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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 7:13:35 GMT -5
The town of Riverdale in Archie Comics. I want to live there.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 12, 2019 7:17:04 GMT -5
The smell of dog-eared, unbagged comics. Especially when they’re on spinner racks.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 7:32:51 GMT -5
The smell of dog-eared, unbagged comics. Especially when they’re on spinner racks. One thing about Spinner Racks, about 20 percent of the comic book readers under the age of 13 do not know what a spinner rack is. We older folks over the age of 50 and older have to educate them and I told about dozens and dozens of comic book readers at my LCS in the past 30 years about them and our joys of going through them and finding our favorite books.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 8:04:47 GMT -5
And escaping from reality into a world where men can fly. Good wins and evil loses. Fantastic inventions. Where people are already out in space exploring other planets. In towns where everything is ideal.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 12, 2019 8:05:28 GMT -5
When the original 5 Avengers get together. Hate to correct you, but there were only two originally: Dr David Keel and John Steed. You brits...
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Post by kirby101 on Oct 12, 2019 9:16:45 GMT -5
The advent of Artist Editions, reprinting original comic art.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 9:42:21 GMT -5
And you can celebrate the absurd like teen sidekicks. The multiverse. Faster than light travel. Fictional cities. Where a man can be raised by apes in a jungle and be superior to "civilized men".
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 12, 2019 10:17:22 GMT -5
When the original 5 Avengers get together. Hate to correct you, but there were only two originally: Dr David Keel and John Steed.
I wonder how many Marvel fans realize that 4 of their group titles were all names SWIPED from earlier TV series??
THE AVENGERS THE DEFENDERS THE INVADERS THE CHAMPIONS
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 12, 2019 10:20:55 GMT -5
Hate to correct you, but there were only two originally: Dr David Keel and John Steed. You brits... I'm from New Jersey... but even I watched the TV series a few YEARS before ever noticing that Marvel strangely had a comic-book team with the same name.
It vaguely annoys me that the MOVIES based on that long-long-long-running comic changed things which wound up removing the real creation of the team. Forming a team at all was ANT-MAN's idea. The name was suggested by THE WASP.
...and in his VERY next story, ANT-MAN became GI-ANT MAN. (heh) I'm sure there was a connection.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Oct 12, 2019 11:15:58 GMT -5
Whenever Jaime Hernandez takes a detour into superheroes or science fiction.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 13, 2019 8:08:45 GMT -5
I really like the aesthetic space comics occupy within American culture right now. In the post-Maus/Fun Home world people take them seriously as an art form but they're still kind of trashy and lurid - You don't read comics to impress the neighbors, and comics are really comfortable with embracing goofiness. Hip-Hop/rap is in the same place, but comics are more fun to talk about because so much of the discussion about rap has been codified and just really repetitive.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 13, 2019 13:10:31 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 13, 2019 18:33:00 GMT -5
Talk about a small sample...but here it goes... - The Williamson/Goodwin Star Wars newspaper strips
- Captain America's run from The Avengers #4 through Tales of Suspense up to the late 1970s stories in his own title. His struggles by pitting his ethics against a world he was not born to made him stand apart in a mature fashion not matched by any other Marvel character, with the exception of mid-60s - mid 70s Amazing Spider-Man--the other run I consider priceless.
- Heavy Metal: such a fascinating, groundbreaking magazine for all things in the fantasy realm, unafraid of adult themes to be found in the related genres. Not to mention delivering two among the greatest film adaptations in history (Alien and Outland). Warren's Horror magazines sit shoulder-to-shoulder
- DC's early 2000s tabloid-sized ("Treasury") specials such as JLA: Secret Origins, and JLA: Liberty and Justice, which captured DC's best at their best--much like the landmark Kingdom Come from the 90s.
- Raymond's Flash Gordon strip. Speaks for itself.
- All things Infantino during his revolutionary run at DC in every title he held.
- The Phantom (Gold Key / King Features / Charlton). True to its origins, this run spoke its own heroic fiction language, being an exciting, raw "getaway" from the influence of the Big Two.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 13, 2019 19:32:14 GMT -5
I love the huge cast of characters in comics... from Lord Julius to Killer Frost, from Lex Luthor to Flippa Dippa... it’s like a modern mythology, peopled with legions of interesting individuals!
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 14, 2019 0:34:42 GMT -5
I love Jerry Ordway. He draws the best modernized Joe Shuster Superman ever.
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