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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 21, 2015 15:07:29 GMT -5
I just started re-reading a bunch of the old JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA issues #s 100-110. I downloaded a bunch of them on Kindle for my 12-year-old son to read. And of course, all the JLA/JSA cross-overs are fun. I always was a fan of Dick Dillin's art on the title. My son's comments have been pretty interesting. Among other things, he said, "Dad, Superman is kind of ... weak in those stories." And I'd have to agree. I guess it's always been hard to write Superman in the JLA (what was Thor's line in AVENGERS 150-151? Something to the effect of "I am more powerful than the rest of you combined..."), but they took it to the extreme back then. Every villain has kryptonite or magic or something that seems to take him out of play. And, for Green Lantern, every villain turns yellow. It's a little comical after awhile. Yeah, but there's two JLA/JSA team-ups in there! And they're the best ones!
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 21, 2015 15:31:05 GMT -5
Ayesha a.k.a. She Who Must Be Obeyed, the "her" in that Fantastic Four Annual, is the title character of H. Rider Haggard's classic 1886 adventure novel She. So does her use here mean that Alan Quartermain is part of the Marvel Universe?
Cei-U! I summon THE great white hunter!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 22, 2015 9:51:11 GMT -5
Ayesha a.k.a. She Who Must Be Obeyed, the "her" in that Fantastic Four Annual, is the title character of H. Rider Haggard's classic 1886 adventure novel She. So does her use here mean that Alan Quartermain is part of the Marvel Universe? Cei-U! I summon THE great white hunter! Thanks for the reference. I have both Marvel Classic adaptation and have seen the movie itself before. I actually bought the comic first and then watched the movie and enjoyed them both but apparently have forgotten that bit. Looks like it time to refresh myself on both again.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 25, 2015 19:56:08 GMT -5
This year, from my library system, I've been reading many complete Vertigo series that I have criminally avoided in the past. So I've read Sandman, Fables, Preacher and Filth by Grant Morrison. All extremely enjoyed with the exception of Filth which was readable but a head-scratcher.
Now I just got a hold on the one and only DC archive of the first 10 issues of Sugar and Spike. What a refreshing blast of fresh air after all that serious gloom and doom. Its funny, its written for adults to enjoy as well as the kiddies and did I say that it was fun? That's worth repeating.
Its been 4 years since that archive edition has been released so it seems certain we won't see any more reprints of this series. That's not fun
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Post by The Cheat on Jul 26, 2015 14:50:43 GMT -5
Half way through the Alias omnibus. So. Much. Bendis-speak...
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Post by fanboystranger on Jul 26, 2015 19:16:59 GMT -5
Now I just got a hold on the one and only DC archive of the first 10 issues of Sugar and Spike. What a refreshing blast of fresh air after all that serious gloom and doom. Its funny, its written for adults to enjoy as well as the kiddies and did I say that it was fun? That's worth repeating.
Its been 4 years since that archive edition has been released so it seems certain we won't see any more reprints of this series. That's not fun I've heard rumors that DC is done with the archive format. They're going to go with HC omnibii for more popular classic runs and "something else" for other material.
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Post by spoon on Jul 27, 2015 19:37:14 GMT -5
I'm finally reading something that's sat on my "to read" pile for too long: the first huge Cerebus TPB. I'd previously read the first 2 or 3 issues. I've recently started from the big again, and I've read the first six stories.
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Post by fanboystranger on Jul 27, 2015 20:01:54 GMT -5
I'm finally reading something that's sat on my "to read" pile for too long: the first huge Cerebus TPB. I'd previously read the first 2 or 3 issues. I've recently started from the big again, and I've read the first six stories. The sixteen issues or so are kinda amusing, but Cerebus doesn't really get started until the issues towards the end of that volume. If I had to pick a moment, it's when Lord Julius starts to appear. He always makes the book.
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Post by berkley on Jul 28, 2015 1:23:30 GMT -5
P. Craig Russell's The Ring of the Nibelung, which feels too recent to be a classic but it's over 10 yrs old, so there we are.
I read this while listening to the opera cycle on which it's based and in retrospect this was a mistake: the same mistake as reading the book right before seeing the movie, because the movie will never coincide with whatever you imagined while reading the book. In this case it was Russell's images that didn't coincide with what I imagined, however vaguely, while listening to the Wagner.
