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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 12, 2016 19:35:19 GMT -5
I just finished binge reading The Green Arrow series that started in 2001 that Kevin Smith wrote ,from 11-21. Nice set of stories that re-established his place in the DC universe after his resurrection. Brad Meltzer took over the writing with #16 and the Phil Hester artwork was plan but serviceable . I have the entire series from 1-75 and I plan to read it all before 2017.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 12, 2016 22:45:25 GMT -5
Neil Gaiman's Mr Hero: The Newmatic Man #1-4 Another bit from a lot buy. When Tekno was making comics, I read most of Teknophage and all of Primortals. But never Mr Hero. It was good for four issues. It's sets up a good back story as to who and what Mr Hero is, but at the point that I don't have the next issue, I don't know the exact connect he has to the Teknophage. Like most other Tekno titles (though I remember Primortals being the best of the bunch) they had good ideas and story and good writers to flesh them out, but most of the titles didn't have as on par of artists. At least of the ones I read. I know Perez did I, Bots if I remember right, but I didn't read that either. It's nice to finally see some of the Big and Tekno comics being collected. Pretty sure I have all of them. None of them were great, but they were solid. Mike Danger was really good. I remember liking Lady Justice as well.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 13, 2016 8:22:02 GMT -5
Neil Gaiman's Mr Hero: The Newmatic Man #1-4 Another bit from a lot buy. When Tekno was making comics, I read most of Teknophage and all of Primortals. But never Mr Hero. It was good for four issues. It's sets up a good back story as to who and what Mr Hero is, but at the point that I don't have the next issue, I don't know the exact connect he has to the Teknophage. Like most other Tekno titles (though I remember Primortals being the best of the bunch) they had good ideas and story and good writers to flesh them out, but most of the titles didn't have as on par of artists. At least of the ones I read. I know Perez did I, Bots if I remember right, but I didn't read that either. It's nice to finally see some of the Big and Tekno comics being collected. Pretty sure I have all of them. None of them were great, but they were solid. Mike Danger was really good. I remember liking Lady Justice as well. There's definitely some nostalgia there for me too. This was one of the first publishers I can remember buying outside Marvel, DC, or Image, the biggest publishers at the time. And I like Victorian and steampunk so that's what caught my eye with Teknophage. Primortals of course was talking bad ass dinosaurs and Leonard Nimoy's name on it. Lady Justice I remember wanting to buy strictly for the Breton covers. But for whatever reason, I never did. Other than Wheel of Worlds, the rest of the titles were pretty much off my radar.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 13, 2016 8:41:56 GMT -5
While the original 10 issue run from Wrightson is my first love of "older" comics, the one that made the past resonnate with me and kick my interest for collecting beyond what was current and interesting when I started buying singles in the early 90ies, I must confess I have a soft spot for the latter issues of that initial volume. The stories were alright, and Nestor Redondo's art is craftfull and beautifull IIRC. I don't remember much details about the stories though... How were those and what were your general impressions of issues 12-24 (Wein still writes #11 IIRC). I enjoyed them. It's interesting to see the character as a wandering monster, who tends to encounter much more monstrous people then himself. Quite a difference from the Earth Elemental that we see later. The later half of the series seems like it was a book that nobody wanted to write on a monthly basis (I don't know if there's some story behind why they juggled different writers near the end). I'm sorry that it was cancelled, I would have loved to read about a team up between him and Hawkman in #25. Like I said, I am excited for the next volume. Here's your chance to read a small part of that:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 10:50:03 GMT -5
Over the weekend, I re-read the Superman VS Wonder Woman tabloid that was published in the 70s. Beautiful art and a great story revolving around the creation of atomic weapons.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 13, 2016 12:27:33 GMT -5
Over the weekend, I re-read the Superman VS Wonder Woman tabloid that was published in the 70s. Beautiful art and a great story revolving around the creation of atomic weapons. The treasury size comic? I managed buy buy that at an LCS cheap last summer and read it then. Yes, it was excellent.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 13, 2016 13:07:00 GMT -5
One of my favorite characters as a child, Robotman from the All Star Squadron. At the time I was into robots (i.e. Voltron, Transformers, etc.), and it's just natural for me to gravitate to a "robot" superhero character at the time. Eventually, after reading more All Star Squadron, I would gravitate towards Dr. Fate as my favorite hero of the group.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 14:18:09 GMT -5
Over the weekend, I re-read the Superman VS Wonder Woman tabloid that was published in the 70s. Beautiful art and a great story revolving around the creation of atomic weapons. The treasury size comic? I managed buy buy that at an LCS cheap last summer and read it then. Yes, it was excellent. That's the one! I still have a copy from the 70s and it is still in good shape. The art really lends itself to the oversized format. I remember when it came out and I could not stand it until my parents got one for me!
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 13, 2016 15:31:18 GMT -5
That was gorgeous Jose Luis Garcia Lopez art in full treasury size.
