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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2016 14:19:08 GMT -5
To be honest, I prefer pretty much any other Batman team to O'Neil and Adams.
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Post by ziza9 on Feb 23, 2016 14:40:22 GMT -5
I love Demolition Man! Utterly stupid film, but so much fun. I can watch this or Freejack over and over. Both enjoyable guilty pleasures for me. |
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Post by Mormel on Feb 23, 2016 15:06:37 GMT -5
With names like John Spartan and Simon Phoenix, how can you go wrong?
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Post by ziza9 on Feb 23, 2016 15:12:20 GMT -5
With names like John Spartan and Simon Phoenix, how can you go wrong? One of my favorite comic book movies that isn't really based on a comic book. It's perfectly over the top and fun. It's a movie that knows exactly what it is and revels in it. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 23, 2016 18:28:40 GMT -5
Oh, yeah. Ultimates 3.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 23, 2016 20:27:28 GMT -5
There was some controversy about the gay Rawhide Kid miniseries from 2003. I thought it was hysterically funny.
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 23, 2016 22:00:11 GMT -5
The Justice League books post-Giffen/DeMatteis through Zero Hour are still some of my favorites. I don't believe anyone else has ever said that... Certainly not my faves, but aside from the odd dead-end Power Girl pregnancy storyline I like 'em fine, at least until Vado took over JLA. Jurgens was solid if sometimes stiff (as usual), Jones at least had some interesting ideas (though I found JLE paled compared to his GL books and El Dorado, at least after #50), and I liked the set-up (quickly abandoned) and rotating writers on JLTF. |
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Post by foxley on Feb 23, 2016 23:09:38 GMT -5
I don't know if it's hated so much as ignored/forgotten, but I really enjoyed the 1990s Silver Sable series, and it's a title I hear almost no one else ever mention.
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 23, 2016 23:18:57 GMT -5
I don't think it had much to do with being "bad", but more like it was drowning in a sea of similarly themed titles at the time
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Feb 24, 2016 0:32:58 GMT -5
All the Dredd talk from earlier on reminds me that Robocop was essentially a failed attempt to get a Dredd movie going.
Dont mind either of the 2 films, though Stallones is definitely an acquired taste, Urban was better, but they both missed the opportunity to use the humourous slice of life pieces the book did so well to commentate on our own societies. The use of Dredd in a serious and straight faced story just doesnt work without the ridiculous extremes MegaCity inhabitants go to.
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Post by berkley on Feb 24, 2016 0:57:44 GMT -5
I like the idea of Axa but I'm not a huge fan of Romero's style. I don't feel a strong dislike for it but it isn't an attraction for me in itself - and for a character like Axa, the artwork is more important to me than usual.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 24, 2016 0:58:29 GMT -5
I don't know if it's hated so much as ignored/forgotten, but I really enjoyed the 1990s Silver Sable series, and it's a title I hear almost no one else ever mention. I can't say I've ever heard people say they hate it, but I tend to assume they do. I'm pretty sure you're the first person I've ever heard claim to enjoy it. |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 24, 2016 1:01:55 GMT -5
 This much maligned super delayed series that produced ten issues spanning 3 calendar years is one of my most enjoyable reads in comic books. Perhaps my absence in reading comic books from late 1988 to late 2006 helped me appreciate this story of a menacing Batman on the brink of lunacy. This was a very polarizing title at the time of publishing, but I really enjoyed it. After all the title character of the comic book says it all "I'< THE GODDAMN BATMAN!" Now we're talking. That's a story that everybody hates. This thread needs more entries like that. Entries where I can tell the person it's a terrible story and they should feel bad for liking it. On that note, it's a terrible story and you should feel bad for liking it. |
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Post by foxley on Feb 24, 2016 1:33:39 GMT -5
I don't know if it's hated so much as ignored/forgotten, but I really enjoyed the 1990s Silver Sable series, and it's a title I hear almost no one else ever mention. I can't say I've ever heard people say they hate it, but I tend to assume they do. I'm pretty sure you're the first person I've ever heard claim to enjoy it. That's me: a trendsetter!  Maybe because the book wasn't one of its flagship titles, Marvel even did a little exploring of social issues in the book. The supporting cast included a lesbian and a character with AIDS, both of whom portrayed sympathetically, which certainly wasn't the norm in the 90s. |
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Post by sabongero on Feb 24, 2016 9:25:30 GMT -5
This much maligned super delayed series that produced ten issues spanning 3 calendar years is one of my most enjoyable reads in comic books. Perhaps my absence in reading comic books from late 1988 to late 2006 helped me appreciate this story of a menacing Batman on the brink of lunacy. This was a very polarizing title at the time of publishing, but I really enjoyed it. After all the title character of the comic book says it all "I'< THE GODDAMN BATMAN!" Now we're talking. That's a story that everybody hates. This thread needs more entries like that. Entries where I can tell the person it's a terrible story and they should feel bad for liking it. On that note, it's a terrible story and you should feel bad for liking it. That's the funniest thing. I realized by issue #5 that it is a bad story. The women's portrayal was so bad that I was thinking was this done on purpose by Frank Miller? And I've never seen a portrayal of Batman as an arsehole, that instead of hating it, it came out as somewhat refreshing. But at the same time it was so different and the Jim Lee Lee eye candy illustrations mostly left me looking at the drawings in each issue as if I am looking at a gallery of posters. It was something else. Hmmmm... this polarizing title would be a fantastic review in this forum, just to see how much venom it can draw from the members. I remember people really hating this and at the same time others loving it drawn by the illustrations of Jim Lee. |
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