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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2014 18:19:26 GMT
Burns is nervous when handling a £100 and genuinely rare book!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 7, 2014 18:24:27 GMT
I trust you.
Andy
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Post by legios on Jan 7, 2014 20:15:31 GMT
I quite enjoyed the Thanos ongoing at the time and was sad to see it go. -Ralph I'd only read a couple of isolated issues of this stuff - I'd enjoyed those but didn't have any specific expectations going in, which made it a pleasanter surprise when it turned out to be decent. Karl |
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Post by Jim on Jan 8, 2014 0:40:21 GMT
Including unreprinted issues that's a page count of ~2300. Nice pair of Omnibi (oo-er). -JIm |
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Post by Jim on Jan 12, 2014 18:29:35 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 12, 2014 19:06:43 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 12, 2014 20:39:59 GMT
Nah, it's Panini so the trade will physically fall apart as soon as I look at it. I shall stick with my HC and the digital copies of the issues. 30 years old though? I feel ancient. -Ralph |
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Post by Jim on Jan 15, 2014 21:30:19 GMT
Jim Valentino GotG vol. 1 arrived today, looks good. I hadn't looked at any content listing until now, it collects #1 - 7 and the annuals which made up Korvac Quest. Mildly disappointed there is no foreword.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 16, 2014 23:23:09 GMT
Not bad.
Will get that on payday.
It's a shame there's nothing from him, but he is quite pointed about the titles then editor and the battles he had with him. He did post what is overall plans were for a run of about sixty odd issues. Shame it didn't pan out.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 21, 2014 7:32:14 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2014 8:35:19 GMT
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Post by Jim on Jan 23, 2014 8:45:00 GMT
Oh, yes! I've never read any Star Lord and that's a great creative line-up.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 24, 2014 13:01:29 GMT
It's all pretty awful, alas!
In other news, was surprised to see the part-work Marvel Graphic Novel Collection still running. I had thought it had finished the run, what with the er, other series of HC Marvel story collections haunting some newsagents shelves. Anyway, the one I saw was a compilation of first issues from 60's comics and I impulse bought it. Makes for a nice artefact actually, having a physical copy of that stuff in one volume.
Now I need to pap a book out to Oxfam to maintain the balance of stuff!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 25, 2014 16:21:30 GMT
My subscription copy of the new Marvel Mightiest Heroes arrived.
Very impressed with the coffee mug (naturally mine is used for hot chocolate) but it is a fine drinking vessel. There is a free poster which is of Art Adams cover for Avengers Classics Issue 1. Problem is it's blown up so much that all the wee tiny figures are pretty pixellated so it's never in any danger of being displayed.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 26, 2014 12:26:27 GMT
I still wait to see if I will actually get my order. One email says I subscribed, one dodgy as fook looking email asked for more payment details that they already had.
Will Burns get his coffee mug of champions? Will he not? Nail biting stuff.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 27, 2014 13:16:08 GMT
Picked up the digital trade of Space:1999 "Aftershock and Awe" at the weekend, seeing it was cheap in a sale. Quite impressed with this - effectively it is two stories "Awe", which uses old images of a retelling of Breakaway "remastered" with colour work, new dialogue and some new pages which tie it to "Aftershock". It works better than it sounds - the dialogue, and especially the internal monologue from various characters is very in keeping with the show and really allows Berman and Koenig to shine as characters. "Aftershock" meanwhile presents, through the eyes of a select band of characters, the apocalyptic results of Earth being suddenly bereft of its moon. But it does it in a way that somehow manages to not be maudlin, because it presents an Earth that weathers awe-inspiring devastation and rises not only to the challenge of survival, but to the sisephian task of righting things once more. In that respect I think it is very much in line with the non-thiestic spirituality which was characteristic of Bergman in the series - a sense of something noble in Mankind which, given the circumstances rises to the surface and carries individuals to be stronger and better than they know. Good stuff all told.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 29, 2014 18:57:41 GMT
I still wait to see if I will actually get my order. One email says I subscribed, one dodgy as fook looking email asked for more payment details that they already had. Will Burns get his coffee mug of champions? Will he not? Nail biting stuff. -Ralph No delivery and no charges on my account. Looks like the subscription did not work! Oh well. -Ralph |
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Post by Jim on Feb 19, 2014 22:18:45 GMT
Saw today that they've just started collecting the Ostrander/Mandrake Martian Manhunter run; really liked that comic back in the day, might well pick it up.
