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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 6, 2011 18:46:36 GMT
aha, I knew there was one. I'd have hung on for v2 to get that in. But now is the big Thor push so....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 9, 2011 11:04:19 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 12, 2011 18:07:43 GMT
The Mantoltainment radar has detected Essential Web of Spiderman 1 on the runway for September and espied the great man's name on the credits...... E Web ? Finish MTU and get ASM & PPtSSM to the right point first. If it's a kosher listing it'll be my first new Essential of the year. No it won't cos Amazon have missed one. Ask and it shall be given unto you: www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-june-2011-solicitations-110322.htmlE ASM 10 ! Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #211-230 and ANNUAL #15. RESULT. Stern! And ASM Annual 15 is blinding - Punisher and Doc Ock ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN VOL. 5 TPB Collecting PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN (1976) #97-114. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 12, 2011 18:12:02 GMT
and I've not seen this piece of X-Men art for years. I've got a feeling the posters it's taken from are in my Mum's loft still. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2011 12:57:59 GMT
A probe of Amazon.com reveals some juicy up & coming trades:
Essential X-Men 10
Secret Wars II TPB
Byrne/Claremont Marvel Team Up - SOLD as soon as Amazon UK has an order up
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Post by Gav on Apr 28, 2011 15:16:07 GMT
In predictable fashion, I'm going to waltz into FPG and buy a THOR trade. Hopefully one that says 'NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE' on it. I'm an Thor'd up. I'll be Thor in the morning etc...
Any suggestions?
Also - is it worth me spending £50 on Secret Wars II? I love the first one, and this is a beast.
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Post by blueshift on Apr 28, 2011 15:21:20 GMT
Also - is it worth me spending �50 on Secret Wars II? I love the first one, and this is a beast. Ha ha ha ha haaaaaa Ask Ralph what his opinion on it is  |
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Post by Gav on Apr 28, 2011 15:24:26 GMT
I have a vague recollection of Ralph talking about it, but that's about it.
Can't be...can't be that bad, surely?
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Post by blueshift on Apr 28, 2011 15:50:05 GMT
I have a vague recollection of Ralph talking about it, but that's about it. Can't be...can't be that bad, surely? From what I have read (and that is not all of it mind), it is not even so bad it is good. It is just so bad it is really really boring  |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2011 16:01:23 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2011 20:12:40 GMT
Secret Wars II alas does not hold up and is not a patch on the original. The X-MEN tie-in issues are good though. The Omnibus also contains the even more terrible (and justifiably obscure) Secret Wars 3.
I owned for a while before donating it to Oxfam. Nostalgia would have compelled me to to keep it but frankly it took up too much room!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 29, 2011 23:57:14 GMT
Essential X-Men 10 and Peter Parker 5 now up for pre order on Amazon UK
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 30, 2011 9:01:55 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 7, 2011 9:57:23 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 7, 2011 15:42:17 GMT
Compare and contrast: Essential X-men 10 (Paperback) at Amazon.co.ukJ. M. Dematteis (Author), Denny O'Neil (Author), Michael Fleisher (Author), Bill Mantlo (Author) Paperback: 504 pages Publisher: Marvel Enterprises (13 July 2011) Language English ISBN-10: 0785157476 ISBN-13: 978-0785157472 Essential Spider-Man - Volume 10 (Paperback) @ Amazon.comJ.M. Dematteis (Author), Denny O'Neil (Author), Michael Fleisher (Author), Bill Mantlo (Author), John Romita (Illustrator), Luke McDonnell (Illustrator), Bob McLeod (Illustrator), Alan Kupperberg (Illustrator) Paperback: 504 pages Publisher: Marvel (July 13, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0785157476 ISBN-13: 978-0785157472 As to what Marvel think....... www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-june-2011-solicitations-110322.html |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 8, 2011 13:52:36 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 19, 2011 10:45:22 GMT
I await M's judgement regarding the Walt Simonson Thor trades I loaned!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 20, 2011 6:50:43 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 20, 2011 10:41:22 GMT
Not another WCA HC! Can we just have a big slab of Essential affordable goodness, Marvel? Hmmm?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 20, 2011 10:59:39 GMT
Essential WCA when Essential Avengers gets to that stage I say. Currently they're on E Avengers 7, which takes them to 163. WCA is c A250, which I reckon should be v10 or 11. Unfortunately Avengers doesn't seem as popular an Essential as X-Men (up to v9) or ASM (v10 due shortly) and is lagging some way behind.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 20, 2011 18:14:11 GMT
