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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 20, 2011 12:12:09 GMT
Hondo City Law arrived today.
Colin MacNeil, Frank Quitely, Andy Clarke and Neil Googe art - with stories by the guv'nor himself John Wagner and Robbie Morrison.
Lovely, lovely looking book. Stories are great as well.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 22, 2011 19:29:56 GMT
At last in November this is coming out,
Someone at Marvel finally has clout.
ESSENTIAL SGT. FURY VOL. 1 TPB
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY & DICK AYERS
Stand at attention, soldier, and get ready for a super-size K-ration of the adventures of Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos! Join Fury and his Howlers — with special guest-appearances by Captain America and Bucky! — as they battle Baron Strucker and his Ratzi hordes, bringing the action all the way to Hitler himself! This tank-size tome brings you such a heaping serving of WWII adventures that enough to whet even Dum Dum Dugan’s appetite! WA-HOOO! Collecting SGT. FURY #1-23 and ANNUAL #1.
544 PGS./All Ages ...$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-6395-4
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 22, 2011 20:09:47 GMT
For the Howlers in black and white I give a great cheer
but when of Essentials of Agent of Shield will I hear?
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 24, 2011 19:05:47 GMT
www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-november-2011-solicitations-110815.htmlSPIDER-MAN: MARVEL TEAM-UP BY CLAREMONT & BYRNE TPB
Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT & RALPH MACCHIO
Penciled by JOHN BYRNE
Cover by JOHN BYRNE
Chris Claremont and John Byrne take the helm of MARVEL TEAM-UP — and deliver some of the most entertaining, edge-of-your-seat pairings yet! Featuring Spider-Man, the Human Torch, Ms. Marvel, Iron Fist, Captain Britain, Thor, Power Man, Havok and more — against the threats of Equinox, the Super-Skrull, the Steel Serpent, Arcade, Kraven, D’Spayre and the Living Monolith! Collecting MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #59-70 and #75. No 79 - Spider-Man and Red Sonja - one of the best issues of the run is missing!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2011 17:28:37 GMT
Thanks to a stroke of luck in the new LCS in Swindon and a bit of good fortune on eBay I now own Kyle & Yost's New X-Men which I've been after for AGES and goes for a few pennys - look on Amazon. I've been wanting to read these for a while because several of the characters and plotlines turn up in Kyle & Yost's X-Force which, when not incolced in a crossover, I thought was the best X-comic since Morrisson. These issues were really great. Yes I still haven't a firm grip on some of the characters powers but thae stories told are superb. Decimation is dealt with properly here, Stryker (not admitedly a favourite character) is brought back and Nimrod (who is one of my fave X-Villains and cruelly unused) also returns. Some of the later issues suffer a little: firstly by having to provide a plot element for the Messiah Complex crossover and then by some art that's a little different in style to the rrest of the series. Well worth a read, if you can find them cheap, the first three volumes especially. Marvel: Ultimate Collections now please. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 28, 2011 21:32:41 GMT
New Mutants Classic v6 (collects New Mutants 41-44, NM Annual 2, X-Men Annual 10 & NM 45-47) 41-45 are a bunch of, occasionally solo, teen related tales. Very worthy I'm sure but it forgets that we are meant to be reading a superhero book. Fortunately in the middle we get NM Annual 2 (drawn by Alan Davis) & X-Men Annual 10 (Art Adams) both of which are superb and, I think, recieving their first US colour reprint here. They introduce Captain Britain, Psylocke, Mojo, Spiral & Longshot to the X-Men as well as giving the genesis to the X-Babies concept. Top stuff, though I'd have placed them after NM45 in the book. 46 is the Mutant Massacre crossover which leads into Magus, on Earth since X-Men 192, pursuing them to Limbo setting up the storyline that takes us, in the next volume, through to issue 50. Art on the regular issues is variable throughout depending on who's inking Guice: Kyle Baker's work doesn't do it for me.
So a mixed bag. Really looking forward to the next volume which has that fab story through to 50, Claremont's last work on the regular title and New Mutants annual 3: More Alan Davis, a guest appearance by the old Forbidden Planet 1 and one of Ralph's "favourite" Marvel characters....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2011 6:31:40 GMT
Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man volume 5 (collects PP,TSS-M 97-114 & Annual 5) was a game of 3 parts. 97-110 collect the end of the Black Cat/Kingpin story seen in the previous volume and really should have been shoe horned in there. We then get a number of fill in issues including some Byrne covers (101 & 102 - look on eBay) and an issue of Mantlotainment (103). After that Peter David takes over and the feel of the title changes. Out go almost anything superhero (with the exception of Spider-Man himself) with David telling a succsesion of stories with a "real world" theme. Occasional stories like this, yes but a whole run of them? The only other super powered characters we see are Daredevil, during the 4 part Death of Jean DeWolfe, and The Beyonder & Puma in a Secret Wars II crossover that you suspect was forced on them. Yes it gives the titles some identity in a world also featuring Amazing and Web Of but I'm not sure they're the sort of Spider-Man stories I want to be reading. Essential Web Of 1 is due soon so I'll be interested to see what sort of stories that does in a post Marvel Team Up world. Now that book did have a good identity and also served to give Spider-Man fans, always a large part of Marvel's market, a view of other characters who's books they might want to buy....
