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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 2, 2020 19:19:54 GMT -5
Marvels and 1963 is what got me interested in older comics to begin with, so they'll always hold a special place in my heart Marvels really isn't done in a retro style though. It has a retro setting, but neither the artwork nor the scripting is done in a Sixties way. I was just mentioning it, not using it as an example
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2020 19:23:51 GMT -5
I feel like Tom Strong and some of the related titles would fit, but it's been a while since I read them.
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Post by SJNeal on Nov 2, 2020 20:04:53 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for these kinds of books, even though they are usually more miss than hit. The Julius Schwartz tribute issues were all good, from what I remember, and had some great creators behind them. However the DC Retroactive books were... not as good. I was super excited to see some of the classic teams from my childhood (80's-90's) reunite, but I guess it's true what they say - you can never go home again
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 2, 2020 20:19:08 GMT -5
1963 never paid off in the 80 Page Giant it was all supposed to culminate in... did it? All I have ever had are the regular slightly connected comics (heavy on the lampooning of Stan Lee). I thought they were a lot of fun though, especially the fake ads redolent of that era.
In a way Dave Stevens' Rocketeer might be the ultimate retro comic, I thouight his style was reminiscent of George Evans and Reed Crandall for example more so than of artists of the '60s-'80s. Don Simpson's Megaton Man had a sort of pastiche of '60s comics element, as did Jim Valentino's Normalman, but I think we are searching for comics that are not parodies or a send-up.
The comic strip Mutts reminds me of the vintage Krazy Kat strip, and also he pays homage to Kirby Marvel comics sometimes.
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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 2, 2020 21:49:15 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2020 22:09:08 GMT -5
I quite enjoyed Steve Rude's retro Marvel stuff:
Thor: Godstorm Spider-Man: Lifeline Captain America: What Price Glory? X-Men: Children of the Atom (though he didn't finish that one) Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comic Magazine #12
Rude really captured the look and feel. Same could be said of the Space Ghost one-shot he did, with Mark Evanier, at Comico, which looked like Toth's model sheets.
Of a similar feel was his Mister Miracle Special (also with Evanier) and the Incredible Hulk vs Superman.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 2, 2020 22:13:50 GMT -5
I feel like Tom Strong and some of the related titles would fit, but it's been a while since I read them. Many specific issues, certainly. They often did period adventures with guest artists, in the style of some old series. There were issues done like Wally Wood EC sci-fi stories, Chaykin did a very 1970s women's lib story and there were others. Rick Veitch's Greyshirt, in the ABC line, was a deliberate throwback to The Spirit.
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Post by DubipR on Nov 2, 2020 22:53:30 GMT -5
Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett's second run of Superboy in the 90s was pure Kirby craziness. Would James Robinson's "Golden Age" count? Same with "The Twelve" from Marvel?
I'd put Batton Lash's RADIOACTIVE MAN" mini-series up there as well, with each issue doing a different era of comics.
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Post by profh0011 on Nov 2, 2020 23:06:40 GMT -5
Mort Todd, who did "Protoplasman" for BIG BANG COMICS, has been doing a TON of this kind of stuff on his own. It's crazy, BB was my intro to his work, yet he'd been the editor of CRACKED magazine for many years long before BB happened.
I've been really short of spare cash lately, but I keep checking out his Facebook page, intent that as soon as I find a break, I'm gonna go after some of his books. He seems to have created a huge army of characters all on his lonesome, which I'm just dying to read about.
Dan Reed, who started out at Charlton back in the late 70's, before spending decades at Marvel, did "The Dimensioneer" for BB, and is now doing further adventures separate from BB.
I tend to feel the same way about music as I do comics. There's TONS of cool fun stuff out there... you just have to LOOK for it!
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 3, 2020 0:54:29 GMT -5
I've never read an issue of Captain Thunder a & Blue Bolt, but it was written by Roy Thomas in a retro sort of style.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 3, 2020 7:50:26 GMT -5
(...) But I really couldn't get to grips with 1963, despite being a big Alan Moore fan. It just felt...I dunno, too self-conscious or something. And I'm not sure the stories featured in it were actually that good. Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that 1963 is getting mentioned in this context. Don't get me wrong, I really like and very much enjoyed the series, but - as Confessor seems to suggest - there is a bit of self-awareness that they are satire and not just pure homage. And nothing makes that more clear than the fake advertisements and the spoofs of the Bullpen Bulletins, which I think are downright mean-spirited.
One that I think fits into this category, at least the story does, is the 2008 Thor one-shot special by Alan Davis, "The Truth of History."
Not sure if it was Davis' intention, but the story seemed like something you'd find in a Bronze Age, or even late Silver Age, annual.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 3, 2020 8:24:48 GMT -5
I've never read an issue of Captain Thunder a & Blue Bolt, but it was written by Roy Thomas in a retro sort of style. I wouldn't really classify that one, as such. It was set in the modern period and read like a modern comic. The hero, Captain Thunder, has been away for a bit, and his now adult son gets in touch and develops or displays powers (haven't read the thing in about 30 years) and there are some government spook types on their tail. Here's a sample...
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 3, 2020 11:01:37 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for these kinds of books, even though they are usually more miss than hit. The Julius Schwartz tribute issues were all good, from what I remember, and had some great creators behind them. However the DC Retroactive books were... not as good. I was super excited to see some of the classic teams from my childhood (80's-90's) reunite, but I guess it's true what they say - you can never go home again I thought the DC Retroactive books were a mixed bag, Some good, some not so good, though in general, though written by writers of that given era, they generally did not capture the feel of that era so well. Now I really need to check out those Julius Schwartz tribute issues.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 3, 2020 12:18:59 GMT -5
Avengers: Loki Unleashed! from 2019, by Roger Stern and Ron Lim, was another good retro comic that sort of picks up from during Stern's 80's run.
X-Men: First Class sort of captured that 60' era X-Men feel.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 3, 2020 13:35:37 GMT -5
So what were the best made of these DC Retroactive comics for someone who has never tried one? I think I might take the plunge on the '70s style Batman, that's what seems would be the most appealing (not the jokey hammy '60s tv Batman, as a little kid I probably took it seriously but watching later it didn't appeal to me much, although I did go on a spin of trying to collect ever cash-in recording made of the theme tune starting from that one great Ventures LP).
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