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Post by berkley on Jun 14, 2016 20:41:42 GMT -5
Jeff Lemire's Lost Dogs - from 2004, so by the Board's 10-year rule a classic rather than the modern comic it feels like to me. Lemire's first book, I would say that both writing and artwork are a bit sketchy and unformed but their raw power show a lot of potential.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 15, 2016 13:02:11 GMT -5
I just read this last issue of World's Finest where Batman dissipated his partnership with Superman. He saved Superman from a magical attack but was quite annoyed at Superman's headstrong approach to all situations. Batman left these parting words for Superman at the end of the issue: "Save it. I don't want to hear it. You wouldn't have to be thanking me now if you'd handled the situation a little differently than the way you always do... flying right into the thick of things. You're faster than a speeding bullet... slow down... and use that super-brain once in a while." He also told Superman: "The world almost lost a Superman... because of his foolish impetuosity. I'll save your neck any time... but I won't write your epitaph. Think about it." And those are the last words in the World's Finest Comics run that ran about 45 years I believe.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 15, 2016 14:14:50 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this 52 page comic book from 1997. It's entertaining to see these two flagship characters in a team up. What is most surprising is that I ended up more respect for the Kingpin at the end of the story, as it showed how much Wilson truly loved his wife, Vanessa. Ras and the Kingpin are the villains of the story. The interaction between Webs and Bats was greatly done by writer, J. M. DeMatteis. I wish there was more interaction between the two especially in a stakeout scene.
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Post by Farrar on Jun 15, 2016 15:23:38 GMT -5
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. Yeah, according to Romita in the TwoMorrows book "John Romita: All That Jazz" (and elsewhere), he (JR) spent a lot of time plotting/laying out Spidey for other artists such as Heck...only to then spend additional time afterwards "correcting" the other artists' pencils. Doing both the before and after work took up a lot of Romita's time. The goal was that the finished product, esp. the faces, look like Romita's handiwork, so Stan lightened Romita's workload by having Buscema do the plotting/layouts on Spidey for awhile. Buscema provided the rock-solid storytelling that freed up Romita's time and enabled the Jazzy One to concentrate on the finishes.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 15, 2016 16:26:03 GMT -5
Our washing machine broke down and so we are using a laundromat for a week or so. Yesterday I took Tintin en el Congo while I was doing laundry and I read about half of it. It's so weird. It's from 1930! So it's eight years older than Action Comics #1. If I have time, I'll comment on it later but for now, here's the part where Tintin blows up a rhinoceros with dynamite for some reason: You get used to the casual slaughter of African wildlife while you're reading it. It almost seems like white men thought Africa was there just for their amusement.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 15, 2016 20:21:35 GMT -5
You get used to the casual slaughter of African wildlife while you're reading it. It almost seems like white men thought Africa was there just for their amusement. They did, pretty much! Also, that's the toned down, re-drawn version of Tintin in the Congo. The original is even more colonial and un-PC by today's standards.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 15, 2016 21:08:42 GMT -5
I really enjoyed this 52 page comic book from 1997. It's entertaining to see these two flagship characters in a team up. What is most surprising is that I ended up more respect for the Kingpin at the end of the story, as it showed how much Wilson truly loved his wife, Vanessa. Ras and the Kingpin are the villains of the story. The interaction between Webs and Bats was greatly done by writer, J. M. DeMatteis. I wish there was more interaction between the two especially in a stakeout scene. This was defiantly one of the better to best of the DC/Marvel crossover that we're going on at the time in the 90s. Glad I bought it.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 16, 2016 9:02:18 GMT -5
