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Post by DubipR on Dec 21, 2023 18:49:35 GMT -5
4. Steel The whole death of Superman arc was right when I was starting into comics... but at the time I had a Slam Bradley-ish opinion of Superman. The marketing of his death totally worked on me though. My favorite was this guy with the awesome name and awesome hammer... John Henry Irons. The book really became something under Priest, who made Natasha arguable and even more interesting character than her Uncle. I'm stull not sure how I feel about her being a superhero to be honest, but the book was fantastic for a while. Steel was one the last two to fall off my list. I'm in the minority that doesn't care for Priest's run of the book. Felt forced and clunky. I preferred Weezie's stuff.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 21, 2023 9:51:21 GMT -5
Zooming in for today's selection Impulse (1-25, 1995-1997)Mark Waid's run on Flash is one of my all-time favorite takes on the Scarlet Speedster. Using Wally West as the new Flash and incorporating a huge legacy of the history of DC's faster people and making a cohesive telling of the Flash made some of amazing reading. The problem with Flash, at least with me was the cosmic treadmill and time travelling. It always made my head hurt that Barry went into the future, making the Tornado Twins, and from there another character was born. Flash #92 back in 1994 was a great issue. The full introduction to a new Flash family. A brash youth from the 30th Century, time-streamed back into the late 20th where he meets Wally. He was cocky, cool and just fun. Eventually stuck in our times, Bart had to become a 20th Century teenager. The launch of Impulse by Waid and upcoming superstar Humberto Ramos, it was a the counter book to Waid's Flash monthly. Here Waid made a fun and humorous book of a teen moving to the slow rural south to become less Impulsive (pun not intended). Ramos' pseudo-manga style worked perfectly for the time. Drawing youthful kids, big hair that flowed while he's running and tons of baddies to make the book shine. Their 25 issues together are so good.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 20, 2023 21:37:28 GMT -5
Donald Duck #286 (1994) Cover by William Van Horn
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Post by DubipR on Dec 20, 2023 16:13:44 GMT -5
Nothing this week. I did download the new Brubaker from last week I still need to read
-R
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Post by DubipR on Dec 20, 2023 12:20:18 GMT -5
What's on your pull list this week?
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Post by DubipR on Dec 20, 2023 11:04:23 GMT -5
#5- The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat (1977-1993) How the holy hell did I forget this??? Ah well, I'm committed to my Top Four so...
Cei-U! I summon the brain fart!
I try to make it interesting Kurt. I usually get you once a year to reply to one of my posts; last year was my Ghostly Trio selection. Glad I can get the grand poobah to enjoy one of my weird selections. -R
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Post by DubipR on Dec 20, 2023 11:01:30 GMT -5
5.Black Canary #1-4 (1991-92)/Black Canary #1-12 (1993)A worthy book that did a great service to a beloved character who had been ignored for too long and met an untimely end due to the lack of taste of stupid fanboys. I love both of those books as well. Great choice. I made of personal bind of my mini and ongoing just to have it collected.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 20, 2023 10:43:12 GMT -5
Meowy Christmas, from a fat ol' cat #5- The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat (1977-1993)I didn't start collecting underground comics until I was in my late 20s. While I was collecting the other companies, the undergrounds were cooler to me as not many dealers at shows were selling them so they made them a little harder to purchase. I picked up the big names; Crumb, Spain, Wilson, and of course Gilbert Shelton. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers were the funniest of the books I was getting. It was a great satire of the counterculture and the politics of the time. While Frank, Phineas and Fat Freddy were the stars of the show, it was dear dimwitted Fat Freddy Freekowtski's cat was my favorite part of the comic. Fat Freddy's Cat appeared in all the issues, in the main story but also had his strip at the bottom of the page, usually having a parallel storyline with the brothers. Honestly the brains of the Brothers' operation but silently looked on, taking the occasional dump in the litterbox and leading a devoted army of cockroaches in Fat Freddy's apartment. He was popular enough to have his own series by Shelton. Using Fat Freddy's Cat as a silent voice against the establishment, the humor of Fat Freddy was funny. All of Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers books as well as Wonder Wart-hog, Feds N' Heads are all great reads.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 19, 2023 15:05:30 GMT -5
On the Seventh Day of Christmas Bongo gave to me, a man with radioactivity. Radioactive Man. Both mini-series are good but the second one written by Batton Lash is nothing short of fantastic. Great pick.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 19, 2023 9:19:38 GMT -5
