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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 22:47:48 GMT -5
I'm surprised the Doctor Doom / Silver Surfer story in FF 57-60 never seems to get mentioned as an all-time great story.
I just finished it, btw.
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Post by urrutiap on Mar 31, 2017 23:32:56 GMT -5
My personal favorite stories in comic books
Superman' s Crisis at Hand a two parter story about spousal abuse.
Rogue and Gambit out on a fancy date in an issue of Jim Lee's X Men some time before Legion Quest
Issues 244 and 245 of original Uncanny X Men. The gals storm and Rogue out shopping while the men are drunk and in outer space
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Post by kirby101 on Apr 1, 2017 8:02:53 GMT -5
I'm surprised the Doctor Doom / Silver Surfer story in FF 57-60 never seems to get mentioned as an all-time great story. I just finished it, btw. Oh, it does. IDW will publish the second Kirby FF Artist Edition this summer which will include issue #60. Believe me, on a forum I frequent which discusses these books, FF 57-60 is looked on as a highpoint of the series.  |
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Post by kirby101 on Apr 1, 2017 18:05:49 GMT -5
Astro City. Probably the best series consistently over the last 25 years. Gets little love.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 1, 2017 18:16:20 GMT -5
I'm surprised the Doctor Doom / Silver Surfer story in FF 57-60 never seems to get mentioned as an all-time great story. I just finished it, btw. It was very much appreciated before you were born |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 1, 2017 19:06:32 GMT -5
It was very much appreciated before you were born Yes, and please get off of his lawn. He works very hard to maintain it.  As far as underappreciated stories go, I nominate the Carrion storyline from Peter Parker,The Spectacular Spider-Man #27 - #30. Keith Pollard covers, Bill Mantlo scripts, Jim Mooney and Frank Springer art playing off the clone saga that was still fresh in the minds of many readers. It deserves a second look.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 1, 2017 19:45:43 GMT -5
I'd say a lot of Bronze Age Batman, given the post-Miller revision that the comics sucked after Neal Adams moved on. The truth was far different. It wasn't consistent, but there were many great stories, such as the "I Killed Batman," storyline, where different villains claim credit and stand trial in the underworld to prove it. The death of Kathy Kane, at the hands of Bronze Tiger, is another, from Detective Comics (the Dollar Comics days).
Vietnam Journal was highly under-appreciated ad relatively unseen. Thankfully, you can read them now, in book collections. It blows away The Nam (apart from the first year), including Don Lomax's stories in that series.
Dean Motter's Mister X, Terminal City and Electropolis should have had bigger audiences.
Mike Grell's Maggie the Cat should have been Velvet, 20 years ago. Instead, 2 issues were produced, to an indifferent market, who would rather read what passed for "stories" from other Image creators (not all; but, we know the usual suspects).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2017 22:26:30 GMT -5
I'm surprised the Doctor Doom / Silver Surfer story in FF 57-60 never seems to get mentioned as an all-time great story. I just finished it, btw. It was very much appreciated before you were born Must have been some strange cult of psychic comic lovers who appreciated it before I was born, since it hadn't been published yet. i obviously was speaking of in more recent times, though. Thank-you so much anyway. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 1, 2017 22:31:51 GMT -5
It was very much appreciated before you were born Must have been some strange cult of psychic comic lovers who appreciated it before I was born, since it hadn't been published yet. i obviously was speaking of in more recent times, though. Thank-you so much anyway. Oh, well then congratulations for finally finishing it after 50 years  . As you said, you just finished it, btw |
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Post by berkley on Apr 1, 2017 23:55:28 GMT -5
The Eternals - I mean the original Kirby series - has to be number one on my list: most fans still seem to think of it as New-Gods-lite, if they think of it at all, and I don't think I've ever seen even one single professional comics writer express any deep appreciation for it. To take the most recent, in their respective interviews at the time, the Knaufs seemed to have no idea what to make of the Kirby stories and Gaiman was rather ambivalent and patronising towards them; both he and the Knaufs struggled to find something positive to say about the whole thing. And going by the content of all the various revivals over the years, most of the writers of those later series either did not read the original (Gaiman at least did that much, not that it helped in the end) or paid little attention to it. This for a series that in my view was one of the most original and ground-breaking ever published by Marvel or DC.
