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Post by berkley on Jan 12, 2022 18:21:51 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... I'd be interested. Don't think I ever heard of this series before, so I'd look forward to learning about it - what was it, a sampler of new independant comics?
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Post by MDG on Jan 12, 2022 18:38:41 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... I'd be interested. Don't think I ever heard of this series before, so I'd look forward to learning about it - what was it, a sampler of new independant comics? No— I see it as the “last gasp” of the initial wave of underground comics. Started in ‘75 by Bill Griffith and Art Speigleman as a response to Marvel’s Comix Book, with great ( maybe their best to that time) work by Crumb, Deitch, Spain, and others.
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Post by spoon on Jan 16, 2022 16:37:47 GMT -5
Some classic reading goals I would like to get around to in 2022: Green Lantern from the Len Wein run through the Steve Englehart Green Lantern Corps stuff Cool. How much of that would be new to you versus comics you've already read? At the beginning of 2021, when I did a big Green Lantern binge from Hal Jordan's beginning to the cancellation of GLC in 1988, the Englehart run was the one part I had read pretty much all of before (but not all in order). There were a few Wein issues I hadn't read before.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 31, 2022 22:38:54 GMT -5
As I made some very different resolutions this year, centered more on a lifestyle change (creating more "me" time) than an end result, I feel it makes sense to do a monthly progress report. Here we go:
1. Spend an hour a week reading novels. I have not pulled this off yet. I think I've done 20 minutes of reading time total so far, but I continue to fight the battle. 2. Spend a half hour each week reading with Amber. We've blown this one out of the water, reading two comics a night on average. It's such an awesome way to end the day together.
3. Write five reviews each month. Barely pulled this one off.
4. Sell $5,000 in key issues. I sold $3,260 in January alone, so I don't think I'll have much problem reaching this one. With Amber staying home to watch Owen and a wedding coming up, I need all the money I can make right now! The real question is when CGC is going to get around to grading the Strange Tales #110 I sent them back in July. That may well fetch $5,000 by itself.
5. Read The Great Darkness Saga. Have not started it yet. I impulsively decided to start reading Adam Warlock from the beginning first.
6. Work towards finishing my Avengers run (#231-300, plus annuals remaining). Haven't touched it yet.
7. re-read at least one classic run in my collection. Already read the Thomas/Russell Elric stories again with Amber, and am currently making my way through Moench's first Batman run with Amber while re-reading the Adam Warlock Counter Earth adventures on my own. In short, I've met this goal three times over!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 1, 2022 3:44:28 GMT -5
As I made some very different resolutions this year, centered more on a lifestyle change (creating more "me" time) than an end result, I feel it makes sense to do a monthly progress report. Here we go: 1. Spend an hour a week reading novels. I have not pulled this off yet. I think I've done 20 minutes of reading time total so far, but I continue to fight the battle. 2. Spend a half hour each week reading with Amber. We've blown this one out of the water, reading two comics a night on average. It's such an awesome way to end the day together. 3. Write five reviews each month. Barely pulled this one off. 4. Sell $5,000 in key issues. I sold $3,260 in January alone, so I don't think I'll have much problem reaching this one. With Amber staying home to watch Owen and a wedding coming up, I need all the money I can make right now! The real question is when CGC is going to get around to grading the Strange Tales #110 I sent them back in July. That may well fetch $5,000 by itself. 5. Read The Great Darkness Saga. Have not started it yet. I impulsively decided to start reading Adam Warlock from the beginning first. 6. Work towards finishing my Avengers run (#231-300, plus annuals remaining). Haven't touched it yet. 7. re-read at least one classic run in my collection. Already read the Thomas/Russell Elric stories again with Amber, and am currently making my way through Moench's first Batman run with Amber while re-reading the Adam Warlock Counter Earth adventures on my own. In short, I've met this goal three times over! Dude, you are have done so much in one month. I used to own the Daekness saga comics. I rate it as a meh.
