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Post by The Cheat on Jun 25, 2021 13:25:20 GMT -5
I have a confession to make. I don't like Hellboy. I LOVE Mignola's art. I love the first two Hellboy movies. I love the concept. I love everything about it. I just don't love reading it. For some reason, I find it hard to emotionally connect with the comic. The feeling I get is that it keeps me at a distance, at arm's length, and leaves me cold. You know how you feel when someone is describing a dream to you and you check out immediately, because, no matter how crazy the dream, it doesn't matter. It is completely detached from the real world and your life. That's how it makes me feel. Don't know why. Have you tried BRPD? I found it far more engaging emotionally. I did like Hellboy (the character)'s arc, but I see where you're coming from. I always felt the book was more of a showcase for Mignola's art and writing, a forum for him to do whatever he wanted to/was interested in at the time.
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Post by The Cheat on Jun 24, 2021 13:25:02 GMT -5
We seem to have veered from oaths to catch-phrases. Still, all good
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Post by The Cheat on Jun 22, 2021 13:16:20 GMT -5
Was always partial to a good "Grud on a greenie!" (Judge Anderson)
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Post by The Cheat on Jun 21, 2021 13:10:56 GMT -5
Mainly just cycle through the works of Moore, Morrison, Ellis, and Ennis.
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Post by The Cheat on Jun 7, 2021 13:05:30 GMT -5
What kind of buyer/seller protection do you get on Facebook? Is it just a gentlemen's agreement made on these groups, or do FB actually actively arbitrate the sale?
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Post by The Cheat on Jun 3, 2021 14:01:25 GMT -5
Gandalf did know it was down there, didn't he? That was why he was so reluctant to take that path and only went that way as a last resort?
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Post by The Cheat on May 30, 2021 13:19:33 GMT -5
Does this not prohibit us from making more recent changes, as it would be more likely an earlier change would render the event we want to change moot? (butterfly effect and all that) e.g. person A - Jean Grey doesn't die in Morrison's X-Men run, person B - Jean Grey stays dead after Dark Phoenix. Sounds like it'd be a nightmare to police. Good luck
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Post by The Cheat on May 22, 2021 13:16:19 GMT -5
I never read Spider-Man Life Story but after how much I enjoyed this I might need to track it down. I think a lot of my enjoyment of this came from the feeling that this is what a FF movie should kind of feel like. I may have to re-read this because I wasn't impressed. I'm a big fan of Mark Russell so I expected to be wowed, but I definitely was not. I understand that there's a lot of ground to cover in one comic. I really didn't like the way the relationship between Reed and Ben was handled. Ah well. Yeah, I wasn't particularly impressed either. Mind you, I've read so many alternate FF origins, it would have to have had some very creative new twist to grab me. As it is, nothing new or interesting here.
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Post by The Cheat on May 18, 2021 13:21:26 GMT -5
2. Alfred raising Bruce Wayne. In truth, Alfred didn't show up on the scene until after Wayne had already taken in Dick Grayson and was such a buffoon that had he ever attempted to adopt anyone anywhere, would hopefully have been rejected due to his obvious incompetence. Different Alfred wasn't it? Alfred... I want to say Beagle? He made a re-appearance during Zero Hour.
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Post by The Cheat on May 16, 2021 13:20:08 GMT -5
I really enjoyed the Marvel Adventures series for the most part. Seem to remember a lot of them being written by Jeff Parker and Fred Van Lente? There was one FF issue in particular that sticks in my memory, with Galactus bringing the FF forward in time to the end of the universe to "help" him.
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Post by The Cheat on May 15, 2021 13:23:21 GMT -5
I agree. I also got the sense he was constrained by trying not to repeat himself with what he'd just done in New Gods. I feel it might have been better if he'd kept the New Gods stuff private as a "first draft" and then combined the best ideas/concepts with those in Eternals for a final, more refined grand epic. Everyone's entitled to their own view but I think the idea that the Eternals was just a rehash of the same ideas Kirby had already played around with in the New Gods is a mistaken one and has done a lot of harm in that it's prevented readers and creators alike from appreciating what the Marvel series was all about: too many people see it as an inferior imitation of Kirby's own previous work, whereas it's actually an entirely different animal in every way.
Just to take one example - one that should be obvious but apparently isn't - the New Gods is very much about Good vs Evil, freedom vs tyranny; while the Eternals is very much not - hence the absence, so puzzling to so many, of any compelling villain to match the New Gods' Darkseid, and the repeated failed efforts of later Eternals writers to fill that void, as they see it.
But the differences don't end there, that's just the beginning. In its own, very different way, the Eternals is as great a masterpiece as the New Gods, incomplete though they are. As MDG sad, I think the relative falling off of the last 6 issues or so had to do with the pressure Kirby felt to make the series more conventional - more action-oriented, more Ikaris-centred, more MU-connected. The grand experiment was compromised - though there is still much of interest in those last few issues, in spite of their flaws.
I think you've misunderstood me, I'm saying it *wasn't* a rehash, but it would have been stronger if it *had* incorporated some of the earlier series' ideas.
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Post by The Cheat on May 14, 2021 13:21:36 GMT -5
I finished up Kirby's run on The Eternals. Ultimately, this feels like a real missed opportunity. If there had been the option to do this as a limited series with a definite end in mind, it could have given him a chance to explore many ideas he introduced and been more satisfying dramatically. It feels like he was shaken (or compelled) by sales to focus on action--esp the two "fake hulk" issues--and lost his way. Also probably didn;t help that the covers had a different assortment of unfamiliar characters just about each issue. I agree. I also got the sense he was constrained by trying not to repeat himself with what he'd just done in New Gods. I feel it might have been better if he'd kept the New Gods stuff private as a "first draft" and then combined the best ideas/concepts with those in Eternals for a final, more refined grand epic.
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Post by The Cheat on May 14, 2021 13:13:00 GMT -5
I never read Preacher (and shock value of the covers was a pretty big reason); so, I can't comment on that. Which covers are you thinking of? I seem to remember them being mostly fairly generic Glenn Fabry paintings.
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Post by The Cheat on May 6, 2021 14:12:31 GMT -5
Remind me why Sauron put so much of his power into a ring in the first place?
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Post by The Cheat on May 6, 2021 14:09:30 GMT -5
Hate to dispirit you, but I found the quality of the WoT books to take a pretty big nose dive around book 7/8. Books 9-11/12 should basically have been a single book and were a huge slog to get through. It finishes strongly once Sanderson takes over though.
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