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Post by The Doctor on Nov 2, 2007 18:02:51 GMT
What musty old comics bring you delight?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 2, 2007 18:14:33 GMT
Jim Starlin's run on Warlock and Peter David's tenure on Spider-Man 2099 bring me great happiness. As does the Alan Davis runs on Excalibur and the Warren Ellis run. Pad's Captain Marvel series is a lot of fun as well.
From DC - The Giffen/DeMatteiss era Justice League, the brief Barr/Davis/Neary Detective Comics run, the Wagner/Grant/Breyfogle run stretching from tec through to Batman and Shadow of the Bat and lastly the Ostrander era Firestorm - awesome stuff.
Andy
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Post by legios on Nov 2, 2007 22:44:01 GMT
Jim Starlin's run on Warlock and Peter David's tenure on Spider-Man 2099 bring me great happiness. As does the Alan Davis runs on Excalibur and the Warren Ellis run. Pad's Captain Marvel series is a lot of fun as well. From DC - The Giffen/DeMatteiss era Justice League, the brief Barr/Davis/Neary Detective Comics run, the Wagner/Grant/Breyfogle run stretching from tec through to Batman and Shadow of the Bat and lastly the Ostrander era Firestorm - awesome stuff. Andy So much overlap here - I do quite like Starlin Warlock, Giffen/DeMateiss Justice League, the Barr/Davis/Neary and Wagner/Grant/Breyfogle runs on Batman are very close to definitional for me. I have a great love of Ostranders run on Suicide Squad - he managed to take a book with very few likeable characters and make it work and stick in the memory (his Amanda Waller is the definitional "person without powers who has more presence than an army of Superheroes"). Alan Davis' run on Excaliber is wonderful - the perfect antidote to the X-Men books of the period. I have a lot of time for his run on Captain Britain as well - done under rather hectic circumstances what with it bouncing from title to title it is nevertheless very enjoyable stuff. The (mostly) Keith Giffen written and drawn first twelve issues of "Legion of Superheroes" (vol2) is something I have a lot of time for - some very good world-in-a-box stuff being done, and a story-line that is actually quite upllifting in places. And of course, an honorable mention to Marvel's "Godzilla" comic, now collected in a handy brick-sized Essential volume. It has Godzilla fighting SHIELD, random monsters, a samurai robot and an erudite (and slightly demented narrator). Too much fun to not make this list. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 3, 2007 16:26:31 GMT
I've back issues collected Avengers (181-27?) Iron Man 170-230 ish, West Coast Avengers 1 - whenever the Byrne stuff finished, (I had most of that bar the first 10 and the LS) Captain America 190-350 (again had most of that 332+) and a complete set of Rom
I'm sitting on a complete Alpha Flight set mainly bought new (V1 #40 upwards, back issued the rest in the mid 80s)
There are large runs of New Mutants and X-Factor in the long boxes at home, and here I've got runs of everything I'm reading at the mo.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2007 20:31:20 GMT
Snatched 3 Power Man & Iron Fist issues at a cheap price tonight to give me a run from 101 to 108. Need 109-114 and 118-125 still.
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Post by Jaymz on Nov 25, 2007 23:21:27 GMT
I'm slowly working on completing my Uncanny X-Men run, but it's getting expensive.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 26, 2007 18:01:05 GMT
I had a run ....... 120 to 3 something something at one stage. And some of them where damm expensive.
James - any PM/IF or Rom in the shop ?
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Post by Jaymz on Nov 26, 2007 22:38:46 GMT
I had a run ....... 120 to 3 something something at one stage. And some of them where damm expensive. James - any PM/IF or Rom in the shop ? 23 issues left to get for my Uncanny. But that includes 94 and 1, which are too expensive. I will check PM/IF and Rom tomorrow, definitely had some PM/IF in the other day. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 28, 2007 20:52:01 GMT
I had a back issue arrive in the post today that someone had just stuck in a Jiffy bag ! No bag, no board, no card to stiffen it. Incredibly it arrived ok !
