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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 15:00:11 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 15:03:58 GMT -5
These are all 50 cents from here forward.  This one I picked up and look at the back of this sealed book-   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 15:11:54 GMT -5
50 cent Astro city ? Yes please  The fourth World and the Ragnarok fill gaps  Got a run of DNAgents   |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 15:12:53 GMT -5
I always liked Little Archie better than the regular book  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 15:15:01 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 15:20:59 GMT -5
Finally some Image books Got a lot of Prophet related books    Total is 65 books for 43 dollars. Happy New Year ! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 15:33:04 GMT -5
Got this in the mail today. Shout out to wildfire2099. This completes the entire 22 issue Force Works run. I only really needed 21,22 but it was cheaper to get this lot. 4.99 for the 8 books plus shipping.   |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2023 18:23:10 GMT -5
I always liked Little Archie better than the regular book
Looks like you'll have more Archies than me soon....
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 18:28:15 GMT -5
I always liked Little Archie better than the regular book
Looks like you'll have more Archies than me soon....
Archie is a stress reliever. |
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Post by MDG on Dec 31, 2023 21:22:30 GMT -5
Looks like you'll have more Archies than me soon....
Archie is a stress reliever. I thought that was Betty. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 1, 2024 10:42:28 GMT -5
I do miss Century... it's too bad he never caught on, such a cool character design.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 2, 2024 9:00:03 GMT -5
Over Christams I treated myself to all three volumes of the Blake & Mortimer adventure, The Secret of the Swordfish...  This is the first Blake & Mortimer story, though weirdly it was published as volumes 15-17 in the English translations. For the uninitiated, the Blake & Mortimer stories are 1950s "buddy adventure" detective yarns, in the "whodunit?" style. The books centre around the inseparable team of Captain Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer, two upstanding and heroic, pipe-smoking, upper class English gentlemen. The books are written and drawn by Edgar P. Jacobs, who was a friend and colaberator of Hergé's and, as a result, Jacobs's artwork employes the same ligne claire style that Hergé pioneered in the Adventures of Tintin. I've read a good half dozen of the later B&M adventures, but I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into the duo's inaugural outing. |
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Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2024 10:49:30 GMT -5
Over Christams I treated myself to all three volumes of the Blake & Mortimer adventure, The Secret of the Swordfish... This is the first Blake & Mortimer story, though weirdly it was published as volumes 15-17 in the English translations. For the uninitiated, the Blake & Mortimer stories are 1950s "buddy adventure" detective yarns, in the "whodunit?" style. The books centre around the inseparable team of Captain Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer, two upstanding and heroic, pipe-smoking, upper class English gentlemen. The books are written and drawn by Edgar P. Jacobs, who was a friend and colaberator of Hergé's and, as a result, Jacobs's artwork employes the same ligne claire style that Hergé pioneered in the Adventures of Tintin. I've read a good half dozen of the later B&M adventures, but I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into the duo's inaugural outing. I tore through the Blake and Mortimer books through Hoopla over the past couple years and enjoyed them immensely. The plots are usually great, and with a degree of suspense that's sometimes missing in series where you "know" the heroes are going to pull it out at the end. I prefer the stories that stay closer to "real life" on the whole.
I read them in the numerical order of the translations so was pretty sold by the time I got to Swordfish, and I'm glad since the story, though solid, is based on a global conflict that--unless I missed something--never happened. I prefer the stories that stay closer to "real life" on the whole.
The art is excellent, and the style shows how much mood and storytelling can be enhanced with flat coloring when there's a large palette available. I wonder how late 90s US comics would've been received if, instead of overdoing effects when computer coloring became available. colorists just took advantage of the number of colors available and the inkers were still primarily responsible for rendering and effects.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2024 11:02:33 GMT -5
Over Christams I treated myself to all three volumes of the Blake & Mortimer adventure, The Secret of the Swordfish... This is the first Blake & Mortimer story, though weirdly it was published as volumes 15-17 in the English translations. For the uninitiated, the Blake & Mortimer stories are 1950s "buddy adventure" detective yarns, in the "whodunit?" style. The books centre around the inseparable team of Captain Francis Blake and Philip Mortimer, two upstanding and heroic, pipe-smoking, upper class English gentlemen. The books are written and drawn by Edgar P. Jacobs, who was a friend and colaberator of Hergé's and, as a result, Jacobs's artwork employes the same ligne claire style that Hergé pioneered in the Adventures of Tintin. I've read a good half dozen of the later B&M adventures, but I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into the duo's inaugural outing.
At first glance I thought this was Tin Tin.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 2, 2024 12:51:44 GMT -5
At first glance I thought this was Tin Tin.
Yeah, the artwork it is very Tintin-esque because it uses the same ligne claire style that Hergé pioneered (lots of bande dessinée books are drawn in this style -- Hergé was a very influential artist). As I noted in my earlier post, Edgar P. Jacobs was a friend of Hergé's and helped out on the artwork on a number of the Tintin books in the 1940s, with perhaps his biggest contribution being to 1949's Prisoners of the Sun. |
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