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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 26, 2024 21:50:49 GMT -5
This sums up my reaction pretty much every time there was breaking news from around 2015 - 2021. (Spoiler tags for adult language) {Spoiler}{Spoiler: Click to show} Since then, it's been a more low-grade persistent sense of disappointment, but it is unfortunately becoming relevant again. Interesting that you chose to post the BBC News indent there. Do many if you Americans get your news from the BBC? BBC News airs here in the states late on PBS, that's all I know. It's hard to find a news program here that's balanced on both sides and tries not to inform the viewer's opinion, rather letting events speak for themselves. PBS News Hour is good, though I honestly miss Al Jazeera America, it was my favorite
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 26, 2024 10:02:42 GMT -5
Think for this week I'll post my very well worn copy of DC Special #15 Had it for years, but only really read it recently because I found the artstyle a little bit off-putting and sloppy (got it when I was a teen, I had the same reaction to Kirby, tastes change and broaden as you get older). When I was younger, I found a tpb of Kyle Baker's Plastic Man run and fell in love with it and jumped when I saw the DC Special. Around the right hand side it's a bit chewed on, but still readable (also somehow got a nasal strip stuck to the cover, getting it off was a bit of a pain). Almost immediately after I read it, I found a wonderful second-hand copy of Plastic Man Archives 1 at the flea market and dug into it with gusto.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 25, 2024 10:58:03 GMT -5
Where did everyone first see The Warriors? Did anyone actually see it in the cinema in 1979? I wasn't born yet.
I first saw it quite by chance in the mid 90s, we had an early morning flight and I was excited about that but couldn't sleep so I switched on the telly...and there was freaky Rhonda Shear on USA's Up All Night. The late night movies were one of the Friday 13th films (I think Part 5) and....The Warriors! Mum heard the telly on and came over with some ice-cream and we had a girl's night out. Since then, I've watched it at least once per year. Too bad there wasn't a sequel....there was an imagined one in the comics called The Warriors: Jailbreak which actually had a good plot. After all the gang-arrests at Van Cortlandt Park (where Cyrus called the meeting), the jails are filled to capacity so Ajax is taken to a detention center that's not as fortified as a city jail. The Warriors learn this and plan to spring him by forming an (uneasy) alliance with The Riffs as some of their men are there too. Inside the detention-center, Ajax is defiant as ever and the target of a psychopath Baseball Furies member who wants to earn his stripes by killing Ajax. Might have made a great film....
I think I saw it on one of the many movie channels on Direct TV that my grandparents had. They didn't pay for a lot of packages, but they made damn sure that they had the movies. It's how I discovered a lot of films that would go on to be my favorites (Hackers, Last Action Hero, The Last Dragon, Videodrome) While I liked The Warriors (especially how it looked), it wasn't a film that I particularly enjoyed or sought out through repeat viewings
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 24, 2024 21:09:39 GMT -5
Nightwing v1 #1-#4 and v2 #1-#5
So after getting hooked into Taylor's run on Nightwing, I decided to look back on Dixon's tenure. I've always enjoyed Dixon's time on the various Bat-books and Nightwing, while slow does constantly build itself up
Story is that Dick is tired of living in Bruce's and decides to make it on his own and uses the fact that a bunch of mobsters tied to the city of Bludhaven wash up on Gotham's shores to his advantage. He begins with Black Mask and his various cronies and slowly sees how deep the rabbit hole goes
Might need to look into getting that Compendium DC's putting out next month...
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 22, 2024 14:51:44 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 22, 2024 9:35:06 GMT -5
Nightwing #78-#83 Was poking around facebook last night and I came across yet another post praising Taylor's Nightwing run. I like going down rabbit holes, so I figured, why not? I've never read anything by Taylor, but first impressions? The guy's a natural. I don't think I've become hooked this quickly on a story and writer since Jed MacKay's Moon Knight. It embodies everything that I've come to enjoy about DC as a fan of comic books from a young age, it's action filled, funny without being overtly comedic, and emotional.
The Green Lantern Season 1 #1-#10 Found a couple of issues of this at work the other day and it encouraged me to pick this back up. While I appreciate how weird and cosmic Morrison has made this book (my favorites being Earth getting sold at auction and Hal getting lost in his ring), some of the story threads toward the end feel largely disjointed, unless that's the point?