Love All-Star Squadron and that cover to # 1.
Over the years I've found out more about Robotman as a character and he's grown more and more on me.
In fact, the Weird Worlds mini had him in his own featurette (not the Earth-2 of course), and it was surprisingly good.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2016 19:25:05 GMT -5
Over the weekend, I re-read the Superman VS Wonder Woman tabloid that was published in the 70s. Beautiful art and a great story revolving around the creation of atomic weapons. I wished I had a copy of that book!
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Post by Gene on Jun 13, 2016 22:31:01 GMT -5
I read the Identity Crisis (Not that one.) storyline from Batman 455-457 over the weekend. It's a solid three-parter from Grant and Breyfogle that sees ordinary citizens going on a killing spree with seemingly no motivation that's only stopped when Tim Drake steps up and proves himself worthy of the name "Robin."
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Post by String on Jun 14, 2016 11:15:21 GMT -5
I recently finished the 'Future Shock' four-part adventure that ran through LSH #37-38, Superman #8 and Action Comics #591.
Overall, given the problems that Crisis dealt to the Legion franchise, I thought this story was quite strong from Levitz. Bryne's parts were okay though half of Superman #8 was a recounting of what happened in LSH #37. The Action Comics issue was slightly better as young Superboy encounters an older Superman, the wistful feeling of an era of Smallville having passed (and poor Krypto, loyal canine as ever).
LSH #38 was a very strong ending, Superboy from whatever time or place, proving that he remains the greatest example and inspiration for this team. The last pages were really moving, as done by Larocque & DeCarlo, sometimes you forget the strength of the bond between Lar Gand and Clark yet the creative team portrayed the emotional loss incurred here (especially by Lar) really well. Great job all around.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 14, 2016 13:18:38 GMT -5
I just read Amazing Spider-Man #72 from 1969... This is some classic Silver Age spidey action, with plenty of action, some nice soap opera moments with Gwen Stacy, Flash Thompson on leave from Vietnam, a classic spidey villain at large and the police mistaking the wall-crawler for being in league with the Shocker. It all ends with a glum looking spidey reflecting on the "Peter Parker luck". This comic is also part of the ongoing "petrified tablet" storyline, which has long been a favourite of mine. The art by John Buscema and John Romita is really nice and very late '60s looking in places too. So, all in all, a hugely enjoyable issue.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 14, 2016 13:35:47 GMT -5
I just read Amazing Spider-Man #72 from 1969... This is some classic Silver Age spidey action, with plenty of action, some nice soap opera moments with Gwen Stacy, Flash Thompson on leave from Vietnam, a classic spidey villain at large and the police mistaking the wall-crawler for being in league with the Shocker. It all ends with a glum looking spidey reflecting on the "Peter Parker luck". This comic is also part of the ongoing "petrified tablet" storyline, which has long been a favourite of mine. The art by John Buscema and John Romita is really nice and very late '60s looking in places too. So, all in all, a hugely enjoyable issue. Yes, I remember enjoying that issue, the Shocker's second appearance. Stan apparently agreed that this was a good story; it was included in the Origins of Marvel Comics book a few years later. The book reprinted the origins of several characters along with a more recent story for each one, and this was the more recent Spidey story. I notice that the GCD says John Buscema got plot credit. This was the first time John's name appears in the "Writer" column. He plotted a few more Spider-Man issues and a bunch of Conan stories. On Spider-Man, his artwork is hard to distinguish under the Romita pencils and Mooney inks.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 14, 2016 14:06:16 GMT -5
I just read Amazing Spider-Man #72 from 1969... This is some classic Silver Age spidey action, with plenty of action, some nice soap opera moments with Gwen Stacy, Flash Thompson on leave from Vietnam, a classic spidey villain at large and the police mistaking the wall-crawler for being in league with the Shocker. It all ends with a glum looking spidey reflecting on the "Peter Parker luck". This comic is also part of the ongoing "petrified tablet" storyline, which has long been a favourite of mine. The art by John Buscema and John Romita is really nice and very late '60s looking in places too. So, all in all, a hugely enjoyable issue. Yes, I remember enjoying that issue, the Shocker's second appearance. Stan apparently agreed that this was a good story; it was included in the Origins of Marvel Comics book a few years later. The book reprinted the origins of several characters along with a more recent story for each one, and this was the more recent Spidey story. I had no idea. That's interesting to note. I notice that the GCD says John Buscema got plot credit. This was the first time John's name appears in the "Writer" column. He plotted a few more Spider-Man issues and a bunch of Conan stories. On Spider-Man, his artwork is hard to distinguish under the Romita pencils and Mooney inks. That's absolutely right -- the art just looks like Romita to me. However, there are compositional touches...fairly original compositional touches actually... in various panels that don't seem like the way Romita would draw a certain panel and I attribute that to Buscema's layouts.
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