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Matt Hawes
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"Pre-Secret Wars (original)" works well enough for me. Sure, there were still great comics afterward, but that does seem to be around the time things started to change on the whole.
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Charles Valderrama
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Charles, I confess I am very nostalgic for that era of comics. After the Silver-Age, I feel Marvel and DC both had a wave of great comics during the late 1970s' and early 1980s'.
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Matt, those titles you listed pretty much made up my must-read list… and I also enjoyed when JB, Miller and other Marvel guys "crossed over" to do DC's books. I believe it was a few years into the IMAGE guys flooding the market that my list of comics started to shrink.
-C!
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Marc Cheek
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Oh nostalgia! That was a great time to buy comics. I bought each of
the six comics Charles posted off the rack plus the others Matt
mentioned. I was just discovering Cerebus around that time too and
that was a real thrill as well.
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Jeremy Simington
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STEVE DE YOUNG: The Thing is now a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, that's his outer space jumpsuit.
The stupidity of this just made pass out for a second.
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James Howell
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Almost all of the characters look like regular people, in weird clothes, that try to look like costumes.
They don't look like SUPERHEROES
They all look like skinny, indie comic ripoffs of Marvel heroes.
Or Hollywood actors...
Especially She-Thor.
If you're going to make Thor a woman, can you at least make her look like a WARRIOR, and not Taylor Swift with a funny hat on?!?
Doctor Strange with an AX?!? What's he gonna do with that?
Saw Clea in half? (if she still exists)
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Marc Cheek
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The Thing. In The Guardians of the Galaxy....
Words escape me...
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Bill Pope
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All these big business politics that influence the Movie industry (DISNEY) to bring our fable and beloved characters to the screen. Seem to be having just as much influence over the integrity of the creative process that brought many of these characters life in books.
Almost feel like the blockbuster movie industry is trying to make us feel ok with selling yourself for $10.00 at the door.
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Paul Kimball
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Doctor Strange with an AX?!? What's he gonna do with that?
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I'm so starved for a Dr. Strange book that maybe I'm seeing the glass too
half full but I have fond memories of roger stern's run on DS, some of those
stories had a very "sword&sorcery" feel and I'm hoping that the axe is not
something he will always have but an allusion to that style of story.
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Greg Kirkman
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Those 80s-era covers Charles posted got me thinking--
Look at those covers. Aside from the X-MEN cover, every one features
characters who are instantly recognizable as being the same
characters from the mid-60s (or the 40s, in the case of Captain
America). They are all still perfectly on-model.
Someone should pull six covers from today's era for comparison. Can
the same be said? If, not, WHY? What makes 2015 so very, very
different from 1982-83? Or, say, 1966?
Is it really just as simple as a case of the lunatics running the asylum,
or have times really changed?
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Michael Roberts
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| I think Grandpa Steve is their 'clever' way of keeping the Steve Rogers character around while also introducing a new Captain America...or in this case making Falcon into Falcon America. They've now got an African-American Cap, but without doing yet another 'kill off Steve Rogers for ten minutes' story. |
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They already had "Steve Rogers: Super Soldier" running around the same time as Bucky Cap. Twisting that formula to make it Grandpa Steve Rogers, makes it less appealing not more.
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| Likewise making X-23 the new Wolverine and keeping Old Man Logan. They keep Logan around as a character, while having a new, young, female Wolverine who they can have headline a comic and claim greater gender diversity. |
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I think X-23 and Old Man Logan are a way to keep "Wolverine" while not promoting Wolverine™, star of Fox's X-Men franchise.
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Brad Teschner
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I have never missed collecting comics less! What a mess!!!
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James Woodcock
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Bill Pope: Thor has not "been a horse". ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- I know, sorry, bad phrasing. The guy running around with the hammer has been ..... But my point remains - these were quick stories, taking less time than it has taken to find out WHO female Thor actually is.
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