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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 24, 2014 19:51:09 GMT -5
I just read Green Arrow Volume 1, issue 1-8. Actually you read Green Arrow, Vol. 2. Vol. 1 is the 4-issue mini-series by Barr and Von Eeden. Cei-U! I summon the pedantry!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 19:51:36 GMT -5
I've never read Warlock and the Infinity Watch. The nostalgia removed, is it a series that holds up? I'm currently reading Warlock Infinity Watch and think it's meh. So far it's suffering from being the slave to all the Infinity crossovers. It doesn't help that the art is featuring Angel Medina , whom i can't stand. See I think the Medina art is the best thing it had going for it. Angel is a great guy (met him two years ago at Gem City and we chatter for a while because I brought some Dreadstar stuff for him to sign and he had just been talking about how he was doing that book and double dipping-he was getting paid by Marvel and it counted as an independent study for the course work he was taking as an art major while at university). When Medina left and the likes of Tom Grindberg took over, the book was nearly unreadable. I am not a fan of Angel's later work on Spawn and others, but I like his early Marvel stuff just fine, a bit cartoony in its styling, but very evocative and very good at conveying character expressions to help further the story. -M
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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 24, 2014 20:34:51 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Warlock Infinity Watch and think it's meh. So far it's suffering from being the slave to all the Infinity crossovers. It doesn't help that the art is featuring Angel Medina , whom i can't stand. See I think the Medina art is the best thing it had going for it. Angel is a great guy (met him two years ago at Gem City and we chatter for a while because I brought some Dreadstar stuff for him to sign and he had just been talking about how he was doing that book and double dipping-he was getting paid by Marvel and it counted as an independent study for the course work he was taking as an art major while at university). When Medina left and the likes of Tom Grindberg took over, the book was nearly unreadable. I am not a fan of Angel's later work on Spawn and others, but I like his early Marvel stuff just fine, a bit cartoony in its styling, but very evocative and very good at conveying character expressions to help further the story. -M Medina's art isn't really to my taste, but Grindberg is who I was specifically thinking about when I said the art was "iffy". It's not so much on Grindberg, who had been a solid if unspectacular artist before this run, but the inker, who I think must have been inking with a Sharpie he had been rubbing over a cinder block for several hours before starting to finish the pages. I mean, Grindberg definitely has some problems with inconsistant figure distortions from panel to panel, but those inks just compound them to a ridiculous extent. It's like the inker was aiming for a Mignola-feel, but with none of Mike's skill for those "simple" thick lines. I hadn't seen so much thick ink on a comics page before outside of Ted McKeever's work, but Ted knows how to make it work to create atmosphere.
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Post by antoine on Aug 24, 2014 20:52:51 GMT -5
So my first foray into the classic comics reading thread. Welcome welcome! WOW. Was this the Mike Grell volume? Yes it was! Issue #5 or 7, not sure... I don't think I've ever read anything from Mike Grell before (although as I said before, I'm not good with creators, so I might have read some of his work before) and I like the series so far, I just thought it was kind of weird.... EDIT : My wife just read my comment and told me it's "full" of mistakes, so sorry about that! I'm a french Canadian and she's anglophone.... I'll get better with time!
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Post by antoine on Aug 24, 2014 20:54:01 GMT -5
I just read Green Arrow Volume 1, issue 1-8. Actually you read Green Arrow, Vol. 2. Vol. 1 is the 4-issue mini-series by Barr and Von Eeden. Cei-U! I summon the pedantry! Ok, Thanks Cei-U! That's what I thought at first, but when you read the editor's note in the comics, they say it's GA first volume.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 24, 2014 21:06:47 GMT -5
with ass-less chaps and a leather coat/cap. Chaps are by definition assless. Otherwise they are trousers.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 25, 2014 4:34:01 GMT -5
EDIT : My wife just read my comment and told me it's "full" of mistakes, so sorry about that! I'm a french Canadian and she's anglophone.... I'll get better with time! I hadn't noticed, and I'm an English Teacher
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Post by Nowhere Man on Aug 25, 2014 7:02:31 GMT -5
Almost done with Vol.2 of the Fantagraphic's Prince Valiant collection. It's rare in my old age that something I've longed read like this, from the beginning, exceeds my expectations.
