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Post by dupersuper on Jul 21, 2016 9:28:39 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 21, 2016 11:33:52 GMT -5
I didn't read a lot of Westerns but I was raised on the TV shows you mention. Still watch them on Me TV if I have some time. Yay for Me TV! See if you can get the Starz Encore Western channel. That's my mother's favorite. When I visited her in June we watched Gunsmoke, Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne, Bat Masterson, Wagon Train, and more - like Paint Your Wagon, the Gold Rush movie where Clint Eastwood sings. I should write about that one in the Classic Movies thread. Also, a possibly controversial opinion - the "gay Rawhide Kid" miniseries from 2003 is hysterically funny. It shares nothing but the name and the clothes with the 60s Rawhide Kid. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 21, 2016 11:56:10 GMT -5
I was quite miffed when the Channel that had been "Cozi-TV" and featured the Lone ranger and Roy Rogers as well as a slew of other great Westerns, was sudddenly replaced by 24 hours a day of Jimmy Swaggart.
I want to confront him so I can hear him tell me in his best lachrymose fashion, "Ah have sinned... again."
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Post by String on Jul 21, 2016 12:17:31 GMT -5
That scene looks familiar. Is it from this issue?  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 21, 2016 15:31:05 GMT -5
Western Comics were so popular during the late 40s and 1950s ! How popular were they? Western Comics were so popular that this little guy had his own series for 60 issues among multiple publishers    |
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Post by berkley on Jul 21, 2016 19:40:04 GMT -5
Yeah, pretty clear from those images that Coffin's face was lifted (er, so to speak) straight from the Colossal Beast. I'd like to try Blueberry some time, but man, there are a lot of volumes. At least 5 Intégrales, at around $50 each. I love Moebius but not sure I'm enough of a western fan to shell out that much cash. Still, I might try the first one or maybe I should start with the second: I think I saw somewhere that there's a "Young Blueberry" volume and I'd prefer to avoid that one, not being a fan of the whole sub-sub-genre of teenage versions of famous characters, like "Young James Bond", "Young Sherlock Holmes", the new Star Trek movies, etc. All the secondary Blueberry series (Young Blueberry, Marshall Blueberry) can be set aside. The first one has the merit of having been produced by Charlier and Giraud themselves, but they were meant for a small-sized anthology periodical and the art was later blown up to album size, giving it a rougher appearance. Being set during the civil war gives it a certain originality, but since the series is from an anthology, all its stories are cut in something like eight-page independent adventures. Even as a young fan of Bluberry, I never eagerly waited for a new "Young Blueberry" book. The main series, though... Wow. Western stories were never that good. So the Intégrale's would be just the main series - so Blueberry l'Intégrale #1 would be the place to start? As far as tv series go, I think I saw more of the Gene Autry show than the Roy Rogers, no idea why - maybe we didn't get the latter on our Canadian tv channels back then? I certainly knew about Rogers, though, but that could have been from seeing the movies on tv. I was a very regular Bonanza watcher. Also saw a fair bit of Gunsmoke and the occasional episode of that other Bonanza-style family saga one, Big Valley, something like that? And when I was really young I remember liking Paladin. |
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 21, 2016 20:25:58 GMT -5
That scene looks familiar. Is it from this issue? That 1 or the 1 before (I think it was a 2-parter). |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 20:30:04 GMT -5
That scene looks familiar. Is it from this issue? That 1 or the 1 before (I think it was a 2-parter). Correct dupersuper, Here's the other one ... I have both issues.  This was before Part 1 of 2 |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 22, 2016 5:50:49 GMT -5
