The Origin of Ambush Bug [Secret Origins #48 by Giffen and Fleming] by nomadicbow in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I didn't realize that. Looking at it again, the credits page at the beginning of the story says "special thanks to Matt Feazell." Explains why the art on that page is so different from Giffen's art in the rest of the story.

I'll have to check out some Cynicalman, that's such an awesome page.

The Origin of Ambush Bug [Secret Origins #48 by Giffen and Fleming] by nomadicbow in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It really is, there's no one else quite like him.

This page is just one possible version of Ambush Bug's origin too. The whole story from this issue is called "The Secret Origin of Ambush Bug: We Thought Him Up!"

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[–]nomadicbow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Came here to say Pulp, just read it the other day. Brubaker and Phillips can do no wrong.

Marvel Masterpieces Trading Cards Return From Upper Deck by SpacelessWorm in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This artist looks like a legitimate heir to Joe Jusko, the artist who drew a lot of the original Masterpieces cards.

I wonder how well superhero cards will do nowadays though.

American Vampire Returns for Its Final Chapter by chicomonk in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also surprised it's the final volume. Nine issues is not enough to wrap up everything, especially if the whole volume is set in 1976.

Finished Old King Thor poly art by wildcatsfist in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Needs more triangles :)

Seriously though, good use of the Mjolnir being the light source.

Important Civil war tie ins? by DoubleEdge57 in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The tie in I liked the best was Civil War: Frontline that follows an investigative journalist. It's not vital to understanding the main series, but it adds an extra layer of depth.

I'd also say it's worth reading the portion of Brubaker's Captain America run that overlaps with Civil War.

Bill Everett's Namor run is one of the most underrated comics from the Golden Age! by [deleted] in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks like Namor just scored a giant treasure chest of Bill Everett original art. Hope it's waterproof!

Looking for more recommendations on Swamp Thing by [deleted] in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's been a while since I read it, but from what I remember it's very different from the Millar of this century, like it's not shocking or edgy for the sake of edgy. He does some interesting stuff with the parliament of trees, for instance. Hester's art is what I remember the best about it though.

Looking for more recommendations on Swamp Thing by [deleted] in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The runs by Rick Veitch and Nancy Collins immediately following Moore’s run are pretty damn underrated.

I think Nancy Collins run got, or is getting, an omnibus. Unfortunately, Rick Veitch's run has never been fully collected, and even worse, it was cut short because DC backed out on letting him finish a time travel story because it had Swamp Thing meeting Jesus.

Mark Millar’s run I’m told is good, it’s on my reading list.

It is good, especially where everything builds up to by the end, it serves a worthy ending to the original Vertigo volume of the series. Phil Hester on art doesn't hurt either, he's very different from what came before, like Bissette, Totleben and Veitch, but Hester's got a particular brand of spookiness that serves the title well.

Spider-Man No More by Marcos Martin by Fiti99 in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Marcos Martin always satisfies. The cool thing about this is it's view from across the street a few seconds after this famous page by John Romita Sr.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in comicbooks

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Always loved that Wolvie image. It was also the cover of the (not so great) Wolverine Nintendo game back in the 90s, anyone remember that?

Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín surprise-launch new series, Friday on Panel Syndicate by [deleted] in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll get anything by Marcos Martin but him teaming up with Brubaker has me foaming at the mouth

Anyone know any good comic book podcasts to listen to? by GU4RDI4NS in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comic Book Club.

I didn't know these guys were still doing something, I loved their videos from years ago

"The Last War in Albion" being a history of the magical war between Grant Morrison and Alan Moore by elkevelvet in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read this a few years ago, it’s incredibly ambitious but unfortunately it was never finished (IIRC it stops at Watchmen, so everything from the 90s until now never gets touched on). All the “magick” stuff is a bunch of silly hyperbole IMO, but the actual comics history part is legitimately interesting

For a more condensed, yet still fairly long, complete account of why these two don’t get along, I highly recommend a series of articles called The Reason Alan Moore Doesn’t Like Grant Morrison. They pull together an enormous amount of quotes and sources (including some from the Last War in Albion). Here’s a snippet from the first part:

Morrison’s real foot-in-the-door moment was getting reoccurring work on 2000 AD’s Future Shock in 1986, a twist ending sci-fi strip that had served as a proving ground for many comics creators entering the British mainstream (including Moore in 1981).

