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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 16, 2018 7:06:38 GMT -5
I finished "Panther's Rage". Very good. Lots of heavy duty prose by McGregor. He certainly doesn't cheat you on words. Some very good art but Buckler & Graham, also.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 14:04:58 GMT -5
Read Ravens & Rainbows #1 from Pacific Comics circa 1983. It's a anthology reprint collection of material by Jeffrey Jones... It's has a bunch of short (8 pages or less) stories by Jones mostly sci-fi and fantasy. I would post some pages, but there is some nudity, but I wll post this one (one of the few not in color but done is a wash style... I think my favorite was the one page story Toys just for the twist ending/punchline (you can find the page if you do a google image search for Jeffrey Jones Ravens & Rainbows). It also has a few pages from Jones portfolios that have been colored. I am a big fan of Jones work doing paperback covers and have liked the few comic covers I have seen, but I haven't seen/read a lot of Jones' interior comic work so this was a good sampler/introduction for me. -M
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Post by MDG on Apr 17, 2018 14:56:58 GMT -5
I bought a lot of these Pacific reprints (Suydam, Bolton, Bolland, Bissette & Veitch) but don't think I ever saw this one.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 14:59:04 GMT -5
I bought a lot of these Pacific reprints (Suydam, Bolton, Bolland, Bissette & Veitch) but don't think I ever saw this one. I have a lot of them too, but the first time I ever saw this one was in the bins Sunday. I didn't even know it existed until then. -M
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 17, 2018 15:32:58 GMT -5
I finished "Panther's Rage". Very good. Lots of heavy duty prose by McGregor. He certainly doesn't cheat you on words. Some very good art but Buckler & Graham, also. "Panther's Rage" was what got me into reading comics regularly after years of just picking up a few comics here and there. Within a few months, I was reading Daredevil, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, The Avengers and a bunch more, but only Marvel until I started reading The Joker and The Secret Society of Super-Villains.
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Post by urrutiap on Apr 18, 2018 10:02:30 GMT -5
Late night last night I was reading Power Pack issues 18 and 19.
Today I'll be binge reading my other old single back issues of Power Pack # 20-24 along with Uncanny X Men 205.
Power Pack # 18 or 19 pretty much the Thansgiving issue while Uncanny X Men 205 is the Christmas issue guest starring Katie Power.
Little girl out on the streets of New York by herself christmas shopping while Wolverine getting beat up badly by psycho cyborgs
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 19, 2018 19:05:30 GMT -5
Reading The Last American TPB and just got done what would be equivocal to the first issue. This is a book that I had heard people talk about in the past, but had never really read it myself, mostly thinking that it "wasn't for me" after reading how this book caused a huge "falling out" between Wagner & Grant. Best way to describe it is a less over the top version of "The Cursed Earth" epic from Judge Dredd It focuses on Ulysses S. Pilgrim, a man who was the guinea pig for a government project to put a man on ice for twenty years to see if he could survive both that and a Nuclear Holocaust. He wakes up twenty years after the fact to seemingly barren wasteland. The decay, the loneliness, the utter horror, Ulysses can barely stomach any of it. And unsurprisingly he goes through bouts of PTSD. His only companions are three robots, Able, Baker, and Charlie. The latter of which has become obsessed with television and uses commercial slogans and sitcom catchphrases to cope with the 20 year isolation. It's grisly and poetic, evocative of 2000AD when it was at it's absolute peak
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 20, 2018 14:51:37 GMT -5
Was just looking through Sgt. Rock #362. It has three back-up stories, one each by Tim Truman, Tom Mandrake and Ron Randall. Each of them were early graduates of the Kubert School. I have to think that Joe Kubert being the editor of the book had something to do with that.
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 20, 2018 22:10:09 GMT -5
Finishing up reading a huge earlier collection of Usagi Yojimbo.
I knew it would be good but nowhere near as good as it's turned out to be.
Count me as a huge Stan Sakai fan now.
The guy is so talented.
Never been disappointed in any Usagi I've read yet and doubt I ever will.
