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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 21, 2016 17:50:17 GMT -5
Golden Age Daredevil, it's amazing to me that this character has sat and festered in the public domain for decades, especially with a villain like The Claw
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 22, 2016 12:23:23 GMT -5
I re-read Willie & Joe: Back Home by Bill Mauldin. These are the post-war cartoons that he did after his discharge and before his hiatus from cartooning for large parts of the early 50s. His work was really far too liberal for the time period and met with significant backlash from editors, which is why he did very little cartooning until he took up his post at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1958. Not overall as powerful as his later war cartoons, this is still contains a fascinating look at the difficulties of men returning from war...and a country that celebrated and then wanted to forget them. The more things change....
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 22, 2016 16:02:19 GMT -5
I re-read Willie & Joe: Back Home by Bill Mauldin. This is probably the comic I've read the most ABOUT that I've never actually read. That does look pretty great - I should remedy that.
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Post by The Cheat on Feb 22, 2016 16:30:54 GMT -5
Golden Age Daredevil, it's amazing to me that this character has sat and festered in the public domain for decades, especially with a villain like The Claw They've both been appearing in Savage Dragon for years.
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 23, 2016 4:14:52 GMT -5
Golden Age Daredevil, it's amazing to me that this character has sat and festered in the public domain for decades, especially with a villain like The Claw They've both been appearing in Savage Dragon for years. They were also in those Project Super Powers books a few years back.
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Post by antoine on Feb 23, 2016 8:23:17 GMT -5
I just read my first Corto Maltese comic, Corto en Sibérie, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. The art was great, but I feel like the story was confusing sometimes and some "scene" would just end all of a sudden without me really knowing what happen or how they got to the next part. I thought Hugo Pratt wrote these in the 1920's or 1930's, but realized I was wrong and it this one was written in1979. It would have make more sense to me if it was an older Bande dessinée.
I have 3 more awaiting for me, so I'll see how I like these. I think his best work is suppose to be Corto and the Salted Sea, or something like that, but unfortunately it was not available at the library.
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 23, 2016 8:24:20 GMT -5
They've both been appearing in Savage Dragon for years. They were also in those Project Super Powers books a few years back. I was referring more to giving the character his own series and I don't consider Dynamite a comic book company, it's more of a law firm that uses comics as a front
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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2016 9:07:14 GMT -5
I just read my first Corto Maltese comic, Corto en Sibérie, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. The art was great, but I feel like the story was confusing sometimes and some "scene" would just end all of a sudden without me really knowing what happen or how they got to the next part. I thought Hugo Pratt wrote these in the 1920's or 1930's, but realized I was wrong and it this one was written in1979. It would have make more sense to me if it was an older Bande dessinée. I have 3 more awaiting for me, so I'll see how I like these. I think his best work is suppose to be Corto and the Salted Sea, or something like that, but unfortunately it was not available at the library. When I want to relax, I read essays by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese. — Umberto Eco
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 23, 2016 9:27:47 GMT -5
I just read my first Corto Maltese comic, Corto en Sibérie, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. The art was great, but I feel like the story was confusing sometimes and some "scene" would just end all of a sudden without me really knowing what happen or how they got to the next part. I thought Hugo Pratt wrote these in the 1920's or 1930's, but realized I was wrong and it this one was written in1979. It would have make more sense to me if it was an older Bande dessinée. I have 3 more awaiting for me, so I'll see how I like these. I think his best work is suppose to be Corto and the Salted Sea, or something like that, but unfortunately it was not available at the library. I liked the Siberian story, but it's part of a series of later tales published in À Suivre that I find a bit inferior to what had been seen earlier in La ballata del mare salato and then in Pif gadget and Tintin. In order, the Casterman albums I'd recommend are La Ballade de la mer salée (must read!) Les Éthiopiques (must read!) Sous le signe du Capricorne (must read!) Les Celtiques (must read!) Corto toujours un peu plus loin Fable de Venise Tango Corto Maltese en Sibérie La Maison dorée de Samarkand La Jeunesse Les Helvétiques Mû The final few books are really stretching it. They're okay for fans, but are nowhere in the league of the first ones, which I would rank alongside the best works of Hemingway and Garcia Marquez.
