Pointless proliferation of threads VI: Introducing I LOVE COMICS

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As if we needed another board!

Seriously though, having a separate board devoted to comics, given its serialized nature and the fanboyish tendencies of its readers, will be a good thing for reasons I can't articulate right now cos The Apprentice is on.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 30 January 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My loves are predictable:
Frank Miller Daredevil
X-men -the good ones, Pheonix death etc
Promethea
Milk and Cheese

However my comic collection was stolen. Take pity, send me your extras ;-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ghost Rider" (sort've the Killing Joke equivalent of Marvel Comics)
"X-men" (John Byrne era through Paul Smith era)
"Fantastic Four" (John Byrne era again)
"New Teen Titans"
"Howard the Duck" (way, way prior to the movie, which singlehandedly destroyed the credibility of this once groundbreaking series)
"Cerebus the Aardvark"
"MILK & CHEESE"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DAIRY PRODUCTS GONE BAD!

Anyone remember Hembeck?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/jpegs/comic/xmen_175.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that's me y'know
i love rising from fire like that.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, also Brian Bolland-era "Judge Dredd" (see "Howard the Duck" above)
"American Flagg"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.atakra.com/pictures/ebaycomics/aug_comics/american_flagg01.jpg http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/t3/f1/nlc007823-v4.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/47/images/death.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. For some reason this reminds me of the old Dr. Stranges I had.
You sir, are the monarch of comic geekdom. I bow.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to love these, with the double-sided connecting covers.

http://www.quadrupedaljellybean.com/images/marveluniverse2.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://alectronn.homestead.com/files/rog2000cast.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

John Byrne was my god.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

as well he should be!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The strangest comic fansite ever for ROM of all characters. I mean, c'mon.. whoever liked ROM?

http://www.romandme.org/

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.samruby.com/OtherTitles/WhatThe/FFRoast1.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, don't go dissin' the SPACE KNIGHT!!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Say, what are these strange comics you're posting?

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Which? The one just above was a one-off, but I displayed it to show classic Hembeck artwork. He was sort've a fanboy-made-good who boasted a style not unlike MAD Magazine's Don Martin.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.romandme.org/images/Rom%20&%20Me2.JPG

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I was too young to appreciate stuff like artists and styles back when I was collecting. I still don't know who drew the stuff I enjoyed reading. I'll just assume it was Stan Lee.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Or that guy who did Groo.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Other faves....
http://4colorreview.com/rewind_reviews/moon_knight_1_80/moon_knight_1_80.jpg http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0105/03/deathlock26th.jpg http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hh8m-iok/psm/psm4.JPG

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

More great Paul Smith...

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hh8m-iok/psm/psm173.JPG

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM, all of 'em!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.collectingfool.com/unpublished/sim-cerebus.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how there's been no DC stuff so far.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/matt/olympics/asterix.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked some DC stuff...notably....

http://www.titanstower.com/assets/recroom/posters/NTTblackfirepos.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The New Teen Titans were ulimately just X-men rip-offs/wannabes, in the same way that George Perez was a John Byrne disciple/wannabe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.surf.be/membres/pds/Images/SFbd/US/Uncanny%20X-Men%20130.jpg

I have a friend who seriously entertained the notion of getting this cover tattooed on his arm.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Dazzler!

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Another amazing-albeit-short-lived series:

http://www.reynos.com/Comics4$/Covers/Marvel/Champions.01b.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.a-diction.com/featr/images/storm_mohawk.gif

This is one plot twist I never bought. Storm was too much of a hippy earthy love goddess to go all `hawky punk rock on the world.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I started reading around the time X-Factor and The New Mutants started coming out.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't imagine those were the golden years or anything but I'm glad I read then and not post-McFarlane, or whatever, when comics started costing the same as a magazine or something.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

How much does a regular comic cost now anyway?

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't read comics anymore...they're simply too dazzling. I can't even concentrate on the page on the plot. All semblance of linear story-telling has gone out the window. The artwork is staggeringly well-done, but I just can't follow along. It's the same with video games.

Guess I'm officially too old. Alas....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Now THIS completely rocked my silly little world, as it was the glorious culmination of my then two favorite things in all creation....comic books and KISS! And, it was printed...with their own blood!

http://members.cox.net/goofygrape3/collection/kiss/comic1.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The second installment.....not quite as mind-blowing...

http://members.cox.net/goofygrape3/collection/kiss/comic2.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/loverockets_volume16w_101b.jpg

In heaven I get to do nothing but sit around all day reading all the Love and Rockets ever produced.

