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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 26, 2015 4:18:53 GMT -5
Sweet Christmas-started reading through the first Essential volume of Luke Cage Hero for Hire...not usually a fan of Tuska's art but with Graham's inks it works here very well, and with Goodwin scripting the first handful of issues, it has been a fun read. Englehart takes over with #5 which is next up for me to read. -M Ive had that for some time, interestingly enough Cage is very popular over here, his books always in demand in online auctions. I was never a fan of Mr Tuska, but after reading some of this, and seeing his other Marvel work at times, AND seeing aspects of him in some Butch Guice work a few years back, I've come to quite enjoy his work. I've also come to enjoy the art of Don Heck, another classic artist whose work I never appreciated.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 26, 2015 4:05:19 GMT -5
Here in NY they are predicting anywhere from 1 to 24 inches of snow Tuesday. Snow reports like this is the only thing that really scares me these days. Brother if it gives you comfort its 30 degrees here today, um thats 86 in American. Middle of a heatwave, actually more turning into a drought. Hell we're rural and I had to have water delivered a week ago, its gone from $165 for a tank(10,000 litres...um 2,640 gallons) to $200 plus tax in the last year.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 26, 2015 3:55:56 GMT -5
I read the first TPB of SECRET. I liked it much more than EAST OF WEST, but I prefer MANHATTAN PROJECTS to both. Manhattan Projects is probably my second favourite book, straight after Saga. Have you tried explaining what its about to a non-comic person ? The most fun Ive ever had trying to sell a book to a mate. Im loving East of West, struggle to understand whats goin on, but loving it, though it just doesnt come close to the craziness of alternate universe Albert Einstein crossing paths with the evil sub-sumed twin of Robert Oppenheimer and an artificial intelligence FDR.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 24, 2015 23:34:11 GMT -5
Hey what can I say, I. LIKE. BENDIS. There, thats my BreakTheInternet moment. Let the wailing begin. . I do like Danger tho CW, after a while getting my tiny pakeha-mind around the concept, but do take issue with you not liking Collossus Wait just a second: I never said I disliked Colossus. I just said I didn't really care about him. Or Juggernaut. I like him WITH the X-Men. And he has cool moments. But he's just not a character that greatly interests me on his own. And I hope you do know that I was completely kidding about the heartbroken stuff. I don't really care if people like things I do not like. It's allowed. All in jest mate, all n jest. Like I said to someone else here, I love that we all have wildly varying tastes here, and in general we get on.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 23, 2015 23:08:05 GMT -5
Hey what can I say, I. LIKE. BENDIS.
There, thats my BreakTheInternet moment. Let the wailing begin. . I do like Danger tho CW, after a while getting my tiny pakeha-mind around the concept, but do take issue with you not liking Collossus
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 23, 2015 22:53:38 GMT -5
Im on your side buddy, but theres not a lot in your list that I would hold up as unmissable. I found that new xfactor lacking, jlu truly terrible, and action is pretty sometimes but incomprehensible. Hickmans Avengers is truly divisive, it seems to be a love or hate though I havent really decided personally. Daredevil, Miracleman, and Hawkeye are great, but Ive found Multiversity to be hot or cold. I would have added Aarons Thor, and Azzarellos Wonder Woman, 2 stand out books though WW has moved on. *gasp* You bite your finger tips, Mister!!!! The only thing "lacking" about that book was PAD's ability to continue writing it. I've been a fan of PAD's for many years CW, but never got the FANatacism on XFactor(any version for that matter), but to be fair I've never read a decent run of it. I'm going to upset you by saying that I prefer Bendis's All New X-Men and Uncanny, and as much as I want to like Amazing, Storm, and adjectiveless, the only other Xbook I like is Cyclops, thank goodness its about junior not senior.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 23, 2015 7:44:40 GMT -5
After 50 years of reading Marvel and DC, it was surprisingly easy to stop reading both companies' new products competely for the past year. From the last few pages of comments here, I feel I definitely did right by myself By not reading Paxs Action, Waids Daredevil, PADs X-Factor, Soules She-Hulk, Willows Ms. Marvel, Moores Marvel Man, Hickmans Avengers, Millers Smallville, or the current Hawkeye, Multiversity, Justice League United and Silver Surfer plus the recent Adventures of Superman? Im on your side buddy, but theres not a lot in your list that I would hold up as unmissable. I found that new xfactor lacking, jlu truly terrible, and action is pretty sometimes but incomprehensible. Hickmans Avengers is truly divisive, it seems to be a love or hate though I havent really decided personally. Daredevil, Miracleman, and Hawkeye are great, but Ive found Multiversity to be hot or cold. I would have added Aarons Thor, and Azzarellos Wonder Woman, 2 stand out books though WW has moved on.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 22, 2015 16:33:09 GMT -5
Followed in 5 years by the hollow in the stomach, I screwed up feeling...