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 1, 2007 19:55:06 GMT
3 issues of Power Man & Iron Fist showed up today. Fab. Getting hold of post 100 issues seems difficult, they ain't listed that often on eBay
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Post by kayevcee on Dec 1, 2007 23:38:53 GMT
The 20 ROM comics are mine! They arrived at the end of the week there, along with a smaller bundle of free crap. Random comics from Image spin-off companies that mercifully no longer exist. Some of them are amazingly badl. I wasn't reading any comics during the mid-90s crash, so it has been an education. "HELLCOP" is particularly awful. It's about a cop, whose beat is in hell. Literally. I didn't know what the hell was going on.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2007 11:16:55 GMT
Some of those comics did look terrifying.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 2, 2007 11:47:22 GMT
Some of those comics did look terrifying. -Ralph The nineties is a period in comics that is probably best forgotten. An awful lot of writers and artists doing stuff who had less clue about what they were doing than the readership. Never a good idea. On the other hand it did give us some superb stuff from James Robinson so the era is not entirely a dead loss. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2007 11:50:03 GMT
And...and Venom: Lethal Protector.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 2, 2007 11:58:03 GMT
And...and Venom: Lethal Protector. -Ralph Can't comment on that but your one-line description of it pretty much says it all doesn't it? Some ideas are just too stupid for words. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 2, 2007 12:01:28 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 22, 2007 9:46:40 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 31, 2007 23:11:44 GMT
The PM/IF has arrived and looks great.
Need 98 99 111 112 113 114 and 125 to complete my run .
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 1, 2008 23:22:47 GMT
The PM/IF quest goes well - just knocked 113 & 114 off the list
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 7, 2008 18:35:39 GMT
Hmmm. The later PM/IF aren't as good as the stuff c#100 which I'd already got. I can see why it was cancelled.
I'm going to make Ralph want a copy of Marvel Two in One 99 now. Not only is it a Thing/Rom team up the writer is one Bill Mantlo. Solid gold.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2008 18:40:07 GMT
I know of this mighty issue via the ISB. It looks hilarious.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 10, 2008 13:00:54 GMT
Just picked up a handful of mid-nineties progs when Morrison and Millar hijacked the comic. I forgot how absolutely bang on a satire Big Dave was.
It's a shame 2000ad never capitalised on the notoriety when it came, that and the Dredd movie and the failed ad campaign didn't have do it some damage.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 11, 2008 11:54:39 GMT
Just arrived from ebay the complete six issues of The Light and Darkness War by Tom Veitch & Cam Kennedy (of Star Wars: Dark Empire). Probably one of the most gorgeous looking comics ever. Looks even better than Dark Empire - which itself is no slouch in the art department. I can't believe it's never had a trade paperback.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 11, 2008 18:50:10 GMT
I remember that from when it was in the short-lived Meltdown anthology.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 11, 2008 20:11:46 GMT
Ah Cam Kennedy. I do have a great fondness for his art. I only have very dim memories of "Light and Darkness" war sadly though. I remember thinking it looked beautiful, but I can't remember a thing about the story at all.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2008 13:37:04 GMT
Following This I've had a trip to the back issue box for copies of the 80s The Thing comic. 1-25 are either secured at the DFiS or are en route. Some of it is very good, though the early issues are more character stuff than clobbering time. It amazes me that 11-22 haven't been collected - Rocky Grimm Space Ranger - as this forms a following up to Secret Wars ending (IIRC) in a stonking last part with a huge android army and ben fighting his double.... |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2008 13:59:22 GMT
I remember that story. Put the willies up me.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 9, 2008 9:29:14 GMT
And after having tracked down the issues they turn up together on eBay ! I love buying back issues, and to be fair I got 8 of these in one hit but getting them all at once would be cheaper (FYI The Thing hit list looks like 27 28 29 32 33 34 35 36 at the mo) |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 13, 2008 22:24:13 GMT
The latest set of back issue wonders arrived yesterday from Graham's Crackers. Amongst it were the remaining 4 Power Man Iron Fist issues to complete my run.
I can see why it got canned, Jim Owsley had no idea. Dumped almost all of PM/IF's large supporting cast and replaced them with others. I read the final issue again and could reognise very few of the supporting cast in that. The feel was just wrong. The only issues that work are the ones where he sticks Luke and Danny in the Artic !
On the other hand the Kurt Busiek (sp?) issues around 100 are just gold. 100 itself is blinding, get a copy if you get the oppotunity.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 13, 2008 22:27:06 GMT
I'm pretty sure Priest(Owsley) copped to the same thing in his blog. A talented writer who wasn't a good fit to the title at that point in his career.
Andy
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