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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 22, 2023 10:04:31 GMT -5
Read Weird War Tales #93, #97, and #100-#101, as well as All-Out War #1 Mostly read them for the Creature Commandos, G.I. Robot, and Viking Commando stories, which I thought were all pretty good All of them seem like great Silver Age themed concepts, so it's surprising that they were made at the tale end of the 70's and into the early 80's I'm not usually into war or battle stories, but I found this trio pretty interesting enough to read on
Also, it's fairly clear that J.A.K.E. from G.I. Robot inspired John's recent "Junkyard Joe" mini-series from Image, almost did a double take when I saw him |
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 22, 2023 10:16:06 GMT -5
I know this is borderline in terms of being a "classic" comic (at least 10 years old) but I bought a half-dozen New 52 Justice League TPB's from Ollies recently and just finished reading them all. I was not impressed. I wish I could have that time (and money) back. Most of the characters were unlikeable, plus I had my usually trouble with newer comics where I find the action sometimes hard to follow, since modern comic book artists generally don't seem to be good storytellers. Haven't any of these guys read Kirby or Ditko? Also, several of these TPB's ended with a to-be-continued ending. Like I'm going to run out and buy the next TPB in the series. Yeah, right.
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 22, 2023 12:47:07 GMT -5
I know this is borderline in terms of being a "classic" comic (at least 10 years old) but I bought a half-dozen New 53 Justice League TPB's from Ollies recently and just finished reading them all. I was not impressed. I wish I could have that time (and money) back. Most of the characters were unlikeable, plus I had my usually trouble with newer comics where I find the action sometimes hard to follow, since modern comic book artists generally don't seem to be good storytellers. Haven't any of these guys read Kirby or Ditko? Also, several of these TPB's ended with a to-be-continued ending. Like I'm going to run out and buy the next TPB in the series. Yeah, right.
"New 53"?
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 22, 2023 13:36:43 GMT -5
I know this is borderline in terms of being a "classic" comic (at least 10 years old) but I bought a half-dozen New 53 Justice League TPB's from Ollies recently and just finished reading them all. I was not impressed. I wish I could have that time (and money) back. Most of the characters were unlikeable, plus I had my usually trouble with newer comics where I find the action sometimes hard to follow, since modern comic book artists generally don't seem to be good storytellers. Haven't any of these guys read Kirby or Ditko? Also, several of these TPB's ended with a to-be-continued ending. Like I'm going to run out and buy the next TPB in the series. Yeah, right.
"New 53"?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2023 14:23:54 GMT -5
Whoops. Typo. It's been fixed. Don’t fix the typo. I know what happened. dbutler69 had a psychic vision: 2025 will mark 40 years since Crisis on Infinite Earths was published, so DC will reboot again - and “New 53” will be the marketing campaign. ”You enjoyed New 52? New 53 will change the DC Universe…forever…” |
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 22, 2023 15:38:29 GMT -5
Whoops. Typo. It's been fixed. Don’t fix the typo. I know what happened. dbutler69 had a psychic vision: 2025 will mark 40 years since Crisis on Infinite Earths was published, so DC will reboot again - and “New 53” will be the marketing campaign. ”You enjoyed New 52? New 53 will change the DC Universe…forever…”
Except that for catchy rhyme-name marketing purposes, it will be referred to as "Thee 53".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2023 7:23:08 GMT -5
Just look at this art:  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 23, 2023 12:23:50 GMT -5
Batman Annual #18 (1994)story: Doug Moench, art: Frederico Cueva (pencils), Alberto Pez (inks)  After I brought this issue up in another thread a few days ago, I decided to pull this out and re-read it today. The last time I read it was not long after I bought it over 10 years ago with a stack of these other Elseworlds annuals, and honestly, I forgot quite a few of the details. Basically the Elseworlds hook is that in Renaissance Italy, Giuliano de Medici and his wife are killed in the streets of Florence one night by an assassin hired by the rival de Pazzi family. His young son, Tomas, witnesses the whole thing and is saved from the killer’s blade by Leonardo da Vinci, who heard the ruckus because his studio was nearby. Because Giuliano was his patron, he agrees to take on young Tomas as his apprentice. As Tomas grows to adulthood, he realizes that he doesn’t have much aptitude for art, but he has other skills that come into play when Lisa del Giocondo (i.e., the real-life Mona Lisa) is kidnapped… There’s also a B-plot in this story, set in present-day Gotham, where the Mona Lisa, on loan to the city’s museum, gets stolen and held for ransom. Commissioner Gordon enlists Batman’s aid to recover the painting. The two stories parallel each other, and we learn some startling secrets about both the painting and the real life woman who inspired it (all fictional, of course). This is not technically an Elseworlds story, but rather more like historical fiction. Even so, I found it pretty solid and entertaining.