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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 17, 2018 5:19:12 GMT -5
Just read Batman: Dark Detective #1 (2005) by Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers. I guess I'm just old, but it's odd for me to think of something published in 2005 as classic. Also, I have the Dark Detective tpb - I was a bit disappointed by it to be honest.
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 17, 2018 7:06:25 GMT -5
Thor #337-#339
After seeing Simonson's Thor recommended half a dozen times and desperately trying to get into the character, I caved. It's really not hard to see why this run is beloved, it has everything you could possibly want out of the title; action, adventure, fantasy, and even some cosmic space-capades thrown in for good measure.
Bill also isn't hard to love, but he has a lot in common with ROM, so that might be why. I just always thought he was from a race of horse faced alien people, not a genetically altered cosmic savior
Something I'm noticing too is how Thor almost seems to take a backseat to the events that play out, which I'm not saying is bad, but a lot of superhero books (namely Marvel) have the cataclysms revolve around the hero; here it's the other way around
And if I wasn't such a sucker for lore, I might almost be upset
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Post by batusi on Mar 17, 2018 7:38:29 GMT -5
Just read Batman: Dark Detective #1 (2005) by Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers. I guess I'm just old, but it's odd for me to think of something published in 2005 as classic. Also, I have the Dark Detective tpb - I was a bit disappointed by it to be honest. I agree. This is the first time I have read Dark Detective and was not overwhelmed. I have the "Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers" book and it is reprinted along with the other classic issues from the late 1970's. I will read Dark Detective #2-6 and then judge the mini-series as a whole.
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Post by batusi on Mar 17, 2018 7:45:20 GMT -5
Been reading some earlier Moon Knight. Loving it, some real good stories and it is just so different from a lot of the other stuff I have read. Are any of the later series like Marc Spector: Moon Knight as good? No. Only the earlier Moon Knight. For me MK was good when he appeared in the Hulk Magazine and then in his first solo book from 1980. Bill Sienkiewicz and Moon Knight were symbiotic!
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Post by MDG on Mar 17, 2018 9:35:21 GMT -5
I guess I'm just old, but it's odd for me to think of something published in 2005 as classic. Also, I have the Dark Detective tpb - I was a bit disappointed by it to be honest. I agree. This is the first time I have read Dark Detective and was not overwhelmed. I have the "Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers" book and it is reprinted along with the other classic issues from the late 1970's. I will read Dark Detective #2-6 and then judge the mini-series as a whole. If there's one phrase unknown to the comics industry, it's, "you can't go home again." On the bright side--IIRC Silver St. Cloud spends most of the second half in her underwear.
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Post by james on Mar 17, 2018 21:38:17 GMT -5
Finished Teen Titans TPB 1-5. About to start TPB 6. I also am rereading Cap 250-255 Stern/Byrne and the Hellboy series in TPB. I have Stray Bullets original series 1-41 on tap.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 18, 2018 12:11:12 GMT -5
Just read Batman: Dark Detective #1 (2005) by Steve Englehart & Marshall Rogers. I guess I'm just old, but it's odd for me to think of something published in 2005 as classic. Also, I have the Dark Detective tpb - I was a bit disappointed by it to be honest. I got the Dark Detective collection from the library a few years ago and I don't really remember it that well aside from loving the art and being fairly disappointed by the story. There's one thing in particular that I remember that I didn't like, but it's a major spoiler, so I'll keep it to myself since batusi is reading it now.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 18, 2018 17:48:44 GMT -5
I was disappointed with both the story and the art. It's not that I thought either were bad, though - it's just that I read the Dark Detective tpb right after reading Strange Apparitions (the tpb collecting the original Englehart run in Detective Comics), and there's just no comparing them. MDG's observation is quite correct in this case.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Mar 18, 2018 18:27:43 GMT -5
Been reading some earlier Moon Knight. Loving it, some real good stories and it is just so different from a lot of the other stuff I have read. Are any of the later series like Marc Spector: Moon Knight as good? No. Only the earlier Moon Knight. For me MK was good when he appeared in the Hulk Magazine and then in his first solo book from 1980. Bill Sienkiewicz and Moon Knight were symbiotic!
Is there a list of all the Hulk Magazines that Moon Knight appeared in? Or perhaps you or someone here knows?
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Mar 18, 2018 18:29:21 GMT -5
Was reading Ragman #1...it is very strangely written, almost as though two different people scripted it. The dialogue for the narration is very good and interesting. Yet, the character speech is simplistic and choppy and really takes away from the story. Still an interesting little series.
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 18, 2018 18:42:54 GMT -5
No. Only the earlier Moon Knight. For me MK was good when he appeared in the Hulk Magazine and then in his first solo book from 1980. Bill Sienkiewicz and Moon Knight were symbiotic!
Is there a list of all the Hulk Magazines that Moon Knight appeared in? Or perhaps you or someone here knows?
Moon Knight appears in Hulk #11-15, 17-18, and 20. Cei-U! Ask and ye shall be answered!
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Mar 18, 2018 20:22:02 GMT -5
With such haste too!
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Post by urrutiap on Mar 18, 2018 20:30:51 GMT -5
Im reading Power Pack issues 13 to 17. Then reading Uncanny X Men 199 to 201 and then start reading original X Factor by reading Essential X Factor volume 1.
I have a question. Is old original New Mutants really worth reading since I missed out on that when I was a kid back in the 1980s?
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 19, 2018 7:11:37 GMT -5
I have a question. Is old original New Mutants really worth reading since I missed out on that when I was a kid back in the 1980s? It's nothing special until Sienkiewicz comes on as penciler but it's positively Eisnerian compared to the fetid swill that is X-Factor. Cei-U! I summon the morass of mutant mediocrity!
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Post by Confessor on Mar 19, 2018 9:24:59 GMT -5
...but it's positively Eisnerian compared to the fetid swill that is X-Factor. I'm not a fan of the X-Men and related comics, but I was always under the impression that the initial '80s run of X-Factor was generally well looked upon by fans of the Marvel mutants. That was the series that brought the original X-Men line up back together, right? What didn't you like about it and would you say your opinion is shared by a lot of other fans?
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