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Post by The Captain on Sept 19, 2018 11:15:20 GMT -5
Stupid double post.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 19, 2018 12:03:42 GMT -5
I just bought this (for $1, no less) last month, so maybe I will move it up the "to read" pile to see how it is based on your mini-review. Don't remember the exact price, but I recall buying it pretty cheap with a few other books from a comics dealer at a bookfair. Like I said, it's solid - even though there's also some borderline problematic aspects with the portrayal of the natives in the Savage Land and Wolverine's interactions with them. It's definitely something you can enjoy in bed at night before crashing (which I did), but I doubt it will rock your world.
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 26, 2018 0:51:19 GMT -5
Ugh.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 26, 2018 1:00:11 GMT -5
Ugh. Ann Coulter?
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 30, 2018 22:35:04 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 5, 2018 12:17:57 GMT -5
Captain America: Red, White & Blue (the paperback 2007 edition) Just finished reading this today; I've been slowing working my way through it for about two weeks (just reading one or two stories from it at night before going to sleep). I really like that it has stories by a variety of writers and artists, each tackling Cap with their own specific styles. There should be more books like this, i.e., a collection of short pieces with different takes on an iconic character. This edition, the paperback from 2007 (as opposed to the 2002 HC) that was released right around the time of the death of Steve Rogers and Winter Soldier stories, also includes interviews with several Cap writers/artists past and present, including Steve Engelhart, Gene Colan and Roger Stern.
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RikerDonegal
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Most of the comics I'm reading at the moment are Marvels from 1982.
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Post by RikerDonegal on Oct 5, 2018 20:32:50 GMT -5
Just started Defenders Epic 7 with the Avengers annual. (I finished Defenders Epic 6 last night.)
Annual 11 is a lot of fun, but I didn't like the ending at all. Between 1982 issues of Defenders, MTU and Captain America I've been reading a lot of J.M. DeMatteis this week. Always a favourite writer of mine.
When he started at Marvel, he really made his mark. He basically turned Team-Up into a second Defenders book. It always seems to have a Defender in it. And he had a storyline that tied both of those titles into his Cap stories, too. Very ambitious, even if it wasn't very entertaining.
But, it's been a good week, comics-wise.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 5, 2018 20:34:31 GMT -5
Ugh. I’m curious! What kind of a comic is that? *O.K., I just googled it. I expect that many people went through a similarly severe desillusion when they found out what Hitler’s reign was really about... The same way they should feel about any other absolutist view they might espouse!*
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 9, 2018 17:10:33 GMT -5
I don't know what's worse — the terrible artwork or everything involving the burglar. On the plus side, I did like the idea of combining Spidey's & Ock's origins, as well as the extra emphasis on Spidey's rising celebrity.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 9, 2018 17:18:45 GMT -5
I don't know what's worse — the terrible artwork or everything involving the burglar. On the plus side, I did like the idea of combining Spidey's & Ock's origins, as well as the extra emphasis on Spidey's rising celebrity. My condolences. You'll never get that time back.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 14, 2018 15:19:12 GMT -5
Been reading some Silver Age Hawkman this week from the Showcase Presents #1 edition. I'm still in the first part of it, with the Fox/Kubert The Brave and the Bold stories, and I am liking it pretty well. There are of course some of the SA elements that I don't like, particularly the almost-every-issue explanation of who the characters are and how some of their abilities work, but Fox tells good stories overall, which makes up for those expository excesses, and Kubert's artwork is a treat (although I wonder how it would look in color as opposed to the B&W reprints).
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 15, 2018 15:42:55 GMT -5
Been reading some Silver Age Hawkman this week from the Showcase Presents #1 edition. I'm still in the first part of it, with the Fox/Kubert The Brave and the Bold stories, and I am liking it pretty well. There are of course some of the SA elements that I don't like, particularly the almost-every-issue explanation of who the characters are and how some of their abilities work, but Fox tells good stories overall, which makes up for those expository excesses, and Kubert's artwork is a treat (although I wonder how it would look in color as opposed to the B&W reprints). I recall a story, I think it's an early Hawkman story, where Fox shows us a large, unknown subterranean ecosystem as a throwaway bit for about 2 panels. Of course there's no mention of it ever again. Is that one in your book?
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Post by The Captain on Oct 15, 2018 16:18:19 GMT -5
Been reading some Silver Age Hawkman this week from the Showcase Presents #1 edition. I'm still in the first part of it, with the Fox/Kubert The Brave and the Bold stories, and I am liking it pretty well. There are of course some of the SA elements that I don't like, particularly the almost-every-issue explanation of who the characters are and how some of their abilities work, but Fox tells good stories overall, which makes up for those expository excesses, and Kubert's artwork is a treat (although I wonder how it would look in color as opposed to the B&W reprints). I recall a story, I think it's an early Hawkman story, where Fox shows us a large, unknown subterranean ecosystem as a throwaway bit for about 2 panels. Of course there's no mention of it ever again. Is that one in your book? Not sure. I'm only about 7 issues in, and there are over 500 pages of comics. If I come across it, I'll let you know.
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Post by berkley on Oct 16, 2018 5:23:22 GMT -5
Just started the first Slaine collection. I wonder, did Mills see himself as bringing to Celtic-based sword & sorcery or fantasy the same kind of kick in the arse that the Pogues brought to Irish and folk music around the same time or was it just that the same feeling was in the air? Regardless, I'm enjoying it so far, though, having fallen under the spell of Irish and Celtic mythology from my teenage years, I'm probably a little more critical than I should be: for example, the amped-up violence and cynicism sometimes feels more inspired by 80s-comics "grim & grittiness" than by whatever poor fragments are left to us of the (it must be said) extremely violent and brutal myths themselves.
Earlier this month I read another of Frank Robbins's Johnny Hazard stories. I tell ya, this is way more fun than I ever thought it would be when I started, and the more I read it the more I enjoy it. I never really liked adventure news-strip comics when I was a kid - it was always the gag or humour strips that I was drawn to, like Johnny Hartman's The Wizard of Id and BC, and of course the greatest of all, Charles Schulz's Peanuts. But reading these collections now, they come across as a series of really good Hollywood B-movies: exciting scenarios, exotic locales, and, especially, likeable characters and snappy dialogue.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 16, 2018 9:01:18 GMT -5
Been reading some Silver Age Hawkman this week from the Showcase Presents #1 edition. I'm still in the first part of it, with the Fox/Kubert The Brave and the Bold stories, and I am liking it pretty well. There are of course some of the SA elements that I don't like, particularly the almost-every-issue explanation of who the characters are and how some of their abilities work, but Fox tells good stories overall, which makes up for those expository excesses, and Kubert's artwork is a treat (although I wonder how it would look in color as opposed to the B&W reprints). I recall a story, I think it's an early Hawkman story, where Fox shows us a large, unknown subterranean ecosystem as a throwaway bit for about 2 panels. Of course there's no mention of it ever again. Is that one in your book? That's in the very first Hawkman story in Brave & Bold #34. Some continuity geeks have suggested it was an early appearance of Skartaris from Mike Grell's Warlord.
Cei-U! I summon the subterranean homesick blues!
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