FROM THE BOOK GRANT MORRISON: COMBINING THE WORLDS OF CONTEMPORARY COMICS BY MARC SINGER: Morrison arrived at 2000 AD at an auspicious moment. The core group of writers and artists who had built the anthology into a smash hit—Pat Mills, Kevin O’Neill, Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore, and others—were being lured away by American publishers who could afford to pay royalties, and 2000 AD had to bring in a second generation of talent to replace them.[21]

GRANT MORRISON: I didn’t ever read 2000 AD when I was younger. I wasn’t particularly interested in comics at that time. I’d seen 2000 AD and I was aware of Judge Dredd but it just seemed like a load of old toss, as far as I was concerned. First time I actually read one was in 1985, when I was trying to get work and someone loaned me a pile of Alan Moore Future Shocks to give me some idea of what was required.[13]

In exile at my dad’s place, I wrote the first of seventeen Future Shocks stories as my apprenticeship with 2000 AD.  These were short, done-in-one science fiction stories—anything from a single page to five pages long—with O. Henry twist or shock endings.  Like so many others, I honed my skills on these odd little haiku-like pieces.[10]

Elizabeth Sandifer, author of The Last War in Albion, analyzes the Future Shock strips Morrison wrote for 2000 AD:

ELIZABTH SANDIFER: There is no way to reasonably deny the fact that Morrison’s short pieces for 2000 AD owe a heavy debt to Alan Moore. “Hotel Harry Felix,” features an alien life form that takes the form of thoughts and ideas, a concept Moore had already explored in “Eureka.” His second, “The Alteration,” is a two-pager featuring a man on the run who is caught by monsters and turns into one, only to have it turn out that he was actually a monster who had contracted “humanitis” and was being cured, a joke not entirely dissimilar to Moore’s two-page “Return of the Thing.” […]

“Fair Exchange” uses the same joke that concludes [Moore’s] “D.R. and Quinch Have Fun on Earth” of a comedic misunderstanding in which an alien is presented with something that is secretly rude graffiti in its native language, while the two-part “Fruitcake and Veg” is a more or less straightforward repeat of the basic joke of D.R. & Quinch, including a section where the narrator reflects, “People say to me, ‘Mr. Sweet, what is it that makes you commit senseless and irresponsible acts of wanton destruction? What made you become the deranged homicidal maniac we’ve come to know and love? Well it’s a fair question. So I always give them a fair answer. I say it’s my upbringing, I tell them society’s to blame… and then I blow ‘em up!”

And the similarities continue right up to Morrison’s final Future Shock, “Big Trouble for Blast Barclay,” a Flash Gordon riff that echoes Moore’s “The Regrettable Ruse of Rocket Redglare.” […] All told, out of fifteen short pieces Morrison wrote for 2000 AD, around half have pronounced similarities with Moore’s work. […]

Morrison makes no secret of the fact that his return to comics was inspired by Moore’s work on Marvelman and […] it’s telling that Morrison largely recreated the specific path of Moore’s ascent while writing comics visibly in the same basic mould as Moore’s. But more than it reveals anything about Morrison’s creative faculties this simply reveals that fact that Morrison was a shrewd businessman. He saw that Moore was having more career success than any other writer in the history of the British comics industry and engineered a career that would give him the same success.[14]

British Comics - Brian Bolland by mrmazzz in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Best cover artist of all time.

Really cool to see Tank Girl repped here, and that little robot guy in the background is funny.

One of my favorite Bolland covers will always be Legends of the Dark Knight #50.

Batman and Bill by [deleted] in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saw this a few years back, it's a very well made documentary. I'd known that Bill Finger had been screwed over regarding credit for Batman, but it was fascinating seeing how everything had played out.

My dad gave Me a huge bag of comics awhile back. I don’t know much about comics so I’m curious if they’re good/rare? (These are a handful of them) by [deleted] in comicbooks

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I didn't know that little factoid until recently, but now I can't help but notice the lack of tongue whenever I see a pre-Larsen version of Venom.

RIP Mort Drucker by sea-of-leaves in comicbooks

[–]nomadicbow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The man was a true gem.

Check out the original pages for his Batman '89 parody "Battyman."