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What comics have you been reading?

Started by irishmoxie, March 30, 2016, 10:49:35 PM

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DeCarlo Rules

#810
Quote from: irishmoxie on December 14, 2016, 08:49:04 PM
How was Motor Crush? Would I like it? Is it girlie?

Would I like Duck Avenger if I like the Duck Tales movie from the 90s?

No and no.

Motor Crush is kind of some alternate universe Speed Racer thing with motorcycles instead of cars, with a female drug-addicted protagonist.

Duck Avenger is Donald as a superhero, but in a 60-page story it gets a little tedious.

I'm not going to continue reading either of those.

If you want a recommendation of something that seems girlie to check out, try SPELL ON WHEELS by Kate Leth & Megan Levins, a 5-issue miniseries from Dark Horse Comics. It's about 3 witches trying to recover their stolen magical items from a thief, and while the story didn't interest me enough to continue beyond the first issue, it's competently enough written and drawn, and I had no problem following what was going on. The character interaction between the three main protagonists may be enough to hold your interest.

60sBettyandReggie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 15, 2016, 05:08:29 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on December 14, 2016, 08:49:04 PM
How was Motor Crush? Would I like it? Is it girlie?

Would I like Duck Avenger if I like the Duck Tales movie from the 90s?

No and no.

Motor Crush is kind of some alternate universe Speed Racer thing with motorcycles instead of cars, with a female drug-addicted protagonist.

Duck Avenger is Donald as a superhero, but in a 60-page story it gets a little tedious.

I'm not going to continue reading either of those.

If you want a recommendation of something that seems girlie to check out, try SPELL ON WHEELS by Kate Leth & Megan Levins, a 5-issue miniseries from Dark Horse Comics. It's about 3 witches trying to recover their stolen magical items from a thief, and while the story didn't interest me enough to continue beyond the first issue, it's competently enough written and drawn, and I had no problem following what was going on. The character interaction between the three main protagonists may be enough to hold your interest.


I read the beginnings of Duck Avenger in one of those Don Rosa Uncle Scrooge and Donald volumes and  it was alright, it was funny. But I have not read the other comics that are only about the Avenger. Is Scrooge and/or his nephews in those comics?

BettyReggie


DeCarlo Rules

#813
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on December 15, 2016, 12:43:16 PM
I read the beginnings of Duck Avenger in one of those Don Rosa Uncle Scrooge and Donald volumes and  it was alright, it was funny. But I have not read the other comics that are only about the Avenger. Is Scrooge and/or his nephews in those comics?

I wasn't aware that Duck Avenger was used in any of Don Rosa's stories, but I've missed a lot of them. I've been meaning to catch up with Fantagraphics' complete Don Rosa Library collections, but have fallen a little behind on that series in particular. There is just a LOT of Disney stuff coming out right now, with IDW's regular comics, trade paperback collections of same, and the Library of American Comics hardcover reprint collections of the Donald Duck, Silly Symphonies, and Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Stories newspaper strips, and then Fantagraphics' Mickey Mouse newspaper strip collections and Carl Barks Library and Don Rosa Library hardcovers. It's hard to keep up with it all, since all these hardcover books tend to be somewhere in the $30-$50 price range (except for IDW's reprinting of the European stories in trade paperback).

Duck Avenger is actually a creation of the Italian Disney comics artists. IDW reprinted the earliest appearances (short stories, including his origin) in some of their regular DONALD DUCK comic books not too long ago. My objection to the DUCK AVENGER comic book is that the stories are far too long at 60 pages, not very humorous (it's more like a regular superhero comic book that way), and I don't particularly like the artist (whose name I've forgotten now). His style is a little off the standard Disney character model and style.

But to answer your question, Uncle Scrooge was in the first issue (actually, DUCK AVENGER #0) briefly, but he didn't play a big part in the story. I didn't notice the nephews in any of the 3 issues I read. In fact, this series tries to give an entirely new setup than Donald's usual one. Here he's hired by Uncle Scrooge to manage a new skyscraper that Scrooge purchased, that formerly belonged to an eccentric billionaire scientist who disappeared. Donald discovers a completely hidden floor in the building that houses an artificially-intelligent computer called One, and this become's the Duck Avenger's new secret headquarters (there are other high-tech gadgets that the scientist left behind when he disappeared, also), and One becomes his aide-de-camp as the Duck Avenger, stays constantly in contact with him, and is able to help him out of especially tough scrapes. In the second issue (actually #1) the building is rented (or leased, I forget which) to a muckraking TV news station, whose obnoxious star reporter has a vendetta against the Duck Avenger, and there's a mysterious woman who works there that turns out to be time traveller from the future who figures out Donald's secret, and aids him for reasons known only to herself. In issue #0, Donald battles an invasion from the conquest-minded alien race known as the Evronians, and they return again in issue #2. In issue #1 he had to stop a time traveller from the future from changing history. Very non-standard for a Disney comic.

