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Post by majestic on Sept 15, 2021 21:27:36 GMT -5
Just finished Mark Waid's and Andy Kubert's Ka-Zar series from the 90s. I like reading series from the 90s that i passed on reading at the time.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 16, 2021 13:10:21 GMT -5
Just finished Mark Waid's and Andy Kubert's Ka-Zar series from the 90s. I like reading series from the 90s that i passed on reading at the time. Any good? I stay away from Kazar vs. Thanos on general principle.
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Post by majestic on Sept 16, 2021 13:18:08 GMT -5
Just finished Mark Waid's and Andy Kubert's Ka-Zar series from the 90s. I like reading series from the 90s that i passed on reading at the time. Any good? I stay away from Kazar vs. Thanos on general principle. That arc was the weakest one. Otherwise the other 3 arcs were great.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 16, 2021 14:30:27 GMT -5
I just finished the Dreadstar Returns GN that Starlin had as a crowdfunding project. It wasn't a bad book and it sets up the next few GN's that he has planned. Starlin aways seems to include Easter eggs in his work. Notice Thanos in the two page splash And Nexus I always find it fun to discover these.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 16, 2021 21:02:06 GMT -5
Just finished Mark Waid's and Andy Kubert's Ka-Zar series from the 90s. I like reading series from the 90s that i passed on reading at the time. Any good? I stay away from Kazar vs. Thanos on general principle. I try to stay away from anything with Thanos after Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7 ... unless he’s fighting Squirrel Girl.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 16, 2021 21:17:15 GMT -5
I try to stay away from anything with Thanos after Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7 ... unless he’s fighting Squirrel Girl.
Sounds right to me.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 17, 2021 3:20:46 GMT -5
Hmmmmm. Dreadstar versus Nexus. Now that is a Cosmos blowing up concept that we NEED. I can see it now. Have to bring along Judah and Badger and Sundra to meet Oedi and Szygy and Willow. Do Vanth and Horatio fight to the death or have an existential discussion and debate?
VOOTIE!
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 17, 2021 5:53:22 GMT -5
Any good? I stay away from Kazar vs. Thanos on general principle. I try to stay away from anything with Thanos after Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7 ... unless he’s fighting Squirrel Girl. I get that but if you stopped there, you missed out on excellent stories like Thanos Quest and the first Infinity Gauntlet mini series.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 17, 2021 9:42:15 GMT -5
I try to stay away from anything with Thanos after Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7 ... unless he’s fighting Squirrel Girl. I get that but if you stopped there, you missed out on excellent stories like Thanos Quest and the first Infinity Gauntlet mini series. Yep. I sure did.
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Post by commond on Sept 17, 2021 10:49:54 GMT -5
I've been going through a bit of a rut with Sandman Mystery Theatre. I've never read a single issue of Blackhawk, so I wasn't sure what I should make of the Janos Prohaska depiction. To me, the most interesting thing about that arc was Burke's reaction to the murders. Then I really didn't like the Return of the Scarlet Ghost arc until the last issue where Wagner and Seagle drastically upped the ante. The Crone was better. The relationship between Wesley and Dian has grown bleak, but I found that storyline more interesting than the murder mystery. I guess one of the difficult parts of this series was coming up with murder mysteries. I'm not really a fan of how they used comics and then radio as the backdrop for the murders. It seems over-the-top to me that there would be a spree of murders in either industry. I realize that the writers want to tap into everything that was shaping society in the late 30s, but it's a tad contrived at times.
I read Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld over the past few weeks. It's a comic I always seem mentioned as an underrated title. The first issue was rushed and felt like a comic for a toy line, but once it settled into a groove, it was a highly enjoyable max-series. The most outstanding thing about it is Ernie Colon's artwork. I'd probably recommend it on that basis alone.
And I finally finished Five Years Later through to the last issue written by the Bierbaums. What a complete and utter non-investment. I remember the first time I read Five Years Later it was after I had read all of the classic runs on Legion of Super-Heroes, and I really enjoyed the first dozen issues before Giffen stepped back from the series. This but this time round it felt inconsequential. I got absolutely nothing out of it, and a lot of the time it was just plain confusing. My opinion of post-Crisis reboots is starting to nosedive.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 17, 2021 12:48:13 GMT -5
Hmmmmm. Dreadstar versus Nexus. Now that is a Cosmos blowing up concept that we NEED. I can see it now. Have to bring along Judah and Badger and Sundra to meet Oedi and Szygy and Willow. Do Vanth and Horatio fight to the death or have an existential discussion and debate? VOOTIE! I'm pretty sure they met once before, during a company-wide crossover from First Comics in the late 80s.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 17, 2021 12:57:45 GMT -5
They did. They were at odds because Vanth is considered a mass murderer by Nexus.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 18, 2021 12:16:33 GMT -5
Been using the way back time travelling machine for grooving to the oldies. Been visiting the 40's, 50's and 70's comic book fun of Marvel and DC. Via the wonders of modern technology in scanning I can search and find stuff I have never seen or read before. So via internet or DVD-Rom I now enjoy missed comics and stories I might know of or seen panels or write ups on and peruse them for my own pleasure.
