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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 12, 2015 15:16:00 GMT -5
Read Suicide Squad #1-3 from the 80's series. Good stuff, will definitely look to continue the run. Also, if people have the chance, LB Cole's Blak Light is amazing. The covers and images in that book make it worth whatever you end up paying. I got my cop for about $20 on Amazon and it is beautiful. Great write up in the first few pages, giving some history on Mr. Cole and then the rest of the book is visually bliss. Highly recommend! Finally, read Iron Man #149 and X-Factor #15. Nothing super amazing here, althought I am looking forward to the conclusion to the Iron Man story in #150 which I also have and plan on reading soon! The X-Factor ish has to have one of the most boring covers. I hate it, the stupid cross out symbol annoys me. X-Factor really went downhill for me after about the first 6 issues. Both the writing and the art, but mostly the art. I couldn't even manage to re-read my old X-Factor issues. I'm currently reading a whole bunch of random Master of Kung Fu issues that I've recently picked up. I just finished issues 23, 28, 34, and 36. Good stuff, especially the Paul Gulacy issues.
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Post by spoon on Jan 12, 2015 17:07:09 GMT -5
Read Suicide Squad #1-3 from the 80's series. Good stuff, will definitely look to continue the run. Also, if people have the chance, LB Cole's Blak Light is amazing. The covers and images in that book make it worth whatever you end up paying. I got my cop for about $20 on Amazon and it is beautiful. Great write up in the first few pages, giving some history on Mr. Cole and then the rest of the book is visually bliss. Highly recommend! Finally, read Iron Man #149 and X-Factor #15. Nothing super amazing here, althought I am looking forward to the conclusion to the Iron Man story in #150 which I also have and plan on reading soon! The X-Factor ish has to have one of the most boring covers. I hate it, the stupid cross out symbol annoys me. X-Factor really went downhill for me after about the first 6 issues. Both the writing and the art, but mostly the art. I couldn't even manage to re-read my old X-Factor issues. It's funny, because I think that's when the series starts to take off. X-Factor comes across as too generic during those first half-dozen issues. Maybe that's why Layton and Guice were off the series so quickly.
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Post by fanboystranger on Jan 12, 2015 18:21:53 GMT -5
X-Factor really went downhill for me after about the first 6 issues. Both the writing and the art, but mostly the art. I couldn't even manage to re-read my old X-Factor issues. It's funny, because I think that's when the series starts to take off. X-Factor comes across as too generic during those first half-dozen issues. Maybe that's why Layton and Guice were off the series so quickly. I agree. It was the Simonsons that made X-F into something special. That run from 9 to 25 are some of the best X- stories ever.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2015 18:27:40 GMT -5
I NEEEED that series in collection. Because a lot of the singles are more than what I care to spend. A lot of the art in pre-PAD X-Factor was pretty fantastic, iirc.
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Post by spoon on Jan 12, 2015 19:07:32 GMT -5
I'm continuing with Daredevil. I've read #283-287 over the past few days.
Mark Bagley is the guest artist for #283. It's a pretty ridiculous issue saturated by politics. Ann Nocenti can do a good job when she finds an elegant way to weave a political/cultural message into the story. But other times she subjugates the story to the politics and/or takes a ridiculous extreme argument. I consider myself to be on the left half of the political spectrum, and reading Nocenti actually pushes me rightward. This issue touches on the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Looking for a way to fit that in her worldview, Nocenti has guest-star Captain America claim that the nations of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are now passing the U.S. in terms of positive change. In retrospect, this seems lacking in insight, as many places in the region are trying to find their way over 20 years later.
There's reference in the letter pages to Daredevil returning the favor and guest starring in Captain America, but I don't have that issue.
