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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2018 11:28:36 GMT -5
My friend and I have been reading Fantastic Four Marvel Masterworks again to relieve the fun and enjoyment of STAN LEE and JACK KIRBY magic again ... So, I'm going to re-read all of them starting with #1 first and ends with #20 and because of the Holidays are coming and other things ... it's going to be my only reading for the rest of the year.
Then, onto Spiderman and the rest of the Stan Lee's goodies.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 15, 2018 12:09:18 GMT -5
Defenders Annual #1 The only single issue (floppy) of this title I have in my current collection - so I pulled it out and read it because a comics podcast I follow is covering it this week. Even though he scripted one more issue after this, #41, this is pretty much the wrap-up for Gerber's run on the title, as he concluded a long-running story arc involving the Headmen and Nebulon. As one may expect, it's chock full of some very, well, Gerberesque stuff, like Bozos (or rather, Bozeaux) in Paris, Jack Norris trying, and failing, to be James Bond, and Doc Strange, Nebulon and President Ford sitting on floating rocks in some magical plane of (non)reality. All this, and very lovely art by Sal Buscema and Klaus Janson.
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 15, 2018 15:29:09 GMT -5
Bozos (or rather, Bozeaux) in Paris, I thought "Bozo" in French was "Beauxeault".
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 15, 2018 15:35:36 GMT -5
Nope. According to Gerber, it's Bozeaux - plural. So I guess the singular would be Bozeau.
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Post by spoon on Nov 22, 2018 21:57:15 GMT -5
I finally read The Infinity Gauntlet mini. I didn't read it at the time it came out. Maybe I read one issue, but I think it was actually one of the Silver Surfer tie-in issues. I did end up reading Infinity War when it came out, but I think I dropped out mid-way through Infinity Crusade. What strikes me finally reading Infinity Gauntlet is how little of this epic actually plays out in the mini. The assemblage of the Stones is in the two-part Thanos Quest mini (which I read a couple months ago). I also thought the Infinity Watch stuff would happen in Infinity Gauntlet, but I guess they really get into that when the Warlock & the Infinity Watch series starts.
I recently started organizing my comics, which were only semi-organized, and I realize that I've amassed so many comics and TPBs that I have yet to read. In many cases, I had a few issues from a run that I had read, but then I bought a bunch of issues simultaneously to complete the run, but hadn't gotten around to reading them. I may try to read some big runs now. I could any number of periods of Legion of Super-Heroes. I also may have just about all of Spider-Girl (the What If? version). I also have three consecutive TPBs of the Mantlo/Buscema era Hulk.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2018 22:24:37 GMT -5
I finally read The Infinity Gauntlet mini. I didn't read it at the time it came out. Maybe I read one issue, but I think it was actually one of the Silver Surfer tie-in issues. I did end up reading Infinity War when it came out, but I think I dropped out mid-way through Infinity Crusade. What strikes me finally reading Infinity Gauntlet is how little of this epic actually plays out in the mini. The assemblage of the Stones is in the two-part Thanos Quest mini (which I read a couple months ago). I also thought the Infinity Watch stuff would happen in Infinity Gauntlet, but I guess they really get into that when the Warlock & the Infinity Watch series starts. I recently started organizing my comics, which were only semi-organized, and I realize that I've amassed so many comics and TPBs that I have yet to read. In many cases, I had a few issues from a run that I had read, but then I bought a bunch of issues simultaneously to complete the run, but hadn't gotten around to reading them. I may try to read some big runs now. I could any number of periods of Legion of Super-Heroes. I also may have just about all of Spider-Girl (the What If? version). I also have three consecutive TPBs of the Mantlo/Buscema era Hulk. The bolded part sounds vaguely familiar... -M
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Post by spoon on Nov 23, 2018 20:37:02 GMT -5
I finally read The Infinity Gauntlet mini. I didn't read it at the time it came out. Maybe I read one issue, but I think it was actually one of the Silver Surfer tie-in issues. I did end up reading Infinity War when it came out, but I think I dropped out mid-way through Infinity Crusade. What strikes me finally reading Infinity Gauntlet is how little of this epic actually plays out in the mini. The assemblage of the Stones is in the two-part Thanos Quest mini (which I read a couple months ago). I also thought the Infinity Watch stuff would happen in Infinity Gauntlet, but I guess they really get into that when the Warlock & the Infinity Watch series starts. I recently started organizing my comics, which were only semi-organized, and I realize that I've amassed so many comics and TPBs that I have yet to read. In many cases, I had a few issues from a run that I had read, but then I bought a bunch of issues simultaneously to complete the run, but hadn't gotten around to reading them. I may try to read some big runs now. I could any number of periods of Legion of Super-Heroes. I also may have just about all of Spider-Girl (the What If? version). I also have three consecutive TPBs of the Mantlo/Buscema era Hulk. The bolded part sounds vaguely familiar... -M I'd like to set some goals, so that my reading substantially outpaces by buying, but I haven't come up with anything yet. I feel like I'll start a run that still has holes in it, and feel compel to buy the missing issues. Like I'll want to buy the 20 issues between Essential Hulk vol. 7 and the Hulk: Pardoned TPB.
