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Someone mentioned this at the end of the last thread, and I think it needs to be reiterated: why the hell is Lone Wolf and Cub only available in those lovely little DH books? Give me an oversized collection. It looks like Dark Horse is releasing a Gallery Edition with "selections" of the work, but I want the whole thing. e: also, a couple of you are re-reading all of Thor, right? I'm up to Thor 140 and oh my god this book is so good. It's the best work Jack was doing at the time, by a mile. FF is good, but Thor was made for Kirby's fantastically grotesque style.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 04:09 |
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Open Marriage Night posted:Thor 133 (first Ego) is really good, but the best is yet to come. Let me know what you think when you go through the 160's. 133 was good yeah, but I love the issue where Jane Foster becomes an immortal for a hot minute, or the whole war between the trolls and Asgard. And Tales of Asgard is actually the best part of that book, starting at about 114 there isn’t really a bad ToA story, and once they get going on the Ragnarok saga and into the adventures of the warriors three it’s unassailable. I did not expect to love Thor this much.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2018 20:33 |
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Open Marriage Night posted:Thor is probably my favorite book from 60's Marvel. Spider-Man was great, but you get tired of him whining about his problems after a while. Donald Blake's whiny rear end was holding Thor back for a while too. I still think Spider-Man is a cut above, mainly because while Pete's whining can grate after a while, he's a genuinely interesting character who has interesting things happen to him. He's the only Marvel secret identity so far that's worth anything. Tony Stark is the next best thing I guess, with all the Senator Byrd stuff that's going on, but it's tough to care that much about the troubles of an incredibly rich genius who also happens to be Iron Man. I was real disappointed when they cut back to Don Blake in Thor after the war on asgard thing. If they can avoid going down that path that would help sway the scales, but I just don't know if they will. On the other hand I'm also right where Romita takes over on S-M. I love Ditko but Romita is just so drat good. His work on Daredevil made the very bad book readable, and I'm super looking forward to seeing him work on Spider-man. I'm also real close to Sterenko on Shield. I've heard great things about that run.
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2018 01:54 |
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They, especially Chris, love wacky silver age stories and weird 80s stories like the one where the punisher steals some dude’s jet ski. They’ve also read a ton of comics, but I have a feeling there are people on here who’ve read, it not as many, at least in same ballpark. They’ll get details wrong and probably rank stuff weirdly if it falls outside of their particular wheelhouse. As long as you know this their list is a ton of fun to listen to.
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 01:04 |
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I’m with them in identity crisis being the worst story ever. Also like their top of the list. That’s a drat fine Spider-Man story. They got me to read Achewood too. Not the whole thing, but the Great Outdoor Fight, with no other context for the strip, was really great. They are most wrong about the work of Darwin Cooke, but everyone is allowed to be wrong now and then.
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 15:49 |
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I bought the Darwyn Cooke Graphic Inc hardcover today with some Christmas gift cards and man, he was just so good. It sucks so much that his career in comics started as late as it did and ended as early as it did. On the note of the book - it’s less an art book and more just a collection of his otherwise uncollected DC work, along with a ton of covers he did along the way. If you love Cooke I highly recommend picking it up.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 05:08 |
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Also his Catwoman run with Brubaker. That poo poo was pure gold.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 05:13 |
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Yeah. They included a lot of them (all?) in Graphic Ink but the gutter loss is pretty bad. I’ve been buying the singles in dolllar bins for the last year, have most of them at this point. I want to get them all bound with some of his other work at some point.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2018 05:36 |
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My favorite part was when she had to have sex with that old creepy guy to get access to his magic power (or knowledge, I can't quite remember). It wouldn't be an Alan Moore book without that. not my favorite part. not all that bad, but I do wish all his books didn't have questionable sex or flat out rape
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2018 06:29 |
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Madkal posted:Yea I am going to need a better source than Nancy Grace on this one. What do you mean? I certainly think that crimonline.com is a reputable journalistic organization and we should take their headlines at face value.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2018 20:04 |
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lasagnacat is loving insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ooCnZviZ8 Uh... NWS you need this to make it complete: http://shampoofantasy.com/ Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jan 11, 2018 |
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quote:Hansi is a naïve young peasant girl in Sudetenland, who is mesmerized by the Führer and reading books. She wins a contest, organized by Adolf Hitler, that picks students for special training in National socialist schools in Prague. Her mother is delighted, but warns her in advance to "never forget Jesus Christ". As Hansi arrives in Prague, she is educated into antisemitism, but has doubts since Jesus himself was a Jew. Still, despite people informing her about the famine and horrors of the war she remains enthusiastic about Hitler.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2018 01:07 |
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https://twitter.com/Slicknickshady/status/953213930394054661 e: I had no idea who Todd Nauck is, so went to go look for this art. Dude might not be wrong about that one even if he's insane to want Claremont back.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 01:57 |
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Yeah I get maybe a dozen and I still don’t read most of them until the arc ends. They’re mostly indies that I just hope make it to trade in the first place.
