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Post by shaxper on Jul 28, 2014 10:28:33 GMT -5
Before I drop 40$ on Dini's Detective run, did everyone here love it? Yup. Dini is my favorite Batman author of the last two decades. He was pretty much the only major writer of the time who wasn't doing massively compressed multi-part stories. His done-in-ones were immensely satisfying, and his take on the rogues gallery was brilliant. And $40 is a GOOD deal for that full run. |
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Post by impulse on Jul 28, 2014 11:09:14 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, Dini's run was fantastic. He writes excellent Batman stories.
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Post by DubipR on Jul 28, 2014 12:14:59 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, Dini's run was fantastic. He writes excellent Batman stories. JH Williams III artwork on those as well, right?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 28, 2014 12:23:29 GMT -5
Until now,I was unaware of Classic Xmen having rewritten the original stories.I had read them when they were originally released and purchased Classic Xmen just for the John Bolton backup stories which were very poignant. I only skimmed thru the original story section and noted that they were the correct page count. With Shaxper's info, I withdraw my recommendation
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Post by shaxper on Jul 28, 2014 13:04:46 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, Dini's run was fantastic. He writes excellent Batman stories. JH Williams III artwork on those as well, right?
Nope. Williams was on Batman with Morrison. |
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on Jul 28, 2014 15:23:22 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, Dini's run was fantastic. He writes excellent Batman stories. JH Williams III artwork on those as well, right?
Just the first issue. Issues #822-839 are pencilled by Don Kramer, then Dustin Nguyen to close it out. |
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Post by impulse on Jul 28, 2014 15:25:13 GMT -5
Until now,I was unaware of Classic Xmen having rewritten the original stories.I had read them when they were originally released and purchased Classic Xmen just for the John Bolton backup stories which were very poignant. I only skimmed thru the original story section and noted that they were the correct page count. With Shaxper's info, I withdraw my recommendation Agreed. This was news to me, as well. Seconded, withdrawn. |
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Post by Randle-El on Jul 28, 2014 15:31:32 GMT -5
One of these days I'll have to get either an omnibus or essentials edition and re-read those stories to see how different they are. But I enjoyed the Classic X-men series and think it's still a good introduction. My X-Men collection is split half and half between Classic and Uncanny.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 28, 2014 16:23:56 GMT -5
Thanks for the further comments on the Classic X-Men title, guys. I think that if I'm gonna sample the Bronze Age X-Men, I want to do it in a somewhat historically accurate way. The fact that these are re-written and/or redrawn really puts me off TBH.
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Post by coveredinbees on Jul 28, 2014 17:03:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the Dini recommendations. I'll pick. it up, save for Heart of hush. I never read hush. I guess I could just get that too.
I didn't know that about classic clean, either. That's a little funny and a little disappointing. I still think you should get #7 for the great origin of the Hellfire's Inner Circle story!
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 28, 2014 17:09:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the replies! I liked Tower of Babel, so I bought the Queen of Fables arc. If I like it, I'll continue with Waid. His Adam Strange story in the middle of Morrison's run was really good. Before I drop 40$ on Dini's Detective run, did everyone here love it? I liked it even more than Grant Morrison's run on Batman at the time. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 28, 2014 17:50:12 GMT -5
Shaxper gave some warnings about the Classic X-Men reprints in the X-Men thread, but if the additions are easily distinguished from the original material I'll probably start looking for them myself. However, I think he mentioned that Claremont did fiddle with the original dialogue here and there, which is too bad. He did, and in the back-up features he tried to shoehorn stuff that served the ongoing, regular title: that's where the idea that Jean Grey had the hots for Wolverine came from. Mr. Sinister was retroactively put in the orphanage where Cyclops had grown up, too. Despite the nice Bolton art, I could have done without those back-up stories. They heralded the age of continuous messing with continuity that was to become the norm a bit later on. |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 28, 2014 19:33:24 GMT -5
Shaxper gave some warnings about the Classic X-Men reprints in the X-Men thread, but if the additions are easily distinguished from the original material I'll probably start looking for them myself. However, I think he mentioned that Claremont did fiddle with the original dialogue here and there, which is too bad. He did, and in the back-up features he tried to shoehorn stuff that served the ongoing, regular title: that's where the idea that Jean Grey had the hots for Wolverine came from. Mr. Sinister was retroactively put in the orphanage where Cyclops had grown up, too. Despite the nice Bolton art, I could have done without those back-up stories. They heralded the age of continuous messing with continuity that was to become the norm a bit later on. Except that those Mister Sinister at the Orphanage stories ROCKED. Absolutely my favorite stories from the Inferno era. The back-up about Magneto's origin wasn't bad either, as I recall. But I agree with you otherwise. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 19:36:49 GMT -5
Those back ups are collected in a couple of trades called X-Men Vignettes (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2) if you want to read them but not the reprints.
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Post by impulse on Jul 29, 2014 9:24:17 GMT -5
I liked it even more than Grant Morrison's run on Batman at the time. Honestly, I wasn't crazy about Morrison's run. I loved his run on X-Men and some of his creator-owned stuff, but I thought he had gotten too overblown and high-concept hoity-toity for my tastes by then. I dropped his run shortly into it. The prose issue was an absolute chore to read, and I didn't make it through it. |
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