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One of those pocket books - Uncanny X-Men: Rogue Storm. Classic Claremont which engages and makes me chortle, as well. Like how the plot (when it makes sense) is constantly repeated in expositionary dialogue. Or one of the characters thinking about someone else's relationship during a fight scene
Bit difficult to read, as old age creeps up on me, the vision has gone long sighted as well as shorted sighted, dammit.0 -
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All-Star Superman - I watched the movie adaptation afterwards and find its decision to change it soSuperman kill Solaris because he's all out of mercyor something strange. Though I hear Man of Steel is in similar territory.
The comic may technically not be constrained by continuity but it clearly has baggage, referencing a bunch of stuff I have little to no knowledge about. But as the story of
a dying demi-god trying to make sure the world keeps spinning after he's gone, it's good. The big fat head. I do think the idea of avat grown "Superman 2"is a terrible one to have. Seems to me that Superman is the product of his humble upbringing, placing his powersin the hands of any scientistis the recipe for an eventual cold war.
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes - Or so they say. Bought it because Spirit of Truth popped in the best Wonder Woman stories I was "something"ing for. DC's capes deal with real issues. Not bad but all got a bit samey, really. Plus I call shenanigans on Green Lantern being able to power a green ball for containment that's quickly gaining distance away from the ring, power a shield around an island and dozens of individual iron lungs while going "Oh no, I've used up more than half of my charge!" It's overpowered and rubbish. Might as well have will'd up a ship's captain to steer a vessel and use it as Skype like Johns did.
Weird to see Batman standing in a brightly lit convenience store amid the usual Gotham nightlife.
Fantastic Four 1: New Departure, New Arrivals - Certainly not going to complain about Fraction's name being on the book (Marvel) now but it seems whenever there's a new creative team on the FF, a soft reset button is hit and similar stories get told whether part of Marvel Now or not. Doctor Doom, Galactus, time travel, alternate dimensions, powers switched, roster is changed, Human Torch does something irresponsible before learning never to do it again etc. etc. So after Hickman has Reed Richards trying to solve everything(he doesn't), killing offJohnny Storm (several times)andFranklin coming to the present from the future, Richards is tryingto stop himself from dying and drag his family, held hostage to him for years, down with him into an alternative universe with a time dialation as part of a story which began with Franklin having a vision of the future that looks like uncannily like the event which gave the FF their powers in the first place. Plus Johnny does something irresponsible in making his worryingly named "Ms. Thing" girlfriend his replacement for four seconds on the'temp'roster. Still, early days.
Peter Panzerfaust I: The Great Escape
Peter Panzerfaust II: Hooked - Lost interest fairly quickly to be honest. Retelling of Peter Pan to the backdrop of World War II. Took me way too long to make the connection that the Belle Peter is searching for is Tinkerbell. Not too sure about the art either. The story's framed byinterviews with the surviving Lost Boys (one per arc at the moment)but the guy doing thequestioning just looks like Peterso I can't tell whether it's just a very similar character design or supposed to be a badly hidden surprise or what. There's also a really bad piece of sequential storytelling where the boys are supposed to be following Peter to another building to escape a fire. They're all shown jumping at the same time, moving through the air one behind the other like there's a queue to get through a tall window. Funnily enough, most of the boys aren't wiped by smacking into each other in a jam that should happen at the window and splatting into the concrete below.
BRPD: Plague of Frogs 1 - Been trying to find an in into the Hellboy universe for a while since I like the idea but the movies, TPBs and game weren't clicking with me. Turns out what did the trick was removing Hellboy.
Exile on the Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 1 - Not bad but a bit of a let down in comparison to Betrayal. Cataclysm's pretty much an intro to the ongoing so I should give it the benefit of the doubt. It is, however, tapping into the arts of the franchise I don't really care for.ie the psychics Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Green Manor I: Assassins and Gentlemen - Anthology of murder stories centered around the titular club of 19th century Victorian England. I like it. The tales are too brief (much like the collections by the look of it) to really get into the meat of them but as a collection of ideas, it's interesting. Particularly like the one aboutthe guy challenging a man to figure out who he's going to kill. Would make a good TV series.0 -
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^^^ TWD is The Walking Dead
Also nice one with the Dracula
Ah, The Walking Dead. Well I'm going through my third playthrough of The Last of Us at the moment, and following RTEs run of TWD season 3, so I think thats my fill of zombies right now
And yeah, this copy of Dracula is probably the nicest looking book I'v ever owned. You have to hold it in your hand to really appreciate it. Satin ribbon bookmark, decorative stained page edging, the cover is blood red as well, pictures dont do it justice...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dracula-Leatherbound-Classics-Classic-Collection/dp/1435129733/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373932184&sr=1-1&keywords=barnes+and+noble+dracula
Will be waiting til later in the year to start this, sometime around October/November seems appropriate.
I like nice things.0 -
Martin is one of a handful of Templar Knights to escape when the king of France and the pope conspire to destroy the noble order. The king aims to frame the Templars for heresy, execute all of them, and make off with their legendary treasure. That's the plan, anyway, but Martin and several other surviving knights mount a counter-campaign to regain the lost treasure of the Knights Templar. With gorgeous illustrations by LeUyen Pham and Alexander Puvilland and lush coloring from Hilary Sycamore, this 480-page, full-color, hardcover graphic novel by Jordan Mechner is itself a treasure.
Top notch read IMO . About 60% through this. A real page turner.:D0 -
I read through Spiderman Blue last night, I missed it while the CBRC was reading it. Quite enjoyable, although I'm not usually one for the love stories.I felt more time could have been spent with the Kraven fight, it seemed a little rushed considering it was building up over the course of the whole story. I also found it a little weird that Peter was sitting in his attic recording creepy tapes to Gwen. Anyways, still a great read
Also, I didnt realise until the 6th comic that the sub-heading of each was a song title. Jazz standards no less, which tie into the whole Blue theme. Gotta pay more attention! 0 -
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PirateShampoo wrote: »Wait another month or to for them to wrap up this Negan story link, i think its really starting to drag on now.
I've only just read his name now in #96, was wondering who the hell Negan was!CastorTroy wrote: »And TWD goes bi weekly in August or September for the big event.
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