![]() ![]() Instead, it was a lot of fun and very funny. Reality Check is a humorous take on these characters but it isn’t disdainful of them. I’m glad that fellow Legionnaire Doc BeechlerĬonvinced me I was wrong. So I was skeptical about this series which seemed to be making fun of both the New Warriors and reality TV. And I’m a fan of reality TV, faithfully following The Amazing Race, American Idol and Survivor. I’m a fan of Fabian Nicieza’s original New Warriors. These anthologies introduced me to Venus, the original Vision, Citizen V and the Fin. But the price point on a softcover is just about right. There usually isn’t enoughĭirect enjoyment in them for me to splurge on DC’s Archives or Marvel’s Masterworks. Among other things, that means that I’m fascinated by Golden Age comics. I have a little bit of a historian in me and it comes out in most of my hobbies including comics. #9 comes out this month and #10 is scheduled for December. They picked up where Marvel left off, reissuing the earlier volumes and printing new ones beginning with #6. IDW now has both the publishing and reprinting rights to GI Joe. But Anacoqui and I found them all and they were a rewarding read during the move to Rochester a couple of years ago. Print by the time I wanted to buy them and I had to search high and low for several of the middle volumes. I was a little late to the bandwagon but that only added to the fun. They even used the same cover artist for the trades that Devil’s Due had on the series- J. The series was so successful that even Marvel got in on the act, reprinting their earlier GI Joe comics in a series of trades. I’m a huge George Perez fan and I like his work here but these are not the best stories I’ve ever read.ĭevil’s Due kicked off an ‘80s nostalgia binge when they published a new GI Joe series in 2001 through Image Comics. These books were on my wish list for a long time before I was able to snag them as part of a big online discount sale. It’s a solid story, shepherding a variety of Marvel characters through the five stages of grief while raising many of the questions the readers have themselves.įantastic Four Visionaries: George Perez Vol. But a number of reviews (including some negative ones) and a discount sale at Barnes & Noble convinced me to give it a try. It seemed more like a marketing gimmick than anything else. ![]() Jeph Loeb written mini-series when it first came out. But that doesn’t mean I trusted Marvel to produce spin-off stories. Won me over quickly and Captain America has been one of my favorite titles of the past 5 years. ![]() I’ve been a big fan of Ed Brubaker’s Captain America from the first issue, though I initially bought the series more for the Steve Epting art than for Brubaker. And, this time, I was able to enjoy them as a fan. I enjoyed Bedard’s new Exiles so much that I picked up most of the earlier issues, including a trade of the first arc. I admired the way that previously discarded characters like Mimic, Morph and Blink were becoming stars in their own right. I liked the variety of stories and the sense that anything could happen. Bedard helped me appreciate the concept and the core cast of characters. I came back much later when Bedard took over as the series’ third regular writer. I bought the very first issue of Exiles, written by Judd Winick, and wasn’t impressed. The only reason why my collection stops after the second volume is that I have most of the rest as You had no idea what to expect next, from either the villains or the heroes. Cap’s Kooky Quartet is one of my favorite runs on this title from any era. I really like these early Avengers stories, especially after Stan Lee abandons the formulaic approach of the first year and a half. My low tolerance for DC’s Silver Age material- which I wrote about in an earlier installment- doesn’t extend to Marvel. The third shelf is the home to the House of Ideas: Marvel Comics. ![]() The first two shelves stored Dark Horse and DC books. After a short break, I’m back with another installment of On My Bookshelf in which I look at all of the original graphic novels and trade paperback collections sitting on my bookshelf and write whatever I want to about them. ![]()
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