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Post by commond on Aug 31, 2024 20:00:41 GMT -5
I read a similar amount of books in August as I did in July, but I was quite satisfied. I dialed back on the Atlas/MC books a bit and instead focused on DC comics from the Direct Currents era. I rediscovered my love for Usagi Yojimbo and finished a few runs. Quite a productive month.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 31, 2024 21:24:45 GMT -5
I've been a little disappointed so far in my 'War that Time Forgot' showcase volume. The stories are all very much the same... I was hoping after the first few they might do something with the concept, but 18 issues in not yet. They have a couple character recur for a 2nd story, but that's about it. The last couple added a robot, which was super weird but a nice change up.. we'll see how it goes.
I got a couple Early Iron Man issues that I needed to, which was pretty exciting... good prices too! 11 more to go! (if 55 can keep dropping in price that would be lovely...)
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 31, 2024 23:03:19 GMT -5
Wrapping up August, not as robust as July was but still read over 140 comics for the month. Classic highlights include the first handful of Golden Age Batman stories in Detective, the earliest Hal Jordan stories in Showcase and his own title, the first Plastic Man story in Police Comics #1, and the early part of the Messner-Loebs run of Flash and the early part of Nightwing's first solo series. Modern highlights include the wrap up of the Crow in Usagi by Stan Saka, the Heroic Signature/Titan Conan books (both the monthly and Savage Sword), the new Witchblade series, Gail Simone's Uncanny X-Men, the classic cartoon revivals of Gatchaman, Jonny Quest, and Space Ghost, and Oeming's William of Newbury.
I also read the entirety of the 28 issue run of Evanier's New Gods that launched post Cosmic Odyssey in the late 80s. There was some interesting stuff but it was largely uneven, especially later in the run. There were parts that felt rushed, parts that felt bloated, but lots of interesting ideas and characters throughout. It really felt like nobody knew how long it would last so nobody knew exactly how to pace it, which hurt it overall. While some of Jack's Fourth World stuff felt a product of its time with some of the cultural touchstones and references in it, this series felt entirely like a product of the late 80s zeitgeist, especially in how it treated the elements and touchstones in the Fourth World that were products of the early 70s, and reflected my experience with how people in that time felt about the early 70s counter-culture reflected in those books. But even with that, there were still some very Kirby concepts, ideas and themes being explored in the series.
-M
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Post by Confessor on Sept 1, 2024 5:47:28 GMT -5
August was a much better month for me, with 40 comics read this month -- which is more than any other month this year!
Much of that was down to re-reading so much early Amazing Spider-Man for jtrw2024's Spider-Man review thread. I also re-read some Elfquest, some Nemesis: The Warlock, and the Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising mini-series for wildfire2099's "Star Wars at Dark Horse" review thread.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 1, 2024 15:29:13 GMT -5
I really enjoyed Nemesis when I read it earlier in the year... I'm looking forward to the 2nd volume of the 'definitive edition' to read more
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 3, 2024 16:24:29 GMT -5
Eight books in August. I clearly did not set the world on fire funnybook-wise.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 3, 2024 18:17:53 GMT -5
Eight books in August. I clearly did not set the world on fire funnybook-wise. At least you didn't set any funny books on fire... -M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 3, 2024 19:36:16 GMT -5
Eight books in August. I clearly did not set the world on fire funnybook-wise. At least you didn't set any funny books on fire... -M I'm not sure we can say that for certain... it gets cold at night out in potato country.
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Post by berkley on Sept 13, 2024 2:02:56 GMT -5
Very light comics-reading month for me in August, partly due to travel, since comics are harder to pack than books - and I did get through more books while I was away than I normally would in the same period of time. I think I've already read more comics pages in the first half of September than I did in the whole of August.
And September has started well: I'm getting back into the swing of the early Peanuts, which is not quite what came to be the classic strip but many of the most important elements are there right from the start. What's missing is perhaps that Charlie Brown's personality and appearance hasn't yet quite settled and not all of the classic characters have made their appearance. And Schulz hasn't yet begun to get into his more profound or deeply-felt vignettes - not a surprise for a young cartoonist in the first years of his professional career.
Steve Canyon has made a comeback too, mostly due to the departure (I think permament?) of Poteet: not that she was a terrible character, just that her teenage-based story-lines tended to take centre stage and pull the strip away from its core nature as a mixture of adventure and soap-opera.
I've started a new collection: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century a strip that started in 1929. I've been watching so many movies from the early 1930s lately that I conceived the desire to read some comics from that era as well. So far, lots of fun and very interesting from all sorts of perspectives. Artwork surprisingly crude compared to what we see from other creators of the same era, e.g. Raymond, Caniff, but not unattractive. The story off-putting in its racism (much ado about the evil Eastern Hordes - Mongols in this case - that have taken over "Peace-loving America" in the 25th Century) , but putting this aside, highly entertaining.
More September notes to follow as this month in comics continues ...
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