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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 22, 2012 13:23:10 GMT
It is indeed. Very informative and entertaining.
I do recommend getting it.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2012 20:31:10 GMT
It's also on Comixology, which is how I tracked down the elusive last two issues of it. I also highly recommend ACTION PHILOSPHERS! from the same team.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 22, 2012 20:49:20 GMT
I've only read a couple of issues of Comic Book Comics, but was very impressed with it - irreverent but informative and thorough. Might well spring for a trade of it myself.
Karl
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Post by Jim on Feb 22, 2012 23:56:04 GMT
ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! I know, which is why I hang my head in shame at Comic Book Comics getting past me! I had never heard of it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 26, 2012 18:44:02 GMT
Lordy Lord looks like an expensive month on the trades:
06/03/2012 14.07 Last Stand Of The Wreckers HC
07/03/2012 08.79 Captain America: Prisoner of War
07/03/2012 11.19 Quasar 1
07/03/2012 13.19 Thunderbolts Classic v2
07/03/2012 19.76 Strikeforce Morituri v2
21/03/2012 06.49 Secret Warriors 6: Wheels within Wheels
21/03/2012 15.94 Avengers West Coast Lost in Space Time
24/02/2012 10.79 Flex Mentallo
28/03/2012 08.79 Essential X-Men 10
And I've just realised I haven't got Strikeforce Morituri v1 yet!
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Post by Jim on Feb 26, 2012 22:58:56 GMT
Quasar!
And a reminder I need to catch up on the previous WCA volume.
I got the Frontier collection (art by a certain A. Wildman) yesterday - it's a lovely oversized HC, like a BD album. Was just expecting a small TPB.
Little new in Greenwich, and nothing seems to be shifting, but I did pick up the Taskmaster TPB for £4.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2012 8:29:04 GMT
However my E MTIO 4 has arrived. A quick flick reveals Xemnu the titan in the first issue within. Oh yeah, that's the stuff we're looking for. has been finished. It's not the flashiest volume in the range, no Byrne or Perez, but there's solid Ron Wilson art throughout, with Alan Kuppenbeg (known to us for some early TF issues) filling in. It "completes" Marvel Two In One in Essential form bar 21 (Doc Savage) absent from v1 and 99 (Rom, written by Mantlo) here, both absent due to rights issues. Solid. V3 is better (Project Pegasus & Serpent Crown) but this is decent month by month comic story telling. MTIO was relaunched as the Thing after issue 100 (how many other titles ended on #100? New Mutants. And  ?) The Thing is presently getting the colour classics treatment with v2, much awaited by Mr Burns of this parrish, due shortly. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2012 8:40:35 GMT
In the meanwhile Essential X-Factor v4 (X-FACTOR (1986) #51-59 and ANNUAL #4-5; X-FACTOR: PRISONER OF LOVE; MARVEL FANFARE (1982) #50; and material from FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #23, NEW MUTANTS ANNUAL #6 and X-MEN ANNUAL (1970) #14) has arrived. The one where I couldn't remember what happened in it. I've had a quick look and I'm not holding out much hope for the majority of the volume. Highlights appear to be two of the Annuals: X-Factor annual 4 has Byrne art finished by Walt Simonson which looks far better in B&W and X-Men annual 14 is Art Adams which never fails to look glorious in black & white!
Hopefully v5 will be better: 60-62 are X-Tinction Agenda (and some of the worst art seen on the title) so we'll get 3 issues of UXM and 3 of New Mutants as well there. But if memory serves 63 is the first Whilce Portacio issue which is where the title picks up.
My suspicion is Essential X-Factor v5 will look like this:
1 X-Factor 60
2 X-Factor 61
3 X-Factor 62
4 UXM 270
5 UXM 271
6 UXM 272
7 New Mutants 95
8 New Mutants 96
9 New Mutants 97
10 X-Factor 63
11 X-Factor 64
12 X-Factor 65
13 X-Factor 66
14 X-Factor 67
15 X-Factor 68
16 New Warriors Annual 1
17 New Mutants Annual 7
18 X-Factor Annual 6
19 Uncanny X-Men Annual 15
20 X-Factor 69
21 X-Factor 70
22 UXM 278
23 UXM 279
24 UXM 280
Bringing the Essential reprints up to the point Peter David's team debuts.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2012 23:29:54 GMT
I do need to pick up Frontier at some point.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Mar 5, 2012 0:10:24 GMT
I just saw that there is a Ka-Zar by Waid and Kubert volume 2 out! I have a soft spot for this series, and especially this volume as it collects Urban Jungle. I never felt that story (or the series as a whole) deserved all the flak it took when it was first released. Fun stuff.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 5, 2012 8:32:21 GMT
Essential X-Factor v4 proved to be the hard slog I was expecting. Highlights were the annuals I mention above. Lowlights were pretty much everything else. On the other hand Strikeforce Morituri v1 was an absoloute pleasure. Art's fabulous throughout, especially the flashback sequences and issue focusing on the aliens that Portacio did. The concept that Earth is at war with alien invaders and has developed a process to give people superpowers at the cost of their life being limited to a maximum of one year means you'll be seeing a lot of death and a high turnover of characters. But even so the book still manages to shock when it does kill someone off as the circumstances of deaths 1 & 2 on the team show. SPOILERED due to UK reprints never having covered the issues in question. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU INTEND TO BUY THE TPB!! Killing Snapdragon/Lorna early was probably necessary to show quite what a lottery the Morituri process is and while 1 year is the limit you could get a lot less. But Vyking/Harold dying in issue 6 is probably *THE* most shocking comic death I have ever seen. He's the star/hero of the first few issues, the team leader and the narrative voice for the series. This really shakes things up. Then Aline getting pregnant and the consequences that has for her & her unborn child who won't be due till waaay after her year is up..... You need to buy this. (has volume 2 shipped to comic shops yet?)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 5, 2012 8:51:07 GMT
Meanwhile..... Captain America: Prisoner of War and Quasar Classic v1 are en route.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 5, 2012 12:44:53 GMT
(has volume 2 shipped to comic shops yet?) Yes it has, seen it in the LCS this morning |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2012 19:37:28 GMT
The words 'Quasar' and 'classic' should never meet!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 5, 2012 19:47:42 GMT
I re-read the first four issues, which I bought back in the day, and enjoyed them.
