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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2014 13:53:12 GMT -5
Secret History is awesome. I started picking up individual issues when they came out but shops around here only sporadically ordered it, so I have been tracking down stuff haphazardly. I have the first omnibus and all the individual issue sin the second. I have about half the issue that would be the third, so look forward to getting that omnibus so I can finish reading the series.
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Post by DubipR on May 13, 2014 13:58:51 GMT -5
He just did a 3 issue arc as part of the Daredevil Dark Nights mini that came out last year and into this year. I think David Lapham and Jimmy Palmiotti wrote the other arcs in the mini, but Weeks wrote and drew the first one. -M Correct sir. I enjoyed the Dark Knights minis; all my favorite artists and writers working on the same book. Probably one of the oddest and best inter-company crossovers One of my all time favorite minis. I picked this up last year on the strength of someone's recommendation in the Twelve Days of Christmas thread, and I absolutely love it. It was far more ERB than Predator, but the Preds fit in quite well. I'd love to see Simonson do a Pellucar book at some point. (Or Turok, which he admits is kinda his dream book.)
Weeks is just amazing in general. He's one of the best in the industry, but so completely underappreciated. Getting back to the Liefeld thread, it's puzzling to me that people like Liefeld, Lee, and McFarlane got so much attention when someone like Weeks was working regularly.
Pretty much summarized the 90s right there. People like Weeks, Immonen (when he was Legion & Superman), Grummett and the likes churned out brilliant works and over-stylized drivel as those mentioned made them gazillions. I'm a fan of Igor Kordey's artwork. Do you read The Secret History? It's one of my favorite comics of all-time, and Kordey's best work, in my opinion. BOOM/Archaia is finally going to publish the third English-translation omnibus this summer after several years' delay. I have the first omnibus. I need to go back and re-read it. Its probably his best work; that and Smoke |
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Post by Jasoomian on May 14, 2014 17:28:09 GMT -5
Star Wars #16 (1978) This one-off issue follows the big green rabbit alien Jaxxon, with the Star Wars film characters appearing only in flashback (and IIRC w/ no dialogue at all). Jaxxon is being hunted down by an "ex-stormtrooper officer" who is now a bounty hunter. This guy has a hate-on for Jaxxon's buddy Luke Skywalker and Luke's unholy polyamorous relationship with the robots R2-D2 and C-3PO. He's a little cheesed off about the Death Star too, but mostly just their man-droid love. Jaxxon is briefly caught and refuses to give anything up and doesn't know where Luke is anyway, and the antagonist flies away in his spaceship and here's the twist.... the bad guy is a cyborg himself! Half-robot. I think b/c of the Death Star explosion. So he is very self-loathing. It's like a Serling twist. Archie Goodwin wrote this actually. Thumbs up. 17pp  Further note: The letters column mentions that #16 is the first issue to have a letters column page. The editors said they were taking advantage of the large star wars readership to advertise other Marvel comics instead of running a letters page. My question is -- wouldn't that be skirting postal regulations?
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 14, 2014 22:02:29 GMT -5
I'm hoping they'll be a nice collection of those old Star Wars comics once the license is back with Marvel  Up to #8 in Starman.. good so far. It's neat how in 9 issues, I think Jack Knight has actually done hero things in maybe 3 of them, yet it's still an exciting, vibrant series. I'm thinking I'm really going to like Shade as the story goes along. What I don't love is the art.. while the covers are fantastic, the interior art is passable at best, and seems to be going down hill.. very inconsistent. I think a more stark, realistic hand would really have made the setting 'pop' as Robinson says he wanted it to. And, to be honest, the cityscapes are very cool.. it's just the people that kinda suck. The letter columns are also fascinating... #8 features James Robinson basically having an pre-internet troll argument with a regular letter writer. What hilarious is one of the points the letter writer made was that Ted Knight, in the Golden Age, was actually based in Gotham, not an unnamed city that Robinson christened Opal City. Robinson states point blank the city is never mentioned. Having just read said comics, I can tell you for certain the city Ted Knight hails from is in fact Gotham.. it's mentioned at least 3 times... score one for the troll(It doesn't happen often). The REALLY funny think is that DC archive came out after Robinson's Starman was complete.. they easily could have changed it, or at least mentioned it, but no. I'm curious to see if in a future column someone else calls him out on it  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 15, 2014 10:22:47 GMT -5
I'm hoping they'll be a nice collection of those old Star Wars comics once the license is back with Marvel. I looked through the Dark Horse Omnibuses. They seemed pretty okay to me. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 15, 2014 10:40:21 GMT -5
I have a couple of those... they have the old Marvel stuff? I find them to be generally kinda confusing as to what they are actually collecting.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 15, 2014 12:15:57 GMT -5
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 15, 2014 12:54:41 GMT -5
Cool! Last time I looked at them, it was far less clear (or maybe I missed it).... Thanks!
