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Post by shaxper on Dec 31, 2021 3:28:49 GMT -5
Maybe I will start a review thread. I don't have the patience for it but, I have a few books that haven't been covered on this forum yet that I might start this year. YES! I'll probably read some funnybooks. I may review some. YES!! (I was toying with an in-depth thread on Hour-Man, something like chadwilliam's Spectre thread, but I don't know if anyone would really stick around for it.) YES!!!
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Post by MWGallaher on Dec 31, 2021 8:46:46 GMT -5
I was toying with an in-depth thread on Hour-Man, something like chadwilliam's Spectre thread, but I don't know if anyone would really stick around for it. I would have considerable interest in such a thread, the Man of the Hour is by far my favorite DC Golden Age hero. I feel like he is so underrepresented and cool, I waited forever for DC to give him a full Archive Edition (the partial reprinting of his Adventure run in the JSA All Stars volume was the closest we got). So at least one person would absolutely stick around for it! Well, I do have drafts on the first 8 installments, so there'd only be 35 more. Re-reading those drafts and seeing a bit of encouragement here does motivate me to tackle it in 2022. Hour-Man had some unrealized potential, and watching it stray from the ambitious premises implied by those first installments makes it an interesting parallel to Bernard Baily's other major DC feature, The Spectre. And the JSA All-Stars volume may have been my favorite of all the Archives. Those small doses allowed me to really appreciate features I had been averse to, like The Atom and Johnny Thunder!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2021 8:55:46 GMT -5
I would have considerable interest in such a thread, the Man of the Hour is by far my favorite DC Golden Age hero. I feel like he is so underrepresented and cool, I waited forever for DC to give him a full Archive Edition (the partial reprinting of his Adventure run in the JSA All Stars volume was the closest we got). So at least one person would absolutely stick around for it! Well, I do have drafts on the first 8 installments, so there'd only be 35 more. Re-reading those drafts and seeing a bit of encouragement here does motivate me to tackle it in 2022. Hour-Man had some unrealized potential, and watching it stray from the ambitious premises implied by those first installments makes it an interesting parallel to Bernard Baily's other major DC feature, The Spectre. And the JSA All-Stars volume may have been my favorite of all the Archives. Those small doses allowed me to really appreciate features I had been averse to, like The Atom and Johnny Thunder! Unrealized potential is a great way to describe it, I've often imagined what could have been done with the character. Also agreed on the JSA All-Stars volume, I totally bought it for the Hour-Man content but likewise it brought me some new appreciation for those other characters. Again, hoping you move ahead with the thread and looking forward to it!
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 3, 2022 13:34:58 GMT -5
As usual, I resolve to have as much fun as possible with comics and my friends in fandom (that's y'all).
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 3, 2022 14:43:54 GMT -5
My creating goal is to finish Crimebusters #4, and Cthulhu vs. Uncle Sam #2. If I can also get Crimebusters #5 done, that would be awesome as well, but I'm trying to be realistic.
My collecting goal is to finish my DC runs of Young Love and Young Romance, and get a Young Romance #1. I also want my back issue collecting to be cost neutral, so selling old stuff to pay for new stuff.
My content goals are to get a new round of podcast episodes recorded, get to 500 subscribers on YouTube, record two more "seasons" of Origin Stories, and advance my Dollar Bin Trading Challenge to the point where I have at least one individual book in my trading pool with a value of over $1000.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 3, 2022 16:18:30 GMT -5
My content goals are to get a new round of podcast episodes recorded While I'm excited by all of your goals, this one makes me the most excited. That CCF Podcast section is starting to look mighty dusty!
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Post by MDG on Jan 3, 2022 19:00:37 GMT -5
My content goals are to get a new round of podcast episodes recorded While I'm excited by all of your goals, this one makes me the most excited. That CCF Podcast section is starting to look mighty dusty! Just put up a link to the YouTube channel (which I'm actually watching as we speak)
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Post by shaxper on Jan 3, 2022 19:21:17 GMT -5
While I'm excited by all of your goals, this one makes me the most excited. That CCF Podcast section is starting to look mighty dusty! Just put up a link to the YouTube channel (which I'm actually watching as we speak) That's Scott's personal YouTube channel. While I'm a fan, it isn't officially associated with the CCF.
