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« Reply #780 on: 12:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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i actually love strangers in paradise, i just still haven't bought the last book.
I loved the art... I just didn't really care for any of the characters. Also, I found myself comparing it to Love & Rockets (unfair I know). |
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« Reply #781 on: 01:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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Shhh don't tell anyone. Oh Slurmo. One day you will shed your hideous chrsylas and become a beautiful butterfly. We will wait for you until you are ready. |
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« Reply #782 on: 01:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I don't really enjoy silver age superhero comics ... and I only rarely enjoy the bronze age ones.  A lot of silver age stuff is hard to read. But I imagine you would love Fantastic Four #48 throught #100 if you read them. That shit HOLDS UPPPPPPP.  |
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« Reply #783 on: 01:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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Also, I found myself comparing it to Love & Rockets (unfair I know). |
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No adjective allows me to discount your opinion faster than "meh". |
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« Reply #784 on: 01:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I loved the art... I just didn't really care for any of the characters. Also, I found myself comparing it to Love & Rockets (unfair I know).
I don't like the art.* I've read some in single issues from a friend in the 90's. Can't like 'em all *the same for his newer projects. It just doesn't resonate with me  |
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« Reply #785 on: 01:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I wanted to like SiP. I read the first 5 trades but I just couldn't get over how melodramatic the gangster parts of the story are. I liked the main characters and how they interacted with another.
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Andrew Tom
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« Reply #786 on: 02:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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It's cause I started them at about the same time, and the fact that they both have 2 women as the main characters. I really liked Maggie the Mechanic, but SIP was just not the thing for me. sorry DAP  |
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Jon O
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« Reply #787 on: 02:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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To be on the completely other side of Andrew, I couldn't stop reading Strangers in Paradise after I started. I enjoy Love and Rockets just fine, but they're incredibly easy for me to put down and walk away from for days/months at a time.
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If I was a butterfly I would fly you to the moons. Thank you Grant Morrison. The boycott is lifted.
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« Reply #788 on: 04:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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To be on the completely other side of Andrew, I couldn't stop reading Strangers in Paradise after I started. I enjoy Love and Rockets just fine, but they're incredibly easy for me to put down and walk away from for days/months at a time.
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Jay Tomio - Part Deux
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« Reply #789 on: 04:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I never understood the appeal of L&R unless it got a hell of a lot more awesome than whatever it was I read in the 90s.
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« Reply #790 on: 04:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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... if one wants to point to the superhero line specifically, an argument could be made for ASM #121. Spidey was the flagship and within a year you'd have the Death of Gwen Stacy and the intro of the Punisher, who I'd agree is post-Conan sensibility.
Not a bad argument. It is a pivotal event, but (on the superhero side) did couldn't you argue that the bronzy tone actually started more quietly in ASM earlier than that? |
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Recent Reads: Legends of the Dark Knight #5, Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity #4, Dia De Los Muertos #1, Snapshot #1, Star Wars #1, Green Arrow #17, New Deadwardians TP
LCS pulls: Saga, Chew, Manhattan Projects, Unwritten, Supergirl, Danger Club, Batwoman, Animal Man, Action Comics
Regular DCBS buys: Mind MGMT, I, Vampire, Legends of the Dark Knight, Superman Family Adventures, Where Is Jake Ellis?
POTW: Sweet Tooth #40 (Jan 9), Saga #9 (Jan 16), Mind MGMT #7 (Jan 23), Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1 (Jan 30), Mudman #6 (Feb 6)
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« Reply #791 on: 04:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I know this is a confession thread and all but Hahahah, karma. |
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If I was a butterfly I would fly you to the moons.Thank you Grant Morrison. The boycott is lifted.
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« Reply #792 on: 04:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I don't really enjoy silver age superhero comics ... and I only rarely enjoy the bronze age ones. Having been a Bronze Age Marvel-phile (what they said pre-"Zombie") it's hard for me not to dig it. Silver Age FF's & Silver Surfers were always an interesting find. They were weird, but they were still in continuity. I didn't appreciate Kirby, though, for many years & didn't like Silver DC's until well into my adult years when I could appreciate them for nostalgia & camp. It was actually that nostalgia that brought me back into the fold. |
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Recent Reads: Legends of the Dark Knight #5, Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity #4, Dia De Los Muertos #1, Snapshot #1, Star Wars #1, Green Arrow #17, New Deadwardians TP
LCS pulls: Saga, Chew, Manhattan Projects, Unwritten, Supergirl, Danger Club, Batwoman, Animal Man, Action Comics
Regular DCBS buys: Mind MGMT, I, Vampire, Legends of the Dark Knight, Superman Family Adventures, Where Is Jake Ellis?
POTW: Sweet Tooth #40 (Jan 9), Saga #9 (Jan 16), Mind MGMT #7 (Jan 23), Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1 (Jan 30), Mudman #6 (Feb 6)
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« Reply #793 on: 05:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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Not a bad argument. It is a pivotal event, but (on the superhero side) did couldn't you argue
that the bronzy tone actually started more quietly in ASM earlier than that?
I think even factual in the moment analysis betrays the point. Sure, we could probably find something at Marvel, even in the same title, that was obscure and/or was the first this or that, but eras are defined by shit that mattered afterwards (for instance, when Action #1 came out they didn't say "this is the Golden Age" it was proven after that.) Are we looking for first or actual impact. Spider-man is the most popular Marvel character in the world, bar none. For the Death of Gwen Stacy to have occurred in that kind of title that fits the general timeline, that's pretty huge. I assume I know what issues you are talking about, but those (like GL below) are very much reactionary breaking point to '60s counter culture, not forward to something new. It was more of last hurrah of an old age I think revisionist history, from a couple of perspectives, also gets some to point to Green Lantern #76 as the beginning of the Bronze Age, just like the Spidey Drug use/code issue, which I don't think has anything to do with Bronze Age and has everything to do with the dying moments of the Silver Age. |
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« Reply #794 on: 05:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I remember seeing Love & Rockets in the LCS in the 80's and never picked it up. I have a trade I got a few months ago but never read it. I need to get on that but I have a huge Regina.
I am also going to try to be nicer.
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« Reply #795 on: 07:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I need to get on that but I have a huge Regina.
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Derek G
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« Reply #796 on: 08:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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I never understood the appeal of L&R unless it got a hell of a lot more awesome than whatever it was I read in the 90s.
Well, then, chances are it just isn't for you. Good thing it's a big old world filled with comics for all. And not to worry Jay...I'll carry some weight because I enjoy Love and Rockets enough for 5 people. |
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Go enjoy a comic ... "Zen powered by death Buddhists"
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Jay Tomio - Part Deux
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« Reply #797 on: 09:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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Well, then, chances are it just isn't for you. Good thing it's a big old world filled with comics for all. And not to worry Jay...I'll carry some weight because I enjoy Love and Rockets enough for 5 people.
Dammit, I only am indifferent toward it for one.  Does it help that I do have the sweet ashcans? |
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« Reply #798 on: 09:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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Dammit, I only am indifferent toward it for one. Does it help that I do have the sweet ashcans? tell you what, man... you don't sound very sure about exactly what it was that you were exposed to ... So I would recommend that you check out "Maggie the Mechanic". It's just Jaime's stories. If that doesn't do it for you, I think it's safe to say that you just don't care. |
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« Reply #799 on: 09:01 PM | Friday, January 27, 2012 » |
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Dammit, I only am indifferent toward it for one. Does it help that I do have the sweet ashcans? skip forward a few years the first issues are not indicative of the series |
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