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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 22, 2020 9:03:29 GMT -5
Reading through Age of Apocalypse again, since it's my favorite X-Men story. I'm hoping to spark my interest in comics. I haven't really read anything for years now and haven't bought anything for even longer. Something as nostalgic as AoA might work. I'm also considering after all these years of finishing collecting the 90's Spidey Clone Saga. Just not sure if I am going to go single issues route or TPBs. The issues would be much more fun.
Not much I can say on my actual reading. I'm totally biased on AoA and it's like the perfect story. :shrugs: I like the story, so many good artists in the different titles that I just so thoroughly enjoy it.
So far: X-Men Chronicles #1 X-Men Alpha #1 (my choice for this week's cover contest) Astonishing X-Men #1 Amazing X-Men #1 Weapon X #1
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Post by Batflunkie on May 22, 2020 17:57:21 GMT -5
OMAC #1 Thanks in part to Rags, I got the itch to re-read OMACIt's pretty clear, minus all the high-concept sci-fi trappings, that this is Kirby's attempt to bring Captain America to DC, ignoring of course The Guardian and Steel: the Indestructible Man. Fun first issue too. The notion of a Build-A-Friend is still an interesting idea, even if it does reek of a more technologically enhanced sex doll
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2020 12:17:07 GMT -5
I love OMAC. Picked up the recent Jonah Hex OHC. I read some of this years ago in the Showcase volume, but it's been so long I don't remember any of it. Still very early on, but I'm diggin it.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 23, 2020 14:13:30 GMT -5
Giant Sized Invaders #1 Yessir, more Cap on the menu. As the cover suggests, the story takes place in the glory days of the 40's, when gals were gals and men were men. After taking down a bunch of ratzis with his cohort Bucky, Cap is contacted by the FBI to visit Doctor Anderson, a lab partner of Doctor Erskine, in the hospital. Anderson was apprehended by the Nazis and forced to recreate the super solider serum to help make the sinister Master Man, who Cap, Bucky, Torch, Toro, and Namor are later sent to quash Really like Frank Robbin's artwork in this. It's very cartoony, but it lends itself well to Thomas' writing style
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Post by Crimebuster on May 23, 2020 16:30:56 GMT -5
Giant Sized Invaders #1 Really like Frank Robbin's artwork in this. Attaboy!
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Post by Batflunkie on May 23, 2020 17:40:32 GMT -5
Giant Sized Invaders #1 Really like Frank Robbin's artwork in this. Attaboy! Why? Is Frank not that well liked?
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Post by electricmastro on May 23, 2020 18:13:28 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on May 23, 2020 18:23:26 GMT -5
I'm not sure I've seen an artist from that period more trashed than Robbins. For me, he wasn't a fit on Captain America, but he did some excellent stuff elsewhere. And I think his style was exactly what Roh wanted on Invaders, because it was so golden agey.
But man, a lot of people really don't seem to like his work!
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Post by electricmastro on May 23, 2020 19:45:14 GMT -5
I'm not sure I've seen an artist from that period more trashed than Robbins. For me, he wasn't a fit on Captain America, but he did some excellent stuff elsewhere. And I think his style was exactly what Roh wanted on Invaders, because it was so golden agey. But man, a lot of people really don't seem to like his work! I think the only other mainstream artist I’ve personally seen trashed that much is Rob Liefeld, but I think that’s more to do how people feel he obnoxiously positions his characters and uses extreme close-ups that I think they associate with the worst of 1990s comic art. Robbins seems to be trashed on more with how he draws in general regardless of poses.
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Post by brutalis on May 23, 2020 20:13:49 GMT -5
I sing the praises of Robbins every time the negativity rears its head here in the CCF. At least there are a few of us here who appreciate Robbins work upon Captain America, Invaders, The Shadow, Batman & his own newspaper creation Johnny Hazzard. While it is true Robbins superhero art is distinct & stylized, it is NOT horrible. I think of his art style being an acquired taste that few enjoy. Sad to to be them I say.
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Post by spoon on May 23, 2020 21:08:53 GMT -5
After I finished my Spider-Girl binge read, I read Mephisto Vs. #1-4. For anyone who doesn't know, it's an 80s mini-series by Al Milgrom and John Buscema in which Mephisto faced off against a different super-team each issue (FF, X-Factor, X-Men, and Avengers). It's a good solid read. Not a great work, but actually better than I expected. The series references some apparently current events from the series of the different teams. The Fantastic Four has newly moved into Four Freedoms Plaza, Angel is injured from the Mutant Massacre, Thor is cursed and can't heal, etc. I had one issue of the series before, but decided to buy the whole thing as a 60s through 80s X-Men completist. It has to fit in a very narrow window in the X-Men timeline. It's during the post-Mutant Massacre transformation of the X-Men into what would become the Australia team. In the Mephisto mini, all the new members have joined up except Havok. Also, between panels of the X-Factor issue, Angel appears in a Marvel Fanfare story. I've read so little of Marvel Fanfare, so I'm a bit curious to read it.