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 22, 2024 8:56:04 GMT -5
They remind me of being 10 and reading my mom's Collector's Edition Shazam! reprints from the 70's and I mean that in the best way possible. But yeah, they are cumbersome and mostly just exist to be showpieces for the owner Omnibus sizes can vary quite a bit, I too will no longer buy the really thick ones as they are too cumbersome for my tastes. But the Micronauts one is relatively slim as I mentioned above. See below a 500 page Epic Collection on top of the Micronauts (a little over 700 pages) on top of an approximately 1,100 page DC One Million omnibus. The Man-Thing one is even a little bigger at about 1,200 pages! I have a ton of Epic Collections and I too thought they were perfect early on in terms of size, but the paper quality on some volumes got really hit or miss as they used different printers. The paper quality on this Micronauts volume is on another level. I won't go much above the size of this one though, it's about my cutoff for comfort. And I read it for several hours today, made it halfway through in fact, and totally comfortable (unlike when I read say the one right below). The only reason I bought my HTD and Man-Thing omnis is because they were theoretically cheaper then buying the "Complete Collection" volumes. HTD was 35 and Man-Thing was about 64, so I feel like I got my money's worth for them both (the only complaint with Man-Thing is that it doesn't collect Infernal Man-Thing, but it was probably published before the omni came out). I've thought about buying the New Warrior omnis, but I'd rather wait to see if they'll get the Epic Collection treatment
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 21, 2024 18:37:53 GMT -5
I agree... I find Omnis unpleasant to handle. Epics are just right, IMO. They remind me of being 10 and reading my mom's Collector's Edition Shazam! reprints from the 70's and I mean that in the best way possible. But yeah, they are cumbersome and mostly just exist to be showpieces for the owner
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 21, 2024 17:52:22 GMT -5
I decided to finally go for it and last night ordered the recently released first volume Micronauts omnibus. Amazon hooked me up and it was at my door at 8AM this morning. It's the collection I never thought we would see released and one of my most wanted for many years. It contains the first 29 issues of the original Marvel series plus the first 2 annuals, all material I have the originals of but now I have a crisp reading copy that looks great on the eyes (sometimes my old beloved original copies of comics from the 70's and 80's are sadly a little blurred here and there). The quality really looks great just flipping through the volume, the margins are good and see my additional comments below on the coloring. Best of all, it's a "slim omnibus" at only 744 pages which I find much more comfortable to read than those much thicker tomes I just can't sit comfortably with (and I've tried all the suggestions with those, they just don't work for me). So with NO plans on this fine lazy Sunday morning, I am signing off to revisit an old favorite, definitely going to be a cover to cover read! If Rom and The Micro-Nauts ever get the Epic Collection treatment like Master Of Kung-Fu did, I'll scoop them up in a heartbeat. I'm kind of done with omnis after how big Man-Thing turned out to be
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 21, 2024 17:50:00 GMT -5
Saw this on Facebook, I like it: He looks more like a roided up Dante' from Clerks than he does Dreamer
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 20, 2024 19:59:44 GMT -5
Was poking around Disney Plus (now with Hulu added on, they have a bit more of an expanded library) and noticed that they had the subbed and dubbed versions of Hikaru No Go, a series that I've always enjoyed for some reason though I could never be sure why (same with Spice and Wolf). It's about a young boy who wants to sell his grandfather's old go board but ends up with the spirit of an old go teacher as his mentor to gradually learn the game I've both watched the Hikaru no Go anime and read the manga, and I'll hazard a guess that you liked it because it's terrific. Japanese creators seem to have an innate ability to turn any activity into an epic sports story. HnG also hired a high-ranked professional go player, Umezawa Yukari, to serve as technical advisor and also star as the instructor in the live-action go tutorial segments at the end of each anime episode. I remember getting an issue of Monthly Shonen Jump where it had a the first chapter and was hooked immediately. I was also very confused when I found out that that Sai was a man when he's very effeminate looking
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 20, 2024 19:03:19 GMT -5
Journey Into Mystery #114 is a book that I wish I could scrub my brain clean of just so that I could read it again for the first time, it's that good and I'm very happy that Hoosier's advice lead me into reading it and falling madly in love with Thor
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 20, 2024 18:09:56 GMT -5
The more time that passes in real life, the harder it is to view Magneto as a villain. At the very least, it's grown clear that he has a point. There, I said it. This is why I found Valiant's Harbinger a bit of a tough pill to swallow at some points even though I still love it. The Harbinger Foundation is a non-profit set up to help people with special abilities that later ends up brain-washing them into joining a cult just to belong. (Peter's not that great of a main character either with all the stuff he does to the opposite sex). That being said, it's an interesting take on the formula of the X-Men purely out of just being a character study of these two very dangerous ends of the super-hero spectrum
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 20, 2024 18:02:20 GMT -5
Comedy stars of the 1950s - The Three Stooges had multiple comic book series. So did Abbott & Costello. Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope each had long-running comic series. Why wasn't there a Bowery Boys comic book? If even "The Great Gildersleeve" can have a brief comic book run, then why not? And speaking of comedy related comics, I'm still surprised at how many "Married With Children" books we got from NOW
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 20, 2024 17:46:17 GMT -5
I think my pick for this week will probably have to be my collected edition of The Demon I love practically everything about the book (if you couldn't tell from the little slogan under my avatar) from the idea, to the execution, even the introduction by Mark Evanier regarding the book's creation. I think the only thing that confuses me is that Jack didn't really care for horror stories when he still brilliantly produced this book even if his heart wasn't fully in it. The thought of "As long as you're having fun with something, the specifics shouldn't matter" has stuck with me when penning my own works
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