― Dan I., Friday, 30 January 2004 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

They're probably serving this one up in Hell.

http://www.ryaninteractive.com/comicvault/images/24_c_on.gif

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ryaninteractive.com/comicvault/images/24_c_on.gif

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone remember this? I must've bought about ten copies, naively thinking it'd be worth a mega-fortune some day. Trouble was, it was poorly written and the artwork wasn't anything to write home about. Ultimately a great opporunity wasted....

http://users.erols.com/wolfie1/marvdc.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

who did captain carrot?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh* yep. had one of those.
xpost

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.houseoffun.com/milkandcheese/welcome.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

y'mean flaming carrot?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, man, just remembered another....anyone dare to confess to reading these....?

http://www.vividvision.com/comics/elfquest6.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahahahahaha.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

These were the days before I developed the high standards I have now, ahahahaha.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.psychosaurus.com/turok/images/turokgcd.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

great.. more Indian Chief.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, at least there have been no postings of that terror of the 80s--Heavy Metal!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember EPIC? Sort've the poor man's Heavy Metal?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmmm. maybe if I saw it. Not offhand.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Optic Nerve isn't that bad. It's bad like emo is bad, which is to say it gives the feeling of something too recently outgrown to be quite comfortable with yet. (don't get me wrong, I never listened to emo, but it does kind've fit into that whole freshman-in-high-school through freshman-in-college period, right?)

― Dan I., Friday, 30 January 2004 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

here y'are...

http://www.chez.com/mleicht/bd/epic/epic7.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

looks like a broken link.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops. Hate it when that happens. Well, in any event, it was just a watered-down version of "Heavy Metal" (lots of space-pirated and battle-axe weilding topless women with rams horns on the sides of their heads, etc.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

haha! yeah, sounds very Comi-Con!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone ever goto a Creation Con?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Read more about'em:

http://www.creationent.com/past_events/ccon.htm

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Lordy, click on the link to take a look at some of the losers responsible for some of my youth's dearest memories.

Incidentally, the woman who wrote "Elfquest" looks like this...

http://www.creationent.com/past_events/comic_book/22.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"woman"

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"breasts"

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 30 January 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still not seeing it.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Listing authors rather than titles (as I'll pretty much read anything by a writer I like, and will seriously consider buying just about anything by artists I like c.f. The Truth, just for the Kyle Baker art):

Grant Morrison (therefore I'll stop buying New X-Men in the next 6 months sometime)
Alan Moore
Warren Ellis
Garth Ennis
Brian Michael Bendis
Mark Millar
Kyle Baker
Pete Bagge
Dan Clowes
Eddie Campbell
Gary Millidge
Paul Grist

Probably loads of others I can't think of just now... but other titles on top of that:

Cerebus
Flash
Catwoman (Darwyn Cook getting very close to making the upper list)
Fantastic Four (Mark Waid doing a tremendous job)
The Losers (the best comic DC are publishing just now)
Human Target
Fables
1602
X-Statix (the best comic marvel are producing just now)
Hellboy
Optic Nerve
Acme Library
Green Arrow
Hellblazer
Swamp Thing (restarting soon)
Y
Lucifer
Aquaman (the Rick Veitch relaunch issues were great)
Hulk
Daredevil
Emma Frost
Elektra
Savage Dragon
PvP
Liberty Meadows
Too Much Coffee Man

That's just the current titles list, unfortunately (for my bank balance).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. Equating Ghost Rider to Killing Joke says so much without saying much at all, if what you're trying to say is "Killing Joke SUCKS" (which I don't think you are).

And, also, for whatever reason (yeah, 'whatever reason'), this statement:

"The New Teen Titans were ulimately just X-men rip-offs/wannabes, in the same way that George Perez was a John Byrne disciple/wannabe."

... is making me twitchy. The second half, at least.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Too Much Coffee Man

This sounds sooooo promising.

Equating Ghost Rider to Killing Joke says so much without saying much at all, if what you're trying to say is "Killing Joke SUCKS" (which I don't think you are).

To each their own, David. I love "Ghost Rider". No one said you had to.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

That uncharacteristically intolerant comment was made by me pre-bagel. I am now post-bagel, and am more accepting of the lifestyle choices of others, though they might not jive with mine. I must also register disappointment at your lack of love for John Romita Jr's X-Men run, but, like I said, I'm post-bagel.

