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Post by iowaoaks on Jan 10, 2024 5:55:49 GMT -5
Oh! John Romita Jr!! He is a favorite (and a hell of a nice guy) for sure. Also a great example of art as kid that I wasn't much of a fan of, that over time have more than grown to appreciate.
Like Mike Mignola. Probably my favorite artist (Have several tattoos of his art) and one of my favorite writers.
John Byrne, Walt Simonson, Norm Breyfogle, Mike Zeck, Ron Wagner, Mike Golden... heck, I'd take just about anyone from the mid-late 1980s.
Series wise.. Usagi Yojimbo is hands down my favorite. It is the warm blanket of my comics collection. That said, Preacher is just barely second. (No even close to a warm blanket, unless maybe that blanket is covered in blood.)
Super-heros.. I have many, but agree on The Legion of Superheroes, especially Paul Levitz's years long run, though specific characters.. I'd have to say Captain America. Though so many have written him poorly, when he us done correctly - Mark Greenwald, Roger Stern, Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid - he is the best. (OH, d I have opinions on Captain America.)
I also have a personal soft spot for Longshot, Beta Ray Bill and The Hulk. On the DC side, Guy Gardner, Braniac 5 and Conner Hawke, the green arrow of the early mid 90s.
More later... love this. I'll need a keyboard to type up my thoughts on modern comics.
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Post by TTX on Jan 10, 2024 7:23:10 GMT -5
Longshot...one of my favorite lesser used Marvel characters.
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Post by "Emperor Norton" (Mark T) on Jan 10, 2024 7:59:04 GMT -5
Oh! John Romita Jr!! He is a favorite (and a hell of a nice guy) for sure. Also a great example of art as kid that I wasn't much of a fan of, that over time have more than grown to appreciate. Like Mike Mignola. Probably my favorite artist (Have several tattoos of his art) and one of my favorite writers. .......... Man, I hated Mignola's art when I was a kid and it was all about Rob Liefeld and Todd and in your face superhero art. But now I can look at that stuff and he's just so good. Such moody art to go with the storytelling. Hellboy the comics is much better than the movies that were made from it. |
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Post by Crimson Cross on Jan 10, 2024 9:26:40 GMT -5
I do have the full run of Future State: Gotham from the regular cover to all the bonus covers and the trades, that was a cool modern series I had to read and collect. I still collect Big Bang Comics with the IndyPlanet books they have, which are Big Bang Adventures, Anomalies, National Guardians and Knight Watchman Creatures of the Knight. A 120 page treasury sized Anthology book from MFT & Cosmic Lion Productions called the BIG Big Bang Comics is out for pre-order, but I backed the Kickstarter and I'll be getting that very soon, they're waiting on the trading cards they had made for the Kickstarter to come in to ship to the pledges. I also will have the full IndyPlanet line up from Dan Reed, whose Dimensioneer was spotlighted in 3 issues of Big Bang Comics back in the 90's...
