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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 8, 2016 0:43:31 GMT -5
Edit: I finally found an image of the book cover Thanks for the hint on which country it could be from. I was guessing it could be Belgian as the artwork is pretty similar to Tintin and what do you know, it is actually also drawn by Hergé Excellent! I'm glad you found it. We have a thread on European comics here, and one member who keeps threatening to write reviews of Tintin. Stick around and join the conversation.
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 8, 2016 7:35:21 GMT -5
Probably not a "classic", but I'm finishing up Green Lantern Vol. 3: The End by Geoff Johns. Another new earth Lantern. Why is it that everybody (Johns included) seems to think that the only requirement for being a Green Lantern is being fearless? I'm no Green Lantern expert, but I do seem to recall an early GL story where it was mentioned that they have to be fearless and honest. And really, it does make sense that if you're going to give somebody this incredibly powerful weapon and expect them to police a space sector, they ought to be honest, or at least something other than just fearless, since I'm sure there are plenty of fearless evil people, too. I'd say that a car thief does not really qualify as honest. That gripe aside, it's a pretty good story, the first half focusing on the newest lantern, Simon Baz, and the second half on Johns' big cosmic spectrum lantern concept.
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 8, 2016 7:59:49 GMT -5
Just finished the third volume of The Collected Omaha the Cat Dancer.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 8, 2016 16:59:57 GMT -5
Edit: I finally found an image of the book cover Thanks for the hint on which country it could be from. I was guessing it could be Belgian as the artwork is pretty similar to Tintin and what do you know, it is actually also drawn by Hergé Excellent! I'm glad you found it. We have a thread on European comics here, and one member who keeps threatening to write reviews of Tintin.And one day you'll all push me too far and I'll jolly well do it too!
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 14, 2016 22:41:19 GMT -5
I've been reading several titles from scratch. The X-Men, The Avengers, The Fantastic Four and The New Teen Titans. I really like what I've read in Teen Titans from Marv Wolfman, although it gets really dialog heavy just like a 1960's title. George Perez's work is excellent and a joy to look at also. I''ve read the first 15 issues, and while I there were a few small nitpicks in the narrative that didn't make sense, but overall it's entertaining. I have to say I'm enjoying the melodrama that is being well put into place with these characters. Wolfman really has them question their moral compass in a lot of situations along with the relationship they have or are building with people.
X-Men has gotten a lot better around 10 issues in. The Beast for the first few was like a Ben Grimm clone, and not the Beast that most people know today. Unfortunately the X-Men don't really seem to have anything going for them in terms of being really unique as a super team compared to The Avengers or Fantastic Four. Also, Angel is just an average guy persona wise, and as far as his powers go...he flies. That's it. I mean even at the time I'm starting to wonder how Lee and Kirby couldn't come up with anything other than having "flying" as a super power. Xavier being into Jean (along with everyone else early on) was a little creepy, but that angle seems to have been dropped. Still not sure who my favorite character is, but it might be Beast up to this point or Xavier. Cyclops is stoic/uptight, Jean doesn't get to do anything except be the girl a lot of the time like Sue in FF, Iceman is like a Johnny Storm clone and isn't that funny as the clown, and Angel like I said is just whatever.
Kirby is illustrating a lot of these titles, or at least providing layouts. I like Kirby as an idea guy, but he was never my favorite illustrator. To be fair, it was still early in the comics trade and Marvel I don't think gets a superstar illustrator in my opinion until Neal Adams steps in for a little bit and John Buscema starts to take over.
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 15, 2016 3:20:50 GMT -5
Just finished the third volume of The Collected Omaha the Cat Dancer. And boy, are your arms tired?
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 15, 2016 3:49:17 GMT -5
Just finished the third volume of The Collected Omaha the Cat Dancer. And boy, are your arms tired? There's a lot more to Omaha than that...
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 15, 2016 4:27:49 GMT -5
I know.
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Post by antoine on Aug 15, 2016 8:55:46 GMT -5
Hi guys, I have been trying to remember the title of an extremely old comic which I read back when I was a child. Hope you all can pitch in and help The main characters of the story are a girl, a boy and their pet chimpanzee/monkey. The story was about this prototype red plane and how they flew it to save it from the hands of some bad guys (if memory serves me right). Somehow they ended up flying to a land covered in ice. The locals there were planning to make them stay with them permanently but fortunately, they managed to get the plane refuelled and then flew back home. That was all I could recall. Hope someone can help me in identifying this comic so I can read it again My Guess : EDIT : Oops, should have read the full thread before posting
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 15, 2016 12:03:50 GMT -5
Been attempting to read Malibu's Ultraverse line in chronological order from their release dates. As much as dislike the fact that the Ultraverse is all-encompassing, it still kind of feels rewarding
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Post by masterofquackfu on Aug 15, 2016 12:43:29 GMT -5
Not sure if they are classics, but I read Dazzler #9 and Ms. Marvel #6. It was the first time that I had read either title. I just never found Ms. Marvel interesting in the 70's and Dazzler didn't do it for me in the 80's, so I just ignored them. I found both characters interesting. Sure, Dazzler is a bit cheesy with that light power and the disco ball and skates, but I do think that she had/has good potential. In issue #9, she is used as an experiment by Project Pegasus in determining her level of power(mutant). Was cool to see Solarr because he is hardly ever seen. Also, Klaw featured prominently in the book. Dazzler eventually absorbed Klaw. Speaking of which, I really think Marvel dropped the ball on Klaw, like they did the Wizard. Made them more typical super villain parodies than anything. So, I must admit that I liked reading Dazzler. The same with Ms. Marvel. This one was written by Claremont and although the dialogue can be insipid at times, it nonetheless is a decent story with good art. The villain is Grotesk, who thought was terribly portrayed...lack of depth as well as a Frankensteinish quality. Not impressed with this villain. Ms. Marvel is okay, although I felt that they portrayed her as being a bit too weak. And the constant, "keep swinging, kid" mentality of the character was a bit annoying. Anyhow, I'd rank it much lower than Dazzler. Here's the scale:
Dazzler(#9): 7.5/10 Ms. Marvel(#6): 6/10
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Post by bor on Aug 16, 2016 5:43:55 GMT -5
I recently spend a lot of time cutting Down my Collection to the comics I really want to keep and then just read the rest digitally. I know that some people here dont like digital comics and prefer physical copies, and I do feel the same. But from a practical point of view its just nice with stuff like Marvel Unlimited. I downloaded the first/ first few issues of various know to get a taste of it before investing to much time/Money on single issues/collected editions. I read the first few issues of Howard The duck related comics and enjoyed it enough to buy and read the first complete Collection which was great. Up next is Iron fist/ Marvel premire.
