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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 6, 2014 15:29:55 GMT -5
If you like Cammi, Bash, she's pretty prominent in the recent 'teen castoff' books Dennis Hopeless is writing (first Avengers Arena, then the current Avengers Undercover)
I know she popped up somewhere just before that as well, but I'm not sure where... maybe Avengers: The Initiative (toward the end of the run)... either that or Avengers Academy.
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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 6, 2014 16:19:21 GMT -5
The artwork was fine although I'm not sure if Mitch Breitweiser went on to do more work for Marvel (looks like he's working on an indie project about King David (yes, that King David) He did things here and there. I vaguely remember a Captain America mini he did.
His wife Elizabeth frequently works with Marvel as a colorist.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 17:44:53 GMT -5
I just finished Avengers #278-285 - Assault on Olympus (Marvel Premier Edition)
I got this and Stern and Byrne's Captain America: War & Remembrance awhile back for $3 a piece, but never bothered to read either. I will be reading War & Remembrance immediately. This was the most pleasantly surprised I've been by a book since I read the first Doom Patrol Showcase a couple years back. Just really solid superhero stuff. I'd never even heard of Dr Druid or Black Knight (save for I believe a review thread) before this. Druid felt like he just showed up to eventually betray the team, but I really wanna read more stories featuring Black Knight now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2014 23:52:30 GMT -5
The artwork was fine although I'm not sure if Mitch Breitweiser went on to do more work for Marvel (looks like he's working on an indie project about King David (yes, that King David) He did things here and there. I vaguely remember a Captain America mini he did.
His wife Elizabeth frequently works with Marvel as a colorist.
She seems to be Ed Brubaker's go to colorist on his creator owned stuff as she has worked on both Fatale and Velvet for him. -M |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 7, 2014 4:38:22 GMT -5
I read The Beatles: Their Story in Pictures yesterday, having picked it up last week (as detailed in the "What Classic Comics Have You Purchased Recently?" thread). It was an entertaining comic and pretty factually accurate, so it did its job of giving a brief history of The Beatles to the reader well, I'd say.
However, the pacing seemed really messed up; about three quarters of the book was taken up with telling the story from the birth of John, Paul, George and Ringo, up to the release of A Hard Day's Night and Beatlemania exploding in America. The period from 1965 until the band's breakup was therefore crammed into the last quarter of the book. As a result of this, the Sgt. Pepper and White Album period was glossed over in a few quick panels, while the release and recording of Rubber Soul was depicted in only one panel and an important album like Revolver wasn't mentioned at all.
I suspect that this over emphasis on the band's early days is a symptom of the times in which the comic was written and published: the late '60s hippie counter-culture was not viewed at all kindly in the early 1980s and was about as unfashionable as you could get. Still, it's a shame that this creative decision was made when writing the comic, because it slightly spoils an otherwise excellent re-telling of the Beatles legend.
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Post by paulie on Aug 7, 2014 8:43:59 GMT -5
I just finished Avengers #278-285 - Assault on Olympus (Marvel Premier Edition) I got this and Stern and Byrne's Captain America: War & Remembrance awhile back for $3 a piece, but never bothered to read either. I will be reading War & Remembrance immediately. This was the most pleasantly surprised I've been by a book since I read the first Doom Patrol Showcase a couple years back. Just really solid superhero stuff. I'd never even heard of Dr Druid or Black Knight (save for I believe a review thread) before this. Druid felt like he just showed up to eventually betray the team, but I really wanna read more stories featuring Black Knight now. Just a fantastic era for the Avengers. Excellent way to describe Stern's writing 'really solid superhero stuff.' The character development was excellent though I wish Dane Whitman ended up having some luck with the ladies. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 7, 2014 9:54:47 GMT -5
I just finished Avengers #278-285 - Assault on Olympus (Marvel Premier Edition) I got this and Stern and Byrne's Captain America: War & Remembrance awhile back for $3 a piece, but never bothered to read either. I will be reading War & Remembrance immediately. This was the most pleasantly surprised I've been by a book since I read the first Doom Patrol Showcase a couple years back. Just really solid superhero stuff. I'd never even heard of Dr Druid or Black Knight (save for I believe a review thread) before this. Druid felt like he just showed up to eventually betray the team, but I really wanna read more stories featuring Black Knight now. This was the last gasp of Stern's excellent Avengers run. He'd leave with the next story over the dierection Mark Gruenwald wanted him to take. For my money, Assault on Olympus was every bit as good as Under Siege, the more famous story that preceded it. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 7, 2014 10:01:48 GMT -5
Yeah, that was the last great story line from Stern... after that, we get the editorial-mandated destruction of Captain Marvel, a few years of inconsistent stories, rosters, and creative teams, then the Bomber Jacket era.
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Post by paulie on Aug 7, 2014 10:48:54 GMT -5
Is there even a good run of Avengers stories after 300? 300-402 have been dying in one of my long boxes for years and I've never been inclined to read them. I think I stopped at 310 when I was a kid. The Byrne/Blastaar issue.
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 7, 2014 11:18:02 GMT -5
Is there even a good run of Avengers stories after 300? 300-402 have been dying in one of my long boxes for years and I've never been inclined to read them. I think I stopped at 310 when I was a kid. The Byrne/Blastaar issue. Depends on what you mean by "good." There are some mediocre stories that aren't too painful to read. Then there are some epically terrible issues (basically #376-up). Some people, including myself, have a soft spot for the Gatherers storyline, but part of that is because it's about the only ray of hope in the whole #300-up run. Compared to the classic Avengers stories of yore, it can't hold a candle. But it's at least got some ambition, as well as good art by Steve Epting and Tom Palmer. Palmer's dominant inking style basically turns Epting into John Buscema Jr. The Gatherers isn't for everyone, though. It centers around Black Knight with a mullet, a bomber jacket and a soap opera love triangle with Sersi and Crystal. |
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Post by paulie on Aug 7, 2014 11:23:00 GMT -5
Well I like Steve Epting but it sounds like I can skip it.
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 7, 2014 12:39:29 GMT -5
Operation: Galactic Storm is interesting and important. But it's also a 19-part crossover (that should have only been about 8 parts) - not counting the epilogue - only three of which are in Avengers proper. If you don't already have the other 16 installments, I would not bother tracking them down.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 7, 2014 16:46:15 GMT -5
I've read the first five issues of Promethea. It's my first experience with the character and I'm glad I bought most of the run. I want to read more!
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Post by antoine on Aug 7, 2014 16:54:19 GMT -5
I've been on a Wolverine kick this week, a character I don't know that much. Basically, I read 4 TPB from the second volume and I thought that most of them were pretty good, especially "Enemy of the State" and "Origin and Ending". (I read 2 more that I can't remember the name...)
But the big surprise came when I read Wolverine: Origin TPB.
I thought this was an AMAZING story. It tells the origin of Wolverine in 6 issues. It really is fantastic! The art is great (although sometime it felt like Logan looked young, then next page older) and the story is top notch! Really happy I read it. I bought a huge lot of TPB last december and the Wolverine ones were in the "To Sell to get your money back" Pile.
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Post by ziza9 on Aug 7, 2014 17:02:21 GMT -5
Over the last three days I read MOKF 110-118. 112-113 were not...I will just say not my favorites. The rest were the standard of Moench's MOKF that I have always loved.
Last night I read the first 2 issues of Warlock and The Infinity Watch and the first 4 issues of Darkstars. Both "classic" in the sense of taking me back to the Marvel and DC cosmic landscape of my college years.
At lunch today I spent some quality time being wowed by Uncle Rog, John Buscema, and Tom Palmer reading Avengers 256-257.
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