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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 11, 2018 20:33:48 GMT
Force Works was an Abnett & Lanning book if memory serves. Did they mastermind this whole thing? I hope not... It's Avengers, so most likely Bob Harras.
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Post by Jim on Aug 12, 2018 21:22:11 GMT
The early to mid 90s, about 320 onwards to the end at 403, were not a good time for the Avengers. I quite liked the bits of the early part of the Harras run that I've read, with the new Swordsman, etc (I must get that recent-ish Epic to fill the gaps). Also Operation: Galactic Storm is tops. I have it the original comics, the two-part trade collection and am very tempted to get the Epic as well for no good reason....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 12, 2018 21:24:57 GMT
You'll get them all, you know you will.
Especially as the one before, Collectors Obsession, is out and separately tempting you, and the one after, v23 Fear The Reaper, is due next spring!
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Post by Jim on Aug 12, 2018 22:02:23 GMT
Definitely going to be getting the Collection Obsession as I don't even know how that plotline ends, I just have a handful of random issues from circa #340 thanks to Comag's spotty distribution back in the day.
I am doing a pretty good job of generally resisting picking up all the epics, I'll have you know! Partly it's due to plain old budget reasons, admittedly... The only line I'm sure I'll pick up all of is Iron Man, and I'm definitely in for all DD post-Miller (I feel no need to replace the Omnibus etc with epics).
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 15, 2018 7:11:53 GMT
New Defenders Epic Collection out in comic shops today! Hurrah!
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Post by Jim on Aug 15, 2018 10:42:10 GMT
Just ordered the MOKF Epic (turned out to be wise to hold off on the Omnis for these after all) and Cap v4 as both had dropped to really quite nice prices. Some Englehart reading to look forward to!
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Post by Jim on Aug 15, 2018 11:38:58 GMT
Also noticed that the Collection Obsession does not collect what I thought it did, and only goes up to the beginning of that arc with the new Swordsman etc. so I'll have to wait a bit longer...
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 20, 2018 13:54:50 GMT
Hmm. I keep a periodic check on the Epic Collections as I'd like to buy into some of the titles, but I've just noticed that Iron Man: Golden Avenger seems to have gone out of print. I wondered if we'd reach a point where there were just too many of these volumes for Marvel to keep them all available.
Edit: I see the earliest printed Avengers volume (The Final Threat) has gone too. Curses. Too late again, Pinwig.
Edit Again: perhaps there's hope. Both Waterstones and Foyles are under the impression the Avengers book is being reprinted and is due back in stock.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 20, 2018 14:11:14 GMT
Avengers: Enemy Within did some time ago. It appears Iron Fist did too, hence the reprint next month.
Spotted the Silver Surfer: Galctus Calls volume was OOP this very morning, in fact, and closer investigation reveals FF: Worlds Greaest Comic Magazine might have too. There may be some others where there's still stock remaining.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 20, 2018 18:12:10 GMT
Given that volumes of each EC series are released out of order one would hope there is a plan to keep the books in print until at least each run is completed. But then this is Marvel...
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Aug 20, 2018 19:59:49 GMT
Honestly, even as an Iron Man fan and having gone on record that I will be completist with IM Epics, Silver Age Iron Man is a _slog_ for the most part. I would recommend going in for the first two volumes of Captain America instead. It is technically the same comic (for a significant part of the run) and many times more fun!
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 20, 2018 20:32:06 GMT
Yes, but we can never underestimate the power of the completist urge. Buy one, buy em all. It's the rule!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 20, 2018 21:14:07 GMT
Jim is right.
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Post by Jim on Aug 27, 2018 14:02:51 GMT
I have finished Doctor Strange: Afterlife. It's a bit of a mixed bag!
I picked it up cheap based on the fact there were some good creators involved and I have a soft spot for mid-90s Marvel. It starts with one of those Kurt Busiek post-Marvels fully painted nostalgia pieces, and it's fairly entertaining. Then there is a slog through the latter parts of an in-progress story arc which doesn't look like it was very compelling in the first place, and is almost immediately mostly-undone by Warren Ellis in the first pages of a very short, very Ellis, run. It's an improvement on what went before but not anyone's best work. Then there is a fairly decent Dematteis / Buckingham run. Part of it is deck-clearing for the final issue, but it's not bad and Buckingham does good work. Then it ends on the "What is is that disturbs you, Stephen?" one-shot from P Craig Russell which is just beautiful.
Oh, and there's a reprint of a B&W sideways-printed "ash-can" that promoted the title during the aforementioned very boring story arc, the irony being that the ash-can is actually quite interesting (it's mostly a recap built around old art but nicely done).
I can't really recommend it. If the PCR one-shot got nicely reprinted by itself, ideally over-sized, I would be ditching it very quickly.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 28, 2018 14:52:26 GMT
The Marvel Two In One Epic Collection v1: Cry Monster has turned up.
I am very pleased to see the spine cover is orange. Well done for getting that right Marvel!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 2, 2018 17:18:59 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 5, 2018 12:23:39 GMT
Somewhere out there is the Postman with my Defenders Epic Collection and Strange Tales Human Torch/Thing book
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 5, 2018 15:15:18 GMT
One of those books is good...
