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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 14, 2020 11:32:04 GMT -5
GCD says the Injustice Society featured in ASC #8, 27 & 41, with the Huntress appearing in #41. Thanks! I really miss comicbd.com. I find GCD and DC.fandom.com (or Marvel) a lot less easy to navigate. I think #41 is correct but I’m pretty sure the other #’s are wrong for the Injustice Society. I can check later. I also miss comicdb a lot!
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 14, 2020 11:46:41 GMT -5
Thanks! I really miss comicbd.com. I find GCD and DC.fandom.com (or Marvel) a lot less easy to navigate. I think #41 is correct but I’m pretty sure the other #’s are wrong for the Injustice Society. I can check later. I also miss comicdb a lot! Yes, I meant to type #37 not 27.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 14, 2020 21:39:23 GMT -5
Tonight I just finished reading the complete run (31 issues + 1 annual) of DC's "The Shadow Strikes!". The series ran from 1989 to 1992, and I enjoyed it much more than the 1987-89 Helfer-Baker run, which had some good stories, but got really insane toward the end. In contrast, Gerard Jones' scripting on "TSS!" put The Shadow back in his best element-- the pre-war 1930's. Although there were a few artists changes over the run, Eduardo Barreto did both the covers and interiors for most of the run, and really gave it a shadowy (pun not intended) Toth-like feel, which worked very well for The Shadow/Kent Allard/Lamar Cranston. Overall, I'd say that for me, it was probably the 2nd most enjoyable DC run featuring the character-- behind the 70's O'Neil/Kaluta run.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 18, 2020 13:14:11 GMT -5
Reading the True Believers Ant-Man/Giant-Man reprints. Interesting to see how they refine the concept from the original Man In The Ant Hill story to the The Return to introducing The Wasp and then Giant-Man Vs. The Living Eraser. I'd only ever read that last one before this and it's the most developed and Wasp is firmly in her witty repartee mode. The medium of change goes from serum to gas to serum. Also the ants can be anything from green to purple in color. Lots of near-misses and coincidences in these old comic stories, one little thing different and they are done, like Henry Pym finding this one friendly ant in the first pre-hero story to let him ride it up a wall to his window where the restoring serum waits conveniently on the sill. Overall it's fun and the Stan Lee dialogue is bouncy enough; the pointy-hatted Wasp gets to call an alien "laughing boy". I guess she gets her sting power a little later than I realized. I still have the Spider-Man and Giant-Man crossover story, it's Wasp solo back-up, and then the early '70s Herb Trimpe re-intro of Ant-Man to go.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 18, 2020 15:46:37 GMT -5
I just read Silver Age 80 Page Giant. It's 20 years old, so I guess it qualifies as a classic comic. Anyway, it was a lot of fun! It's the final issue in DC's Silver Age event from 2000 with a bunch of one shots whose stories were all tied together. The lead story here is 51 pages and was a satisfying conclusion to the overall story, and there were a few backup stories that were entertaining, too. I think one of them is from a 1966 minicomic, one is a story originally intended for Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #133, and the other was a new story by Mark Waid which captured Silver Age Wonder Woman very well.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 18, 2020 22:41:47 GMT -5
I read Batman: The Blue, The Grey and The Bat last night for the first time. As most of us probably know, DC Elseworlds stories can be very hit or miss. There have been some that I love and have re-read many times (The Golden Age, Batman/Grendel, Kingdom Come, Red Son, Superman/War of the Worlds, etc.). Then, there are others that literally put me to sleep zzzzzzzzzz...... (Speeding Bullets comes to mind). This one was somewhat far-fetched, but was still quite enjoyable. Of course, like many Elseworlds titles, there are name-dropped caricatures of historical people throughout. I use the term "caricatures" primarily because a one-shot book just doesn't give much room for actual development of supporting characters, so they often come off a bit one-dimensional.
Actually, the Alan Weiss/Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez art was pretty darn nice and fit well with the overall feel of the book. It was definitely worth the $3.00 I shelled out for it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 19, 2020 5:10:36 GMT -5
I read Batman: The Blue, The Grey and The Bat last night for the first time. As most of us probably know, DC Elseworlds stories can be very hit or miss. There have been some that I love and have re-read many times (The Golden Age, Batman/Grendel, Kingdom Come, Red Son, Superman/War of the Worlds, etc.). Then, there are others that literally put me to sleep zzzzzzzzzz...... (Speeding Bullets comes to mind). This one was somewhat far-fetched, but was still quite enjoyable. Of course, like many Elseworlds titles, there are name-dropped caricatures of historical people throughout. I use the term "caricatures" primarily because a one-shot book just doesn't give much room for actual development of supporting characters, so they often come off a bit one-dimensional.
