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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 15:04:02 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. I have never heard in my life a 3 page Comic Book ... it's insane and highly unusual too. I really learned something new today!
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Post by RikerDonegal on Oct 11, 2016 15:45:27 GMT -5
I have never heard in my life a 3 page Comic Book ... it's insane and highly unusual too. I really learned something new today! Well, the stories are 3 pages... the actual comics have a pretty standard 24 pages. Very, very common in the UK comic industry. Titles like Action, Eagle, Roy of the Rovers and Starlord were always made up of multiple strips, reach running 3-6 pages. The most famous of these is probably 2000AD, where the most famous feature is (arguably) Judge Dredd. This 1979 Hulk Comic had new stories in every issue for the Hulk, Nick Fury, Black Knight, Night Raven and (briefly) Ant Man as well as some US reprints.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 20:03:59 GMT -5
I have never heard in my life a 3 page Comic Book ... it's insane and highly unusual too. I really learned something new today! Well, the stories are 3 pages... the actual comics have a pretty standard 24 pages. Very, very common in the UK comic industry. Titles like Action, Eagle, Roy of the Rovers and Starlord were always made up of multiple strips, reach running 3-6 pages. The most famous of these is probably 2000AD, where the most famous feature is (arguably) Judge Dredd. This 1979 Hulk Comic had new stories in every issue for the Hulk, Nick Fury, Black Knight, Night Raven and (briefly) Ant Man as well as some US reprints. Thanks for the details and this is very interesting to know Riker!
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Post by RikerDonegal on Oct 11, 2016 20:22:38 GMT -5
Thanks for the details and this is very interesting to know Riker! You're very welcome. Here's a Wikipedia link for more info on Hulk Comic.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 16, 2016 16:58:29 GMT -5
In addition to the Batman comics I've mentioned on other threads, I've also been going through a couple of compilations I got from the library. I got Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men, Volume Three, featuring X-Men #111 to #121. And I got Diana Prince, Wonder Woman, Volume Four, featuring Wonder Woman #199 to #204 and Brave and the Bold #105. I've only read the first few issues of the X-Men in this volume and it reminds exactly why I thought Claremont/Byrne X-Men was just about the best comic book ever back when I was buying these brand new right off the rack. Maybe I don't think quite THAT highly of it anymore, but the X-Men was never better than it was in the #111 to #143 era. Mod Wonder Woman is just weird, wonderfully and unashamedly so. I've read these before, just a few years ago. I wanted to give them another look because the Catwoman issues are just strange. I sometimes wonder if there were two Catwomans running around in the DC Universe in the 1968 to 1975 era.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 16, 2016 18:51:04 GMT -5
Just read In a nut shell- Superman has to fight off a re-animated Amazo who is charged with capturing Superman in order for Professor IVO ( Amazo's Creator) to drain his life force and become normal looking. It seems that Ivo became hideous looking as a side effect of taking an immortality serum. Superman defeats Amazo and turns the tables on the villain of the story. Impressions- This 42 page story features the art of comics legend Irv Novick. The year is 1985 and I'm guessing that this might have been some of his last work. He's inked by Pablos Marcos and it's not a dream result. Also, there seems to be about 10 pages in a row of just Superman fighting Amazo. Maybe it was an inventory story?
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 17, 2016 8:18:40 GMT -5
I've read a few random issues of The Batman Family, and since I'm moving to Florida in a couple of months, I figured I should start reading up on the Man-Thing, so I'm going through all of his appearances in order, from Savage Tale #1, then his coupe of appearances in Astonishing Tales, and I'm now up to his appearances in Fear. I'm looking forward to getting to the Gerber issues.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 19, 2016 18:53:59 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of reading Blankets by Craig Thompson. It really is as good as they say. All the awards it won are completely deserved.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 22:45:05 GMT -5
I've been indulging in the Golden Age era of stuff a bit recently, in prose and comics.
I've read a few Doc Savage tales reprinted form the 30s and 40s pulps.
Read through issues 2-4 of Marvel Mystery Comics. Burgos' Torch and Everett's Sub-Mariner are definitely the highlights. I like Gustavson's art and styling on the Angel, but the stories are pretty blah. Ka-Zar is mildly interesting, but the other features are all a slog.