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Post by stu on Jan 10, 2024 9:41:59 GMT -5
I'm curious, and have a question for you good folks. Did your love of comic books translate into a love, or at least a following, of the daily comic strips in the newspapers? I know papers are largely dead, but the daily strips live on, online at least. I too collected comics, although my collection is largely gone (was a big Spider-Man and Batman fan), save for a couple of boxes when I got back into it in the 2000s (loved me some Savage Dragon!). And as a kid, I definitely followed the daily comics, can clearly remember Spider-Man having a run in the papers, way back when. I still read Dick Tracy online (insert everyone's favorite Dick Tracy joke here!  ), and its still fun stuff. I've collected a fair amount of old Tracy stories in hardback collections over the years, always thought that comic was underrated (I mean, Tracy essentially was Batman, without the costume). And Tracy's rogues' gallery certainly rivalled Batman's over the years! Anyway, was just curious, and thought I'd see if there was crossover between the books and the papers. Great discussion guys! |
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Post by Chad Olson on Jan 10, 2024 9:50:13 GMT -5
also TDalton . He has a big collection! I actually sold most of mine to an IPW wrestler who was starting a comic resale business. I couldn't bear to throw them away, but no longer had a use for them. I didn't get rich, but they I knew they were going to support a great cause. I kept my full run of All-Star Squadron and Earth-2/JSA related stuff. Also, kept my Elseworlds titles, Justice League books, and run of Big Bang Comics. WHAT?!? No CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS mini-series? TDalton collected comics and still has them?!? I never knew that, but I knew there was a reason I liked him.  No, of course I kept my 12 issues of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, as well as the original collected omnibus that came out in the late 90s. Also, have my Watchmen Omnibus and the Beyond Watchmen series and all of the spin offs. I was tired from shoveling snow yesterday, forgot to include those! |
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Post by Chad Olson on Jan 10, 2024 9:52:05 GMT -5
I'm curious, and have a question for you good folks. Did your love of comic books translate into a love, or at least a following, of the daily comic strips in the newspapers? I know papers are largely dead, but the daily strips live on, online at least. I too collected comics, although my collection is largely gone (was a big Spider-Man and Batman fan), save for a couple of boxes when I got back into it in the 2000s (loved me some Savage Dragon!). And as a kid, I definitely followed the daily comics, can clearly remember Spider-Man having a run in the papers, way back when. I still read Dick Tracy online (insert everyone's favorite Dick Tracy joke here! ), and its still fun stuff. I've collected a fair amount of old Tracy stories in hardback collections over the years, always thought that comic was underrated (I mean, Tracy essentially was Batman, without the costume). And Tracy's rogues' gallery certainly rivalled Batman's over the years! Anyway, was just curious, and thought I'd see if there was crossover between the books and the papers. Great discussion guys! I did read the daily strips when I was a kid and we got the newspapers. Didn't realize they were still published online! |
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Post by TTX on Jan 10, 2024 9:52:09 GMT -5
I read comic strips first and still go to gocomics every so often and binge read three months worth of my favorite strips on there.
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Post by Crimson Cross on Jan 10, 2024 9:55:41 GMT -5
I'm curious, and have a question for you good folks. Did your love of comic books translate into a love, or at least a following, of the daily comic strips in the newspapers? I know papers are largely dead, but the daily strips live on, online at least. I too collected comics, although my collection is largely gone (was a big Spider-Man and Batman fan), save for a couple of boxes when I got back into it in the 2000s (loved me some Savage Dragon!). And as a kid, I definitely followed the daily comics, can clearly remember Spider-Man having a run in the papers, way back when. I still read Dick Tracy online (insert everyone's favorite Dick Tracy joke here! ), and its still fun stuff. I've collected a fair amount of old Tracy stories in hardback collections over the years, always thought that comic was underrated (I mean, Tracy essentially was Batman, without the costume). And Tracy's rogues' gallery certainly rivalled Batman's over the years! Anyway, was just curious, and thought I'd see if there was crossover between the books and the papers. Great discussion guys! I read Scary Gary online which is on gocomics, plus like TTX I read the classics on that gocomics site and other sites too... |
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Post by LAWraith on Jan 10, 2024 9:56:57 GMT -5
My wife was cleaning out the side room last night and we looked through what we have.
I mostly have Xmen, few here and there from 85-90 and then pretty much everything from 90 to 98. So from the Xmen reboot in the 90s with the fatal attraction and phalanx covenant stuff and then through age of apocalypse and then a little after that. I love Apocalypse and that storyline was kind of a good ending for me.
Though it looks like I tried really hard to get into the ultimate universe years later as I have a lot of those graphic novels. But to Cory's point the constant reboots get me but I enjoyed the run I had with xmen in that time period and was what I know.
We have a handful of other stuff mostly marvel. Kind of someday wouldn't mind revisting or probably should sell on ebay for pretty penny.
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), and its still fun stuff. I've collected a fair amount of old Tracy stories in hardback collections over the years, always thought that comic was underrated (I mean, Tracy essentially was Batman, without the costume). And Tracy's rogues' gallery certainly rivalled Batman's over the years!