Lee Weeks becomes the new artist in #284. It's pretty fortunate that DD was able to replace JRjr with another distinctive artist so quickly. After various issues with DD on the road, dealing with Mephisto, and other atypical adventures, this issue seems to mark a return to setting and tone more similar to what was done in the 250s. During this stretch of issues, we see the return of a number of characters: Ben Urich, Foggy Nelson, the Kingpin, and Bullseye (obviously him, but they only explicitly say it in the letter pages so far). The political issues Nocenti touches on these issues are racial conflict and redistribution of wealth. Nocenti does an okay job with the racial debate. She actually deals with some of the issues that are being brought up today. Unfortunately, the wealth gap narrative is another case where Nocenti has a lot of supposedly sympathetic characters say extreme things, undermining more rational versions of the same critique.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 12, 2015 20:03:38 GMT -5
Lee Weeks becomes the new artist in #284. It's pretty fortunate that DD was able to replace JRjr with another distinctive artist so quickly. Interesting; the very same thing happened on Bruce Jones' Hulk run! I prefer Weeks' art by far.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 12, 2015 23:17:19 GMT -5
Yes, it is a collection (I thought I already stated this?). It is Roots of the Swamp Thing. Anyway!! IMUCHLIKEIT. The colors ARE pretty amazing (unless you're a purist and hate that kind of thing? I don't mind it). Its really the best Swamp Thing writing I've read. Wein/Wrightson didn't last long enough. 8-(
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 13, 2015 0:04:15 GMT -5
X-Factor really went downhill for me after about the first 6 issues. Both the writing and the art, but mostly the art. I couldn't even manage to re-read my old X-Factor issues. Couldnt agree more, had to reread the issues in the Fall of the Mutants recently and I thought the art looked like Walt phoned it in. UGLY with next to no background work, compared with the stellae work on Thor a few years before, and the writing was a chore to read too. Thoroughly unenjoyable.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 13, 2015 8:56:05 GMT -5
X-Factor really went downhill for me after about the first 6 issues. Both the writing and the art, but mostly the art. I couldn't even manage to re-read my old X-Factor issues. Couldnt agree more, had to reread the issues in the Fall of the Mutants recently and I thought the art looked like Walt phoned it in. UGLY with next to no background work, compared with the stellae work on Thor a few years before, and the writing was a chore to read too. Thoroughly unenjoyable. Thank you! At least somebody agrees with me. I hated the art and wasn't too fond of the writing, either.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2015 19:09:52 GMT -5
I have read some Teen Titans already today, and I'm about to go dive into some of Lee's Silver Surfer (superexcite!).
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 13, 2015 23:47:40 GMT -5
I have read some Teen Titans already today, and I'm about to go dive into some of Lee's Silver Surfer (superexcite!). You reminded me I've been wanting to re-read my beat-up copy of Silver Surfer #6. The spine has got like two or three layers of tape on it, the corners are bent up, it's covered with grease stains and it has "20 cents" written on it in black magic marker. I paid $3 for it. It's got character! (In addition to a nutty Watcher story.)
I hope your Silver Surfer format has the Watcher stories.
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Post by wickedmountain on Jan 14, 2015 2:40:00 GMT -5
I have read some Teen Titans already today, and I'm about to go dive into some of Lee's Silver Surfer (superexcite!). Awesome
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 7:07:23 GMT -5
I have read some Teen Titans already today, and I'm about to go dive into some of Lee's Silver Surfer (superexcite!). You reminded me I've been wanting to re-read my beat-up copy of Silver Surfer #6. The spine has got like two or three layers of tape on it, the corners are bent up, it's covered with grease stains and it has "20 cents" written on it in black magic marker. I paid $3 for it. It's got character! (In addition to a nutty Watcher story.)
I hope your Silver Surfer format has the Watcher stories.
I am not sure if it does or not? This is exactly what I got: I will have to look. I whipped through 2.5 issues last night with ease, and I wanted to read more, but I ran out of time. I absolutely LOVE this run so far, and I just got done with the issue of Mephisto sending SS's love back to their home planet after trying to break SS's will/spirit (which didn't work and FINALLY made Mephisto realize the ONLY way to get to SS was to "officially" part him from his one true love). The dramatic cheese and beautiful art make this series for me. This will always be probably my favorite Stan Lee writings in all of ever. And, oh man! Even if I already owned the series in singles, I'd have picked up that same issue you did just for the fact of how much pre-loved history it has! That is so awesome.
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Post by Jesse on Jan 14, 2015 9:33:01 GMT -5
John Buscema's artwork in that run is some of his best.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 9:55:44 GMT -5
John Buscema's artwork in that run is some of his best. The art is quite amazing. The pages are beautiful. I noticed this a lot with the Mephisto issue, mainly where he put Silver Surfer into his own head, but started out by shrinking him, and then he realized that SS was just too pure to keep in his mind (this actually made me laugh a little).
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