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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2019 10:48:41 GMT -5
I never heard that. They sold a lot of copies regardless.
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 14, 2019 14:45:01 GMT -5
I read this some time in the past year and I really enjoyed it. I'd rate it pretty closely with the two Superman/Spider-Man crossovers from this era. I only remember two things from this book 1. Batman kicks the Hulk in the stomach to make him exhale thus knocking him out from gas inhalation 2. The Hulk wearing a beanie Didn't you know that Batman can defeat anybody, given sufficient prep time?
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 15, 2019 14:01:38 GMT -5
Just finished the second of the Yoko Tsuno stories involving the alien Vineans; The Forge Of Vulcan (Cinebooks #9). I have assembled the first six parts and they run The Curious Trio (#7, 1972) -> The Forge Of Vulcan (#9, 1974) -> The Three Suns Of Vinea (#11, 1976) -> The Titans (#12, 1978) -> The Light Of Ixo (#13, 1980) -> The Archangels Of Vinea (#14, 1983, and just released)... so if someone wanted to skip the other sometimes more straight forward earth bound stories they could go for just those six. I hope there'll be more of the Vineans coming but at one English volume a year it is a long wait. www.cinebook.co.uk/yoko-tsuno-c-141_144_200.html
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Post by Confessor on Aug 15, 2019 15:02:01 GMT -5
Just finished the second of the Yoko Tsuno stories involving the alien Vineans; The Forge Of Vulcan (Cinebooks #9). I have assembled the first six parts and they run The Curious Trio (#7, 1972) -> The Forge Of Vulcan (#9, 1974) -> The Three Suns Of Vinea (#11, 1976) -> The Titans (#12, 1978) -> The Light Of Ixo (#13, 1980) -> The Archangels Of Vinea (#14, 1983, and just released)... so if someone wanted to skip the other sometimes more straight forward earth bound stories they could go for just those six. I hope there'll be more of the Vineans coming but at one English volume a year it is a long wait. www.cinebook.co.uk/yoko-tsuno-c-141_144_200.htmlI saw a whole lot of these Yoko Tsuno volumes during a recent trip to Belgium. They were all in French, obviously, but, man, the artwork is utterly beautiful and intriguingly exotic enough to make me really want to read the stories. I've been thinking of buying a couple of volumes of the English translations that Cinebooks have put out, but haven't taken the plunge yet.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 16, 2019 15:06:11 GMT -5
I only remember two things from this book 1. Batman kicks the Hulk in the stomach to make him exhale thus knocking him out from gas inhalation 2. The Hulk wearing a beanie Didn't you know that Batman can defeat anybody, given sufficient prep time? Except Squirrel Girl. And maybe One-Punch Man.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 16, 2019 15:17:09 GMT -5
I'm still reading Avengers # 1 to #20! I got kind of bogged down in the #11 to #14 range (because some of those issues are as bad as I remember) and then I had a little trouble getting going on #16 to #20 because it's only been a year and a half since I did the podcast with Crimebuster, and that involved reading the Cap's Kooky Quartet issues very intensely and taking notes and I wasn't particularly enthused about reading them again so soon … until I started reading them again! I'm still grinning about Pietro all of a sudden loving the circus and Wanda buying tickets to Twelfth Night. And Pietro and Clint being such jerks all the time. And Cap as Grandpa Simpson. And Wanda saving the day in their first two missions because (just for those two issues) her hex power seemed to be particularly effective against robots. I finished #19 yesterday and I love this as much as I ever did. I had a copy of #19 very early on as a collector, I think I paid $6 for a very nice copy in the late 1970s when I was 15 or 16. Great book! I can't wait to see how Clint, Wanda and Pietro save Cap from falling off a building! There are no robots involved, so you can't rely on Wanda's hex!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 16:40:49 GMT -5
