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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2008 22:26:29 GMT
It's alright the new listings are often like that. Watch the prices go down soon enough.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 4, 2008 23:28:52 GMT
I've got most of the original issues featuring guardians of the Galaxy in Essentials. IMO it's bobbins.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2008 23:30:01 GMT
I have a fondness for them and I have the original MSH issue they debuted in. Battered though it may be.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 5, 2008 0:02:39 GMT
Read the 2 Walt Simonson FF trades earlier. Great stuff, loads going on and exciting and funny. Just what I want from FF stories and even better at half price! Roll on volume 3 to complete the run, I say. Snap to it, Marvel!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 5, 2008 0:07:19 GMT
Does Volume 3 have the New FF in it?
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 5, 2008 0:09:43 GMT
It hasn't been solicited as yet. I just assume Marvel will put one out at some point. Such a volume would indeed have the 'new FF' issues in it.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 5, 2008 9:08:11 GMT
Then it shall be bought.
Though Simonson Thor >> Simonson FF
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 9, 2008 12:15:13 GMT
I read the 'Book(s) of Doom' last night. Enjoyable nonsense.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 9, 2008 14:50:15 GMT
Finally got round to getting the The Last Iron Fist story by Fraction/Brubaker and Aja.
Damned good stuff.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 10, 2008 22:39:27 GMT
Did I not say so ? Now get The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven !
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 10, 2008 23:00:47 GMT
Yes sir!!!!
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 12, 2008 12:15:20 GMT
The Black Glove HC - got this cheap and brand new on Ebay. Fucking shitty paper, well done DC. It means some of the later pages are a bit bobbly and stretched. FFS someone needs to give you a Marvel hardcover and say - MAKE IT LIKE THIS DUMMIES. The JH Williams issues are a cut above the Tony Daniel stuff. Morrison's Batman story really needed a much better artist for it.
Invasion - Mantlo/Giffen/McFarlane/Sears
Great rollicking stuff that moves along at 100 miles an hour and is done in three oversized issues. Well worth picking up.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 12, 2008 17:31:48 GMT
Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson vol 5. Stirring stuff, though with a slight whiff of diminishing returns creeping in, so probably best Simonson called it a day there. I hope that does not sound too critical: it's sterling stuff, but he was running out of things that could be done with that Marvel version of the Norse myths. Or at least that's how it reads. A fuller assesment shall wait until I get a hold of volume 4 (which I have not read) and the reprint of volume 1 (only partly read before) so I can read the whole run in one sitting!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 12, 2008 17:51:18 GMT
Two of my favorite Thor issues are in this volume - the Splash pages battle with Jormungand which sees Simonson return to art and the episode which reintroduces the Destroyer.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 14, 2008 16:21:41 GMT
Jack Kirby's OMAC: One Man Army Corps - Such immense fun. Put a big smile on my face. Such fabulous bonkersness. We must all prepare - FOR THE WORLD THAT'S COMING!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 14, 2008 19:20:23 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 14, 2008 19:49:36 GMT
There will be no greater graphic novel in 2009!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 14, 2008 19:51:33 GMT
It's true unless they did the Mantlo Almanac and had all his Rom and Incredible Hulk in it. But such a book would destroy all reality with it's awesomeness.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 14, 2008 23:59:45 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 18, 2008 8:52:06 GMT
Magik showed up this week. Like Kitty Pryde & Wolverine this is another of the X-Men limited series that I can't believe has never been reprinted as it's so important (even more so) to the ongoing X-Men storyline revealing what happened to Illyana in Limbo. It was printed about a year after X-Men 160 where she had been aged so fans had had to wait a while to find out what happened. The once small criticism i have - especially in light of the extra issues included in the forthcoming Hawkeye volume - is that X-Men 160 itself isn't included. www.newsarama.com/comics/081216-marvel-march-2009-solicitations.html for Marvel's March solicitations including said Hawkeye volume. The LS was reprinted (once) in the mid 80s (I have a copy) but the other goodies especially the Byrne avengers issue may make this worth getting. Also: New Mutants Classic 4 ! Sold !
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2008 11:05:36 GMT
The Starlin Masterworks Warlock book is in Marvel's March solicits. Hurray.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 18, 2008 13:23:45 GMT
Splendid news - to Amazon to see if it's up for preorder!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2008 17:51:10 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 18, 2008 17:52:47 GMT
I probably will at some point.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 18, 2008 23:15:48 GMT
I was ruminating on which 80s X-Men limited series remain uncollected (trying to predict which will be next up for the HC treatment)
Wolverine - always in print
Magik - just out in HC
X-Men Micronauts - rights limbo I suspect
Kitty Pryde & Wolverine - recently out in HC
Beauty & The Beast - never collected.
Nightcrawler - never collected - could chuck in the related NC tale from Bizzare Adventures 27
Iceman - never collected - could chuck in the related Iceman tale from Bizzare Adventures 27
X-Men/Alpha Flight - Asgardian Wars is long out of print and should be reprinted.
X-Men/FF - traded years back, out of print, but availible in B&W in Essential X-Men 7 (?)
X-Men/Avengers - traded years back, out of print
Havok & Wolverine - Meltdown - traded years back, out of print
Got a few more to do. Then there's the non X-Men series - Hawkeye and Cloak & Dagger are getting the treatment but there's The Falcon, Sub Mariner, Black Panther, Vision & Scarlet Witch II .....
Have I left any out of either category ?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 19, 2008 15:45:32 GMT
Yet another reason why DC's Trade Paperback department sucks ass:
Was in waterstones and saw there was a new Will Eisner Spirit tpb entitled Femme Fatales and thought - hey I'll pick this up. Looked in it and saw more than a few stories that were included in the only other collection of Will Eisner Spirit.
Twats.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2008 17:32:41 GMT
Amazon sent me an e-mail stating Essential Thor Volume 4 will be available in June 2009. BY ODIN'S BEARD, THIS GLADDENS MY HEART!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 2, 2009 22:11:19 GMT
Did I mention Essential Wolverine 5 has arrived ? Lots of grey all over the place - need to compare to the previous volume where the repro was appalling - but from memory this looks sharper, the problem is more to do with the source material (we're into 90s era Wolverine - chronologically E Wolverine is the most advanced of all the Essentials)
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2009 13:24:43 GMT
I had a flick through GI JOE CLASSIC VOL 1. Looks nice, decent paper stock, features #1-10 of the Marvel run. Repro is great, some recolouring done but faithful to the originals. Horrid cover art (not a J Scott Campbell fan) but generally I can see myself picking this up off Amazon at some point - boo to Diamond UK for making it £2 dearer in stores than it would have been previously.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 8, 2009 13:30:24 GMT
Oh yeah I'd forgot that was out. Adds to the list.
Andy
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