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Post by jakefury on Aug 7, 2012 10:02:06 GMT -5
Discuss any and all classic comics you've read lately!
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Post by jakefury on Aug 7, 2012 10:06:31 GMT -5
Just read Avengers #274-#277, which is the arc when the Masters of Evil take over Avengers Mansion. Awesome stuff as Blackout sends Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) into the Blackforce dimension, Black Knight and Jarvis are tortured and beaten, Cap gets captured and Hercules gets drugged then bludgeoned into a coma by Goliath, Mr. Hyde and the Wrecking Crew.
This leaves the Wasp as the last Avenger against Zemo and his crew. She's soon joined by Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Dr. Druid (before he was a creeper) and a returning Thor (w/awesome beard). Captain Marvel finds her way out of the Darkforce Dimension and they attempt to retake the mansion.
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Post by jakefury on Aug 7, 2012 10:10:34 GMT -5
Also read the OMAC project. It's not so much a Batman story as it revolves around Sasha Bordeaux and Checkmate.
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2012 10:21:45 GMT -5
All of my older stuff is safely packed away in a box. Those are my expensive comics  |
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Post by jakefury on Aug 7, 2012 11:54:13 GMT -5
All of my older stuff is safely packed away in a box. Those are my expensive comics Open them carefully and read them then. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2012 11:55:53 GMT -5
Hah. I'm not especially concerned with the condition or anything, I've just read most of them relatively recently. They're mostly first appearances of characters I like or battles I wanted to see.
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Post by jakefury on Aug 7, 2012 14:47:44 GMT -5
Cool, I tried reading the Daredevil: Typhoid Mary tpb but Ann Nocenti's inner monologues made it feel like I was reading War & Peace.
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Post by Power NeXus on Aug 7, 2012 17:02:29 GMT -5
I got a TPB of classic Excalibur a few days ago. It's sort of mediocre, but it's got a lot of good Nightcrawler stuff.
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Post by jakefury on Aug 7, 2012 18:34:25 GMT -5
Cool, I always liked the idea of Excalibur but didn't read a lot of the comics.
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Post by NorCalCO on Aug 10, 2012 14:14:33 GMT -5
 At the comic convention we went to last weekend I picked-up Captain America #402-408 from 1992. The first 6 issues are the CapWolf arc and #408 is the Epilogue. Caps personal pilot, John Jameson, has gone missing and Cap goes off to find him on his own, leaving Black Widow in charge of the Avengers. As you can probably guess, Cap is eventually turned in to a man-wolf by Nightshade. There are a lot of characters featured in these 7 issues, including Dr. Druid, Moonhunter, Wolverine, Cable, Wolfsbane, Dredmund Cromwell (who becomes Starwolf) and others. There is also a back-up story in all 7 of these issues that features Crossbones, Diamondback, the Red Skull and several others. All in all, I really enjoyed this arc. I thought it was well done and it was interesting to see Captain America in a very different situation than we normally see him in. Well worth the $1 each I paid for the issues. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 10, 2012 15:51:58 GMT -5
I wish Moonhunter had more showings. He looks goofy but he would have been fun to use in battles.
Also, it has a good Wolverine fight and back-up Crossbones story.
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Post by Power NeXus on Aug 10, 2012 20:10:19 GMT -5
I sometimes prefer older comics to current ones. It was kinda nice when comics were more lighthearted and stories only lasted half a dozen issues, there were no major events getting overhyped every other week, and you didn't have to be reading half a dozen different titles just to understand what was going on in one story. Comics were just so much more easygoing back in the day.
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Post by jakefury on Aug 10, 2012 22:56:34 GMT -5
Just picked up Essential Nova vol 1 for $5 at Books A Million.
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Post by Admin on Aug 12, 2012 10:52:32 GMT -5
It's not really old, but I read Superman Secret Origin last night.
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Post by jakefury on Aug 12, 2012 11:11:17 GMT -5
It's not really old, but I read Superman Secret Origin last night. I read the first few issues and then forgot about it. Haha |
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Post by jakefury on Sept 18, 2012 15:07:59 GMT -5
Reading list while I was sick:
Under The Red Hood Vol 2
JLA/Crime Syndicate by Kurt Busiek
JLA: Crisis of Conscience
JLA: The Burning
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Post by Erik-El on Sept 19, 2012 2:33:27 GMT -5
It's not really old, but I read Superman Secret Origin last night. I read the first few issues and then forgot about it. Haha We are no longer friends. |
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Post by jakefury on Sept 19, 2012 7:15:44 GMT -5
I read the first few issues and then forgot about it. Haha We are no longer friends. Oh come on, you and I could have put that book out faster if we were working on it. ;D |
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Post by RV on Sept 19, 2012 16:20:02 GMT -5
Claremont's X-Men. Hate on Claremont all you want, but that was the shit right there.
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Post by jakefury on Sept 19, 2012 16:25:28 GMT -5
X-Men back in the day was awesome. Mutant Massacre is one of my all time favorites.
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