I'm still reading Avengers # 1 to #20! I got kind of bogged down in the #11 to #14 range (because some of those issues are as bad as I remember) and then I had a little trouble getting going on #16 to #20 because it's only been a year and a half since I did the podcast with Crimebuster, and that involved reading the Cap's Kooky Quartet issues very intensely and taking notes and I wasn't particularly enthused about reading them again so soon … until I started reading them again! I'm still grinning about Pietro all of a sudden loving the circus and Wanda buying tickets to Twelfth Night. And Pietro and Clint being such jerks all the time. And Cap as Grandpa Simpson. And Wanda saving the day in their first two missions because (just for those two issues) her hex power seemed to be particularly effective against robots. I finished #19 yesterday and I love this as much as I ever did. I had a copy of #19 very early on as a collector, I think I paid $6 for a very nice copy in the late 1970s when I was 15 or 16. Great book! I can't wait to see how Clint, Wanda and Pietro save Cap from falling off a building! There are no robots involved, so you can't rely on Wanda's hex! Nice write-up and that's one of my favorite early books of the Avengers ... I think I should re-read Avengers 1 to 20 again. My friend Jeff still have them. I do have that book available and it's well worn.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 16, 2019 16:58:48 GMT -5
And I've continued to work on my late Bronze Age Wonder Woman collection. I've got #272 to #301 (except #297) and I have #307 to #324. I picked up #320, #321 and #324 last weekend. I read #320 to #324 over the last week. I've had #323 for a while and I still really like it. For the whole period, I really like the Delbo/Hunt art, the Gene Colan period and then lots of very nice 1980s Don Heck! And The Huntress! The backup series starts out very strong and then gets less and less interesting as the series goes along. It ends in #321. The comic as a whole seems to have been struggling as Wonder Woman would go bi-monthly a few issues later. And the big problem is all the writers having an obsession with Wonder Woman's continuity. I hate modern stories that decide it's really important to try to make Wonder Woman's continuity make sense. And I hate Bronze Age stories that try to do the same thing. Ugh! Stop it! Wonder Woman's continuity is a mess, and part of the reason is all these writers waltzing in thinking they can fix it with yet another story about Hippolyta messing with Diana's memories or the new search for lost Themiscyra. As many problems as I had with Azzarello's run, he did a lot of things right … and one of them was not obsessing about the changes he made to the continuity. I didn't like some of the gratuitous, uninspired changes he made, but he didn't spend numerous issues working it out. He just told the story. I would love to see more of that! There are some good things in the late Bronze Age Wonder Woman series. I love Debbie Domaine as the Cheetah! There should have been more of that. Lots of guest stars! Most of those were cool! (They brought back Gardner Grayle (sort of)! And the little green alien Glitch. I tend to like sidekick imps, like Bat-Mite or Zook (the king!) or Itty (although he's not exactly an imp). I mentioned the artists and the early Huntress stories. It's overall a mixed bag, but it should be a lesson to any Wonder Woman creator who thinks Diana needs a 20-issue storyline to fix her chronology.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 16, 2019 17:11:19 GMT -5
And I've continued to work on my late Bronze Age Wonder Woman collection. I've got #272 to #301 (except #297) and I have #307 to #324. I picked up #320, #321 and #324 last weekend. I read #320 to #324 over the last week. I've had #323 for a while and I still really like it. For the whole period, I really like the Delbo/Hunt art, the Gene Colan period and then lots of very nice 1980s Don Heck! And The Huntress! The backup series starts out very strong and then gets less and less interesting as the series goes along. It ends in #321. The comic as a whole seems to have been struggling as Wonder Woman would go bi-monthly a few issues later. And the big problem is all the writers having an obsession with Wonder Woman's continuity. I hate modern stories that decide it's really important to try to make Wonder Woman's continuity make sense. And I hate Bronze Age stories that try to do the same thing. Ugh! Stop it! Wonder Woman's continuity is a mess, and part of the reason is all these writers waltzing in thinking they can fix it with yet another story about Hippolyta messing with Diana's memories or the new search for lost Themiscyra. As many problems as I had with Azzarello's run, he did a lot of things right … and one of them was not obsessing about the changes he made to the continuity. I didn't like some of the gratuitous, uninspired changes he made, but he didn't spend numerous issues working it out. He just told the story. I would love to see more of