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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 18, 2019 18:04:35 GMT -5
I've never tried that '70s DC Starfire. If I liked Warlord and Killraven/War Of The Worlds would I like it? Is it post apocalyptic in setting? It's basically sword & planet, i.e, takes place on a planet conquered by some kind of malevolent reptilian overlords, and the titular heroine rises from slavery to lead a rebellion after her lover, who also taught her how to fight, etc., is killed by those same overlords. It's only superficially similar to Warlord or Killraven, and the series was plagued by a lack of consist writing (four different writers over 8 issues, although the art all the way through is by the character's co-creator, Mike Vosburg). If you want to sample it, all eight issues can be found at Diversions of the Groovy Kind. I had the entire series back in the day, and I can't say it set my world on fire, but I didn't hate it, either. In fact, if a reprint collection is ever published, I'd probably get it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 22:58:18 GMT -5
I've never tried that '70s DC Starfire. If I liked Warlord and Killraven/War Of The Worlds would I like it? Is it post apocalyptic in setting? It's basically sword & planet, i.e, takes place on a planet conquered by some kind of malevolent reptilian overlords, and the titular heroine rises from slavery to lead a rebellion after her lover, who also taught her how to fight, etc., is killed by those same overlords. It's only superficially similar to Warlord or Killraven, and the series was plagued by a lack of consist writing (four different writers over 8 issues, although the art all the way through is by the character's co-creator, Mike Vosburg). If you want to sample it, all eight issues can be found at Diversions of the Groovy Kind. I had the entire series back in the day, and I can't say it set my world on fire, but I didn't hate it, either. In fact, if a reprint collection is ever published, I'd probably get it.
It is fun for what it is. It's not great, but it's mostly good comics. -M
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 19, 2019 6:18:30 GMT -5
I've not read much Tintin, but a year or so ago, I got Tintin in the Congo from the library and I was much amused by it. Lots of WTF moments! From what Tintin fans say, Tintin in the Congo sounds a lot like looking at weird Golden Age Captain America stories where you can hardly believe what you're seeing. I read this once - over 40 years ago and even then, as a kid I got the WTFs?! from it. I think the moment he climbs a tree, drills a hole in a rhino standing underneath, and shoves dynamite in before retiring to a safe distance and blowing the poor animal up was my tipping point.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2019 7:00:50 GMT -5
Yikes ! Where’s peta when you need them.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 19, 2019 9:54:48 GMT -5
I've not read much Tintin, but a year or so ago, I got Tintin in the Congo from the library and I was much amused by it. Lots of WTF moments! From what Tintin fans say, Tintin in the Congo sounds a lot like looking at weird Golden Age Captain America stories where you can hardly believe what you're seeing. I read this once - over 40 years ago and even then, as a kid I got the WTFs?! from it. I think the moment he climbs a tree, drills a hole in a rhino standing underneath, and shoves dynamite in before retiring to a safe distance and blowing the poor animal up was my tipping point. Yikes ! Where’s peta when you need them. Yeah, Tintin in the Congo makes for uncomfortable reading if you're an animal lover. Or sensitive to racial prejudice. But it was very much a product of its time and a young, naive author brought up in a country where colonial expansion was regarded as their God given right. Herge later described it as the "sins of his youth" and, actually, within a couple of years, was producing books that countered widely held Western prejudice against other races...the Chinese, for example, in The Blue Lotus. Shameless plug, I know, but you can read all about the animal slaughter and offensive racial caricaturing in Tintin in the Congo here... classiccomics.org/thread/4256/adventures-tintin-reviews-confessor?page=2#post-200910
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Post by The Captain on Feb 19, 2019 10:21:19 GMT -5
I've not read much Tintin, but a year or so ago, I got Tintin in the Congo from the library and I was much amused by it. Lots of WTF moments! From what Tintin fans say, Tintin in the Congo sounds a lot like looking at weird Golden Age Captain America stories where you can hardly believe what you're seeing. I read this once - over 40 years ago and even then, as a kid I got the WTFs?! from it. I think the moment he climbs a tree, drills a hole in a rhino standing underneath, and shoves dynamite in before retiring to a safe distance and blowing the poor animal up was my tipping point. So many questions here: Wouldn't "drilling a hole" in a rhino be sufficient to kill it, making the dynamite a huge bit of overkill? Why would the rhino stay under the tree long enough to let Tintin drill a hole deep enough into it to allow for a stick of dynamite to be dropped inside it? What the hell kind of tool was Tintin using that would allow him to drill a hole in a rhino, which have notoriously thick hides, while sitting in a tree? Why the hell is Tintin carrying around both a stick of dynamite AND said tool for drilling holes in rhinos? It sounds absolutely bats$!t insane.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 19, 2019 11:40:47 GMT -5
Yikes ! Where’s peta when you need them. You'll be saying that A LOT if you read Tintin in the Congo. Also "Where's the ACLU?!"
