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Re: Legion Trivia 6
Invisible Brainiac
1 hour ago
a bit weird that Tinya was not there, considering her relationship with Jo
I don't know how I get the concept that we only had to guess two Legionnaires!
I'll guess:
Chameleon Boy Shrinking Violet Dawnstar
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Re: Retroboot re-read: So, I have some questions
Ann Hebistand
12 hours ago
The thing about LSH v7 is that it was all over the place, lacking the all-important focus of v6.
The slow burn style of v6 that Thoth noted has always been Levitz's approach to story arcs. Sometimes the payoffs were more successful than others, but on v7, Levitz seems to have been micro-managed to the point where he couldn't get enough traction for another slow burn. Instead, they appeared to force Giffen onto the series, probably because he was buddy-buddy with Dan DeDio; that a rehash of v4 got shot down is a rare example of wisdom prevailing at DC. And as for what we did get, well, even a lot of Giffen fans were displeased (there's also the annual from v6 by Levitz and Giffen, but all I can say about that is that it's the only issue of v6 that I dislike.)
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Re: What I found today at my LCS!
thoth lad
Yesterday at 11:24 PM
One from the >gasp< newsagents. At six quid, Quantum not a cheap anthology (but then what is these days), and it's not of the same professional level as the likes of 200AD. But, like a few books out there over the years, one strip delves into the source material of British sci-fi/horror. Having delved there often enough myself, it's always good to see other takes on it. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts. The last one I bought was a magazine format one that started off as a mix of news and strips, but ended up as strips before it vanished. As explained in a comics magazine, retailers never used to get much profit from comics. So, a move to things like dollar comics would give readers more story, but retailers more profit for a win-win. Pushing that forward 40 years, as does them just being too pricey for people to pick up in passing. Especially with no big name characters.
In the LCS, that company also had a Gerry Anderson anthology, called Spectrum. I've not read it yet. But you could put Captain Scarlet on pretty much anything and I'd give it a go.
An aeon ago, RPGs were becoming so popular, along with Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, that 2000AD delved into it. They released a RPG magazine that contained art and storylines from their 2000AD characters. It was called Dice Man, and you'd have Bryan Talbot, Kev O'Neill, Glen Fabry and Steve Dillon art in there. In the comics, Pat Mills was having a massive burst of inspiration in Slaine (I also picked up a TPB of one of those). You could read that and then see how you would have got on, going through his plots, in Dice Man. I had one or two of them, and as I lugged the giant hardback home, I hope it wasn't the best one or two. If they've got a Judge Dredd one in there, it should be hilarious as you sentence the citizens of Mega City to 5 years for jay walking, or have to turn in your badge for not being strict enough.
Not much in the way of new releases. I got a What if... Aliens based on Burke surviving the film. There were a number of reasons he didn't in the film; scenes that were shot but not released and the scripts. But a decent story will always stop my eyes rolling. This could have gone in lots of directions, considering what a character he was. They've not chosen the ones I thought most likely.
Time Before Time has recently finished (last issue or 2 should still be in your LCS. Recommend starting from the first TPB.) The first arc of Sacrificers has just finished, so TPB of that can't be far away.
Random purchase was Inspectres. A team up of Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini, Bram Stoker and a young Agatha Christie. I've not read that one yet either, but liked the 2000AD strip the Necronauts, so here's hoping.
Since the start of the year, I've taken advantage of the Comixology sales (even those have gone up in price a little). Picking up favourties like Ostrander's Suicide Squad and Wolfman/ Perez Titans among others like the Levitz/ Perez World's Finest, SSoSV (the implosion did that one a mercy) and 70's Aquaman.
I got a pile of '80s comics out of ebay at the end of last year, so lots of fun also going through those.
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Re: The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5
thoth lad
Yesterday at 07:11 PM
Thoth has is close enough. It was from an issue of Ambush Bug and has stuck with me since I read it in the eighties. He turned to crime and took the name Villian the Villain so people would learn to spell villain correctly. Yay! And they said over-reading of Ambush Bug would never amount to anything! New Q soon!
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Re: "Death of a Legionnaire" -- LSH fan comic (DrakeB3004)
DrakeB3004
03/16/24 10:29 PM
Drake, love the story and art. I've been waiting a bit to catch up and noticed the links are broken for 5 images on page 13 of the thread. Didn't hurt my ability to follow the story at all but I thought you might want to know, Our settings must be different since this thread is only 9 pages to me. But I think I fixed them. Please take a look when you have a chance - thanks for the head's up!!
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Re: R.I.P. Rachel Pollack
Ann Hebistand
03/15/24 04:11 PM
This year DC is releasing a special 96-page tribute book for Rachel Pollack as part of DC Pride, which is reprinting Doom Patrol #70, Vertigo Visions - The Geek, and is featuring a brand new short story by Rachel's close friend Joe Corallo and Rye Hickman that has the triumphant return of Kate Godwin. Excellent!
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Re: Your Woman Of The Day
Ann Hebistand
03/14/24 10:33 PM
Her work is all traditional too - she inks exclusively with brushes. It gives her work a real life that I find to be missing in most digital art. I agree 100 percent!
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Re: The Litter Box
Ann Hebistand
03/13/24 10:42 PM
Master of Pooping
Sad But Poo
Enter Shitman
Until I Shit
Nothing Else Splatters
Wherever I May Crap
Creeping Stench
For Whom the Smell Told
Dung
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