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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 13, 2014 22:41:39 GMT -5
Also, are there any good Justice League runs post Morrison? I liked Waid's run for the most part, but Austen's was just bad.
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 13, 2014 23:06:54 GMT -5
Also, are there any good Justice League runs post Morrison? I liked Waid's run for the most part, but Austen's was just bad. A good number of people like Joe Kelly's run. I am not one of them. The Kurt Busiek 8 parter after Chuck Austen was good. Geoff Johns and Allan Heinberg then give us an Identity Crisis tie in. Avoid the Bob Harras, Chris Claremont and Denny O'Neil arcs at all costs. I liked most of the JLA: Classified arcs. The various JLA Johnny DC kids titles were very good as well.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 13, 2014 23:24:31 GMT -5
I'm a huge Superman fan, and honestly have liked the character non-stop. The triangle era is some of the best stuff ever IMO.
Poor Kurt Busiek doesn't get enough credit for his run on JLA mostly because Mark Bagley just didn't fit DC / JLA for some reason. Not one of my favorites, but tolerable at Marvel, but just not a good fit at DC. I think that's why Busiek didn't stay longer, unfortunately.
Waid's run was good, especially Tower of Babel (a classic), and Joe Kelly's run was surprisingly good.
Didn't read Claremont / Byrne, as I knew I was going to be disappointed.
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 13, 2014 23:37:52 GMT -5
I'm a huge Superman fan, and honestly have liked the character non-stop. The triangle era is some of the best stuff ever IMO. Poor Kurt Busiek doesn't get enough credit for his run on JLA mostly because Mark Bagley just didn't fit DC / JLA for some reason. Not one of my favorites, but tolerable at Marvel, but just not a good fit at DC. I think that's why Busiek didn't stay longer, unfortunately. Waid's run was good, especially Tower of Babel (a classic), and Joe Kelly's run was surprisingly good. Didn't read Claremont / Byrne, as I knew I was going to be disappointed. If I recall correctly, Kurt Busiek did an 8 part run with Ron Garney in JLA. James Robinson worked with Mark Bagley on the Justice League of America series that followed JLA. Busiek and Bagley did the weekly title Trinity.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 13, 2014 23:41:14 GMT -5
Yes, you're right.
Actually I felt that away about both of those gentlemen. Forgot it was Garney that was on JLA.
So weird too, cause I especially like Garney's stuff at Marvel, like his Thor.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 14, 2014 10:41:21 GMT -5
Is any of the post Death of Superman Action Comics/Superman stuff any good, roughly from 1993-2000? No.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 14, 2014 11:54:47 GMT -5
Oh Slam. I thought it was really good and absolutely loved Luthor as President.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 14, 2014 13:17:31 GMT -5
Should I buy the Archie Goodwin Star Wars series?
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 14, 2014 13:20:58 GMT -5
Is any of the post Death of Superman Action Comics/Superman stuff any good, roughly from 1993-2000? The last half of Joe Kelly's run on "Adventures" is my favorite Superman since the early '40s. It started out in crossover hell, but ended up doing really imaginative humanist science fiction stuff.
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on Aug 14, 2014 13:39:33 GMT -5
Is any of the post Death of Superman Action Comics/Superman stuff any good, roughly from 1993-2000? The Simonson/Kesel/etc.-era most people think of when those days come up is woth it pretty much up until the 'Minty Fresh Superman' epic (though there is the 'Death Of Myxyzptlk' parody in MOS #75 which is just an excuse for Jon Bogdanove to go nuts, the birth of Lena Luthor in Superman [vol 2.] #131, AOS 'Pulp Heroes' Annual with contributions from the likes of John Rozum, Dale Eaglesham, & Paul Grist, and Rozum's fill-ins in MOS #91 & Action #756; sweet raisins in a bowl of bland-to-toxic oatmeal). As for when the books went their own ways? Loeb's is at least better before Hush began to make him really lazy, but I doubt I'd feel the way I did about it now. Kelly's is alright when he's not running the 'SUPERMAN DOES NOT KILL' "theme" into the ground, and Joe Casey's is better than I remembered (particularly when toward the end).
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Post by fanboystranger on Aug 14, 2014 13:57:52 GMT -5
Should I buy the Archie Goodwin Star Wars series? I guess the question is how much you like Star Wars? I bought them because they were Goodwin comics illustrated by Howard Chaykin, and I was pretty disappointed. Nowhere near either gentleman's best work.
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 14, 2014 14:00:40 GMT -5
Should I buy the Archie Goodwin Star Wars series? I guess the question is how much you like Star Wars? I bought them because they were Goodwin comics illustrated by Howard Chaykin, and I was pretty disappointed. Nowhere near either gentleman's best work. I'm a big fan of the movies, but the only EU stuff I've looked into is a few issues of the Marvel series.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 14, 2014 14:14:16 GMT -5
Should I buy the Archie Goodwin Star Wars series? I am not a Star Wars fan at all. I thought the first two movies were entertaining if incredibly flawed. But if you're talking the comic strip...it's Goodwin and Al Williamson...and that is always worthwhile.
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 14, 2014 20:25:08 GMT -5
Is any of the post Death of Superman Action Comics/Superman stuff any good, roughly from 1993-2000? It never got bad, but I found toward the end it got quite stale. That group of creators seemed burnt out by the end, and they kept trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle of Death/Funeral/Return by doing big arc after big arc, while what got me hooked on that era of Superman books were more the subplot-heavy serialized stories with the main stories largely done in 1 - 4 issues.
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 14, 2014 20:28:13 GMT -5
Oh Slam. I thought it was really good and absolutely loved Luthor as President. That was after 2000.
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