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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 5, 2016 14:10:32 GMT -5
I can't believe that cast. Still only one name I don't recognize. You've piqued my curiosity , Adam. Who's the one name? John Derek. Without looking him up, I do not recall seeing him in anything or recognizing him. All the others I have seen in other movies of TV I know for sure, or even just knowing John Carradine as the patriarch of the Carradine family, even if Ten Commandments is all I have seen him in.
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Post by Farrar on Oct 5, 2016 14:21:59 GMT -5
Thanks! Makes sense, I don't think he ever made any real headway as an actor. Derek's fame (or notoriety) was probably largely due to his string of his ex-wives: Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, Bo Derek.
EDIT: actually Bo isn't an "ex", she was John's last wife. He died in 1998.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 5, 2016 17:21:11 GMT -5
Thanks! Makes sense, I don't think he ever made any real headway as an actor. Derek's fame (or notoriety) was probably largely due to his string of his ex-wives: Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, Bo Derek. Well, he certainly did alright for himself, didn't he?
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 5, 2016 18:05:45 GMT -5
Thanks! Makes sense, I don't think he ever made any real headway as an actor. Derek's fame (or notoriety) was probably largely due to his string of his ex-wives: Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, Bo Derek. *The Sensuous Nurse was added to your DVD queue.* :-)
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Post by masterofquackfu on Oct 6, 2016 11:12:35 GMT -5
I've read Champions #13. In it, the Champs battle Kamo Tharn and various other machinations. I really feel that the Champions were starting to really solidify their team when their book was discontinued. Byrne did a great job and was really starting to establish the artistic look of the team. I especially liked the additions of Black Goliath and Darkstar. For Marvel to end this book just as it was beginning to finally ascend(as they did with Iron Fist) is really unacceptable. The book never really got a chance(17 issues). Yes, it was a bit X-Men lite, but it was really a fairly decent group, I think. Perhaps cutting Hercules would have been the best move since I don't really consider him a "team" guy.
Also, I read a couple issues of Kull. The Destroyer version. A good solid S&S character, but middling in terms of development. Of course, he'll always play second fiddle to Conan, but he did have an interesting series of stories. I liked the art and the writing was solid. I felt like Kull had too many limitations and there was no chance he could continue in the same manner as Conan. The books are fun to read and I'll read them again, I'm sure...but there is not much memorable in them and I could easily see myself selling these down the road because there is nothing that really screams, "classic!"
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 6, 2016 11:34:10 GMT -5
Thanks! Makes sense, I don't think he ever made any real headway as an actor. Derek's fame (or notoriety) was probably largely due to his string of his ex-wives: Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, Bo Derek. Well, he certainly did alright for himself, didn't he? It was the most star filled movie I ever saw. Vincent Price and Edward G Robinson were in it too.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 6, 2016 12:00:39 GMT -5
I got The Dark Knight Strikes Again from the library again. I read about 50 pages this morning. It is SO NUTZ! I love it. I may get my own copy for myself for Christmas this year. Either that or All-Star Superman.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 6, 2016 15:10:16 GMT -5
Fear #14, 18
While issue 14 seemed to be a part in an ongoing story that have not the context for, the Val Mayerik art was nice. Issue 18 seemed like Gerber's philosophical take on war, pacifists, and alcohol. Or just a story about a solider, a conscientious objector, a nurse and a drunk driver's encounter with the Man-Thing.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 10, 2016 8:20:59 GMT -5
Spent Friday night curled on the couch with hot chocolate and blueberry muffins reading from the Essential Monster of Frankenstein. I delved into the first 6 issues by Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog. The 1st four issues forming one continuous story with each issue truly feeling like chapters in a novel. Beautiful Ploog artwork and mood and Friedrich providing a recap/origin for the Monster moving the story forward in time from its Victorian roots. A really good beginning that unfortunately couldn't be maintained throughout the entire series. While the Monster is shown being a natural born killer he also carries the torments and anguish within providing us the reader's understanding that there is good and evil in all of us and that anybody is capable of being a "Monster" at times.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 10, 2016 8:51:59 GMT -5
Spent Friday night curled on the couch with hot chocolate and blueberry muffins reading from the Essential Monster of Frankenstein. I delved into the first 6 issues by Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog. The 1st four issues forming one continuous story with each issue truly feeling like chapters in a novel. Beautiful Ploog artwork and mood and Friedrich providing a recap/origin for the Monster moving the story forward in time from its Victorian roots. A really good beginning that unfortunately couldn't be maintained throughout the entire series. While the Monster is shown being a natural born killer he also carries the torments and anguish within providing us the reader's understanding that there is good and evil in all of us and that anybody is capable of being a "Monster" at times. Ooooh. This just reached the top of the list of "next thing to splurge on for myself (whenever that is)". I have just a few of the MoF issues because of the Ploog art, but then I kind of got behind and over the years Marvel's 70's horror titles haven't gotten cheaper. I can see this series being just as enjoyable in B&W as the Showcase volumes of HoS and HoM. Thanks for sharing brutalis.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 10, 2016 10:06:04 GMT -5