Finished GotG by Valentino vol. 1, really quite enjoyable over all. Nothing Earth-shattering, but well done 90s-style fun. If I'm going to complain, the arc is generally billed as a quest but doesn't much feel like one - in fact the quest doesn't even seem that important until near the end and is then wrapped up a bit quickly.
The Korvac Quest annual crossover is fairly bad, enlivened only really by Lim art on the Silver Surfer chapter and Valentino for the Guardians.
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Post by legios on Feb 21, 2014 19:20:16 GMT
Courtesy of my library I have now read Vol1 of Keiron Gillens "The Secret Origin of Tony Stark". Hmm. A bit patchy I felt. The transition from the cosmic stuff to the minutiae of the new "Conspiracy Theory" additions to Tony's background felt a bit odd. And the whole premise felt like it underminded the "self-made man" thing that I've always felt was a defining aspect of Tony Stark, that idea that he "built himself" over and above having built his superpowers. The flashback story with Howard Stark and an unlikely heist in Las Vegas was good stuff though, and I think I enjoyed that more than the rest of the stuff.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 21, 2014 23:03:27 GMT
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Post by Jim on Feb 22, 2014 0:12:00 GMT
Courtesy of my library I have now read Vol1 of Keiron Gillens "The Secret Origin of Tony Stark". Hmm. A bit patchy I felt. The transition from the cosmic stuff to the minutiae of the new "Conspiracy Theory" additions to Tony's background felt a bit odd. And the whole premise felt like it underminded the "self-made man" thing that I've always felt was a defining aspect of Tony Stark, that idea that he "built himself" over and above having built his superpowers. That was my reaction, too - without going into spoilers, if you stick with it it pays off! Gillen really seems to be working some Marvel UK (if you include backup reprints of US material) out of his system with this series - Death's Head, a Recorder, some Iron Man 2020 references and Dark Angel on the way. Whatever next? Dragon's Claws? -Jim |
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Post by legios on Feb 22, 2014 8:17:34 GMT
That was my reaction, too - without going into spoilers, if you stick with it it pays off! -Jim The library have bought book one, going by previous form that is a sign they won't be getting book two - they never get book one and book two of any Marvel story arc, just one or the other. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2014 11:18:35 GMT
Don't forget that due to the inter-library loan system a book can be requested even if the local one doesn't have it. Always worthwhile asking.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2014 22:55:19 GMT
'Recoloured'. Oh well, nevermind then. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 23, 2014 17:52:14 GMT
I'm willing to give it a chance. Steve Oliff was the one who recoloured Batman Year Two back in the very early 1990's for it's collected edition. Quite tastefully done.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2014 18:21:55 GMT
I don't want a recoloured version. Recolouring old comics is pointless and fucks me off. It's like making colour versions of black and white films. What is the point?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2014 12:03:26 GMT
The big chunky Panini trade of the main Avengers vs X-Men series has been procured from the library. Soon I will find out if it is as bad as its reputation! It's certainly a very heavy tome.
-Raloh
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 4, 2014 13:57:38 GMT
It's rep is better than reality!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 9, 2014 20:14:36 GMT
It was alright. Read in one sitting for nowt it was ok. Had I paid $4 for each instalment over a number of months I would have been less amused. Art turns to panshite in the last few chapters. That is not how to lead the reader's eye round a page. Character of Hope was pissed away mightily and Scott should have had his fate due to his manic actions in previous years of x-stuff rather than the cop-out of 'the Phoenix made him do it'.
But as a daft punch-up story it occupied a lunch-time fine.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 9, 2014 20:47:59 GMT
it's been a pain in the bum in the Panini titles and gone on for ever. but over this week yay!
Cyclops is a seriously broken character now imo. The sooner they spring the trap door on him him and wipe the last ten years away the better.
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