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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 22, 2013 8:40:44 GMT
Greyscale is only present on the later volumes in a series once the issues gets into the 90s. The more recent volumes have better greyscale but it'd be nice to see Potacio and Lee art in clean B&W
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 22, 2013 17:46:10 GMT
Oh it's a decent job in V11, but I'd love to have seen it in the clean B&W the same as Phil.
Looks like they will be a mishmash of Adjectiveless and Uncanny. Which is a good thing. So Volume 12 will have the Omega Red story, The Bishop arc and the annual crossover Shattershot and possibly the X-Men/GR crossover.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2013 18:00:07 GMT
Postman came today, AWC Omnibus (slimmer than I expected), GI Joe complete vol 1 and Nemesis of the Daleks (more Senior and Wildman art in the latter than I expected). Nemesis holds a special place in my heart for being the strip running when I first started getting DWM. -Jim I wasn't aware that was out yet. I don't usually bother with the DWM trades due to their unwieldy size but I admit I am tempted by that one. -Ralph |
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Post by Jim on Apr 16, 2013 21:46:28 GMT
It's the first such collection I've bought, and it's quite a nice package. I like to see the UK stuff printed properly oversized, and there seems to be quite a bit of commentary in the back. If it's representative I might pick up a few others.
-Jim
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Post by blueshift on Apr 16, 2013 21:50:54 GMT
It's the first such collection I've bought, and it's quite a nice package. I like to see the UK stuff printed properly oversized, and there seems to be quite a bit of commentary in the back. If it's representative I might pick up a few others. -Jim It's not oversized, it's the correct size! US size is undersized! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2013 21:52:29 GMT
Nah. DWM's were not as big as those trades. We had the same problem with Titan's stupidly huge Tf trades.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Apr 16, 2013 22:01:50 GMT
Nah. DWM's were not as big as those trades. We had the same problem with Titan's stupidly huge Tf trades. -Ralph Are you sure? At the very least they are better than the undersized ones. I was genuinely disappointed when the Titan US trades came out and they were tiny! Yes, I understand now that it was the /original/ size, but the ones I remember were A4! |
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Post by Jim on Apr 16, 2013 22:24:45 GMT
Well, yes, I know they're not actually oversized, I'm just so used to dealing with US comics now I tend to think of them that way.
Anyway, it just so happens that due to recent clearing-out-stuff shenanigans I have my old DWMs handy, and the reproduction in the trade is 1:1. The book is about an inch taller but exactly as wide.
-Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 18, 2013 9:50:59 GMT
and arrived. Lovely chunky volume for that price. |
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Post by Jim on Apr 19, 2013 23:26:05 GMT
Any news on Power Pack vol 4? Amazon still have it down as a pre-order, Book Depository as Currently Unavailable, and most other online stores have it as an invalid product (clicking through from a Google search for it yields lots of error pages). It doesn't look promising.
-Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 20, 2013 6:53:26 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 22, 2013 12:07:06 GMT
It's out.... It exists! I must order one when I next have money! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 22, 2013 12:43:53 GMT
Get the kiddies newsstand Avengers comic #60. Should come with a tat blaster but copies in Asda are instead bundled in with a tops Spidey annual which reprints a load of Ditko strips. 100 odd pages for £3.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Apr 22, 2013 22:48:31 GMT
Thanks for the links! It was the earlier posts that actually reminded me of its existence recently, which is why I've been keeping an eye out. |
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Post by Jim on Apr 27, 2013 19:01:38 GMT
Picked up Incredible Hulk: Regression from the local discount book shop, nice timing as I'm most of the way through the previous volume and enjoying it.
Missed out on Spider-Man: Return of the Burglar HC because they only take cash and I didn't have enough for both, and when I went back it was gone.
-Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 27, 2013 19:25:27 GMT
Picked up Incredible Hulk: Regression from the local discount book shop, nice timing as I'm most of the way through the previous volume and enjoying it. Of course you are, Mantlotainment is top stuff. Wait till you get to Hulk 290. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 9, 2013 12:27:29 GMT
Shed load of trades from Amazon today:
X-Men Fall of the Mutants v2
Rocket Racoon & Groot
Iron Man 2020
Essential Captain Marvel v2
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Post by The Doctor on May 10, 2013 19:20:51 GMT
Iron Man 2020 is a must-have, the sound file of my joy would be a mighty wav.
I like his armour design! It must be fine! While I drink lots of wine!