Highest praise
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 23, 2018 11:53:19 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Apr 23, 2018 14:22:44 GMT -5
I re-read the first League of Extraordinary Gentlemen TPB last night. Really enjoyed it, as always -- top draw Alan Moore writing, and Kevin O'Neill's artwork works very well within the context of the series. There's an awful lot of thought and attention that's gone into this work and, of course, half the fun with the LoEG is spotting all the literary and cultural references, along with all the Easter Eggs in the artwork. That's always a favourite game of mine to play. I've not been overly impressed with some of the latest installments of the series (I'm thinking of the Nemo trilogy specifically), but the first LoEG storyline is pure gold.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 23, 2018 23:19:15 GMT -5
Been desperately trying to get back into Judge Dredd after gushing over The Last American so much. The whole Judge Child Quest is where my interest in reading the series chronologically nose-dived. It just felt like a drull retread of the Cursed Earth saga with minor interesting tidbits of lore/world-building, such a shame they had to introduce a wonderfully detestable cast of villains like the Angel Gang in this. Skimmed ahead to Prog 182 through 201 and I found that spark of creative insanity once more, the stuff that got me so excited about Dredd as a dweeby teen; classics like "Synthi-Caff Vindilu", "The Fink", "Any Confessions?", "Pirates Of The Black Atlantic", and "The Nightmare Gun" And Drokkin' Hell! You wanna talk about world building? Check out Big Mo from "Mega-way Madness" Reminds me of those beautiful splash pages of Judge Dredd's Lawmaster and Lawgiver, you've just really got to appreciate the amount of detail that went into it
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2018 9:27:19 GMT -5
Read several Marvel Masterworks in the past week:
Inhumans: Vol. 1-2 (both) Spider-Woman: Vol. 1 Golden Age Sub-Mariner: Vol 1 (only) The Champions: Vol. 1
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Post by sabongero on Apr 25, 2018 1:59:40 GMT -5
As long as I'm reading Suicide Squad, I decided to try Checkmate too. I'm seven issues in and really impressed. I've always liked Paul Kupperberg's work but his writing here is at a whole 'nother level of good. The art by Steve Erwin and Al Vey is fantastic, especially the detailed backgrounds and spectacular action sequences. I appreciate that the series occupies its own, more realistic corner of the DCU, with the only fantasy elements (so far, anyway) being the costumed Knights. Plus it has Harvey Bullock in the cast, my favorite character from the Doug Moench pre-Crisis Batman titles. I'm getting a bit tired of everything being about terrorists but I suspect there is more diversity in plotting ahead. All in all, a welcome change of pace from the usual super-hero shenanigans. Cei-U! I love discovering new, quality comics! Interesting. I'll check out a few of the issues. I always liked espionage movies. I wonder what other espionage series in DC is good to read. I have read Sleeper and Velvet from Image a while back. And of course some of the Marvel Nick Fury series... I sure love those old Jim Steranko art. Would you happen to also have read the second volume of Checkmate, the second seriest that started in the mid 2000's.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 27, 2018 19:44:44 GMT -5
As long as I'm reading Suicide Squad, I decided to try Checkmate too. I'm seven issues in and really impressed. I've always liked Paul Kupperberg's work but his writing here is at a whole 'nother level of good. The art by Steve Erwin and Al Vey is fantastic, especially the detailed backgrounds and spectacular action sequences. I appreciate that the series occupies its own, more realistic corner of the DCU, with the only fantasy elements (so far, anyway) being the costumed Knights. Plus it has Harvey Bullock in the cast, my favorite character from the Doug Moench pre-Crisis Batman titles. I'm getting a bit tired of everything being about terrorists but I suspect there is more diversity in plotting ahead. All in all, a welcome change of pace from the usual super-hero shenanigans. Cei-U! I love discovering new, quality comics! Interesting. I'll check out a few of the issues. I always liked espionage movies. I wonder what other espionage series in DC is good to read. I have read Sleeper and Velvet from Image a while back. And of course some of the Marvel Nick Fury series... I sure love those old Jim Steranko art. Would you happen to also have read the second volume of Checkmate, the second seriest that started in the mid 2000's. I love Checkmate to pieces (pun not intended), it was such an interesting spin on Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. that I'm kind of surprised that they haven't done more with it. I also love the costume designs and would kill for an IRL of the Pawn
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