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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 23, 2017 0:25:28 GMT -5
Well, I'm currently reading through several short runs using some digital sources, reprints through the library and also some floppies! I'm going to list them here and (hopefully) find some time in the next few days to discuss them in a little more detail:
The Avengers (Silver Age) #59 to #71 - The more I read of Silver Age and Bronze Age Avengers, the more I think The Avengers is one of the great long-term runs, maybe even in the same league with Spider-Man and Fantastic Four.
Green Lantern (Early Bronze Age) #84 to #100, Flash #217 to #220 - I started out reading #90 to #100, but I realized I had never read all the Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams issues, so I went back to include some of those in the run. I finally read the "Speedy is a drug addict issue" and the first appearance of John Stewart.
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #11 to #20
Sensation Comics #1 to #10 - I think I'll be reading this for a long time. I read one story then I don't read the next one for a few days, so it's taken me about a week to read half of Sensation #2. But Sensation has so many awesome features! The Wonder Woman story in #2 has the first appearance of Doctor Poison! And the Black Pirate, Wildcat, Mr. Terrific and Gay Ghost are all wonderful!
The X-Men (Bronze Age), Giant-Size #1, and X-Men #94 to #110 - I started getting X-Men with #99 and I had a few of the earlier issues, but I recently realized I had never read #94, #96 and #98, so I got the Essential X-Men from the library.
I'm also reading the Sky Girl feature in 1940s issues of Jumbo Comics. Sky Girl is hilarious!
And I'm reading random issues of Detective Comics that I got recently, but I'll be talking about those in the Batman Appreciation Thread.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 10:18:20 GMT -5
Well, I'm currently reading through several short runs using some digital sources, reprints through the library and also some floppies! I'm going to list them here and (hopefully) find some time in the next few days to discuss them in a little more detail: Sensation Comics #1 to #10 - I think I'll be reading this for a long time. I read one story then I don't read the next one for a few days, so it's taken me about a week to read half of Sensation #2. But Sensation has so many awesome features! The Wonder Woman story in #2 has the first appearance of Doctor Poison! And the Black Pirate, Wildcat, Mr. Terrific and Gay Ghost are all wonderful! Wonder Woman Archives #1 has these stories ... All-Star Comics #8; Sensation Comics #1-12; Wonder Woman #1 I consider it my Crown Jewels of my DC Archive Collection because of the Stories in Sensation Comics #1 to #12. Having said that I do take my time reading them and enjoying it and because of your comments here - I've might do that this weekend where I'm going to take it easy to enjoy the stories of the early days of Wonder Woman.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 23, 2017 10:22:15 GMT -5
The Avengers (Silver Age) #59 to #61 - The more I read of Silver Age and Bronze Age Avengers, the more I think The Avengers is one of the great long-term runs, maybe even in the same league with Spider-Man and Fantastic Four. For my money, Avengers #52-100 (which includes Annual #2) is one of the best runs ever in superhero comics, and the best superhero team book ever. And long term, I think Avengers #1-285 is a higher quality run from start to finish than pretty much any other mainstream series of similar length in comics history.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 23, 2017 10:34:29 GMT -5
Well, I'm currently reading through several short runs using some digital sources, reprints through the library and also some floppies! I'm going to list them here and (hopefully) find some time in the next few days to discuss them in a little more detail: Sensation Comics #1 to #10 - I think I'll be reading this for a long time. I read one story then I don't read the next one for a few days, so it's taken me about a week to read half of Sensation #2. But Sensation has so many awesome features! The Wonder Woman story in #2 has the first appearance of Doctor Poison! And the Black Pirate, Wildcat, Mr. Terrific and Gay Ghost are all wonderful! Wonder Woman Archives #1 has these stories ... All-Star Comics #8; Sensation Comics #1-12; Wonder Woman #1 I consider it my Crown Jewels of my DC Archive Collection because of the Stories in Sensation Comics #1 to #12. Having said that I do take my time reading them and enjoying it and because of your comments here - I've might do that this weekend where I'm going to take it easy to enjoy the stories of the early days of Wonder Woman. My branch of the library has WW Archives #1 and I've checked it out more than once. But Sensation Comics has so many awesome features! I noticed that from the Millennium edition of Sensation #1. (And the occasional Wildcat or Black Pirate reprint here and there.) That's why I'm reading entire issues on readcomicsonline. I read the second installment of The Gay Ghost this morning. It is hilarious. The Gay Ghost has taken over the body of a reckless playboy who died in the castle (in Ireland) and he usually has to leave the body when he flies around and does ghost stuff. So there's several scenes where people are freaking out because there's a dead guy on the floor! And then the Gay Ghost re-enters the body and says stuff like "I'm just a heavy sleeper! And I like to take naps in ticket offices and on the deck of an ocean liner!"
