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Ka0 posted:What are the absolute essential hardcovers for Runaways and the Thunderbolts? For Runaways it's volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the oversized hard covers. At that point Brian Vaughn leaves and the quality falls into the basement. And if you really wanted to push it you could just get volume one since it contains the entirety of the first series which is essentially one eighteen issue arc.
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Panic Restaurant posted:So, I've been genuinely curious about Howard the Duck for a while now, but I've got no clue where to start. I see some sort of Howard Omnibus on Amazon, but it runs about $100 or so and that's a little out of my price range. Is there anything cheaper I can go for? Also the Essential Howard the Duck contains all of the good material from the omnibus making it a fine substitution. Howard's creator Steve Gerber got into a huge, infamous battle with Marvel over the ownership of the character and he left the book shortly after the last issue reprinted in the essential. You'd only be missing the much worse issues that were published after Gerber (and that's only about six issues total) and some non-Howard related pages from the very early Man Thing appearances. Gene Colan who did the majority of the art for the series looks really good in black and white (he came up through black and white monster magazines) so even the lack of color isn't that bad.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2011 12:48 |
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Panic Restaurant posted:Now I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself, but is that book (and those bad issues not included) pretty much it as far as Howard goes? Or is there some sort of current series to follow as well? I would assume not since the original creator left. In terms of things that are collected, Gerber came back to Marvel shortly before his death and did another miniseries. Also there was another miniseries a couple of years ago. Neither of these was well received. There are a handful of one shots, short stories, and the like that are also out there but not really worth mentioning. For connected material Gerber did an indy book in much the same style to help pay for his legal fees. It was called Destroyer Duck and the art was provided by another guy having legal issues with Marvel at the time: Jack Kirby. It has not been collected.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2011 23:14 |
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Uthor posted:Yeah, they were alright. The Rose story was written by Smith and is a tad dark. Stupid, Stupid Rats Tales is drawn by Smith and is more of a goofy comedy. Rose also has art by Charles Vess and if that doesn't make you want to run out and buy it then I'll have to assume that you just don't know who Charles Vess is. If you like that kind of fairy tale story then I strongly recommend Castle Waiting which is available in two nice omnibuses for $20 each. It has similar art to Bone in it is heavily inspired by Disney animation.
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| # ¿ Jun 16, 2011 13:23 |
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Hiro Protagonist posted:I just finished Top Ten: Season One, and it was awesome. Is the rest of the series just as good? No. Get SMAX and The 49'ers because while they are a bit different in tone they are also fairly good. Avoid the rest of the Top 10 related stuff like the they're packaged with anthrax.
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2011 13:50 |
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Z-Magic posted:Does anyone know where I could get 'Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays & Many More Splendid Sundays' from the UK for a sensible price? I've been having a quick look and the cheapest I can find them is still way more than I can afford to pay for a comic book. My copies were ludicrously expensive from Amazon when they were new and the first volume is out of print which has made it even more obscenely expensive. Now you are getting what you pay for with the cover price at $75; these books can be substituted for coffee tables. They are essentially bound newspaper pages (with better paper, of course). But that kind printing doesn't come cheap which is part of why they cost an arm and a leg.
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 01:02 |
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Dr. Hurt posted:I have just received a gift card to Amazon and have been thinking about getting something non-superhero. I've got two questions: I haven't read Why Are You Doing This so I can't compare it but I have read Jason's The Last Musketeer and thought it was pretty good so I'd recommend that.
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| # ¿ Oct 4, 2011 22:05 |
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Y Signal posted:Out of those, I've only read I Killed Adolf Hitler, but I'd recommend The Left Bank Gang. The Left Bank Gang is good too. I just like The Last Musketeer slightly better for some reason I can't pin down (maybe it's that I think Musketeer is stronger thematically despite Left Bank Gang's more ambitious plotting...).
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 13:38 |
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prefect posted:Yeah, Apocalypse showed up in X-Factor #4?, and Walt Simonson was doing the art back then, so it's a good recommendation on that basis alone. And he had his first big storyline in X-Factor in their Fall of the Mutants bit (which technically was a crossover but X-Factor stands completely independently). That can be found in Essential X-Factor volume 2.
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 01:31 |
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Lurdiak posted:I'm not denying that it's an excellent mini, probably the best written thing the character's been involved in, but it just doesn't jive and actively contradicts a lot of his past characterization. It's the same as the new take on the Rhino in Spider-man where he went from a Moose-like dumb goon who's life is summed up as "I'm the rhino. I knock things down. That's who I am. That's what I do." who speaks with a Brooklyn accent, to a quiet, hard Russian who speaks like the Heavy and carries himself in a somber, meaningful way. But the Rhino has always been Russian. Right from the start he was a Russian agent. Your complaint is actually built on after the fact changes to the character; the exact thing that you're complaining about.
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