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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 9, 2020 21:43:43 GMT
Ta, will read those
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 12, 2020 9:59:02 GMT
Dr Strange #9 is an interesting comic.
Three pages of colour comic strip featuring the characters going, "Oh no, someone's written a book about Dr Strange!" Then fourteen black-and-white pages of extracts from the book, in printed prose. Then three more colour comic strip pages of the fall-out from the book. Then a text editorial by J. Jonah Jameson slagging off the book. Then an eight-page colour backup strip.
They must have saved money on coloured ink and artists' fees, but the reader gets more than their money's worth in page count. Hope no-one tried to get a refund complaining that it wasn't a proper comic...
Dr Strange is very cross about the book having been written by a friend, revealing all his secrets to the world. But he has only himself to blame, for pretending to be dead for the last year or so.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 16, 2020 16:43:41 GMT
Finished the Doc Strange Epic, with the fine Dr Doom crossover graphic novel. Nice.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 21, 2020 20:34:22 GMT
Oh, I do like Defenders #148. Completely bonkers nonsense out of nowhere, plonked right in the middle of an ongoing story. It screams filler issue, except it's more entertaining than the main ongoing story that it so rudely interrupts. Check out this crazy plot: marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Defenders_Vol_1_148And Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister are of course Goon Show references. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 21, 2020 20:39:49 GMT
To think Phil gifting a TPB containing this golden issue to Ralph could ever be considered True Friending!
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2020 20:50:21 GMT
Oh that issue got on my tits! 147 flows directly into 149 so this is OBVIOUSLY an inventory issue, I can't quite see why it was printed then. My best guess is they knew the end was nigh and decided to use it to get their money's worth. Either that or they were told the chop was coming and needed some thinking space as to how to round everything off.
It'll be an interesting exercise to work out where it fits continuity wise.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 21, 2020 21:00:33 GMT
Oh that issue got on my tits! 147 flows directly into 149 so this is OBVIOUSLY an inventory issue, But inventory issues are supposed to be rubbish, and this is brilliant! I bet the editors of the Epic Collection had a debate about putting it in a different place in the book, but they chickened out and stuck to publication order. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 22, 2020 10:12:40 GMT
Oh that issue got on my tits! 147 flows directly into 149 so this is OBVIOUSLY an inventory issue, I can't quite see why it was printed then. My best guess is they knew the end was nigh and decided to use it to get their money's worth. Either that or they were told the chop was coming and needed some thinking space as to how to round everything off. It'll be an interesting exercise to work out where it fits continuity wise. Chances are it would have been that when the book was being cancelled they used it otherwise it was just wasted as they'd paid for the issue (as this was before Marvel Fanfare became the dumping ground for unused inventory issues). |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 22, 2020 15:30:11 GMT
Finished! Good ending.  Martin |
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 22, 2020 17:50:03 GMT
What Sentry stories have you read so far?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 22, 2020 20:01:16 GMT
I have no idea who this Sentry fellow is.
Martin
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 23, 2020 18:22:46 GMT
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 23, 2020 18:26:40 GMT
Phil, has this Sentry fellow (or lady, or thing) been in anything that I've read?
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2020 19:46:01 GMT
No, I've kept you safe.
He's only in modern stuff
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2020 19:46:11 GMT
No, I've kept you safe.
He's only in modern stuff
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 23, 2020 20:16:52 GMT
Thank you, Phil.
Martin
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 23, 2020 21:01:43 GMT
*weeps*
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 4, 2020 9:19:14 GMT
Excalibur Epic 4 and HoxPox lined up for Martin but it suddenly occurs to me he's not read the Marvel UK Moore/Davis Captain Britain. Would he like it do you think?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2020 13:04:34 GMT
I think he would.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 4, 2020 18:49:14 GMT
Excalibur Epic 4 and HoxPox lined up for Martin but it suddenly occurs to me he's not read the Marvel UK Moore/Davis Captain Britain. Would he like it do you think? Have finished reading Excalibur Epic Vol. 1. Sorry to say the series hasn't really grabbed me yet. I like some of the silliness, but the characters who aren't ex-X-Men have not yet made me care about what happens to them. Edit: Oh, look! 11,111th post and no klaxon! Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2020 23:29:35 GMT
PINWIIIIIIIIG!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 21, 2020 6:14:15 GMT
Just acquired cheap an NM copy of the 1997 'Hercules: Prince of Power' TPB, collecting the two early 1980s Bob Layton mini-series. I dislike Herc as a character in Avengers, but always found his cosmic adventures with the Recorder in the TF backup strip amusing, and I hadn't read the second four-issue mini-series... until now!
In issue #3, the bad guy explodes with the sound effect SHHRKKAFOOROOMM!
That's got to sting.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 7, 2020 19:58:40 GMT
Did I manage to get House of X/Power of X to Martin?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 7, 2020 20:02:30 GMT
Not as yet. That lies in my future.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2021 19:57:59 GMT
Illegal off-topic post! Doctor Strange Epic Collection is just Friending, not True Friending. Martin So this is Epic 4, Alone Against Eternity www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV200644This contains the star of the 70s/80s book:It's the first consecutive Doctor Strange Epic picking up from Epic 3 A Separate Reality which Martin has read previously. www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL161069It's his first new Epic for sometime |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2021 20:04:47 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 14, 2021 16:01:38 GMT
So this is Epic 4, Alone Against Eternity www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV200644This contains the star of the 70s/80s book:It's the first consecutive Doctor Strange Epic picking up from Epic 3 A Separate Reality which Martin has read previously. Thank you, Phil, it has been read from cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed, and is now sitting in a red pillar box awaiting collection before speeding Swindonwards. Mind-bending stories/scipt/art as only Doctor Strange provides. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2021 19:36:46 GMT
Now we know Martin likes the X-Men
Wolverine Epic 3 is due out in Bookshops next week, which contains the start of the Larry Hama/Marc Silvestri run. It picks a storyline up from the end of the Dissolution & Rebirth Epic and runs with it.
I think Martin might need to read this, and the next 2 volumes, if he hasn't already
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 15, 2021 21:57:15 GMT
I don't think I've read that run.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2021 22:11:29 GMT
Was in the very start of the Panini Wolverine.
It's probably the best run in the regular title and brings it in closer to the main X-comics after some..... odd stuff in the first 30 issues.
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