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 22, 2015 16:27:35 GMT -5
M C Escher Art WorkI have reproductions of these artwork done by M C Escher.I've always loved Black and White Artwork. Great taste, we have a coffe-table book of his work, just waiting to fry your braincells.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 22, 2015 16:21:28 GMT -5
I was kind of interested as I've said that really something of this level is what it would take to interest me in Marvel again, but, after reading Newsarama's countdown speculation on Battleworld, I realize I'm already lost and confused and, most importantly, don't care anymore. I don't. When Disney bought Marvel, I knew something like this would be coming. Really, my Marvel has been next to nothing for about 10-15 years now. In the 90's when their product was SO bad and they were selling to speculators and crazy variant covers, the insides were crap. We few exceptions, like Marvels and PAD's Hulk, I bought almost no Marvel. When Quesada & Palmiotti came on with Marvel Knights, they started to get me back. Heroes Reborn too, but it didn't last. I'm not interested in this mish mash at all. This is the final stroke and I'm fine with it as it's been a long time coming. I've heard all the hate over the years from fanboys who left after a. Crisis, b. Identity Crisis, and esp c. Nu52, but have never felt that way. I look at it more as a metamorphosis and roll with it, though some of the details are flawed. Marvel has insulted me as a DC reader for years, as well as my loyalty and intelligence, and this is the last straw. If they produce stand alone, out of continuity stories with characters I recognize, there's a good chance I'd try that, but not Battleworld mish mash ever. Good chance for me to continue filling in the gaps in my True Marvel collection, continue with DC, and support the great indie stuff out there like Image, Dark Horse, Valiant (a great cohesive superhero universe), Dynamite, Archie/Dark Circle, the return of Milestone Media, etc. It may sound hypocritical of me to follow Convergence, but that's not cherry picking. It's the exact opposite : it's all in and fully integrating everything that's ever existed, i.e. imaginary stories, Elseworlds, different earths, characters, dimensions, aliens caging Golden Age Batman & Robin, etc, all in the super-megaverse of the largest tapestry. A universe where Shazam pre-FP exists, Captain Thunder and Thunderworld exists, and Shazam ! by Geof Johns & Gary Frank exists. Yeah, I have no problems with that at all. So let me get this straight, both Marvel and DC havent started their new Events, we dont actually know what they have planned, yet from a websites "speculation" as you put it, you will no longer support Marvel because they intend to bring their old and new universes together. BUT You will support DC because they intend to bring their old and new universes together. ...walks off...shaking head...brain exploding...
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 22, 2015 7:45:13 GMT -5
The originals were always a favourite of mine after I found them in a second hand bookstore in my grandmothers tiny township in the early 80s. However rereading them last year was a let-down, good art but the writing is dated badly.
The only later appearances that were ever any good were the guest starv shots in Captain America by DeMatteis and Zeck IMHO. The Cowan series was ok-ish, but Ive never liked any of the others, even the X-Force versions, while better than all the others, were a pale imitation.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 22, 2015 7:38:06 GMT -5
There is some serious 80s nuclear paranoia in the Apocalypse War. The genius thing in is that the comic is pretty much pure action, not a whole lot of sitting around talking and yet really Dredd is a cold realist. Life in Mega City One really is often just as bad if not worse than the Cursed Earth, everyone is trapped. The short story following up on the lost member of the Angel gang and his rat kidnapping Judge Hershey ending up in the recycle center for dead bodies is pretty hardcore for like 1981/1982. I thought the case file segment was also excellent and the "hacking" story of guys cracking into companies computer systems was pretty prescient. Another interesting thing about Apocalypse War and Carlos Ezquerra is that while he was an early co-creator of the character and one of the iconic artists of the strip, he really hadn't done all that much Dredd artwork to this point in the series. I'd say that Strontium Dog was his main strip for a few years leading up to this point on Dredd. Reading them when they came out was a blast, you never knew where the ride was taking you, and you never cared. The unlimited imagination and amazing artwork by Bolland et al kept you going back week after week. I think Ezquerra had a beef with the management about Dredd, lack of credit or somesuch, and refused to work on the strip for years. (or equally possible is that I have it utterly wrong )
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 21, 2015 19:00:48 GMT -5
I'm into the Apocalypse War in Judge Dredd Case Files Vol. 5. This volume of Dredd is amazing, all killer no filler. It definitely should be on the list of great comics from the 80s. I had read quite a bit of this Dredd run back in the 80s in the Eagle reprints, but it was hit and miss as not all the stories would get reprinted in any kind of order in those comics. All that Carlos Ezquerra artwork, good times indeed.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 21, 2015 6:53:43 GMT -5
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 20, 2015 7:25:24 GMT -5
I liked the character fine till I read this stuff. I have no probs with ole foot-in-mouth Clint being afflicted myself, but that whiny stalker Clint deserves the beatdowns he gets in his own book. Coldwater, have you tried the new Silver Surfer book ? I saw you've read some ole stuff, you HAVE to try the new Allred book, especially the latest issue space has no upside down...how are you doing this ? So simple yet why did no-one do this years ago, just an awesome fun book.
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