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Post by chaykinstevens on Jul 28, 2024 12:54:53 GMT -5
I also read a Nicieza/Liefeld Black Widow/Silver Sable story from MCP #53 that I had previously read in a Black Widow Epic Collection. The story is structured better than the Wolverine story. However, there's a cavalier attitude about a criminal's unnecessary that feels icky. It's basically the reverse of the situation in the Wolverine story in the same issue, which is weird based on the threats in the respective stories. A criminal's unnecessary what?
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Post by spoon on Jul 28, 2024 16:28:20 GMT -5
I also read a Nicieza/Liefeld Black Widow/Silver Sable story from MCP #53 that I had previously read in a Black Widow Epic Collection. The story is structured better than the Wolverine story. However, there's a cavalier attitude about a criminal's unnecessary that feels icky. It's basically the reverse of the situation in the Wolverine story in the same issue, which is weird based on the threats in the respective stories. A criminal's unnecessary what? Unnecessary death. I must've been really tired when I wrote that. A criminal who has been captured accidentally dies, and it's played for laughs.
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Post by aaronstack on Jul 29, 2024 4:32:18 GMT -5
Reprints Marvel Premiere 47-48; Iron Man 131-133, 151; Avengers 195-196, 223; Marvel Team-Up 103; Marvel Two-In-One 87; material from Avengers 181, Iron Man 125. Published to provide background to the first Ant Man movie. Got this from my local library thinking I'd never read any Scott Lang Ant-Man stories, but found myself remembering reading the MTU and MTIO issues and the Avengers issues featuring the Taskmaster. It's pretty c-list early-80s-superheroes-by numbers stuff but I was quite tickled by the idea that someone has a training facility that churns out goons for super villains. I wonder where they advertise, whether you get bulk rates, etc.
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Post by aaronstack on Jul 29, 2024 5:54:32 GMT -5
Also whether there's some sort of vocational certificate so you know your hired goons have reached a certain level of (in)competence.
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Post by Calidore on Jul 29, 2024 7:40:33 GMT -5
And a tier list of villains--which are suitable for apprenticeships, which you have to earn the right to minion for.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 29, 2024 7:58:43 GMT -5
I hear the job placement is pretty good.
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Post by Calidore on Jul 29, 2024 13:08:54 GMT -5
I hear the job placement is pretty good. High turnover, though.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 30, 2024 19:17:44 GMT -5
Milligan's Shade The Changing Man #1-#4
Trying again with this one. IDK, it seems like every few years I try and give this series a shot and end up getting disappointed because it has such a neat premise and I absolutely love the concept of "The American Scream". Hopefully I'll buckle down and give this series a chance this time
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Post by Confessor on Aug 2, 2024 9:14:58 GMT -5
Been reading my newly acquired Taschen Marvel Comics Library: Spider-Man Vol. 1 - 1962–1964 oversized hardcover. This thing is gorgeous – pictures really don't do it justice – but it weighs a tonne! Forget the Omnibuses, this book is seriously heavy. The book has great production values and very nice paper stock throughout. It really is a thing of beauty. I've found that the most comfortable way to read it is to have it flat on my bed, with me sitting upright in front of it looking down. With the combination of my glasses and the book's huge size, I can easily see the artwork details and read the word balloons from that position. So far, I've re-read Amazing fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-Man #1 and #2, and it's fascinating to see how these stories initially appeared, when compared to the re-prints that we've all seen. Especially so with the colouring! I mean, I knew about things like the spider symbol on Peter's back being blue instead of red early on, but much more surprisingly, the blue in Spider-Man's costume is reproduced in a very different purply hue for the first 4 issues or so. Of course, the Lee/Ditko stories in this volume are all fantastic, but I must say that it's great to have them reproduced so faithfully and at such a large size. I can't see my old copies of Marvel Tales featuring these stories getting too much use from now on; this Taschen hardcover is sure to become my go-to version of these classic comics.