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Post by String on Mar 23, 2017 10:37:24 GMT -5
Incredible Hulk #340-346
Finally decided to read the trade of this run and quite enjoyed it, read it all in one day in fact. David provides a interesting contrast between Bruce and the Hulk, between the themes of strength and weakness that always seems to be at the heart of these characters. Rick Jones and Clay Quartermain provide some nice comic relief as well as staunch allies. Your mileage may vary but I've always liked McFarlane's work and here his Hulk is very menacing but I also like his soft moments, especially in #344 where Betty wants to settle things with the Hulk. I got a very strong sense of Beauty and the Beast from these scenes.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 24, 2017 13:11:48 GMT -5
Reading some more of the Englehart Dr. Strange series, racently having finished #15-18. On the heels of the earth having been blown up (!) then re-created, Doc and Clea travel back in time to witness important events in the birth of the USA, on the eve of our bicentennial. In #18, Dr. Strange gets cuckolded by Ben Franklin with Clea! Way to go Benji! ;-)
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 24, 2017 15:10:50 GMT -5
I got The Essential X-Men, Volume One, from the library and I'm just about done with it. I read Giant-Size X-Men #1 and then X-Men #101 to #109 and I plan to read #110 today or tomorrow. (It goes up to #120 (or so) but I read the issues from #111 to #120 (in color, no less!) in the Marvel Masterworks format just a few months ago.) I've read most of these issues before. I remember picking up X-Men #99 brand new off the spinner rack when it first came out. I had only seen The X-Men in Son of Origins of Marvel Comics (which I got through the mail, cutting out the coupon from one of my Bronze Age comics and mailing it with my mom's check for $6.95 plus postage and handling), which reprints X-Men #1. And I was going "Who are these people?" when I was flipping through X-Men #99. (It doesn't help that there was a bizarre coloring error on the splash page and I think a few interior pages.) Despite my confusion about what was going on, I loved the X-Men and kept buying it and didn't miss an issue until about #185, after which I read it sporadically for another year or two. I also picked up Giant-Size X-Men #1, and X-Men #95 and #97 at used-book stores in the 1970s. But reading through The Essential X-Men last week, this is the first time I read #94, #96 and #98. These are great comics, of course. But what gets me is, well, I think Chris Claremont's early issues are somewhat over-rated. As I was re-reading them, I realized that there were a lot of times in the early days when I only vaguely knew what was going on. I may have been entranced by #101 to #104 and read them over and over again. Re-reading those particular issues, I remembered a lot of the story, in some cases panel by panel. But a lot of other issues, I don't think I read them as often, at least not very closely. I do remember a lot of the Cockrum art. Those awesome scenes in #107 with the LSH counterparts are particularly memorable. (As I didn't read LSH then, I didn't know until much later they were LSH counterparts.) But where were they? What were they doing there? What were they after? I couldn't remember any of that. This time through, I read all the captions carefully ... and it didn't really seem that familiar. I'm not sure I ever figured it out in the late 1970s the first time I read it. Reading through it last week, a lot of it seemed contrived and arbitrary. (We won't go into Claremont's dangling, unresolved plotlines.) I saw Firelord and I could barely remember that he had ever been in the book. Even as I read through those issues, my memory about Firelord's role was never ignited by the story. I honestly think it's a very weak guest appearance that doesn't make very good use of Firelord. I had a little better luck with Eric the Red and the mad Shi'ar emperor, and of course I remembered Lilandra. But exactly what that whole plot was about, I had to read very carefully, and very little of it rang a bell. I think I was just buying it when I was a kid, giving up on the captions and just looking at the pictures, and I wonder if I would have kept reading it if I hadn't liked #101 to #104 so much. And then John Byrne came along, and #109 was pretty good, and then that great run that starts with #111 and they meet Magneto and go to the Savage Land and then Japan and Alpha Flight and the Hellfire Club and so on. It's too bad John Byrne turned out to be such a nutter and such a mediocre writer. But that was years in the future.
