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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 15, 2012 16:05:51 GMT
Over the last few months the pile of books besides the bed has been growing and growing into a large To Read pile.
Only today TF:UK v2, Cable Classic v2 and the latest Avengers MU have gone into the shelves/box largely unread.
In progresss is Strontium Dog Case Files v3 and Love & Monsters, a book on how fans came to take control of Doctor Who.
Lying round the room unread we have (deep breath)
3 issues of the Panini Hulk
Ace Trucking Co v1 & 2
The Stainless Steel Rat (2000ad adaptations)
Harry 20 on the High Rock
Avengers Assemble v3
West Coast Avengers Lost in Time
Thunderbolts Classic v2
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Post by Jim on Jun 15, 2012 16:21:48 GMT
Mine has thankfully been diminishing after a good few years of growing, but dauntingly still stands at:
The Thing: Project Pegasus HC
Marvels HC
The first Waid / Garney Captain America HC (pre-Heroes Reborn - have only read the Heroes Return stuff)
The fourth(?) Waid Cap volume with the uncensored version of that Red Skull issue
Shade the Changing Man vols 2 and 3
Parker vol 2
The Unwritten vols 2 and 3
Daredevil: Born Again
Generation X Classic vol 1
Alpha Flight Classic vol 2
Some Pak / Van Lente Hercules volumes
Taskmaster
RASL vol 2
Spider-Man: Origin of the Hob-Goblin (waiting til I've bought and read the preceding volume)
West Coast Avengers: Lost in Space Time
I'm sure there are a couple of others which I'm forgetting, and I have some open pre-orders as well.
This morning I picked off a Black Widow collection by Macchio and Perez et al to read on the tube. Quite enjoying it so far.
EDIT: I'm just listing comic stuff here. There's no way I'm going to list prose books as well, I could probably read one of them in the same time.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 15, 2012 17:35:55 GMT
Blast I forgot the DW novels from a few years back.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 15, 2012 23:03:56 GMT
Harry 20 on the High Rock?  ? Did that finally get a trade? It is Ralph's favourite 2000AD serial! -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 15, 2012 23:26:30 GMT
US one. Amazon can be used to acquire it.
I take it you need my services?
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 15, 2012 23:34:08 GMT
I must have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 15, 2012 23:41:17 GMT
Shall order a copy on payday then!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 16, 2012 8:02:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 16, 2012 9:04:10 GMT
I had completely forgotten it had a US release.
I need to add some Rogue Trooper to the pile come payday. Proper Rogue, not that Friday bollocks.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 16, 2012 9:19:38 GMT
Just read v1 & 2. Hasn't aged too well storywise and doesn't work so well collected. This from a man that loved Rogue Trooper when he was younger (the proper stuff of course)
Some of the art is tip top though.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 16, 2012 9:36:29 GMT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I refuse to believe! I was gripped by his seemingly never-ending quest to find the Traitor General!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 16, 2012 10:50:14 GMT
I think Rogue probably does work better in a serial format given the story premise.
However, the rails came off somewhat rapidly after the Traitor General storyline was resolved. After that aside from Cinnabar I don't think it knew what to do. The reboot was a welcome one, and to be honest The War Machine was fantastic. Just the stories that came after weren't quite up to snuff.
Great art though - Gibbons, Wilson and Kennedy especially.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 16, 2012 10:51:45 GMT
You are wrong! Proper Rogue = good! Friday Rogue - bad!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 16, 2012 10:55:54 GMT
Oh Friday Rogue became far worse than classic Rogue.
But Cinnabar aside Rogue at the time was awful. The War Machine was a splendid bit of work. The minute they started aping the old one with bio-chips they went wrong.
