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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 20, 2015 13:09:18 GMT -5
Received and read my copy of Glamor Girls of Don Flowers.
Fun book of panels that are very very much of their time, late 50s and into the 60s.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 20, 2015 14:34:23 GMT -5
I just noticed Hoosier giving Jungle Tales some love... I LOOOVVE Lorna. I greatly enjoyed the Masterworks that had (almost) all the Lorna stories in them... between the epic art and the great snarkiness on gender roles, it's just an amazing read.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 21, 2015 16:46:31 GMT -5
Werewolf by Night #17 May 1974 Anyway, he grabs up Topaz and carries her down from the tower. She's in no danger from Werewolf by Night. No, not because she gave him water. Topaz is psychic and she can commune with Werewolf by Night on a very basic level and she sometimes makes suggestions. Like "Don't tear me to pieces" or "Go get me a latte." They evade the police in a corridor, Werewolf by Night turns into Jack Russell, enabling Topaz and bare-chested Jack Russell to just walk past the French police because they were expecting a blonde psychic and a Werewolf by Night and not a blonde psychic and a bare-chested American wearing green pants. This was written by Mike Friedrich. The art was provided by Don Perlin, who I've come to really like over the years. ... The real test is, yeah, I do want to know what happens next. I am curious about Baron Thunder's motivations. I hope there's an Essential Werewolf by Night collection and that my library system has it. I think Don Perlin's artwork really came into its own on the WbN series when he started doing his own inks. It's fun to see an appreciative review by someone who hasn't read the comic before. maybe you should think about doing a Werewolf by Night review thread - the back issues shouldn't be too expensive, apart from a few exceptions like the first appearance of Moon Knight. There iare two Essential Werewolf by Night volumes but unfortunately my library system doesn't have them. And I'm unlikely to start putting any money into a WBN collection because I don't have that much money for back issues and I'm a lot more likely to finish my Kamandi collection (four issues left!) and get a few more issues of Detective Comics before I start seriously collecting WBN. But I have Werewolf by Night #13 and #14, the two-issue storyline that introduced Topaz. And I also have Tomb of Dracula #64, where Dracula and Topaz meet SATAN!!!! I was thinking of reviewing those in the near future.
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Post by Gene on Nov 21, 2015 21:21:22 GMT -5
I pulled X-Men: Inferno for this weekend's reading, and I found a copy of Giant-Size Creatures while sorting long boxes that's next on the list.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 22:06:08 GMT -5
Been reading Mark Waid's run of Captain America from the late 90's. Pretty good stuff with some nice Adam Kubert art. Had never read them before but I'm enjoying them more than I thought I would considering I'd read that it's not up to par with his work on the title that closed off the previous volume. I think it just as good.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 21, 2015 22:16:45 GMT -5
Been reading Mark Waid's run of Captain America from the late 90's. Pretty good stuff with some nice Adam Kubert art. Had never read them before but I'm enjoying them more than I thought I would considering I'd read that it's not up to par with his work on the title that closed off the previous volume. I think it just as good. Waid/Garney run at the end of Vol 1 and start of Vol 3 with Kubert coming in after Garney are among the very scarce Cap comics that have entertained me. At least in his own title.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 22, 2015 12:21:36 GMT -5
I pulled X-Men: Inferno for this weekend's reading, and I found a copy of Giant-Size Creatures while sorting long boxes that's next on the list. I have this and Giant-Size Werewolf by Night #2 to #4. Giant-Size Creatures #1 is SO AWESOME! Batty and Befuddling Bronze Age Bafflements! First appearance of Tigra! Werewolf by Night! Cat People! I love the art too, so you also get Don Perlin and really good Vince Colletta inking! Hail Hydra!
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Post by Confessor on Nov 29, 2015 7:53:07 GMT -5
Earlier this week I read the fourth volume (as far as the English translations go anyway -- I think this was the thirteenth volume overall upon its original publication) of the Blake & Mortimer series. This is the first volume in the English translations not to have been created by the series' founder Edgar P. Jacobs and is instead written by Jean Van Hamme and drawn by Ted Benoit. I must say that this was a really great read. The mystery and espionage in it was really gripping and, oh, that artwork! Simply gorgeous and very much in the Hergé/Jacobs "clear line" style. This was definitely a worthy continuation of Jacobs' work and I'm looking forward to picking up the next volume.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 2, 2015 19:59:29 GMT -5
You guys have mentioned Astro City in the column fairly recently and it was on sale at Comixology. I had read a few issues here and there but knew the entire series together would be more satisfying. This will be on my extremely short list of comics I'm willing to buy new. Hope it never stops. I love the continuity and world building Busiek and company have put together.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 21:03:18 GMT -5
Been checking out free webcomics with my iPad, reading through Elfquest where I left off in the 90's right now.
