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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 15, 2013 18:09:57 GMT
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Post by Jim on Apr 15, 2013 20:44:06 GMT
These do indeed look grand! All four for me too. Though I hope the paper quality is decent with that kind of page count and full colour.
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Post by Jim on Nov 9, 2013 18:43:22 GMT
Recently finished the first (10th...) Iron Man Epic Collection; absolutely brilliant, really great comics. I hope they can step up on the production of these, it's nice to have a volume which almost matches an Essential for content but in full colour.
The next one is going to be volume 16, collecting the run with Byrne as writer; mixed feelings as I love that run (first US comic I ever bought was in it), but I've read it so many times already and would have liked to see volume 11 sooner...
-Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 9, 2013 19:14:43 GMT
Go and read the Back Issue Love thread, there,s a few early pages of me raving about it there. Best Iron Man run ever and , until now, chronically unpcollected. V11 soon please
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 12, 2014 19:03:06 GMT
There's a bit of me that's wondering if they're replacing Essentials |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 12, 2014 19:18:31 GMT
Epic Collections: So far I've bought:
Iron Man: The Enemy Within
Thor: War of the Pantheons
Avengers: The Final Threat
Should get the cosmic power Spidey. Have ordered Ghosts of the Past.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 21, 2014 7:42:55 GMT
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Post by Jim on Jan 21, 2014 11:22:47 GMT
Well, there's two more preorders in! Thanks Phil!
-Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 29, 2014 17:16:53 GMT
My ASM Epic Collections Cosmic Adventures arrived today. I hesitated on this volume cos I got most of the contents in the UK Spiderman title a few years back. But when I saw a copy for £15.....
It's good stuff this, well worth a look.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2014 9:05:16 GMT
The latest Iron Man Epic Collection is paining me.
It's collecting the Byrne & JRjr/Paul Ryan stories
For a start neither artist is quite the right for the title.
But my major problem is the Armor Wars 2 story!
Why call a story Armor Wars 2 when it has only the faintest connection to the original Armor Wars story (someone appears disguised as the Titanium Man to get Iron Man to reveal he's the original that killed the Titanium Man). There's barely a properly armoured foe in it, till the very end, and the major villain who's spent the story bigging up how Iron man wrecked his life turns out to be a no0body that we and Starkl have never heard of.
Read the original Armour Wars. Much much better.
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2014 12:26:53 GMT
Armour Wars 1 is indeed tops and was reprinted in a Panini digest version. Not to be confused with the young reader remake.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on May 6, 2014 12:44:49 GMT
The latest Iron Man Epic Collection is paining me. It's collecting the Byrne & JRjr/Paul Ryan stories For a start neither artist is quite the right for the title. I'd disagree on JRjr - at this period of his career, inked by Wiacek, his art was at its most bare and expressive and really sold the scale of some of the action sequences for my money. Ryan was a bit weak however and I remember being disappointed in him back when I was reading this monthly. Indeed, I have wondered if it was called this by editorial mandate as there's not even a remote thematic connection with either the original Armour Wars or with even the name and the original is a real classic. I do still overall like this run on Iron Man though, there are some interesting ideas in AWII and the Dragon Seed saga is an epic with a genuinely epic-feeling conclusion - too many stories, especially (dare I say it) these days set things up well and then fail to deliver a satisfying conclusion. Byrne did that well here, while realising he was writing an ongoing story in a shared universe. I don't think anyone manages, or even attempts, that any more. I will always have a soft spot for these comics as they are where I started reading both Iron Man (not counting scattered UK reprints) and US-format comics. -Jim |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2014 13:06:16 GMT
JRjr here isn't quite the finished article. He's style's evolving from X-Men - which I liked a lot - to where it ends up. Everything, especially the Iron Man armour, is drawn quite square whereas I think the armour looks better rounded.
This isn't one of my fave Armour designs either. I still yearn for the 70s/early 80s armour to come back.
Not got to the end of the trade yet so don't know how it ends.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 1, 2014 8:19:21 GMT
Looking forward to Ghosts of the Past from Amazon. Some fine mid 80s trades coming out at the moment. Found cheaper on eBay and bit to get it earlier. I've just read The Scorpion Takes a Bride for the first time, a story I first saw advertised 30 years ago! I now have a reprint of every Spiderman tale from 1 to the end of this book thanks to Essentials, The Origin of the Hobgoblin and Saga of the Alien Costume |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 1, 2014 22:24:43 GMT
Burns: did you spot who the soldiers were in the second part of the gold building story?
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 1, 2014 23:40:28 GMT
I don't have it to hand as I am away for a few days.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2014 6:09:13 GMT
Look when home!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2014 14:47:47 GMT
So.....
Marvel Epic Collections: Store by themselves, like I did the B&W Essentials, or with the rest of the colour trades for that series?
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 2, 2014 15:17:53 GMT
By themselves.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2014 16:11:01 GMT
See I'm not so sure. Certain Epics - the FF In The Family, Avengers Final Threat and Cap Society of Serpents all fill gaps in existing trade runs
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 2, 2014 16:25:44 GMT
The trade dress for Epic trades will look better when beside each other. Also, they are numbered volumes.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2014 16:37:56 GMT
I see a point for some titles when there might be nothing but epic collections on my shelves
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 2, 2014 17:39:10 GMT
But then they will be split up and it will annoy you slowly.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2014 17:41:47 GMT
Yes I know. But I'm thinking of the run of the story
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2014 18:01:34 GMT
I've retired a Trade because of the Epic Collections: Captain America War & Rememberance has come off the shelf replaced by the Cap trade that was hiding when Burns was here.
With the FF: Into the Timestream collection I'll be able to retire my first 2 Simonson FF Visionaries
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 29, 2014 13:05:53 GMT
Epic Collection: Judgement Day in the post.
Read or got most of it already in Assault on Olympus/Contest of Champions/WCA/X-Men vs Avengers but never read Emperor Doom before.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 1, 2014 18:26:16 GMT
and here. But on hold cos Amazing X-MEN v1 arrived today too :-)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 2, 2014 20:01:37 GMT
Captain America: Society of Serpents Epic Collection in the post. Last of the newer material Epics till next year while Marvel go on their 75th anniversary Volume 1 binge
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2014 17:37:24 GMT
Amazon UK have just done a few months of upgrades in one go. Some nice stuff just gone up including 3 epic collections
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 7, 2014 11:22:25 GMT
Such as?
Andy
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