james
Because we need a good Sergio Aragones cover
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Post by DubipR on Dec 19, 2023 8:09:45 GMT -5
Rainy day reading makes for the best comics reads #6- Measles (1998-2001)I had Jaime on the list, you knew Gilbert's coming soon, right? The world of Palomar from Gilbert Hernandez's side of Love and Rocket is wonderful. There's love, mobsters, other worldly presence and just a weird world you call relate to. As the tale of the inhabitants of that fiction town in Mexico, Luba's half-sisters, Rosalba and Petra show up later on the series, giving the chance for Luba to come to the US and have a second chance at life. Petra's daughter Venus, who is probably one of the funniest and cheeriest characters from Luba's family. She's loves her family, her friends, the world around her, movies and her love of comic books. Loves them so much, she's made movies with her mom as the superhero main. Measles is fun all-ages anthology with some great talent on there. Steve 'Ribs' Weissman who's brilliant Little Kids series is worth a read. The legendary Lewis Trondheim, who brings us a fun adventure. Jim Woodring's zany surreal world of art. Sam Henderson to name another. Jaime has a small series in here. But here, Gilbert's Venus shows how great life is; whether she's drawing comics, understanding a crush and heartbreak in 6 pages, or playing soccer to impress the boy she likes, Venus sets the record straight. It's almost 30 years later, like all of Gilbert's characters, she's grown up and has a family but that little glint in her eye is still there, showing the world that she's Venus.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 18, 2023 22:12:09 GMT -5
Agreed. Looking at it in today's light, I have to wonder whether what Lee really meant was "Like Caesar, but with a 'Kay-'"; that is, he didn't think readers would conclude that the 'z' was really supposed to be pronounced like an 's', just that he meant for it to be pronounced with a long 'a' in the first syllable (although I'd bet that's not how "Bob Byrd", the writer of the pulp from which this character descended, would have pronounced it). Anyway, it's quite surprising how many Ka-Zar fans have fessed up thus far in the celebration, eh? I considered him on the strength of the Jones/Brent Anderson series. It was the only iteration I ever liked him in. I'm particular to the Waid/Kubert run myself. I like the Jones/Anderson run but felt a little flat to me.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 18, 2023 17:21:32 GMT -5
Angry youth and alternative music comes alive! #7- HATE! (1990-2011)Am the only one who prefers the first half of the series where Bradley is living in Seattle? I thought it lost its edge when Bradley and his girlfriend moved to New Jersey and Bagge switched to color. You're not wrong. When Bagge got a older, you can feel it in Buddy as well. That dark subversive humor was lightening up. I didn't mind the color transition but it felt less 'zine and underground. It was the about the time Bagge was getting to be a dad as well and change up stuff. Things like Yeah! and his Marvel work, as well as his children's books, Buddy was ready to be middle-age man.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 18, 2023 14:43:56 GMT -5
There’s more than a few entries that are thin in This regard but I’m leaving the lawyering to Kurt. I object! Thank you Slam. I'll pay you for retaining your services.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 18, 2023 10:26:59 GMT -5
Angry youth and alternative music comes alive! #7- HATE! (1990-2011)Alternative and small press comics in the 90s are some of my all time favorite reads. A huge resurgence of undergrounds and 'zines hit all over and in every genre. Music zines. Comic ashcans. Weird Art Trash comics. It was an amazing time. Some of the biggest names of that era are highly regarded as true artists of the medium. Names like Adrian Tomine, Daniel Clowes, and Chris Ware were on the best read lists of Time Magazine and other publications. Peter Bagge should've been on the list but his work stands the test of time of an all time underground/independent greats. Hate comes out and its blows the doors down. Bagge arrives on the small press scene at Fantagraphics with Neat Stuff back in 1985. Mainly short stories of various characters, like Girly Girl and Studs Kirby were angry youth and dark humor. But it was his stories of the Bradley, which were based a lot on Bagge's own family, were always the funniest of the lot. Neat Stuff ends and HATE! starts up. The comic revolves around Buddy Bradley and his life living in Seattle during the beginnings of the grunge scene. Trying to break into music, being a promoter and trying to find love and happiness, Buddy was the source of humor and pathos. At the same time, Buddy and his friends get into crazy antics but as Bagge got older, Buddy pulls a Frank King and ages as well. He gets a girlfriend, settles down, has a kid. All the meantime trying to become an adult. When this came out, I came into Hate halfway through the series when I was in high school. I scoured to find the earlier issues. I was into grunge music but not being grunge. But the anger of youth got to me. A perfect book for the 90s.
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