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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 15:01:06 GMT -5
Edge of Chaos #1-3Entertaining little mini-series by Gray Morrow, in which a hairy-chested self-made businessman from epoch is yanked away from his sailboat and sent far into the past by the power of exiled space aliens who were clearly the inspiration for the Greek gods! Eric Cleese (Hercules? Get it? So subtle!) is supposed to act as the aliens' champion, the latest in a series of unfortunate would-be heroes who are no longer among us on the grounds of premature departure from this mortal coil. His mission? To stop the shenanigans of one Moloch, a renegade alien scientist obsessed with bringing his wife back to life. As long as Moloch continues his immoral biological experiments and seeds chaos of the Earth of long ago, the aliens won't be allowed to go back to their planet (their bosses being quite strict when it comes to the Prime Directive). The story has the joyful and tongue in cheek quality of an old Hercules movie, and Eric Cleese really looks like Steve Reeves. I wouldn't say that the plot makes a lot of sense, but I don't think that's what we expected from it. This being a Pacific Comics book, Morrow doesn't have to heed the comics code; he doesn't shy away from partial or complete nudity and his dialog is often quite colourful. The colouring on my copy of issue #3 is off; it seems extremely pale and very yellow. But apart from that glitch, this is a trio of issues that looks pretty good. Pacific Comics had a lot of good stuff, didn't it? I've had that mini for several years now and it seems to languish in my "to be read" pile year after year, never quite moving ot the top and getting pushed back for more recent acquisitions. I really need to make a point of reading this soon, maybe this review will push it to the top of my pile. -M
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Post by MDG on Mar 2, 2021 15:34:22 GMT -5
Edge of Chaos #1-3Entertaining little mini-series by Gray Morrow, in which a hairy-chested self-made businessman from our epoch is yanked away from his sailboat and sent far into the past by the power of exiled space aliens who were clearly the inspiration for the Greek gods! ... The colouring on my copy of issue #3 is off; it seems extremely pale and very yellow. But apart from that glitch, this is a trio of issues that looks pretty good. Pacific Comics had a lot of good stuff, didn't it? I always get this mixed up with Orion, another series Morrow did in the fanzine Hot Stuf' and maybe a couple other places. But I did read Edge of Morrow's art at this time was really, really solid, but he didn;t seem to vary his style for color books. In Edge and a DC western (and even his later Zatanna and Lois books) I felt his line barely had enough weight to hold the color. If his drawing wasn;t so strong, it could've fallen apart. Yeah, I was buying a lot of Pacific's books while they were around. Still see a surprising amount of them when hunting through dollar boxes.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 2, 2021 16:39:23 GMT -5
(...) Pacific Comics had a lot of good stuff, didn't it? Yeah, they really did. I think I mentioned here before in some thread or another how fond I am of Pacific. The company launched not long after I discovered my first comic book shop, so I was in on the ground floor and initially bought pretty much everything they produced: Capt. Victory, Starslayer, Groo, Pacific Presents, Silverstar, Ms. Mystic...
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 2, 2021 18:52:55 GMT -5
Not long before they went belly-up, I felt they were trying to knock out TOO MANY books.
First Comics did the same thing, shortly before THEY went belly-up.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 2, 2021 19:04:22 GMT -5
I just read Legends of the DCU: Crisis on Infinite Earths from 1999. I really liked it. I love earth-D!! Earth-D is a lot like Silver Age DC, but with a much more racially diverse group of superheroes. I would absolutely but a comic series based on earth-D. Get on it, DC!!