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2018 02:15 |
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Eh, I think you came into more disposable income at some point and just ended up sinking a lot of it into comics, right? I totally get it, I've done the same with other forms of entertainment. The serial nature of the form makes it a bit easier to drop regular amounts of money on it than if you just go a bit nuts buying a console and a bunch of games or something.
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2018 02:33 |
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Tales of Asgard is like my favorite marvel series I think.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 19:41 |
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site posted:Well i mean the whole reason we're looking at this and lolling is cuz it's clearly some kinda alt-right book right? I think there's lots of people with feelings about 9/11 that aren't alt-right. I'd be laughing at it because of that goddawful art.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2018 20:56 |
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site posted:Is anyone familiar enough with the process of professional comics creation to know what a flatter does? I've seen the word used by colorists on twitter but I have no idea what role they play http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2016/04/01/cc-flatter/ I thought someone had bought a google smiley but I guess not.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2018 01:27 |
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I just finished the Mangog saga in the Kirby Thor run and goddamn every panel is amazing. I want to post so much of it. If you haven’t read it, you absolutely should. From Sif to Balder to Loki to the Warriors Three every character gets their moment to shine. Sif really was one of the only strong female characters from that period of comics. She gets a couple lovely scenes in that era but when Mangog breaks into the room that holds the Odinsword and Thor tells her to get behind him her retort that no, her place is at his side, is perfect. The only thing I have trouble with is how much of a big stupid jerk Odin is.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2018 02:15 |
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As I’m going through old marvel books I’m trying to supplement by reading blog posts or articles about that period in comics. I read one about the marvel method on dial b for blog that got me thinking about what constitutes a story. quote:New definition: An artist opens a vein and pours out their life's blood onto a blank page, creating the characters and their world, the plot, pacing, and setting -- in short, creating ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. Then Stan Lee adds captions, sound effects and dialogue. That's the REAL definition of the Marvel Method: Stan wrote the words. And he certainly NEVER illustrated a single comic book story, ever, for Marvel or any other company. I can't even recall seeing one of his doodles! He is not an illustrator, he never has been, and he never will be. I think it’s interesting to say that an artist created everything when what really resonates for me in a lot of the better stories is the dialogue and characterization that comes through. But it also makes me wonder: are there any examples of people taking those old books and writing different dialogue to tell different stories? I’m curious what could be done with the same art (knowing that the process of pencil > dialogue > ink still lets the artist draw to the dialogue).
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2018 15:58 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:00 |
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I just finished the first few trades of Black Science and goddamn that is some good poo poo. That is classic sci fi comics for me. I love dimension hopping as a concept, it lets artists just go completely wild. So many killer double page spreads. Remender isn’t one of my favourite writers but I’m not sure why - I like pretty much everything he’s put out, I just don’t go looking for it. I’ve read most of his marvel stuff and black science, does he have anything else worth digging into?
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 04:58 |