So..... Namor Visionaries: John Byrne v1: Straight to shelf because I read the issues recently but it's Byrne so therefore top stuff.... She-Hulk Visionaries: John Byrne v1:..... as is this. But in a very different humourous vein. Let me read you the list of Villains involved: The Circus of Crime, Mysterio, The Headmen, The Stilt Man, Doctor Bong and Xemnu the Titan. Pretty certain I hadn't read the short from Marvel Comics Presents before, and that was as good as what foollows. You need to own this. Thunderbolts Classics v1: I bought Justice Like Lightening years ago (same day as Transforce 2001: The Sauna actually) and the content is mostly the same but there's a couple of extra issues here and the Volume 1 on the spine makes me hopeful of more to come. So Justice Like Lightening goes into the eBay/send to friends pile with .... Generation-X Classic v1: .... which duplicates material in the Phalanx Covenant trade without reprinting all of it but adds a couple more issues which don't do it for me. So off it goes to a new home soon with Justice Like Lightening and my paper back copy of Cable & The New Mutants because I now own.... X-Force: Cable & The New Mutants, X-Force: A Force To Be Reckoned With and X-Force: Under the Gun, a 3 volume HC reprint of all Liefield's New Mutants stuff. I read New Mutants in the late 80s and under Simmonson & Blevins it was dire. Liefield was the dynamic shot in the arm the title needed. Good to see it all finally collected. So the following are up for grabs in TPB: Cable & The New Mutants Generation X Classics Thunderbolts: Justice like Lightening Anyone? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 23, 2011 16:21:58 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 23, 2011 21:20:59 GMT
Fingers crossed...
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 28, 2011 13:49:37 GMT
Picked up the Panini version of X-Men Curse of the Mutants trade today.
I quite liked it. Victor Gischler does a great Cyclops and Paco Medina's art was great match. Also Cyclops is becoming more and more like Grant Morrison's Batman from his JLA run.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2011 11:59:04 GMT
The long awaited X-Men: Prelude to the Age of Apocalypse has just tumbled onto the door mat.
The paper quality is <insert expletive> shocking. Worse than the original stock used for the comics, quite horrid. Paper quality for Marvel reprint paperbacks has been on a downward trend all year but this is the pits.
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Post by blueshift on Jun 6, 2011 12:08:38 GMT
The long awaited X-Men: Prelude to the Age of Apocalypse has just tumbled onto the door mat. The paper quality is <insert expletive> shocking. Worse than the original stock used for the comics, quite horrid. Paper quality for Marvel reprint paperbacks has been on a downward trend all year but this is the pits. How does it compare to DC paperback page quality |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2011 13:56:18 GMT
This one is worse I think.
Several of the issues within originally appeared on glossy paper
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 6, 2011 18:19:08 GMT
Good grief. I did not think it possible to have crapper paper than what DC use on their uber-expensive HC's.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2011 19:39:53 GMT
Find a copy and see for yourself. Some of the repro is poor too.
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Post by legios on Jun 6, 2011 21:31:09 GMT
A trip to a local Salvation Army shop in my lunchhour, thanks to a tip-off from Ralph (ta muchly!) lead to my returning to the office with a mighty haul:-
Judge Dredd: Necropolis Books One and Two: missed this when it ran in tooth but was really struck by the story when I read Andy's trades a while back. It is very nice to have it in the collection.
Two Rogue Trooper trades: not checked exactly which stories they collect but it looks like it is the original run, and therefore the good stuff.
The TwoMorrows Legion of Superheroes companion: a compilation of various interviews with luminaries who have worked on Legion of Superheroes, from Otto Binder and Al Plastino through to Jim Starlin, Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen and Legion Fandoms own fans-turned-pro Tom and Mary Bierbaum. A nice thing to have for a Legion fan such as myself.
The real gold-strike was the Flash Gordon collection though - a reprint of the early story arcs from the 1930's - crazy monsters on Mongo, Lion Men, Shark Men, two-fisted action-adventure, beautiful women.. cracking stuff. It moves at a wonderful pace - being a newspaper strip it has a cliffhanger on every page and never really pauses for breath - and it is gloriously coloured. I have a genuine and unironic love for this kind of breakneck adventure romp. A bit creaky and dated in places perhaps, but I still think there is a place for that kind of high-octane adventure story-telling even today.
Karl
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