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redbackground posted:If I was just trying to get a hold of simple reprints of Conan the Barbarain 23 & 24 (Red Sonja's first appearances) (which are not surprisingly very expensive), where could I find them? Essentials Conan vol. 1 covers #s 1-25, if you don't mind black and white.
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If you want color, Dark Horse's The Chronicles of Conan: Vol. 4, The Song of Red Sonja and Other Stories has 23-26 and Savage Tales 2-3. (Dark Horse has the reprint rights to the old Marvel comics now thanks to licensing them from the Howard estate.)
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Mar 17, 2017 23:46
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And I believe they have the rights to publish any appearances by Sonja in the Conan books in exchange for the Red Sonja people being able to use the Conan setting in their stuff.
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Mar 18, 2017 00:57
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Selachian posted:Essentials Conan vol. 1 covers #s 1-25, if you don't mind black and white. This has been out of print since like 2000 and is actually an expensive collector's item now. Senior Woodchuck posted:If you want color, Dark Horse's The Chronicles of Conan: Vol. 4, The Song of Red Sonja and Other Stories has 23-26 and Savage Tales 2-3. (Dark Horse has the reprint rights to the old Marvel comics now thanks to licensing them from the Howard estate.) Tom Scioli points out that the computer coloring in the early Chronicles of Conan is a dealbreaker, it absolutely fucks the art up. The hardcover Barry Windsor Smith Archives Dark Horse put out have fixed this problem. I think Vol 2 has the Red Sonja issues but you should double check.
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Mar 18, 2017 01:21
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Awesome, thanks for all the info, guys.
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Mar 18, 2017 04:04
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redbackground posted:If I was just trying to get a hold of simple reprints of Conan the Barbarain 23 & 24 (Red Sonja's first appearances) (which are not surprisingly very expensive), where could I find them? I checked one of my last remaining comic shops with a decent back issue selection. Lots of Conans, but guess which two were missing (probably due to the Sonja appearances). Sorry!
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Mar 18, 2017 04:13
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redbackground posted:If I was just trying to get a hold of simple reprints of Conan the Barbarain 23 & 24 (Red Sonja's first appearances) (which are not surprisingly very expensive), where could I find them? Just found originals for $20 and $15, respectively. Lemme know!
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Mar 19, 2017 18:49
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TwoPair posted:Oh wow I know the exact mini you're talking about but I also can't remember the ending. I think Magneto kills him? It's called Magneto: Not A Hero, IIRC. Nah, Joseph is still alive at the end of it. Magneto apprehends him and says he's going to turn him over to the Avengers. He hasn't shown up since, as far as I know.
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Mar 19, 2017 18:53
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Hey, I'm kind of a fan of comedians writing comics, even though the results are often uneven. I liked Bill Hader and Seth Meyers' Spider-Man: The Short Halloween (which was helped by Kevin Maguire's art), thought Patton Oswalt's JLA: Welcome to the Working Week was just okay, but LOVED Patton's pitch for a villain-centric Batman graphic novel based on the Fritz Lang film M. (See http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=153 ) I see that Scott Aukerman has written a few Marvel books, although it looks like shorter stories in comics I normally wouldn't collect or even read (mostly Deadpool). I'm a huge fan of his from Comedy Bang Bang, and love his weird sense of humor, but does anyone have any opinion on any of these comics? June 2015: Deadpool (2013) #45 - 'The Death Of Deadpool' September 2015: Secret Wars Journal (2015) #3 August 2016: Spider-Man/Deadpool (2016) #6 - 'Number One on the Maul Sheet!' January 2017: Marvel Tag Gratis-Exemplar (2017) nn - 'Spider-Man/Deadpool' (From http://comicbookdb.com/creator_chron.php?ID=47319 )
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Mar 20, 2017 00:04
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You'd probably like Brian Poeshn's Deadpool run which it sounds like you haven't read
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Mar 20, 2017 00:12
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Secret Wars Journal was good. I didn't even realise Scott Aukerman wrote it. It's not really a comedy issue.
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Mar 20, 2017 00:59
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Retro Futurist posted:You'd probably like Brian Poeshn's Deadpool run which it sounds like you haven't read I read the first TPB and just couldn't get into it. I wanted to like it, I really did, but Deadpool just doesn't do it for me (aside from the movie). I'm also not that familiar with Posehn as a stand-up comic.
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Mar 20, 2017 01:02
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I read the first TPB and just couldn't get into it. I wanted to like it, I really did, but Deadpool just doesn't do it for me (aside from the movie). I'm also not that familiar with Posehn as a stand-up comic. It gets much better. The first storyline is basically establishing a baseline, the silly monkey cheese Deadpool schtick. Following stories build on that by adding some surprisingly genuine pathos and a good roster of support characters for Wade.
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Mar 20, 2017 01:07
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Also go watch The Fartist on Netflix
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Mar 20, 2017 01:10
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I think John Cleese is funny and all, but Superman True Brit was total garbage. I assume he wrote the outline and a few jokes, and the guy who did all the Monty Python guides did the heavily lifting and considering it's latter day John Byrne it's badness is his fault
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Mar 20, 2017 01:18
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You might like spider-man and the x-men
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Mar 20, 2017 01:46
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That's true in almost any context, unless you're talking to someone who hates Spider-Man, the X-Men, and fun, and why would you do that?
