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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 18, 2017 15:54:51 GMT -5
I always thought that Ron Lim delivered on every assignment he produced. Even when he took over for George Perez on Infinity Gauntlet, there wasn't a drop off in quality. I liked Ron Lim's work on Silver Surfer quite a bit.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2017 17:59:03 GMT -5
I always thought that Ron Lim delivered on every assignment he produced. Even when he took over for George Perez on Infinity Gauntlet, there wasn't a drop off in quality. The first Silver Surfer comic I ever bought was a Ron Lim penciled issue where the Surfer fought Midnight Sun (#60). I thought it was great and bought Silver Surfer semi-regularly for a year or two after that. But I can't recall (at least from the comics I've read) Lim doing anything so trippy as the splash pages dealing with each of the gems toward the end of Thanos Quest #2. It reminded me of one of the Steranko issues of Captain America. So that's what I mean. I think of Lim as more conventional, not experimental. I've never actually read Infinity Gauntlet all the way through. I read (or maybe just browsed) a bit of a couple issues owned by a friend around the time it came out. I've read the first Perez-penciled issue more recently. I read Infinity War and some of Infinity Crusade when they came out, and I don't recall crazy psychedelic story-telling. I'm thinking that Starlin gave him direction on the trip pages.
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Post by Polar Bear on Mar 18, 2017 20:24:42 GMT -5
Those Thanos Quest books were such a fun read. Yes, I loved seeing Thanos assemble the gems and match up against each of the Elders. Those trippy full page spreads toward the end were very cool, too. They were beyond what I've seen from Ron Lim elsewhere. Part of the credit goes to Paul Mounts' coloring technique, which he could only use to full effect on Marvel's "bookshelf" (prestige) format books like Thanos Quest. The combination was woefully under-utilized (possibly because some artists felt his powerful coloring work overshadowed their art? Guessing, here.)
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Post by bor on Mar 19, 2017 2:40:02 GMT -5
This week I bought and read don rosa library books 4+5 which mainly consists of the life and times of scrouge mcduck. This has been some of the most enjoyment I have gotten from comics in some time. I read these comics back in the early 90s as a child. Actually thats not quite true I looked at the pictures at first because when these came out I actually didnt know how to read at first, just looked at the pictures. For those who dont know Donald duck related comics is one of the major comicbooks here in Denmark, and the only one who has come out consistently for over 60 years. Highly enjoyable.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 19, 2017 8:05:40 GMT -5
This week I bought and read don rosa library books 4+5 which mainly consists of the life and times of scrouge mcduck. This has been some of the most enjoyment I have gotten from comics in some time. I read these comics back in the early 90s as a child. Actually thats not quite true I looked at the pictures at first because when these came out I actually didnt know how to read at first, just looked at the pictures. For those who dont know Donald duck related comics is one of the major comicbooks here in Denmark, and the only one who has come out consistently for over 60 years. Highly enjoyable. I read vol. 4 a few weeks ago.. great stuff. Don Rosa's commentary in those is pretty great too. I'll definitely continue to get them as they come out (Waiting for the slipcase versions, though)
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Post by bor on Mar 19, 2017 9:02:08 GMT -5
This week I bought and read don rosa library books 4+5 which mainly consists of the life and times of scrouge mcduck. This has been some of the most enjoyment I have gotten from comics in some time. I read these comics back in the early 90s as a child. Actually thats not quite true I looked at the pictures at first because when these came out I actually didnt know how to read at first, just looked at the pictures. For those who dont know Donald duck related comics is one of the major comicbooks here in Denmark, and the only one who has come out consistently for over 60 years. Highly enjoyable. I read vol. 4 a few weeks ago.. great stuff. Don Rosa's commentary in those is pretty great too. I'll definitely continue to get them as they come out (Waiting for the slipcase versions, though) They really are great. I was only going to buy these two, but I think I might end up buying more of them now. On a different note number 4 actually did come in a box with 3, but the owner of my local store knew I only really wanted to read 4+5 so he opened up that box and sold me it individualy. He is a good guy. The funny thing for me is also reading just how many of these stories actually first appeared the way I read them in the 90s: In Anders And og Co (Donald duck weekly). Not just the first way in Denmark, but actually the first way in the world. Between this and the current Darkwing Duck series coming out I am enjoying duck comics a whole lot again.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 19, 2017 16:44:12 GMT -5
Red Range - Joe R. Lansdale and Sam Glanzman. I supported this reprint on the Kickstarter. The book hasn't arrived yet, but the PDF did and I read it. Let's start by saying that I'm a big fan of both Lansdale (prose and comics) and of Sam Glanzman. This is overall great work and if you like either creator then chances are you're going to be a happy camper. This is a no-hold's barred look at racism in the old west. If you're going to be offended by hard language or violence then you need to move along. Because neither Landsdale nor Glanzman are holding back in any way on this book. And the afterword and the supporting material by Steve Bissette are freakin' incredible. My complaint is that the story takes a left turn at the 2/3 point that I didn't see coming and that I really didn't think was necessary. I guess since it was planned this would continue and since "weird westerns" were a big thing in '99 that it may have made sense in that context. Me...I would have liked it to remain grounded in Old West reality. That aside, this is a good read and I'm really glad that I supported it and that Drew Ford is bringing lost comic treasures to light.