that! There are some good things in the late Bronze Age Wonder Woman series. I love Debbie Domaine as the Cheetah! There should have been more of that. Lots of guest stars! Most of those were cool! (They brought back Gardner Grayle (sort of)! And the little green alien Glitch. I tend to like sidekick imps, like Bat-Mite or Zook (the king!) or Itty (although he's not exactly an imp). I mentioned the artists and the early Huntress stories. It's overall a mixed bag, but it should be a lesson to any Wonder Woman creator who thinks Diana needs a 20-issue storyline to fix her chronology. These are on my "want" list. I have a few Delbo, missed out on the Heck run completely and had some of the Colan run at the beginning. Why oh why is this wonderful fun stuff not been collected into TPB yet? Blasted DC will print every damn thing of the last 5 years over and over in various prints but none of the CLASSIC GOODNESS we old timers enjoy so much.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 17, 2019 14:23:15 GMT -5
Reading Blonde Phantom #16, the cover story "Modelled for Murder." It has some lovely, pinup style art with Blonde Phantom in her gorgeous, but wildly impractical "costume." But by far the most interesting thing about the story is the murderess' henchman, Stillface! I love that the explanation for Stillface's condition is NBD to Blonde Phantom. "Face shot off and rebuilt with plaster? Sounds legit! And who might YOU be?" Nutty!
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Post by profholt82 on Aug 18, 2019 9:04:22 GMT -5
I've been reading the earliest appearances of the Black Cat lately. I still need to track down 204-205 as well as the first appearance (194) when I see it for a good price. I love the relationship between Spidey and Cat, and wish it had been pursued harder back then. Peter is just too black and white about Felicia's crime side, and I think a deeper relationship between the two of them could have been an excellent arc.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 18, 2019 12:44:33 GMT -5
Black Cat was a great foil for Spider-Man, a guaranteed sale for me (also Leap-Frog). She had a semi-shrine to him and yet was so often on a course of conflict and then there was that nine lives/the cat came back routine. I'm sure they may have been a little influenced by the Batman and Catwoman dynamic too (although initially intended to appear in an early Spider-Woman comic). The name goes back to Dave Cockrum's sketchbook, but most of that version went into creating Storm of the X-Men.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 18, 2019 14:34:20 GMT -5
Batman: Gordon of Gotham (tpb, 2014)collecting: Batman: Gordon's Law (1996-97), Batman: GCPD (1996) and Batman: Gordon of Gotham (1998) Really good collection overall. The first two minis in particular, written by Chuck Dixon, with art by Klaus Janson (Gordon's Law) and Jim Aparo and Bill Sienkiewicz (GCPD), are really well-done police procedurals. The first involves Gordon leading an investigation to track down the perpetrators of a violent bank heist that eventually turns up corruption in the Gotham PD, while the second follows three separate cases being handled by various Gotham police detectives, including frequent Bat-world supporting characters Sarah Essen, Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya. The third, written by Denny O'Neil with art by Giordano and Janson, is the weakest of the three I'd say. It's basically a prelude to Batman: Year One, explaining exactly why Gordon transferred from Chicago to Gotham (and, since it mainly takes place in Chicago, I'm not really sure why it's called Gordon 'of Gotham'). Batman, by the way, appears in only a few panels throughout all three series, and his name's on the covers for marketing purposes only. If you like good cop stories, I highly recommend picking this tpb up, esp. if - like me - you can find a deeply discounted remaindered copy somewhere.
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Post by Duragizer on Aug 18, 2019 21:20:14 GMT -5
Action Comics #20 & 21 So, the Ultra-Humanite is quite possibly the first transgender supervillain(ess). I'm a bit perplexed and disappointed that Siegel went this direction only to discard the character immediately thereafter.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 19, 2019 5:34:39 GMT -5
The Ultra -Humanite made appearances in the Roy Thomas books in the 80's and also in a crossover between the JLA/JSA. I didn't seem like he cared about the transgender angle, he only used what he had to to win against his opponents.
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