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 25, 2023 7:53:25 GMT -5
Bartman: The Best of the Best(Bongo Comics, 1995)  collecting Bartman #1-3, Itchy & Scratchy #3 and Simpsons Comics #5 The first story in this collection has our titular hero taking down an unscrupulous comics publisher who is giving the comic book shop guy limited print-run ‘defective’ comics so he can jack up the price for gullible buyers. In the second issue, he takes on the Penalizer, a costumed vigilante who metes out sadistic punishments to small-time offenders like kids spray-painting graffiti on walls or drunks belching on the sidewalk outside of bars. The third story is a crossover that starts in Itchy & Scratchy, continues in Simpsons Comics, and concludes in Bartman. It involves Itchy and Scratchy coming to life out of the TV screen and wreaking havoc in Springfield, including sabotaging the nuclear plant, so that a radiation leak gives a whole bunch of the city’s residents superpowers. It’s up to Bartman to figure out what’s going on and put everything right. These are the first Simpsons comics I’ve read, and I found them quite entertaining. It’s really interesting how much they are their own thing, rather than just being knock-off, watered-down stories in the style of the TV show (for example, in his ‘Bartman’ persona, Bart actually does properly heroic things and tends to be a bit smarter than he is in the show). They’re also very much comics about comics, in that they poke fun at what’s going on in other American comics at the time, esp. superhero comics, as well as the comics publishing and comics culture in general. In this regard, my hats off to the creative team, which mainly consists of Steve Vance, who penciled all of the stories and either scripted and/or co-plotted them, together with either Cindy Vance, Bill Morrison (who also did most of the inks) or Jan Strnad.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 25, 2023 8:01:21 GMT -5
Bartman: The Best of the Best(Bongo Comics, 1995) collecting Bartman #1-3, Itchy & Scratchy #3 and Simpsons Comics #5 The first story in this collection has our titular hero taking down an unscrupulous comics publisher who is giving the comic book shop guy limited print-run ‘defective’ comics so he can jack up the price for gullible buyers. In the second issue, he takes on the Penalizer, a costumed vigilante who metes out sadistic punishments to small-time offenders like kids spray-painting graffiti on walls or drunks belching on the sidewalk outside of bars. The third story is a crossover that starts in Itchy & Scratchy, continues in Simpsons Comics, and concludes in Bartman. It involves Itchy and Scratchy coming to life out of the TV screen and wreaking havoc in Springfield, including sabotaging the nuclear plant, so that a radiation leak gives a whole bunch of the city’s residents superpowers. It’s up to Bartman to figure out what’s going on and put everything right. These are the first Simpsons comics I’ve read, and I found them quite entertaining. It’s really interesting how much they are their own thing, rather than just being knock-off, watered-down stories in the style of the TV show (for example, in his ‘Bartman’ persona, Bart actually does properly heroic things and tends to be a bit smarter than he is in the show). They’re also very much comics about comics, in that they poke fun at what’s going on in other American comics at the time, esp. superhero comics, as well as the comics publishing and comics culture in general. In this regard, my hats off to the creative team, which mainly consists of Steve Vance, who penciled all of the stories and either scripted and/or co-plotted them, together with either Cindy Vance, Bill Morrison (who also did most of the inks) or Jan Strnad. Overall, the Simpsons comics are super fun. I bought a lot of the collected trades super cheap back in the day on eBay and my sons read them to death. The Radioactive Man books are complete joy. And the Treehouse of Horrors books are great. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 25, 2023 8:17:47 GMT -5