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 19, 2019 11:52:10 GMT -5
I read this once - over 40 years ago and even then, as a kid I got the WTFs?! from it. I think the moment he climbs a tree, drills a hole in a rhino standing underneath, and shoves dynamite in before retiring to a safe distance and blowing the poor animal up was my tipping point. So many questions here: Wouldn't "drilling a hole" in a rhino be sufficient to kill it, making the dynamite a huge bit of overkill? Why would the rhino stay under the tree long enough to let Tintin drill a hole deep enough into it to allow for a stick of dynamite to be dropped inside it? What the hell kind of tool was Tintin using that would allow him to drill a hole in a rhino, which have notoriously thick hides, while sitting in a tree? Why the hell is Tintin carrying around both a stick of dynamite AND said tool for drilling holes in rhinos? It sounds absolutely bats$!t insane. Read Tintin in the Congo and you'll have a similar list of questions for just about every page.
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 19, 2019 13:55:05 GMT -5
I had a friend as a kid who was strictly not allowed any comic books except for Tin Tin (and then only in French). I remember looking at some and while a submarine that looked like a shark and the rocket to the moon seemed pretty cool they didn't appeal to me because Tin Tin's hair bothered me, I couldn't take anyone seriously with hair more cartoony and unmoving than Archie's, I have that same problem with some of the spiky purple haired Japanese cartoons. So I will just stick with Asterix, Valerian and Yoko Tsuno and remain one of those confused Tin Tin-less comic readers. Actually it seemed to me Milton Caniff Terry & The Pirates did this kind of adventure comic as well as it can be done, and there's also Dickie Dare by Caniff for a slightly earlier run at it.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 19, 2019 16:35:04 GMT -5
I had a friend as a kid who was strictly not allowed any comic books except for Tin Tin... Make that Tintin, will ya? Just a pet niggle of mine.
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Post by MDG on Feb 19, 2019 18:03:42 GMT -5
I decided to look for a cheap Batgirl Special #1 for my "Top Ten Batgirl Stories" thread and I found this on eBay a few days ago and bid on it and won it today for $2. One of the things that pushed me out of mainstream comic collecting was when I saw someone selling a slabbed version of this only a couple years after it came out for $100.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2019 18:06:43 GMT -5
I had a friend as a kid who was strictly not allowed any comic books except for Tin Tin... Make that Tintin, will ya? Just a pet niggle of mine. Tintin , Tin Tin , dindin , what's the difference?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 18:12:37 GMT -5
Make that Tintin, will ya? Just a pet niggle of mine. Tintin , Tin Tin , dindin , what's the difference? nothing Icky-trombone. -M
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 19, 2019 18:44:18 GMT -5
I had a friend as a kid who was strictly not allowed any comic books except for Tin Tin... Make that Tintin, will ya? Just a pet niggle of mine. We had a pet niggle when I was very young! After it died we got a peeve.
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 19, 2019 23:35:23 GMT -5
I had a friend as a kid who was strictly not allowed any comic books except for Tin Tin... Make that Tintin, will ya? Just a pet niggle of mine. I outsmarted myself, I thought, 'now I have to remember to get this the way they said it should be after the posts about that'... then I remembered the right way wrong. I thought Tin Tin was what we had been lectured on for some reason. I probably would've been right if I hadn't tried to remember the right way at all! It's the thought that counts though, right? Wrong? Why doesn't his hair move more?!!! There is a Tin Tin I care more about (as Fanderson fan #10,499)... I could also blame her...
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