The New Gods is less under-rated in that quite a few later writers have had some very thoughtful and insightful observations to make on the concept and have spoken highly of it. However, this has rarely made itself felt in the comics they've written, I'm sorry to say - I'm thinking of people like Grant Morrison, who has shown his understanding and appreciation of the New Gods in intros and interviews, but has used them to service some of the most awful Superman/Batman/JLA-worshipping shlock when it came time to write a story that included any of those characters. But at least it gets some lip-service - the Eternals doesn't even get that. And there has been a small number of later New Gods books that showed some appreciation of what the original was all about, Walt Simonson's Orion being the most recent.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 2, 2017 6:58:48 GMT -5
Must have been some strange cult of psychic comic lovers who appreciated it before I was born, since it hadn't been published yet. i obviously was speaking of in more recent times, though. Thank-you so much anyway. Oh, well then congratulations for finally finishing it after 50 years . As you said, you just finished it, btw Spolier alert: The FF win at the end and the Surfer gets his powers back.  |
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Post by darrell on Apr 2, 2017 9:44:03 GMT -5
I am throwing in a nod to Twilight, by Howard Chaykin and some absolute gorgeous art by Jose Garcia-Lopez.
A romp through DC's forgotten silver-age space stories, featuring the Star Rovers, Manhunter 2020, Tommy Tomorrow, and creating a fun, interesting and vast story, covering topics such as manifest destiny, religious fervor, and the media's manipulation of both, all done in that cynical style that first endeared me to Chaykin.
So glad that DC finally collected the series.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2017 9:48:18 GMT -5
I am throwing in a nod to Twilight, by Howard Chaykin and some absolute gorgeous art by Jose Garcia-Lopez. A romp through DC's forgotten silver-age space stories, featuring the Star Rovers, Manhunter 2020, Tommy Tomorrow, and creating a fun, interesting and vast story, covering topics such as manifest destiny, religious fervor, and the media's manipulation of both, all done in that cynical style that first endeared me to Chaykin. So glad that DC finally collected the series. . I'm a fan of the artwork of Jose Garcia-Lopez; and I'm glad you are too ... Welcome to CCF! |
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Post by james on Apr 2, 2017 10:58:18 GMT -5
It was very much appreciated before you were born Yes, and please get off of his lawn. He works very hard to maintain it. As far as underappreciated stories go, I nominate the Carrion storyline from Peter Parker,The Spectacular Spider-Man #27 - #30. Keith Pollard covers, Bill Mantlo scripts, Jim Mooney and Frank Springer art playing off the clone saga that was still fresh in the minds of many readers. It deserves a second look. YES! This is actually in my top 3 favorite Marvel storylines and my all time favorite Spiderman storylines. |
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Post by darrell on Apr 2, 2017 11:44:05 GMT -5
I am throwing in a nod to Twilight, by Howard Chaykin and some absolute gorgeous art by Jose Garcia-Lopez. A romp through DC's forgotten silver-age space stories, featuring the Star Rovers, Manhunter 2020, Tommy Tomorrow, and creating a fun, interesting and vast story, covering topics such as manifest destiny, religious fervor, and the media's manipulation of both, all done in that cynical style that first endeared me to Chaykin. So glad that DC finally collected the series. . I'm a fan of the artwork of Jose Garcia-Lopez; and I'm glad you are too ... Welcome to CCF! Thanks! I am a big fan of JGL's work..I remember as a kid seeing his Superman covers and thinking, wow! The early DC comics Presents he did were great. |
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