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Post by hondobrode on Apr 4, 2017 21:23:24 GMT -5
From IDW's website : Eddie Campbell’s Bacchus is a true epic, spanning a decade of work, over a thousand pages, and several millennia of alcohol consumption. It’s Campbell’s version of “an American-style comic book,” filtered through his own brilliant, whimsical, and wide-ranging sensibility. Blending action, comedy, suspense, and an ear for a great story, Bacchus brings the gods and myths of ancient Greece to modern life, as if they had never left.
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 4, 2017 21:40:12 GMT -5
This is my dad from about 30 years ago. He's an alcoholic. This picture is of him driving the family Cadillac with one of my brothers asleep against him. Bacchus resonates even more so because it's very dry humor and has a sense of history and mythology. It would make a wonderful movie. This is him a few years ago with a couple of his grandchildren.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 5, 2017 11:27:37 GMT -5
I read this digitally this morning: It's been a while since the last time I read it, but I used to read all the Ditko Spideys over and over again. Great comic! The fight with Doctor Octopus where Spidey has a virus is great. And then the epic battle in the abandoned artist's studio! And it's on fire! And so many great moments with the supporting cast, especially Flash and Liz!
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Post by String on Apr 5, 2017 12:44:06 GMT -5
I read this digitally this morning: It's been a while since the last time I read it, but I used to read all the Ditko Spideys over and over again. Great comic! The fight with Doctor Octopus where Spidey has a virus is great. And then the epic battle in the abandoned artist's studio! And it's on fire! And so many great moments with the supporting cast, especially Flash and Liz! This story was one of my earliest intros to the Lee/Ditko Spidey. I bought the reprint of this story in Marvel Tales #149 and yes, it's such a fun story. The twist with Peter being unmasked was great with the virus being the reason why no believed it.
Marvel Tales #149-150 (reprinting ASM Annual #1) remain among my favorite Spidey stories. I'm surprised the issues have held up after all these years considering how often I re-read them. Such great single-page splash images by Ditko as Spidey confronted each member of the Sinister Six.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 5, 2017 13:25:36 GMT -5
Spider-Man Annual #1 is my favorite comic book ever. I have a very beat-up copy of the original 1964 comic book that I keep in the mini-library of much-read comics on my nightstand.
I'd probably read it several dozen times before I noticed how silly it is. For example, why in the world would Doctor Octopus put on scuba gear and fight Spidey in a giant fish bowl?
I still love it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2017 14:07:15 GMT -5
hondobrodeEddie Campbell’s Bacchus - I quote from you "Bacchus brings the gods and myths of ancient Greece to modern life, as if they had never left" ... what you have written intrigued me and I ask the owner of the LCS if he recommended to me and knowing that I like the Ancient Greek Gods and managed to scoop up Bacchus #1 to #5 and I'm picking them up next Monday for a 20% discount. I'm going to read them next week.
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Post by Spike-X on Apr 5, 2017 17:03:09 GMT -5
This is by far my favourite title of the early Marvel Age. Lee and Ditko firing on all cylinders, month after month.
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 5, 2017 17:46:09 GMT -5
hondobrode Eddie Campbell’s Bacchus - I quote from you "Bacchus brings the gods and myths of ancient Greece to modern life, as if they had never left" ... what you have written intrigued me and I ask the owner of the LCS if he recommended to me and knowing that I like the Ancient Greek Gods and managed to scoop up Bacchus #1 to #5 and I'm picking them up next Monday for a 20% discount. I'm going to read them next week. @mechagodzilla Anxious to hear how you like them !
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 5, 2017 18:29:23 GMT -5
I remember reading Bacchus when it was one of the continuing features for a time in Dark Horse Presents. And then I read it for an awful long time when it was Eddie Campbell's Bacchus. I'm pretty sure I started reading it with the first issue, but I was having trouble remembering how many issues I got before I stopped getting it regularly. Looking at the covers in the Comic Book Database, I'd guess I made way into the 30s.
Great series. Bacchus and Joe Theseus and the Eyeball Kid. And Simpson!
When I went back to college, I quit going to the comic book store, so I pretty much quit getting comics except what I could get at the newsstand near my house. For a while I was stopping there once a month or so and keeping up with Detective Comics, but not getting much else.