I'm currently reading The Golden Age Flash Archives vol. 2. Seems like a risky move, because I don't think of Golden Age stories as made for binging, but I'm actually moving at a decent pace. I'm about halfway through. So far Jay Garrick hasn't fought any super-villains. His adversaries are gangsters and conmen, who almost always ridiculously overmatched. Also, folks don't seem to know the Flash's identity, but then at one point gangsters inexplicably know that Joan Williams is the Flash's girlfriend. Except that sometimes she's referred to as just his friend. Also, there are barely any references to Jay Garrick having a day job. In his origin and one other story, he's a chemist. His job isn't even mentioned in the other stories. Stories repeatedly have the Flash moving too fast to be seen, then taking actions that get attributed to other causes because he's invisible.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 23, 2020 21:36:03 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Golden Age Flash Archives vol. 2. Seems like a risky move, because I don't think of Golden Age stories as made for binging, but I'm actually moving at a decent pace. I'm about halfway through. So far Jay Garrick hasn't fought any super-villains. His adversaries are gangsters and conmen, who almost always ridiculously overmatched. Also, folks don't seem to know the Flash's identity, but then at one point gangsters inexplicably know that Joan Williams is the Flash's girlfriend. Except that sometimes she's referred to as just his friend. Also, there are barely any references to Jay Garrick having a day job. In his origin and one other story, he's a chemist. His job isn't even mentioned in the other stories. Stories repeatedly have the Flash moving too fast to be seen, then taking actions that get attributed to other causes because he's invisible. That's kind of my problem with a lot of Golden Age stories. Silver Age ones are funny in that they're criminals who just decided to add a bit of flair (see Mirror Master and Captain Cold)
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Post by electricmastro on May 23, 2020 22:00:31 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Golden Age Flash Archives vol. 2. Seems like a risky move, because I don't think of Golden Age stories as made for binging, but I'm actually moving at a decent pace. I'm about halfway through. So far Jay Garrick hasn't fought any super-villains. His adversaries are gangsters and conmen, who almost always ridiculously overmatched. Also, folks don't seem to know the Flash's identity, but then at one point gangsters inexplicably know that Joan Williams is the Flash's girlfriend. Except that sometimes she's referred to as just his friend. Also, there are barely any references to Jay Garrick having a day job. In his origin and one other story, he's a chemist. His job isn't even mentioned in the other stories. Stories repeatedly have the Flash moving too fast to be seen, then taking actions that get attributed to other causes because he's invisible. That's kind of my problem with a lot of Golden Age stories. Silver Age ones are funny in that they're criminals who just decided to add a bit of flair (see Mirror Master and Captain Cold) Jack Cole probably created some of the funnier/more memorable villains of the time, on par with the absurd and outrageous villains originally created for Marvel and DC in the 40s. Actually, Plastic Man’s original “rogues gallery” was said to have been: Abba and Dabba, Amorpho, Black Widow, The Bounding Bandit, Captain Rivers, Cauldron, Concrete, the Crab, Robber Barron, Dazzla, Dr. Ameeba, Dr. Doser, Dr. Dratt, Dr. Erudite, Dr. Quomquat, Dr. Slicer, Dr. Volt, Eight Ball, Elektra, the Fiend of a thousand faces, Phony Fink, Gargantua, Granite Lady, Green Terror, Hairy Arms, the Hypnotist, Invisible Raiders, Iron Fist, the Japanese Beetle, Killer Crossbones, King of Crime, Jets, Leader, the Lava Man, Madam Brawn, the Mangler, Merlin the Wizard, the Mime, Mirror Man, Mr. Aqua, Mr. Fission, Mr. Happiness, Mr. Hazard, Mr. Morbid, The Moon Wizard, Mother Goose, Needles Noggin, the Owl, Penetro, Pogo Flinch, Professor Dimwit, Professor Sparks, the Purple Viking, Raka the Witch Doctor, Reflecto, Riverman, Pike Ronan, Rubber Man, Sadly-Sadly, Scowls, Serpina, Clarence Skidd, Skullface, Cyrus Smythe, Snout Sniggers, Spadehead, the Spider, Serena Sloop, the Stealing Hands, Stretcho, the Swami, Thrilla, Tricky Toledo, the Vanishers
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Post by earl on May 23, 2020 22:19:50 GMT -5
Frank Robbins style I think would go over better now in some ways, as you got people like say Michael Avon Oeming and the lots of guys that use an almost "animation" look that is kind of a throwback to that earlier style (in some ways).
It was a pretty striking change to go from someone like Mike Kaluta on The Shadow to Robbins artwork.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 24, 2020 9:53:34 GMT -5
Frank Robbins style I think would go over better now in some ways, as you got people like say Michael Avon Oeming and the lots of guys that use an almost "animation" look that is kind of a throwback to that earlier style (in some ways). He did the artwork for DC's interpretation of Judge Dredd and it was kind of all over the place. Sometimes it looked good, sometimes it looked like some 15 year old's graffiti
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