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Post by tingramretro on May 13, 2017 18:01:09 GMT -5
To the already mentioned Love & Rockets, Cerebus, Usagi Yojimbo et al., I would add The adventures of Luther Arkwright. I'd forgotten Arkwright!!! |
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Post by tingramretro on May 13, 2017 14:15:53 GMT -5
Bear in mind that a lot of comics (several, anyway, like Zot and Ms Tree) started out in color and moved to B&W when costs started catching up. Also, I don't think anyone's mentioned Bill Loeb's Journey yet. As I recall, The Trouble With Girls started out in black & white, moved to colour, then went back to black & white... |
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Post by tingramretro on May 13, 2017 1:50:51 GMT -5
None. Black and white suks. Having grown up with a lot of black and white comics, including reprints of a lot of Bronze Age Marvel stuff, I still firmly believe that a lot of material originally published in colour works much better in black and white, including pretty much anything by Gene Colan. The man was a master at using light and shadow to create atmosphere, and colour just dilutes a lot of his stuff. Tomb of Dracula being the most obvious example. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 13, 2017 1:28:31 GMT -5
2000 AD
Doctor Who Magazine
The Daredevils (Marvel UK title, about 90% of which seemed to be by Alan Moore)
Warrior
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Post by tingramretro on May 12, 2017 9:41:49 GMT -5
I'm up to #13 of The Freedom Fighters. (Although I think that's the cover for #12, which I like better than #13.) Love that book, too. That particular issue is one of the strongest memories I have of when I was really getting into DC for the first time (along with #11, in which they fought the Renegades). |
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Post by tingramretro on May 12, 2017 9:39:09 GMT -5
I'm still reading Avengers #98 to #120 and I'm up to the eve of the Avengers/Defenders War! Which means a littler side trip from Avengers #115 to The Defenders #8! I'm really looking forward to this. When I was a kid in the 1970s, I picked up #115 and #116 as back issues, and I also remember being at a friend's house and reading the issue of The Defenders with the Hulk-Thor fight. I've been wanting to read the whole thing for almost 40 years! The best thing about Defenders #8 is Valkyrie. Because I used to read The Defenders - from about issue #30 to #40 - and I always liked the Valkyrie. A few years ago, I got the second Essential Defenders volume from the library and it was great to read so many Valkyrie stories I'd never seen. So that's a big plus for the Avengers/Defenders War that I'd forgotten about. I love the Defenders, it was one of my favourite Marvel books as a kid. Still have the entire run, and reread chunks of it more or less annually. I think Steve Gerber's run on that book was one of the best things he ever did. On a vaguely related note, today I acquired Dr. Strange #29, in which Doc and fellow Defender Nighthawk fight my favourite Daredevil villain, the Death Stalker! The book references the Stalker's last previous appearance in DD #152, and also has a totally irrelevant but quite nice scene in which Hank Pym calls Doc to point out that the Black Knight's stone body has gone missing from his basement and attacked the Avengers (in Avengers #157). I miss that kind of continuity in Marvel books, it was a big part of what made me a Marvel fan... |
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Post by tingramretro on May 12, 2017 1:09:11 GMT -5
I really liked the Byrne run, but the Roy Thomas stuff is still my favourite period for FF, really. It's what I grew up with.
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Post by tingramretro on May 12, 2017 1:06:18 GMT -5
Either Alan Davis and Mark Farmer or Frank Robbins and Frank Springer.
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Post by tingramretro on May 11, 2017 13:01:14 GMT -5
Not a front cover, but this appeared on the back cover of numerous comics and non comics magazines in the early '80s...  |
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Post by tingramretro on May 11, 2017 11:16:27 GMT -5
How on Earth could Mad be not a comic?
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Post by tingramretro on May 11, 2017 9:33:42 GMT -5
Not really. So far, there have been at least eight Avengers #1's, four of which would be eligible for the contest. Avengers #1 1963 Ah, yes-but you might just as well have meant the ones from 1996, 1998, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, or even the Marvel UK title from 1973! |
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Post by tingramretro on May 11, 2017 9:27:04 GMT -5
Captain Britain #30 (May '77)Script: Gary Friedrich/Larry Lieber Art: John Buscema/Tom Palmer "Panic in Piccadilly!"  "Attack, my pretty! Strike down this unholy mass of modernization! We must purify the land and return to the simplicity of our glorious past!" So speaks Lord Hawk as he and his "winged fortress" lay waste to a small area of Piccadilly Circus...and if it's a little unlikely he's going to make much headway in his mission by destroying the modern world a few square feet at a time, well, maybe that's so, but at least he's got a nice line in traditional villain dialogue! You've never heard Bendis write a rant like that. Naturally, Captain Britain is determined to stop the winged menace...mostly because, as he keeps reminding us, he stupidly created it. Sadly, he appears to have built the bird rather too well, as it just keeps getting the better of him despite basically just being a drone (I'm not entirely sure why he doesn't just go after the operator rather than the bird; maybe he just doesn't think of it?) Anyway, the situation becomes even more complicated when two more of our regular cast get involved; Inspector Thomas, who on hearing that Captain Britain is fighting a rampaging robot bird in a crowded public place, naturally decides to ignore the bird and capture the vigilante (!), and Courtney Ross, who arrives by chance, runs out into the street to say "hi" to the Captain (in the middle of a fight!!!?) and promptly gets hit by a bus. What a total airhead! As the Captain is wracked with guilt over having gotten Courtney hurt by...umm...just existing, and then has to flee from te police, Lord Hawk sneaks off unnoticed to plan his next move... I'm not actually sure who's dumber-the villain, who thinks he can destroy the world one street at a time, the hero, who having armed the villain, can't stop him, the bimbo with no road sense, or the police officer with all the wrong priorities. They're all about as hopeless as each other, to be honest...
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Post by tingramretro on May 11, 2017 9:03:07 GMT -5
This shouldn't even be a competitive thing! No wonder we lost the Empire, with people like you around.   |
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Post by tingramretro on May 11, 2017 9:00:43 GMT -5
Yeah, it seems like a slam dunk to have Justin Hammer hire him to go after Tony Stark.. he's alot more interesting than alot of the early Iron Man's rogue's gallery. An appearance or two less from the Unicorn or the Melter would have been just fine with me. I quite liked the Unicorn (and he even fought the X-Men) but the Melter was a waste of space from the very beginning. "So, what do you do?" "I melt things". "Is that useful in your line of work?" "Not really. Iron Man's suit isn't really iron, so it doesn't melt that well". "Have you ever considered fighting Iceman instead?" "Ummm..." |
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Post by tingramretro on May 11, 2017 8:36:58 GMT -5
And also, if I write " Avengers #1" instead of posting the actual image, you will know what I mean. Not really. So far, there have been at least eight Avengers #1's, four of which would be eligible for the contest. |
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