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Post by Ricky Jackson on Nov 5, 2020 19:52:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I second Unstable Molecules. Just read that earlier this year for the first time. Great mix of retro and indie and very atypical for Marvel. There was a fair amount of experimentation in 00's Marvel that sadly wasn't maintained (although the cool Grand Design FF and X Men books, by Scioli and Piskor respectively, from the last few years are a return to indie style presentation).
I also loved Radioactive Man. Perhaps less remembered than the 90s books pictured above, it was rebooted it in the 00's with New Gods, Gold Key, and a few other retro tributes that are escaping me at the moment
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Post by earl on Nov 5, 2020 20:30:26 GMT -5
Godland by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli was pretty much a love letter and modern take on old school psychedelic comic books ala Kirby, Starlin and others.
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Post by earl on Nov 5, 2020 20:31:25 GMT -5
My favorite character.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 6, 2020 4:36:55 GMT -5
I was getting the Godland tpbs as they were coming out and got to the fourth one, meaning I read the first 24 issues. It started out really strong, but I remember losing interest before I even got to the fourth trade, which I barely finished. After that, I had no interest in reading the rest of the series.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Nov 6, 2020 12:24:55 GMT -5
One I thought of was Fantastic Four “Unstable Molecules”, a four issue series from 2003. Written as a biographical account of the real life people who were the basis for the Fantastic Four characters and comic book. It’s not at all an origin story like you’ve probably read countless times before, includes fictitious history of early Marvel (story sources and bibliography even!), and snippets of some early (imaginary) comics from the 1950’s. Very entertaining.
I loved Unstable Molecules, but I'm not sure it was retro to a comic, more like the novels and films of the era.
I did do the entry for this version of the F4 … and for Vapor Girl! … at the Marvel Appendix site.
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Post by berkley on Nov 6, 2020 14:10:30 GMT -5
I was getting the Godland tpbs as they were coming out and got to the fourth one, meaning I read the first 24 issues. It started out really strong, but I remember losing interest before I even got to the fourth trade, which I barely finished. After that, I had no interest in reading the rest of the series. I was getting the individual issues as they came out but my reading tailed off at around the same point in the series - though I kept buying every issue, still have them all, and plan to read the whole series from start to finish some day. I wouldn't say I lost interest entirely but somehow or other the momentum petered out.
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Post by earl on Nov 7, 2020 2:04:36 GMT -5
Like many long running indies, the last few issues came out spread out over months and months where the book was fairly regular in coming out in the early days.
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Post by berkley on Nov 7, 2020 23:58:49 GMT -5
Like many long running indies, the last few issues came out spread out over months and months where the book was fairly regular in coming out in the early days. That was probably the problem, in my case - because I don't recall a big drop-off in the quality of the series , just a loss of the impetus I had previouly felt reading it issue by issue as they came out.
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