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4 minutes ago, followtheleader said:

That's something I've never seen.  I'd get it too.  Such a huge fan of Back to the Future II.

Looks like there is a Hoverport that was sold separately for the cars. 

Patrick

Yeah. The shop had the playset as well but I didn’t want it as much as the cars.  

3 hours ago, followtheleader said:

Saw this on the wall of a random toy store.  Nearly overlooked as I thought it was newer. 

Been opened, but very firm from storage over time.

Until I held one,  I never noticed the Sky Patrolesque reflectors behind the toys. 

Patrick

I had this set as a kid.    I have a loose set now but a set in the board would be great.   Nice find!

On 11/15/2020 at 2:17 PM, followtheleader said:

From the gloriously terrible Crystar line.  I'm a sucker for the magma fools.

Patrick

I’m still hunting a complete Crystar

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Even more subscriptions that I’m trying to keep up with.   And a few odd issues theat I’ve snagged here and there.   Not adding Wynd into the count at this time as I’ll do a review on it later as I finished the series.   

-Giga:   Great new series.  Basic premise is civilizations live inside of Mecha.   Art and writing were both fun.  I highly recommend checking it out if you like this type of setting.  
 

-Mars Attacks Red Sonja:   This doesn’t have a right to be as fun as it is.   Ridiculous but still feels like a sword and sorcery book.   Art isn’t a stand out, but doesn’t detract.  If you are a Sonja or Mars Attacks fan, check it out.

-Marneus Calgar:   I was always a Warhammer Fantasy Player, but I enjoyed 40k lore more.  This story is definitely a Marvelization of the grimdark universe.   Unless I’m mistaken, this story really changed some lore and I’m all in for it.  

- Crossover:   I’ve been seeing a lot of hype for this one and it seems deserved.  Haven’t really read any of Cates’s work before so I can see why people are falling over his stuff.  Definitely getting added to the pull list. 

-Champions Outlawed.  I read the first champions series, but missed the one after so I’m not 100% in the know about what’s been going on recently.   I was a huge New Warriors fan back in the 90’s and this series fills that young people finding their way in the world niche.   Seeing Justice as a member of their opposition is a great touch as well.  

-Stange Adventures.    People either love Tom King or hate him.  I’ve liked some of his work and not others.   I will say this.  I’ve never really been interested in Adam Strange before this series.   Now?  I’m all in. King has managed to blend Political Intrigue, super heroes, and pulp sci-fi adventure into an interesting story.    I’m excited to see how it all plays out in the end.

-stack of random JLA:  I’m always down for an Earth 3 story and these were good. I enjoyed Forever Evil more, but these were fun.  The Santa Claus story was  a neat little one shot and the other issues were pieces to Crisis storylines.   Other than the Santa story, mother stood out, but they were fun to read.

-The rest:  mostly stuff I’ve discussed before, but if you see something I haven’t mentioned, and would like to hear my opinion on it, feel free to let me now.   That’s it for now.

12 hours ago, Raze said:

I have a short box of moderns that need reading but Ive been reading GA this week...Ill be posting them tomorrow after I read 1 more.

I have 2 long boxes and five short short boxes that I’m hoping I can finish before the year is out.   Thanksgiving break may see some 30+ issue days  

18 minutes ago, Raze said:

@Talapas1 man you are killing it this year!!!

Thanks.   I just love reading and have been buying so many, that I feel bad putting them away unread.

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Catching up on my subscriptions.   The highlights:

Ronin:   A story I used to act out with my toys when I was in middle school.   I used a different turtle than was revealed but the idea was the same.   Reading this book brought all that back to me.   It was a fun read and worth the hype.

Stranger Things Science Camp:  I got this for my kids but now I look forward to each issue.  Love the filling in of the blanks between seasons.  
 

DCeased Dead Planet:  I’ve enjoyed all of these books and Dead Planet is so good.  There is a sense of hope in this so who knows what will happen next.  
 

Strange Academy:   I’ve finally broken down and added it to my pull list.   A very good start to the series so far.   I hope they maintain their momentum.  
 

