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Post by shaxper on May 16, 2023 7:48:48 GMT -5
(See the Advance Warning before participating) Nominations for Favorite Review Thread1. Please post no more than one nomination for your Favorite Review Thread in our ninth year of the CCF (between April 30th, 2022 at 9:22pm EST and April 30, 2023 at 9:21pm EST). 2. You must explain why you are nominating this thread. This is the blurb that will end up in the CCF Hall of Fame if it wins! 3. Please second no more than one nomination made by another member. You may not second your own nomination. 4. Any thread that has previously won this award should not be nominated again unless it has done something especially different in the past year that is worthy of note. It is a given that past winning threads continue to enrich the community. Let someone else have a turn  5. Any thread receiving both a nomination and a second will be included in the final ballot for this award on May 24th. 6. Nominations and Seconds for this round conclude on May 18. 7. Absolutely NO negative talk about another thread, its participants, nor another member's nomination. The very purpose of this event is to salute our members and discussions for all they contribute to this community. Though only one member will ultimately receive this award, you have the potential to thank and maybe touch any member you choose to nominate or second. Please don't use this opportunity to hurt or deflate someone. So start your nominating! |
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Post by shaxper on May 16, 2023 7:59:54 GMT -5
I nominate Icctrombone's The Youngblood Review Thread. It takes more than a little moxy to devote an entire thread to a Rob Liefeld creation in this community, and George does it with good humor, great thought, and tremendous passion. It's truly fun experiencing a run that I couldn't be less enthusiastic about through the eyes of someone who cherishes it. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 16, 2023 8:43:02 GMT -5
I nominate ...Vainly named Mike G's comic reviews, which is a wonderful journey back to the days when we would buy a whole armful of comics from the corner store for just a few pennies. Mike really evokes the joy and wonder I felt back then. |
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Post by tartanphantom on May 16, 2023 20:01:22 GMT -5
I nominate ...Vainly named Mike G's comic reviews, which is a wonderful journey back to the days when we would buy a whole armful of comics from the corner store for just a few pennies. Mike really evokes the joy and wonder I felt back then.
I second this nomination. Great pocket synopses of LOTS of books, and in mostly chronological order, too. Mike G does a great job, even if he doesn't care for most of the "genre" titles that I love. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 16, 2023 20:49:30 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on May 16, 2023 22:40:25 GMT -5
Seconding the Hourman thread.
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Post by commond on May 18, 2023 6:45:42 GMT -5
I would like to nominate arfetto's I will read the '90s. thread, which has offered us a positive and refreshing take on a much maligned decade. I really enjoy the way arfetto engages with the material and how he manages to perfectly capture the spirit of the 90s, both the commercial and the artistic. Looking forward to an update, arfetto |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 18, 2023 9:56:01 GMT -5
No Liefeld love ? |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 18, 2023 10:01:22 GMT -5
I will be torn as to which of these very worthy threads to vote for.
But I have to add to this embarrassment of riches by nominating shaxper's The Batman Family and Beyond: 1975-1990, which is a magnum opus that rivals the excellence of his Teen Titans thread.
Like the best review threads, it is comprehensive and detailed, but shax also offers a measured blend of passion and dispassion toward its subject that makes it stand out. He does have a dog (bat?) in this fight, and yet he does not let that color his frequent displeasure with the writing and editing of the series and stories he dissects. I love his ability to give us a close-up of each story and issue while simultaneously showing us their places in the larger context of the various series he reviews.
Shax clearly loves both Robin and Batgirl and is a tireless advocate for their significance and value as characters, but he's no mere fanboy; he is rightfully scathing in his critiques of the way the two are disrespected, abused and manipulated by unimaginative writers and indifferent editors.
I always sense that he resents the way a comics icon like Batman is similarly mistreated because of the disregard of the many "creatives" for the character's history and legacy.
Exhaustive, meticulously researched and always well supported with textual evidence, shax's long-running thread is both a labor of love and an incisive, perceptive analysis of three archetypical comics characters.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 18, 2023 10:21:47 GMT -5
I will be torn as to which of these very worthy threads to vote for. But I have to add to this embarrassment of riches by nominating shaxper's The Batman Family and Beyond: 1975-1990, which is a magnum opus that rivals the excellence of his Teen Titans thread. Like the best review threads, it is comprehensive and detailed, but shax also offers a measured blend of passion and dispassion toward its subject that makes it stand out. He does have a dog (bat?) in this fight, and yet he does not let that color his frequent displeasure with the writing and editing of the series and stories he dissects. I love his ability to give us a close-up of each story and issue while simultaneously showing us their places in the larger context of the various series he reviews. Shax clearly loves both Robin and Batgirl and is a tireless advocate for their significance and value as characters, but he's no mere fanboy; he is rightfully scathing in his critiques of the way the two are disrespected, abused and manipulated by unimaginative writers and indifferent editors. I always sense that he resents the way a comics icon like Batman is similarly mistreated because of the disregard of the many "creatives" for the character's history and legacy. Exhaustive, meticulously researched and always well supported with textual evidence, shax's long-running thread is both a labor of love and an incisive, perceptive analysis of three archetypical comics characters. I'll second this. |
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Post by shaxper on May 18, 2023 12:23:18 GMT -5
Wow, Prince Hal. I am overwhelmed and without words. Thank you. |
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