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For Ed McGuinness, look for the Mr. Majestic TPB. http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Majestic-Joe-Casey/dp/1563896591/ref=sr_1_1/104-7964370-8273505?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191905669&sr=8-1
Damn, it’s not at Amazon. If your local store has it in stock, definitely buy it. It’s Joe Casey doing the Silver Age Superman. Grand ideas, big plots, lively action, humor, and an emotional core.

A lot of his other work hasn’t been collected really, other than Superman/Batman. He did a good amount of Deadpool. He also had a run on Superman, but I believe only a scattering of those issues have been collected. There was a TPB of his Thundercats comic, too.

For your list of “To Get” TPBs, I recommend FAAAAAAABLES!!!1 volume 1: Legends in Exile and Ex MAAAAAACHINA!!!1 volume 1: The First Hundred Days.

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V For Vendetta isn’t by Frank Miller; it’s by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.

And co-sign on Ex Machina. It’s a great series.

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Yo, Taichi, good to see you reading preacher. Besides Sandman, it’s my favorite non-superhero comic. It’s just fucking entertaining as hell, and I loved every minute of it.

Oh yeah, Superman Red Son is the SHIT, if anybody here hasn’t read it. The art is fantastic.

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Agreed. Great art, great story. Very good examination of Superman’s essential character.

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Thanks. I added those to my list. I’m always trying to expand my reading outside of the usual stuff, much as I love the usual stuff.

D’oh! can’t believe I said Frank Miller did V For Vendetta. I knew it was Moore.

Did anyone read Miller’s run on Daredevil in the '80s? From what I’ve heard, he’s the dude who put DD on top.

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Yeah, Miller’s DD is an example of a good '80s comics series that still holds up. There are three DD Visionaries: Frank Miller TPBs (the first volume just contains stuff he drew, the other two pick up when he became writer and artist). There’s also the Miller DD Omnibus hardcover. It’s a beast. Marvel is also releasing a Miller DD Omnibus Companion that will have his Man Without Fear miniseries with JRjr as well as Born Again. It might even have his Elektra work, but I forget exactly.

If you can find a Born Again TPB, you should buy it because I believe it is currently out of print. A lot of people think that it’s one of the best Marvels ever. It’s definitely the DD arc that every other DD writer since has aspired to. And DD has had a lot of great runs.

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Wow, I would have thought you’d read Preacher long before now. You’re gonna love what’s coming up, hehe… :lovin:

Can anyone recommend any good THANOS trades? Besides Thanos Quest + Infinity Gauntlet, that is.

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Oh man! I saw a Man Without Fear TPB about a year ago for dirt cheap and I didn’t pick it up. :sad:

DD does seem like it works better and trade form than just a monthly comic. I’ve only read two issues of Bendis’ run on DD, but they were both freaking great. I’ll probably cop all 3 of those Frank Miller Visionaries. I think Bullyseye killed Electra on his run and Kingpin got a hold of DD’s secret ID.

I’m a fan of Jeph Loeb’s work. I love when he collaborates with Tim Sale but I’m able to enjoy his work even when Sale isn’t there. I’ll probably pick up that Superman/Batman: Absolute Power trade. I flipped through it last week and the concept intrigued me.

I’m getting deeper into Superman: Brithright. Man, this is some very good work. I like how Ma and Pa Kent helped Clark out in being “Clumsy Clark.” Yu’s art work is growing on me. Alanguilan inks his stuff perfectly. The cityscapes in Brithright look absolutely PIMP. This is turning into one of the best Superman stories I’ve ever read.

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I think all of Loeb’s best work is with Tim Sale. P.Gabby will flame me for saying this, but I think The Long Halloween and Dark Victory are classic Batman stories. Superman For All Seasons is great, and so is Challengers of the Unknown. And their Marvel “Color” miniseries were all pretty good. The worst thing I read from them as a team was the Wolverine/Gambit miniseries, but I think that was before Sale developed his voice as an artist.

The Batman: Haunted Knight TPB collecting their early Batman stories isn’t good, either.

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I dont think the original Miller DD run has aged that well but I seem to be in the minority. Rumor is that there is a 3rd omnibus in the works that would collect his Elektra stuff

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If there is a good Loeb story that wasn’t penciled by Tim Sale, I haven’t read it.

I read Man Without Fear at the bookstore once. I enjoyed it, though for some reason I didn’t enjoy it quite enough to buy it on the spot. It was a good Year One-style yarn with classic Miller storytelling.

