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Wonder Woman 128 from the site, Spawn 293 (x2 for some reason) from my comic subscription, and Spawn 294 variant cover 

Tough fight between '94 Spidey and '92 X-Men, but let's go with X-Men

I only have three, Rest In Pepperonis.

On 5/31/2018 at 11:45 AM, Jeffro. said:

We referred to Spawn at the time as Spewn. (because we felt the urge to spew whenever we saw the comic). Those early Image books were all eye candy and almost no substance. I still can't believe I liked Todd's work at one point.

Early issues of Spawn and Spidey in the 90s definitely were all flash and no bang, but it's a matter of evolving. His story writing talents are definitely a lot more refined these days (highly recommend reading the 2017 Spawn comic run, pre-Jason Shawn Alexander).

Sadly for directing though you just don't get those kinds of chances, so we'll just see if this is a multi billion dollar movie franchise or something you'll see in the $3.74 bin at Walmart in like a year

5 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

Basically, read a few Image titles to dispel the illusion that all modern comics are terrible. 

Some great books there.

Indeed, Top Cow especially puts out really great titles.

On 2/7/2019 at 4:10 PM, fmaz said:

WONDER WOMAN  #128 | NM- | $5 $4

 

 

1 hour ago, waaaghboss said:

I remember way back in the day, key issues were first appearances, and origin stories.  Does anyone care about origins anymore?  

Creativity is a rather dead medium these days, which is why we're getting superhero movies in the first place. I'm kind of surprised Image doesn't have more comic books pumping out superheroes though, since that's kind of what it's foundations were built on.

8 hours ago, kav said:

Alan Moore writes very detailed scripts-everything has to be just so-he must have been incredibly frustrated working with Liefeld.  NO I SAID FEET!!! FEET!!!!  AND I NEVER MENTIONED POUCHES WTF!!!!! 

2 hours ago, Logan510 said:

It's an odd artistic decision for a superhero book. As one of my favorite creators has said...the minute you start wondering how The Thing takes a krap, that's probably a sign you should stop reading superhero comics

 

You should tell that to the characters of the big bang theory, lol.

1 hour ago, mrc said:

Could someone please tell me where the great artwork in comic books is at  the moment. Anyone?

Interior art from the latest issues of Spawn by Jason Shawn Alexander no, not the guy who played George Costanza  has been naturally amazing, it's kind of re-fleshed out Spawn for the first time in about a decade or two since Capullo left. Especially with getting the old Toddfather back on the storyboard wagon.

1 hour ago, serling1978 said:

Thank you for saying this. Collectors who don't read their books blow my mind. I read a comic from my collection every night in bed before passing out. Currently reading my ASM run. Have read from #2 through 43 over the past few months. Over the past couple years I've read most of the first 100 Savage Sword of issues, most of the original Defenders run, the first 130 or so Iron Man, the first 160 or so Avengers, X-Men 94 through 250 and other stuff I can't remember at the moment. Of course I love sitting and staring at the covers, don't get me wrong, but reading the books is the best part.

 

True indeed. Admittedly though I've turned to reading them digitally though just so I can keep them looking nice for the tenure of my ownership of them

7 hours ago, Artboy99 said:

I can think of a few reasons.

1. Paper stock. I just read Marvel's latest release of Conan the Barbarian and the cover stock felt flimsy and cheap and I felt the comic would fall apart at any moment.

2. Changes of characters to satisfy social justice warriors. Keep characters the same, I don't want to see a popular character in a new version. Invent a new character instead of ruining the old guard thanks.

1. Number 1! Number 1. New all new #1. Etc.

4. Variant of the variant of the variant. I go to a comic store and see a book on the shelf and I have no idea if I own it or not because there are so many covers to the same book.

5. Superman, Supergirl, Superdog, Supergrandma, SuperTransvestite. Why cant we have originality!

Basically this, though I'll say Image is still really cool in not doing any of these things.

On 1/30/2019 at 8:25 PM, Doohickamabob said:

So this is from a Batgirl comic? Which one? Is the rest of the art as bad as this panel? How does something like this exist, and how does it get past professional editors? It's like they used a computer to draw the room, and just had a template of a room and added bathroom stuff with a few mouse clicks, or something. It is astonishingly awful.

You should see how Marvel's drawing their comics sans the Star Wars ones, lol. Makes this look like Picasso. The new comic by Rob Liefeld so far has been my most favorite example.

Hopefully they'll do something for Julie Strain soon. Recently heard she's in the late stages of dementia, so maybe a tribute to her could be arranged or somethin'?

1 hour ago, kimik said:

No one is teaching them to do that, they are just collecting runs differently now. They want the keys like everyone else, but instead of reading comic runs in single issue format they do it digitally or via collected editions in TPB/HC format. I noticed this trend starting in earnest in the late 00s, and adjusted my collection accordingly as well. A lot of low to mid grade SA or BA common issues are $2 - $5 bin material now if you want to sell them, and it is generally older collectors that go for them. There is a large and growing populations of collectors now that would rather buy a collected edition TPB to read story arcs in one sitting, AND they still buy the keys/#1s to have the most important issues for their collection.

In a way this could lead to a reduced number of run issues being available which may increase the want and their monetary value for those investors out there, albeit it's still going to be a while before that can happen though.

3 hours ago, FineCollector said:

Who's teaching them to do that, though?  I wish people would stop calling it "run filler" and go back to calling it "story."  If the 20-somethings have no attachment to the books they're buying, what keeps them coming back the next time there's a downturn in the market?

Amen to that, brother. Too bad we don't live in a perfect world, though.

Here's to hoping that they don't give Morbius the Venom treatment

also forgot that the Jay and Silent Bob reboot is making headway, so that might be a possibility as well. Hopefully after their thirteen year absence it will be well worth the wait!

^especially remembering the way the 2013-15 X-Men and Spider-Man flagship titles' pages were drawn I'm expecting the interior pages will be worse than the normal Marvel chicken scratch being put out there.

51 minutes ago, Mecha_Fantastic said:

This whole thing screams 'generic!' to me. I don't know, I WANT to like what the X-Office is doing at the moment, but it's just so subpar. 

lol, generic is even better than this. generic would at least guarantee that Cable isn't a human square and that Wolverine's sleeves aren't sown into his biceps, haha.

I used to think Liefeld's art was okay-ish to say the very least but I honestly didn't expect it to decline in quality. If anything I was expecting it to go up

^wow! what an admirable score! 

I wonder which issue she's reading...

1 hour ago, Key Largo Comics said:

Pickups:

Gah, what I'd give to have comic books be theatric again!