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I absolutely love comic overs from the 70-80's. Modern covers are just trash by comparison. Yeah sure many of them are gorgeous but more often than not there's no context at all. It's just an image that has nothing to do with what's happening in the book slapped on to the cover. And don't even get me started on the quality of the art in comic books today.
When I was a kid (early 90's) we'd go over my aunt and uncle's house and he'd let us look through his comic books from the 70s and 80s and the one cover that always caught my eye was X-men #138. At the time I didn't know the story behind it but OH MY GOD EXIT CYCLOPS?! Cyclops quit the X-men!?!?!?! WHAT HAPPENED?!?! ERMERGERD!!!!! Then for my birthday a few months later that year he hands me a box and inside is his copy of #138. I couldn't even. I was shocked to silence. That book had mythical status to me.
For another birthday he ordered the complete Doomsday story line including the black bagged edition of the Death of Superman issue. Again I was stunned into silence. Those days are long gone and I can't imagine getting that excited about any modern comic books.
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OneofOne
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Even some "newer" stuff was fantastic. DG Chichester's run on Daredevil was amazeballs. I know people go gaga for Frank Miller's run - and rightfully so - but this exemplifies Chichester's writing and was the capstone to Miller's story. Can't rec enough (aka Fall of the Kingpin in TPB):
I know some people like to say that Marvel had the artists and DC had the writers, and while I'll say as a tendency that seems true, Marvel used to have some fantastic writing on different books at different times.
Scott Lobdell was another fantastic writer. And Brandon Peterson really helps make the case for Marvel having the artists.
Anyway, I can go on and on and fangirl quite a bit. There was a good decade and a half where it was great to be a comics fan. But the industry's been dead to me for a while now. I think the Death of Superman was the start, for me. How anyone thought that was legit... I'll just never know. But people did! This happened at the same time that Image was formed and suffered horrible publishing delays, which seriously killed their momentum, while being a huge talent-suck from Marvel, and to some extent even DC. It wasn't long after this that both MTG and girls came into my life and, that was that.
I know some people like to say that Marvel had the artists and DC had the writers, and while I'll say as a tendency that seems true, Marvel used to have some fantastic writing on different books at different times.
Scott Lobdell was another fantastic writer. And Brandon Peterson really helps make the case for Marvel having the artists.
Anyway, I can go on and on and fangirl quite a bit. There was a good decade and a half where it was great to be a comics fan. But the industry's been dead to me for a while now. I think the Death of Superman was the start, for me. How anyone thought that was legit... I'll just never know. But people did! This happened at the same time that Image was formed and suffered horrible publishing delays, which seriously killed their momentum, while being a huge talent-suck from Marvel, and to some extent even DC. It wasn't long after this that both MTG and girls came into my life and, that was that.
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Death of Superman at the time being the best selling comic of all time definitely lead DC down the rabbit hole of doing what they did with Batman and Green Lantern. Then add in Marvel doing the multiple variant covers thing and Image in particular doing all the silver/gold/platinum covers and you ended up with a whole industry that became about gimmicks instead of just having good comics. A very similar thing happened with sports cards around that same time.
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chaos
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What are people using for comics these days? Since 32pag.es went down I haven't really been reading as much. There are 2 comic shops near me with tons of back catalog, tempting to start buying physical copies again but I don't have the space to keep up with all that anymore.
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Claremont's X-Men was definitely the pinnacle of comics for me. However, since that's been universally revered, a couple of others that really captivated me were:
Start of the Beta Ray Bill saga by Walt Simonson
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Who doesn't like Judge Dredd?
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and the best panel from one of his books
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This one was much later, and I know a lot of people probably don't like her character, particularly now that she's with Marvel, but I fucking loved Spawn and Angela, she was probably one of my favorite "non-headlining" characters at the time, and this scene from Issue 100 was brutal. Spoiler alert I guess if you haven't read Spawn and care what happens.
The art wasn't my favorite by a long shot, way too busy for my tastes, but still a pretty brutal moment if you liked both characters together.
Start of the Beta Ray Bill saga by Walt Simonson
Who doesn't like Judge Dredd?
and the best panel from one of his books
This one was much later, and I know a lot of people probably don't like her character, particularly now that she's with Marvel, but I fucking loved Spawn and Angela, she was probably one of my favorite "non-headlining" characters at the time, and this scene from Issue 100 was brutal. Spoiler alert I guess if you haven't read Spawn and care what happens.
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Valiant did some good work. X-O Manowar in particular I really enjoyed.
One interesting thing was how they revived some old comics from the 50s and 60s. Turok, Solar, and Magnus were all like that.
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If only I had sold that Magnus issue with Turok's first Valiant appearance when it was worth $100+. Now I'd probably get more value out of it by using the issue for toilet paper.
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I loved Valiant, easily my favorite super hero comics from the 90s. Barry Windsor Smith is a goddamn artistic genius. Solar was far and away my favorite but I liked most of their titles up until Unity. I even bought Jim Shooters Plasma bullshit after he left the company.
They recently brought back a ton of the series, but they don't have the rights to Turok or Solar or Magnus. The new Rai series they did is amazing work. I just hate how none of them are continuing series, they are all constantly ending and restarting and I hate it.
They recently brought back a ton of the series, but they don't have the rights to Turok or Solar or Magnus. The new Rai series they did is amazing work. I just hate how none of them are continuing series, they are all constantly ending and restarting and I hate it.
Sterling
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Like I mentioned earlier those 3 weren't their properties and were just licensed.
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Speaking of Shooter, Claremont, and Lee... Just ran across this tonight on Amazon Prime. I realize I'm 3 years late here, but for anyone else that may not have stumbled upon it, it's an interesting behind the scenes look via interviews (mostly with Claremont and his 2 female editors Ann Nocenti and Louise Simonson, but Shooter as well) of his joining to his leaving Marvel. Never really knew why he ended up leaving, but it makes sense in hindsight.
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