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 24, 2018 13:17:32 GMT -5
I've been reading Avengers # 201-300.
Up until the issues where John Buscema and Tom Palmer take over the art chores, the issues are pretty hard to read, mostly.
Suddenly, even though Roger Stern has been the most recent writer, the series took a huge upswing with the Vision failed take over of the world (my favorite story in this run) and Nebula following.
As I re-box and sort my collection, I think there's quite a bit I'm going to be letting go.
Upon actually re-reading these Avengers from decades ago, I don't really feel like keeping them.
Never thought I'd say that, but that's happened with other issues over the years as well.
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Post by badwolf on Nov 26, 2018 10:24:26 GMT -5
I picked these two up at my LCS this weekend. I had both as a kid, but must have given them away when I was still quite young because I completely forgot about them until I saw the covers again recently. (I also feel like I had the Whitman printings; does anybody know how they were distributed? (3-packs, etc.)) While re-reading these was very nostalgic, and I'm glad I re-acquired them, it is easy to see why I never got into Superman pre-Crisis, and found Marvel's flawed, down-to-earth characters more appealing. Superman can do anything. No matter what the threat or obstacle, he pulls some new variation of his powers out of his butt to deal with it. Even when he is stripped of his powers, the Super-Mobile can do anything. Blah.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 26, 2018 10:36:57 GMT -5
I picked these two up at my LCS this weekend. I had both as a kid, but must have given them away when I was still quite young because I completely forgot about them until I saw the covers again recently. (I also feel like I had the Whitman printings; does anybody know how they were distributed? (3-packs, etc.)) While re-reading these was very nostalgic, and I'm glad I re-acquired them, it is easy to see why I never got into Superman pre-Crisis, and found Marvel's flawed, down-to-earth characters more appealing. Superman can do anything. No matter what the threat or obstacle, he pulls some new variation of his powers out of his butt to deal with it. Even when he is stripped of his powers, the Super-Mobile can do anything. Blah. The Amazo Super-mobile issues definitely came out in Whitman three-packs. The other I can't speak too.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 26, 2018 10:55:01 GMT -5
In a Tim Truman western mood this weekend so I read Wilderness Book 1 and 2 then proceeded to Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such and finished with Jonah Hex Shadows West. Truman does have the grit and tone of the wild west in his artwork and it feels like the dusty, grimy and wild and wooly west of old pulp novelizations.
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Post by badwolf on Nov 26, 2018 11:06:23 GMT -5
I picked these two up at my LCS this weekend. I had both as a kid, but must have given them away when I was still quite young because I completely forgot about them until I saw the covers again recently. (I also feel like I had the Whitman printings; does anybody know how they were distributed? (3-packs, etc.)) While re-reading these was very nostalgic, and I'm glad I re-acquired them, it is easy to see why I never got into Superman pre-Crisis, and found Marvel's flawed, down-to-earth characters more appealing. Superman can do anything. No matter what the threat or obstacle, he pulls some new variation of his powers out of his butt to deal with it. Even when he is stripped of his powers, the Super-Mobile can do anything. Blah. The Amazo Super-mobile issues definitely came out in Whitman three-packs. The other I can't speak too. I also remember having a Superman (or Action) comic that had the Atomic Skull, but I cannot picture the cover in my memory. But maybe that was the third issue.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 26, 2018 11:10:59 GMT -5
In a Tim Truman western mood this weekend so I read Wilderness Book 1 and 2 then proceeded to Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such and finished with Jonah Hex Shadows West. Truman does have the grit and tone of the wild west in his artwork and it feels like the dusty, grimy and wild and wooly west of old pulp novelizations. Keep in mind that those Jonah Hex books were written by Joe R. Lansdale, who I consider to be the best mult-genre writer working today.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 26, 2018 13:02:01 GMT -5
In a Tim Truman western mood this weekend so I read Wilderness Book 1 and 2 then proceeded to Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such and finished with Jonah Hex Shadows West. Truman does have the grit and tone of the wild west in his artwork and it feels like the dusty, grimy and wild and wooly west of old pulp novelizations. Keep in mind that those Jonah Hex books were written by Joe R. Lansdale, who I consider to be the best mult-genre writer working today. So true and sorry that I forgot to note Lansdale as writer. He and Truman were true partners in these wild wild Hex comics. I was specifically pulling them out for the art though as I hadn't enjoyed any Truman art in series for awhile.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 26, 2018 13:19:24 GMT -5
Keep in mind that those Jonah Hex books were written by Joe R. Lansdale, who I consider to be the best mult-genre writer working today. So true and sorry that I forgot to note Lansdale as writer. He and Truman were true partners in these wild wild Hex comics. I was specifically pulling them out for the art though as I hadn't enjoyed any Truman art in series for awhile. It's all good. I just like to shout out about Lansdale whenever possible because he's such a great genre writer and he's devoted to writing at varying lengths even if they aren't terribly commercial.
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