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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 17, 2019 23:58:26 GMT
Works better in the greater context of PAD's longer Hulk run. The status quo would regularly change. Still the best Hulk run for me.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 21, 2019 21:17:36 GMT
Enjoying All-New, All-Different X-Factor. Finished the first five issues. Finished the book. All good stuff. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 21, 2019 23:06:03 GMT
It's cracking, shame PAD's run on X-Factor is so short-lived.
Have you read his Spider-Man 2099?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 22, 2019 5:50:55 GMT
No. Is young Peter Parker still struggling with his relationship with Aunt May in the year 2099?
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 22, 2019 8:23:38 GMT
It's cracking, shame PAD's run on X-Factor is so short-lived. I thought he wrote to the end, had never realised he jumped ship at #89! Suddenly some things make a lot more sense! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 22, 2019 9:07:07 GMT
No. Is young Peter Parker still struggling with his relationship with Aunt May in the year 2099? Martin Nay. It is a different Spider-Man! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 22, 2019 11:03:20 GMT
...but he's worrying about how the Aunt May simulation in the interweb is doing....
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 22, 2019 17:26:08 GMT
It's cracking, shame PAD's run on X-Factor is so short-lived. I thought he wrote to the end, had never realised he jumped ship at #89! Suddenly some things make a lot more sense! Yeah he was unhappy at the crossovers sidelining his team in their own book. So walked. Andy |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 23, 2019 18:58:58 GMT
...but he's worrying about how the Aunt May simulation in the interweb is doing.... No he's not! Don't put Martin off a good comic. Andy |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 1, 2019 17:41:42 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 1, 2019 17:46:14 GMT
We have several contemporaneous Thor Epics here inc those issues.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 1, 2019 22:06:45 GMT
These comics are gloriously colourful and epic and simple and innocent. It wouldn't do for all comics to be like this, but it's a joy that such comics exist.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 1, 2019 23:16:03 GMT
The Stan and Jack Thor is glorious.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2019 0:16:00 GMT
IN MY HAND THIS HAMMER.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2019 8:34:46 GMT
More Stan & Jack Thor for Martin next then?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 2, 2019 9:00:46 GMT
More Stan & Jack Thor for Martin next then? Aye, verily and forsooth! (Yes, please.) Hm, I have a vague memory that I once (mid-'80s?) owned a single issue of a UK comic (possibly with 'Spider-Man' in the title) and the only thing I can remember about its content was a story with Hercules and Sif together in some futuristic alien landscape. Can anyone identify this comic and/or story? Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2019 9:24:09 GMT
Oh yes! Give me a few mins to get to the PC and dig out some links!
EDIT: it appears this was my post 56K!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2019 9:45:29 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 2, 2019 11:54:17 GMT
Right you owned an issue of Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, somewhere between 567 & 576 which reprint Thor 234-236 Yes! Now I remember! They were fighting that Kamo Tharnn chap who wouldn't let them borrow his staff. Must be part of the story from Thor #235. Wasn't printed in colour though, as I recall. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2019 12:07:29 GMT
Bits were and some were't, this was the earliest stages of Marvel UK's experiments with internal colour printing
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 17, 2019 17:38:42 GMT
The early Stan Lee / Steve Ditko Dr Strange (Epic Vol. 1) has now drawn me in and I'm rocketing through it. Like the Thor, the language is wonderfully over-the-top. And I actually quite like the 8-to-10-page story format.
The covers throw me slightly as they all feature the Human Torch (sometimes alongside the Thing) and advertise completely different stories - Dr Strange just being a backup strip in 'Strange Tales'.
Martin
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Post by Jaymz on Feb 17, 2019 18:43:49 GMT
Yeah, Lee was not a fan of the character and didn't understand the popularity. He often avoided pushing him on the covers and would insult Ditko in the letters pages.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 17, 2019 18:45:28 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 17, 2019 19:08:50 GMT
Oh good, glad you're enjoying it.
I think we think some Stan & Jack Thor next
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 17, 2019 20:50:26 GMT
I don't think anything Dr Strange has been in comes close to those Stan and Steve issues.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 17, 2019 20:57:29 GMT
MWOM was running them as a back-up though has dropped them with the current issue. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 17, 2019 21:05:42 GMT
BOOOOO!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 18, 2019 9:19:51 GMT
Ineed. I had read them before in black and white but not in colour and they were the perfect size for a 'page filler' at the back of an issue without losing any content from the modern material being printed.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 19, 2019 6:45:35 GMT
Ah! The Human Torch and Thing have been replaced on the covers by Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD.
Dr Strange surprised me, after 18 standalone stories it launched into a year-long multi-parter as he fights the alliance of the Dread Dormammu and Baron Mordo. Nine chapters in, Strange is about to meet... Eternity!
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 19, 2019 22:40:35 GMT
A classic moment and what a design from Ditko.
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