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Post by DubipR on Jun 7, 2023 20:49:59 GMT -5
D'oh! Forgot to add HEY KIDS! Comics! vol 3 #3. This is a must read for all comic fans.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 7, 2023 20:40:11 GMT -5
If you don't follow Dan Parent on social media, please do so. He's truly a great guy and his continues to make great Archie comics. For the past 2 to 3 years he's been making these great homage covers to all sort of stuff and other artists. They're really a lot of fun, as are the commission pieces he draws at conventions. NOT AN ENTRY Dan's makes Veronica channel her inner Phoebe Cates. You can hear "Moving In Stereo" when you see this.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 7, 2023 20:34:40 GMT -5
Four covers I wanted to use are less than 10 years old. Oh well, Dan Parent always brings it on his covers Veronica #19
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Post by DubipR on Jun 7, 2023 9:25:03 GMT -5
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Post by DubipR on Jun 7, 2023 9:23:32 GMT -5
I also hope you do the Special Missions series. I actually liked that series more. Freed from having to use the essentially silly COBRA organisation, Hama turned out some really good military thrillers; especially in the early issues. I suspect you would particularly like #1 codystarbuck , as it focuses on the naval Joes (Shipwreck, Torpedo, Wet-suit, and Deep-Six, along with coast guardsman Cutter) at sea in a game of wits against the Oktober Guard. I liked the Special Missions series too. The causalities were high, and the crossover issue (#8 I think it is) with Outback was one of my favorites. I enjoyed that it was the B-list Joes that were featured (Lowlight, Dusty, etc) and made them cooler. But Issue 26 with the Oktober Guard is the best of the series. I was upset as a kid that they never made figures of the Guard.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 7, 2023 8:26:09 GMT -5
Peacemaker Tries Hard #2Written by Kyle Starks Art by Steve Pugh Summary: Blackmailed by the Brain, Peacemaker teams up with Monsieur Mallah to infiltrate the secret base of General Immortus. Plot: For those readers like myself that absolutely loved John Cena as Peacemaker in both Suicide Squad and the Peacemaker show and have been waiting with baited breath for more comedic action this book really scratches that itch feeling like a perfect follow up that buffoonery. In this second issue Starks gave us the team up you never knew you needed as Mallah and Peacmaker team up to obtain a DNA sample from Deathstroke. Is there gratuitous amounts of gore? Yes. Excessive profanity? Definitely. Sophomoric sex jokes? You bet. And normally those would all be negatives in my eyes, but the thing is instead of playing it straight and delivering these elements like they really are hallmarks of "mature" storytelling Starks knows these kinds of things truly are imbecilic and immature and embraces that and makes that whole kind of style of storytelling the butt of the joke(much like Gunn did in Peacemaker) and the result is hilarious. And yet, even though Peacemaker is an over the top idiot, you can't help but feel for him. From the start you just know that Brain and Mallah are going to turn on him but you totally buy into the friendship that Mallah forms with Peacemaker and you will definitely feel the burn of the betrayal. Nothing about this should work...but it just does. Art: Pugh plays into that over the top style with plenty of gore in just about each panel and he does a great job of giving Peacemaker that almost homoerotic beefcake look that Cena really played into in the series so it's a perfect fit.
Grade:10/10 I like Kyle Starks' Image work (Big Rock Candy Mountain, Sexcastle, etc). I didn't know he was writing this. With his over the top violence and action he writes it seems like this is Starks' wheelhouse. I'll wait for the trade to read this one. Shazam #2 Steelworks #1 Daredevil #12 Not a whole lot this week for downloads I love Steel, and have been enjoying him in Action comics so I was looking forward to this book but now having read it I'm not entirely sure what the thrust is. What story is going to be told here? They didn't really give us a whole lot here so I just wasn't hooked; I'll probably try another just because I love Steel and Michael Dorn but it's going to have to improve dramatically. I have no clue what Dorn is going to write or what his take on John Henry will be. I too have been enjoying this incarnation of Steel. In the past he's always been getting the shaft in the Superman family books, even prior... since pre-52. It's nice that they went back to the original costume. Any Steel is better than no Steel.
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Post by DubipR on Jun 6, 2023 9:38:37 GMT -5
Shazam #2 Steelworks #1 Daredevil #12
Not a whole lot this week for downloads
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Post by DubipR on Jun 6, 2023 9:32:51 GMT -5
Codystarbuck
Some tough choices... but the Barks won out this week for me
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Post by DubipR on May 31, 2023 8:03:32 GMT -5
Since the movie is coming out... the Fedora
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Post by DubipR on May 30, 2023 21:35:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I knew it was sales gimmick that the wouldn't kill Superman, but the event and press that brought in people to pick up comics to think they're going to sell it and give their kids college tuition was always amusing. I was 17 when the book came and was voraciously reading Superman since Crisis. The Triangle Era of Superman was some of the most fun Superman books and the best since the 60s.
The story was okay, but it was a great read. I'm happy that Kesel and Grummett created the new Superboy and spun that off into a fun run. Same with Louise Simonson and John Bogdanove with Steel. What should've been a terrible aftermath yielded positive characters and now legacy characters themselves. That's a win.
And yes, I liked the long hair Superman. At least they didn't change his costume *cough*JimLeesterribledesign*cough cough*
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Post by DubipR on May 30, 2023 21:25:11 GMT -5
Local Man #4 Punisher #12
That's it. Super tiny
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Post by DubipR on May 30, 2023 17:50:31 GMT -5
driver1980
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Post by DubipR on May 28, 2023 15:51:24 GMT -5
Antique fair purchase. Not a lot of stuff that catches my eye there but this one table had Disney comics for $5.00 and this one stood out to me. Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #135. Great Barks cover. Also the first appearance of Scrooge's Money Bin.
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Post by DubipR on May 26, 2023 13:46:33 GMT -5
Strange Adventures #44
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Post by DubipR on May 25, 2023 14:15:36 GMT -5
If MWGallaher doesn't show up or post... are going to have runoff?
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