Comic Books

[Alone]

Don't know did you already had the thread like this but anyway.

I know that now is commputer era... but from childhood i start to read and draw comic books (first was M. Mouse). Even teacher called my mother at school 'couse i try to sell the comics that i made to other kids and i was punished. It was long time ago, but i still love to read (not draw anymore) all kind of comic books.
I see that many of you have avatars with c.b. faces.

You're free to say what do you think about few issues here:

1.Do you like more European, American or Asian comic books ?

They are all equaly good but prefer European.

2.What is your favorite comic books Hero?

Ken Parker (Lungo Fucile-Duga Puska)

3.What is your favorite scenarist and/or artist?

Berardi & Milazo

4.Whats the best cartoon move based on some comics?

Heavy Metal but also Lord of the Rings

 

[CivCube]

Originally posted by Alone


I know that now is commputer era...

Who said that comics have to be paper-based?

I think the Web is the next big thing for the medium.

 

[Greadius]

Playing X2: Wolverine's Revenge really sparked my comic nostalgia. I used to be a big fan in the early 90s to about 1995 when I grew up...err.... I mean older, and the computer started stealing all my discretionary income.

Fortunately, I still have my whole 1000ish comic books stored away back home which I have to unpack next time I go. My favorite was the 'retooled' X-Men starting with X-Men #1 and Uncanny X-Men #283 (if I recall correctly). Excalibur was my favorite from that era.

My favorite was Nightcrawler

My interest briefly returned during the Age of Apocolypse because he was my favorite villian and it was just a cool idea:

But that ends my comic collection which still sits in a cool, dry environment in little plastic covers

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by CivCube


Who said that comics have to be paper-based?

I think the Web is the next big thing for the medium.

O.K. But i was refered here to "paper-based"

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by Greadius

My favorite was Nightcrawler

My interest briefly returned during the Age of Apocolypse because he was my favorite villian and it was just a cool idea:

Whaau.. What a great cover! But i never read that stuff (evidently it was late for me..). My favorite American c.b. hero was Silver Surfer.. and Spyderman (kind of odd?)

 

[Jeratain]

Originally posted by Greadius
Excalibur was my favorite from that era.

Just curious, are you talking about a character named Excalibur or the actual comic book? My brother and I (my brother being older started collecting before I knew what a comic book was) have combined our comics into a rather decent collection of comics, and we just so happen to have the first Excalibur comic in our collection, along with number two and three.

There are so many intersting edition comic books out there. One that I made sure to buy was the Superman where he dies. Unfortunately I can't find it I never actually took it out of its wrapping, so I never even had a chance to read it.

Although Marvel comics had the edge, I would have to say DC kept me majorly interested with some of their Batman series. There is a particular series called "Cult" which was a hardcover series, and it's probably my favorite.
Here's the cover of book 4:

The beauty of this series was that you couldn't buy it if you were under 18 (my brother bought it back in the '80s) because of the amount of violence in them. The art is freakishly good as well.

I also loved the Spiderman series where Venom comes back, although I don't know if that's still in my collection or not. I have to go find out.

 

[Greadius]

Excalibur the comic book team based in Britian... which for some reason I liked.

I never liked DC... the superheroes just seemed really cheesy compared to Marvel.

 

[SewerStarFish]

Originally posted by Greadius
I never liked DC... the superheroes just seemed really cheesy compared to Marvel.

Green Lantern and Green Arrow cheesy??

These guys were intelligently arguing Conservative/Liberal philosophy way before comic activism was cool. That ring, that gotee --- CHEESY???

Don't get me wrong "Avengers Assemble!" is cool but it pales to the daily oath "In brightest day,..."

Speaking of which who knew "Flame On!" would later carry such a heavy double meaning?

 

[Greadius]

When you're 14 years old you don't read comic books for the philosophy

And they are cheesy. He's named after a miscolored lighting instrument for God's sake. His sidekick could be the Turquoise Hallogen Bulb.

They looked cheesy, it looked like it was from the 80s. There was nothing slick about the comics or the outfits or even their names. Perhaps its just personal bias, but I don't believe I have more than 3 or 4 DC comics.

 

[SewerStarFish]

I really liked the Funny run of JLA. These DC guys made me laugh and seemed more like what superheroes would be in real life.

