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Post by dbutler69 on May 11, 2016 8:12:30 GMT -5
I have been reading Fantastic Four Masterworks Volume 15 to 18 and now I have the complete series #1 to #18. On top of those three Masterworks - I've just acquired Volumes 1 and 2 and I will be reading them tomorrow. I grabbed Vol 3 out of the library last weekend to do some leisure reading (contains Annual #2 and #31-40). I've read most of the stories before (mainly from beat copies of Collector's Item Classics), but they range from good to very,very,very good. I love how Kirby often uses the splashes to re-introduce the character dynamics in a visually interesting way. Itchin' to get to Sinnott inks, though--Chic Stone just doesn't cut it for me. And Giacoia (Frank Ray) doesn't seem to understand Kirby. Yeah, the FF really takes off when Sinnott comes on board. It goes from good to great, not that it's all Sinnott's doing, as Lee & Kirby also got extra creative around that time.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 11, 2016 15:13:02 GMT -5
Deathlok (1991) #9-15
#9, 10 -- Michael wakes up in a nightmare, and the cyborg Deathlok is running a killing program, cutting a swath of death and destruction through Coney Island. Enough to catch Danny Ketch/Ghost Rider's attention. But when Ghost Rider attempts his penance star on Deathlok, he gets quite the surprise. It definitely has a Nightmare of an antagonist.
#11 -- A single issue story about Moses Magnum. A villain apparently in a previous Deathlok story, as seems to be the impression. Or perhaps just someone from Michael's life that just hasn't been fully reveled yet.
#12-15 -- "The Biohazard Agenda" Four part story with Michael coming home to his family, and past ghosts coming back as well. Some organic monstrosity is seeking out Michael's brain. Michael holds all it's perceived answers, and it is coming after him directly. But this involves more than just Michael and his family. Someone else from Deathlok's past comes back. And it all comes down to Michael once again reevaluating his purpose and his family's safety.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on May 11, 2016 15:38:07 GMT -5
Just read Avengers 213...was this issue shocking for the time? Pym slapping around Wasp was...hard to witness. I know he has a rep as being an ass and this issue definitely cements that characterization.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 17:44:19 GMT -5
Batman/The Spirit (2007) #1
Even though I have it sitting in a long box somewhere, I picked this one up digitally for 99 cents because of the recent events surrounding Darwyn Cooke. Great team up between two of my favourite characters and Cooke captured all of the characters from both universes beautifully. My only complaint is that it had to end. I'll probably have to revisit his entire run on The Spirit now.
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Post by hondobrode on May 15, 2016 19:07:16 GMT -5
So, along with picking up some Darwyn Cooke and the Captain America / Black Panther mini on sale over at Comixology, I picked up Jack Katz' The First Kingdom, even though I have most of the issues from way back when.
If you want some epic stone age, gods, cosmos, philosophy, completely done by one man, in his savage yet poetic primitive style, then this is for you.
Praised by the likes of Eisner, Steranko and Siegel, this is hard to put down great reading.
and though I haven't bought it yet, it reminds me from what I've seen of our own Roquefort Raider's work, "Le Bras d'Orion" in the Fan Fiction and Fan Art thread.
Very high compliment indeed
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Post by earl on May 15, 2016 19:09:40 GMT -5
That Batman/The Spirit comic is a good one. Don't think it got that big an audience but I read most of the first year or so of the late DC Spirit and it was really solid. I'd think The Spirit would work well as a DC animation if they ever went that way.
My classic comic read of late was re-reading Hellblazer 1-9 and the Veitch Swamp Thing story from the new Volume 1 trade. 80s Swamp Thing and Hellblazer were favorites as a teenager in the 80s and I think they hold up quite well.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 19:14:27 GMT -5
That Batman/The Spirit comic is a good one. Don't think it got that big an audience but I read most of the first year or so of the late DC Spirit and it was really solid. I'd think The Spirit would work well as a DC animation if they ever went that way. My classic comic read of late was re-reading Hellblazer 1-9 and the Veitch Swamp Thing story from the new Volume 1 trade. 80s Swamp Thing and Hellblazer were favorites as a teenager in the 80s and I think they hold up quite well. DC no longer has the rights to the Spirit. There is a current Spirit series from Dynamite written by Matt Wagner. -M
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Post by earl on May 15, 2016 19:27:22 GMT -5
Being a Matt Wagner fan, I really need to check out some of the comics he has done from Dynamite. Haven't ventured into those yet even though I am fan of The Shadow and him doing The Spirit sounds interesting.