Steve Rogers: Super Soldier Someone's salvaged the Super Soldier serum and wants to sell it .... Not a bad story and ties into Secret Avengers. Decent work from Brubaker.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2011 11:12:48 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 4, 2011 20:01:59 GMT
SWEET!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2011 20:11:34 GMT
Pile of trades went to Oxfam yesterday. Probably more to go. Easier to do in the digital age. I need space!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 14, 2011 15:35:21 GMT
Amazon.com supplies some details: COLLECTING: UNCANNY X-MEN 265-272, ANNUAL 14; FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL 23; NEW MUTANTS (1983) 95-97, MATERIAL FROM ANNUAL 6; X-FACTOR (1986) 60-62, MATERIAL FROM ANNUAL 5 COLLECTING: X-FACTOR (1986) 51-59, ANNUAL 4-5; X-FACTOR: PRISONER OF LOVE; MARVEL FANFARE (1982) 50; MATERIAL FROM FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL 23, NEW MUTANTS ANNUAL 6, X-MEN ANNU&AL (1970) 14 So 2 shots at Days of Future Present here then The X-Factor & New Mutants issues in EXM10 are Extinction Agenda. The X-Factor volume looks a little light but any further issues would take it into Extinction Agenda..... Sadly that does mean we need to wait till the next volume for Portacio. But we start the Lee run in EXM10 |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 15, 2011 9:12:49 GMT
Alpha Flight Classic v2 will happen!ALPHA FLIGHT CLASSIC VOL. 2 TPB
Written by JOHN BYRNE & CHRIS CLAREMONT
Penciled by JOHN BYRNE
Cover by JOHN BYRNE
John Byrne writes and draws Alpha Flight’s early adventures! See such unlikely heroes as Puck, Sasquatch, Northstar
and Guardian take on the threats of the Super-Skrull, Omega Flight, the Master of the World and the Plodex! Plus: Alpha
Flight origins, Marrina falls in love with Namor, and a team
member’s death! And not one, but two takes on the classic
X-Men adventure in which Weapon Alpha tried to take Wolverine back to Canada! Collecting ALPHA FLIGHT (1983) #9-19 and X-MEN (1963) #109.
296 PGS./All Ages ...$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3125-0 Using AF#12's cover with new colours Alpha Flight Classic v2: If this has crappy paper quality I will be livid! Sorry to keep going on about this trade but I've been waiting years to see Alpha Flight done and want to see it done properly. . 2 weeks time! Plus a couple more for Amazon to get it of course.... |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2011 17:51:36 GMT
I still can't believe this book exists!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 19, 2011 16:03:30 GMT
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Post by jameso on Sept 19, 2011 16:12:49 GMT
I'm always a bit disappionted when the Essentials stop being 20 issues of the regular book, and start being 8 issues of the regular book, a couple of crossover issues, an annual, a mini-series etc. But needs to be done I suppose.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 19, 2011 16:26:24 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 26, 2011 16:23:16 GMT
Alpha Flight Classic v2: If this has crappy paper quality I will be livid! Sorry to keep going on about this trade but I've been waiting years to see Alpha Flight done and want to see it done properly. . 2 weeks time! Plus a couple more for Amazon to get it of course.... |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 26, 2011 18:54:18 GMT
It can't be!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 26, 2011 21:24:40 GMT
A surprise in Essential Web of Spider Man v1: from Annual 2 an Art Adams drawn tale I'd not read. And as a bonus, from the same annual, there's another story drawn by Mike Mignola.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 28, 2011 8:01:46 GMT
www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-december-2011-solicitations-110927.htmlThis oddity has been brought to my attention SPIDER-MAN: THE PSAS TPB
Written by VARIOUS
Penciled by VARIOUS
Cover by TODD MCFARLANE
The Spectacular Spider-Man does the Marvel Universe proud in a titanic tome that’s both entertaining and educational! Swing along with Spidey and a gathering of his amazing friends — including Storm, Luke Cage, Power Pack, Jubilee and the Fantastic Four — as they take on a host of important social issues in the inimitable Mighty Marvel Manner!
Collecting
SPIDER-MAN VS. THE PRODIGY;
SPIDER-MAN, STORM & POWER MAN;
SPIDER-MAN & POWER PACK;
SPIDER-MAN AGAINST VERBAL ABUSE;
SPIDER-MAN & THE NEW MUTANTS FEATURING SKIDS;
ADVENTURES IN READING STARRING SPIDER-MAN;
SPIDER-MAN: CHAOS AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE;
SPIDER-MAN: RIOT AT ROBOTWORLD;
SPIDER-MAN BATTLES THE MYTH MONSTER;
SPIDER-MAN: SKATING ON THIN ICE;
SPIDER-MAN: DOUBLE TROUBLE;
SPIDER-MAN: HIT & RUN;
SPIDER-MAN: CHAOS IN CALGARY;
SPIDER-MAN: DEAD BALL;
SPIDER-MAN: HOW TO BEAT THE BULLY/JUBILEE: PEER PRESSURE;
SPIDER-MAN: FATHERHOOD;
FAST LANE #1-4;
SPIDER-MAN ON BULLYING PREVENTION;
HEROES VS. PLAQUE: WHEN PLAQUE ATTACKS;
and
SPIDER-MAN: YOU’RE HIRED!