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Post by spoon on Jan 3, 2022 23:32:35 GMT -5
Review threads seem like hard work, especially since my brain can never seem to retain how to post images here. But if I did I review thread, I think I'd try New Guardians. It's only 12 issues. It would be one of those crazy experiments in diving into something that probably has a better chance of being "so bad it's good" than normal good. And it's something I bought off Ebay on a whim last year but haven't read yet.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 4, 2022 1:13:12 GMT -5
Review threads seem like hard work, especially since my brain can never seem to retain how to post images here. But if I did I review thread, I think I'd try New Guardians. It's only 12 issues. It would be one of those crazy experiments in diving into something that probably has a better chance of being "so bad it's good" than normal good. And it's something I bought off Ebay on a whim last year but haven't read yet. It was critically revered for like five seconds, if I recall correctly. There might truly be something worth exploring in that run. I know them only from their brief crossover with the X-title annuals in Summer 1990, and I don't feel I learned much of anything from that, other than the fact that their leader is named Night Thrasher.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2022 1:24:55 GMT -5
Review threads seem like hard work, especially since my brain can never seem to retain how to post images here. But if I did I review thread, I think I'd try New Guardians. It's only 12 issues. It would be one of those crazy experiments in diving into something that probably has a better chance of being "so bad it's good" than normal good. And it's something I bought off Ebay on a whim last year but haven't read yet. It was critically revered for like five seconds, if I recall correctly. There might truly be something worth exploring in that run. I know them only from their brief crossover with the X-title annuals in Summer 1990, and I don't feel I learned much of anything from that, other than the fact that their leader is named Night Thrasher. You're thinking of the New Warriors. New Guardians was a DC book spinning out of Millennium by Steve Englehart. not -M
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Post by shaxper on Jan 4, 2022 1:32:32 GMT -5
It was critically revered for like five seconds, if I recall correctly. There might truly be something worth exploring in that run. I know them only from their brief crossover with the X-title annuals in Summer 1990, and I don't feel I learned much of anything from that, other than the fact that their leader is named Night Thrasher. You're thinking of the New Warriors. New Guardians was a DC book spinning out of Millennium by Steve Englehart. Oh yeah. Oh boy. I'd blocked that team from my memory. Oh. The memory is back again. I think I'm gonna be sick...
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Post by spoon on Jan 4, 2022 19:17:02 GMT -5
It was critically revered for like five seconds, if I recall correctly. There might truly be something worth exploring in that run. I know them only from their brief crossover with the X-title annuals in Summer 1990, and I don't feel I learned much of anything from that, other than the fact that their leader is named Night Thrasher. You're thinking of the New Warriors. New Guardians was a DC book spinning out of Millennium by Steve Englehart. not -M Yup. When I said I wanted to find out if it's so bad it's good or just bad, I meant THAT series. When I did my giant binge read of the 1960-1986 Hal Jordan Green Lantern series during the early part of 2021, I read Millennium as part of the binge. I bought New Guardians on a whim, because I heard it has stuff like a villain who gains powers from cocaine.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 11, 2022 23:04:03 GMT -5
New Warriors review thread? That'd be fun . I'm not sure how sales were, but they have a funny trajectory... they started out as a misfit group to use up some characters, Nicenza them so they were pretty important.. heck, there was a 'New Warriors' group of titles for a while (with Nova and Night Thrasher having their own titles, and Justice having a mini), then all of a sudden they crashed and burned... adding Ben Reilly to the mix failed, and the book got cancelled, only to be revived again and again as totally different things... there's the reality TV team that started Civil War.. the X-Men rejects team... then the Initiative almost turned into a New Warriors book (which was super Ironic).. then a couple more failed attempts that had nothing really going for them. I feel like they were a victim of the IP era... the cool part of the book was the characters growing up and maturing, but of course that's not really allowed, so they kept getting put back to status quo.
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Post by MDG on Jan 12, 2022 17:35:16 GMT -5
I'm not one for doing reviews, but I was thinking of revisiting this series if people would be interested in hearing about it...
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