Maccai3

Enjoyed my first time at golden orbit today, so many comic books that it was abit much to take it at first and ended up walking around like a kid in a candy store!

 

I ended up getting:

 

Batman 163

Sub Mariner 3

Tales to Astonish 100

 

Overall a good day!

were all the books sold raw?

Adding to my early bronze Bat collection.

 

 

covers were so much better then, made you want to read the book, they dont really do that now

http://www.goldenorbit.co.uk/goldenorbit/Frames2.htm

bongo, Golden Orbit are in Manchester next Saturday, anyone visiting?

edit: where the jazz is the King Thistle Hotel?

you need to start another run

the near completion may be making you lose enthusiasm, are the books you need hard to find?

on ps3 but mainly just with a friend, Maccai32 if you want to add me and i'll be happy to play

I started a thread over in the Events forum about the Thought Bubble convention, Anybody here planning on attending?

 

Not me.

 

Had opportunities to go to that show in the past, but never went. They usually have decent guests at that event....

 

I won't be going after all

 

Annoyingly it's the Arsenal/Spurs match on the 17th and after missing last years match due to LSCC I don't think I want to miss this years

 

You might not feel like that come Feb though Gaz...

 

...and I say that as a Gooner myself (although one that gave up his season ticket a year ago!)

i think Giroud will do well for you, he'll have to if/when RVP leaves

i buy Giroud on Fifa because i try to get my whole team to look like comic artists/writers (think Moebius)

on another Fifa note there's a player named George Lucas

Seems like alot of 80's toys are flooding the market if this thread is any indication of the market .

 

Anyways guy came back and brought me my file cards and my puzzle that he forgot.

 

Puzzle was complete and I am always into interesting items like this.

 

nice, most new puzzles are missing at least one piece

The excellent ending to Batman with him flying the Batwing, taking the Jokers balloons.

best line ever

Joker "He stole my balloons!"

just bought (going to have a couple weeks of cheap spending)

YAY!

strangely not yet, i hear great things though

I stumbled across this locally and I couldn't resist the urge to pick it up.

 

 

My first big key.

you get a decent price sir?

First book I've picked up in a couple of months. I'm happy to get this one off my acquisition list.

 

back in a few minutes

apple pie

Custard

Bob Kane cameo and of course...

they'll always have a special place in my heart

i've seen it at £200 UK which is around $312 US, just have to wait and land lucky

eBay has one at $450 US

ITV2 showed Batman Returns last night, I started watching it while I was finishing off a sketch.

 

I do like the Gothic style of the Burton movies but if you compare them to the comic books you can see that he decided to go his own way with the Batman universe and completely ignore anything the comics had to offer.

 

I see these movies as Elseworld tales if you will, if you compare them to the comics:

 

Batman kills or causes incredible harm to his foes. In the first movie he did kill the Joker by hauling him off the ladder of the helicopter. He blew up Axis Chemical plant, if you remember when the Batmobile dropped the bomb from the wheel there was about 4 goons stood nearby, they wouldn't have survived! Batman Returns, he uses the afterburner to engulf one of the penguins men in flames, he later straps a bomb to a thug and throws him down a manhole.

 

Alfred is too old. Commissioner Gordon is a bumbling insufficiently_thoughtful_person and the police are completely inept in Batman Returns, when the Penguins gang terrorize the city at the start, one police car turns up containing the commissioner and one cop with his immediate response to be "What are you waiting for, the signal!".

 

I could go on.

 

To me, growing up with Killing Joke, Year One, DKR and later reading the Demon saga and then Knightfall and onwards, Nolan paid attention to the comics, took broad ideas, installed his own vision as well.

 

Burton wanted to make a stylish movie and ignored the source material completely. Even though Batman (1989) will always be why I got into Batman, Nolan has been the one who (in my mind) brought the Batman I grew up with to the cinema.

 

3 days to go to see the final instalment, I can't wait!

Burton's Gotham has alot of giant statues

must we quote long posts?

 

my Shazam! #1 9.4 arrived today

 

we must

fair play sir, anyway here is the Superman Bronze i want

there is a nice painted bronze to but the pose is very Batman

must we quote long posts?

my Shazam! #1 9.4 arrived today

very nice Juggernaut, there's a Superman Bronze that looks amazing but lower down on my wish list