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talkpoliticsYour fave comics from childhood? Which is it? Do you still occasionally take a peek at all that awesomeness and recall the good auld times?
I admit not being very familiar with most of the myriad of US comic characters, so educate me! Which is the most awesome of them, and why should I believe you? Or is it a Japanese one?
Oh, and one more thing. Which is the crappiest movie based on a comic book? I'd say the Green Lantern (don't shoot me!)
On the other hand, Kickass was a nice parody...
As for favestest comics, mine was the Daga (Rainbow) comic magazine which used to come monthly here in commie times. It had all sorts of stuff in it that was very entertaining and educating. From adaptations of classic stories to some pretty weird series like the one about Darko, this little boy who had this huge hat looking like a mushroom, with lots of little lids around it, and various tools coming out of them. He was great.
I was delighted to find out recently that they've uploaded all Daga editions online now. I mostly liked the historic series there, like the one about Spartacus, or about Khan Tervel, or about Vasil Levski, or the one about the Bogomils. And also Choko the stork and Boko the frog who were something like Tom & Jerry. It was in Daga where I heard about The Hobbit for the first time, and subsequently LOTR. It was where I was so hooked into geography, thanks to The Great Geographic Discoveries series. Etc.
Your faves?
I admit not being very familiar with most of the myriad of US comic characters, so educate me! Which is the most awesome of them, and why should I believe you? Or is it a Japanese one?
Oh, and one more thing. Which is the crappiest movie based on a comic book? I'd say the Green Lantern (don't shoot me!)
On the other hand, Kickass was a nice parody...
As for favestest comics, mine was the Daga (Rainbow) comic magazine which used to come monthly here in commie times. It had all sorts of stuff in it that was very entertaining and educating. From adaptations of classic stories to some pretty weird series like the one about Darko, this little boy who had this huge hat looking like a mushroom, with lots of little lids around it, and various tools coming out of them. He was great.
I was delighted to find out recently that they've uploaded all Daga editions online now. I mostly liked the historic series there, like the one about Spartacus, or about Khan Tervel, or about Vasil Levski, or the one about the Bogomils. And also Choko the stork and Boko the frog who were something like Tom & Jerry. It was in Daga where I heard about The Hobbit for the first time, and subsequently LOTR. It was where I was so hooked into geography, thanks to The Great Geographic Discoveries series. Etc.
Your faves?
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Date: 9/3/12 17:19 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/3/12 17:22 (UTC)They have a website (http://www.barbapapa.fr/gb/barbapapa.html) now.
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Date: 9/3/12 18:10 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/3/12 21:59 (UTC)we all fought over these books in the school library
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Date: 9/3/12 17:41 (UTC)I mostly read as they come out in trades now, though. The ones I keep up with mostly outside of what I've already listed are Chew, The Unwritten, iZombie, Fables (which I'm criminally behind on, so don't spoil me), Walking Dead, and Locke & Key.
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Date: 9/3/12 18:07 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/3/12 00:25 (UTC)I was thinking about Richie Rich and Archie, Sad Sack, and Snoopy and you were uh....wow.
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Date: 9/3/12 18:08 (UTC)also been a long time fan of the Far Side
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Date: 9/3/12 18:12 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/3/12 18:20 (UTC)And that was only the second ruler of New Bulgaria? WOW.
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Date: 9/3/12 19:26 (UTC)Here are four out of many favorites from when I was a kid. Somewhat chronological from the left: Bamse, Scooby, Star Wars and John Carter (I'm super excited about the John Carter movie and will see it even if it's trash, and I also love the books), and there were many many more, both girly and boyish ones.
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Date: 9/3/12 19:56 (UTC)For the record, I've always thought that Sting would play a great John Constantine. He is a tad bit too old, but not by much, since the character is in his mid 40's at least.
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Date: 9/3/12 19:58 (UTC)There's really a lot of subpar comic movies.
The best comics to me growing up we're Byrne's Superman, Flash, and Batman.
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Date: 9/3/12 20:10 (UTC)So I would get comics by the boxfull and BIG boxfull.
One of my early favorites was Metal Men. The writers put a lot of humanity into the characters, and with so many to work with.
The other one I was fascinated with (especially since I was reading a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs and HG Wells at the time was The Phantom
Worse film adaption of a comic? POPEYE! ARRRGH~
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Date: 9/3/12 20:31 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 9/3/12 20:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 9/3/12 21:58 (UTC)As far as serious "graphic novels" are concerned my favorites (in no particular order) are...
But for simple laughs and childhood wonder my favorite has always been...
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Date: 10/3/12 16:01 (UTC)Vertigo did an excellent job with comics that are really well liked with adults regardless of if they read comics as a child. Sometimes it seems especially if they didn't like them as kids. Image did particularly well with people who grew up with comics but in their teens started to drift away.
I never read Transmetropolitan myself and have only read some of The Walking Dead but I fell away from comics in the late teens.
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Date: 9/3/12 22:13 (UTC)But as far as my favorite childhood comics, well......
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Date: 9/3/12 23:07 (UTC)http://daddytypes.com/2007/11/19/yotsubato_danbo_amazon_robot_toy_is_like_five_kinds_of_otaku.php
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yotsuba-koiwai-404-girl
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Date: 9/3/12 23:34 (UTC)I collected an assortment of other Marvel titles but the Hulk waas always my favorite...
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Date: 10/3/12 15:43 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/3/12 05:28 (UTC)Ah, but the underground stuff we swapped as kids in the seventies, the stuff that you could only get at head shops: That's where I saw my first saw the work of R. Crumb at age 13.
Oh, and much of what I learned of the German language came from sitting with a stack of German language Obelix and Asterix and a German-to-English dictionary. "Ich habe meine brot verloren!" still cracks me up.
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Date: 10/3/12 15:44 (UTC)The man does the Bible pretty well.
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Date: 10/3/12 16:12 (UTC)Take a look at Superman and his origins and characterization.
Originally he had a set of limited super powers and was mostly a two dimensional cutout. Then as the 60s and 70s progressed and comics started to become serious they gave him more powers and abilities until they boxed themselves in and they rebooted him in the 1980s.
Now I personally loooooooooooooooved Superman's post-Crisis origin and John Byrne's characterization of Krypton. Much like how the movie Superman: The Motion Picture billed itself as "You'll believe a man can fly", his backstory was phenomenal in how it treated the Kryptonian fall. You can't have a people like the Kryptonians fall so simply a their planet exploding. He gave them such a fatal conceit that their doom was inevitable. Read up on it here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton_%28comics%29#Modern_Krypton
I think later ret-cons took away from it but that story he established to me was brilliant in terms of revitalizing a stale character.
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Date: 10/3/12 22:55 (UTC)I started reading comics and comic strips in '50. Up thruough about 1978 I had owned ever Marvel super Hero comic save 6 (2 JIMs 1 Astonish, 1 Suspense and 2 of the original 6 Hulks) The last comic book I bought regularly was Groo. Somewhere along the line I just didn't enjoy them any more. I still read newspaper strips, but even then, if I miss a day I don't fuss too much. That being said, recently I got out my old Dells, Gold Key's, and Archie's and started my grand-kids on them...I spent hours and hours reading over several days...old comics are still best :D (now I'm stuck, I have to fill in all my Gladstone reprints, which given their lack of "value" are harder to find than an Avengers 16)