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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 23, 2017 18:45:17 GMT -5
I thought of a book that I stopped reading and actually ripped up- it was Maximortals by Rick Veitch. It was disgusting.
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Post by batlaw on Sept 23, 2017 19:25:44 GMT -5
Hellblazer rebirth. All new cap.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 24, 2017 7:25:59 GMT -5
Here's another  Talbot is a super artist, and I've meant to read this for years, but it's a chore to read. Couldn't keep track of what when where why despite the beautiful art. Years ago I read Tale of One Bad Rat and liked it. I've liked his work on other things too. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 24, 2017 16:46:52 GMT -5
Here's another Talbot is a super artist, and I've meant to read this for years, but it's a chore to read. Couldn't keep track of what when where why despite the beautiful art. Years ago I read Tale of One Bad Rat and liked it. I've liked his work on other things too. You gotta keep soldiering on. I was completely with you (and completely lost!) for the first half but by the end I got everything and thought it was really, really good. |
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 24, 2017 18:23:33 GMT -5
I'll try it again
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Post by shawnhopkins on Sept 24, 2017 21:27:08 GMT -5
Most take like 10 minutes so I usually just power through.
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Post by berkley on Sept 24, 2017 22:29:28 GMT -5
I started the Last Iron Fist Story collection a few weeks ago and I'm not sure I'll finish it. Not that's it's so very bad, but I was hoping and half expecting it to be a little more special than it has been so far, so the motivation to carry on has diminished. I might still try to plough through the rest of the book before I get rid of it, though.
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Post by batusi on Sept 25, 2017 0:34:06 GMT -5
I never finished reading Secret Wars II
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 25, 2017 1:05:11 GMT -5
Late period Cerebus/Bible Fan Fiction.
It seriously took me something like 5 years to get through From Hell. I kept trying to read the backmatter along with the actual story, flipping back and forth.... It was painful.
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Post by The Cheat on Sept 25, 2017 14:48:58 GMT -5
Here's another Talbot is a super artist, and I've meant to read this for years, but it's a chore to read. Couldn't keep track of what when where why despite the beautiful art. Years ago I read Tale of One Bad Rat and liked it. I've liked his work on other things too. You gotta keep soldiering on. I was completely with you (and completely lost!) for the first half but by the end I got everything and thought it was really, really good. I second this wholeheartedly, such a brilliantly crafted series. Anything by Talbot's an automatic buy for me (and that's not just my Sunderland bias talking  ) |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 25, 2017 22:04:24 GMT -5
I can't think of any single issue that I gave up completely upon. As for series, Starman is my prime instance. For years, I'd heard on various forum boards about how great and utterly fabulous this series was. So I bought the first Omnibus volume and read the entire book. Harris' art was interesting, lent a distinctive visual look to the book. Jack's strained relationship with his father and his late brother, the O'Dare family and their history, I was most intrigued by the unusual mentor role of the Shade however. Yet I came away thinking that it was rather good but nothing earth-shattering, certainly not to the high levels of praise that I had read previously. It just didn't grab/interest me enough to warrant reading the rest of the series. That first volume sat on my bookshelf for quite a number of years till I moved recently and I put it into my stack of trades to donate to my local library. I think if you read the second Omnibus, you might see more of the exceptional qualities. Maybe/maybe not. However, Robinson had really developed his cast by then and the relationship between Ted and Jack grows deeper. jack also gets more and more involved with other heroes and villains and has grown more comfortable in his role. Robinson has some really good Times Past stories and Harris is really coming into his own, on the art. Robinson also makes Wesley Dodds, even as an old man, an amazing character and does even better with Dian Belmont. In fact, she is Jack's hero, because of her literary skills (an element that Robinson also used to good effect in the Ultraverse series Firearm, at Malibu). |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 26, 2017 4:58:27 GMT -5
It Came out as a result of the Zero hour Mini from DC and it was a fresh take on heroics in a sea of crap. This was the 90's after all.
Maybe like many things, it's lost the specialness over time.
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Post by kirby101 on Sept 26, 2017 7:37:57 GMT -5
Are we talking about individual comics, or series?
Cause comics take me about 20 minutes to read, so I always finish them.
I have given up on many series.
On another note, I read all of First Kingdom, yes it was dense and even impenetrable at times. But the art kept me reading enough to go on.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 26, 2017 7:39:32 GMT -5
Did anyone read Kaare Andrews' Iron Fist mini from a couple of years back ?
It looked interesting but not quite enough for me to pick it up.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 26, 2017 8:24:02 GMT -5
Howard the Duck #30  I was prepared for a dip in quality once Steve Gerber was off the title, but Mantlo absolutely did not understand the character nor property at all, playing it up for cheap parody instead of the relatively deep and incisive critique of our society that Gerber had made it. Just couldn't bring myself to finish the issue. |
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