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Post by The Doctor on Dec 30, 2007 11:45:57 GMT
Picked up Civil War: Captain America on a whim yesterday. Enjoyable as previous volumes if perhaps not working as well as a trade, suffers from being hampered by the ongoing Civil War story. Marvel really need to get their act together with the Brubaker Cap trades though. They are not numbered or follow a common subtitle so it is difficult to know what order they go in and when they are out. This is the 5th volume of the run, but you'll find no indication of this in the actual book.
But anyway, good stuff. Captain America remains easily the best book Marvel are putting out currently. Continues to feel modern while still having that old 'fun' Marvel vibe.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2007 18:55:35 GMT
The Winter Soldier one shot collected herein is a superb story. Meeting the Young Avengers and then those superb scenes with Namor at the end.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2007 18:57:28 GMT
I meanwhile have read New Excalibur: Battle for Eternity. Bought because I hesitated cancelling the floppies cos the Nocturn stroke story (pts 1 & 2 within) was good.
However it goes downhill rapidly after that. Typical Claremont nonsense. Avoid
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 1, 2008 23:23:49 GMT
Several trades sacrificed on eBay's altar - click bellow
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 5, 2008 15:24:36 GMT
I have once again broken my promise to only buy new stuff I like in trades (Captain America) and bought 6 Iron Fist issues off eBay this week cos I wasn't patient enough to wait for the next trade !
Can I also ask for 3 issues of All Star Superman bought in December to be taken into account ?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2008 15:43:25 GMT
Flicked through Essential Iron Fist and Power-Man in FP today. Oh, I was tempted, the cheese wafting off it was strong. I resisted by virtue of not having any spare cash currently but I know that one day, far in the future, it shall be procured for it has this mind-blowing issue.-Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 5, 2008 17:45:27 GMT
I cannot wait for this to be sent to me from Amazon. A must have volume
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2008 16:16:09 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2008 16:49:56 GMT
I found out about this very item last night!
It shall be procured.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2008 17:44:52 GMT
Also Death of Cap V1 A look at The Hardcover search list reveals a Kitty Pryde and Wolverine volume ! One of the great uncollected LS. Also a Death of Cap v2 and Iron Fist V2 |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2008 17:45:20 GMT
I found out about this very item last night! It shall be procured. -Ralph I never asked - did you enjoy V1 ? |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2008 18:15:12 GMT
Yes indeed. I have fond memories of early Alpha Flight from when it was the back-up strip in Secret Wars UK. I am unable to see past the sheen of nostalgia! The Master Of All The World still puts the shits up me, just like when I was 6!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2008 18:31:42 GMT
He's got a return appearance in V2.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 8, 2008 9:23:11 GMT
In other collected edition related news my long sort Birth of the Hobgoblin trade showed yesterday. Several of the issues were in the first batches of comics my Dad brought us home from work ( I'll recount the Philip's comic story later) but I'd never got to the end of the story. This is good stuff especially compared to recent SM offerings. Shame some of the material is a little edited. Will sit nicely beside the Birth of Venom volume |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 14, 2008 23:28:02 GMT
Fletcher Hanks "I Shall Destroy All The Civilised Planets" is quite simply the most bat-shit mental golden age material I have ever read.
It needs to be done in small doses though. Absolute madness.
Folks who live in their own personal star and are fascist god-heroes, a crazy jungle woman who is just as fascistic. Points off for not living in a star.
Well worth reading, at least once.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 16, 2008 22:31:07 GMT
June's TPBs are up at Amazon UK. Ralph can order his Classic Alpha Flight V2 and Marvel team Up v3 at the same time. And try not to spill any beer on the latter this time.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 16, 2008 22:49:52 GMT
Couple of interesting trades on the horizon from Marvel. Some of the War Machine era Iron Man being collected, which I'll get along with the collection of Waid's original Captain America run.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2008 20:57:03 GMT
The Dark Horse Essential style reprint of 70's Savage Sword of Conan is worth a look.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 17, 2008 22:58:02 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2008 9:06:24 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 22, 2008 21:46:13 GMT
The last few weeks I've been pondering which old comics to read next. So en route to Phil towers we have some essential FF and Spiderman volumes.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 24, 2008 19:31:12 GMT
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Post by legios on Feb 24, 2008 21:26:25 GMT
That is an awful lot of Spiderman for your money. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 24, 2008 22:18:32 GMT
I'm looking forward to it. I'd only said above I was going to buy some and lo and behold this pops up. Interestingly the FF Volumes have shipped from Play but the EASM hadn't. So that got cancelled. So instead of one volume for £8.49 that's 5 for £22
There's 3 more FF volumes out (1 forthcoming), 3 more ASM volumes, 3 Spectacular SM volumes, 2 Marvel Team Up (1 forthcoming) and 2 Marvel Two In One I'd lilke - 13 out and 3 forthcoming. Eek.
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Post by kayevcee on Feb 24, 2008 23:01:22 GMT
Holy Toledo. Well caught, Phil!
-Nick
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Post by jameso on Feb 25, 2008 0:33:56 GMT
Score!
Phil, do you have of the Essential Iron Fist and/or Power Man releases? I haven't read any of it yet, but I ordered Iron Fist volume 1 when it suddenly occured to me that it was Claremont and Bryne pre Uncanny ie when they were good.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2008 8:59:39 GMT
Yup. Not so keen on E Power Man but the single E Iron Fist volume is class. All the Byrne/Claremont is in the E IF volume, with only the first few issues of PM/IF being written by CC.
Working my way through E PM/IF at the mo.
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Post by jameso on Feb 25, 2008 9:03:47 GMT
I've read a crazy amount of Claremont stuff recently, finally got around to reading the Uncanny Omnibus, New Mutants Classic volume 2, all of Excalibur Classic released so far. I'm even finding New Excalibur surprisingly enjoyable.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2008 9:36:12 GMT
NM3 due soon. Class stuff.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2008 14:20:00 GMT
A large pile of trades showed up while we were in London last week. At present working my way through Essential Avengers V6 (which renders my Celestial Madonna TPB redundant) with WWH, Avengers Darker than Scarlet and Thor Simonson 5 to go.
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