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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 6, 2018 15:50:12 GMT -5
I'm up to Not Brand Echh! #7. This one is particularly good. I thought the Origin of the Fantastical Four was one of the funnier parodies from NBE (maybe not quite as good as the Spidey-Man story in the previous issue). But then I read the second story in #7, The Origin of Stupor-Man. It's not just hilarious. It's a spot-on hit job on the trials and tribulations of Silver Age Superman. (I especially love the panel where Stupor-Girl, Stupor-Dog and Stupor-Cat take Stupor-Man to meet AL the new additions to the Stupor-Family; not just a horse and a monkey, but a skunk, a rhino, a bunny and so on.) I'm also up to Tomb of Dracula #8. Marv Wolfman's first few issues are OK but he's still stumbling around a bit. However, some surprisingly good art from Gene Colan and Vince Colletta. I guess Tom Palmer doesn't come on as permanent inker for a few more issues yet.
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Post by batusi on Feb 8, 2018 22:12:45 GMT -5
Just read Detective Comics #388 & 389. I am currently re-reading Batman #176, just finished the Catwoman Newspaper story so I have just a couple more stories to go.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 9, 2018 1:16:52 GMT -5
Batman #176 is my favorite of the 80-Page Giants with the possible exception of Batman Annual #5.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 9, 2018 15:41:50 GMT -5
Coming in just under the wire as Classic. Incognegro. Written by Mat Johnson. Art by Warren Pleece I wanted to re-read this graphic novel before I perused the new prequel. The story follows a very light skinned African-American reporter who is able to pass as white and files reports of lynchings in the South under the byline of Incognegro. It's obviously both mentally taxing and frequently dangerous work and he wants to get out and do normal reporting. He heads to Mississippi one last time when his brother is accused of killing a white woman, which means a lynching is imminent. What he finds is a mystery that includes at least one other type of passing. Very powerful look at a time we would like to think is long in the past and is, unfortunately, incredibly timely still.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 9, 2018 15:53:20 GMT -5
I'm up to Tomb of Dracula #10. The first appearance of Blade!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 10:41:30 GMT -5
Coming in just under the wire as Classic. Incognegro. Written by Mat Johnson. Art by Warren Pleece I wanted to re-read this graphic novel before I perused the new prequel. The story follows a very light skinned African-American reporter who is able to pass as white and files reports of lynchings in the South under the byline of Incognegro. It's obviously both mentally taxing and frequently dangerous work and he wants to get out and do normal reporting. He heads to Mississippi one last time when his brother is accused of killing a white woman, which means a lynching is imminent. What he finds is a mystery that includes at least one other type of passing. Very powerful look at a time we would like to think is long in the past and is, unfortunately, incredibly timely still. I saw they put out a new edition and was pondering picking it up. Adding it to the wishlist now. Especially love seeing the Pelecanos quote in the pic you posted.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 10, 2018 10:53:06 GMT -5
Coming in just under the wire as Classic. Incognegro. Written by Mat Johnson. Art by Warren Pleece I wanted to re-read this graphic novel before I perused the new prequel. The story follows a very light skinned African-American reporter who is able to pass as white and files reports of lynchings in the South under the byline of Incognegro. It's obviously both mentally taxing and frequently dangerous work and he wants to get out and do normal reporting. He heads to Mississippi one last time when his brother is accused of killing a white woman, which means a lynching is imminent. What he finds is a mystery that includes at least one other type of passing. Very powerful look at a time we would like to think is long in the past and is, unfortunately, incredibly timely still. I saw they put out a new edition and was pondering picking it up. Adding it to the wishlist now. Especially love seeing the Pelecanos quote in the pic you posted. I hope you like it. I think it's a powerful piece. I'll add that It's probably the best thing I've seen Warren Pleece do. Not that I'm super familiar with his work. He really has a feel for the era and this, to me, is better than his work on Sandman Mystery Theater. I really do need to read The Deadenders at some point.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 10, 2018 10:57:34 GMT -5
I finished the Saga of the Super Sons today... it's so Haney. He really did want to get that message out that the 'kids today' were really ok as long as you understood them, or something. Alot of the dialogue is right out of the 60s Teen Titans, and it was dated then never mind 10 years later.
What really stuck me too was at one point they're at a new age 'encounter' camp, and he comments how it's OK to dance with other man and still be 'manly'... as if that was a big thing. Yet Clark Jr. rides B***h on Bruce Jr's bike all the time, never mind the bits were the Batmen ride the flying Supermen like they were horses... very weird stuff.
I definitely liked the ones where they actually interacted with others in the DCU the best.. the one where Robin was competing with Bruce Jr was great (though why Dick Grayson was the same age as him makes no sense at all).
Fun stuff, though I think they could have definitely added alot to it if they actually committed to mothers instead of them being literal cyphers. Sure, it gave Denny O'Neil a good excuse to show how they weren't real, but still.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 16:29:51 GMT -5
Wow. I ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting. Very powerful and very well done. Thanks for the push I needed to pick it up Slam_Bradley
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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 10, 2018 18:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 10, 2018 18:13:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 20:12:22 GMT -5
The Batman and Spiderman books there are real classics ... I remember reading them vaguely and they were gems - especially the Spiderman one ... Nowhere Man.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 10, 2018 21:09:17 GMT -5
The Batman and Spiderman books there are real classics ... I remember reading them vaguely and they were gems - especially the Spiderman one ... Nowhere Man . That issue is a classic not only for the first appearance of Mysterio, but for the fact that Spider-Man went to see a psychiatrist. Hilarious. This story makes me wish that a Batman writer would have dealt with this so we wouldn't still be going through the tiresome "is Batman crazy" nonsense. No, he's not crazy. He's just really into symbolism, selfless and not a coward. Can we move on?!
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 10, 2018 21:48:24 GMT -5
Amazing Spider-Man #13 was at one time my earliest issue of that title (unless you count my long-since-sold-off copy of Amazing Fantasy #15). I traded it away years ago after buying the Marvel Masterworks HC reprinting it.
Cei-U! I summon the bygone days of yore!
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 10, 2018 21:53:42 GMT -5
I just read Xenozoic Tales issues 9 - 14. Well it was the Schultz Artist Edition containing those stories. I gotta say, not only are they some of the best drawn comics ever. And seeing them in the original art is spectacular. But it is a damn good story. It is really a shame he stopped at #14. I hope someday he goes back to continue this.
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