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Post by james on Mar 3, 2021 3:03:01 GMT -5
Just started reading the Hulk. The John Byrne thru Peter David years.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 3, 2021 11:04:04 GMT -5
I also finished reading Star Trek #9-16 from DC's 1984 series. This was a really good 8-parter ("The Mirror Universe Saga")where Kirk and the Enterprise from the Mirror Universe (from the Star Trek: TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror") are the vanguard of an invasion of the mirror universe into "our" universe, and it's up to the "real" Kirk and crew of the Enterprise to stop them! DC's mid-80s Star Trek comic was really underrated. I bought quite a lot of those issues off of the shelf at the time and always really enjoyed them. At some point about 10 or 15 years ago I decided to get rid of all but a handful of issues, and nowadays I wish I hadn't.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 3, 2021 12:23:45 GMT -5
I also finished reading Star Trek #9-16 from DC's 1984 series. This was a really good 8-parter ("The Mirror Universe Saga")where Kirk and the Enterprise from the Mirror Universe (from the Star Trek: TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror") are the vanguard of an invasion of the mirror universe into "our" universe, and it's up to the "real" Kirk and crew of the Enterprise to stop them! DC's mid-80s Star Trek comic was really underrated. I bought quite a lot of those issues off of the shelf at the time and always really enjoyed them. At some point about 10 or 15 years ago I decided to get rid of all but a handful of issues, and nowadays I wish I hadn't. Several years back I bought the CD-ROM set from Amazon. It has ALL the Gold Key Run, Marvel to DC then back to Marvel and then to Malibu. I keep it downloaded to my computer and Kindle, that way I can read them anytime I want. Plus having the CD-ROM means I can load them to new systems I may upgrade to down the line.
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 3, 2021 15:19:35 GMT -5
I just read Legends of the DCU: Crisis on Infinite Earths from 1999. I really liked it. I love earth-D!! Earth-D is a lot like Silver Age DC, but with a much more racially diverse group of superheroes. I would absolutely but a comic series based on earth-D. Get on it, DC!! After recreating the multiverse, DC introduced Earth-23, the new "racially diverse" alternate DC universe. Except Earth-23 mostly just has black heroes. Except Batman, who's still white. Disappointing.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 3, 2021 19:38:02 GMT -5
I just read Legends of the DCU: Crisis on Infinite Earths from 1999. I really liked it. I love earth-D!! Earth-D is a lot like Silver Age DC, but with a much more racially diverse group of superheroes. I would absolutely but a comic series based on earth-D. Get on it, DC!! After recreating the multiverse, DC introduced Earth-23, the new "racially diverse" alternate DC universe. Except Earth-23 mostly just has black heroes. Except Batman, who's still white. Disappointing. Batman (and Robin) were the only white superheroes on earth-D, too.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 4, 2021 13:27:18 GMT -5
I'm 20 issues in to a re-read of Cerebus. Perilously close to the beginning of High Society. We'll see how far I make it. My intention is to try to get through the first volume of Church & State before I take a break, but we know about that certain road and good intentions.
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 4, 2021 19:40:14 GMT -5
Thor #155-#162 Slowly barreling back into Thor, what a fun romp this was! We had Mangog, Galactus, and the twist reveal of the true reason that Donald Black can turn into the titular thunder god Balder slowly growing mad from lusting over the Norn queen was probably my favorite part as something that I wasn't expecting at all
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 4, 2021 21:11:49 GMT -5
I'm 20 issues in to a re-read of Cerebus. Perilously close to the beginning of High Society. We'll see how far I make it. My intention is to try to get through the first volume of Church & State before I take a break, but we know about that certain road and good intentions. I think that's about as far as I got when I tried to re-read it when Shax started the thread a while back.. about the first 'phone book' trade. I feel like I SHOULD like it, but it just doesn't draw me in.
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Post by The Captain on Mar 5, 2021 8:56:00 GMT -5
Batflunkie, those are great stories. I did a full series read of Thor three or four years ago, and while the Simonson run came close, the Lee/Kirby run is the pinnacle of Thor's existence at Marvel. As for my reading, I've just started re-reading Sandman for the first time in years. Only three issues in, and it hasn't lost ANYTHING since the last time. Truly a masterpiece of literature, let alone just comics.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 5, 2021 12:40:47 GMT -5
As for my reading, I've just started re-reading Sandman for the first time in years. Only three issues in, and it hasn't lost ANYTHING since the last time. Truly a masterpiece of literature, let alone just comics. I've only come to The Sandman relatively recently, in the last 18 months or so, but personally I think it takes a little while for the series to hit real heights. The first issue is really good, but for me, the next handful are all over the place in terms of style and flavour. It's not until "The Sound of Her Wings" (issue #7, I think) that the series really reaches the heights that fandom had led me to expect of it. Mind you, even when it's finding it's feet, the series was still likely miles better than most of what was on the comic shop shelves at the same time. Feel free to chime in with comments in my Sandman collected editions review thread, if you feel like it - classiccomics.org/thread/6502/sandman-collected-editions-reviewed-confessor
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