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 2, 2024 9:32:06 GMT -5
My sentiments reading that too. There was something so special about feeling like you are seeing the actual ASM pages. The experience is wonderful.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 2, 2024 10:00:01 GMT -5
Thanks to Dark Horse's very affordable EC Archives softcovers, I recently read Weird Science-Fantasy #27-29 and Incredible Science Fiction #30. They're found in the book Incredible Science-Fiction.
Really nice stuff. The art is absolutely beautiful, with people like Wood, Williamson, Crandall (and even Joe Orlando, whose work in more recent comics I didn't especially enjoy). There's even a Frazetta cover in there (pencils and inks, not a painting).
The stories are a bit formulaic, in that many hang on a twist ending... but taken in moderate doses, it's quite all right. It's pretty much par for course with such anthology titles anyway. It was interesting to see how influences vary over the decades; while many stories in DC's Time Warp had a strong Star Wars and Star Trek influence, EC's SF stories are mostly set in worlds familiar to readers of the old pulps. (Every representation of Mars seems to use Bradbury's work as a model!)
Letter pages and house ads are included, for which I am very grateful... and now I am very curious about a comic book titled Psychoanalysis! Was it some kind of jab at Fredrick Wertham? (The GCD says that it lasted only four issues, but it's definitely an unexpected subject for a comic-book!)
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Post by tonebone on Aug 2, 2024 10:10:12 GMT -5
I just picked up the Eternals by Jack Kirby collection at Ollies... which I have wanted for a while, now. Man, I just don't know.... It is really a slog to get through it. It's all bombast, shouting, THE STAKES WERE NEVER HIGHER!, explosions, fighting, grimacing, etc. I am 4 issues in, and it bothers me there are no "home base" type locations... just people fighting and shouting for seemingly no reason. The only story I can suss out so far is that man, the eternals, and the deviants were placed here by THE GODS, and they are COMING BACK. That's it. No one has a personality. No one has a motivation. It's all just bombast and shrapnel. I am really disappointed, so far, and don't know if I will even attempt to finish it. The art is great, of course... and Kirby sure wrote a LOT of words... but jeez.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 2, 2024 10:56:12 GMT -5
Thanks to Dark Horse's very affordable EC Archives softcovers, I recently read Weird Science-Fantasy #27-29 and Incredible Science Fiction #30. They're found in the book Incredible Science-Fiction. Really nice stuff. The art is absolutely beautiful, with people like Wood, Williamson, Crandall (and even Joe Orlando, whose work in more recent comics I didn't especially enjoy). There's even a Frazetta cover in there (pencils and inks, not a painting). The stories are a bit formulaic, in that many hang on a twist ending... but taken in moderate doses, it's quite all right. It's pretty much par for course with such anthology titles anyway. It was interesting to see how influences vary over the decades; while many stories in DC's Time Warp had a strong Star Wars and Star Trek influence, EC's SF stories are mostly set in worlds familiar to readers of the old pulps. (Every representation of Mars seems to use Bradbury's work as a model!) Letter pages and house ads are included, for which I am very grateful... and now I am very curious about a comic book titled Psychoanalysis! Was it some kind of jab at Fredrick Wertham? (The GCD says that it lasted only four issues, but it's definitely an unexpected subject for a comic-book!) The Feldstein edited EC books read better if you read an issue a week or thereabouts. If you try to really binge them they start to blend together. The Kurtzman edited books are a bit easier to binge, but are still better savored.
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Post by james on Aug 2, 2024 13:15:17 GMT -5
Stopped with issue 32 and decided jump 17 years and start Byrne’s run in FF. I have read it in 10 years. Maybe I’ll go back to the early issues.
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Post by james on Aug 2, 2024 13:29:16 GMT -5
So many great suggestions, just added ANTMAN Scott Lang to my list, I wonder what’s everyone thought on a book club?
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