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 5, 2018 16:54:31 GMT
That'll be The Defenders Epic Collection containing the Burns beloved Iceman limited series?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 5, 2018 20:19:02 GMT
I...what...I am torn.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 5, 2018 22:02:19 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2018 8:32:19 GMT
Such a frightening comic!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 7, 2018 19:15:00 GMT
Defenders Epic read and ready for Martin. Loved reading some of those issues again. Will be even more excited by next year's volume which has some issues (most of the volume) that have never been collected. 8 126-137 Iceman 1-4, Beauty & The Beast 1-4 9 138-152 Gargoyle 1-4, X-Factor 1? Not 100% sure about the placement of the Iceman issues in v8, I might have stuck them at the end of the volume. Having Iceman leaving with Angle & Beast at the end when the Beast is off elsewhere is a bit jarring.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 14, 2018 22:12:13 GMT
Marvel Universe Epic Collection #100 in the post!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 15, 2018 14:17:24 GMT
ASM Epic 18 Venom is here! Marvel Epic 100! Been looking forward to this, as I've got a certain amout of affection for the McFarlane Spider-Man run which starts here. First time I really regularly bought ASM, having thought it had been in a bit of a trough from about the point Web Of started. Having read those issues recently in trades and digital I see I was overestimating the problems but even so there's a real energy to the McFarlane issues. And an Evoloutionary War annual! Second to be Epic'd after New Mutants Annual 4, with Punisher annual 1 following early next year. 8 to go! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolutionary_WarSo the 80s ASM Epic'd looks quite nice: EPIC | ISSUES | ANNUAL | OTHERS | 15 Ghosts of the Past | 259-272 | 18-19 | | 16 | 273-288 | | Graphic Novel 22 Hooky Spiderman UK 607-610? | 17 Kraven's Last Hunt | 289-294 | 20-21 | Spider-Man vs Wolverine; Web of Spider-Man #29-32 Spectacular Spider-Man #131-132 | 18 Venom | 295-310 | 22 | Spectacular Spider-Man #133, Web of Spider-Man #33 | 19 | 311-325 | 23 | Graphic Novel Parallel Lives | 20 Cosmic Adventures | 326-333 | 24 | Spectacular Spider-Man #158-160, Annual #10; Web of Spider-Man #59-61, Annual #6 | 21 Return of the Sinister Six | 224-350 | | Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth | 22 Robin Bound | 351-360 | 25 | Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #11; Web Of Spider-Man Annual #7 |
Would LOVE to see one of those missing volumes - 16 or 19 - next year!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2018 17:24:59 GMT
Marvel Universe Epic Collection #100 in the post! I have four of them. -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 15, 2018 17:39:53 GMT
I would take a celebratory picture but Martin has one of mine
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2018 22:14:59 GMT
I will get more at some point. Epics are fab but I am restricted by finances! I had hoped earlier volumes might drop to clearance levels but they seem to keep their value.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2018 21:05:43 GMT
Thanks to the Comixology Wolverine sale, I grabbed digital copies of all of his Epics which I didn't have. v1 Madripoor Night brings back a lot of memories. It was an odd time to start a Wolverine solo title, with the X-Men presumed dead, especially as the first thing Claremont does is bring in a bunch of supporting characters who know him and he's pretending not to be Wolverine! The title launched in November 1988, the same month as Uncanny 237, the first trip to Genosha www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=11&year=1988&sort=alphaIt was preceded by a run in the first ten issues of Marvel Comics Presents, which I was surprised to discover was in the Epic, for some reason I thought it wasn't! www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=9&year=1988&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=nullI say preceded: MCP 6 & 7 were on sale the same month as Wolverine 1. I struggled with Wolverine's solo book at the time: I was of the opinion he shouldn't have one and they should do limited series whenever a really good story came up. I also didn't feel the Maridpoor setting was really what I was expecting from a Wolverine title, but there again none of his solo stuff till that point (Claremont & Miller Wolverine, Kitty Pryde & Wolverine, Spider-Man vs Wolverine) is typical solo fare either. But re-reading the Claremont stuff now I'm finding it a lot better than I remember. Lots more familiar Marel characters than remembered: I'd completely forgotten Jessica Drew & Lindsay McCabe were in the book or that the Samurai appeared and only vaguely remembered the Mr Fixit Hulk appearance. Pushing on I know there's a Claremont issue coming shoehorning more Sabretooth into Wolverine's back story: for them to have never met before Uncanny 210-213, there's lots of Sabretooth round this time. And I've no recollection whatsoever to what happens between the Claremont/Buscema run and the Goodwin/Byrne run that opens v2. Slightly surprised not to see Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown (4 issues, started same month as Wolverine 5) in this volume www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=3&year=1989&sort=alphaHopefully that'll show up in an X-Men Epic.
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Post by Kingoji on Sept 24, 2018 8:41:44 GMT
I noticed that amazon has listed an upcoming Incredible Hulk, and the contents go post-Onslaught. Is this the first we've seen of anything going beyond the Onslaught saga, or was I imagining that being the supposed cut-off point?
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