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on May 12, 2013 18:10:12 GMT
Looks increasingly likely that Power Pack col 4 is cancelled; Comixology has it down as such and there's this on the Marvel Masterworks fan-site forum: marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku.com/topic/22108#.UY66J4vFHoAOn the other hand by looking into this I discovered there's a collection of Peter Gillis's Doctor Strange out there which sounds fascinating (at time of release I had yet to read Strikeforce Morituri so it slipped under my radar). -Jim |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 14, 2013 15:58:01 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 16, 2013 11:39:34 GMT
Ooooo yeah, More Stern Avengers: Avengers Absoloute Vision COLLECTING: Avengers (1963) 231-241, Annual 11-12; Amazing Spider-Man Annual 16; Fantastic Four (1961) 256; Doctor Strange (1974) 60 and if you didn't get it at the time you *NEED* this: Immortal Iron Fist: The Complete Collection Volume 1 COLLECTING: Immortal Iron Fist 1-16, Annual 1; Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death 1; Immortal Iron Fist: The Origin of Danny Rand 1; Civil War: Choosing Sides 1 |
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Post by The Doctor on May 16, 2013 17:25:45 GMT
Saw the Mantlo Crossroads Hulk trade in FPE. £30 for a softcover less than half the page count of an Essential? Jog on!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 16, 2013 17:45:17 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 16, 2013 17:51:38 GMT
I generally rely on libraries for trades these days. Far too expensive for what they are.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 20, 2013 14:55:49 GMT
Avengers: Heart of Stone is here. Byrne & Perez art sandwiching a Sal fill in plus a Mantlo annual. Solid Gold.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 12, 2013 19:43:34 GMT
Fans of oversized Marvel UKovision comics might like to know that there's a Bookazine (yes like that Dalek special we all hunted for) available in WHS of Iron Man: The Five Nightmares.
I may have to get me one to support the oversized reprinting cause.....
Oooooo a thought: This is probably an Iron Man III tie in. A Bookazine version of the Claremont/Milelr Wolverine to go with that Movie would be a must have
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Post by legios on Jun 19, 2013 19:04:37 GMT
I have been reading some trades courtesy of my local library:
Secret Avengers: Eyes of the Dragon: trading on the "superagents" set-up of Secret Avengers, this is a great fun slice of high-level international action tosh. There is plenty of skullduggery, plotting and planning, and some great four-colour action nonsense to go with it. I have a soft-spot for Shang-chi, Master of Kung-Fu, so it is nice to see him pop up here, and it is always funny to see Marvel tie themselves in knots trying to avoid saying his father's name (to avoid bringing down the wrath of the lawyer-ninja's), given that Shang-chi's basic reason for being as a character was all wrapped up in the fact that he is the son of Fu Manchu the fact that they can't mention it always gives a certain extra level of absurdity to any stories he appears in.
Captain America: Marvel have given up now. They appear to have decided not to even give proper names to some of their trades, along with having abandoned doing Volume Numbers properly. Anyway, this is the trade that collects the Brubaker/Davis issues of Captain America. Brubaker continues what he has been doing for a lot of his Cap run - taking ideas from Cap's past, sprucing them up an rehabilitating them a bit. Here it is the Madbomb which is revisited. It's reasonably succesful but, storywise I think it is lacking the edge that his run had when it was Bucky in the costume. Although he is slightly reinventing things there is a sense of having seen a lot of this before. The Alan Davis art is absolutely superb though, and worth reading this for that alone.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 21, 2013 9:04:47 GMT
X-Men: Ghosts (UXM 199-209, annual 10) is here.
Why has there never been a colour collection of these issues before? Sooooooo good! JRjr at his best with guest stints from Leonardi, Windsor-Smith and Adams (is there a better X-Men annual then 10?). And it forms a solid run with the Mutant Massacre from 199-214! SWII crossovers as well.
Come to think of it Fall of the Mutants starts with UXM 220 - a trade collecting 215-219, FF vs X-Men, Avengers vs X-Men and Spiderman/Wolverine would be a rather spiffy way of filling the gap!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 7, 2013 16:57:59 GMT
a brief word to say that I've just finished Captain America v4 and thus Brubaker's run on the title.
Not the best volume of the run but there again I've felt it's been on a slow downward slope since the very first arc - doing the impossible and bringing back Bucky. The first 25 issues are excellent and you only really start to notice when Cap gets killed post Civil War.
Nonetheless it's been better than many comics throughout and will be remembered as one of *THE* Cap runs. But for me it is those first few issues, for doing the impossible and making it good, that made this run great.
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Post by legios on Aug 7, 2013 22:13:34 GMT
I've got a fair amount of this run, up to Trial of Captain America and have read one of the subsequent trades courtesy of my library. I have to say that I quite liked most of what I have read - making Bucky the temporary Captain America made for some interesting stories I thought and did feel like it suited the more espionagey/superagents take that he seemed to be exploring with his run. I felt that it started to lose its way a bit once Steve Rogers came back. Though it was inevitable that he would take the shield back I did feel like Brubaker didn't really have that much that was really new to bring to the table once Steve was back in the suit. It was competent and readable but didn't really have a distinctive flavour to it, if you see what I mean?
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