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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2009 19:08:59 GMT
Mr Burns got his parcel today....
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2009 19:15:11 GMT
He might not have been able to read it, last I heard he was digesting a Lidl flyer!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2009 20:35:47 GMT
He was well enough to tell me he'd got them earlier !
Just hauled a pile of Claremont & Byrne Marvel Team Up cheap. Happy.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2009 22:48:07 GMT
Been out most of the day so not had a chance to have a proper look the pile of joy yet.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 13, 2009 10:31:52 GMT
Package en route to Turnbull!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 20, 2009 23:11:47 GMT
A few weeks ago I suggested trading up the Marvel annual crossovers which made me check out my holdings on this matter. Let's just say I now own both of the big crossovers and several of the smaller ones that I found I had a few issues of. Big pile of Byrne MTU here to read. Oh yeah. The other thing I've been looking at are the holes in my Doctor Who Magazine collection. Some of theback up strips in Weekly are superb, shame they've never been collected. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 22, 2009 22:03:26 GMT
Worked my way through the Byrne MTU. Oh yeah, good stuff. Some of the earlier issues (50s) are Mantlotainment to, so that should sell a few copies of E MTU v3 to some of us. Sadly the best issue - 79 Claremont/Byrne/Austin doing Spiderman meets Red Sonja (a possesed Mary Jane) and featuring Kulan Gath in a prelude to the X-Men story in UXM 190/191 is missing from that volume due to rights issues :-( |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 27, 2009 19:38:49 GMT
Package en route for Turnbull ! A package for Burns is awaiting a delivery here to complete it.
Quite a few Marvel US annuals recently. Quiz question: Which *THREE* Marvel annual crossovers have been completely collected in trades ?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 27, 2009 20:01:54 GMT
Ooooh.
Are we talking the big mega ones like Atlantis Attacks/Evolutionary War or the smaller ones over say three or four annuals?
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 27, 2009 21:38:22 GMT
Well seeing as Atlantis Attacks & Evoloutinonary War get a mention in Missing in Trades I think you're looking for something shorter. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2009 20:13:29 GMT
Some hints:
One crossover involves the Avengers, and since the Avengers had crossovers in every annual from 14 to 21 it's statistically unlikely only one should be collected ! It's in print, not in an Avengers volume and was completely printed by Marvel UK. (And before Andy says it's the Thanos one he needs the first part of it isn't that - the Avengers portion of that (7) hasn't been reprinted yet)
Two involve the FF
Two Involve the X-Men and the New Mutants. There would be a third but what *should* have been New Mutants Annual 2 bloated to such huge proportions it became New Mutants special Edition 1
Two are out of print, though one part of one is availible in black & white and another part is due to be reprinted in colour shortly.
Two of the crossovers are set distinctly in storyline for the regular flow of the books in question, indeed one is basoloutley crucial reading
Answers Sun night/Monday morning together with more info about Marvel Annual croosovers than you can shake a stick at !
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 28, 2009 20:29:12 GMT
Days of Future Present was done in a trade yonks ago but is long out of print.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2009 21:14:46 GMT
And that's one featuring X-Men, X-Factor, FF & New Mutants. It's the first time Jean meets Rachel and the when Storm & Gambit meet Forge & Banshee to set up the rebuilding of the X-Men team.
I've done some more research and discovered Avengers Annual 7 has been collected in a trade entitled the Avengers Greatest Battles !
So which are the other two collected crossovers ?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 30, 2009 21:25:01 GMT
The answers to the quiz - in addition to the one Andy got - are the 1985 crossover between Avengers Annual 14 & Fantastic Four Annual 18 where the Skrulls loose their powerd and the 1986 crossover between New Mutants Annual 2 & X-Men Annual 10 which introduce both Psylocke & Longshot into the X-Men.
I suppose 1985's crossover between New Mutants Special Edition 1 & X-Men Annual 9 *technically* counts as the NM special edition should have been an annual till it bloated so much.
