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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 2, 2015 15:19:58 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that after Klaw defeated the Wasp, he imprisoned her in a baby-food jar!
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Post by The Cheat on Jul 2, 2015 15:40:24 GMT -5
Got a couple of weeks off work, so busy blasting through my Epic Collection backlog. Just finished Wolverine - Madripoor Nights and, much to my surprise, I really enjoyed it. I'm not really a Wolverine fan, but Claremont does a great job of taking him away from the X-Men and setting him up in a new world, with a strong supporting cast around him. Peter David takes over near the end, but not sure if that was just a fill in since I believe the book was bi-monthly at the time (?). If Claremont does indeed return, I'm definitely looking forward to reading more when (if?) the second Epic Collection comes out.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jul 2, 2015 21:17:12 GMT -5
Finally getting some time to read. Here is a taste of what pages I have graced recently.
Frank Miller Daredevil. I recently scored issues 159 to 180 (minus 168) so I am plugging through those. Great art and solid stories as I am sure everyone knows. Standout issue for me so far have been 163 and 164. Loved the origin take and Ben deciding not to publish Matts secret.
Moon Knight 2 and 3 from the first series. Just wanted to get some Moon Knight in my collection. Nothing special here although issue 2 was a sad tale. Also I did not know MK was so chill with killing people. Two people die somewhat as a result of his interference, even though they are criminals.
Finally, I picked up the Night Force issues that a friend had gotten for me. Sadly it's from the series in the 90s. Oh well. I have the first 12 issues and Wolfman still had his hands on it so I will likely keep them. Issue one was just intriguing enough to keep going.
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Post by The Cheat on Jul 3, 2015 15:39:18 GMT -5
Iron Man - War Games done and dusted today.
It's weird, I assumed I'd grown to dislike JRJRs art recently because he'd changed his style, however re-reading his early 90s stuff, I'm thinking now that maybe it's me that's changed. Lots of splash pages, and big blocky character work made this a bit of chore TBH. Plot wise, a decent read. Seemed very much the epitome of Iron Man stories to me, which makes me think maybe this was the basis for a lot of the 90s cartoon, which was my introduction to the character.
Onwards to West Coast Avengers omni 1 next...
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 3, 2015 18:07:47 GMT -5
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore. Re-reading it in one sitting, it's just amazing dialogue penned by Alan Moore. If you were into highlighting passages, this book's dialogue box would be covered almost in yellow highlighting pen. Ambiguous ending. We somehow thought that perhaps Batman killed the Joker, but then at the time the Joker was still alive in the DC universe. So we didn't think so. We thought he might have killed him because Alan Moore meant for it to be a one shot deal from a different universe in DC. But then, Barbara was paralyzed for years, so it's a no for that aspect. I am still thinking what happened at the end. What do you guys think? I've only recently been introduced to the 'Batman kills the Joker' theory, via Grant Morrison on Kevin Smith's podcast, and I think it's my preferred reading of the story now. Having re-read the whole story recently (after finally unearthing my copy of the first printing), I found the whole grimdark tone of the piece to be rather ghastly, and frankly unpleasant to read. The art is brilliant, of course, but the story is far from my favourite work by The Original Writer.
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 3, 2015 18:10:08 GMT -5
I've been reading the collection of stories drawn by Steve Ditko for Creepy and Eerie magazines during his time at Warren, after he left Marvel. I reckon this would have to be the best artwork of his entire career (that I've seen so far).
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 3, 2015 21:59:20 GMT -5
I've been reading the collection of stories drawn by Steve Ditko for Creepy and Eerie magazines during his time at Warren, after he left Marvel. I reckon this would have to be the best artwork of his entire career (that I've seen so far).
I've seen only a smattering of it. But that's a strong endorsement. Can't really go wrong with Ditko after all, can you?
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Post by Confessor on Jul 4, 2015 8:50:21 GMT -5
I've been reading the collection of stories drawn by Steve Ditko for Creepy and Eerie magazines during his time at Warren, after he left Marvel. I reckon this would have to be the best artwork of his entire career (that I've seen so far). Where have you been reading this stuff? Has it been collected in TPB or hardcover format?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 4, 2015 10:26:21 GMT -5
I read the first two Damage Control minis... great stuff.. just the right amount of silliness, IMO. Weird thing, though... the bits with the Kingpin called him 'Wilton' Fisk. Was that just bad editing, or did it change at some point?
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 4, 2015 12:07:39 GMT -5
I'm getting to the end of the Thor Epic collection that collects Thor #154 to #174. It started out truly epic Thor with Mangog and Ragnarok and the we had a bunch of issues where Galactic was practically a supporting character, and those are also pretty awesome. Then the series stumbles a bit at the end because Marvel adopted a short-lived policy of done-in-one stories, and some of these are a bit on the mediocre side.
I did however like the story where Don Blake is examining a Thor impersonator with the circus - and because it's a circus and because this is the Marvel Universe, it can only be the Circus of Crime! Ulik the non-Internet troll shows up and the Ringmaster hypnotizes him and makes him a circus performer! And hilarity ensues!
And the one-shot Wrecker story is pretty good.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 4, 2015 17:15:15 GMT -5
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Post by spoon on Jul 4, 2015 17:38:35 GMT -5
After a long delay, I've finally gotten through Outsiders #28, completing the 1980s Outsiders comics. It went out kind of weakly. A lot of stuff happened, but it was a whimper that sounds like a bang.
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 4, 2015 18:24:20 GMT -5
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Post by Spike-X on Jul 4, 2015 18:25:27 GMT -5
I read the first two Damage Control minis... great stuff.. just the right amount of silliness, IMO. Weird thing, though... the bits with the Kingpin called him 'Wilton' Fisk. Was that just bad editing, or did it change at some point? No, he's always been called Wilson. Somebody done screwed up.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 4, 2015 21:57:16 GMT -5
I thought so, but it was consistently done (3 or 4 times), so I thought maybe it was intentional.
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