Are you going to get the Morituri trades?
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Post by legios on Mar 5, 2012 20:35:06 GMT
Strikeforce Morituri v1 You need to buy this. Yes, yes I do. Between that, some more Brubaker Cap and another trade or two of The Losers I may be slightly oversubscribed on the budget this month. Karl |
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Post by Jim on Mar 6, 2012 0:22:07 GMT
I read the first 6 issues of Quasar a few years ago after picking them up at an NCM for 20p each. It's good stuff! I'll be getting this and hoping for more volumes.
I have Morituri volume 1 sitting in my amazon basket awaiting a price drop. It seems a bit on the expensive side.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 6, 2012 7:25:10 GMT
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Post by Jim on Mar 6, 2012 16:06:44 GMT
That's better, thanks! I don't know why I didn't think to look at the Book Depository, I often buy collections there.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 6, 2012 18:55:30 GMT
It is on The List.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 11, 2012 12:13:11 GMT
Quasar Classic v1: Not bad but it looks horribly dated in terms of the clothes and hair style. Addiational strips from Marvel Comics Presents and Avengers Annuals, plus a Marvel Age article, shows that Marvel were pushing this big time (probably because one of the senior editors was writing it!) Tails off a little towards the end..... Captain America: Prisoner of War: Bit miffed aboput this to be honest, it's effectively half a TPB. The first half of the book picks up the action where we left off with Bucky in a Russian Prison and Steve, Sharon & Natasha trying to get him out. Then - as Steve's having doubts about his role and the Widdow breaks Bucky out - we get the message that the story is continued in Fear Itself and the rest of the trade is passed out with short (but OK) non Brubaker written strips which I've not got a clue where they came from! they ain't mentioned on the solicitations or the cover. Anyone know?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 12, 2012 13:17:31 GMT
Out of interest I tried to find a copy of the first Ace Trucking Co trade. How much ?? So if your LCS has a copy at rrp or under could you pick it up for me? Ta |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 14, 2012 14:30:10 GMT
The Incal arrived today.
Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Moebius. Fantastic stuff, epic science fiction adventure withba heartbreaking end.
Well worth getting.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 15, 2012 15:56:21 GMT
This is what Phil's Trade To Read pile looks like:
Avengers Assemble v2 (in progress)
Robo Hunter v 1 & 2
Strikeforce Morituri v2
Thunderbolts Classic v2
Iron Man (Fraction/LaRocca) v7
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 16, 2012 22:39:30 GMT
Avengers Assemble v2: a very hard slog. Sorry, I'm not feeling the love. Allegedly Ultron Unlimited is meant to be one of the best Avengers stories ever. Whah? Our survey says UHUH and "You've never read Knights of Wundagore/Under Siege/any Shooter Avengers/Any Stern Avengers"
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2012 22:48:35 GMT
Phil! Ultron Unlimited rocks very hard indeed! There is no better Ultron story!
That was a grand era of Avengers, especially in context to the pish before and directly after it.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2012 7:24:19 GMT
Well there's Bride of Ultron (c Avengers 160 and in the next Essential Avengers) for a start and that's miles better..
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 17, 2012 8:47:31 GMT
No, no, no. That one is just silly.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2012 9:09:43 GMT
It rocks big time
I sense we may have slightly differing views here.....
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 17, 2012 9:13:18 GMT
Ultron Unlimited is the Earthshock of Utron, when he became the massive threat he always was in our heads but never quite achieved in the comics.
-Ralph
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?) The Thing is presently getting the colour classics treatment with v2, much awaited by Mr Burns of this parrish, due shortly.