Tho, in retrospect, I am disappointed that the House of Ideas didn't think of having a superhero putter around on a Vespa. You have surfboard covered, you have chopper covered, you have TRUCKING superheroes, so why not THE MOD? (Unless this has been done.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Which "Ghost Rider", Alex? Johnny Blaze or the later version(s? I know there's at least one, or more, Ghost Riders). The early Blaze comics were great. Same with the Son of Satan, Werewolf by Night and Tomb of Dracula. Gene Colan's art on ToD, classic.

http://members.aol.com/dctrmike69/images/tod18.jpg

http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/shangchi01.gif

Me, the most beloved one is Moench/Gulacy's Shang-Chi - Leiko Wu, Clive Reston, Black Jack Tarr. The art was visual poetry. One issue had Shang-Chi listening to "Rhiannon", the "she is like a cat in the dark, and then she is the darkness..." line floating alongside. Got me into Fleetwood Mac.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 30 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And re: EPIC, I still have most (all?) the Dreadstar issues - not a huge Starlin Mar-vell/Thanos/Warlock fan, but I dug the Vance Dreadstar character, and the supporting cast.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.joebates.com/nostalgia/bb5.jpg
http://www.joebates.com/nostalgia/bb2.jpg

those ones are just plain awesome, but these are ones that I love/used to love:

http://www.davegibbonsfansite.com/greenl181.jpg
http://www.nickcardy.com/getimage.php3?image=fla227.jpg
http://www.sover.net/~clifdisc/comics/jla19.jpg

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

For me, "Ghost Rider" began and ended with Johnny Blaze (I pretty much stopped collecting comics for the most part by the mid-80s.) I know they brough "Ghost Rider" back, but it was never the same.

The "Green Lantern Corps" was a cool mini-series.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The mid-90 Marvel/Image comics were disenchanting, with rising prices, Liefeld poorly-proportioned art, and unresolved story arcs, so after Marvel ran "The Age of Apocalypse" series, I bailed. I miss reading the monthly X-Men titles, but read synopses online. Considering they're only now giving out Wolverine's past, I don't feel like I missed much. Did buy all the Preacher graphic novels, and have read the Sandman graphic novels thanks to the local library. While I like reading the trades, I miss the Perez days of stories lasting one issue, rather than the current "Part 1 of 6" trend that stretches out stories. Should be somewhere in between.

All the DC issues above are familiar and great, too, but I favored Marvel's realism over DC's "it was only an *imaginary* story". Still have a handful of Teen Titans (incl. that X-Men x-over, heh), and the Crisis on Infinite Earths series (both with Perez art).

The only series I still buy is Adrian Tomine's "Optic Nerve" - new ish out in Feb. There's a Silent Hill miniseries coming that looks intriguing, appealing to the horror fan in me. Don't plan on collecting again, but it's nice to keep the toes wet.

And geekily, I won a No-Prize, signed by Bill Mantlo. F.O.O.M.!

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.guiadelcomic.com/autores/pix/adams_neal/muhammed-ali.jpg

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 January 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This has been bugging me since last night. Was there ever a Little Archie type version of The X-Men or am I just imagining this?

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.phillyburbs.com/halloween2000/kids/wolverine.jpg

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Baby X-Men. Part of the Mojoverse (where Longshot came from) (& went to). They were cute when Art Adams did the drawring.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray, I Love Comics! It's about time.

These are roughly what I currently buy:

New X-Men
Batman
Courtney Crumrin
Human Target
Y: The Last Man
Wolverine
Lucifer (trying again)
Queen & Country
Planetary
Runaways

And what ever Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, etc. happen to be doing that's good, and whatever else looks interesting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.uncannyxmen.net/images/atlas/xbabies.jpg

Called the "X-Babies" - Art Adams comment OTM. Joke worn thin.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://fast.horrorseek.com/horror/unclecreepy/images/creepy21.gif

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lobobrasil.hpg.ig.com.br/revistas/estadosunidos/outrasrevistas/justiceleagueinternational_21.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I think this thread is getting more action than the board this thread is supposed to be promoting.

Just saying.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot all about this series, too.

http://www.samruby.com/Series/PeterPorker/Large/PeterPorker01.JPG

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ronnyhansen.net/~groo/graph/german-c.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I think this thread is getting more action than the board this thread is supposed to be promoting.

Yeah you jerks save it for my board.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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