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Davedubh wrote:Judge Dredd case files 1.I remember one of the stories in it though i would have been 4 at the time.My brother used to get the weekly comics then and would usually get roy of the rovers but would occasionaly get 2000ad.
Classics!
Was leafing through some old 2000ADs the other day. Unfortunately most of the very early ones have not survived
Did come across a yellowed copy of Prog 71 which, thanks to McDonalds legal team, isn't reprintable: see Banned in Britain (scrool down for scans of the progs themselves).
"Everything at McDonalds is disposable! Including the staff!"
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Wow, it's been a while since I picked up any new comics. I've finally finished Safe Area Gorazde, which proved to be a good if harrowing read in a similar vein to the likes of Maus.
I've also picked up Maggie The Mechanic (from Titan Books), after having found Heartbreak Soup to be fantastic. And...it's good, but suffers a bit from being less good than Heartbreak Soup. Interesting nonetheless.
Other than that, still no sign of the recent Ellis stuff in Other Realms and their supplier seems to be about a month or so behind, well, the rest of the world. I finally got to read Y: The Last Man volume 9 which, well, was very interesting and made up for the lack of plot development in Volume 8 but also presented science of a hilariously hand-wavey nature, which undermines the series a bit but not much. There are enough nice touches and one-liners from Yorick & co to keep me happy though (especially the scene where Yorick asks Alison to smile, but instead she bursts into tears, then rails about how miserable her life has been since she met Yorick
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Also picked up the first two books of Fables, on the basis that I want to pick re-read volumes 1-8 again and then decide whether I'm sticking with it or not, before I pick up 1001 Nights Of Snowfall or Sons Of Empire. (From the solicitation text it sounds like Sons Of Empire may contain enough plot development to keep me on board the series, but the announcement that there will be another spinoff series launched next year disheartens me - this series is enjoyable but without an end point in sight will just drift off into nonsense).0 -
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the Shades wrote:You know Fysh, I'm pretty certain the 3rd place do a mail order service if you were looking for something more... reliable
They do. And tend to be fairly decent at it.0 -
the Shades wrote:You know Fysh, I'm pretty certain the 3rd place do a mail order service if you were looking for something more... reliable
So do FP, and subcity prob does as well but if your going to do that you might as well buy online even with postage it works out cheaper [hurah for media mail] .........but its not the same as going into a comic store and picking stuff up. I don't even like getting stores to keep stuff behdind the counter for me, even if it means I miss an issue. i really like spending ages going through everything, plus I'm such a bad impluse buyer, i will just grab stuff cus "oooo pretty". I know I end up spending alot more money cus of that but I look forward to shopping for comics. I will spend around 10 mins buying clothes but an hour shopping for comics.0 -
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galactus wrote:Am catching up with recent-ish Marvels, so last comic was Avengers Disassembled (yes all of them). Didn't rock my world apart from the Thor episodes.
Not a comic but just finished Stan Lee's autobiography (arrived 9.30 this morning in the post). I can't remember the last time I read a book cover to cover in once sitting. Highly recommended.
check out the avengers civil war stuff. surprisingly good. particularly the luke cage issue (the civil war tie in is in six different parts did by different artists focusing on seperate team members) which got me as i dont really like the character.
i got the rise and fall of the shiar empire about a week ago off play . com (ive ordered newuniversal and the latest new avengers trade as well but the bloody things seem to have got lost in the post ). the hardbacks slightly bigger than the usual size comic and gives a nice look to the art. im not too pushed on the fill in guy but billy tans work, while being classic top cow, is nice enough and he draws a good warpath (god i miss x force. i know i know hardly high art but it was dynamic fun in its day!)
the story's pretty good but seems a bit drawn out. they really couldve got it done in 8 issues max. ill be honest im not fond of havok/polaris/rachel as characters but seeing as i read deadly genesis i thought i'd get this and it is fun to get back out into space again with an x team.
its an ok book. not brilliant but ok. TBH it makes me glad i didnt invest in it as single issues as its not worth the extra expense and it doesnt really wrap it up all that good.
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Well, I hadn't posted in this thread for a while but I can see myself posting a hell of a lot more in the coming months, now that I have easy access to proper comic shops again!
Recent purchases have included:
Iron Man : Hypervelocity
A damn fine read, this. My decision to wait for the trade paid off, as it so often does. I've whinged elsewhere about my views on what they've done with Stark and Iron Man in the main Marvel Universe, but this works really neatly as a standalone story. Heck, they even worked out the plot so that it fits into mainstream continuity. But the best thing about this story? It starts off with one of Tony's test armours becoming conscious, only it's handled by a writer who knows what he's doing (ie unlike Joe Q). The writing in here is great, and deals with a Ghost In The Shell haunting Tony Stark 2.0 while the Technological Singularity hangs over everyone's head. This may well become my all-time favourite Iron Man story.
Crecy
It's Warren Ellis writing a cranky Medieval character talking about fighting the French. So yes, it's pretty much guaranteed to be awesome. I'd heard a lot of talk about this before picking it up and had figured it to be the offshoot of Ellis's desire (as stated in his mailing list) to do a Robin Hood type story a while back. I wasn't convinced it would make a decent, and the first few pages didn't quite draw me in. And then, I'm not sure exactly how, I found myself entranced and looking at the last page thinking "I want to read this again". As someone else said, it's a brilliant 48 page history lesson with swearing and jokes. Most definitely recommended.
Flight Volume 3
Long overdue but worth the wait, I feel. I've loved both the previous volumes so this volume didn't disappoint. Was interested to see that Becky Cloonan's contribution was like a shorter, better version of 300 with Vikings I'll be picking up volume 4 shortly too.
There's a ton of other stuff I want to pick up as well as the above (about 3-4 volumes of Hellblazer, another volume of Fables, another couple of Love & Rockets books, the IDW trades of Fallen Angel, and plenty more) but in the interest of not just handing over all my money to a comic shop, I'm trying to behave and keep my spending to a moderate level...0 -
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