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 3, 2015 11:00:26 GMT -5
I pulled X-Men: Inferno for this weekend's reading, and I found a copy of Giant-Size Creatures while sorting long boxes that's next on the list. I have this and Giant-Size Werewolf by Night #2 to #4. Giant-Size Creatures #1 is SO AWESOME! Batty and Befuddling Bronze Age Bafflements! First appearance of Tigra! Werewolf by Night! Cat People! I love the art too, so you also get Don Perlin and really good Vince Colletta inking! Hail Hydra! I'd never heard of Giant-Size Creatures #1, but I just checked it out, and it looks great, plus it's actually available on Marvel Unlimited! Yahoo! This is going on my reading list.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 3, 2015 11:03:15 GMT -5
Finished The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier last night. Although it's not really quite old enough to be a "classic" comic, I guess. It was an entertaining read though, while not being a patch on the first two series or some of the later installments. However, I really enjoyed the book within a book concept and the level of world building inherent in some bits of the Black Dossier is quite remarkable. I loved seeing Moore's less-than-sympathetic take on James Bond too, in all his creepy, misogynistic glory. Oh, and the scenes in the Birmingham spaceport, with cameos from Dan Dare and his companion Digby, were great. Not the best LOEG book, but very enjoyable nonetheless.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 3, 2015 11:19:15 GMT -5
I liked, but did not love Black Dossier. Parts of it were a slog. The take on Jimmy Bond was definitely a highlight.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 3, 2015 11:19:08 GMT -5
Finished The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier last night. Although it's not really quite old enough to be a "classic" comic, I guess. It was an entertaining read though, while not being a patch on the first two series or some of the later installments. However, I really enjoyed the book within a book concept and the level of world building inherent in some bits of the Black Dossier is quite remarkable. I loved seeing Moore's less-than-sympathetic take on James Bond too, in all his creepy, misogynistic glory. Oh, and the scenes in the Birmingham spaceport, with cameos from Dan Dare and his companion Digby, were great. Not the best LOEG book, but very enjoyable nonetheless. I love it. I've had it for four or five years and I still haven't read all the text parts. I've read most of them. Every once in a while, I pick it up again, skim through it, read some of the best comic-booky scenes and then tackle the next text piece. I almost always read the one that puts Bertie Wooster in a Lovecraft story. It is hilarious! I would read an entire novel of that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2015 3:53:10 GMT -5
So I am continuing to focus on reading runs or trades I already own, rotating through things in short bursts. Four days into December I had a couple days off and read a lot of stuff so far while catching up on laundry and hanging around the house.
Moved past the Grell tenure in the Burkett/Jurgens era of Warlord, read #71-80 plus Annual 2. It's solid stuff, but not spectacular and it seems to be missing something that the Grell run had. Jurgens art is ok, but inconsistent and extremely susceptible to the variations of inkers. There have been a couple of inkers over him so far (Adkins, Bob Smith and others, and the work varies widely in quality based on the inker. His story telling and visual narrative isn't as compelling as Grell's either (though Grell was gone from the art for a while-and mostly absent form the writing as Sharon ghosted a lot of it), but it's not bad. Burkett is a solid plotter, but he doesn't quite have the voice of Warlord down in his scripting.
Working my way through Marvel's Conan and in the Smith Thomas era, read 9-12 this month. I've read most of the Smith run before (I had the Essential Conan volume Marvel did, the Conan Classic reprints, and the first 2 Dark Horse Chronicles volumes) but this is the first time reading it in color on newsprint in its original form (the Classics used a different printing process iirc). Enjoying it, and the letters pages are a trip.
Read the first 2 volumes of Hellboy-Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil. Love, love love Hellboy. I am missing some volumes (moreso the BPRD stuff than Hellboy but I am missing vol. 5 of Hellboy), so I need to pick up some volumes to fill in holes. Well Christmas is coming).
Am working my way through Bone and loving it. Just read book 5 earlier tonight. I had read Vol. 1 on a few occasions but never pushed past that initial volume, and this time I got the all in one volume and did so, and boy am I glad I did. I am absolutely delighted by this series so far and it was in volume 2 that I realized how much I liked it.
Still reading Silver and Golden Age stuff I have too, a half dozen Martian Manhunter stories from the Showcase volumes (form 'Tec 245-250)that pretty much read all the same unfortunately, some Iron Man form Tales of Suspense 54-57 (including the intro of Hawkeye) fromt he Epic collection that are fun but still a little samey, and the Batman stories from 'Tec 39-41 form the Golden Age omnibus (I skipped what was in the first Chronicles volume as I had read that last year).
Rounded it out with a couple Bronze Age Doc Stranges (30-31 with Stern's first brief run trying to tie up the aftermath of Englehart's ouster and Wolfman's bungling of the storyline that had been in progress. It's a low point for me in that first series, but the Tom Sutton art is nice. And lastly, making my way through Jon Sable Freelance, with issues 39-41, including a little MAltese Falcon riff that was a lot of fun (getting my Grell fix here I guess).
So it's been a jam packed December reading so far, but I am enjoying most of what I read, and even the duds ahve something to offer like art or just plain Silver Agey goofiness.
-M
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