BettyReggie

#814
I read the 2 of the 3 comics that I got at Unique. Someone brought gave those comics to the Thift store . And they were brand new because they were still in the plastic. And they left their name on them. They were mailed to Ryan Jampole.
Reggie & Me #1-Sandy Jarell cover
Jughead #10-Derek Charm cover

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 15, 2016, 05:08:29 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on December 14, 2016, 08:49:04 PM
How was Motor Crush? Would I like it? Is it girlie?

Would I like Duck Avenger if I like the Duck Tales movie from the 90s?

No and no.

Motor Crush is kind of some alternate universe Speed Racer thing with motorcycles instead of cars, with a female drug-addicted protagonist.

Duck Avenger is Donald as a superhero, but in a 60-page story it gets a little tedious.

I'm not going to continue reading either of those.

If you want a recommendation of something that seems girlie to check out, try SPELL ON WHEELS by Kate Leth & Megan Levins, a 5-issue miniseries from Dark Horse Comics. It's about 3 witches trying to recover their stolen magical items from a thief, and while the story didn't interest me enough to continue beyond the first issue, it's competently enough written and drawn, and I had no problem following what was going on. The character interaction between the three main protagonists may be enough to hold your interest.


Thanks. I've read the 1st 2 issues of Spell on Wheels. It was ok. Maybe I'll reread them to see if they grow on me.

BettyReggie

#816
I finished Archie's Favorite High School Comics
And also I read these for 12 minutes
Archie Double Digest #273
Archie 1000 Page Comics Bonanza

BettyReggie

#817
I read
Josie & Pussycats #3-Mok
I read all of my Reggie & Me #1's & I put them in my comic frames. I put a picture on my Twitter Page.

BettyReggie

I'll read some digital comics later when I'm in bed.

DeCarlo Rules

PUNISHER #7 - The last issue to be drawn by artist Steve Dillon before his untimely death. Since that was really the big attraction to me with this new series, I'll probably wind up dropping it soon.
AVENGERS #2.1 - Seems kind of like an arbitrary numbering sequence, as this story is really taking place shortly after the events of AVENGERS Vol. 1 #16, so shouldn't this be #16.02 ? Whatever. Now THIS is really Mark Waid's forte.
SQUADRON SUPREME #14
SILVER SURFER #8
THANOS #2
STAR TREK/GREEN LANTERN VOL 2 #1
(of 6)
CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #3
GREEN HORNET: REIGN OF THE DEMON #1
(of 4)
JEM AND THE MISFITS #1 - Very talky and slow-moving. Doesn't make me want to continue.
TANK GIRL: GOLD #3 (of 4)

BettyReggie

At midnight I will getting Archie #15 from the Google Play Store.

BettyReggie

#821
I just finished reading my digital copy of Archie #15. This was a great issue. Reggie is even in it. Only at the party Archie is throwing for his Parents Anniversary. Archie only can make this party happen with help from his friends. Veronica is still fighting with Cheryl & MR. Lodge winds up buying Blossom's industries. But that means Cheryl & her family are broke. And the Blossom wind up moving to RiverDale, which is awful for Veronica & the rest of RiverDale.

DeCarlo Rules

#822
PATSY WALKER AKA HELLCAT #13
BETTY AND VERONICA SPECTACULAR (ARCHIE GIANT SERIES) #458
- All good stories. All Dan DeCarlo stories.
BLACK HAMMER #6
ART & BEAUTY MAGAZINE #3
- Robert Crumb's drawings of various women taken from photographs.
SUPERF*CKERS FOREVER #5 (of 5) - Also has the hilarious bonus flip-book twisted Christmas Special SUPERF*CKERS SAVE CHRISTMAS!
DARK HORSE PRESENTS #29
GUMBALLS #1
DONALD DUCK ALBUM (DELL FOUR COLOR) #1182
(May 1961)

BettyReggie

#823
I'll probably read some digital comics tonight while in bed.

BettyReggie

#824
🍇 🍒 🍉 🍍 🍓 🍎 🌽 🍇I read my digital copy of Archie #15🍇 🍒 🍍 🍉 🍓 🌽 🍎 🍇

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