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Post by tonebone on Sept 10, 2020 11:23:26 GMT -5
The Furst Family story (revolving around Astra, the little girl) is in the Family Album collection, along with the Jack in the Box story, where he encounters alleged "sons" from the future. The Junkman story is also in there. My biggest recommendations to try are the Life in the Big City collection, with the earliest comics; Confessions, with the Confessor and Altar Boy, Family Album, with the above, then Tarnished Angel, with Steeljack and a murderer, who is targeting criminals. Then, you might be ready for the epic Dark Age, which covers a lot of ground. I love Tarnished Angel.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 10, 2020 11:24:52 GMT -5
Doug Moench on Batman. Very hit or miss, but the highs far outweighed the lows. A top 20 favorite run of mine now, but I didn't care about anything Pre-Frank Miller when I was younger. My mistake!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 17:53:59 GMT -5
I regret more purchases than I have regrets for not purchasing.
I missed out on the Sholly Fisch issues of Batman: The Brave And The Bold when they first came out. I recently picked up a lot of The Batman Adventures series from 2003, which I would have been happy to have in my collection since 2003 instead of 2020. I found a few cheap issues of Truman's King Conan stories lately, and now I'm waiting impatiently for Marvel to collect these. I really like what I've sampled.
There's miniseries I've tripped over the last few years which I don't even remember being on my radar when they were first published: Joe Kubert presents from DC, Spider-Man: Death and Destiny by Lee Weeks, and... I know there's some more.
I dropped Astro City as a monthly just because that's when I started trade-waiting. And then I waited so long that the omnibus collections became popular, and I thought that if anything deserved the omnibus treatment, it was AC. It's now clear that won't happen, so I have a lot of catching up to do with Astro City.
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Post by berkley on Sept 11, 2020 22:29:30 GMT -5
Doug Moench on Batman. Very hit or miss, but the highs far outweighed the lows. A top 20 favorite run of mine now, but I didn't care about anything Pre-Frank Miller when I was younger. My mistake! Moench is one of my favourite comics writers but I don't like Btman as a character enough to regret missing all his Batman comics. However, I would have bought the issues he did with Paul Gulacy in the 90s had I known about them at the time. As it happened, I read them as back issues around 10 years later, so no real harm done.
Which points up an interesting distinction: there are things we would have read had we known about them at the time, but don't necessarily regret not having read until later. There are other things we also would have read had we known about them at the time, which we do regret not having read at that time.
As an example of the latter, one that I haven't mentioned yet is Conan the Barbarian. This one puzzles me a bit because I'm not sure exactly how it happened: I read the 2nd issue and loved it - it's one of those comics-reading experiences that's burned into my memory. Looking ahead at the monthly galleries, I was still reading comics for about a year a half later. Then, after being away from them for a few years, when I came back, in the middle of 1975, CtB was one of the first series I started reading. So what I can't figure out is how I missed seeing any more CtB until #55, especially since I remember reading the first few issues of the Kull series that started several months after CtB. Maybe it was just luck of the draw with things like distribution irregularities leading to me not happening to see any the next few issues of the series on the stands.
Anyway, the BWS-era Conan the Barbarian is definitely something I regret not having read more of at the time, because I know would have loved it then as much as I did later, though in a different way.
And in contrast, now I think about it, I don't really regret missing Kirby's New Gods when it was first out because I'm not sure I would have appreciated it at the age I was then. When I did read them in the late 70s and early 80s, I was ripe for it, so that probably worked out all right.
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 12, 2020 16:45:28 GMT -5
There's so much I missed the boat on, I wouldn't know where to begin.
I certainly wish I could've collected the entire run of all the various May "Mayday" Parker Spider-Girl titles.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 12, 2020 17:11:44 GMT -5
There's so much I missed the boat on, I wouldn't know where to begin. I certainly wish I could've collected the entire run of all the various May "Mayday" Parker Spider-Girl titles. Currently Amazon has 2 Marvel Complete Collection TPB's collecting her What If premiere and issues 1-32. As well as TPB of the Last Stand Mini-Series.
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