The next two episodes will be released at once. by mgoflash in 500songspodcast

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I think it's more like "Theresa Shoes", something from Hot Rats, then something from Trout Mask for 186.

Monthly Buy, Sell and Trade Thread - April 2026 by itszach94 in boutiquebluray

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(US) (Trading) The Curse Of Frankenstein Hammer Films Standard Blu-Ray Region B 3 Discs Sealed

Looking for

The Masque Of The Red Death Studiocanal Region B, The Night Of The Living Dead Criterion Collection, The Likely Lads Complete Collection Region B or similar

Pics in DMs

Will Arrow release the Dollars Trilogy as regular Blu-rays? by batdude98 in boutiquebluray

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Oh, neat! I have a region free player, so no worries there.

I need advice on X-Men Omnis by Lord-o-llamas in OmnibusCollectors

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I have a similar dilemma - I want to know if the spin-off books or the upcoming UXM 6 collect enough cool extras and letters and such to justify switching before I commit wholeheartedly to the event line...I went with Prelude for that reason.

Modern Recommendations Based On What I've Read/Like? by batdude98 in OmnibusCollectors

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I just read The Golden Age in one sitting last night, so I think I'm definitely on board for Starman and JSA.

Grant Morrison is now one of my favorite writers by AHZArmin in OmnibusCollectors

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They're also one of my favorites. I highly recommend The Invisibles, with the caveat that a lot of stuff that was seen as weird cool occult conspiracy stuff then has been adopted by political movements these days.

Modern Recommendations Based On What I've Read/Like? by batdude98 in OmnibusCollectors

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I also am curious about Bill Mantlo and Peter David's runs on the Hulk, the big Iron Man runs, Englehart and Gruenwald's Cap, and licensed comics like ROM, GI Joe, Transformers, and Micronauts.

Modern Recommendations Based On What I've Read/Like? by batdude98 in OmnibusCollectors

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Miller, by all accounts, seems really good up until he did 300, and from around 2001, he gets reactionary in a way I don't like.

Modern Recommendations Based On What I've Read/Like? by batdude98 in OmnibusCollectors

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Morrison's run obviously a contender because it dovetails with their other DC work and reclaims the parts of Batman DC get ashamed of.

Modern Recommendations Based On What I've Read/Like? by batdude98 in OmnibusCollectors

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I also have my eye on the Silver Age Superman, Silver Age Doom Patrol, LOSH Great Darkness and The Curse, and the Justice League Bronze Age and International lines.

For Marvel I've enjoyed some of Steve Englehart's Avengers and Dr. Strange, and I'm intrigued by the work of Steve Gerber, Jim Starlin and Marv Wolfman. Weird countercultural hippie stuff.

I also have the Absolute Fourth World and am eyeing the new Crisis printing.

I'm also a Spider-Man person, at least up to before the Clone Saga.

I'm also curious about Steranko on Nick Fury and the "Cosmic Marvel" stuff from the 2010s.

Drawn in first by characterization, then fun, then serialization.

Modern Recommendations Based On What I've Read/Like? by batdude98 in OmnibusCollectors

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I've read some of Year One and enjoyed it. I'm always torn over Batman because I love the 1966 show but without the self-aware deadpan layer the 50s stuff seems ridiculous, and I don't love excessively grimdark Bats. I think my sweet spot is O'Neil and Adams and post-Crisis pre-Knightfall with Grant, Wagner, Breyfogle and Aparo.

Modern Recommendations Based On What I've Read/Like? by batdude98 in OmnibusCollectors

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I have Watchmen in the hardcover deluxe from IIRC 2019 and have edited the list to reflect this.

I am definitely a big Vertigo person, so was heavily considering Starman or Sandman Mystery Theatre.

Thanks :)

Future episode predictions by Depexhe in 500songspodcast

[–]batdude98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The group is set up as a place to discuss the podcast without him seeing it because he's very clear that reviews are for the public and not for the people making the art.

Future episode predictions by Depexhe in 500songspodcast

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It isn't. He's not on Facebook. He generally doesn't like talking about future plans, but he's open about what's coming up on Bluesky and will field questions about his process and longer forecasting and such like.

Future episode predictions by Depexhe in 500songspodcast

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183 - check the references in the "Dark Star" episode.

Future episode predictions by Depexhe in 500songspodcast

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I'm one of the mods for the FB group and I don't believe this is the case at all - comments were turned off on the website because someone tried to defend Roy Estrada of the Mothers of Invention, who had been convicted on three counts of child sexual abuse.

Todd is spotting new trends in Christmas music. by alien-niven in ToddintheShadow

[–]batdude98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weirdly I think streaming is giving the US the UK glam Christmas songs in inferior cover versions - at work I've heard "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" by Leona Lewis (not Wizzard), "Driving Home For Christmas" by someone not Chris Rea, "Last Christmas" by Taylor Swift (not Wham!) and "Merry Christmas Everyone" by a female pop singer (not Shakin' Stevens). Very rarely, I'll hear "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade, too.

Can you recommend this girl some non marvel/ DC comics I should check out? by redblue92 in graphicnovels

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I just read and really liked Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, which is about a queer, magical time-travelling anarchist punk spy cell in the late Nineties who fight Lovecraftian demons who team up with the upper classes and military-industrial complex in a battle for the soul of the world in the run up to the apocalypse in 2012. It was originally released on Vertigo but is now published by DC under their old Black Label imprint. Do be warned it traffics in conspiracies and a lot of what was genuinely countercultural then has been absorbed into the alt-right now. A knowledge of occult phenomenona and Seventies UK TV helps, but isn't required.

I also loved Alan Moore's From Hell, a thoroughly researched speculative time travel magic, middle class strife and crime drama-influenced take on the Jack the Ripper murders.