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Post by The Doctor on Apr 6, 2017 9:38:48 GMT
What 2000AD does Phil have to expand Martin's comic horizons? Do you have The Ballad of Halo Jones? Ace Trucking?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 7, 2017 6:00:42 GMT
I Have:
All the Case Files an all the floppy Rebellion trades
I have the case file equivalents for Robo Hunter, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog & Ace Trucking Co.
I have floppies of Halo Jones (Liz's, tea stained), Harry 20 & Future Shocks/Time Twisters. I have the old Titan DR & Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide To Life.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 7, 2017 6:02:15 GMT
My Excalibur Epic Collection has arrived! That's another possibility which would fit with his X-Reading.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 7, 2017 6:58:25 GMT
I'd feel mean borrowing something you haven't yet had time to read yourself...
Martin
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Post by legios on Apr 7, 2017 11:43:06 GMT
If you have it then I would second The Ballad of Halo Jones if Liz is amenable to it being lent.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 7, 2017 16:42:43 GMT
Having trouble locating Halo Jones.
Has Martin read Alpha Flight? There,s a X connection there
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 7, 2017 18:10:52 GMT
Having trouble locating Halo Jones. Has Martin read Alpha Flight? Only crossovers. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 10, 2017 6:37:36 GMT
Very interested in your thoughts on Excalibur. Probably one of my favourite superhero comic series. Andy Only read the origin special so far. Captain Britain has yet to justify his existence to me. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 10, 2017 6:58:17 GMT
oh lord that was a bugger to find at the time!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 10, 2017 7:36:10 GMT
Never read it until years later.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 10, 2017 10:01:54 GMT
Very interested in your thoughts on Excalibur. Probably one of my favourite superhero comic series. Andy Only read the origin special so far. Captain Britain has yet to justify his existence to me. Martin Proper CB is great. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 10, 2017 14:04:42 GMT
Captain Britain is grand, in Excalibur he's slightly different, but then when solo characters suddenly becoming part of a team they should be awkward and not a good fit at times. Something too few comic writers really do when random teams are assembled.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 28, 2017 7:10:06 GMT
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. I can't work out what the team's purpose or long-term plan is either, or even whether it has an agreed leader. From his origin story, it doesn't even appear that Captain Britain is a mutant.
Finished Rom. Glad I stuck with it to the end. Hit and miss in places, but a satisfying story in the round. Can't believe I've read 75 issues plus annuals! Wow.
Beginning Alpha Flight now.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 28, 2017 8:45:21 GMT
No, Cap is not a mutant, and the lack of a defined leader is a story point that will be addressed over the course of the series. Cap clearly thinks he should be the leader.
As for it's purpose - it's the X-Men equivalent of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League (which if you haven't read we need to sort you out with) where it realises there is an inherent absurdness to superheroes and has fun with it. Given we were in the grim n gritty post Dark Knight Returns era and Watchmen was just ending when Excalibur started iirc it makes for a nice counterpoint.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 5, 2017 17:18:27 GMT
Well into volume 2 of Alpha Flight Classic. Enjoying it far more than Excalibur.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 5, 2017 18:06:29 GMT
Alpha Flight is fab up until a certain point. Then...less so.
Though I have never read the Furman run!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 5, 2017 18:07:28 GMT
Remind me when you visit and we can cure that.
Martin has the three Byrne volumes, th first tn issues of which were in Secret Wars UK. The best stuff. Which issue have you got to Martin?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 5, 2017 18:37:13 GMT
On issue #11. I thought 'Snowblind' was a cunning one-off comic device. Easy money for the artist!
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 5, 2017 20:23:09 GMT
I remember being angry at the time when it was printed in Secret Wars UK. Why were they blank panels in my comic? It was only when I re-read it a few years later that I got the joke. Even the 'next issue' preview in SW UK had pointed out the gag which had flown over my head at the time.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 19, 2017 19:08:56 GMT
I believe Martin has finished the Byrne Alpha Flight volumes...
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 20, 2017 5:35:08 GMT
Indeed I have, and thoroughly enjoyed them too (much more than Excalibur).
Some doubt over whether Phil's going to get them back, if our diaries fail to yield an appropriate date for handover...
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 20, 2017 6:04:16 GMT
Phil has the Omnibus too now!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 22, 2017 13:30:29 GMT
Martin has visited! Forgot to ask in advance what we should force on him so he was let loose in the library, which he wasn't sure he'd been in before. He has left with: West Coast Avengers: Lost In Space Time
West Coast Avengers: Zodiac Attack
Doctor Strange Epic Collection
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2017 21:27:29 GMT
Phil! I thought he picked up THE CHAMPIONS???
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 22, 2017 21:55:49 GMT
He didn't take them despite me saying they were your face comics and Mantlo/Byrne.
We will force them on him at a later date.....
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 23, 2017 7:14:16 GMT
I had already selected my four volumes when Phil stuck those ones in my hand and ordered me to pose for a photograph without any explanation. I thought maybe I was being taken hostage and the TPBs were the Phil equivalent of holding up a newspaper with a particular date on it to show when the photo was taken... or something. Only afterwards did he explain the significance.
Next time, perhaps!
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 23, 2017 8:50:44 GMT
NEXT TIME.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 19, 2017 18:19:51 GMT
Martin has The Champions!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 19, 2017 18:41:22 GMT
AND HE WILL LOVE THEM!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 19, 2017 22:10:12 GMT
I think not...
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