Spent Friday night curled on the couch with hot chocolate and blueberry muffins reading from the Essential Monster of Frankenstein. I delved into the first 6 issues by Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog. The 1st four issues forming one continuous story with each issue truly feeling like chapters in a novel. Beautiful Ploog artwork and mood and Friedrich providing a recap/origin for the Monster moving the story forward in time from its Victorian roots. A really good beginning that unfortunately couldn't be maintained throughout the entire series. While the Monster is shown being a natural born killer he also carries the torments and anguish within providing us the reader's understanding that there is good and evil in all of us and that anybody is capable of being a "Monster" at times. Ooooh. This just reached the top of the list of "next thing to splurge on for myself (whenever that is)". I have just a few of the MoF issues because of the Ploog art, but then I kind of got behind and over the years Marvel's 70's horror titles haven't gotten cheaper. I can see this series being just as enjoyable in B&W as the Showcase volumes of HoS and HoM. Thanks for sharing brutalis. You are correct in this being great in b/w adamwarlock2099.. I have a few of the Ploog Frankensteins in color and remember them as being somewhat muddy looking? His art really shines in black and white. His Ghost Rider and Werewolf by Night are just as spectacular. Frankenstein though i think is likely some of his best artwork as most issues he inks himself and the rest by John Verpooten. Delightfully captures the essence and horror of the monster. The book slips somewhat with 2 issues by john Buscema where the comic looks more like a Marvel comic than ever before (still it is big John and good) and then Val Mayerik comes on and it takes a few issues but he finds his sense of design and style which carries on through after cancellation and into the black and white magazine series. Quite eerie atmospheric art for almost the entire series. Not a comic which you blow through in 5 minutes like most of today's comic books are. This requires deeper scrutiny in savoring the art and writing throughout! You can still get it used for $10-15 on Amazon if you purchase sooner than later. Most all of the Essential's and Showcases are beginning to go up in price since they are no longer being (re)printed and that is sad.
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Post by RikerDonegal on Oct 10, 2016 16:43:24 GMT -5
Spent Friday night curled on the couch with hot chocolate and blueberry muffins reading from the Essential Monster of Frankenstein. I delved into the first 6 issues by Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog. The 1st four issues forming one continuous story with each issue truly feeling like chapters in a novel. Oh, that does sound like bliss. I read those back in 2013 and really enjoyed the first 5 issues a lot. Wish the series had contained in that vein for the whole run. Except for 9 and 12 the later issues did nothing much for me. But those early issues were good. Unlike anything else Marvel was doing at the time.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 11, 2016 7:43:53 GMT -5
After a busy Monday work day i unwound with reading The Frankenstein Monster issues 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. Essentially the John Buscema issues with number 11 being by drawn by Bob Brown. Issue 7 was way heavily over inked by John Verpooten possibly an edict from on high to try and evoke the more gothic tone set by Ploog in the first 6 issues? Issues 7, 8, 9 being Frankenstein versus Dracula which also feels like a publishing decision forced upon Friedrich as the story in and of itself is nothing special and more a typical Marvel fist fight between Frank and Drac. The artwork being Buscema is of course nice yet lacking in most respects. The only real standout for me being that Buscema's art increased the proportionate size and power of Frankenstein creating a more muscularly powerful monster. It also has the inexplicable removal of the monster's voice by having been bitten in the throat from Dracula's female vampire? Now if she had torn out his throat maybe this might be something believable but the writing states it has something to do with the vampire blood mingling with the Frankenstein monster's blood?
Issues 10 and 11 find the monster connecting with the last living Frankenstein, yet another in the long line of crazy mad doctor's which seems to possess the Frankenstein heirs. The large Russian hunchback gives some added depth to this story while the doctor is just another case of insanity run rampant. The Bob Brown issue inked by Vinnie Colletta is perhaps some of the least interesting art (being polite here) which is in this series. This could have been much more interesting story but it devolves quickly and perhaps it should have been given three chapters to breathe deeper characterization and the Dracula story would have benefited from being a two part story.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 10:06:16 GMT -5
I read Detective comics 478 last night, featuring the return of Clayface. Great story and that Marshall Rogers art is my favorite. What I liked most was that Bruce was lamenting how being Batman cost him Silver St. Cloud. There is a moment where he looks at a picture of his parents and wonders how his life would have been had they not died. I love the 70s and early 80s Batman stories!
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Post by RikerDonegal on Oct 11, 2016 10:34:06 GMT -5
Reading these Marvel UK Hulk stories from 1979 at the moment. At 3 pages each, they are certainly... different. Not bad. In fact, despite the limitations, I'm enjoying them. The writer has a difficult job, each time: establishing a brand new setting, new characters and a conflict/dilemma that can be resolved. Some work better than others. The one in #9 (in which Banner tries to hop a freight train and meets some thieves) is probably the best so far, requiring very little set-up. The villains are mostly ordinary humans and this version of the Hulk doesn't disply much in the way of super-strength. He just throws guys around, really. Same as the Hulk in the TV show that was airing at the time. The art is good, through-out. With more panels than a typical US comic. In fact, you could probably reorganize the panels to fill 5 or 6 pages in an American-sized comic.
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