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Sandman overtue not good for a tablet
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"Flash Gordon: The Fall of Ming, Sundays 1941-44" by Alex Raymond and Don Moore.
This is the final volume of Titan’s collection of Alex Raymond strips. The volume opens with “The Fall of Ming” storyline (or “continuity “in comic strip parlance). Flash and his resistance finally take the fight to Ming, but with his rule in danger, the dictator is now at his most cunning and ruthless … It’s clear Raymond and Moore were taking notes of events elsewhere in the world- Ming now uses “secret police”, concentration camps and mass executions to deal with his political opponents, and his soldiers now dress like "squadristi", or the Wehrmacht. Having said that, these grim undertones don’t dominate the stories- there’s s till plenty of adventure and romance here. Flash, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov then return to Earth to find the US in danger from an enemy nation, “The Red Sword”, (which resembles a cross between Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Russia and Imperial Japan). In an odd coincidence, the December 7th , 1941 “Flash Gordon” story features planes battling over the ocean-not too far from what was happening in Pearl Harbor. The whole Red Sword storyline is interesting but seems somewhat meandering-you sense the creators were getting bored with it at its end and wanted to send Flash back to space.. So head back our trio does, and in one of the clichés of pulp sci-fi, their rocket crashes in an unknown location-which here is the remote Mongo kingdom of Tropica. Here lurks an new enemy, Brazor, a military officer who takes an instant dislike to our hero. Brazor eventually rises to become tyrannical ruler of Tropica, and Flash will need to band a new group of rebels against him to restore Queen Desira, the rightful ruler, to her throne. Raymond is back in his element here-he really does create more wonderful landscapes of deserts and jungles, and enough cool futuristic vehicles to stock several Gerry Anderson shows. There’s also some surprisingly erotic drawings for what was a comic strip aimed at family audiences. In one scene, Dale is wearing a see-through dressing gown with nothing underneath, and in another she and Desira are sunbathing in their bras and knickers (three years before the bikini was invented in the real world). In 1944, Raymond decided to fight fascists with his gun instead of his pen and joined the US Marine Corps. He was replaced with his understudy, Austin Briggs, who draws the last part of the Tropica story arc. Although Briggs does a good job here, he doesn’t seem to have the talent of Raymond, nor of some of the later “Flash Gordon” artists such as Al Williamson or Mac Raboy. Although Raymond would contain to have a successful career until his premature death in 1956, he would never draw "Flash Gordon" again. This collection is very well worth your time if you are a science fiction fan. |
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"The Big Book of Hell" by Matt Groening. Long before he did a certain yellow family and a certain delivery boy and his co-workers, Matt Groening did a comic strip for various alternative newspapers in the US. This was "Life In Hell", influenced by the comics of Robert Crumb and Groening's friend Lynda Barry. The strip is in black and white, and revolves around cynical, depressed rabbit Binky, later joined by his son Bongo (the one-eared rabbit) and Binky's girlfriend Sheba. They're later joined by Akbar and Jeff, two short men in fezzes and Charlie Brown sweaters. The strip features our heroes having run-ins with nasty bosses, cruel teachers, lying advertisers and bullying peers. Despite this grim subject matter, Groening often mines quite a lot of humour of these situations. A lot of the drawings take the form of diagrams or lists, such as "The 9 Types of Girlfriends." Quote:
Ms. Dreamgirl: For some people in the US, "Life In Hell" did capture the feeling of living in Reagan's America better than any other comic. For everyone else, it's fine humour well worth your time.
Advantages: Funny, Intelligent, Uninhibited Drawbacks: Will have nothing to do with you. |
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I've recently started reading Garth Ennis' The Boys, it's an eye-opener to say the least.
Think Preacher on steroids, it's still great though. I bought the Humble Dynamite comics bundle recently (as I was enjoying The Boys so much) and I've managed to read Django Zorro and The Dresden Files book so far. They were both OK, nothing special. I've read some of Kevin Smiths The Green Hornet which has some really nice artwork, still to finish it though! |
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I've recently started reading Garth Ennis' The Boys, it's an eye-opener to say the least...