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 5, 2017 22:06:06 GMT -5
Ok, shaxper and lobsterjohnson are both big fans. I've liked what I've picked up here and there over the years, and now the moment I've been waiting for has happened. Done and done. Just got off the phone with one of my bros, Ryan, who goes by Ronin, since he was all into martial arts and never really gave up the nickname. Will be digging into this as soon as I'm done with Bacchus, then later onto Rebirth. Usagi sale
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Post by Confessor on Apr 6, 2017 6:04:07 GMT -5
So, I read another three issues of Alan Moore's Captain Britian last night ( Daredevils #3-5), tingramretro. I'm still really enjoying this and I particularly liked Moore's obvious disdain for McDonalds (or McBurgers, as it is in the story) and also the fact that the battle with Slaymaster takes place in a comic shop on Denmark Street (obviously meant to be the original Forbidden Planet shop). Lots of good writing here and I'm really into this now. I'm surprised that I like this so much, actually, because traditionally I've not been a fan of Captain Britain at all. Also, the Special Executive, who have just shown up and invaded Braddock Manor, seem like a cool bunch of characters...although their means of entry, just to ask Brian a favour, seems a bit much!
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Post by tingramretro on Apr 6, 2017 11:03:20 GMT -5
So, I read another three issues of Alan Moore's Captain Britian last night ( Daredevils #3-5), tingramretro . I'm still really enjoying this and I particularly liked Moore's obvious disdain for McDonalds (or McBurgers, as it is in the story) and also the fact that the battle with Slaymaster takes place in a comic shop on Denmark Street (obviously meant to be the original Forbidden Planet shop). Lots of good writing here and I'm really into this now. I'm surprised that I like this so much, actually, because traditionally I've not been a fan of Captain Britain at all. Also, the Special Executive, who have just shown up and invaded Braddock Manor, seem like a cool bunch of characters...although their means of entry, just to ask Brian a favour, seems a bit much! I presume you are aware of the Special Executive's past history, yes? You've read their appearances in Doctor Who Monhly?
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Post by Confessor on Apr 6, 2017 13:26:49 GMT -5
So, I read another three issues of Alan Moore's Captain Britian last night ( Daredevils #3-5), tingramretro . I'm still really enjoying this and I particularly liked Moore's obvious disdain for McDonalds (or McBurgers, as it is in the story) and also the fact that the battle with Slaymaster takes place in a comic shop on Denmark Street (obviously meant to be the original Forbidden Planet shop). Lots of good writing here and I'm really into this now. I'm surprised that I like this so much, actually, because traditionally I've not been a fan of Captain Britain at all. Also, the Special Executive, who have just shown up and invaded Braddock Manor, seem like a cool bunch of characters...although their means of entry, just to ask Brian a favour, seems a bit much! I presume you are aware of the Special Executive's past history, yes? You've read their appearances in Doctor Who Monhly? Errr...nope!
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Post by tingramretro on Apr 6, 2017 13:45:35 GMT -5
I presume you are aware of the Special Executive's past history, yes? You've read their appearances in Doctor Who Monhly? Errr...nope! The Special Executive...or at least, some of them...first appeared in the second and third parts of the Star Death trilogy, an intermittent series of back-up strips about the early days of the Time Lords of Gallifrey in Doctor Who Monthly in 1981, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Of the later group, only Wardog, Cobweb and Zeitgeist appear, Wardog debuting in DWM #51 (in which he loses his left arm) and the others in #57. They are identified as parahuman agents of the Time Lords. Later, in the Captain Britain series, Wardog mentions their having worked for time travellers. This, plus the fact that one of the forms that Merlin briefly adopts in A Rag, a Bone, a Hank of Hair is the form of the Merlin encountered twice by the Doctor in DWM seems to indicate that they exist in the same multiverse. When Alan Moore fell out with Marvel over the Marvelman situation and denied them the right to reprint his work, he also forbade them from using the three Special Executive characters he and Lloyd originally co-created, forcing Alan Davis and Jamie Delano to create the Technet instead, essentially the same group minus Wardog, Cobweb and Zeitgeist.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 6, 2017 13:56:02 GMT -5
Errr...nope! The Special Executive...or at least, some of them...first appeared in the second and third parts of the Star Death trilogy, an intermittent series of back-up strips about the early days of the Time Lords of Gallifrey in Doctor Who Monthly in 1981, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Of the later group, only Wardog, Cobweb and Zeitgeist appear, Wardog debuting in DWM #51 (in which he loses his left arm) and the others in #57. They are identified as parahuman agents of the Time Lords. Later, in the Captain Britain series, Wardog mentions their having worked for time travellers. This, plus the fact that one of the forms that Merlin briefly adopts in A Rag, a Bone, a Hank of Hair is the form of the Merlin encountered twice by the Doctor in DWM seems to indicate that they exist in the same multiverse. When Alan Moore fell out with Marvel over the Marvelman situation and denied them the right to reprint his work, he also forbade them from using the three Special Executive characters he and Lloyd originally co-created, forcing Alan Davis and Jamie Delano to create the Technet instead, essentially the same group minus Wardog, Cobweb and Zeitgeist. Fascinating. I had no idea.
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