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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2014 16:28:31 GMT -5
I just don't think there's any way to divorce that. Jim Corrigan is a haunted man. He was haunted way before he became The Spectre. The book is really less about The Spectre and more about Jim Corrigan and his journey to understand himself, who he is and what he's become. Taken as a whole, the theme for Ostrander's book could be tritely summed up as "it's always darkest before the dawn" but the payoff doesn't come until the end of the run. However, the growth of Corrigan as he goes on the voyage of discovery and comes to terms with who he is and what the Spectre is, is a dark journey, but an oh so human one, and that is the beauty of the run. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 24, 2014 11:31:02 GMT -5
I just don't think there's any way to divorce that. Jim Corrigan is a haunted man. He was haunted way before he became The Spectre. The book is really less about The Spectre and more about Jim Corrigan and his journey to understand himself, who he is and what he's become. Taken as a whole, the theme for Ostrander's book could be tritely summed up as "it's always darkest before the dawn" but the payoff doesn't come until the end of the run. However, the growth of Corrigan as he goes on the voyage of discovery and comes to terms with who he is and what the Spectre is, is a dark journey, but an oh so human one, and that is the beauty of the run. -M That's a beautiful plug for the run. I will definitely try it again. |
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Post by Jesse on Jun 25, 2014 10:10:52 GMT -5
Speaking of The Spectre Steve Niles wrote the DC Showcase animated short film and it was pretty damn cool.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 30, 2014 19:25:11 GMT -5
Since I won't be reading any more tonight, I can put June in the books. It was my largest month of the year (121 books), surpassing March by exactly one book.
Read a lot of mid-70's Marvel this month. Jungle Action, Black Panther, Ka-Zar, along with some assorted Marvel Team-Up issues. Really enjoyed most of those books, even if Kirby's Black Panther was pretty odd overall.
Can't really identify a "worst" of the month, which I guess is a good thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 20:10:54 GMT -5
June was my lightest moth for reading by far with only 57 comics read. Busy month with little time for reading overall. We'll see what July brings...
Of that batch, the only classic comic I read was the Monark Starstalker issue of Marvel Premiere. The rest was me trying to catch up on the recent stuff that had piled up...
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 21:09:05 GMT -5
I finished the month with 256 comics read. My busiest month by a large margin, almost as much as all other months combined. I got burned out these last few days though, and am just kind of flipping through a couple trades. I don't expect July to be a busy month, a new class starting on the weekends, which is when I do most of my reading.
My favorite new series for the month would be Whiteout. I had heard it was good and it did not disappoint. Just the right amount of grit in a realistic claustrophobic tense mystery set in an almost alien location. Second would be RASL, which I finally took a look at. When it was coming out on the stands I was still reading through Bone, and didn't want to be disturbed, and avoided any discussion on RASL I could, so I had no idea what it was about when I finally picked it up to read. Pleasant surprise, and still definitively Jeff Smith. I also completed DMZ and Scalped this month. DMZ started off being my favorite of the two, but didn't necessarily improve from the first arc. It stayed good enough to read, but Scalped was a bit like Breaking Bad, in that the final couple arcs blew me away, making it one of my favorite complete stories in comics.
Disappointments of the month were Transmetropolitan and Dirty Pair, reading one issue of each.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 1, 2014 7:24:01 GMT -5
Lots of books for me in June (181)... I'm pretty close to on pace for 2000 for the year. More misses than hits as far as quality goes, though. The 1st Spectre trade was definitely my favorite of the month, with some of the new Image stuff coming in 2nd. Starman has picked up (as far as my interest), but I realized yesterday there's a Shazam crossover which I don't have the other half of, which is a bummer... I may wait to find that.
I'm probably going to read some Conan next, along with the rest of my monthly pile. I got a decent Legion run, too, but I may try to fill in the holes before I start it.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 1, 2014 8:38:46 GMT -5
I didn't count any books published with the last 10 years...
June total: 68
Best stories I read in June: The Dreaming has been steadily good but the cream of the crop is definitely Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' Green Lantern costarring Green Arrow. It elevated superhero stories in a way I don't think they had been done before.
Other highlights: I really enjoyed rereading the Thrawn trilogy. Easily the best EU Star Wars story I've ever read.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 1, 2014 9:11:45 GMT -5
It's the second month in a row that I didn't break 100. A new Dog and refinancing my home is taking time away from just relaxing and reading.
The highlights of the month were Fantastic Four 134-145. I enjoyed the Buscema to Buckler transition and the drama of Reed and Sues' breakup. Also started the Waid/ Weiringo run. They started off by having Dr.Doom murder his childhood love and threaten the FF through their kids. I'm not sure that I like what was done. The trip to heaven to rescue Ben was a bit offensive to me. I started reading comics off my tablet this month and I found it to be a pretty decent experience. I read the early JIM Thor's. I liked those stories despite it being straight Superhero fair, bereft of most of Asgard elements. Nothing jumped out at me as terrible this month.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 1, 2014 10:29:37 GMT -5
124 this month. Highlight was definitely the first 55 issues of Usagi Yojimbo. Runaways #1-6 was also good.
Lowlights include some of the Bronze Age Superman family stuff. And especially Loveless vol. 1. This is a manga tpb I got at a yard sale for 50 cents. I figured, how can you go wrong for 50 cents? How naive I was. The story is supposedly about a kid trying to solve his brother's murder, but it actually seems to be about a gay college student trying to seduce a 12 year old boy. It's disturbing. And the translation was very choppy and awkward. Horrible.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 1, 2014 11:20:15 GMT -5
Yeah, you gotta watch out for some Manga... no matter what they SAY it's about, there are definite categories. If it's Shojo, you want to be prepared for a romance driven plot, or a thin plot that's an excuse for sex scenes... IIRC, Loveless is the latter. Kinda the manga equivalent of a Harlequin. There are some Shojo that are very good (though they're not my cup of tea), but like anything, the mass produced crap outweighs the gold nuggets.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 1, 2014 20:09:10 GMT -5
138 comics for me in the month of June.
98 were "classic comics" and all but one of them were Batman comics in celebration of his 75th birthday.
best classic comic of the month: Detective #475/476 by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers, the best Batman story of all time
for July... more Batman
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Post by coke & comics on Jul 2, 2014 18:08:42 GMT -5
Sadly, I believe I read precisely 0 comics in the month of June.
And have not yet record my May reads.
Life has been busy.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 9, 2014 16:00:11 GMT -5
Long time no see guys!
June was a pretty crazy month for me, with the new job and the move to the new apartment and all that entails my reading went way down on my list of priorities but I'm beginning to catch up.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 9, 2014 16:01:49 GMT -5
Long time no see guys! June was a pretty crazy month for me, with the new job and the move to the new apartment and all that entails my reading went way down on my list of priorities but I'm beginning to catch up. You have been seriously missed, Sir! Hope the new apartment suits you. |
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