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Post by cellardweller on Mar 24, 2017 22:33:12 GMT -5
I went to ***************.** and found Legion Of Super Heroes 260-261. I remember reading a few issues of this series back in the day, and always liked Princess Projectra, so I clicked on them. Turns out they were the old issues I remembered from all those years ago, about murders at a space circus.
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Post by urrutiap on Mar 25, 2017 1:45:56 GMT -5
X Men 97 to 119 I read recently and the stories were pretty good. Moses Magnum was kinda lame. Sunfire was kind of annoying or whatever where he didn't even recognize nightcrawler or colossus but somehow still remember Cyclops.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 25, 2017 9:17:38 GMT -5
I've been on a bit of an Alan Moore kick over the last few days. I read the first part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen spin-off series Nemo: Heart of Ice... I've gotta say, I was quite disappointed with it. It felt like Moore on autopilot. On the surface of it, it had all of the usual period literary and pop culture references that we've come to expect from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Kevin O'Neill's artwork was, while not his best on the series, certainly up there, but the story was really forgettable and also quite dull. I was expecting to devour this reasonably short graphic novel in one sitting, but I got bored with it half way through and put it down, only finishing it the next day. It's unusual for me to read something by Moore that doesn't grab be straight away and keep me enthralled. I'm planing to read the other two volumes in the Nemo trilogy over the coming days, and maybe they will make me reevaluate Nemo: Heart of Ice. I certainly hope that they'll be more entertaining that that first book. Heart of Ice really felt like Moore just dialling it in. In contrast, I also read Moore's rare short story "I Keep Coming Back", which originally appeared in the It's Dark in London collection in 1996 and serves as something of a coda to his graphic novel From Hell. Though it's a fairly swift read, this is classic Moore -- at turns horrific, amusing, grotesque and oh so thought-provoking. While you aren't missing anything from From Hell if you've never read "I Keep Coming Back", I highly recommend it if you're a fan of Moore's Victorian magnum opus. You won't be disappointed. "I Keep Coming Back" is found most easily these days in Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures #3 or The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics.
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Post by urrutiap on Mar 25, 2017 12:24:11 GMT -5
I read the old x Men issues at a comic book site where you read ny comic for free.
It's a great site to go to by the way
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Post by badwolf on Mar 25, 2017 14:23:26 GMT -5
I read a new reprint of old Champions stories called No Time For Losers... It reprints the first few issues, a nonsensical story involving the forced marriages of Hercules and golden age heroine Venus and an assault on Olympus a few years before the Avengers did it. Slightly better are a couple issues from later in the run where they fight Swarm, a Nazi made of bees. Early John Byrne art on those. Not a great book but at least I sated my curiosity about it.
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 25, 2017 15:46:12 GMT -5
Slightly better are a couple issues from later in the run where they fight Swarm, a Nazi made of bees That sounds both completely ridiculous and kind of amazing
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Post by cellardweller on Mar 26, 2017 9:00:18 GMT -5
Ah, Swarm. I name I haven't heard in a while. Fritz von Meyer was born in Leipzig, Germany and became one of Adolf Hitler's top scientists. Escaping capture after World War II, he became a beekeeper or apiarist in South America and discovered a colony of mutated bees. Intrigued by their intelligence and passive nature, von Meyer attempted to enslave the queen bee, but failed and the bees devoured him, leaving only his skeleton. The unique qualities of the bees caused his consciousness to be absorbed into them, allowing von Meyer to manipulate the hive to do his will, although some of his skeletal remains are inside the swarm itself. His consciousness merged with the swarm to the extent that they become one being, calling himself/their-self "Swarm".
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Post by Confessor on Mar 26, 2017 10:41:03 GMT -5
Ah, Swarm. I name I haven't heard in a while. Fritz von Meyer was born in Leipzig, Germany and became one of Adolf Hitler's top scientists. Escaping capture after World War II, he became a beekeeper or apiarist in South America and discovered a colony of mutated bees. Intrigued by their intelligence and passive nature, von Meyer attempted to enslave the queen bee, but failed and the bees devoured him, leaving only his skeleton. The unique qualities of the bees caused his consciousness to be absorbed into them, allowing von Meyer to manipulate the hive to do his will, although some of his skeletal remains are inside the swarm itself. His consciousness merged with the swarm to the extent that they become one being, calling himself/their-self "Swarm". I read his second appearance in Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #36 and #37 only a few months ago. Great stuff! A really underrated, obscure villain.
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