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Post by antoine on Feb 23, 2016 12:09:02 GMT -5
I just read my first Corto Maltese comic, Corto en Sibérie, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. The art was great, but I feel like the story was confusing sometimes and some "scene" would just end all of a sudden without me really knowing what happen or how they got to the next part. I thought Hugo Pratt wrote these in the 1920's or 1930's, but realized I was wrong and it this one was written in1979. It would have make more sense to me if it was an older Bande dessinée. I have 3 more awaiting for me, so I'll see how I like these. I think his best work is suppose to be Corto and the Salted Sea, or something like that, but unfortunately it was not available at the library. I liked the Siberian story, but it's part of a series of later tales published in À Suivre that I find a bit inferior to what had been seen earlier in La ballata del mare salato and then in Pif gadget and Tintin. In order, the Casterman albums I'd recommend are Unfortunately for me, the only one available at the library are Fable de Venise Tango Corto Maltese en Sibérie La Jeunesse I recently moved from Gatineau (French) to Ottawa (mostly English), and the selection of French books is nowhere near what was available in Gatineau. Going to Montreal this weekend, I will try to find the ones you recommend in one of the used book store on Plateau Mont-Royal
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 23, 2016 12:45:14 GMT -5
Good for you, antoine! There are many good second-hand bookshops in that neighbourhood. And if you have time, the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec is just an awesome place for reading comics. It feels as if they have everything ever published!
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 23, 2016 13:20:15 GMT -5
I've been reading the Millennium Edition of Wonder Woman #1. The first story - Wonder Woman's expanded origin - is one of my favorite Wonder Woman stories and one of my favorite comic books stories ever. The rest of the stories are pretty good. Wonder Woman goes to the circus! The Baroness Paula von Gunther returns! Wonder Woman and Etta Candy go to Texas and then to a bullfight where they meet a female matador! I read the Paula von Gunther story last night. I love the Baroness! I think it's very compelling the way she caused Wonder Woman (and the entire US war effort) so much trouble despite being a non-super-powered regular human. Just a beauty mark and a cigarette holder to hold back the forces of Western civilization! She's in prison in Wonder Woman #1, but that doesn't stop her from having a secret door in her cell that leads to a massive underground chamber where she runs a Nazi sabotage ring and keeps an army of female slaves clad in pink bikinis! And the son of the warden runs around dressed in a cowboy suit and swinging a lasso and pestering his teen sister. Steve Trevor and Diana Prince are staying at the prison because they are interrogating the Baroness and the little boy is snooping around and finds the magic lariat in Diana's luggage, and he takes it and starts running around with it. It's hilarious! He ropes his sister and she has to do what he says. Eventually, the Baroness gets hold of it. Oh, dear! How will Diana get our of this? My dream Wonder Woman movie would be set in World War II with Diane Kruger as the Baroness and Rebel Wilson as Etta Candy. I also got Showcase Presents: Supergirl, Volume One, and Marvel Masterworks: Thor, Volume Three, in the mail yesterday. I started both volumes but I don't have too much to say as yet. When I read Showcase or Marvel Masterworks, I start at the beginning and read one or two stories a day. And I've read the first few stories in both these volumes, some of them numerous times, so I don't have a lot of comments. Yeah, I love the first appearance of Supergirl as much as anybody. That Al Plastino art! She's adorable! But it's short and seems kind of old hat to me. I read the one where Thor fights the Hulk this morning. I first saw this in a Marvel Treasury Edition when I was a kid. And I've read it pretty recently because it's in a trade paperback at the library and so I flip through it and read some of the stories pretty regularly. (I think it's The Hulk vs. the Marvel Universe.) I remember being kind of disappointed in this story when I was a kid. They spend 18 pages making a big deal out of it and then there's no real resolution. But it's grown on me over the years and what I really like about it is the framing sequence. Thor is flying around New York City and below him he sees members of the Thor Fan Club and members of the Hulk Fan Club about to get into a major brawl arguing about who's strongest. I hardly noticed this as a kid, but as an adult, I find it to be HILARIOUS! All these teenage boys parading around one of the boroughs holding up posters of Hulk or Thor's head. Marvel New York was a very weird place! In my head, I read their dialogue with strong New York City accents. (I've started reading Spider-Man comics giving almost everybody New York accents, Peter, Aunt May, Flash, Liz, especially Mary Jane! (I'm not sure about Gwen.) It livens up a lot of stories that I've read a bunch of times.) Tonight, I'll be reading stories I've not read before! Action Comics #253 and Journey into Mystery #113! I'm really looking forward to it!
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 23, 2016 13:26:06 GMT -5
Here's the first page of Journey into Mystery #112. HILARIOUS!
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Post by MDG on Feb 23, 2016 14:17:34 GMT -5
Here's the first page of Journey into Mystery #112. HILARIOUS! Reminds me of this (from around the same time):
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Post by ziza9 on Feb 23, 2016 14:22:21 GMT -5
Meeting of Supes and Superboy Prime during Crisis. Return of the Appelax aliens. George Perez did all of the framing sequences and interlude art between chapters. This story structure was very much like the format of Batman #400 anniversary issue.
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