Fearless Dawn and Hellboy:  fun art and a neat little pulp story.  I enjoyed this one.  
 

and a lowlight.  Lol

Snake Eyes Deadgame.   Story is pretty run of the mill and I spend all my time trying to figure out Liefeld.   I really liked his art up until just after Youngblood, but everything since had felt like a Liefeld impersonation.   I don’t know if it’s the inks or what, but I was excited for this series, now I’m snagging it more to just complete it.  

21 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

I didn't read the Infinity tie-in, which would've introduced me to Charles Soule's work sooner.  I tried to keep it to material that had a more direct effect on the Secret Wars story progression.  

I didn’t realize it was a secret wars story progression.  I was out on marvel from about 2014 to just this last year.  I almost have collected the whole secret wars line. Only missing like 10 books.  Then I’ll have some reading ahead of me.  May be part of my read 1000 books in 2021

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Thunderbolts Vol 1-3

These were given to me so I figured I should read them before throwing them on the shelf.  It was ridiculously violent and pretty fun.  The character choices were pretty predictable for a book of antiheroes and it was the first time I really read anything with Red Hulk.   I’m currently collecting the full Hulk run with Ross so hopefully can get some background on him.    
mall in all it was a fun quick read and though I doubt I would’ve ever spent money on the series, I’m glad I read it.  

6 hours ago, FoggyNelson said:

Comic adaption of the Bible makes it easier to read 

just like Veggie Tales show is fun to watch Bible stories👍👍😷🎶🎶🎶

Yup.   I also have the R. Crumb Old Testament and the LEGO Brick Bible.  

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Generation X/Gen13

Gen13/Generation X

I do love me some inter-company crossovers and this one was not an exception.   Neither was what I would refer to as high art, but they were fun enough.    I enjoyed the Marvel produced one more as I wasn’t really digging on the Art Adams art In the wildstorms issue.   The Marvel story was also marginally better written in my opinion.  The best part of these books is that I found them for fifty cents each so I figure it was entertainment well worth a buck.  

5 hours ago, followtheleader said:

Some MOTU that I picked up.  Not often for me to buy this line anymore.  Really clean.   

Patrick

Those do look nice.   Congrats

1064-1072 Rebels

It’s been a while since I’ve read something that had me feeling as conflicted as I have.   In this case it wasn’t the story itself, but more the issues that I have with the writer.    I was a big Brian Wood fan a while back.  I really enjoyed the comics he wrote and just seeing his name on an upcoming project was enough to get me to check it out.   His characters were interesting and he generally wrote female characters in a way that would make it seem that he has some respect for them.   Fast forward to just a few years ago, and allegations about him and his behavior towards women professionals in the industry surfaced.   His harassing behavior led to some big consequences for him.   Dark Horse severed ties with him and I haven’t seen as many titles of his on the shelves as I once did.  

What does this have to do with “Rebels”?  Everything, and in some ways, nothing.   I enjoyed the story of early American revolutionaries and what they went through to defeat the British.   Wood wrote tensions into this tale that were believable and kept me engaged.  The few female characters that were present were strong and independent.   Unfortunately the whole time I was reading the story, my knowledge of Wood’s actions just sat in the background, tarnishing any enjoyment I was getting from the reading of these books.  

As knowledge about the lives of creators become more open to the consumer of media, we are faced with decisions.   Wood moves into a class of artists that I have some problems with.  I will always be thinking about his actions and as I read his stories, be constantly analyzing what he is writing and if it gives an evidence of his deeds.   I hate feeling like that.  It takes so much away from the story and questions that the author poses take a backseat to the ones that have sprung up.   In this Wood joins a growing list of creators whom I have previously enjoyed, but now avoid.   It sucks because I have fond memories of their previous works, but don’t want to support them any longer.  

As for Rebels itself, it was a good read.   The characters were interesting and his focus on forgotten heroes of the Revolutionary War is always a something I am interested in.  It was worth the dive in the fifty cent bins to collect these. 

If anyone out there has suggestions for other Revolutionary War period comics, please feel free to share.

Got these guys yesterday.  Black Star White Knight and two Imperial Dragons.    White Knight still sparks but now I have to hunt his accessories down. 

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I’ve been on a reading tear lately.   Took a break from floppies to read these TPBs.  
 

Lobster Johnson:The Iron Prometheus:   This was a fun dive into the pulp hero genre.  I didn’t have any preconceptions going in and doing myself enjoying really enjoying it. The art is definitely in a style I am drawn towards and it was perfect for for the tape being told.