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Post by tonebone on Feb 1, 2022 11:42:05 GMT -5
As I made some very different resolutions this year, centered more on a lifestyle change (creating more "me" time) than an end result, I feel it makes sense to do a monthly progress report. Here we go: 1. Spend an hour a week reading novels. I have not pulled this off yet. I think I've done 20 minutes of reading time total so far, but I continue to fight the battle. 2. Spend a half hour each week reading with Amber. We've blown this one out of the water, reading two comics a night on average. It's such an awesome way to end the day together. 3. Write five reviews each month. Barely pulled this one off. 4. Sell $5,000 in key issues. I sold $3,260 in January alone, so I don't think I'll have much problem reaching this one. With Amber staying home to watch Owen and a wedding coming up, I need all the money I can make right now! The real question is when CGC is going to get around to grading the Strange Tales #110 I sent them back in July. That may well fetch $5,000 by itself. 5. Read The Great Darkness Saga. Have not started it yet. I impulsively decided to start reading Adam Warlock from the beginning first. 6. Work towards finishing my Avengers run (#231-300, plus annuals remaining). Haven't touched it yet. 7. re-read at least one classic run in my collection. Already read the Thomas/Russell Elric stories again with Amber, and am currently making my way through Moench's first Batman run with Amber while re-reading the Adam Warlock Counter Earth adventures on my own. In short, I've met this goal three times over! Dude, you are have done so much in one month. I used to own the Daekness saga comics. I rate it as a meh. I think what made it less-of-a-meh, maybe even great, back in the day... was that Darkseid was not the defacto cosmic-ultra-baddie in the early 80's that he was to become later. I mean, in the 2000s, it was "Oh, it's Darkseid, again." I mean, since the days of the New Gods, he had only been seen sporadically, like in the JLA/JSA crossover, etc.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 1, 2022 17:34:00 GMT -5
Well being I have two teenagers that constantly eat and need new clothes, I probably won't be buying much. But then I have for the past 10 years or so. Only making occassional $1 bin purchase of issues that I want to fill in certain titles. Most recently (Labor Day sale 2021) New Warriors. So I too, if a review thread is made, will participate and perhaps read along. I have the first 30-40 issues straight through. It's only the later issues that I don't have when I stopped following the title.
Reading goals would be literally anything. I have not read comics much of any over the last few years. Don't know why. Some of the last three $1 bin purchases I've made over the last two years still remain unread. So I just need to find something to read that will get the spark going for reading comics again.
I'd like to resurrect my Gray Hulk Saga review thread. It's been so long since I did anything with it. I'm still a few issues away from #340 before I need to find a reprint of it, even if I have to buy a cheap TPB of it. Because I actually haven't even myself read that issue. But review threads are a lot of work, so I am going to have to try and motivate myself to at least try. Not promising anything. Not sure I really do good with reviews.
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Post by berkley on Feb 1, 2022 21:12:34 GMT -5
Dude, you are have done so much in one month. I used to own the Daekness saga comics. I rate it as a meh. I think what made it less-of-a-meh, maybe even great, back in the day... was that Darkseid was not the defacto cosmic-ultra-baddie in the early 80's that he was to become later. I mean, in the 2000s, it was "Oh, it's Darkseid, again." I mean, since the days of the New Gods, he had only been seen sporadically, like in the JLA/JSA crossover, etc.
Yes, I was a never a DC guy and knew little about the Legion but looking for new comics after having been driven away from Marvel I gave the series a try, largely attracted by the Giffen artwork. Lucky for me, this happened to be right around the start of what was eventually known as the Great Darkness Saga. It was definitely a very dramatic revelation at the time.
Of course, as happens so often in Big 2 comics, the character ended up being damaged by its own success in the long run, as later writers, with growing frequency, couldn't resist using Darkseid as their "Big Bad", and in an increasingly ham-fisted, bone-headed way.
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Post by berkley on Feb 1, 2022 21:20:58 GMT -5
Not really a resolution, but I've added a few things to my to-read stack:
Mister X: first series, which I've never read beyond the first 4 or 5 issues
Englehart/Rogers Batman: been putting this off too long and just recently acquired the Shadow of the Batman reprints
Return of the New Gods and JLA/New Gods story: two early post-Kirby New Gods things I've never read; though I just realised I'm missing an issue of the Perez JLA/NG so I have to find that first
Dan Dare: read the first two stories at the end of last year and I'm hooked.
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Post by spoon on Feb 1, 2022 21:47:16 GMT -5
I spent most of January reading the Essential Defenders vol. 3 TPB I was reading at the end of 2020, because my progress really slowed after Gerber left the title.