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 19, 2016 8:20:25 GMT -5
I just finished the run of Kirby's New Gods. Having read both that and his Eternals a couple of years ago, it's a shame that he never got a chance to finish either story. Though, at the rate that he was going, that could have taken years. Not that that would be a bad thing.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 19, 2016 11:23:01 GMT -5
Restless stuffy humid night and power went out around midnight due to summer rainstorm. Since couldn't sleep comfortably pulled out the Kindle and read some DC Star Trek's i have saved from CD-Rom collection. Decided to start at the beginning of the DC series and read issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 for some splendid in character stories written by Mike Barr with art by Tom Sutton and Ricardo Villagran. This is the Star Trek from my youth that i collected avidly. For me the DC Star Trek is the best version brought to comics ever. Though Villagran's inks were overpowering Sutton, i think his inks gave a stability to Sutton's sketchy and stylized art which helped the series maintain a style that was recognizable and appealing and "looked" like Star Trek. Under all of the inks you can still see pieces of Sutton shine through in layouts and designs. Sutton never relied on one view of the Enterprise, always looking for unique and different angles that you would not see in the movies. Didn't really care for Konom the Klingon as he felt like an inferior Worf being wedged into the original series. It was nice that Barr connected the movies to the series by using Organia and Yarnek to do an update that was never really readdressed within the series about the forced Klingon/Federation peace. Issues 1-4 being one story line and issue 5 a one and done showed that there was going to be a good mix of short versus long versus longer stories to be told in the future.
Issue one had a great Perez cover but his 2nd issue cover wasn't nearly as pleasing. Issue 3's was a bit more ambitious by Perez to showing Enterprise coming up against a fleet of Klingon cruisers but his Enterprise fails as you can tell he drew from memory rather than pictures or models.
The stories by Barr also caught the essence of the movie's and the friendship and characterizations of the entire crew along with slowly adding new crew/characters into the mix. Bearclaw's bigotry while being a bit heavy handed in the beginning began to show over time that the future will not be perfect in every way.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 19, 2016 13:10:48 GMT -5
I've been looking into Star Trek comics and if there are any good runs. Specifically with the original crew, and not that Abrams universe. From what I've gathered, it's slim pickings. The DC run in the 80's is apparently the best of the bunch, but things seem inconsistent due to the fact that every time a film came out a certain run was restarted interrupting a lot of story build up. That's just what I've heard though. A few nights ago I started with the first issue of DC's run which I believe was this issue: It takes place directly after Star Trek II. The Enterprise is basically investigating the disappearance of a Federation starship that perished at the hands of Klingons that have been in violation of the neutral zone treaty. Admiral Kirk returns to Starfleet command to barter his way into reacquiring command of the Enterprise again, which thinking about it again I like. His attitude after Spock's death is a lot more invigorated as he claims to feel "young" again following the situation with Khan. I could maybe buy that with a new lease on life, he wants to be captain again. Spock had just mentioned in the film that commanding a starship is Kirk's first, best destiny. This was all in the first few pages and I liked it. Unfortunately as the issue goes on, it starts to take a nosedive in a few areas. Lt. Saavik, the new half Vulcan officer from the movie is here and depicted as Spock's replacement. However, when the Enterprise gets in a scuffle with a few Klingon battle cruisers, Kirk's attitude towards Lt. Saavik becomes ridiculous as he chews her out for something that isn't even her fault or lack of being a competent officer, and also snaps at any attempt of a suggested course of action. Kirk is later talked into some semblance of sense on how to treat his new officer with a Bones lecture, and it's water under the bridge afterward. However that entire dynamic just didn't fly with me and just made Kirk look like a bigger jerk than I ever remember him being depicted as, unless he was under some kind of strange influence. Something similar happens with two lower ranked crew members that are introduced as new, but minor characters for now. Just really some irrational behavior within the context of the presented circumstances. So, the menace here of the story is the Klingons and they're made to be the bloodthrusty brutes that we know them as before they were fleshed out a lot more in The Next Generation. All they're interested in doing in ambushing Federation ships and seeing them explode. Although one of the crew seems to be remorseful of his fellow officers actions, and tries to act accordingly. That's basically the cliffhanger. All in all, meh issue to jump on. Like I said I hear it gets better in some of DC's license tenure. I do think that if Spock had stayed dead, it would have been interesting to have Saavik as a replacment and see how that works out. So I'm anxious to see how these issues roll with that dynamic (although it isn't for very long as Star Trek III is about to be released and DC hits the reset button with the comics adaption of the franchise). Something else I've also thought about getting down the line is the Star Trek newspaper comics. I hear those are actually really good.
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