Here then is the full list:
FF/Thing WWII 1976
Fantastic Four Annual 11
Marvel Two In One Annual 1
Marvel Two In One 20
Thanos 1978
Avengers Annual 7
Marvel Two In One Annual 2
Spider-Man vs Doctor Octopus 1979
Amazing Spider-Man annual 13
Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man annual 1
Asgardian Wars 1985
New Mutants Special Edition 1
X-Men Annual 9
Skrulls 1985
Avengers Annual 14
Fantastic Four Annual 18
Quicksilver & The Zodiac 1986
Avengers Annual 15
West Coast Avengers Annual 1
Mojo, Psylocke & Longshot 1986
New Mutants Annual 2
X-Men Annual 10
Death vs the Gamesmaster 1987
West Coast Avengers Annual 2
Avengers Annual 16
Evoloutionary War 1988
X-Factor Annual #3
Punisher Annual #1
Silver Surfer Annual #1
New Mutants Annual #4
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22
Fantastic Four Annual #21
Uncanny X-Men Annual #12
Web of Spider-Man Annual #4
West Coast Avengers Annual #3
The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #8
Avengers Annual #17
Atlantis Attacks 1989
Silver Surfer Annual #2
Iron Man Annual #10
X-Men Annual #13
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23
Punisher Annual #2
The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #9
Daredevil Annual #5 (mislabeled as Annual #4)
Avengers Annual #18
New Mutants Annual #5
X-Factor Annual #4
Web of Spider-Man Annual #5
Avengers West Coast Annual #4
Thor Annual #14
Fantastic Four Annual #22
Days of Future Present 1990
Fantastic Four Annual 23
New Mutants Annual 7
X-Factor Annual 5
Uncanny X-Men Annual #14
Lifeform 1990
Punisher Annual 3
Daredevil Annual #2
Incredible Hulk Annual #16
Silver Surfer Annual #4
Terminus Factor 1990
Captain America Annual #9
Iron Man Annual #11
Thor Annual #15
Avengers West Coast Annual #5
Avengers Annual #19
Spidey's Totally Tiny Adventure 1990
Amazing Spiderman Annual 24
Spectacular Spiderman Annual 10
Web of Spiderman Annual 6
Kings of Pain 1991
New Mutants Annual 7
New Warriors Annual 1
Uncanny X-Men Annual 15
X-Factor Annual 6
Korvac Quest 1991
Fantastic Four Annual 24
Thor Annual 16
Silver Surfer Annual 4
Guardians of the Galaxy Annual 1
Subterranean Wars 1991
Avengers Annual 20
Hulk Annual 17
Namor Annual 1
Iron Man Annual 12
Avengers West Coast Annual 6
Vibranium Vendetta 1991
Amazing Spiderman Annual 25
Spectacular Spiderman Annual 11
Web of Spiderman Annual 7
Von Strucker Gambit 1991
Daredevil Annual 7
Punisher Annual 4
Captain America Annual 10
Shattershot 1992
X-Men Annual 1
Uncanny X-Men Annual 16
X-Factor Annual 7
X-Force Annual 1
The Return of the Defenders 1992
Hulk Annual 18
Namor Annual 2
Silver Surfer Annual 5
Doctor Strange Annual 2
System Bites 1992
Punisher Annual 5
Daredevil Annual 8
Wonder Man Annual 1
Guardians of the Galaxy Annual 2
Assault on Armour City 1992
Darkhawk Annual 1
Avengers West Coast Annual 7
Iron man Annual 13
Hero Killers 1992
Amazing Spiderman Annual 26
Spectacular Spiderman Annual 12
Web of Spiderman Annual 8
New Warriors Annual 2
Citizen Kang 1992
Captain America Annul #11
Thor Annual 17
Fantastic Four Annual 25
Avengers Annual 21
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 2, 2009 21:25:23 GMT
Lifeform Better than I remembered it. DD annual was tops, as the writers managed to weave the backups into the main tale and the main strip was drawn by Kenedy. But no sort of cohesive feel to the story with each of the characters having a very different style. Only needed to buy the Hulk annual, had the other 3 already.
Kings of Pain a more cohesive story but the meaning of the title was a bit irrelevant and the Kings in question were just too far removed from the main action. The New Mutants Annual was published after he series finished, the X-Men annual featured Moira scratch team due to the real X-Men having a decent adventure in space. The New Warriors Annual was probably the best of the three. Had to buy both the New Warriors and X-Men annuals.
