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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 15:12:15 GMT -5
Human Disastrophism is my favorite Palomar story so far.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 15:12:38 GMT -5
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Post by crazyoldhermit on May 19, 2014 20:48:54 GMT -5
Working through my new Roger Stern Spider-Man omnibus. I just finished Spectacular Spider-Man #53.
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Post by Ozymandias on May 20, 2014 4:04:24 GMT -5
Working through my new Roger Stern Spider-Man omnibus. I just finished Spectacular Spider-Man #53. That's one of the no-Stern issues, that ruin the omnibus for me. In any case, starting with #55, you get to the 5.4 to 6/10 stuff. Always leaving out of consideration the fill-ins. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 20, 2014 7:19:02 GMT -5
Just about to start my third Carl Bark's Duck's hardcover " A Christmas in Shacktown."
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Post by Ozymandias on May 20, 2014 7:27:45 GMT -5
I read "A Christmas for Shacktown" when I was a little kid, one of the few Duck's stories I still remember and my 1st choice for a recommendation, no doubt.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 20, 2014 7:33:52 GMT -5
You're right, Hoosier, about the early Bronze Age Justice League. Pretty much everything between Gardner Fox's last issue (#65) and Len Wein's first (#100) is, to say the very least, uninspired. That's when it's not dreadful. His JLA run is Denny O'Neil's worst work (you can tell he didn't feel comfortable writing a team book). Robert Kanigher's issue is the typical hackwork he produced when obviously writing for the paycheck. Then there's Mike Friedrich. Oh lord, the first half of Friedrich's run includes some of the crappiest comics I've ever read. However, things pick up with his last four issues (#96-99) with #99 being the stand-out. I'm not quite the Dillin fan you and others here are but once Joe Giella takes over the inks from Sid Greene, he produces some of the best art of his career. That balances out the bad writing somewhat. So good luck plowing through that Showcase volume. I hope you enjoy it more than I did.
Cei-U!
I summon the humbs down!
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Post by MDG on May 20, 2014 10:22:45 GMT -5
...I'm not quite the Dillin fan you and others here are but once Joe Giella takes over the inks from Sid Greene, he produces some of the best art of his career. That balances out the bad writing somewhat. So good luck plowing through that Showcase volume. I hope you enjoy it more than I did. Cei-U! I summon the thumbs down! I always thought Giella's inks held down the art, but I'm a big Sid Greene fan. I wonder if the thinking was that Dillin could handle a group book after drawing Blackhawk for so long, and that Giella knew most of the characters from inking the solo books. But I don't think it worked. It's a little better when Mclaughlin inks, and looks pretty good the time Girordano inked a giant issue. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 20, 2014 10:46:20 GMT -5
Just about to start my third Carl Bark's Duck's hardcover " A Christmas in Shacktown." made one of my 12 Days of Christmas lists. One of my favorite stories. |
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Post by crazyoldhermit on May 20, 2014 11:15:06 GMT -5
Working through my new Roger Stern Spider-Man omnibus. I just finished Spectacular Spider-Man #53. That's one of the no-Stern issues, that ruin the omnibus for me. In any case, starting with #55, you get to the 5.4 to 6/10 stuff. Always leaving out of consideration the fill-ins. 5.4-6/10? I hope the material gets better than that at some point. |
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Post by Cei-U! on May 20, 2014 11:15:08 GMT -5
I always thought Giella's inks held down the art, but I'm a big Sid Greene fan. I wonder if the thinking was that Dillin could handle a group book after drawing Blackhawk for so long, and that Giella knew most of the characters from inking the solo books. But I don't think it worked. It's a little better when Mclaughlin inks, and looks pretty good the time Girordano inked a giant issue. I've learned to like Greene's inks, especially over Gil Kane, but I don't think he and Dillin mesh. I like Giella's inks over some pencillers (Dillin, Kane, Swan) better than others (Infantino, Moldoff) but he's never been a favorite. And I agree: Gordano was Dillin's best inker. As for why those talents got the JLA assignment, I'm sure you're right that Dillin got the nod because he was used to juggling multiple leads. With Giella, though, I'm fairly sure it was simply a question of availability. Cei-U! I summon the pens and brushes! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 20, 2014 11:18:18 GMT -5
That's one of the no-Stern issues, that ruin the omnibus for me. In any case, starting with #55, you get to the 5.4 to 6/10 stuff. Always leaving out of consideration the fill-ins. 5.4-6/10? I hope the material gets better than that at some point. Keep in mind that Ozymandias' ratings seem to default to a 5/10. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 20, 2014 11:45:27 GMT -5
Yes, Simonson is a major Turok fan. He's a massive Russ Manning fanboy, which, quite frankly, everyone should be. He did some covers during the Valiant days, but couldn't commit to a ongoing run. Right now, he's doing his own thing, but Nick Bertozzi's quite good at luring talent in. (Although the current Greg Pak series is quite good.)
Hondo, you need Secret History. It's basically Rex Mundi with better art and no goofy superhero stuff at the end. Also, if you like Jonathan Hickman's stuff, here's where he steals it from.
Also, sorry I lost your original posts. Tried to scale back to the pertinent elements, but deleted everything. Blackhawks won today, so a little bit tipsey.
Lol I've done the same thing after taking Ambien  Totally interested in Secret History. Thanks fanboystranger ! |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 20, 2014 11:51:39 GMT -5
That's one of the no-Stern issues, that ruin the omnibus for me. In any case, starting with #55, you get to the 5.4 to 6/10 stuff. Always leaving out of consideration the fill-ins. 5.4-6/10? I hope the material gets better than that at some point. Don't worry, the Stern-Romita stuff is the best Spider-Man ever. Excluding the annual, they don't fall below 6.5/10. |
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Post by Ozymandias on May 20, 2014 12:37:54 GMT -5
5.4-6/10? I hope the material gets better than that at some point. Keep in mind that Ozymandias' ratings seem to default to a 5/10. I was also labeled as harsh in the old CBR board, because of my "low" average rating, but it's my believe that artistic skills are distributed like many other human characteristics, and that a graphical representation of rated material (when rating on a ten point scale) should look like a Gaussian curve, with a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 1.428571. |
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