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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 22, 2014 12:14:40 GMT -5
I've finished the Promethea issues I bought at my neighbor's garage sale and have started on Planetary. It's quite different but fun in its own way.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 22, 2014 12:49:38 GMT -5
I really love Planetary. Especially the first half-dozen issues or so.
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 22, 2014 16:13:49 GMT -5
Unfortunately my neighbor's run was missing #s 2,3 & 4, so I can only read half of the first half-dozen.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 22, 2014 20:54:12 GMT -5
Aliens Salvation Aliens Sacrifice
I like the use of Aliens as agents of evil or the Devil. They play in well in the good vs evil scenario. Especially when the realization that like guns they are just the instruments of death and destruction not the perpetrators of evil itself.
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 24, 2014 16:18:36 GMT -5
I have lately read material from Marvelman #25 and #32 (1954), as reprinted in Miracleman #1 (2014). It's silly kids' stuff but it's also straightforward and coherent storytelling. Not that bad at all. Mick Anglo's art wasn't bad either.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 24, 2014 21:24:55 GMT -5
The Avengers Celestial Quest 1-8
Good story by Englehart and awesome art by Jose Santamaria. It's a story of Thanos attempt to prevent the merging of the Celestial Madonna and the prevention of the events following, including the Celestial Messiah. The Avengers cast includes Scarlet Witch, Vision, Thor, Mantis (of course) and some gal Silverclaw, of whom I've never read in another Avenger story. Good cosmic story with all the needed elements that make Thanos entertaining.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 25, 2014 5:10:39 GMT -5
I've been greatly enjoying the Bill Everett Archives vol 1 edited by Blake Bell.
"This book collects over 200 pages of this never-before-reprinted work by Bill Everett. Edited and compiled by best-selling author and comic-book historian Blake Bell, this volume follows the format of Bell's Steve Ditko Archives series; never-before-reprinted, beautifully restored, full-color stories from one of comic books' greatest visionaries and most accomplished artists. Also includes an introduction by Bell that delves even deeper into Everett's life, fiery personality, and the history of the era. The resultant package enhances Everett's place in history as one of the first and best comic-book creators of all time.
"This volume provides an illuminating look at the artist's numerous attempts at catching Sub-Marineresque lightning in a bottle for a second time, a task that mostly eluded him. The comics studios of the golden age were product mills that threw any idea against the wall in hope it would stick, and Everett did much the same. Forgotten sci-fi and superhero creations, as well as forays into westerns, historical retellings, and crime comics, populate this loaded volume, which reads like it fell straight out of some four-color twilight zone." - Publishers Weekly"
Wonderful and well worth the effort. Very impressive.
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Post by mrc1214 on Sept 25, 2014 9:16:59 GMT -5
I'm reading Dan Slott's initial She-Hulk run.. Excellent stuff.. I love the use of all the C-D list characters. Very fun book.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 25, 2014 9:57:14 GMT -5
I'm reading Dan Slott's initial She-Hulk run.. Excellent stuff.. I love the use of all the C-D list characters. Very fun book. This first series is the one where ... ...She Hulk and Warlock both box the Champion elder? It really took me some time to get accustom to the stark contrast of the interior art from the covers. But before I knew it I was enjoying both together and wasn't sure what my objection was in the first place.
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Post by mrc1214 on Sept 25, 2014 10:06:36 GMT -5
I'm reading Dan Slott's initial She-Hulk run.. Excellent stuff.. I love the use of all the C-D list characters. Very fun book. This first series is the one where ... ...She Hulk and Warlock both box the Champion elder? It really took me some time to get accustom to the stark contrast of the interior art from the covers. But before I knew it I was enjoying both together and wasn't sure what my objection was in the first place. Yes it is. The art isn't great in the first 4-5 issues then the artist changed and it got a whole lot better.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 25, 2014 10:11:53 GMT -5
Yes it is. The art isn't great in the first 4-5 issues then the artist changed and it got a whole lot better. Ah well maybe that's why I remember the art seeming to be better. I had forgotten the artist changed. I haven't read that since I bought them new off the shelf. But that one event stood out in my mind being the characters it featured. Slott did do good with characters, even then after many years of reading, we're still new to me or had only heard mentioned by name. And what cooler idea then to take cosmic characters and put them into such down to Earth situations. It was good reading.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 25, 2014 11:13:01 GMT -5
Not really classic by the accepted rules of this board, but I read the Marvel Illustrated: The Three Musketeers hardcover from 2008 last night. It was written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by someone called Hugo Petrus, with Tom Palmer on inks.
It's a pretty solid and fast paced adaptation, which scores points with me for including d'Artagnan 's time in the siege of Rochelle, something that is all too often left out of adaptations. I think Thomas really did a good job, but I had problems with the artwork: it was sometimes hard to follow exactly what was going on in Petrus's art and the colouring (by June Chung) was horrible -- murky, indistinct palette and everyone has a fat, red nose, making it look like the entire cast is suffering from a head cold.
I did enjoy the book overall and I'm looking forward to starting The Man In The Iron Mask in a day or two, which was done by the same creative team. "Solid" and "workmanlike" is how I would describe this adaptation, and not a patch on the quite brilliant Marvel Illustrated adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Grey or the Frank Baum Oz books.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2014 22:30:12 GMT -5
I enjoy reading this book from time to time and the only beef that I have about this book is how they treated Selina Kyle i.e. Catwoman in this book. Otherwise, it's an enjoyable read and it's has great art as well. Batman Year One
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 26, 2014 0:52:40 GMT -5
I have lately read Joker #1-3 (1975) as reprinted in a recent DC TPB. Written by denny O'Neill, art by various. I didn't care too much for The Weeper in issue 2. Now The Creeper in issue 3 was a good story, but I think I most liked the Arkham guards who appeared in issue #1 (also: Two-Face) and recur, playing Rosencrantz & Guildenstern in the Joker's story. The lead story in each issue was 18pp.
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Post by Randle-El on Sept 28, 2014 21:40:37 GMT -5
I just completed a reading project consisting of the first ~70ish issues of the first Wolverine solo series. It's a series that I had picked up as a kid when it first came out, so I had some fond memories of it, and I had always been meaning to go back and assemble a lengthy run for a read-through. And let me just say...
... man, was most of it bad.
The series starts off pretty well, with Chris Claremont and John Buscema. The Madripoor stories are pretty entertaining -- I enjoyed Wolverine in the noir-ish stories. Claremont doesn't stay too long, and there's a rotating cast of creators for a little while, but the stories are mostly still enjoyable despite the changing creators. For me, it starts going downhill right around when Larry Hama takes over, which is in the early 30s, and he stays on for the rest of the run. Wikipedia says he was on the title until #118, but I stopped before that. Unfortunately, he writes some pretty annoying dialogue, including a child-like android named Elsie Dee who he writes "talking wike this for the west of the wun". There's only so much of that you can take before you want to throw the book across the room. I get that young female characters (Jubilee, Kitty Pryde) are often a foil to the edgy and gritty Logan, but Hama takes that idea and really runs it into the ground.
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