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thanks for the deep input & help on the book :applaud:
i'll keep it in mind & will try to understand "the old man and the sea" better :D

friend bought me a book called fastfood nation. . .never finished it. . its suppose to be really good. . ( i was told )

bmwracer wrote:Great comic book artists from Marvel Comic's Silver Age (1960's-70's)... :applaud: :D

Oh. I only know Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane. :beaten:

ahochaude wrote:Oh. I only know Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane. :beaten:

Stan Lee is Marvel comics. :D

Reading lotsa manga. Marmalade Boy and Kare Kano. I really like Marmalade Boy though! Good stuff. But I want more Maison Ikkoku if anything.

ahochaude wrote:
Oh. I only know Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane. :beaten:

Curses on McFarlane...though he did get smacked around in the Gaiman/McFarlane lawsuit...Miracleman, hopefully soon!

Flipping through my GTO volumes now...what a hilarious manga.

For those classic comic fans, it seems that Essential Daredevil vol. 2, Essential Tomb of Dracula vol. 2, and Marvel Masterworks: Amazing Spiderman vol. 6 are out (came out just last month)...

thetenken wrote:Curses on McFarlane...though he did get smacked around in the Gaiman/McFarlane lawsuit...Miracleman, hopefully soon!

I think McFarlane is overrated. I think the artwork by Sean Chen is excellent. His Iron Man from a few years back, was classic. And perfect. :D

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bmwracer wrote:Stan Lee is Marvel comics. :D

Yeah, that guy is the greatest! :D

bmwracer wrote:I think McFarlane is overrated. I think the artwork by Sean Chen is excellent. His Iron Man from a few years back, was classic. And perfect.

I always thought that McFarlane had a lot of talent. I liked him best when he was doing Spider Man at Marvel. But when he moved over to Image comics, I somewhat lost interest in his work. (My Spawn comic collection stopped at issue 24)

ahochaude wrote:I always thought that McFarlane had a lot of talent. I liked him best when he was doing Spider Man at Marvel. But when he moved over to Image comics, I somewhat lost interest in his work. (My Spawn comic collection stopped at issue 24)

Yeah, everyone was ga-ga about McFarlane's Spidey with the big eyes and intricate, wacky webs, but the best Spidey artwork is from John Romita, Sr., IMO.

bmwracer wrote:Yeah, everyone was ga-ga about McFarlane's Spidey with the big eyes and intricate, wacky webs, but the best Spidey artwork is from John Romita, Sr., IMO.

I thought that was a pretty nice "change" that McFarlane did with the Spider Man eyes and stuff. I guess it was something for the younger generation, or something.
I don't know if I know of John Romita's work.

I always thought that Jim Lee did an excellent job with the X-Men comic. Those were my favorite at the time.

bmwracer wrote:
I think McFarlane is overrated. I think the artwork by Sean Chen is excellent. His Iron Man from a few years back, was classic. And perfect. :D

Yeah, I really like Sean Chen as well. I used to read his work when he started off working on Dr. Mirage for Valiant.

McFarlane can draw a lot of things well, especially faceless people with no feet. Add in feet or a face, and his art looks very wacked out.

@aho: by Spawn issue 24 wasn't it Greg Capullo and others working more on Spawn than McFarlane was?

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, everyone was ga-ga about McFarlane's Spidey with the big eyes and intricate, wacky webs, but the best Spidey artwork is from John Romita, Sr., IMO.

Romita is, of course, classic. I have to say I do like Bagley's interpretation of a more wirey Spider-man. Unfortunately his work was overlooked because of the horrible storytelling during that era (Maximum Clonage anyone?). He's changed his style quite a bit for Ultimate Spider-man (more kiddy/less detail), which is just "ok."

thetenken wrote:@aho: by Spawn issue 24 wasn't it Greg Capullo and other working more on Spawn than McFarlane was?

Yeah, another reason why I stopped.

I followed McFarlane's work when he moved to Image, and thus my Spawn collection. As boring as the story was, I just kept on buying them 'cause at that time, McFarlane's work was the trend. After when Greg started working on Spawn, issue 24 was when I chose to quit already.
I also thought Maxx was pretty crappy too.

ahochaude wrote:I don't know if I know of John Romita's work.

Here ya go:

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Oh ok. That style looks a little familiar. I probably saw it at my friend's house or something. (That guy was a comic maniac back in the day)

ahochaude wrote:

Yeah, another reason why I stopped.

I followed McFarlane's work when he moved to Image, and thus my Spawn collection. As boring as the story was, I just kept on buying them 'cause at that time, McFarlane's work was the trend. After when Greg started working on Spawn, issue 24 was when I couldn't handle being "devoted" to McFarlane's original project anymore.
I also thought Maxx was pretty crappy too.

Much of early image was crap, unfortunately. Not a storyline that really stands out. Only when Alan Moore retooled Supreme and Warren Ellis retooled Stormwatch did the stories get any buzz.

Actually, two early Image comics I liked were Union and Deathblow. Deathblow because Jim Lee's darker style on that was really neat, and Union because the storyline started off interesting before it disappeared.

thetenken wrote:Much of early image was crap, unfortunately. Not a storyline that really stands out. Only when Alan Moore retooled Supreme and Warren Ellis retooled Stormwatch did the stories get any buzz.

I don't think I know of these two stories. That was probably when I stopped collecting comics. (All McFarlane's fault :hehe: )

thetenken wrote:Actually, two early Image comics I liked were Union and Deathblow. Deathblow because Jim Lee's darker style on that was really neat, and Union because the storyline started off interesting before it disappeared.

Yeah, I seen Deathblow before. I thought it was pretty cool but unfortunately (even though it was Jim Lee and all) I just couldn't get back into the comic craze that I had fallen out of.

Yep choose manga lately...couldn't finish reading book Last one I read was Legenda naga..Anyone read them? ;)

I have so many chapters to read for biology that I don't want to read anymore..have a paper due Tuesday..hopefully I'm in the mood on Monday to do it. :beaten:

IkematsuSosuke wrote:I have so many chapters to read for biology that I don't want to read anymore..have a paper due Tuesday..hopefully I'm in the mood on Monday to do it. :beaten:

eechk, biology :(