I'm still doing the Marvel chronology and I'm almost done with 1962.
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Post by antoine on Aug 25, 2014 11:41:49 GMT -5
EDIT : My wife just read my comment and told me it's "full" of mistakes, so sorry about that! I'm a french Canadian and she's anglophone.... I'll get better with time! I hadn't noticed, and I'm an English Teacher haha, Awesome! Mostly, she said I could structured my sentences/idea waaay better : )
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Post by antoine on Aug 25, 2014 11:42:16 GMT -5
with ass-less chaps and a leather coat/cap. Chaps are by definition assless. Otherwise they are trousers. You learn something new everyday!!!
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Post by ziza9 on Aug 25, 2014 14:29:06 GMT -5
Last night I read the first 2 issues of Warlock and The Infinity Watch and the first 4 issues of Darkstars. Both "classic" in the sense of taking me back to the Marvel and DC cosmic landscape of my college years. I've never read Warlock and the Infinity Watch. The nostalgia removed, is it a series that holds up? I'd say, not really. There are some fun moments, good interaction between the characters, but overall it feels more like filler in-between the different Infinity minis. It isn't what I consider bad, but definitely something you read in the same way you'd watch a schlocky B-movie with some redeeming qualities. More interesting in a "what happened to the gems after The Infinity Gauntlet?" way. Even my own nostalgia for the series can't recommend it outside of dollar bin diving. There is a trade (which I have as well) that contains the first six issues along with some Silver Surfer issues. Infinty Gauntlet Aftermath.
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Post by MDG on Aug 28, 2014 11:35:47 GMT -5
... The finished art for one issue and the uninked pencils for another appeared in the SSOSV hardcover compilation about two years ago. And it still didn't end!
For a while, a friend owned a partially-inked splash from an unpublished issue of SSOSV.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 0:08:57 GMT -5
I just read the Plastic Man stories from Police Comics 50 & 51. Enjoying it so far, especially the art. Professor Carlon has one hell of a noggin! Something that caught my attention was the fact that suicide is mentioned mutliple times in both stories. Granted it could be an anomaly (these are my first Plas stories), but its striking having just read about his suicide and people being baffled by it.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 30, 2014 16:11:42 GMT -5
Death's Head II #1-4 Vol 1 (mini)
I liked it a lot when I first read it and i still liked it this time, though there are some things that flag it as a comic of the 90's. Still a good solid time traveling/alternate timeline story by Dan Abnett, with some of my favorite art of Liam Sharp. But his art is always changing to me depending on the inker. In this casing Andy Lanning. I think the second best is his art in Hulk for a bit around the same time, mid 90's. If you like cyborgs, alternate timeline roster of Avengers, and teleporters. It's not a hugely cerebral story, but it's damn fun to me.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 31, 2014 14:19:53 GMT -5
I just read Amazing adventures Astonishing Tales #1 and #4 from a big pile of cheap comics purchased last Spring. Both books are split between Ka-Zar and Dr. Doom, and in both cases I was in comic-book heaven!
Issue #1's Ka-Zar story is by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Ka-Zar not being an A-lister, I expected the tale to be done by the numbers. And objectively, it is... we get an already established villain from another title, Kraven the hunter, who decides to go after Ka-zar's sabretooth tiger Zabu; he attacks the pair with pretty unsporting weapons like paralyzing gas, and abducts the tiger. But what the basic plot lacks in originality, it more than compensates for with its raw, pure Stan 'n' Jack kind of fun!
Issue #4 is drawn by Barry Smith (inked by Sam Grainger, whose work I love). It's done in that oddly beautiful style Smith had around the time of Conan the barbarian #1. A lot seems to have happened in the twenty pages between issues #1 and 4, because we went from a "me Ka-Zar, mightier than mastodon" type of stories to the middle of a war between pterodactyl-riding warriors and a green-skinned people dwelling in a sci-fi city , with the original Garrok (also called Sun God) and Zaladane, both future X-Men villains, and plenty of fantasy elements. What a ride, and all in ten pages!
The Dr. Doom stories are the beautiful Wally Wood ones. Wally Wood? What's not to like?
Definitely worth the two bucks!!!
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