Great Unified Comics Thread

[Ideologue]

That Marvel online subscription (60$/year) is still tempting, but I still have 40+ years worth of Iron Man, Spiderman, Iron Man, X-Men, Thor, Avengers, etc. comics on my HD.

Though I'd be happy to entertain suggestions on which bits to skip. I like the origin stories and the introduction of the classic villains, but I know there's quite a lot of dreck in between. E.g. for Punisher I decided to just jump into the Garth Ennis era.

For Iron Man, make sure you read the ones where Tony Stark is a drunk fuck-up.  They're great.  Also, the issue of the Avengers where he tries to fuck the Wasp like, the day after Hank Pym goes to jail.  It's my favorite Avengers issue ever, even though no one gets punched--it's this weird, melancholy island in a sea of nonsense action adventure.  Well, it's not my most favorite, that's either the annual where Adam Warlock dies (OMFG Jim Starlin gets only about 10% of the credit he deserves, son of a bitch is like the fifth best superhero writer of all time, and one of its top twenty or so artists), or the one in volume 3 by Busiek and Perez where Count Nefaria kicks everyone's ass with ion power but is eventually defeated, probably by a speech by Captain America, I don't really remember.

Yeah, I haven't been into the back stacks in a little while.  I think I might punch through Legion volume 4 till I get to that delicious era of Keith Giffen where he was working in the nine panel grid and was at the height of his illustrative powers while the Bierbaums were successfully not Paul Levitz.  Oh yeah, that's the stuff.  Or maybe some Lois Lanes.

I like the one where she marries Mitt Romney.

[Syt]

Moebius, French comic artist extraordinaire has died.

Examples of his work.

[Razgovory]

Shame.  Was a big fan of his strip.

[Habbaku]

Dammit. 

[Ideologue]

Moebius, French comic artist extraordinaire has died.

Examples of his work.

One of these days, I need to read some Moebius.  Can you believe I never have?  And I consider myself cultured.

[Neil]

Moebius, French comic artist extraordinaire has died.

Examples of his work.

One of these days, I need to read some Moebius.  Can you believe I never have?  And I consider myself cultured.

The Euro take on sci-fi is pretty interesting.

[katmai]

Moebius, French comic artist extraordinaire has died.

Examples of his work.

One of these days, I need to read some Moebius.  Can you believe I never have?  And I consider myself cultured.

Clearly you are not mr. zomg transformers the movie is best evah.

[Neil]

Moebius, French comic artist extraordinaire has died.

Examples of his work.

One of these days, I need to read some Moebius.  Can you believe I never have?  And I consider myself cultured.

Clearly you are not mr. zomg transformers the movie is best evah.

Ide is Tim?  How regretable.

At least he still likes cool comics though.

[Syt]

Moebius, French comic artist extraordinaire has died.

Examples of his work.

One of these days, I need to read some Moebius.  Can you believe I never have?  And I consider myself cultured.

The Euro take on sci-fi is pretty interesting.

Personally, I'm very taken with Marvano's (=Belgian) adaptation of The Forever War that he did together with Haldeman.

[PRC]

Moebius was amazing, loved his work when I was a young teenager and looking for things outside of the superhero books.  The Incal and Blueberry still blow me away every time I see the art.

[Ideologue]

Moebius, French comic artist extraordinaire has died.

Examples of his work.

One of these days, I need to read some Moebius.  Can you believe I never have?  And I consider myself cultured.

Clearly you are not mr. zomg transformers the movie is best evah.

Ide is Tim?  How regretable.

At least he still likes cool comics though.

Katmai, as is his ethics-free wont, is misrepresenting me.  I said Transformers '86 was, perhaps, the best animated movie.  That's a defensible position.

[jimmy olsen]

I was just thinking, since the Super Soldier Serum was lost can't Steve Rogers go to the Olympics and win like three dozen gold medals? He hasn't taken any banned substance, and they can't test him for the SSS because no one knows what it is (and if anyone did know it would be classified).

Also, given that his likeness was doubtless used in dozens of movies/ads since he went MIA shouldn't he be owed mountains of royalty money?

[Darth Wagtaros]

I was just thinking, since the Super Soldier Serum was lost can't Steve Rogers go to the Olympics and win like three dozen gold medals? He hasn't taken any banned substance, and they can't test him for the SSS because no one knows what it is (and if anyone did know it would be classified).

Also, given that his likeness was doubtless used in dozens of movies/ads since he went MIA shouldn't he be owed mountains of royalty money?

That would make for a boring movie.

You are thinking of this movie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Greatest_Athlete, which features Jan Michael Vincent's greatest role since before he did Airwolf.

[Syt]

Jan Michael Vincent's greatest role since before he did Airwolf.

Even greater than Damnation Alley?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Jan Michael Vincent's greatest role since before he did Airwolf.

Even greater than Damnation Alley?

Much.  That one belonged solely to Col. Hannibal Smith.