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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 25, 2010 16:58:33 GMT
Invincible Iron Man Volume 4: Stark Disassembled: well...... not as good as the preceeding two trades. Stark spends most of the book in a coma having odd dreams while the outside well does their best to either bring him back or kill him. I'll give it a another read but just didn't float my boat like the previous volume did. Great bits were Hill & Potts finding out that they'd both slept with Stark recently. The ending - with the question of "how long ago was the backup of Stark's mind taken?" cleans the character up somewhat from the events of the last few years as you see Tony reading what happened in Civil War and being horrified by what he did.
I have a theory. I think I don't like playboy millionaire Tony Stark that much. My fave Iron Man stories both involve him being brought down to earth (the drink story of 160-200 and World's Most Wanted) When he starts being put back together I loose interest......
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 25, 2010 16:58:57 GMT
Essential Defenders 5 now....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 27, 2010 15:49:52 GMT
Essential Defenders v5: Wall to wall Demons I'm afraid so I really didn't get on with this volume objecting as I do to Occult content. You expect a little bit when you read a title with Doctor Strange involved but this was nothing but Demons for nearly 20 issues. The only chink of light is towards the end when The Beast shows up (I cheered just like I cheered when he turned up in the Avengers v7. We then get a crossover with the DeMattis also written Captain America that I read the cap part of 25+ years ago. Finally found out how it finished.
There's just 20 issues of the original Defenders run left and I have these plus the New Defenders that follow in the back issue box upstairs. Time to start on that run which I'd been holding for when this tradecame out.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 28, 2010 9:23:04 GMT
Currently making my way through the second volume of ye olde Captain Britain. It's really bad stuff. I had previously read some of the issues that would have been in volume 1 but jings if anything the run got worse as it went on! Hmmmm, CB wasn't that great before Davis and co arrived, was it?
Still, it cost me nowt as it was from the library.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 28, 2010 9:30:16 GMT
No it wasn't.
There's a volume 3 which bridges the bad stuff and Davis which includes the Claremont/Byrne MTU issues
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 28, 2010 23:22:36 GMT
Batman & Robin Deluxe HC - well worth the money. The Philip Tan stuff isn't a patch on Frank Quitely but the backmatter helps soften the blow of the drop in quality of the art from issue 4 onwards.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Jul 28, 2010 23:33:08 GMT
Is DC still using the rather thin paper for their HC trades?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 28, 2010 23:41:33 GMT
It's thin but feels a bit more substantial than others I've perused.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2010 8:44:11 GMT
The shitty paper DC want to use on high-end collections continues with the Alan Moore Swmap Thing volumes. DC: GET A FUCKING GRIP.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jul 29, 2010 8:49:28 GMT
The shitty paper DC want to use on high-end collections continues with the Alan Moore Swmap Thing volumes. DC: GET A FUCKING GRIP. -Ralph It is frankly ridiculous |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2010 8:53:53 GMT
When asked at a con, DC replied something along the lines of they want them to feel like thre original issues, missing the point spectacularly, and annoying folk who had paid $75 for the Death of Superman Omnibus with shitty paper.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jul 29, 2010 8:57:17 GMT
When asked at a con, DC replied something along the lines of they want them to feel like thre original issues, missing the point spectacularly, and annoying folk who had paid $75 for the Death of Superman Omnibus with shitty paper. -Ralph But even the issues are printed on better paper! I don't want my expensive trades to tear at the drop of a hat |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2010 12:31:27 GMT
Me too, which is why I only ever buy them when on sale.
DC baffle me.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 3, 2010 19:23:39 GMT
I'm on day 2 of reading Secret Wars II and I'm on page 605. I feel despair.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2010 20:58:35 GMT
On page 730. There's a lot of shit in this book.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2010 12:01:39 GMT
My realm of Kings HC (ordered when it was hideously mispriced at Amazon) has just showed. I expect this to be a "one read and then on eBay's altar" job
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Post by panderson on Aug 6, 2010 12:11:26 GMT
whhhaaaaa I got an email the other day from them saying the order had been delayed and they had not got a copy yet
DOUBLE STANDARDS!!!
I better have one waiting on my mat when I get home....grrr
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2010 14:49:25 GMT
Oh dear.
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Post by panderson on Aug 6, 2010 18:01:12 GMT
Indeed - and back home now and NO package POUT |
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Post by panderson on Aug 7, 2010 0:06:02 GMT
ok - Amazon are messed up - NOW got an email to say that HC is on the way..fingers crossed. Think I may hold on to it longer than you Phil - I love my cosmic Marvel
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2010 0:20:41 GMT
You can't beat Cosmic Jim Starlin for Cosmic Marvel!!!
-Ralph
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Post by panderson on Aug 7, 2010 0:24:44 GMT
Very true Ralph mate - thing is I ham hearing very good things about the new stuff - it has Lovecraft type stuff and I LOVE lovecraft
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2010 0:38:58 GMT
I really need to read Lovecraft properly at some point. Read bits here and there.
-Ralph
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Post by panderson on Aug 7, 2010 1:08:20 GMT
I really need to read Lovecraft properly at some point. Read bits here and there. -Ralph I have most of his stuff on pdf and audio if you want it - its public domain so no worries over rites Could burn it to DVD for AA |
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Post by legios on Aug 7, 2010 7:25:40 GMT
Surely if there is anything we have learned from Lovecraft it is that rites are to be worried about - don't they always lead to madness, death or shoggoths? :-) Karl |
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Post by panderson on Aug 7, 2010 7:51:36 GMT
Surely if there is anything we have learned from Lovecraft it is that rites are to be worried about - don't they always lead to madness, death or shoggoths? :-) Karl SOOO glad someone got that lol |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2010 9:17:38 GMT
I'm on day 2 of reading Secret Wars II and I'm on page 605. I feel despair. -Ralph The reading has slowed as I've went on. The SWII storyline is now finished. What a cosmic turd of an ending. Just the Secret Wars 3 storyline in FF and the Quasar epilogue to go. Sigh. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 28, 2010 8:17:31 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 29, 2010 10:42:37 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 29, 2010 10:59:51 GMT
OoooOOOO, Cosmic Jim in black and white!
-Ralph
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