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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 20, 2024 4:59:31 GMT -5
Loving these reviews, spoon! As I've mentioned many a time hereabouts, the Haney/Aparo Brave and the Bolds are my favorite run of comic books and their Batman is the version I fell in love with. I appreciate seeing them through others' eyes because I'm aware of their flaws and having them pointed out will never make me question their place in my affections. A few answers for you: * The villain in that Richard Dragon issue of B&B had never previously been seen. * Ruby Ryder never appeared outside B&B (plus a mention in Lash House). * Harold was turned into a vampire in the fifth issue of the Howard the Duck b&w magazine and was destroyed with the rest of Earth's vampires in Doctor Strange #62. Cei-U! I summon the insanely early ruminations!
EDIT: Accidentally credited the B&B reviews to HoosierX. Fixed now. Mea flippin' culpa!
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 20, 2024 21:26:47 GMT -5
Read "Third World War" Book 1 Man, this was a total thrill-power overload... Taking place in the semi-near future, a multinational corporation (simply known as Multi-Food) seeks to expand it's grasp into the reaches of impoverished colonies as a means of giving them a better shot in the world stage, at least that's how it seems. In reality, there's a lot of exploitation afoot, and needing people to be the eyes and ears of the company, they send out impressionable youths like 18 year old Eve to win the hearts of the people. Unfortunately for them, Eve is not as docile as she seems and has quite the rebellious streak. Because of that, she's put with other "Freeks", or kids her age that basically have something wrong with them that prevents them from being totally obedient. With her unit, she sees a lot of injustice and hard truths that are tough to swallow Probably one of the best things I've read by both Mills and the late, great Carlos Ezquerrea and that's truly saying something
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Post by commond on Oct 21, 2024 1:57:25 GMT -5
Nice. I’ve toyed with the idea of doing a Crisis review thread but wasn’t sure if anyone had read it.
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Post by spoon on Oct 21, 2024 21:24:28 GMT -5
Loving these reviews, Hoosier! As I've mentioned many a time hereabouts, the Haney/Aparo Brave and the Bolds are my favorite run of comic books and their Batman is the version I fell in love with. I appreciate seeing them through others' eyes because I'm aware of their flaws and having them pointed out will never make me question their place in my affections. I've been making the recent Brave and the Bold posts on this thread, but I will accept compliments under the name Hoosier as well.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 21, 2024 21:34:39 GMT -5
Read a couple random Claremont X-Men issue today I picked up to make shipping worth it filling in my Micronauts run I've been working on...
One was #231... Colossus is struggling with life as a dead mutant and he has nightmares about his sister needing him. After some angst Gateway teleports him to Limbo, where the Darkchylde is fighting S'ym and trying to save the New Mutants from some Limbo demons. She things she summoned him from the dead, so his secret is safe, and he ends up saving the day. Great issue!
The other was #260, which is after the team all lost their memories (Which I vaguely remember but I don't think I read much of).. this one was a solo adventure with Dazzler, who they are trying to get to make a movie, but she's got a stalker issue.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 22, 2024 1:18:35 GMT -5
Loving these reviews, Hoosier! As I've mentioned many a time hereabouts, the Haney/Aparo Brave and the Bolds are my favorite run of comic books and their Batman is the version I fell in love with. I appreciate seeing them through others' eyes because I'm aware of their flaws and having them pointed out will never make me question their place in my affections. I've been making the recent Brave and the Bold posts on this thread, but I will accept compliments under the name Hoosier as well. D'oh! Sorry, Spoon! Can't imagine how I made that boo-boo. I'll edit my post accordingly.
Cei-U! I summon the misattribution!
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Post by rich on Oct 22, 2024 7:39:23 GMT -5
I re-read the Wolverine mini series by Claremont and Miller last night, for the first time in a quarter of a century. My memory of it was that it was disappointing to read, but significant in terms of development of the character. My experience reading it was exactly the same again yesterday!
Standard Claremont reintroducing Wolverine to us in every issue in his forced way, Wolverine surrounded by a sea of caricatures, The Hand as easily killed disposable henchmen throughout, Miller still busy with Daredevil so only doing breakdowns, Rubenstein nicely drawing the figures, but adding no background details at all....
Not very enjoyable, generally. I don't see why it garners so much fuss, nor do I understand why it's gone up 7 fold in value in the past 4 years! I see why Miller wasn't able to maintain his 1980/81 art levels when drawing two books a month and writing one of those, but I wish they'd paid the finishers (Rubenstein here and Janson on Daredevil) to provide some backgrounds. It looks too sparse and spartan.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 22, 2024 9:35:37 GMT -5
#1 is a pretty iconic cover, so I can see that having some value... maybe that carries the whole miniseries?