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I’m two Trades into Preacher, and will be three in by the end of the week.

I sure am glad I waited to start reading this, because It’s hard waiting two weeks between TRADES, I can only imagine how bad it was when it was still being written, and you had to wait an entire MONTH between ISSUES!

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I read Preacher in one go over about two days or so.

It’s great. Jesse Custer is the f’in man.

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i am in love with the walking dead art. i love this black and white marker/grey tones.

i want my comic done in black and white, no computers…just pure markers and tones.

i’m not even sure if the gray tones are done with computers but in wanna mess with that style and see what it looks like.

robert kirkman owns my soul…i need to get marvel zombies.

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I think the '80s Miller DD still holds up better compared to most other '80s Marvel/DC books. Most books from that period, you can obviously tell they are dated in some way or another. One of the things about Miller’s DD is the opening pages, which have a fairly annoying amount of blatant recap/summary captions. Those were probably useful for readers back then, but they get in the way when you read the TRADE, BABY.

Other than that, I think the writing and the art stand up to scrutiny. It’s not horribly overwritten like Uncanny or New Teen Titans, and Miller/Janson’s art is still better than a lot of the stuff you can see today. I think people today, who don’t read comics any more but say things like, “That movie has terrible dialogue and a comic book plot,” got all their negative impressions of comics from Uncanny. (Well, that and the fact that they just don’t read comics any more.)

But if you compare it to '80s indie books, it does seem more dated. The First Comics stuff like Jon Sable and Nexus have aged, but less blatantly than Marvel/DC books. And P.Gabby, I’m going out on a limb and guessing you have Mage and Grendel as a point of reference in terms of how to tell if an '80s comic is dated.

I sort of want to say that Superman/Batman: Absolute Power is good… But then, goody, you might read it, disagree, and make fun of me. I couldn’t live with myself if that happened. I would rather die. Hmm… Two redundant sentences in a row. I must have read too much Loeb.

We’ll just say that Tim Sale is the man who wears the pants in their relationship and leave it at that.

By the way, here’s a pretty cool interview with Seagle about It’s A Bird… in case you haven’t seen it yet. I don’t know when exactly he did this interview, but it’s gotta be over a year because he mentions American Virgin in it before it began production.

http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/features/itsabird/default.asp

That’s right, maxx, Charlie Adlard is awesome. He’s got so many different styles, too. You gotta check out the Rock Bottom OGN and the Codeflesh TPB he did. Both of those are written by Joe Casey. Rock Bottom in particular looks absolutely nothing like Walking Dead. When I first saw it, I thought it was Scott Kolins. It’s crazy how he can use the thin line but all his figures and settings still have enough depth in black and white that it doesn’t get confusing.

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I think any datedness on the part of Miller’s Daredevil might have been the result of editorial influence. I don’t have a lot of the details, but I’ve read that Jim Shooter flexed his muscle with Frank Miller a number of times throughout his tenure.

Good to know my opinion holds that kind of significance around here.

Agreed.

You know, I think the only thing I don’t like about Superman For All Seasons (aside from the ridiculous female scientist character) is that nearly every panel is cluttered with narration. There’s no subtlety and the superb art doesn’t get a chance to breathe, especially (and this is a major pet peeve for me) when the narration is over the action. Take a hint from Eisner: narration, dialogue, pretty much text of any kind should not be happening at the same time as major physical action, unless it’s a sound effect or something. It sends conflicting information to the brain of the reader.

Yeah, it’s a decent interview, though I’m still not sure I understand the nature of Seagle’s big breakthrough with Superman. The whole book teases us with the inevitable “eureka!” moment in which he finally grasps the character, but the payoff felt kind of weak to me. I’m not sure I buy the whole bit: “Superman is great because no matter what happens, he always moves on to face the next challenge,” or whatever. I guess it works, but it could apply to just about any superhero who’s been around for more than a couple of decades.

It’s a shame, because the rest of the book is great. The thin ending casts a shadow over the whole experience.

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oh, no doubt.

Cassidy is no slouch other, but Jesse has his shit together.

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I was more referring to how Miller has since built upon and repeated himself many, many times so the storytelling/etc doesn’t feel as groundbreaking as it once did, also because of all the clones that sprung from his stuff

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Gargoyles TPB coming out in December. :smile:

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word…even though weisman was mean to me