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Post by Jesse on May 16, 2014 0:45:05 GMT -5
Just finished reading Neil Gaiman's The Sandman #75 which is the first time I've read the whole series the entire way through. Definitely one of my all-time favorites now. Next up in my 'to read' pile are Sandman Presents Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams... But Were Afraid to Ask and the first two issues of Overture.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 16, 2014 1:42:10 GMT -5
Just bought on eBay the last three volumes of the 10th anniversary edition. Have been after this print for a little over 10 years. As soon as they get home, I'll finally be able to re-read the series.
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Post by The Captain on May 16, 2014 6:22:21 GMT -5
Just finished up Captain Marvel Essentials #1, finally reading issues #16-21. After starting out strong, the series bogged down in the mid-teens as Mar-Vell's power set changes seemingly issue by issue. Then, like a swift kick in the junk, Rick Jones shows up to become Mar-Vell's anchor in this world after he (Mar-Vell) gets stuck in the Negative Zone.
Words cannot do justice to how much I dislike that snotty little whiner, with his "me against the world" attitude, constant annoying lingo, and how he always was portrayed as being far more capable than the normal teenager just because Stan Lee hated kid sidekicks.
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Post by paulie on May 16, 2014 10:12:46 GMT -5
Star Wars #16 (1978) This one-off issue follows the big green rabbit alien Jaxxon, with the Star Wars film characters appearing only in flashback (and IIRC w/ no dialogue at all). Jaxxon is being hunted down by an "ex-stormtrooper officer" who is now a bounty hunter. This guy has a hate-on for Jaxxon's buddy Luke Skywalker and Luke's unholy polyamorous relationship with the robots R2-D2 and C-3PO. He's a little cheesed off about the Death Star too, but mostly just their man-droid love. Jaxxon is briefly caught and refuses to give anything up and doesn't know where Luke is anyway, and the antagonist flies away in his spaceship and here's the twist.... the bad guy is a cyborg himself! Half-robot. I think b/c of the Death Star explosion. So he is very self-loathing. It's like a Serling twist. Archie Goodwin wrote this actually. Thumbs up. 17pp Further note: The letters column mentions that #16 is the first issue to have a letters column page. The editors said they were taking advantage of the large star wars readership to advertise other Marvel comics instead of running a letters page. My question is -- wouldn't that be skirting postal regulations? I need to get this. Good review. |
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Post by ironchimp on May 16, 2014 13:13:45 GMT -5
the second half of mr miracle. in a word brutal. the positives - great villain names, a miniature judo james brown, the art. the negatives - ahh the thrill of really powerful beings being escape artists, mr miracle being able to do basically anything, the complete lack of drama or suspense.
almost good but ultimately terrible.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 16, 2014 21:03:36 GMT -5
I got "Identity Crisis" from the library and I've read the first three chapters.
Is this thread the right place to discuss "Identity Crisis"? It's not really old enough to be classic, but it also doesn't seem to be new enough for the "new comics thread," which seems to be for current comics.
And I have a lot to say about "Identity Crisis." If it were as terrible as I'd assumed it was from the description, there wouldn't be as much to say. Despite hating some of the key events, I found the first two chapters rather compelling, and I liked the way the JLAers were portrayed.
Chapter Three (with Deathstroke) broke the spell because it was so utterly ridiculous. (I've heard a phrase "jobbing," is the Deathstroke chapter an example of jobbing? I'm not sure I understand what it means exactly.)
But I'm still curious to read the rest of it.
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Post by hondobrode on May 16, 2014 21:13:39 GMT -5
I got "Identity Crisis" from the library and I've read the first three chapters. Is this thread the right place to discuss "Identity Crisis"? It's not really old enough to be classic, but it also doesn't seem to be new enough for the "new comics thread," which seems to be for current comics. And I have a lot to say about "Identity Crisis." If it were as terrible as I'd assumed it was from the description, there wouldn't be as much to say. Despite hating some of the key events, I found the first two chapters rather compelling, and I liked the way the JLAers were portrayed. Chapter Three (with Deathstroke) broke the spell because it was so utterly ridiculous. (I've heard a phrase "jobbing," is the Deathstroke chapter an example of jobbing? I'm not sure I understand what it means exactly.) But I'm still curious to read the rest of it. It's strong stuff, but it was a good series. My brother and I both enjoyed, despite loathing Dr Light for his actions here and what happened to Sue. Simonson a Turok fan ? Makes sense since he loves dinosaurs, so why doesn't Valiant put him to work, at least on a one-shot or mini ? Secret History ? I haven't heard of it before, but the title alone has me excited. That Turner cover with WW and the lasso as a noose knocked me off my feet. Powerful is an understatement. |
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