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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 11, 2016 5:46:55 GMT -5
If and when you decide to take this thread beyond the superhero genre:   Yeah, that's good stuff. I've yet to open the big hardcover that I bought a while back. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 11, 2016 5:56:49 GMT -5
I think I did the most buying in the 90's of any decade. It started off slow, as I noticed that from 90-92, I only bought a few titles every month. But by the mid 90's I was purchasing from: Marvel DC Valiant Image Dark Horse Topps Ultraverse Bravura Milestone I became quite the comic slut. |
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Post by tingramretro on Sept 11, 2016 6:20:19 GMT -5
Sandman was in the Avengers?!!  He never joined in one of the Avengers books IIRC. He was officially appointed an Avengers reservist in Avengers #329 (Feb 1991) and subsequently served with them a few times. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 11, 2016 6:29:22 GMT -5
I stand corrected. As I pointed out, there was a few years where I stopped reading comics except for a few. They have D man as a member also. I think he was made an Avenger in the Captain America book.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 11, 2016 10:24:12 GMT -5
When I think of the 90s I think of the crossing, teen Tony, Heroes reborn, Rage, shoulder pads, Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee wannabes... I have to do an effort to remember it was also the era of Ennis's and Jenkins' Hellblazer, most of Sandman, Berlin, Finder, and so many other great titles.
Valiant, too, was from that era... but I discovered Valiant later, thanks to a massive sales at my LCS (10 cents a comic, with almost complete runs of Archer and Armstrong, Solar, Eternal warrior, Rai and Magnus). Valiant had the best superhero material of that time, IMO.
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Sept 11, 2016 15:59:47 GMT -5
The 90's baby! Aww yeah, a guilty pleasure of mine indeed.  |
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Post by berkley on Sept 11, 2016 16:52:59 GMT -5
I read independents pretty much exclusively until near the end of the decade - the Hernandez brothers, Daniel Clowes, Seth, Julie Doucet, Peter Bagge - creators like that. Love and Rockets, then Penny Century and the other solo titles from Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez; and Clowes's Eightball were my favourite comics.
I'm glad I skipped what was happening with the Marvel and DC titles I used to follow in the 70s, but I do regret missing some of the Vertigo stuff, even though I've read a fair bit of it since.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 11, 2016 20:59:32 GMT -5
Thinking of the 1990s makes me want to read Knightfall again.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 11, 2016 21:24:11 GMT -5
Thinking of the 1990s makes me want to read Knightfall again. I keep meaning to re-read Knightfall/Knights Quest/Knights End again. I haven't read it since the '90s, but I remember quite liking it. I'm interested to see whether it still holds up for me. It's a fairly big undertaking though, to start re-reading that lot. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 11, 2016 22:13:45 GMT -5
Thinking of the 1990s makes me want to read Knightfall again. I keep meaning to re-read Knightfall/Knights Quest/Knights End again. I haven't read it since the '90s, but I remember quite liking it. I'm interested to see whether it still holds up for me. It's a fairly big undertaking though, to start re-reading that lot. I've read it all the way through a few times since it came out. (Well, I didn't get the issues where Bruce Wayne and the therapist were searching for a cure. But I did get all the issues where Azrael was Batman.) I find that it (mostly) holds up very well. After reading it a few times, I have to admit that I do get annoyed with Batman falling for Bane's ploy of making him so exhausted that Bane can break his back. I think Batman should have figured that this was the plan, and he should have come up with a counterplan. It's too bad there aren't bunches of bat-related characters and Justice League colleagues running around who could help round up the Arkham escapees and ... Oh. Wait. But I love Knightfall anyway. OMG! That Szasz chapter is great! And the Joker and Scarecrow tormenting the mayor. And I also love most of the "Azrael as Batman" issues, especially the three-part story where the Joker fancies himself a film director. I think that particular storyline is very possibly the best Joker story of the 1990s. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2016 22:21:47 GMT -5
In order of amount of titles I bought from each publisher it was: 1. Valiant. 2. Ultraverse. 3. DC. 4. Marvel. 5. Dark Horse. 6. Image.
In the 90's I too bought comics from a lot of different publishers. Prior to that I would only buy from DC, Marvel & one or two others. I liked the early 90's & the late 90's. It was the mid 90's that was the low point for me.
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Post by rom on Sept 12, 2016 10:36:03 GMT -5
The '90's were an interesting decade for me when it came to comic collecting. I had first stopped collecting comics cold turkey in late '87, in my late teens.
Flash-forward to early 1992, a friend told me about a brand new comic series called Star Wars: Dark Empire - being a huge SW fan, I then went out & promptly bought issue #1, and since I was then going back into the comic stores on a regular basis, I ended up being more exposed to comics & started collecting some other titles, notably:
Most of DH's later Star Wars comics, especially the Classic Star Wars series (reprinting the old newspaper strips), as well as Tales of the Jedi, etc.
Grendel: War Child (1992 - 1993): I had been a fan of Comico's Grendel series in the late '80's, so it was great to re-enter the Grendel universe through the amazing series.
I did not have a lot of interest in Marvel's '90's comics. I though the re-vamps of X-men & Spider-man were nothing more than cash-grabs, especially given all of the stupid variant covers, i.e. foil, hologram, etc. It was too much to keep track of, so I got none of these.
I had some interest in DC's Death & Life of Superman, as well as the Batman: Knightfall storyline(s). However, at the time I couldn't afford to buy all of the individual floppies - so, I just ended up reading the truncated novels (Death & Life of Superman; Knighfall) - which didn't have as much detail as the individual comics - but, gave the reader an overview of the respective stories.
I did also read a lot of the DC Vertigo Trades that were coming out at the time, i.e. Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Preacher, Black Orchid, etc. Great stuff! It was also nice that I didn't have to buy these, but would read them at Border's Books. |
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Post by String on Sept 12, 2016 17:43:12 GMT -5
Thinking of the 1990s makes me want to read Knightfall again. I keep meaning to re-read Knightfall/Knights Quest/Knights End again. I haven't read it since the '90s, but I remember quite liking it. I'm interested to see whether it still holds up for me. It's a fairly big undertaking though, to start re-reading that lot. I've never read the comic version of this event. I've only read O'Neil's novelisation of it which was rather good. As for Avengers wearing bomber jackets, I've been slowly catching up on it. I had stopped reading Avengers around the time of (was his name?) Rage. Hearing about Harras' long term story arc of the Gatherers piqued my interest and so far, I haven't seen all that much to be mad about. Harras' plots and characterization are decent, I like the love triangle between Dane, Crystal and Sersi and Epting's art is great as well. (Although yeah, Herc needs a beard). In fact, if it wasn't for this forum, I probably never would have known about the Kirby origins of the Coal Tiger when he appeared in #355-356. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2016 18:06:05 GMT -5
I did not read much Comics in the 90's because of work - I was working 65 hours a week during this decade.
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Post by RikerDonegal on Sept 12, 2016 18:21:30 GMT -5
The 90's was where I started reading less and less comics. I began the decade reading quite a lot of Marvels, and dipping my toes into DC with the Vertigo line. But real life was getting in the way, with work and stuff. The trends that were emerging at Marvel back then (relaunches and gimmick covers and just too many titles) were making the hobby too expensive and less attractive. Once I lost touch with X-Men continuity, for example, it was a pain to try and get back into it. So I never did.
I never stopped loving comics, or the characters, but that Marvel explosion just pushed me out of the hobby and I never again bothered about buying 'new' comics. When I did start spending money on the hobby it again, it was just to collect trade paperbacks of the 70s and 80s stuff (mostly the Essential Marvel line).
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