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Post by sabongero on Apr 27, 2018 12:37:43 GMT -5
That was definitely a highlight. Great story and art. That's right, I forgot Carlos Pacheco's work on that year long limited series. I remember he really conveyed Captain America's loss of confidence in that book really well. The portrayal of each Avenger was very different from their usual selves. And I remember, was it Kang or another of his reiterations was actually a good guy that allied himself with the Avengers in that book.
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 27, 2018 13:29:09 GMT -5
Mark Verheiden - The Phantom Hal Foster - Prince Valiant Denny O'Neil - The Question David Boswell - Reid Fleming World's Toughest Milkman Steve Gerber - Sensational She-Hulk
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Post by sabongero on Apr 27, 2018 13:49:16 GMT -5
Hondobrode I am curious about these two titles. What about these particular 90's series, The Question and The Sensational She-Hulk appealed to you as a comic book reader?
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 27, 2018 15:04:55 GMT -5
The Question was written by all-time great Batman writer and editor Denny O'Neil wrote this. The character is an urban vigilante but O'Neil brings sort of an Eastern philosophy to the title that was unique. Denys Cowan's art is fabulous as well. Highly recommended.
She-Hulk was a zany comic with crazy stuff in it like Howard the Duck, Dr Bong, etc. No surprise since this particular issue was written by Steve Gerber, Howard's creator.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 28, 2018 0:20:58 GMT -5
The Question was just a really good urban crime comic, period. Denny O'Neil took Steve Ditko's premise, than turned it 180 by throwing more Eastern philosophy into it and plenty of martial arts and a lot of grey area. Ditko didn't believe in shades of grey; O'Neil knew that the real world is entirely grey.
She-Hulk was wacky comedy that broke the 4th wall, well before Deadpool. Ambush Bug did that, as well; but, Shulky got a regular series for it,; Ambush Bug only had specials and minis.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 28, 2018 0:40:46 GMT -5
For me, the best material of the 90s tended to be at the independents. Dark Horse had a ton of great stuff: DHP, Concrete (debuted in the 80s; but, several 90s minis) the Legends group of books (Next Men, Sin City, Hellboy, Monkeyman and O'Brien, etc). Eclipse had some good material, into the 90s, like Scout War Shaman, Miracleman (Golden and Silver Age), the John J Muth adaptation of Fritz Lang's M, Grant Morrison and Ian Gibson's Steed and Mrs Peel (aka the original Avengers), Mike Grell's James Bond: Permission to Die, and Dave Wenzell's The Hobbit adaptation.. Prime and Firearm were excellent comics, from Malibu's Ultraverse and the Barvura books had some good stuff, like Star Slammers, Power & Glory and Nocturnals. Valiant's X-O Manowar was quite good, as was the early Doctor Solar and Magnus. Harbinger was good. Once Shooter was gone, it started getting a little shaky, though some books stayed solid. Archer and Armstrong was a fantastically fun read. Shaman's Tears was good, though not as good as Grell's previous indie work. The Maxx was a good one, from Image, though pretty darn weird.
At the mainstream companies, Power of Shazam and Starman were my favorite regular DC titles. The Golden Age, from James Robinson and Paul Smith was fantastic. The Batman/Grendel crossovers were worth the wait (thanks to Comico's bankruptcy. Sandman was excellent, as was the mini-series Chiaroscuro, about Da Vinci. Thunderbolts was one of the better things Marvel produced, in that era (didn't care for the bulk of their 90s output). Mark Waid's Flash issues were darn good. Most things from Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek were worth a read, especially if Alex Ross was involved.
Tundra provided some great material, for their brief life, and Caliber had a lot of darn good comics. Rick Veitch's The Brat Pak, The Crow, From Hell (continued at Kitchen Sink), Taboo, Madman, ect.. Caliber had Negative Burn, Baker Street, the OZ books and some other fun.
Bone could not be beat. A Distant Soil, Hepcats and Star Child were also excellent self-published material. Greg Hyland's Lethargic Lad was a terrific and funny read, picking up the gauntlet left by The Tick, while Ben Edlund was distracted by creating the cartoon.