Read volume 5 of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon Sundays collected by Checker publishing group, this volume featured the defeat of Ming and the return to Earth by Flash and friends.
Continued through Vol. 1 of the Spirit Archives, reading the 9 stories from August and September 1940.
Started making my way through a best of Golden Age Sheena trade put out by DDP a few years back and have read the Sheena stories form Jumbo Comics #8 and 30 so far.
Lastly, started making my way through the coffee table book-The complete Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th century. I've only read through Ray Bradbury's intro, a recollection of the creation of the strip by Dille and others by Dille's son, the first sequence of 16 strips from 1929 that launched the series, and started through a character guide highlighting the major players in the strip's history.
I've now read everything comic related I own form the 30s and am making my way into the 40s.
-M
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 20, 2016 7:39:35 GMT -5
Lastly, started making my way through the coffee table book-The complete Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th century. I've only read through Ray Bradbury's intro, a recollection of the creation of the strip by Dille and others by Dille's son, the first sequence of 16 strips from 1929 that launched the series, and started through a character guide highlighting the major players in the strip's history. I've now read everything comic related I own form the 30s and am making my way into the 40s. -M A long time ago, I used to own a large paperback collection of old Buck Rogers comic strips. I have no idea what happened to it, though I'm fairly certain that my father threw it out when I went of to college.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 13:23:12 GMT -5
Batman: The Killing Joke
I found it a bit weird that the guy who becomes Joker was so concerned about getting a comedian job to support jeannie and his unborn kid, but takes her death so calmly over the course of a few panels and goes back to doing the gig for the mobsters later that night.
Was also put off by Batman sharing a laugh with the Joker at the end, umm, Bruce? He shot Babs through the spine and delighted in taking nude photos of her after...
It's okay, but a bit overrated in my opinion.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 21, 2016 13:32:22 GMT -5
Batman: The Killing Joke I found it a bit weird that the guy who becomes Joker was so concerned about getting a comedian job to support jeannie and his unborn kid, but takes her death so calmly over the course of a few panels and goes back to doing the gig for the mobsters later that night. Was also put off by Batman sharing a laugh with the Joker at the end, umm, Bruce? He shot Babs through the spine and delighted in taking nude photos of her after... It's okay, but a bit overrated in my opinion. I really like the actual joke itself. It so demented. I think Batman's response was legit. I don't equate Joker's past transgressions with that moment.
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 21, 2016 15:04:56 GMT -5
Saga Of The Sub-Mariner. Very nice little mini-series by Thomas. Kind of wish it had lead into a new volume like Tide & Time did with David's Aquaman, but oh well
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 22, 2016 9:07:33 GMT -5
Batman: The Killing Joke I found it a bit weird that the guy who becomes Joker was so concerned about getting a comedian job to support jeannie and his unborn kid, but takes her death so calmly over the course of a few panels and goes back to doing the gig for the mobsters later that night. Was also put off by Batman sharing a laugh with the Joker at the end, umm, Bruce? He shot Babs through the spine and delighted in taking nude photos of her after... It's okay, but a bit overrated in my opinion. It's highly over-rated. I don't like it even though Alan Moore is one of my favorite writers and the Joker is one of my favorite characters. A friend of mine bought The Killing Joke when it first came out and I read it and I was not impressed. I've never owned my own copy. I really hated the way that Barbara Gordon was so easily taken by surprise and disabled by the Joker. It was wildly out-of-character. I really don't like it when a comic book writer uses a character they don't really like or care about in a disposable manner, just as fodder for the drama. It's bad writing. And Batman laughing with the Joker about the flashlight joke is pretty bad as well. Unless you except the fan theory that Batman killed the Joker at the end of that scene. If you look at the silhouette, it could be interpreted as Batman strangling the Joker. And that's why there's no laughter in the final panel. That interpretation makes the ending work for me. I also think Alan Moore's origin for the Joker is not at all compelling.
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 22, 2016 17:46:46 GMT -5
I'm in the 'overrated' camp. The art is, of course, brilliant, but the story is ghastly and depressing. Even The Original Writer doesn't like it.
I am a fan of the 'Batman kills Joker' interpretation of the ending.
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