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Post by Action Ace on Dec 14, 2015 16:17:55 GMT -5
Astro City is the best ongoing comic book series I've ever read.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 22:19:18 GMT -5
Flipping through Archie Archives right now. I have so many 1930's-1940's collections open right now. Archie, Batman, Mickey Mouse, Dick Tracy. The strip collections take way longer for me to get through than the comic collections, but I'm loving all the old stuff.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 15, 2015 0:10:55 GMT -5
Flipping through Archie Archives right now. I have so many 1930's-1940's collections open right now. Archie, Batman, Mickey Mouse, Dick Tracy. The strip collections take way longer for me to get through than the comic collections, but I'm loving all the old stuff. What era Dick Tracy?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 1:34:18 GMT -5
Flipping through Archie Archives right now. I have so many 1930's-1940's collections open right now. Archie, Batman, Mickey Mouse, Dick Tracy. The strip collections take way longer for me to get through than the comic collections, but I'm loving all the old stuff. What era Dick Tracy? 1930's. It's very interesting seeing so many Batman villains before Batman even existed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 7:35:04 GMT -5
Still reading out of this: Last night, I read the Supergirl issue where Saturn Girl and Triplicate Girl visit her and take her back to try out for the Legion again. Good fun! Also read the first half of the issue of Superboy where Mon-El was introduced. I have to read the second half to find out why he's not truly Superboy's brother, though. This stuff is fantastic.
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Post by MDG on Dec 15, 2015 10:02:17 GMT -5
I just finished a short collection of late-60s Secret Agent X-9 dailies by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. It was OK, but that's about it. Stories were pretty perfunctory--spies smuggling secrets in paintings,kidnapping a princess and replacing her with an imposter, etc.--and don't leave a lot of room for character. Williamson's art, of course, ranges from very, very good to frikkin' gorgeous. Just wish there was more to get involved in.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 15, 2015 17:00:54 GMT -5
Still reading out of this: Last night, I read the Supergirl issue where Saturn Girl and Triplicate Girl visit her and take her back to try out for the Legion again. Good fun! Also read the first half of the issue of Superboy where Mon-El was introduced. I have to read the second half to find out why he's not truly Superboy's brother, though. This stuff is fantastic. At one time, I had Volumes 1, 4 and 5, but I sold them when I moved. I've been thinking about getting Volumes 2 and 3 because there's a bunch in there that I've never read.
Yes, it is great. The Legion was never better. I think part of the reason I'm not as impressed with the Keith Giffen issues any more (I thought they were great when they first came out) is that I've read too much 1960s Legion in the years since.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 20:07:37 GMT -5
Still reading out of this: Last night, I read the Supergirl issue where Saturn Girl and Triplicate Girl visit her and take her back to try out for the Legion again. Good fun! Also read the first half of the issue of Superboy where Mon-El was introduced. I have to read the second half to find out why he's not truly Superboy's brother, though. This stuff is fantastic. At one time, I had Volumes 1, 4 and 5, but I sold them when I moved. I've been thinking about getting Volumes 2 and 3 because there's a bunch in there that I've never read.
Yes, it is great. The Legion was never better. I think part of the reason I'm not as impressed with the Keith Giffen issues any more (I thought they were great when they first came out) is that I've read too much 1960s Legion in the years since.
See, late 70s-early 80s LoSH will always have that special place in my heart because that is the LoSH I read first. Grand bronze age, lengthy, windy, dramatic stories that are so very soap opera-like. I'll read it alllll. I don't care.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 15, 2015 22:03:25 GMT -5
bought early Savage Dragon but haven't read them yet I have the entire run from 1-209 and the minis.I love that book.
