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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 20, 2019 18:59:27 GMT
By the Omnipotent Oshtur and the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth! It is over! The Dread Dormammu has been vanquished! May the Eternal Vishanti watch over us always!
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 20, 2019 20:39:16 GMT
Ha, a nice little Spider-Man / Dr Strange team-up to round off the book, and Spidey gets to utter the last line: "And may your Amulet never tickle."  Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 20, 2019 20:47:23 GMT
Hmmm, there's a reprinted Stan Lee editorial at the back from 1984 announcing a new big-budget Dr Strange motion picture.
I don't remember a Dr Strange film from 1984...
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2019 21:31:27 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 20, 2019 21:38:04 GMT
I see.
Thank you.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2019 21:41:08 GMT
Have you seen this glorious production?
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 20, 2019 21:44:20 GMT
No. Does it ever come on the telly?
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2019 21:52:04 GMT
I think we can sort this out for you...
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 20, 2019 22:13:50 GMT
No, but the DVD is in the hands of both myself and Ralph!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2019 18:39:15 GMT
Hopefully Lunching with Mr McV tomorrow.
I think we said Lee/Kirby Thor - anything else?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 8, 2019 23:27:23 GMT
If you've any Spider-Man 2099...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 9, 2019 0:42:22 GMT
We've covered this before: no.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 9, 2019 11:19:23 GMT
You should remedy that.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 9, 2019 16:40:08 GMT
Thank you Phil for three Stan Lee Thor Epic Collections and something called 'Captain Marvel: Secret Invasion'.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 9, 2019 16:46:14 GMT
You can blame Andu for the last one as he brought it up elsewhere!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 9, 2019 18:06:50 GMT
It's a great story, probably the best thing to come out of the Secret Invasion event.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 10, 2019 20:22:17 GMT
It's a great story, probably the best thing to come out of the Secret Invasion event. Just finished it. It's OK, though it's all very moody. Probably doesn't help that I read it in between reading Stan Lee Dr Strange and Thor volumes, which couldn't be more different in tone. And I guess it would also help if this wasn't the first story I've read (that I can remember) featuring Mar-Vell. Apart from the Kree angle, he seems a fairly generic Superman type. Film spoilers: I've read stories with Carol Danvers (Ms Marvel) and Monica Rambeau (Captain Marvel) in Avengers, and was aware that Monica Rambeau took the name of an earlier CM. Interesting that the movie featured all three, but made Mar-Vell female and gave her a different ending. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 10, 2019 20:48:26 GMT
Actually Mar-Vell was not really an interesting character so you are bang on the money.
He was like Barry Allen (DC's 2nd Flash in comics) in that he was only really interesting after he died. CM died of cancer in one of Marvel's earliest Graphic Novels - The Death of Captain Marvel. His title was most interesting when Thanos was the bad guy and Jim Starlin worked on him. Jim arguably made a better fist of his lead when he got the reigns of Warlock.
His son Genis-Vell when he became Captain Marvel and Peter David was writing him was a far more interesting character. Sadly there were only a couple of trades of his series.
Phil - do you have Nextwave? I'd be interested to see how Martin takes to a more irreverent modern superhero book with a Captain Marvel connection.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2019 20:44:59 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 28, 2019 20:55:13 GMT
No thank you. I have glanced at it and it looked awful. Actually, I think I read the first issue in the MCU Civil War Prelude book.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 28, 2019 21:00:40 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 28, 2019 21:35:07 GMT
No thank you. I have glanced at it and it looked awful. Actually, I think I read the first issue in the MCU Civil War Prelude book. Martin It was an idea, that could have worked but was cack-handed in execution and skewed to make Tony right with Cap surrendering in an out of character way. Not to mention the way the X-Men were sidelined which made zero sense, they should all have been front and centre with Team Cap. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 28, 2019 21:44:44 GMT
In other news, I've bypassed the slow progress I was making with Epic Thor 1 by leaving it for the time being and jumping ahead to Epic Thor 3, which I am steadily working my way through. Rigellians, Recorder, Ego the Living Planet, Wundagore, the High Evolutionary and the Tales of Asgard back-up strips. Yay verily, this is more like it.
Or as Odin just said, "Thus must it be! And that which must be, ever shall be! For such is the wonder! Such is the way! Now, verily... I have spoken!" Can't really argue with that, can you?
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 28, 2019 21:48:36 GMT
Thor's early strips are a bit of a chore. It does take Stan and Jack a while to find their feet with the book.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2019 21:57:11 GMT
No thank you. I have glanced at it and it looked awful. Actually, I think I read the first issue in the MCU Civil War Prelude book. Martin It was an idea, that could have worked but was cack-handed in execution and skewed to make Tony right with Cap surrendering in an out of character way. Not to mention the way the X-Men were sidelined which made zero sense, they should all have been front and centre with Team Cap. I seem to recall there was a Civil War X-Men mini but I cannot recall a thing about it! The Wolverine tie in was rather good though. And Civil War did expose me to the relaunched Thunderbolts, just before Ellis ruined it. |
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Post by Jim on Mar 28, 2019 22:08:58 GMT
The Wolverine tie-in was good, but it did nothing much with the Civil War concept as I recall - it was a straight up action series with him hunting down Nitro, wasn't it? But still, it was fun!
I still recall that bit from the opening pages where the plane he's on crashes into the corn field. "Damn shame. I love corn."
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 28, 2019 22:10:28 GMT
I liked it cos it was the only one that did go after the culprits!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 29, 2019 20:06:56 GMT
Yup.
I don't know which one annoys me more for letting Tony Stark play the hero when he is clearly in the wrong, that or A v X.
Where it's clear that the Avengers are the villains. All the shite about Cyclops, but Tony was the one who did the weapon that split the Phoenix force up. At that point, he should have been rounded on by all the other mutants and most of the rest of the heroes.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 6, 2019 19:00:07 GMT
I've got through a goodly chunk of Phil's Epic Thor 3 today. Whew, they sure pack a lot into these books.
Just over halfway through, and Thor has been to the Black Galaxy with a Rigellian Recorder to fight Ego the Living Planet, he's been to Wundagore Mountain to meet the High Evolutionary and witness the origin of the Man-Beast (and give me the Grand Moff Martinverse origin for the Battle Beasts, thank you, Stan), he's fought Kang the Conqueror and the Super-Skrull on Earth, and he's helped repulse a full-scale troll invasion of Asgard. Oh, and lost his girlfriend Jane Foster just in time for Sif to make her first appearance. And all that is not counting the Tales of Asgard backup strips featuring Thor's escapades with the Warriors Three.
And as I say, that's just over half of just one of Phil's three Thor Epic Collections!
Also this week polished off the MCU Captain Marvel Prelude, which apart from the obligatory movie tie-in, contained a nice range of decent Carol Danvers CM stories from across the decades. A decent taster session for someone new to the character.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 6, 2019 20:14:13 GMT
That is a lot of adventures, but the question is, are they any good?
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