So I only got started on one of my 2022 resolutions: - Read one or more of the TPBs & comics I have of late 1980s Spider-Man I'm more than a third of the way into Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection vol. 15: Ghosts of the Past.
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Post by berkley on Feb 1, 2022 22:04:20 GMT -5
I spent most of January reading the Essential Defenders vol. 3 TPB I was reading at the end of 2020, because my progress really slowed after Gerber left the title. Back in the day, I really liked the David Anthony Kraft run and even the follow-on from that - was it Ed Hannigan? - wasn't bad at first. But it seemed to peter out after a while and I gave up while Hannigan was still writer. Never read the de Matteiss and haven't liked what I've seen or heard of it later.
I might consider going back some time and finishing the Hannigan run, though, and maybe even try the first few issues of de Matteis, depending on how I get on with the Hannigan.
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Post by spoon on Feb 1, 2022 22:22:35 GMT -5
I spent most of January reading the Essential Defenders vol. 3 TPB I was reading at the end of 2020, because my progress really slowed after Gerber left the title. Back in the day, I really liked the David Anthony Kraft run and even the follow-on from that - was it Ed Hannigan? - wasn't bad at first. But it seemed to peter out after a while and I gave up while Hannigan was still writer. Never read the de Matteiss and haven't liked what I've seen or heard of it later.
I might consider going back some time and finishing the Hannigan run, though, and maybe even try the first few issues of de Matteis, depending on how I get on with the Hannigan. The TPB I read ends with Kraft still as writer and Hannigan as penciler, although one issue credits Hannigan as co-writer (or specifically "words").
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Post by berkley on Feb 2, 2022 3:48:33 GMT -5
Back in the day, I really liked the David Anthony Kraft run and even the follow-on from that - was it Ed Hannigan? - wasn't bad at first. But it seemed to peter out after a while and I gave up while Hannigan was still writer. Never read the de Matteiss and haven't liked what I've seen or heard of it later.
I might consider going back some time and finishing the Hannigan run, though, and maybe even try the first few issues of de Matteis, depending on how I get on with the Hannigan. The TPB I read ends with Kraft still as writer and Hannigan as penciler, although one issue credits Hannigan as co-writer (or specifically "words").
Then IMO that collection is well worth reading to the finish. Sounds like it stops around the same time I did - or rather a few issues earlier, because I'm pretty sure I was still following the series for a few issues after Kraft's departure.
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Post by tonebone on Feb 3, 2022 8:21:21 GMT -5
Not really a resolution, but a to-read stack...
Power Pack omnibus 1 Castle Waiting vol. 1 + 2 the JLA hardcover collection (60 year celebration) Reread From Hell (the color version, this time) Reread Watchmen (the "noir" B+W version this time) The Strange Death of Alex Raymond The Amazing Incredible Fantastic Stan Lee GN Star Wars Omnibus (The UK Collection) Starman Compendium 1 Hellblazer vol. 14
whew.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 28, 2022 22:54:25 GMT -5
February in review...
1. Spend an hour a week reading novels. Still struggling to make this happen at all. I've managed to get about 20 minutes of reading time total for all of 2022 thus far. There is always either a child or fiance around who wants my attention, but they never ever want to read with me. The struggle continues! 2. Spend a half hour each week reading with Amber. While we aren't maintaining the two comics a night schedule we were hitting in January, we are still well above the goal I set!
3. Write five reviews each month. Missed one for this past week. This continues to be a struggle because (again) it requires getting time to myself. It is truly wonderful to be this loved/wanted, but it's also maddening never having the time to do what you want to do.
4. Sell $5,000 in key issues. I sold $3,260 in January. I've since pretty much run out of things to sell for the moment. If my Strange Tales #110 EVER gets back from CGC (it's been there since early July), I'll break this goal for sure. Otherwise, that last $1,740 is going to be tough unless She-Hulk #1 or the first appearances of Carol Danvers or Monica Rambeau really shoot through the roof in the coming months.
5. Read The Great Darkness Saga. Have not started it yet.
6. Work towards finishing my Avengers run (#231-300, plus annuals remaining). Haven't touched it yet.
7. re-read at least one classic run in my collection. Already read the Thomas/Russell Elric stories again with Amber, and am currently making my way through Moench's first Batman run with Amber while re-reading the Adam Warlock Counter Earth adventures on my own. In short, I've met this goal three times over!
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