Andy
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Post by Bogatan on Jun 16, 2012 12:08:38 GMT
Hmmm too much, for comics lets see
TFUK all of them
Ghostbusters UK all of them
2000ad 1-1200 still short about 100 issues but it could be a long time before I find them so better make a start
Assorted Dredd and other 2000ad related comics
Couple of hundred various Marvel Essential type UK comics
My book pile is growing too while I plough through the entire Discworld series
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 16, 2012 13:19:29 GMT
Harry 20 on the High Rock? ? Did that finally get a trade? It is Ralph's favourite 2000AD serial! -Ralph Ordered from Book Depository for seven squid and change. Alas, their Dredd selection is poor so another month for that. -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Jun 20, 2012 19:22:14 GMT
My to-read pile is relatively small at the moment (for once),:-
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (Harry Harrison's parody of the bonkers space-opera of people like E.E Smith)
The Illiad (I keep putting this off and must knuckle down and get it started)
Essential X-Factor vol 2
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2012 18:02:46 GMT
Aaaaaaargh! WAY too much in my reading pile right now!
It turned out that, just ahead of Auto Assembly, I had a little more money than I expected. So, given that this has been a horrible, horrible year, I went on a bit of a spending spree as my treat to myself. (It's gotta be done sometime!)
The result is a shelf that's now groaning under the weight of books I haven't got around to reading yet. These include:
Two volumes of Classic Cable
Two volumes of Judge Dredd casefiles
Deadpool And Cable in its entirety
Black Widow: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Wolverine: Enemy of the State
and four volumes of Transformers Classics.
Funny thing: I bought the TF Classics because, in spite of having less than stellar ecollections of the Marvel run, I figured I really should make the effort to take them in before sitting down with the ReGeneration One story. Turns out, I'm actually having a lot of fun with these books!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 22, 2012 18:13:48 GMT
Whatever issues the Marvel run had, it has never plumbed the depths that Dreamwave and IDW have plumbed and it's pretty cohesive, and consistent due to the limited number of different voices thanks to it being pretty much being Bob and Simon's show.
Andy
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Post by legios on Aug 28, 2012 19:27:50 GMT
I currently have a museum guidebook in my to-read pile. Not just any Museum guidebook though - it is a 1971 cover-dated guidebook to what was then called the Welsh Folk Museum, at St Fagans on the outskirts of Cardiff. Discovered by my mother in the bottom of a box whilst she was tidying up I asked her to spare it and send it up to me, both as an artefact from my early life (although cover-dated 1971, our first visit to the museum when it could have been bought didn't take place until after 1973) and because it makes for an interesting comparison to my experience on a much more recent visit that I went on to the site with a number of this parish.
Looking forward to having a read through it and possibly learning a little something I didn't know about the early incarnations of the museum.
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 28, 2012 22:42:27 GMT
I currently have:
The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne)
Virtue Reborn (Tom Wright)
Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher Beckwith)
Transhumanism and Transcendence (Edited by Ronald Cole-Turner)
and vol. 1 of Dr. McNinja
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 29, 2012 6:02:40 GMT
I currently have a museum guidebook in my to-read pile. Not just any Museum guidebook though - it is a 1971 cover-dated guidebook to what was then called the Welsh Folk Museum, at St Fagans on the outskirts of Cardiff. Discovered by my mother in the bottom of a box whilst she was tidying up I asked her to spare it and send it up to me, both as an artefact from my early life (although cover-dated 1971, our first visit to the museum when it could have been bought didn't take place until after 1973) and because it makes for an interesting comparison to my experience on a much more recent visit that I went on to the site with a number of this parish. Looking forward to having a read through it and possibly learning a little something I didn't know about the early incarnations of the museum. Karl They're building a new main building there now, and moving all the archaeological collections from the National Museum in the city centre out to St F. www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/makinghistory/Martin |
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Post by legios on Aug 29, 2012 18:59:26 GMT
They're building a new main building there now, and moving all the archaeological collections from the National Museum in the city centre out to St F. www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/makinghistory/Martin Sounds like a grand idea - expanding things to give a comprehensive picture of human life in Wales down the ages. Very in keeping with the original aims of the Musuem. I must try and get down to see it once it is finished I think. Slightly ironic that I am reading about their new building at the same time as I am reading in their original guidebook about the construction of the original main museum block - which was under construction when the original guidebook was written! Karl |
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? Did that finally get a trade?