Thunderbolts:  My brother happened into possession of these books and asked it I wanted them.   A week later I was plowing through them.   I liked the books for the most part but I wouldn’t say they were anything truly groundbreaking.   Taking all the loners and throwing them on a covert team was fine and using Deadpool to take the edge off and keep the book from taking itself too seriously.   I loved the Dillon art in the first volume, but subsequent artists felt Ike they were unsuccessfully imitating his style.  All in all I liked the series and may keep  digging to  see if I can the rest of the series and see how things shake out.

3 hours ago, mtlevy1 said:

It's the Redondo that makes it beautiful

Crazy.  I assumed it was Kubert but I hadn’t had a chance to dig into it yet.  Thanks for correction

I couldn’t pass on this Treasury Edition featuring Kubert art.   Haven’t had a chance to thumb through it yet but hope to do so this week.   It’s got issues but it’s much better than many old treasuries that I run across.  

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Finally around to posting the last of my backlog.  
 

Some fun titles that I’m still keeping up with.   

•Death Metal is interesting.  It’s not in my must read pile, but it’s keeping my attention with each new chapter.

•Transformers Galaxies is great because is allows some focus on specific characters each arc.  ultra Magnus is the focus currently and he’s had a number of different retcons so this one is pretty decent and not going too far off base

•So I recently just started with spawn again    I don’t think I’ve read since issue 100, but had to snag the Gunslinger run     It’s interesting but I’m having to figure a lot out as I’m missing a lot of history.   Gonna stick it out a bit longer.

•Immortal She-Hulk: Interesting story   I haven’t read Immortal Hulk yet but feel like there may be some information I’m missing about the current status of the Hulkverse.

•Speaking of Hulks, I love the Maestro series and am loving the seeds being planted in showing Hulks path to becoming the Maestro The other Marvel hero making an appearance was great and pretty fitting and portends some amazing conflict coming up soon

•Marvels X is a fun read.   The Earth X Universe has always been a favorite of mine and I love this prequel to it.

•Once and future is good, but I think I need to save it up to read a few issues at a time to really follow it.
 

On 10/29/2020 at 7:26 PM, Raze said:

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TMNT The Last Ronin 1

Great action packed issue with intrigue.

I love this issue.   Only complaint was the dimensions of the book.    But the story was great!    I did spend the whole book trying to figure out who he was, and had narrowed it down by the reveal to two of them.   
cant wait for the next one.

34 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

Ewing's one of my favourite writers.  I'll have a look at this.

Sounds very much like Knowhere in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Haven’t dug into Knowhere yet.   I think I have it sitting in a box somewhere.  Lol.  I’ll have to move it up the queue. 

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We Only Find Them When They’re Dead 1 and 2

A new one added to my pull list.  I mean a story about floating dead space gods being mined for resources by a draconian bureaucracy?   Sign me up.   First issue got me hooked. And I’m looking forward to learning about the universe Ewing is creating.

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Plugging away at my monthly’s and random back issue pulls.

Of note was the FCBD Jack Kirby issue.  It was really enjoyable and now I need the buy the complete story.   Jack Kirby has an awesome story and it’s cool to be learning more about him.

Transformers/Back the Future is ridiculous as I expected, but still fun. 
 

Hellions isn’t great, but is interesting enough to keep me snagging the title off the shelf, but not enough to get a subscription.  
 

I’m  really digging Abrams’ take on Spiderman and am getting stir crazy waiting for the next one.  
 

The Champions are fun, but how many times can the (blank) superheroes need to register or be outlawed story line be rehashed?
 

Im still in on Bendis’s DC run.   He’s doing some neat things but sometime the JRR art takes away from the enjoyment in getting in Superman.

Savage Avengers are still hangin in there but the luster is slowly wearing off.  I’ll keep with it for a little longer and see where things go with them  

I just received this last mine in the mail to complete my Listen and Fun Tripwire.   Now I need to figure out why my next joe to complete will be.  

23 hours ago, followtheleader said:

What do you with things like the GI Joe Battle Gear accessories? 

He-man/MOTU had something similar.  Basically, vintage replicas of weapons/accessories in different colors.

Collect them, sell them, pitch them, something else?

Patrick

I keep them for customs or to fill out joblots when I sell.