Shattershot Just a bit of a mess really with the final chapter totally divorced from the rest of the story and set in an alternate future. Needed more Longshot and better art teams - though the Joe Q stuff on the X-Factor annual was decent. Had the X-Factor annual, but found a set real cheap.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 3, 2009 10:16:06 GMT
Terminus Factor What a mess. Someone's come up with a mutating invading alien story and shoehorned Terminus into it. Now Terminus' history is a tinsy bit of a mess but this is a whole new ball game. Avoid. I had the Cap, Thor & WCA annuals, just needed Iron Man & Avengers.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 3, 2009 14:58:19 GMT
Package for Burns ! and it isn't Marvel UK reprints
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 5, 2009 18:43:00 GMT
Lovely line in one of the backup strips in New Warriors Annual 1. Speedball: "So what if I attached spikes to my spandex ?"
Oddly prescient.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 5, 2009 18:47:12 GMT
Hero Killers Quite an enjoyable little romp with passable art in the vaguely cartoony style of the time. Lots of mucking about in the middle two chapters that you could have cut - the Dreadnoughts were superfluous especially the souped up versions and told the story in two. A slightly misleading tag line on part - "A hero dies" Well the hero is dead when they get there and is Auric so I could bet that only me and three others would have heard of him. This then doesn't get mentioned to his sister (who was also being held) who then disapears completely for part four !
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 7, 2009 20:01:39 GMT
I never clicked before today that Iron Fist got resurected in the Byrne drawn Namor comic. You know what I must buy now ....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2009 20:37:31 GMT
I clean forgot to bid on an MSH I wanted at the weekend.
While I'm in London I've been looking at some of my Cable issues (contemplating Cable classic V2 and swaying to the No side) What has caught my attention is the later issues drawn by Ladronn in a mock Kirby style - really working for me, very different to what everyone else was doing at the time.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 28, 2009 20:49:52 GMT
Yeah they were quite good actually. Union Jack is in one of the issues I am sure in a flashback dealing with one of Apocalypse's heralds.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2009 21:55:13 GMT
Yup, he is.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 7, 2009 15:41:44 GMT
The last of the Ladronn Cable issues has arrived
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 9, 2009 21:34:42 GMT
And lo they were good. Ladronn's art is a greart mock Kirby style.
Also read Byrne's first She Hulk run. Good squishy, especially the issue with the Stilt Man
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Post by Jaymz on May 19, 2009 0:07:34 GMT
Picked up some more [Uncanny] X-Men back issues today. 11 to go to complete the run!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 16, 2009 17:10:58 GMT
I never clicked before today that Iron Fist got resurected in the Byrne drawn Namor comic. You know what I must buy now .... Money got a littel tight in the runup to the car bills. However I've just got a bargain ! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 22, 2009 19:28:41 GMT
Back to one of my longer running projects - three cheap lots on eBay have taken my Avengers run up to issue 327.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 25, 2009 11:18:34 GMT
I never clicked before today that Iron Fist got resurected in the Byrne drawn Namor comic. You know what I must buy now .... Money got a littel tight in the runup to the car bills. However I've just got a bargain !Half way through my Namor lot now, I've reached the end of the Byrne drawn issues. The art varies, JB's experimenting with style a bit as this goes on and some of the later stuff is almost 90s cartoony lacking in detail. But the Byrne touches are still there and it's nowehere near as bad as the Janson inked JB stuff in those Wolverine issues. 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 ! That's back from the first page of the thread. I'm wondering now if Priest's stuff may have been a little better than what I was giving him credit for. One of the ideas JB uses when he brings IF back must have been in Owsley/Priest's head all along - Tyrone King, one of the newer cast members he introduced who I didn't like and in the last issue is hinted as being *slightly* more than he appears, has a name that means something. Tyrone means power, prince, king, master..... and king in arabic is Khan. So JO/CP seems to have been planning the Master Khan reveal all along. Avengers issues are arriving, looking forward to these, especially getting past the rubbish that made me chuck it 1st time out. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 14, 2009 20:04:36 GMT
*Finally* Got the Extreme X-Men annual I was missing.....
It's not Claremont's best work which is a shame cos the early (LaRocca drawn) issues of Extreme were quite good.
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