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Post by Pinwig on Oct 29, 2016 22:31:51 GMT
The Machine Man Complete Collection remains to be read. It was a TFUK backup strip so you must buy it too. No chance! it was complete crap! |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2016 22:47:21 GMT
Ditko MM that was in TFUK was poop. BWS Mm that was printed twice was great. I have not seen the Kirby stuff but he is King.
I am now conflicted about this volume especially as with BWS missing it is not 'complete'!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 29, 2016 22:49:25 GMT
BWS MM was in the Iron Man 2020 trade a year or so back which had several other TFUK backup strips in.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 29, 2016 22:50:59 GMT
The Machine Man Complete Collection remains to be read. It was a TFUK backup strip so you must buy it too. No chance! it was complete crap! And there's a previously uncollected Alpha Flight appearance too which is concurrent to UXM 139 & 140! |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 29, 2016 23:13:12 GMT
Thinking about it, Machine Man 2020 was good. The second strip TF UK printed.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 30, 2016 9:38:43 GMT
Correct! It was also the return of BWS to comics after several years away.
That's why Herb Trimpe does the layouts for the first few issues.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 30, 2016 10:19:17 GMT
Absolutely no idea what this BWS business is. An artist?
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2016 10:33:37 GMT
BWS MM was in the Iron Man 2020 trade a year or so back which had several other TFUK backup strips in. I forgot that existed and missed it. I am a bad fan. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 30, 2016 10:47:47 GMT
Absolutely no idea what this BWS business is. An artist? Yup. Barry Windsor-Smith. Andy |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 30, 2016 11:52:42 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 30, 2016 18:59:35 GMT
A bargain!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 23, 2016 10:11:21 GMT
I see that Nightraven is being collected!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 23, 2016 11:00:48 GMT
Worth picking up.
The latest Marvels Mightiest Heroes is out - Captain Britain.
It contains the first two issues of Captain Britain weekly, the 2 part Marvel Team up with Spider-Man has a double paged spread done on one side of a page and then the other. Has the first four issues of Captain Britain and MI-13, which has an error with the lettering in one of the later parts.
Shame, a neat wee package, bollocksed up.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 23, 2016 11:01:23 GMT
I see that Nightraven is being collected! -Ralph Night Raven you mean. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 23, 2016 12:50:54 GMT
Same thing.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 25, 2016 9:36:50 GMT
No. In exactly the same way Spiderman is not Spider-Man.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 25, 2016 18:14:54 GMT
Nightraven. Nightraven.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 27, 2016 16:33:47 GMT
No.
Got World War Hulk: Aftersmash - Damage Control yesterday as a freebie.
A great fun read.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2016 22:22:55 GMT
Marvel's Mightiest Heroes latest book collects Shockprowl's favourite - The Sentry.
Best of it is, they collect the original mini-series and specials.
You know, the good stuff.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 14, 2016 12:39:20 GMT
<gets comic spreadsheet out>
OK, adding these issues in I think I'm still missing the following West Coast Avengers issues in trades:
31-41
76-79
83-88
Annual 3: Evolutionary War
Annual 4: Atlantis Attacks
Annual 5: The Terminus Factor
Annual 6: Subterranean Wars
Annual 7: Assault on Armor City
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Post by legios on Dec 18, 2016 21:16:47 GMT
My library in Falkirk has done me proud, just last week I was in there and I saw that they had the whole of the Brubaker/Epting spy series "Velvet". I'd enjoyed the first issue when I got it as a freebie from Comixology a year or so back, and always wanted to read more - so seeing that all three trades of the series were sitting there I grabbed them.
Well worth it. A really good set-up - the secretary of the director of a super-secret, above-the-law espionage agency finds herself framed as a traitor and on the run, fortunately she wasn't always a secretary and only the skills she used as an agent before circumstances can keep her alive and help her clear her name... It is a lovely wrinkle on the "framed agent" set-up, and allows the series to be a bit playful with the "spy thriller" tropes. The present day stuff is all narrow escapes, betrayals and double-dealing, whilst the flashbacks we get to the lead characters heyday as an agent show the 1950's and 1960's as a time of two-fisted, guns-blazing, cool-gadget wielding super-spies. There is a definite feeling that "if the past was a James Bond life of Goodies and Baddies, then the present is very much the cynical, distrustful world a la George Smiley". Not that this stops our heroine from having an action sequence on top of a moving train or anything mind you! It has a lot of the elan that Brubaker and Epting have previously shown on Captain America but with a stronger "in the shadows" kind of tone.
Fantastic stuff. It has gone onto my list to acquire once I have completed my "Queen and Country" collection in due course.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 3, 2017 17:24:58 GMT
The famine that I was experiencing a few weeks back has turned into feast. Here's what the Trade "To Read" pile looks like: She Hulk: The Return (Byrne's second stint on the title, which reminded me I hadn't got...)
Complete Dan Slott She Hullk v1 & 2 (which I finally found both at a sensible price)
X-Men Epic Collection v2
Complete X-23 v2
Ultimates (Al Ewing v2)
X-Men Bishop's Crossing Plus somewhere in the post to me are X-Men: Inferno Crossovers
X-Men: X-Cutioner's Song |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 16, 2017 18:49:35 GMT
The most expensive book I'll buy this year is in the post to me!
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 25, 2017 15:30:08 GMT
A local book shop is closing tomorrow, I went in earlier to everything £1 or fill a carrier bag for £10. They have had a pretty decent graphic novel collection for the last few years, most were now gone but from 3 decent sized cardboard boxes I picked up 33 books. May not all be great but theres a couple of Hickman Fantastic Four volumes I wanted and a couple of volumes of Gen X which moe tha justify the £10.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 25, 2017 15:32:35 GMT
The amount of luck you seem to have finding amazing stuff cheap, I'm convinced you've got a leprechaun tied up in your basement!
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 25, 2017 15:43:18 GMT
Thats crazy talk. I don't have a basement.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 25, 2017 15:44:36 GMT
Its not all great news I did pick up a Richard Castle book and 2 Anita Blake books
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 25, 2017 15:57:43 GMT
Why?
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 25, 2017 16:08:41 GMT
Because they were there and I had room left in the bag.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 25, 2017 16:13:19 GMT
Not a good enough reason...
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