So, my re-reads of various, randomly chosen issues of Silver Age Amazing Spider-Man continued last night with #82... This was another very strong issue, with some great soap opera elements as Peter Parker begins to feel totally buried under the mounting weight of his personal problems (so, business as usual then ). It also features the semi-famous (if you're into Spider-Man comics) scene in which Peter Parker goes into a laundromat to wash his Spidey costume wearing a paper bag over his head... Spidey approaches a TV station and appears as a guest on a prime time TV show in order to raise some much needed funds, but predictably it all goes sour when one of his enemies turns up -- in this case, Electro. The supervillain has been paid by J. Jonah Jameson to unmask and humiliate Spidey in front of the nation. Spidey beats Electro by making the villain's hands and feet touch, thus short-circuiting him, but unfortunately he gets away to menace society another day. All in all, this was a very solid, if slightly formulaic, issue, with some gorgeous John Romita pencils. As a side note, there's a nice Beatles reference, when one of the TV execs suggest replacing Spidey with the band, since the wall-crawler is running late. Although no one at Marvel could've known it at the time, the Beatles only had scant months left together before they announced their breakup in April 1970.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 16, 2016 9:09:25 GMT -5
I just read this last issue of World's Finest where Batman dissipated his partnership with Superman. He saved Superman from a magical attack but was quite annoyed at Superman's headstrong approach to all situations. Batman left these parting words for Superman at the end of the issue: "Save it. I don't want to hear it. You wouldn't have to be thanking me now if you'd handled the situation a little differently than the way you always do... flying right into the thick of things. You're faster than a speeding bullet... slow down... and use that super-brain once in a while." He also told Superman: "The world almost lost a Superman... because of his foolish impetuosity. I'll save your neck any time... but I won't write your epitaph. Think about it." And those are the last words in the World's Finest Comics run that ran about 45 years I believe. That's an interesting take on Superman. I don't normally think of him as the impetuous type.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 16, 2016 13:09:41 GMT -5
Same here. I can picture him as headstrong, after all, the perception among general mainstream fans is he would say, "This is a job for Superman!" And off he goes. But you're right, I wouldn't say he's impetuous.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 16, 2016 13:16:19 GMT -5
I just love conflicts among different "universes." Of course with the Squadron, I would always somehow assume that they are the "JLA" equivalent in the Marvel Universe. But is it just me, or are these issues like reading from page to page as if I am reading models from Cosmopolitan, En Vogue, Allure, and other women's fashion magazines. I mean it's like superhero models that are characters in these comic books. They are just so pleasing to the eyes to read. Then again, this is just me. If you want to read a comic book that has superheroes drawn as if they were supermodels, there is without a doubt, Michael Turner's work on Superman/Batman from around eleven years ago was the best. That's just me of course. I am talking about this storyarc:
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Post by sabongero on Jun 16, 2016 13:45:20 GMT -5
I picked this up in one of those dollar bins. And I LOVE it. If you are a fan of that 1980's series, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, then you will enjoy this issue. Back in the 80's there was no internet, and that handbook was fantastic as it listed various Marvel universe characters complete with their history and abilities. This one is like in the same format but is just for the "gods" of the Marvel Universe. I have to dig up those old boxes just so I can somehow re-read those old Handbooks:
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Post by sabongero on Jun 16, 2016 16:09:00 GMT -5
This is one of those comic books I picked up in the 50 cent or dollar bins a while ago. I haven't read it yet, but I found it in one of my miscellaneous boxes. The premise looks interesting. Am I right to infer that this is Image's rendition of "Superman" vs "Thor" if it ever happened in a comic book?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 1:22:18 GMT -5
Supernatural Thrillers #3, Marvel cover dated April 1973... The Valley of the Worm by Robert E. Howard, adapted by Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Gil Kane and Ernie Chua. If you are not familiar with the story, it is one of the REH tales where a modern man for some reason relives a past incarnation of his savage past, here a man on his death bed remembers he was Niord of the Aesir, a pre-cataclysmic clan, and he fought a creature of legend that was echoed through myth and tradition as the tales of Beowulf vs. the dragon, St. George vs. the Dragon, Siegfried vs. Fafnir, etc. Kane is at the top of his game here.... a double page splash... that just lets your eyes drink it all in and sigh in contentment... here's the b&W original for it... more glorious Kane goodness as Niord and Gorm the Pict encounter a sabre-toothed tiger... Kane's revelation of the worm... same page in color... just glorious early Bronze Age sword and sorcery comics by a master artist at the top of his game, and Thomas adapts Howard with his usual panache, so it reads well too. -M
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 17, 2016 7:43:47 GMT -5
Man, those first few issues of Supernatural Thrillers were just awesome! I need to reacquire them.
Cei-U! I summon my want list!
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