DC, I started up 1940's Batman with issues 1-10 when it was more crime noir in tone. The only recurring villains being the Joker and his mysteriously survival from a supposed death every few issues and s femme fatales lady of crime usually referred to as "Cat". Very crude "Bob Kane" art [is there a listing anywhere of who actually did what under his name?] in a simpler style of the times. Yet there is still a kind magical excitement and enthusiasm and energy to be found in this growing period of the dynamic duo. Easy to see why they so quickly became popular.
My other DC foray is into 1950's westerns with the series Western Comics. Stars the likes of the Wyoming Kid, Rodeo Rick, the Cowboy Marshall and Gunhawk. Such splendid and fluid artistry delivering a different west than Marvel or DC gave us in the 70's as the 1950's view of the west is prominently shown. Influenced by movies and television shows of the time these rootin' tootin' rides are quick and fun.
Marvel through 70's reprints of 50's Atlas horror mixed with a new 70's intro stories are silly, scary, horrible and terrific all at the same time. Dead of Night alongside Chamber of Chills are weirdly addictive if not overly successful at the time.
Truly looking forward to continued reading of past comic's when series were not a lone full issue story but 3-4 vignettes filled with frights, thrills and adventure in a plethora of short and quick fun.
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 18, 2021 14:37:55 GMT -5
A few years back I was re-reading all the early Batman stories to my home care client, a huge fan of the Adam West show. I was doing them all in chronological sequence, bouncing back and forth between the monthly DETECTIVE COMICS and the quarterly BATMAN issues. (You really have to do this to get the proper sense of the series' development, and it's frankly criminal that the DC Archive books didn't do this right from the beginning, only doing it "properly" when they started the WONDER WOMAN books.) I probably got most of my info from the Golden Age Archive books, but it looks like SHELDON MODOFF was assisting (inks? pencils and inks? WHO KNOWS?) starting in DETECTVE #30 (Aug'39), which is only the 4th episode in. JERRY ROBINSON debuted in DETECTIVE #36 (Feb'40), the 10th episode. He's probably my favorite of the early artists. If the info I have is correct, it looks like Robinson replaced Moldoff, who doesn't appear to have returned to the series for quite a long time after that. I'm still missing a lot of info, but sometime in 1942 Jack Burnley started doing some of the art. His work is a bit "stiffer" than Robinson, but also very "sharp" and in some ways "modern" looking. I've been re-reading the Ted Knight STARMAN issues, and it amazes me how the book looks decades ahead of its time, while at the same time, the characters can seem stiff and lifeless (heh). It's funny, but I seem to have been much more impressed with the art when the Archive book came out, than I am now. (It's probably all those times Frank Thorne urged me to "back away" from too much use of photo-reference.)
When they were doing the BATMAN newspaper strip, allegedly Bob Kane did the dailies (really hard to be sure about that) while Jack Burnley did the Sundays (which made the Sundays IMMENSELY more impressive-looking-- Burnley made them look like old Warner Bros. crime films), except for a couple of months where they swapped and Kane did a Sunday story and Burnley did a story in the dailies. DICK SPRANG appears to have debuted in DETECTIVE #84 (Feb'44). He may be the most "Chester Gould"-inspired, making the BATMAN series look like a superhero version of DICK TRACY. Very "clean" and "vivid" and "cartoony". I suspect the BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD tv cartoon series was heavily influenced by the look of Dick Sprang's art... and, very possibly, the Adam West show took its lead from those issues as well.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Sept 18, 2021 18:08:58 GMT -5
Read the first 6 issues of Astro City, which is the first volume (I think.)
This is majorly hyped, and unfortunately for me, when that happens I usually get let down. That didn’t happen with Astro City for me. I don’t think I’d praise it as highly as many do, but the stories were a nice take on super heroism. I’m sorry that I hadn’t read these earlier.
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