That John Tower series he does with Simon Bisley is decent, I got the first comics off the shelf in that kinda dark knight returns format. The character visually reminds me a ton of Grimjack but it is more of a vampire hunter comic. It seems to be totally under the radar as a series, I haven't seen it reviewed or talked about at all, which seems odd considering it's a couple of longtime successful creators. The regular monthly Tower series is vaporware around the local shops, I never saw an issue at all. Looks like it is up to two trades out.
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Post by Spike-X on May 15, 2016 20:43:51 GMT -5
Being a Matt Wagner fan, I really need to check out some of the comics he has done from Dynamite. Haven't ventured into those yet even though I am fan of The Shadow and him doing The Spirit sounds interesting. He did a Grendel/Spirit mini a little while ago that was pretty solid. But we're starting to veer away from 'classic' territory here.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 16, 2016 8:13:56 GMT -5
On a whim, I decided to read Wonder Woman Archives volume 1. I really don't know what my problem is with certain comic book titles and thinking that I won't enjoy them. I desperately tried to like Thor and Iron Man, but to no avail, and Wonder Woman really satiates my desire for a super hero book with a mythological theme that I so earnestly craved from Thor (Hell, I even like Alan Moore's Horus: Lord Of Light more than I do Thor, but that could be because of my deep love for egyptian mythology)
I also kind of thought it was cute how Wonder Woman's creator simply came up with the idea because of how disgusted he was with the "excessive masculinity" in most comics at the time. It was certainly admirable at then, even moreso now
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 16, 2016 10:02:51 GMT -5
(...) I picked up Jack Katz' The First Kingdom, even though I have most of the issues from way back when. If you want some epic stone age, gods, cosmos, philosophy, completely done by one man, in his savage yet poetic primitive style, then this is for you. I was blown away by the intricacy of that series. Highly recommended to any fan of science-fiction.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on May 16, 2016 15:41:00 GMT -5
I've been reading some classic Judge Dredd comics lately. I skipped around in the Brian Bolland collection and read a few stories in the Case Files collections (one of my friends is a Dredd fan, and he let me read his books). Very enjoyable. The stories go back and forth from very silly to dead serious. They often end very abruptly due to the small amount of pages per each installment. I liked the Dark Judges story a lot.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 16, 2016 17:20:47 GMT -5
I've been curious about Tintin for a while because I know it's wildly popular in much of the world, so today I remembered to see if my library system has any Tintin. And I saw this and I knew I had to read it soon: They had a bunch of Tintin in English, but Tintin in the Congo is only available in Spanish. I used to be able to read Spanish reasonably well, so I'm hoping to use this as a refresher course. I'll check out more Tintin in the future. I've heard that Tintin in the Congo is somewhat notorious for being, shall we say, a bit insensitive.
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Post by Batflunkie on May 16, 2016 21:59:36 GMT -5
I've been reading some classic Judge Dredd comics lately. I skipped around in the Brian Bolland collection and read a few stories in the Case Files collections (one of my friends is a Dredd fan, and he let me read his books). Very enjoyable. The stories go back and forth from very silly to dead serious. They often end very abruptly due to the small amount of pages per each installment. I liked the Dark Judges story a lot. I've always liked Dredd, but as I got more into reading 2000 AD progs, I sort of just lost interest I guess. Not that Dredd's stories aren't well done, it just seems like a lot of 2000 AD's other long running serials have more meat to them for me these days. I'd like to hope that it isn't because I've outgrown the character because I still really want to get a Judge Barcode tattoo from the Stallone movie
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Post by Icctrombone on May 16, 2016 23:27:11 GMT -5
I just finished reading Special Marvel Edition #15 and 16. This is the first 2 appearances of Shang Chi and I don't know if I've ever read a stronger debut to a new character.The Jim Starlin/ Al Milgrom Art coupled with the Steve Engelhart writing was just superb.
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