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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 6, 2014 20:03:44 GMT -5
Now that is love
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2014 3:43:54 GMT -5
FINALLY broke the 900 mark, though this is still shaping up to be my lowest year yet. Loving trudging through the old Usagi Yojimbo stories through the new hardcover editions, though. I'm generally a purist about reading the floppy originals (and mine are signed by Sakai!) but these hard cover editions are gorgeous and make the black and white art all the more vibrant. It's great to see Stan Sakai's work getting the respect and dignity it so richly deserves.  I'm reading through that Usagi Yojimbo Saga hardcover too, and loving it. I actually prefer that format over the floppies, but I do love having the floppies. I actually got rid of my Fantagraphics run. It was incomplete, but I had a good chunk of it. It was a little difficult because I love the covers so much and many of them I bought when I was a kid. I saved #1 and that's it. I remember finding it in a back issue bin for $6 and being so happy about it. Back then it wasn't as easy as just searching for what you want on eBay. |
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 7, 2014 10:53:36 GMT -5
Also of note on Peter David on the Phantom, this is a return for him to the character, as he also write the 4 issue 1988 mini series for DC with art by Joe Orlando. -M Was that just before the ongoing? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2014 11:29:04 GMT -5
Also of note on Peter David on the Phantom, this is a return for him to the character, as he also write the 4 issue 1988 mini series for DC with art by Joe Orlando. -M Was that just before the ongoing? Yes. -M |
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 7, 2014 11:45:24 GMT -5
I have 1 issue of the non-PAD ongoing...I'll have to track down the mini.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 7, 2014 13:44:16 GMT -5
FINALLY broke the 900 mark, though this is still shaping up to be my lowest year yet. Loving trudging through the old Usagi Yojimbo stories through the new hardcover editions, though. I'm generally a purist about reading the floppy originals (and mine are signed by Sakai!) but these hard cover editions are gorgeous and make the black and white art all the more vibrant. It's great to see Stan Sakai's work getting the respect and dignity it so richly deserves. I'm reading through that Usagi Yojimbo Saga hardcover too, and loving it. I actually prefer that format over the floppies, but I do love having the floppies. I actually got rid of my Fantagraphics run. It was incomplete, but I had a good chunk of it. It was a little difficult because I love the covers so much and many of them I bought when I was a kid. I saved #1 and that's it. I remember finding it in a back issue bin for $6 and being so happy about it. Back then it wasn't as easy as just searching for what you want on eBay. Even with ebay, assembling the Fantagraph and Mirage runs was extremely difficult for me. Only the Dark Horse issues are commonplace. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2014 3:04:48 GMT -5
Completed Usagi Yojimbo Saga vol. 1 earlier today. Thoroughly enjoyed. I plan on getting back on Lone Wolf And Cub now unless something else catches my eye first. I have a nice amount of unread material on my shelf right now, and picking out a new TPB is always fun.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 12, 2014 21:35:24 GMT -5
Well my numbers may be lower than expected for the year, but I'm sure proud of the diversity of content I've read:
science fiction: 315
superhero: 179
fantasy: 100
romance/drama: 91
horror/occult: 89
action/adventure: 70
humor: 43
biographical: 23
crime/detective: 23
Trade magazine: 10
war: 0
other: 13
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Post by shaxper on Nov 17, 2014 18:39:34 GMT -5
Finally completed P. Craig Russell's adaptation of Ring of the Nibelung, as recommended by mrp. From an execution standpoint, it earns a solid 10.0. However, my personal enjoyment of it was scaled down to an 8.5 for two reasons:
1. Russell's style has changed quite a bit from the work I'm used to seeing. It's a lot less fluid/psychadelic, and that feels a bit odd in a story about gods and magic. An early concept sketch for this adaptation was included in the back, drawn in 1978, and it was much more in line with what I expected from the series. The artwork was still phenomenal, but it was almost too meticulous.
2. I first watched Fritz Lang's 5 hour epic adaptation of this same myth,"Die Nibelungen," this past summer, and then two more time since. I even showed it to my mythology class, and they devoured it. But it stems from a different version of the myth than what Russell is working from. Lang pulled from the Germanic version while Russell pulls from an opera based on the Norse version. Thus, many of the basic plot points are the same, and most of the characters are the same in name, but the motivations and characterizations are completely different. I spent far too much time being surprised by, and often disappointed by, the source myth itself, and that distracted me from enjoying an otherwise outstanding labor of artistry and love.
So I highly recommend it for others and am a bit disappointed that I didn't get maximum enjoyment out of it, myself.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 18, 2014 20:42:01 GMT -5
See,I was the other way on this one as I was slightly disappointed in Lang's movie because I was raised on the Norse myth from an early age. My gran was a big old Swede and her go to bedtime story was often some half remembered snatch of what I learned much, much later was the Volsunga Saga. She was also a big fan of the Prose and Poetic Eddas and my favorite, the legend of Gestr.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 18, 2014 20:43:55 GMT -5
See,I was the other way on this one as I was slightly disappointed in Lang's movie because I was raised on the Norse myth from an early age. My gran was a big old Swede and her go to bedtime story was often some half remembered snatch of what I learned much, much later was the Volsunga Saga. She was also a big fan of the Prose and Poetic Eddas and my favorite, the legend of Gestr. If you're interested in going back in time to swap grandmas, mine made some pretty mean jello with fruit inside of it. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 18, 2014 21:16:37 GMT -5
See,I was the other way on this one as I was slightly disappointed in Lang's movie because I was raised on the Norse myth from an early age. My gran was a big old Swede and her go to bedtime story was often some half remembered snatch of what I learned much, much later was the Volsunga Saga. She was also a big fan of the Prose and Poetic Eddas and my favorite, the legend of Gestr. If you're interested in going back in time to swap grandmas, mine made some pretty mean jello with fruit inside of it. As much as I enjoy Jello, I wouldn't trade story time with gran for anything, even if it did make me a little odd in elementary school as I knew next to nothing about Christianity but believed fully in Oden. |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 18, 2014 21:56:58 GMT -5
"odd," or "awesome"?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 18, 2014 22:19:20 GMT -5
Perhaps a bit of both.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 3:29:18 GMT -5
My family is Nordic, and I was reminded almost daily, but beyond that nobody said a thing about our heritage except my last name means "Brother Viking."
But now some members of my family are Odinist. I'm not sure I believe they're serious about it.
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