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Post by james on Mar 19, 2017 17:14:40 GMT -5
Does anyone know why Ron Lim's whole Surfer run has not been put in TB? I only ever see issues 34-38 and thats it. Its a shame really because its a great Surfer run.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 19, 2017 17:25:42 GMT -5
Red Range - Joe R. Lansdale and Sam Glanzman. I supported this reprint on the Kickstarter. The book hasn't arrived yet, but the PDF did and I read it. Let's start by saying that I'm a big fan of both Lansdale (prose and comics) and of Sam Glanzman. This is overall great work and if you like either creator then chances are you're going to be a happy camper. This is a no-hold's barred look at racism in the old west. If you're going to be offended by hard language or violence then you need to move along. Because neither Landsdale nor Glanzman are holding back in any way on this book. And the afterword and the supporting material by Steve Bissette are freakin' incredible. My complaint is that the story takes a left turn at the 2/3 point that I didn't see coming and that I really didn't think was necessary. I guess since it was planned this would continue and since "weird westerns" were a big thing in '99 that it may have made sense in that context. Me...I would have liked it to remain grounded in Old West reality. That aside, this is a good read and I'm really glad that I supported it and that Drew Ford is bringing lost comic treasures to light. I might have to pick this up. I love Lansdale's three Jonah Hex mini-series, so this might well be up my alley.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 17:52:12 GMT -5
Does anyone know why Ron Lim's whole Surfer run has not been put in TB? I only ever see issues 34-38 and thats it. Its a shame really because its a great Surfer run. Probably because so much of the run is tie ins to Infinity War/Crusade and what not that don't read well on their own and don't stand alone as stories that can be sold to a potential new reader as a singular unit, but the subplots in those issues mean the stuff outside the cross-overs don't stand on their own either so you either have to package them with the mini-series (which some of the issues have been in the various Infinity omnibuses or include something about those mini series in the Surfer collections to make the rest of the stories make any sense to a reader who hasn't read them before, and there just isn't enough demand for those stories for them to pay the production costs to jump through those hoops to put out a product that will make little to no revenue because of it. The Starlin written stuff leading up to Infinity Gauntlet with the return of Thanos is somewhat in demand, but the post-Gauntlet stuff, especially once Ron Marz takes over as writer really is just filler and fluff for the Infinity storylines until much later in Lim's run when he Infinity stuff had run its course, but then you had to know what was going on in things like the Cosmic Powers minis and the Warlock books a lot of the time to be able to have context for the surfer stuff (and there even the multibook cross-over with Thor and the Warlock stuff too iirc). The problem with intertwining titles together as as serials is that they don't stand alone as collections later, but that was not a concern when the books came out. It is a concern when choosing what collections to release now and how they will be received in the marketplace. And the powers that be making those decisions don't think the books will sell enough with those factors considered. That would be my guess. -M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 23:55:47 GMT -5
I just finished FF 48. Staggering. 'Nuff said.
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 21, 2017 9:51:23 GMT -5
Rom and Micronauts
Micronauts starts out very strong but kind of gets a bit more slower paced once Rann and co break through the "fringe wall" to our world. Rom is the exact opposite
Also started getting back into "space rock" music like Les Rockets, so it's definitely making the binge-reading of both of these far more enjoyable
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 22, 2017 7:32:11 GMT -5
Truth: Red, White, and Black #1-#5
A very, very powerful, albiet not entirely politically correct, story that's off-set by Kyle Baker's marriage of Hanna-Barbera & John Kricfalusi that gives the book a sense of dread and paranonia about the lives of an all-black infantry
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 22:22:43 GMT -5
I've done it! I finished FF 50. Now, to decide which of my four Masterworks I have on hand to read next!
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 23, 2017 0:09:18 GMT -5
I've done it! I finished FF 50. Now, to decide which of my four Masterworks I have on hand to read next! You're on a roll! Just keep going on the FF! I think it's (mostly) GREAT up to that whole storyline where Ben is kidnaped by Skrulls for gladiatorial combat on the Gangster Planet!
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