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Post by Bogatan on Feb 25, 2017 16:14:08 GMT
Also curiosity, I enjoy Castle so have always been a little curious about the novels and even more so about the comic. My old flatmate tried to get me to read the Blake books. I gave them a shot because she also introduced me to Harry Potter and a few other good series. From an indifferent start I grew to really hate them. But again curious about comic form.
I did manage to ignore the various movie adaptations and prequels to Thor and Ironman.
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Post by legios on Feb 25, 2017 17:17:09 GMT
Eh, The early Anita Blake stuff is mediorce but not actually terrible. The first four or five were basically pastiche private detective dramas with a setting where Vampires and Werewolves were out of the closet. Then the whole "supernatural creature porn" genre began to become a thing and Hamilton discovered that this was a vastly more profitable thing to be writing - and thus the books from that point onwards are absolutely horrible. Of course, by this point there are far more of the latter category so that statistically you are more likely to encounter one of the dreadful porn books than the mediocre pastiche ones.
The "Richard Castle" books are...not good, but if you know the US crime/thriller fiction scene they serve as decent unintentional parody...
Karl
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 25, 2017 17:26:01 GMT
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. I read them in order, I dont know for how long and they got steadily worse and worse even before the pornographic parts started to take over.
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Post by Jim on Mar 6, 2017 22:00:22 GMT
Oh, I see there is also to be a Casey / Ladronn Cable collection. Nice!
-Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 6, 2017 22:17:04 GMT
Oooo, having that. IIRC Andu is a fan too.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 6, 2017 22:28:32 GMT
He is indeed.
Well worth getting.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 15, 2017 17:56:52 GMT
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Post by jameso on Mar 16, 2017 0:18:56 GMT
Awesome news on Casey/Ladronn Cable book!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2017 19:30:17 GMT
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Post by legios on Mar 17, 2017 20:04:47 GMT
Oh, nice! There are some cracking stories in there. I still have very fond memories of things like the Nightcrawler story set around the hospital, and the silent Jean/Scott story, amongst others.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2017 8:59:14 GMT
Excellent news.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2017 9:14:11 GMT
Now Andu can buy good X-Men other than 90's pish!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2017 9:17:22 GMT
What 90's pish?
It's all good.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2017 9:19:20 GMT
It isn't and you know it in your heart.
Acceptable: shiny shiny covers, X-Men #1-3, Excaliber up to 60-odds.
Not acceptable: everything else.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2017 9:21:08 GMT
X-Factor under PAD?!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2017 9:29:13 GMT
Are you condeming Age of Apocalypse and Joe Mad there Burns?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2017 9:29:34 GMT
Are you condeming Age of Apocalypse and Joe Mad there Burns? He hates both. He is a wrong un |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2017 9:31:46 GMT
Are you condeming Age of Apocalypse and Joe Mad there Burns? Damn right I am. I have long proclaimed both to be pish!!! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2017 9:32:19 GMT
Not until it came back after the Madrox mini. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2017 9:34:23 GMT
Piss off!!
X-factor issue 87 alone is a stone-cold classic.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2017 9:36:10 GMT
Are you condeming Age of Apocalypse and Joe Mad there Burns? He hates both. He is a wrong un Surely that alone should bar him from holding high office? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2017 9:39:03 GMT
Not until it came back after the Madrox mini. -Ralph Piss off!! X-factor issue 87 alone is a stone-cold classic. It is. However I struggled with some of the rest at the time. Wasn' quite what I was expecting. I've read a bit recently, think I have up to 87, and enjoyed that. Probably needs Epic Collecting for re-appraisal - but since it has been traded already as the X-Factor Visionaries that I missed I feel the Portacio run needs doing first which has never been properly, or completely, colour traded. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2017 12:12:47 GMT
I've never rated Portacio.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 18, 2017 12:27:41 GMT
You compound your wrongness.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Apr 19, 2017 12:31:40 GMT
Charity shop has some vols of Charley's war at £2 each, is it something I'd like?
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Post by blueshift on Apr 19, 2017 13:28:27 GMT
Charity shop has some vols of Charley's war at £2 each, is it something I'd like? As no-one was there to advise me in my hour of need, I went for it. They had vols 1-9. Apparently there are 10, but such is life! |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 19, 2017 13:45:45 GMT
Charity shop has some vols of Charley's war at £2 each, is it something I'd like? As no-one was there to advise me in my hour of need, I went for it. They had vols 1-9. Apparently there are 10, but such is life! It's cracking stuff. |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 19, 2017 17:43:11 GMT
Charity shop has some vols of Charley's war at £2 each, is it something I'd like? Yes. BUY THEM. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 19, 2017 20:14:22 GMT
Charity shop has some vols of Charley's war at £2 each, is it something I'd like? Coo, yes. I don't know how much of that the Megazine reprinted back in the day so I've no idea how much I read, but it was excellent. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 19, 2017 20:49:25 GMT
I can remember reading it in Battle!
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