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Post by berkley on Dec 16, 2015 3:14:50 GMT -5
I just finished a short collection of late-60s Secret Agent X-9 dailies by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. It was OK, but that's about it. Stories were pretty perfunctory--spies smuggling secrets in paintings,kidnapping a princess and replacing her with an imposter, etc.--and don't leave a lot of room for character. Williamson's art, of course, ranges from very, very good to frikkin' gorgeous. Just wish there was more to get involved in. I think this is partly to do with the nature of newspaper strips, where each strip of four panels or so has to have a mini-cliffhanger, a tough restriction for an espionage thriller. I think Peter O'Donnell in his Modesty Blaise strip pulled it off about as well as it's possible to do within those constraints, but this perception could be influenced by my familiarity with the characters from having read the novels. Be that as it may, I agree that when I read the Goodwin/Williamson Corrigan I'm mainly interested in Williamson's exceptionally beautiful artwork and not so much in Goodwin's writing, though the latter was never less than competent. Myself, I just finished reading Phillippe Druillet's Les 6 Voyages de Lone Sloane, partly to help determine my choices for this year's 12 Days of Xmas thread. Druillet's an artist I've been fascinated with since seeing his work in the early days of Heavy Metal, but until now I've never sat down and read any of his books in their entirety. This first book was episodic, made up of six 8-page stories, as the title would lead one to expect. Somehow or other I've become so familiar with these images over the years that this almost felt like a re-read - a feeling reinforced by the fact that Druillet is playing with a lot of tried and true SF/fantasy tropes. I had been planning to move on to some other things after finishing this but find myself under its spell to the extent that I think I might go on to the next Lone Sloane book, Delirius, right away .
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 4:09:14 GMT -5
I just finished a short collection of late-60s Secret Agent X-9 dailies by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. It was OK, but that's about it. Stories were pretty perfunctory--spies smuggling secrets in paintings,kidnapping a princess and replacing her with an imposter, etc.--and don't leave a lot of room for character. Williamson's art, of course, ranges from very, very good to frikkin' gorgeous. Just wish there was more to get involved in. I think this is partly to do with the nature of newspaper strips, where each strip of four panels or so has to have a mini-cliffhanger, a tough restriction for an espionage thriller. I think Peter O'Donnell in his Modesty Blaise strip pulled it off about as well as it's possible to do within those constraints, but this perception could be influenced by my familiarity with the characters from having read the novels. Be that as it may, I agree that when I read the Goodwin/Williamson Corrigan I'm mainly interested in Williamson's exceptionally beautiful artwork and not so much in Goodwin's writing, though the latter was never less than competent. Myself, I just finished reading Phillippe Druillet's Les 6 Voyages de Lone Sloane, partly to help determine my choices for this year's 12 Days of Xmas thread. Druillet's an artist I've been fascinated with since seeing his work in the early days of Heavy Metal, but until now I've never sat down and read any of his books in their entirety. This first book was episodic, made up of six 8-page stories, as the title would lead one to expect. Somehow or other I've become so familiar with these images over the years that this almost felt like a re-read - a feeling reinforced by the fact that Druillet is playing with a lot of tried and true SF/fantasy tropes. I had been planning to move on to some other things after finishing this but find myself under its spell to the extent that I think I might go on to the next Lone Sloane book, Delirius, right away .I'm looking to get Delierius as well, Amazon has an available date for the new edition of Dec 22 on it, so I am waiting until it is available to order it just in case (it's on my wish list and it is the holiday season). The new edition of Delirius 2 isn't due until the late spring/early summer though. -M
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 17, 2015 8:33:48 GMT -5
At one time, I had Volumes 1, 4 and 5, but I sold them when I moved. I've been thinking about getting Volumes 2 and 3 because there's a bunch in there that I've never read.
Yes, it is great. The Legion was never better. I think part of the reason I'm not as impressed with the Keith Giffen issues any more (I thought they were great when they first came out) is that I've read too much 1960s Legion in the years since.
See, late 70s-early 80s LoSH will always have that special place in my heart because that is the LoSH I read first. Grand bronze age, lengthy, windy, dramatic stories that are so very soap opera-like. I'll read it alllll. I don't care. Me too! I started reading the Legion in 1978 and was forever hooked. I re-read my Legion stories a few years ago after decades away, and they held up very well. I loved it!
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 17, 2015 9:54:24 GMT -5
Legion in the 70s and 80s was magnificent. Cockrum and Grell on art for years, then the Jim Sherman and Mike Nasser stuff, a Starlin story, Paul Levitz on the typewriter, and then the glory of Giffen, Lightle and LaRocque. I think it was the Infinite Man storyline that first hooked me, B+W reprints with old Adventure stories too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 19:20:32 GMT -5
Just started reading Area 88. I read a chunk of the series out of order when purchased out of bargain bins when I was a kid. Completed the series for cheap a while back but never got around to reading them start to finish. I wish more manga was done that way, in standard floppy format.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2015 12:09:58 GMT -5
I have been reading various Legion of Super Heroes in Archive Editions and I have been thoroughly enjoying it very much and I wished I had paid more attention to it when it first came out many years ago. I just loved the artwork, the stories, and pure nostalgia of all the adventures that this group endures.
I have several editions.
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