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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 25, 2017 9:41:37 GMT -5
Post a pic of any geek related stuff you got in the holiday season as a gift. Merry Christmas everyone !  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2017 11:49:14 GMT -5
Mixed emotions this Christmas. I received a new record player (I haven't had one in years). I also received my best friend from college (who became my brother-in-law)entire record collection. It was given to me because he passed away from cancer & he wanted me to have his records. We became friends because we had similar tastes in music.
It's amazing the different memories that hearing certain songs on a record triggered vs hearing them on a CD or off the radio. They brought back happy/sad memories at the same time in both my wife & I. We realized in some small way those albums brought Steven & I together in college & thru his friendship I met his sister & fell in love & got married. So our whole life together happened because two guys liked Yes, Joan Jett, Foreigner, Beach Boys, Styx etc.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 25, 2017 12:15:11 GMT -5
This is what I got for Christmas: a honest-to-goodness RUBBER CHICKEN!!!  Buh-KAW!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2017 16:22:02 GMT -5
My only Comic Book related gifts this year is that I got four Justice Guild Members (Action Figures) except Cat Man. I should get Cat Man in a month on backorder. My friend will mail it to my home.  |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 2, 2018 14:36:30 GMT -5
My wife bought me a couple of comic-related books for Xmas, in the shape of IDW's Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Volume 1 and the From Hell Companion.   As the name suggests, Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Volume 1 collects all of the Russ Manning Star Wars comic strips that ran in U.S. newspapers from March 1979 through to August 1980, along with the Russ Helm and Alfredo Alcala adventure "The Planet of Kadril", which ran from August to October 1980. I haven't actually dipped into this volume very much as yet, but it looks to be a lovely collection, with the comic strips exquisitely reproduced on good quality paper stock. Having said that, I am very familiar with the majority of these SW strips from the re-prints that Dark Horse put out in the mid-1990s. However, whereas the Dark Horse re-prints cropped, re-colured and re-arranged the strips to make them more suitable for the 24 page monthly comic format, this volume presents the strips exactly as they appeared at the time -- unaltered, mostly in black & white, and with the original colouring intact for the Sunday serial installments. As for the From Hell Companion, I've read about a third of this so far and it's great. The companion provides a fascinating, in-depth glimpse at the creation of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's masterful From Hell, with most of the commentary in the companion being Campbell's. However, the book reproduces large sections of Moore's original (and previously unseen) script alongside the relevant pages of From Hell itself. What's really interesting about Moore's scripts is the HUGE amount of detail that he goes into about what exactly Campbell should be putting into each and every panel of the comic -- regularly writing over a thousand words of description just for one panel! Of course, the artwork itself is ultimately left for Campbell to decide upon, and he didn't always include absolutely everything that Moore instructed him too, but it really shows just how much input Moore had in how From Hell was drawn, as well as the panel-to-panel "flow" and pacing of the story. If you're a big fan of Alan Moore, and of From Hell specifically, then this is an essential book IMHO. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 14:57:53 GMT -5
My wife got me a couple of retro-Star Wars tee-shirts...   and the Dr.Strange diorama piece from Schliech...  and an IOU for a new drawing table once I get the studio remodel/reset done. Plus sundries like socks and some of my favorite candy to ration throughout the winter  My mom sent me an Amazon gift card which I used to snag some trades I listed here elsewhere... Bone Shards, Cowboys & Thunder Lizards by Jim Ottavani Ragnarok Vol. 1 by Walt Simonson Golden Age Wonder Woman Vol. 1 Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 3 & 5 (Fantagraphics) and a new set of Micron inking pens my boss gave me an Amazon Echo Dot as a Christmas bonus. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 19:40:23 GMT -5
hmmm. . . comic wise, the only thing i got was the hardcover "here's Negan" Walking Dead book.
but i got a ton of music stuff (the Ministry Record Day box set, the Ace Frehley limited edition picture disc set for "anomaly", and a KISS photo coffee table book.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 3, 2018 4:22:34 GMT -5
but i got a ton of music stuff (the Ministry Record Day box set, the Ace Frehley limited edition picture disc set for "anomaly", and a KISS photo coffee table book. Yeah, I got a lot of music stuff too, including The Bootleg Series Vol 12 - The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 by Bob Dylan, Live! by Bob Marley & the Wailers, and a Simon & Garfunkel live album all on CD. I also got three vinyl LPs: B.B. King's Live at the Regal, the Grateful Dead's American Beauty, and a 200g audiophile pressing of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. |
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