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Mar 20, 2017 02:46
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bobkatt013 posted:You might like spider-man and the x-men Elliot Kalan is very funny, loves Spider-Man, and writes one hell of a comic book. Everyone should read Spider-Man and the X-Men (and listen to the Flop House but that's only if you like ding-dong related podcasts)
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Mar 20, 2017 04:30
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On that note, Deadpool v Gambit by Acker and Blacker is also a good mini by comedy writers.
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Mar 20, 2017 09:42
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Here's a dumb question that all of a sudden I want to know the answer to: When did Marvel and/or DC first utilize the wraparound cover for a standard monthly comic?
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Mar 20, 2017 22:05
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I can't say the first time it happened but the Marvel Presents (Short Stories from various heroes but always a Wolverine story) had the wrap arounds in 1988 Constantly making people think Wolverine was going to team up with Man Thing and it never happens
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Mar 20, 2017 22:21
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Here's a question, why was Wolverine so fuckin cool in the 80s
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Mar 20, 2017 22:28
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Claremont and because he either killed dudes or he didn't kill dudes. He wasn't exclusive to either and he had catchphrases.
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Mar 20, 2017 22:31
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Also because the orange and brown costume is the best one.
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Mar 20, 2017 22:31
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Because he's the best there is at what he does and what he does is be cool. Remember when smoking was cool? Wolverine smoked all the goddamned time. Gambit also smoked but he was not as cool.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:01
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Wolverine also has cool powers. He's just better at stuff like smelling, and he heals from injury and he's got unbreakable bones. It's somehow more satisfying to imagine yourself being like that than, say, being able to make it rain in Africa.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:10
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While it's not quite Emma Frost bad, the idea of a guy who can smell what you've been up to unless you shower twice before hanging out with him makes me uncomfortable.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:17
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I don't have any powers and I'm confident I can do that with 75% accuracy.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:18
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Lurdiak posted:While it's not quite Emma Frost bad, the idea of a guy who can smell what you've been up to unless you shower twice before hanging out with him makes me uncomfortable. Hmm. Sounds like something a dumpster diver would say.
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X-O posted:Hmm. Sounds like something a dumpster diver would say. I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is nobody's business.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:23
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Wolverine was in a team with Colossus and Cyclops. The smell of lonely night tugs probably doesn't even register for him anymore.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:26
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He was also a huge mystery for a long, long time. Mysterious is sexy.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:38
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Rhyno posted:Because he's the best there is at what he does and what he does is be cool. Remember when smoking was cool? Wolverine smoked all the goddamned time. Lots of the X-Men smoked. I'm hugely anti-tobacco but it's always seemed like a great bit of characterization for a guy like Wolverine, who doesn't have to worry about things like lung cancer or cirrhosis, to smoke like a chimney and drink gallons of beer at a time. He's been around for God knows how long, his entire job is essentially getting the poo poo beat out of him, he doesn't even know who he really is, and he's constantly dealing with hosed up poo poo like his friends dying and coming back and getting replaced with future dopplegangers or cyborgs or something. At the very least he's going to treat himself to a cigar and some brew.
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My favorite thing about Claremont in the Wolverine is the best character era is that Magneto is naked every other issue, mostly sleeping in the nude or gazing out a window
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If you consider that comics (especially back then) were written for young teenage males Wolverine being awesome makes sense. He is a loner, has knives that pop out of his wrists, has a mysterious past, is a gruff no nonsense warrior with a heart of gold. What there isn't there to love (or want to be) for a 13 year kid?
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Madkal posted:If you consider that comics (especially back then) were written for young teenage males Wolverine being awesome makes sense. He is a loner, has knives that pop out of his wrists, has a mysterious past, is a gruff no nonsense warrior with a heart of gold. What there isn't there to love (or want to be) for a 13 year kid? He also has a healing factor so even if the jocks beat him up in the playground during recess he just gets better so he never has to deal with his mother demanding to know who hit him and then calling their parents and making things even worse for you the next day wait am I projecting again
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Mar 21, 2017 00:30
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Also, he spent a good portion of the decade fighting ninjas. In the '80s, putting ninjas in your story was like printing money.
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Mar 21, 2017 00:33
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It's the catchphrase. Kids can't get enough blank verse.
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Mar 21, 2017 00:41
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Wolverine also had that really cool one Barry Windsor-Smith illustrated where he fights Lady Deathstrike the Reavers in Central Park during a snowstorm, which was on a whole other level compared to a lot of X-Men stuff that came before and after it.
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I tend to think that one of the reasons Wolverine is popular, subtext-wise, is because like Captain America, he's close enough to just being a badass soldier that we can appreciate as him being street level whilst having pretty fantastic abilities. Basically, he hits the sweet spot in between "out there enough to be interesting" and "down to earth enough that readers either relate on some level or respect what he is". It helps that that North American society has always taught people that soldiers, which is essentially what Wolverine is, and I cannot stress that enough, are to be respected and revered.
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