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"Baron Bean 1917" by George Herriman.
Before he did Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse and Offisa Bull Pupp, George Herriman did several other comic strips. This IDW "Library of American Comics" book reprints a whole year of Herriman's daily "Baron Bean" strips from 1917. BB revolves about the titular rogue and his efforts to better himself. It's full of the elements of early comic strips like "Bringing Up Father" and"Muff and Jeff"- gambling husbands, angry wives with rolling pins, and people falling over, feet up, when surprised.For some reason the Baron's wife reminded me of actress Anna Maxwell Martin. The interesting thing is that even though "Baron Bean" is over 100 years old, the jokes are still funny today. Herriman has the ability to bring a gag to life through his expert animation of his characters and their backgrounds. Worth a look. |
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Just read the new captain America. #1 WTF!!!!
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Just read the new captain America. #1 WTF!!!!
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I struggle with modern comics. Both the format of breaking a graphic novel up into 10 parts where nothing happens and the unoriginal crappy writers who think they are writing at Alan Moore levels of social commentary.
Regularly keep up with the Simpsons, Futurama, Rick and Morty because they are basically one shots. Have to wait until a storyline is finished before getting into the DC/Marvel stuff. The new 52 stuff was a convoluted waste. |
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Just finished up the last few issues of New52 Batman, Detective Comics, Batman+Superman and the final Superman arc. Then Rebirth. Now I'm done until the trades come out. Though maybe not.. they mighta just lost their wowness, darn it.
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^ btw: the All-Star Batman DOES intrege me (or it would if I could spell intrege) but at its non $2.99 price I'm thinking frak that until the trade comes out.
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"Popeye Classics: "Moon Goon" and more! (Volume 2)" by Bud Sagendorf & Craig Yoe. Bud Sagendorf, an assistant to Popeye creator E. C. Segar, began drawing these comic strips for Dell Publishing in the 1940s. They're slightly different from the cartoon, in that while Popeye still loves spinach, it doesn't give him super-strength here. Also, while Olive, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and other members of Popeye's supporting cast are present and correct, Popeye's usual antagonists, Bluto/Brutus and the Sea Hag, don't appear in this volume. Otherwise, the comics feature the usual mix of action and humour. Sagendorf was quite a good exponent of the "bigfoot" style of humour comic (examples would include "Popeye", "Mutt and Jeff", and "Alley Oop" ). "Bigfoot" style comics feature (to quote the comics historian Don Markstein): Quote:
bold, expressive lines, a lack of distracting detail, and humorous exaggeration of bodily features such as noses and feet.
http://www.toonopedia.com/glossary.htmAnd we get plenty of these features here. There's usually a long comic story in each volume, followed by a few one-pagers with a gag. There's also some text stories about the characters. My favs include one where Wimpy decides to turn a cow into his favourite foodstuff, only to have the tables violently and funnily turned. There's also Popeye's battles with the nasty Misermites, a race of larcenous and cunning gnomes , and the treacherous Captain Zato, who'd be right at home in "Tintin". There's also back-up strips featuring landlord Sappo and his tenant, the brilliant but erratic inventor O. G. Wotasnozzle. My sister read this to my six-year-old nephew today and he loved it. Looks like the Sailor Man can still capture modern kids' imaginations. Worth a look if you like classic children's comics. |
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Tried the first Black Hammer because it was Jeff Lemire and had to get caught up quick.
https://www.comixology.co.uk/Black-H...l-comic/400325 Basically, a mixed bunch of Golden Era heroes find themselves torn away from the world they knew and stuck within the boundaries of a small town where they have to either hide away, or do their best to blend in. The heroes are consciously based upon recognisable superheroes with a twist. Best thing I've read in an age. |
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Harley quinn Wonder woman Batman '66 meets....... Wonder woman/bionic woman Cave carson has a cybernetic eye Spiderman 2099 Hook jaw Coming soon..... Kamandi challange, monsters unleashed.... |
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