Overall, the Simpsons comics are super fun. I bought a lot of the collected trades super cheap back in the day on eBay and my sons read them to death. The Radioactive Man books are complete joy. And the Treehouse of Horrors books are great. I have the HC collection of Radioactive Man and one of the Treehouse of Horrors books still sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. And yeah, I've noticed that a lot of these Simpsons collected editions can be found quite cheaply; that's certainly the case for the three books I have. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 25, 2023 8:20:55 GMT -5
Overall, the Simpsons comics are super fun. I bought a lot of the collected trades super cheap back in the day on eBay and my sons read them to death. The Radioactive Man books are complete joy. And the Treehouse of Horrors books are great. I have the HC collection of Radioactive Man and one of the Treehouse of Horrors books still sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. And yeah, I've noticed that a lot of these Simpsons collected editions can be found quite cheaply; that's certainly the case for the three books I have. My hypothesis is that they sold to people other than traditional comic book buyers. I recall seeing the collected editions pretty regularly in bookstores at a time when the graphic novel selection was still pretty limited in most bookstores. I suspect there are a lot of them out there and probably quite a bit of over-stock. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 26, 2023 7:39:23 GMT -5
Bartman: The Best of the Best(Bongo Comics, 1995) collecting Bartman #1-3, Itchy & Scratchy #3 and Simpsons Comics #5 The first story in this collection has our titular hero taking down an unscrupulous comics publisher who is giving the comic book shop guy limited print-run ‘defective’ comics so he can jack up the price for gullible buyers. In the second issue, he takes on the Penalizer, a costumed vigilante who metes out sadistic punishments to small-time offenders like kids spray-painting graffiti on walls or drunks belching on the sidewalk outside of bars. The third story is a crossover that starts in Itchy & Scratchy, continues in Simpsons Comics, and concludes in Bartman. It involves Itchy and Scratchy coming to life out of the TV screen and wreaking havoc in Springfield, including sabotaging the nuclear plant, so that a radiation leak gives a whole bunch of the city’s residents superpowers. It’s up to Bartman to figure out what’s going on and put everything right. These are the first Simpsons comics I’ve read, and I found them quite entertaining. It’s really interesting how much they are their own thing, rather than just being knock-off, watered-down stories in the style of the TV show (for example, in his ‘Bartman’ persona, Bart actually does properly heroic things and tends to be a bit smarter than he is in the show). They’re also very much comics about comics, in that they poke fun at what’s going on in other American comics at the time, esp. superhero comics, as well as the comics publishing and comics culture in general. In this regard, my hats off to the creative team, which mainly consists of Steve Vance, who penciled all of the stories and either scripted and/or co-plotted them, together with either Cindy Vance, Bill Morrison (who also did most of the inks) or Jan Strnad. Had this book growing up, read it cover to cover. One thing that did irk me though was that it didn't include the Bartman origin story from "Simpsons Comics & Stories #1" |
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Post by tonebone on Apr 26, 2023 14:06:31 GMT -5
Still working my way through the Fantagraphics Popeye books... I was detoured for a while due to eye problems.
What a hoot! The wordplay and characterizations are so well done! Not to mention the never-surpassed slapstick bigfoot cartooning... I just read the string of Sundays where Popeye fought a giant boxing gorilla. I laughed out loud, for real.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 27, 2023 12:47:08 GMT -5
Still working my way through the Fantagraphics Popeye books... I was detoured for a while due to eye problems. What a hoot! The wordplay and characterizations are so well done! Not to mention the never-surpassed slapstick bigfoot cartooning... I just read the string of Sundays where Popeye fought a giant boxing gorilla. I laughed out loud, for real. You can’t do much better than 1930s Popeye comics. I’ve currently got a collection from the 1930s that starts with Popeye as king of Spinachova, then goes into the first appearance of Eugene the Jeep, then the start of the epic search for Poopdeck Pappy with the crew consisting of Olive, Wimpy, Swee’ Pea, Eugene, Alice the Goon, Toar and a goof named Oscar who makes me laugh every time he appears. Popeye has acquired a ship that turns out to be haunted, prompting Popeye to admit that he’s afraid of spiriks and ghosks. I am genuinely laughing out loud A LOT! |
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