Love and Rockets finished their original run with a bang; Harvey Pekar was firing on all cylinders and Our Cancer Year was a tremendous piece of work. Hate was a must, as was Eightball. I'm also quite partial to terry LaBan's Cud (and the Eno & Plum material, that spun off from it). The Piranha Press material from DC, was very good: Cowboy Wally Show, Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Epicurus the Sage, Gregory.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 28, 2018 3:53:45 GMT -5
I thought Morrison only wrote JLA #1-17, 22-26, 28-31, 34, 36-41 & 1,000,000. I've not got around to reading any of those issues yet because I found Howard Porter's artwork so unappealing. Porter's art is pretty tough to handle. I've said before and I'll say again, I never understood the hoopla about Morrison's JLA. It was just fine, solid stories with below average art. But it wasn't anything overly special. I truly believe that it was, in part, such a big deal because the Justice League had been so very very dire for so long before Morrison took it on. On a formal writing level it was structured and paced differently than any comic before it. It was plot driven (in contrast to the X-men style soap operas of the time, and Image style stories as excuse for action sequences) and the stories moved faster with very short, almost MTV speed-cut style scenes that contained a lot of information. And the threats were bigger, with a sense of being uncomfortably unfamiliar - rare in shared universe storytelling 30 years in - and actually "JLA worthy" in scope. Len Wein and Steve Englehart were good at writing villains that worked on that level, but I don't think that any other writers before Morrison really got it. Both of these proved to be hugely influential and Morrison's storytelling innovations spread quite quickly throughout superhero comics. It was new, and interesting, and for a couple years everyone writing a team book was borrowing storytelling ideas - The Authority, the Ultimates, and a lot of Busiek's Avengers responded to and incorporated the storytelling ideas from Morrison's JLA. And I even think that Porter was often a formally interesting and highly creative storyteller, with a keen sense of overall, holistic page design. Edit: I mean, yeah, his strength wasn't the actual DRAWING, but I'm always primarily concerned with the formalistic aspects of comic storytelling. Edit2: And Morrison's JLA was a prelude to the Mark Waid/Brian Hitch "Heaven's Ladder" my favorite JLA story ever.
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 28, 2018 4:14:47 GMT -5
I quite liked the "Ben Reilly as Spider-Man" stories — when the Clone Saga garbage involving Spider-Skeletons and the like wasn't front and centre.
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 29, 2018 15:16:44 GMT -5
Gerard Jones & Mike W. Barr - The Shadow Strikes Will Eisner - The Spirit Jerry Ordway - Superman Doug Wheeler - Swamp Thing Don Rosa - Uncle Scrooge Adventures
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 29, 2018 15:18:50 GMT -5
Don Lomax - Vietnam Journal various - Young Lust various - The 'Nam various - Cheval Noir Michael T. Gilbert - Doc Stearn...Mr Monster
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 29, 2018 15:34:33 GMT -5
various - Secret Origins Jim Starlin - Silver Surfer John Ostrander - Suicide Squad Carl Barks - Uncle Scrooge Stan Sakai - Usagi Yojimbo
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 29, 2018 17:02:54 GMT -5
Mark Schultz - Xenozoic Tales Rick Shanklin - Blood of Dracula Moebius & R.J.M. Lofficier - The Elsewhere Prince Louise Simonson - New Mutants Chester Gould - The Original Dick Tracy
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Post by pcewert on Apr 29, 2018 21:16:21 GMT -5
Those Annoying Post Bros Savage Henry
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Post by urrutiap on Apr 30, 2018 3:29:50 GMT -5
There are some personal favorite story arcs in Superman that take place right before Death of Superman.
Crisis at Hand parts 1 and 2 An issue if Adventures of Superman of a flashback when teen Clark and Lana were drinking and driving. Bad accident occurs
Plus the 3 parter Penguin Affair in Batman and Detective Comics
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 30, 2018 7:00:25 GMT -5
Peter Milligan - Shade the Changing Man Mary Fleener - Slutburger Scott McCloud - Zot Gilbert Hernandez - Birdland Dan Clowes - Eightball
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