|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 20:45:28 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 16:08:51 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 14:15:46 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 12:53:53 GMT -5
Perhaps I missed something, but why in the 78 movie Luthor was sure that Kryptonite was harmful to Superman? And how did he know that particular green rock came from the same planet of the Man of Steel? I don't think the movie went into detail, but I recall that Luthor went through an old National Geographic to find a story about a meteorite that landed in Ethiopia around the same time Superman would've come to earth. I don't know how Luthor got the idea that it would be harmful to Kryptonians.
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 12:48:57 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 10:49:30 GMT -5
Over Christams I treated myself to all three volumes of the Blake & Mortimer adventure, The Secret of the Swordfish... This is the first Blake & Mortimer story, though weirdly it was published as volumes 15-17 in the English translations. For the uninitiated, the Blake & Mortimer stories are 1950s "buddy adventure" detective yarns, in the "whodunit?" style. The books centre around the inseparable team of Captain Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer, two upstanding and heroic, pipe-smoking, upper class English gentlemen. The books are written and drawn by Edgar P. Jacobs, who was a friend and colaberator of Hergé's and, as a result, Jacobs's artwork employes the same ligne claire style that Hergé pioneered in the Adventures of Tintin. I've read a good half dozen of the later B&M adventures, but I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into the duo's inaugural outing. I tore through the Blake and Mortimer books through Hoopla over the past couple years and enjoyed them immensely. The plots are usually great, and with a degree of suspense that's sometimes missing in series where you "know" the heroes are going to pull it out at the end. I prefer the stories that stay closer to "real life" on the whole.
I read them in the numerical order of the translations so was pretty sold by the time I got to Swordfish, and I'm glad since the story, though solid, is based on a global conflict that--unless I missed something--never happened. I prefer the stories that stay closer to "real life" on the whole.
The art is excellent, and the style shows how much mood and storytelling can be enhanced with flat coloring when there's a large palette available. I wonder how late 90s US comics would've been received if, instead of overdoing effects when computer coloring became available. colorists just took advantage of the number of colors available and the inkers were still primarily responsible for rendering and effects.
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 10:37:30 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 7:57:43 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 7:54:21 GMT -5
Rags
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 7:51:24 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 1, 2024 20:13:30 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 1, 2024 16:57:22 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 1, 2024 14:37:32 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 1, 2024 12:09:54 GMT -5
I had sort of resolved to start reading Rip Kirby, but the reprint books are outrageously expensive. Looks like I'll re-read Flash Gordon, Terry and the Pirates and Prince Valiant instead! If you find a reasonably-priced or online source for Rip Kirby, please share. I have this one that I picked up 50 or so years ago, but it's slim and the reproduction is horrible.
|
|
|
Post by MDG on Jan 1, 2024 11:17:18 GMT -5
|
|