All the secondary Blueberry series (Young Blueberry, Marshall Blueberry) can be set aside. The first one has the merit of having been produced by Charlier and Giraud themselves, but they were meant for a small-sized anthology periodical and the art was later blown up to album size, giving it a rougher appearance. Being set during the civil war gives it a certain originality, but since the series is from an anthology, all its stories are cut in something like eight-page independent adventures. Even as a young fan of Bluberry, I never eagerly waited for a new "Young Blueberry" book. The main series, though... Wow. Western stories were never that good. So the Intégrale's would be just the main series - so Blueberry l'Intégrale #1 would be the place to start? Chronologically yes. The art is not as polished as it will get later on (around L'intégrale #3) but the stories remain great throughout. The first Intégrale integrates a historical event: the war against the Apaches that started when an officer named Bascom tried to capture the chief Cochise during a meeting. The atmosphere of the early Blueberry adventures is closer to American westerns than to Sergio Leone's; that will change when the long Mexican gold story arc begins. The good thing is that despite stylistic differences, there is not one bad book in the whole lot. |
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Post by brutalis on Jul 22, 2016 8:28:06 GMT -5
That 1 or the 1 before (I think it was a 2-parter). Correct dupersuper, Here's the other one ... I have both issues. This was before Part 1 of 2 This was a favorite of mine. Fun story delivering the JLA into the old west and being taught a thing or two by the old-timers. Splendid Don Heck artwork too! |
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Post by realjla on Jul 25, 2016 1:24:11 GMT -5
I always wanted to see some type of Superman-Jonah Hex team-up(or even just a brief acknowledgement or exchange of dialogue) during the pre-Crisis(and pre-'Hex') era. Even when Jonah made his earlier JLA appearance(#159-160), they avoided the easy 'Jonah shoots Superman' scene, and left Supes to just name-drop Jonah during the exposition for the next issue.
I think at some point in the last decade, Superman and Batman encountered Jonah(who finally got his shot at the Man of Steel), but it was years too late for me.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 26, 2016 22:19:36 GMT -5
I always wanted to see some type of Superman-Jonah Hex team-up(or even just a brief acknowledgement or exchange of dialogue) during the pre-Crisis(and pre-'Hex') era. Even when Jonah made his earlier JLA appearance(#159-160), they avoided the easy 'Jonah shoots Superman' scene, and left Supes to just name-drop Jonah during the exposition for the next issue. I think at some point in the last decade, Superman and Batman encountered Jonah(who finally got his shot at the Man of Steel), but it was years too late for me. I'm not sure why the time matters to you so much, but it's happened at least 3 times since Crisis.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 27, 2016 8:24:32 GMT -5
The whole man out of time bringing the cowboy to the future is kind of played out. I much preferred the Avenger Hawkeye finding that he wanted a simpler life and staying in the old west playing "Tonto" with the Two-Gun Kid. Why isn't there a series for this already? It would be spectacular fun and could "play" with lots of the Marvel Universe pre-history or simply be a back to basics Marvel type of old school western. At least then the fun sarcastic, arrogant Hawkeye would be around instead of the stupid killer version of today. I would even go for a western team dynamic of Hawkeye, Two-Gun, Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid, Red Wolf, Night/Ghost Rider in more a fun A-Team style where they are deputized Rangers wandering the America's doing good, kicking up dust and fighting the good fight against the baddies!
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Post by Trevor on Jun 15, 2017 9:05:17 GMT -5
Finally read my digest Jonah Hex and Other Western Tales. Unfortunately for my wallet, it was too good. Now when I've filled in all my 1970s DC Superhero holes, I'll be western hunting.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 15, 2017 14:01:11 GMT -5
Finally read my digest Jonah Hex and Other Western Tales. Unfortunately for my wallet, it was too good. Now when I've filled in all my 1970s DC Superhero holes, I'll be western hunting. Very frustrating trying to find old western comics here in Phoenix. Only the barest of odds and ends with most of the local shops since the heyday of western comics was the 60's and earlier. Either not much of them around or they are lost to time. But i do occasionally find a nice old well worn and beloved western pack of rootin' tootin' wild and woolly pleasure. Reading copies with all the tears and rips reminding that these goodies are meant to be read over and over again! The Rawhide Kid Essential from Marvel and the 2 Showcases of Jonah Hex i can sit and read anywhere and anytime! |
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