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Post by kirby101 on Nov 26, 2023 9:32:46 GMT -5
I also didn't care for Curt Swan in the 60s and 70s. I started appreciating him later and enjoyed his return in the 90s to Superman. But I realized it wasn't Swan I thought boring, it was the Superman books from then. And I still find them boring.
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Post by Calidore on Nov 26, 2023 11:35:13 GMT -5
Usagi Yojimbo. Back in the '80s, I just saw yet another indie black-and-while animal book, a bunny samurai written and drawn by...Groo's letterer. Whee. Then a few years ago, after raves here and elsewhere, I actually read the first omnibus. Then the next, and the next.... Now, of course, it's a desert island series.
I'll second Kirby, too. My fair shot for him was a recent look at his Fourth World stuff out of curiosity. When I consciously put aside the lens of "cheesy, old-fashioned '60s bombast" and let it work on its own merits (meaning, operatic Kirby bombast), it was lots of fun. I'm currently reading old Captain America, and when I got to his run, it was the same--earnest, all-exclamation point superhero action that couldn't possibly have been made by anyone else. I enjoyed it as such just fine.
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Post by berkley on Nov 26, 2023 17:04:00 GMT -5
Tintin: never liked the character design for as long as I can remember, finding it weird and off-putting, and for years I never thought about looking beyond that to give any of the Tintin albums a try -until just a few years ago when I started getting interested for various reasons, but partly from hearing people here such as RR and Confessor talk about Hergé's work. I tried one album, then another, and so on until I've now read the majority of them and I would definitely classify them as favourites for Hergé's artwork and storytelling, even though I haven't totally changed my mind about the Tintin character design itself.
As an aside, I seem to have a problem with certain kinds of what I call "cartoon-noses": they often seem repulsive to me and detract from what I might consider excellent artwork in almost every other respect, e.g. in Chester Brown's otherwise first-rate Louis Riel book.
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Post by jester on Nov 27, 2023 11:37:22 GMT -5
I initially disliked Sal Buscema's artwork. Now I love his work.
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Post by kirby101 on Nov 27, 2023 21:20:01 GMT -5
I love Sal, always have. An unsung Marvel great IMHO.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Nov 27, 2023 23:34:05 GMT -5
Bone is perhaps one of my top 3 comics of all time. I didn't like it the first 2 times I tried to read it. That third time though, it just hit me, I got past the first trade's worth of content and couldn't put it down. It has grown in my estimation upon each rereading. I just don't think I was in the right place to appreciate it the first two attempts.
Multiple attempts doesn't always work though, I've tried getting through both Preacher and 100 Bullets on multiple occasions and just couldn't despite the accolades both receive in several quarters.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 27, 2023 23:52:44 GMT -5
I’ve been trying to come up with something. I’d say Howard the Duck fits the bill. I was just too young to get it when it came out and it seemed super weird to me. I picked up almost all of the Gerber issues out of the quarter bin when I started college and I’ve loved it ever since.
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Post by berkley on Nov 28, 2023 1:07:13 GMT -5
The one that immediately jumps to mind for me is Charley's War. I used to see the strip in issues of Battle Picture Weekly, but I used to skip over it because I was far more into the daring exploits of the likes of Johnny Red, Major Easy and The Rat Pack. Charley's War just seemed soooo dull to me as a kid. Of course, I've done a complete 180 degree turn on that. I think that it was probably a little too intelligently written for pre-teen me; you need to be a bit older and a bit more worldly to really appreciate it. Not only is Charley's War the best thing to have ever appeared in Battle Picture Weekly, but as far as I'm concerned it's also the best war comic ever. Ever. Ditto. Same here. (Is there a complete Johnny Red volume? I hope so) Same for me with detective shows. As a kid, the likes of Columbo and Kojak didn’t appeal. I wanted car chases, shoot-outs, rooftop jumps, etc. Now I own both of them on DVD. I guess you can only appreciate some things when older.
You should try Cannon, if you haven't already seen this early-70s US cop show: the MAD magazine parody had a running joke about how much time he spent barrelling around the city in his car - though to tell the truth I can't remember the show itself well enough to say if there were many car chases or if he was just driving around all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2023 16:31:59 GMT -5
Bone is perhaps one of my top 3 comics of all time. I didn't like it the first 2 times I tried to read it. That third time though, it just hit me, I got past the first trade's worth of content and couldn't put it down. It has grown in my estimation upon each rereading. I just don't think I was in the right place to appreciate it the first two attempts. Same! I have an anecdote on that you might appreciate, especially with the Ohio connection. While I was aware of Bone in the 90's, it never really grabbed me. A very good friend at work (here in Columbus) went to OSU the same time Jeff Smith did, and not only read his early strip Thorn (the precursor to Bone) in the student newspaper The Lantern, but he actually bought the self-published Thorn collection from that time (1983, 1000 copies) which became a massively sought out collectible when Bone took off and Jeff got famous. My buddy at work was a really good friend, into comics, video games etc., and actually lent me Thorn to read, and even offered to sell it to me at one point, but I felt like it should go to somebody who would appreciate it more. Eventually like you, Bone finally hit me and I adore it. You may also appreciate this... I just drove through Logan Ohio a couple of hours ago, home of the real "Old Man's Cave"  I'm happy they are finally going to release a mass print collection of Thorn (there was the printing of Before Bone as well, but that was also a very small print run). My friend passed away sometime back so the association with this book is a bit bittersweet, but I look forward to revisiting the early material and this time as an actual Bone fan!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2023 16:34:30 GMT -5
90s Ghost Rider....wasn't too keen on Vengeance or Blaze looking like the Terminator. But I revised that opinion after building all the sets that came post 2000.
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Post by james on Mar 4, 2024 18:53:02 GMT -5
Just came across this post. I’d have to say just about everything Kirby did. But i read New Gods, Mister Miracle and working through FF and I can say I’ve truly enjoyed them all.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Mar 5, 2024 10:07:24 GMT -5
I also didn't care for Curt Swan in the 60s and 70s. I started appreciating him later and enjoyed his return in the 90s to Superman. But I realized it wasn't Swan I thought boring, it was the Superman books from then. And I still find them boring. The Superman comics of the era had their issues, certainly. A lot of the problem with Swan was that he needed an inker who would be sensitive enough to preserve his anatomy and character work, but lend a gloss to make the whole package more dynamic. He looked so gorgeous under Murphy Anderson, John Byrne, and George Perez. |
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