So from this POV, I enjoyed the comic more when I read it the first time, when all I knew of Wagner's Ring was the scene in Apocalypse Now where they played the Ride of the Valkyries. OTOH, I think I'll appreciate Russell's Ring more the next time I read it, after having listened to the work on which it's based.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 8:51:52 GMT -5
P. Craig Russell's The Ring of the Nibelung, which feels too recent to be a classic but it's over 10 yrs old, so there we are. I read this while listening to the opera cycle on which it's based and in retrospect this was a mistake: the same mistake as reading the book right before seeing the movie, because the movie will never coincide with whatever you imagined while reading the book. In this case it was Russell's images that didn't coincide with what I imagined, however vaguely, while listening to the Wagner. So from this POV, I enjoyed the comic more when I read it the first time, when all I knew of Wagner's Ring was the scene in Apocalypse Now where they played the Ride of the Valkyries. OTOH, I think I'll appreciate Russell's Ring more the next time I read it, after having listened to the work on which it's based. Berk, Have you read this... the myth cycle/epic poem both are based on? -M
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Post by berkley on Jul 28, 2015 18:14:50 GMT -5
P. Craig Russell's The Ring of the Nibelung, which feels too recent to be a classic but it's over 10 yrs old, so there we are. I read this while listening to the opera cycle on which it's based and in retrospect this was a mistake: the same mistake as reading the book right before seeing the movie, because the movie will never coincide with whatever you imagined while reading the book. In this case it was Russell's images that didn't coincide with what I imagined, however vaguely, while listening to the Wagner. So from this POV, I enjoyed the comic more when I read it the first time, when all I knew of Wagner's Ring was the scene in Apocalypse Now where they played the Ride of the Valkyries. OTOH, I think I'll appreciate Russell's Ring more the next time I read it, after having listened to the work on which it's based. Berk, Have you read this... the myth cycle/epic poem both are based on? -M Yes, indeed - and also the Volsunga Saga, a Norse variant of the Brunnhilde/Siegried/Sigurd legend.
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Post by Gene on Jul 28, 2015 19:29:26 GMT -5
I just finished Daredevil: Born Again. Those are some damn fine comics.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 28, 2015 19:40:51 GMT -5
P. Craig Russell's The Ring of the Nibelung, which feels too recent to be a classic but it's over 10 yrs old, so there we are. I read this while listening to the opera cycle on which it's based and in retrospect this was a mistake: the same mistake as reading the book right before seeing the movie, because the movie will never coincide with whatever you imagined while reading the book. In this case it was Russell's images that didn't coincide with what I imagined, however vaguely, while listening to the Wagner. So from this POV, I enjoyed the comic more when I read it the first time, when all I knew of Wagner's Ring was the scene in Apocalypse Now where they played the Ride of the Valkyries. OTOH, I think I'll appreciate Russell's Ring more the next time I read it, after having listened to the work on which it's based. I read the hardcover a few months ago and once passed the initial very farovable opinion, I was... a little disappointed. I expected the art to be pretty much the same as in Russell's short adaptation of the meeting between Fafnir and Siegfried in Epic magazine #2, but it turned out to be less fanciful, not as lush, less... magical, I guess. Some pages are gorgeous, make no mistake, but I rarely had the impression I was looking at gods. Perhaps that was coluntary on the creator's part? Lacking the lyrical dimension of the Wagner operas, the script also makes very clear a few unfortunate aspects of the tale: Wotan (no matter how you decide to spell it) is an arrivist, Siegfried is a complete dick, and Brünhilde is something of a shrew. It's hard to care for what happens to such unpleasant people! I also didn't really feel Wotan's deep anguish at having to punish his daughter, while listening to the final sce scenene of Die Walküre always makes me cry. He seemed annoyed, yeah, but not shattered. I had been somewhat disappointed by the rather conventional adaptation done by DC years ago (by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane), and thought Russell (who's had more experience adapting operas) would give me THE comic-book adaptation of the tetralogy... but this isn't it yet.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 28, 2015 19:54:25 GMT -5
I'd been reading Steve Gerber's "Man-Thing" series from the 70's over the past few days for the first time. He really did some revolutionary things with his storytelling, and it never looked better than when Mike Ploog was drawing it. Not every issue was a winner, but they were all at least interesting and different.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 29, 2015 17:57:54 GMT -5
I'll have to check out Gerber's run on Man-Thing as I'm about half way through his Howard the Duck and am really enjoying it.
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