The Martian Manhunter going to bed with a bag of Oreos saying, "I don't know. I don't care. I don't want to know. I don't want to care.", is still one of my favorite comic book panels.

My favorite Marvel was probably Ironman. I liked the Avengers more than the X-men because their struggles were more about general good vs evil as opposed to normals vs mutants.

 

[Jeratain]

Originally posted by Greadius
Excalibur the comic book team based in Britian... which for some reason I liked.

Yep, I have the first 5 comics of them ever. They are worth nothing, but still nice to have.

Originally posted by Greadius
I never liked DC... the superheroes just seemed really cheesy compared to Marvel.

Everyone has their own tastes. I like most Marvel comics, especially the X-Men - of which I have many of their comics including the solo Wolverine series - but I loved to read DC comics for Superman and Batman.

 

[Greadius]

Who says they're worth nothing

Its not exactly a buyers market, but money + nostalgia will eventually return.

The X-Men were hot when I started collecting so that is what I got into. Of course, they quickly expanded to, like 9 series, of which Wolverine I never followed... he had the same problem I had with DC: trying too hard to be cool.

 

[Jeratain]

You want to make an offer?

 

[Kakashi]

Asian Comics are called MANGA!!!

 

[piedude]

Ya cant beat the Asterix comics!

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by piedude
Ya cant beat the Asterix comics!

True! It's very popular in my country for..decades(i think). And is for the people from 7 to77 y.o.. My nephew have complet collection. I always enjoy to read some epizodes, again.

But cartoon move and noncartoon move of the same subject SUCK!

 

[CurtSibling]

'Liberty Meadows' by Frank Cho is my current favourtite.

Cho is a master artist, and a great draftsman.

 

[piedude]

Originally posted by Alone


True! It's very popular in my country for..decades(i think). And is for the people from 7 to77 y.o.. My nephew have complet collection. I always enjoy to read some epizodes, again.

But cartoon move and noncartoon move of the same subject SUCK!

I used to have about 10 of them! I always wanted to get the whole collection BUT never found them all! now I dont have any of them!

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by piedude


I used to have about 10 of them! I always wanted to get the whole collection BUT never found them all! now I dont have any of them!

I'm not quit sure in this moment but i think all together were about 50 epizodes.
My favorites are: "as Gladyators" and "on Corssica" (if i spelled that correctly)

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Oops...not even close to 50. Cheked with my neph it's
28!

 

[Mojotronica]

My fav comic book of all time is "Watchmen," by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

I also like the "Elfquest" saga -- at least those illustrated and written by Wendy and Richard Pini.

The first comic I ever read (at age four) was Herge's "The Shooting Star" -- I've been a Tintin fan ever since.

For humor I like Gilbert Shelton's "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" and Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" series.

When I read and collected mainstream books (1983 to 1986,) I liked the X-Men best -- I started collecting after a friend loaned me the "God Loves, Man Kills" graphic novel. Unfortunately the X-Men's best issues were already completed by the time I got into it. The Byrne/Claremont collaborations and a little beyond (issues 108 through... I'd say 175...) was the series' peak.

Spider-man is my favorite mainstream super-hero. Powerful but still vulnerable, almost any writer can put together a compelling Spider-man story because the character has enough complexity to be inherently interesting. More so than any other super-hero (except maybe Batman,) a Spider-man story can almost write itself -- as long as the writer doesn't get too ambitious and mess around w/ the basic formula.

Frank Miller's "Ronin" was a great limited series from that era. Miller's first Dark Knight Returns series is over hyped, but a great story nonetheless.

I liked John Byrne's run on the Fantastic Four (Byrne is one of the few writer's who can pull off a Fantastic Four story...) and Alpha Flight, his re-interpretation of Lex Luthor when he re-vamped Superman, and his OMAC limited series.

I also loved the magazine sized B&W "Savage Sword of Conan," which presented episodic adventures of the barbarian king. Good violent fun!

Favorite artists:

Dave Gibbons
Barry Windsor-Smith
Arthur Adams
Bill Sienkiewicz
John Byrne
George Perez
Jim Lee
Frank Miller
Alex Ross
Todd McFarland
Wendy Pini

EDIT: Fixed a mis-spelled name and some poor writing...