456 PGS./Rated T ...$34.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5978-0 ALL The Spiderman Public Service Announcement comics in one volume. Tat of the Highest Order !
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 28, 2011 8:06:27 GMT
TODAY !!!!!And look what's just arrived in my inbox Dear Philip Ayres,
I am pleased to let you know that we have just received notification that your pre-ordered book has been made available by the publisher.
Order number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Book title Quantity Item price Total
Alpha Flight: And One Shall Surely Die v. 2 1 12.81 12.81
This book will be dispatched to you in the next few days. Should you wish to track your order, you can do so by following the link below:
www.bookdepository.co.uk/track
Thank you for pre-ordering your book with The Book Depository.
Thanks again for your order,
Kieron
Kieron Smith
The Book Depository Ltd. Come to daddy !
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 28, 2011 13:00:35 GMT
BURNS HAS SEEN IT IN THE WILD WITH HIS OWN EYES ! Let the rejoicing be unconfined!
(he failed to look inside to see if the ads for issues 12 & (I think) 17 were present.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 28, 2011 16:54:30 GMT
It's true. I briefly sighted it.
*looks at tat Spidey book solicit*
Wow. Fast Lane is being traded. Never thought I'd see the day.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 29, 2011 17:06:14 GMT
Essential Avengers 8 & Captain America: Death of the Red Skull (DeMatiss) in April next year according to Amazon. And the WCA LS is getting a paperback trade release!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 30, 2011 17:28:05 GMT
Essential Web of Spider Man Volume 1 Collecting WEB OF SPIDER-MAN (1985) #1-18 and ANNUAL #1-2, and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #268. An odd mixed bag with 4 authors on the main title and a rotating art team. I read 1 as a child (and PPtSSM 100 which it follows on from) and loved it but I can't remember reading any others. I'd definitely nor read Web of 6 or ASM 268 which form a Secret Wars II crossover.... of sorts. There's a fab Combined cover which I'd never realised before. In fact the covers are frequently the best thing here. Charles Vess' painitng for issue 1 i've seen lauded but his cover for issue 8 (used as The cover for the book) is even better, especially the black & white version found inside. There's also a nice selection of Byrne covers too (including the aforementioned combined pair above) which are fine by me. You feel Web is struggling to find it's identity as the third Spiderman book. It's not got the prominance of Amazing and lacks the distinctiveness of Marvel Team Up, which it replaced and I loved which biases me against Web Of. Plus any book that promises "daring new adventures in mystery & suspense" and then does a 2 parter using C-List villain Magma really has no idea. But despite this we get the wonder of Web Of annual 2. Re;leased the same year as New Mutants Annual 2 & X-Men Annual 10 it's Written by Ann Nocenti the main story features New Mutant Warlock rampagoing through Manhattan and some superb Art Adams art which I'd not seen before. The B story has Mike Mignola art so that can't be bad either. I'd never seen it before so was well pleased and it's easily the highlight of the book.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 30, 2011 22:06:01 GMT
The HC took up to much room. Therefore I must have this:
SECRET WARS II TPB
Written by JIM SHOOTER
Penciled by AL MILGROM
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Last time Earth’s heroes encountered the Beyonder, they fought for their lives. This time, they fight for all existence! A year after kidnapping the most powerful beings on Earth and pitting them against one another in a “Secret War” on a distant world, the omnipotent Beyonder comes to Earth to continue his study of humanity. However, a being so powerful and so naïve is a dangerous combination. As the Beyonder’s understanding slowly grows, so too do his own desires — and even the lord of lies, Mephisto, fears what the Beyonder might finally decide he desires. Because if the Beyonder decides he wants to end all that is, even the combined might of the universe’s cosmic powers might not be enough to stop him! Collecting SECRET WARS II #1-9.
264 PGS./Rated T ...$29.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-5830-1
In other news, December also brings new printings of Essential FF 2 and 3. Good, for I lost my old copies to damp damage.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 2, 2011 0:17:59 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 3, 2011 13:13:55 GMT
BURNS HAS SEEN IT IN THE WILD WITH HIS OWN EYES ! Let the rejoicing be unconfined! (he failed to look inside to see if the ads for issues 12 & (I think) 17 were present. Phil now has his copy. Yes both ads are present in the correct place plus there's also the subscription ad that I'd forgotton about. Paper is good. More on the contents later as I've got some extensive thpughts on the contents but easily trade of the year for me. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 4, 2011 13:46:46 GMT
4 issues in. Loving it. Expect something lengthy on the matter.
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Post by legios on Oct 4, 2011 20:59:42 GMT
I look forward to thy thoughts - having a great love of Alpha Flight it is always nice to see someone else enjoy it.
Karl
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