great! It's probably not as good as "The Batgirl-Supergirl Plot" or the one where Lois gets amnesia and becomes the leader of a pack of leopards, but it's close.
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