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Post by rich on Oct 22, 2024 9:57:43 GMT -5
#1 is a pretty iconic cover, so I can see that having some value... maybe that carries the whole miniseries? Miller did draw a good Wolverine. Personally I never liked the mini series covers, but the 1987 collected edition had a great original cover- the one with Wolverine fighting a bunch of ninjas set to a white background.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 22, 2024 10:24:15 GMT -5
If you weren't there, you really can't get a feel for how big that Wolverine mini-series was at the time it came out. Uncanny X-Men was rapidly becoming the #1 comic book. Miller was hot off his acclaimed run on Daredevil and was one of the hottest artists out there. This was well before the inundation of all things X, much less Wolverine. The book was just a huge critical and commercial hit.
I haven't read it in probably better than 25 years (probably closer to 30) and I find Claremont to be pretty much unreadable now. But at the time it came out this was a huge book.
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Post by Farrar on Oct 22, 2024 12:01:36 GMT -5
I'm back to the second Batman: Brave and the Bold Omnibus with Brave and the Bold #126-136... I've got a question for those who may know. In her appearance in #123, Ruby Ryder seemed to be portrayed as an existing character from the Plastic Man mythos. Here, she's featured with no appearance from Plas. So is she actually a Bat-title based villain? What's her deal? spoon Ruby first appeared in Brave and the Bold #95 (from 1971), along with Batman (of course) and Plas. The #95 story has been reprinted in the first Brave and the Bold Omnibus, also in the b&w Showcase B & B/Batman Team-Ups volume 2, and elsewhere.
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Post by rich on Oct 22, 2024 17:21:51 GMT -5
If you weren't there, you really can't get a feel for how big that Wolverine mini-series was at the time it came out. Uncanny X-Men was rapidly becoming the #1 comic book. Miller was hot off his acclaimed run on Daredevil and was one of the hottest artists out there. This was well before the inundation of all things X, much less Wolverine. The book was just a huge critical and commercial hit. I haven't read it in probably better than 25 years (probably closer to 30) and I find Claremont to be pretty much unreadable now. But at the time it came out this was a huge book. I was a few years behind in the UK, but did read the stories in the 80s. I loved Uncanny and loved Daredevil, but I think I expected something akin to peak Miller Daredevil, so was left cold. If it had been a lesser artist/writer than Miller involved I probably wouldn't have had such high expectations and been disappointed. So yeah, as an adult taking a critical look at it- awesome character progression, but very middling comic that is wildly overrated from what I can see online.
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Post by spoon on Oct 22, 2024 18:26:23 GMT -5
I've been making the recent Brave and the Bold posts on this thread, but I will accept compliments under the name Hoosier as well. D'oh! Sorry, Spoon! Can't imagine how I made that boo-boo. I'll edit my post accordingly.
Cei-U! I summon the misattribution!
No problem. You replied about both Brave and the Bold (which I was posting about) and Tomb of Dracula (which HoosierX was posting about). I can imagine everything getting blended mid-post, especially with Hoosier replying to me about Night Nurse.
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Post by spoon on Oct 22, 2024 21:39:13 GMT -5
I read Legion of Super-Heroes #262-265. The first couple of issues have stronger writing than the batch of LOSH before this I read a couple weeks back. Writer Gerry Conway is joined by artist Jim Sherman on #262. His art is really beautiful, and I realized at some points it reminded me of Steve Lightle who would have his own stint on Legion a few years later. The Legion has temporarily been divided into three separate groups, and this issue follows a group in space that is helping R.J. Brande build back his fortune. They strangely encounter a group of pirates that seem to come from Earth's ancient past, and I won't spoil the rest.
Jimmy Janes handles the pencils in #263-265. In #263-264, a villain kidnaps the parents of several Legionnaires. It's not as creative a plot as #262, but it has some nice character moments for folks like Shadow Lass, Wildfire, and Dawnstar. Also, Tyroc who has rarely appeared since his debut, surprisingly shows up and then shockingly seems to run out on his teammates.
Unusually, #265 focuses on just three Legionnaires: Dawnstar, Shadow Lass, and Tyroc. J.M DeMatteis scripts the issue, joining regular writer Gerry Conway. The issue attempts to offer some context for Tyroc's very off-putting personality. In perhaps an attempt to feel relevant, Tyroc was introduce as a separatist black militant, which didn't seem to fit the idea that hopefully racial equality would be firmly established by the 30th century. Perhaps the creators realized that only so much could be done to rehab Tyroc's image, the plot of the issue is basically the "Poochie returned to his home planet" caption from "Itchy & Scratchy" in an episode of The Simpsons.
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Post by Calidore on Oct 22, 2024 22:30:59 GMT -5
D'oh! Sorry, Spoon! Can't imagine how I made that boo-boo. I'll edit my post accordingly.
Cei-U! I summon the misattribution!
No problem. You replied about both Brave and the Bold (which I was posting about) and Tomb of Dracula (which HoosierX was posting about). I can imagine everything getting blended mid-post, especially with Hoosier replying to me about Night Nurse. Now I want a cross-company Batman/Dracula team-up called Brave and the Blood.
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