Actually, the Alan Weiss/Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez art was pretty darn nice and fit well with the overall feel of the book. It was definitely worth the $3.00 I shelled out for it. Weiss/ Garcia Lopez art ? I would love to see some scans, although I think Batman as a cowboy is really silly.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 20, 2020 8:11:36 GMT -5
Will Eisner's Hawks of the SeasThis is a really nice collection of a weekly strip done by a young Will Eisner (under the pseudonym Willis Rensie) did in the late 1930s. It's some of his earliest professional work. It follows the adventure of a Caribbean swashbuckler only known as the Hawk and his crew. They are rather unusual pirates, as they're largely uninterested in looting for treasure; rather, they mainly raid slave ships and free all of the captives (and help them get back home to Africa). Even in his early twenties, Eisner already have a very mature and confident style. You can sort of follow the evolution of his style, as in the earliest strips his art is very similar to other comic strip artists of the day who were doing adventure stories: But then as they progress, you can see Eisner's distinctive style develop... ...so that there's some places where it looks almost exactly like his later Spirit strips: Otherwise, this strip was widely syndicated abroad, where it was first seen by a young Al Williamson (who spent a part of his childhood in Bogota, Columbia). Williamson actually helped gather up a lot of the strips for this book, so on the first few pages feature the logo from the Spanish-language magazines that carried it (in which it was called 'Blue Eagle'): Here's the original, English logo:
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 20, 2020 19:34:15 GMT -5
Starting reading the Avengers books a god.. man, Jim Shooter just really doesn't like women, does he? (Or maybe he thinks that's what fans wanted at the time)... You got Hank hitting Wasp while she's mooning over him.... the bad guy, 'Elfqueen', is the same for her Conan-like husband.. then there's Tigra's getting harrassed on her day off... all in 4 issues.
Not something I noticed in the past, somehow.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 20, 2020 19:40:53 GMT -5
Starting reading the Avengers books a god.. man, Jim Shooter just really doesn't like women, does he? (Or maybe he thinks that's what fans wanted at the time)... You got Hank hitting Wasp while she's mooning over him.... the bad guy, 'Elfqueen', is the same for her Conan-like husband.. then there's Tigra's getting harrassed on her day off... all in 4 issues. Not something I noticed in the past, somehow.
Both the Pym divorce storyline and the Ms. Marvel pregnancy storyline are pretty cringe-worthy.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 20, 2020 21:23:52 GMT -5
Journey Into Mystery 118 and 119 Really great couple of issues that really showcase the breadth of Stan and Jack's imagination when at full steam. Loki interferes with Thor collecting the Norn Stones to prove his innocence by causing a human to reactivate Odin's near invincible last resort, The Destroyer. But Loki immediately feels guilty and tries to help Thor, even summoning help to awaken Odin from his day of rest
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 21, 2020 0:07:55 GMT -5
Starting reading the Avengers books a god.. man, Jim Shooter just really doesn't like women, does he? (Or maybe he thinks that's what fans wanted at the time)... You got Hank hitting Wasp while she's mooning over him.... the bad guy, 'Elfqueen', is the same for her Conan-like husband.. then there's Tigra's getting harrassed on her day off... all in 4 issues. Not something I noticed in the past, somehow. Icctrombone and I have recorded a podcast about this run that will be dropping soon. The Elfqueen issue is done as foreshadowing - a direct parallel with what's going to come in the next issue with Hank and Jan. For me, it's really good writing. The Tigra stuff, on the other hand, was totally unnecessary in my opinion. Both the Pym divorce storyline and the Ms. Marvel pregnancy storyline are pretty cringe-worthy.
The Ms. Marvel stuff is terrible, but I would never put the Pym divorce storyline in the same conversation. Well, except for a couple specific places where I thought he either was putting in stuff in the Yellowjacket story as a response to the Ms. Marvel storyline, or at least one place where he clearly didn't learn anything from the Ms. Marvel debacle. But For the most part, I think the Fall of Yellowjacket storyline is really well done!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2020 0:19:07 GMT -5
Will Eisner's Hawks of the SeasI read this a year or two back for the first time and absolutely adored it. Watching the evolution of Eisner's stuff through the course of the strip is fascinating, but it also sheer unadulterated fun that evoked the same feelings of settling in for a Saturday afternoon feature at my grandparents' place and watching Errol Flynn as a pirate on the high seas as I munched on popcorn. Great stuff. -M
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Post by Confessor on Jun 21, 2020 3:11:07 GMT -5
Will Eisner's Hawks of the SeasI love Eisner's Hawks of the Seas. It's really underrated and surprisingly good considering how early on in his career it was. I have that same Dark Horse collection, which I believe I got for an absolute steal from my LCS (back when I had one) probably a decade or more ago.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 21, 2020 19:49:05 GMT -5
The Ms. Marvel stuff is terrible, but I would never put the Pym divorce storyline in the same conversation. Well, except for a couple specific places where I thought he either was putting in stuff in the Yellowjacket story as a response to the Ms. Marvel storyline, or at least one place where he clearly didn't learn anything from the Ms. Marvel debacle. But For the most part, I think the Fall of Yellowjacket storyline is really well done! Perhaps I would feel differently if I read them all from the beginning (which I'll do one of these days) but I feel like Hank's insecurity came kinda out of nowhere. It makes sense, but I don't know if the build was terribly logical. I do REALLY like when he popped back up in West Coast Avengers as a 'science adventurer', and MUCH late he was great in Avengers Academy
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