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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 14, 2017 11:02:14 GMT -5
Jeff Smith's Bone. I dismissed it as a cartoony kids book in the 80s, but when I finally sat down and read the all in one edition I feel in love with the series and it has become one of my all time favorites. I'm still stuck on that initial impression, and this coming from a guy who loves Bark's Duck stories. I know I'm going to have to give Bone another chance. Reading Bone to my (then) young kids is one of the great memories of my life! And we'll probably never, never eat quiche again without mentioning that monsters don't eat quiche. |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 14, 2017 11:05:11 GMT -5
I'm still stuck on that initial impression, and this coming from a guy who loves Bark's Duck stories. I know I'm going to have to give Bone another chance. Reading Bones to my (then) young kids is one of the great memories of my life! That's probably what I should do. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 11:12:59 GMT -5
Like Raider, I did not care for the The Spirit when it's first came out and when I saw the movie back in 2008 - I borrowed some of the books from my friend that cartoonist Will Eisner created and enjoyed it then. Same here. It was much later in my life that I liked the Spirit.
I knew the Spirit had been around since the 40's. The LCS I worked at in college encouraged me to try the Kitchen Sink series but I wasn't into it. Then I tried the 2007 DC series by Darwyn Cooke & loved it!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 14, 2017 11:18:41 GMT -5
Reading Bones to my (then) young kids is one of the great memories of my life! That's probably what I should do. Oh yes, absolutely!!! Like Tintin, it's a perfect series for bedtime reading. Plus there's all those references you share afterwards; the aforementioned quiche, blank sandwiches, "ooooh, I missed the war", stupid, stupid rat creatures and so much more. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 11:31:01 GMT -5
Avengers West Coast/West Coast Avengers. I read the miniseries when it was released in the 80s, but never got into the ongoing title. I have the omnibus and a couple of tpbs and I really love it now!
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2017 12:09:04 GMT -5
Adam Strange in Mystery in Space. I wanted to like it, but when I first saw it I couldn't quite handle the reading level.
When I could, I loved it, as I'd hoped!
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 14, 2017 13:11:02 GMT -5
Like Raider, I did not care for the The Spirit when it's first came out.... Really, in 1940? Man, you're old!  |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 14, 2017 13:20:00 GMT -5
Like Raider, I did not care for the The Spirit when it's first came out.... Really, in 1940? Man, you're old! To be fair, Eisner Spirit stories were still coming out as late as the 1970s. I suspect Juggy meant "when the individual stories first came out" and not "when the series first came out" |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 14, 2017 14:33:27 GMT -5
Really, in 1940? Man, you're old! To be fair, Eisner Spirit stories were still coming out as late as the 1970s. I suspect Juggy meant "when the individual stories first came out" and not "when the series first came out" No, I know; I assumed he meant the DC stuff, not the original stories or the Warren or Kitchen Sink reprints. It was too goo a line to pass up.  |
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Post by MDG on Feb 14, 2017 14:36:02 GMT -5
Really, in 1940? Man, you're old! To be fair, Eisner Spirit stories were still coming out as late as the 1970s.... Just to clarify: the original Sunday supplement series ended around '52. There were a couple of Harvey issues in the '60s that were all (or mainly) reprints; ditto the two "underground" issues from '74 or so. There was also the Spirit tabloid around the same time, but it's not like Eisner was writing a lot of Spirit stories after the 40s. (I think he started to hand more and more over to his studio around 1950.) |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 14, 2017 15:05:56 GMT -5
To be fair, Eisner Spirit stories were still coming out as late as the 1970s. I suspect Juggy meant "when the individual stories first came out" and not "when the series first came out" No, I know; I assumed he meant the DC stuff, not the original stories or the Warren or Kitchen Sink reprints. It was too goo a line to pass up. Oh boy. Hahahahhahahh |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 15:24:20 GMT -5
Like Raider, I did not care for the The Spirit when it's first came out.... Really, in 1940? Man, you're old! My bad, I wasn't thinking at first when I wrote that in the first place ... the first time I started reading the Spirit was in the mid-70's and later on in 2009, started enjoying it after the Movie came out in 2008. Sorry about that!  |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 14, 2017 15:53:52 GMT -5
To be fair, Eisner Spirit stories were still coming out as late as the 1970s.... Just to clarify: the original Sunday supplement series ended around '52. There were a couple of Harvey issues in the '60s that were all (or mainly) reprints; ditto the two "underground" issues from '74 or so. There was also the Spirit tabloid around the same time, but it's not like Eisner was writing a lot of Spirit stories after the 40s. (I think he started to hand more and more over to his studio around 1950.) I know the Warren Mag boasted new Eisner content, but I never actually read them. One day... |
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Post by The Cheat on Feb 14, 2017 16:18:14 GMT -5
Don McGregor's Black Panther. Absolutely had no patience for it when I first read it in my 20s. Returned to it a decade later and adored it. Interesting, it's the only Epic Collection I wasn't able to finish, I just found it way too dull. I'll set an alarm for 10 years time and see if the trend holds |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 14, 2017 16:53:52 GMT -5
Don McGregor's Black Panther. Absolutely had no patience for it when I first read it in my 20s. Returned to it a decade later and adored it. Interesting, it's the only Epic Collection I wasn't able to finish, I just found it way too dull. I'll set an alarm for 10 years time and see if the trend holds McGregor is actually a writer who I used to hold in high esteem, but who I now find almost unreadable. The guy almost always had great artists, but seemed to be pathologically unable to let the art help tell the story. I think he may be the single "best" example of the trend of over-writing comic stories in the 70s and 80s. |
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