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08-02-2018, 02:58 PM | #6161 (permalink) | |
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For myself, I love to mostly collect Gold Key and King comics from the silver age, like Flash Gordon, Doctor Solar, Turok Son of Stone as they are older (50's/60's) but very affordable to get in decent shape. I also collect some stuff like original Swamp Thing comics. Gold Key in particular have beautiful painted covers that I can't get enough of: I love the history of comics, so I enjoy reading old newspaper dailies and weeklies of everything classic like Dick Tracy, Mickey Mouse and The Phantom. The Phantom Sunday's are beautifully colored and I just love the retro art sytle: however, the stories are often not very complex and sometimes cheesy, and there often isn't any character development. So it's hard to recommend to a current reader which older comics to start with unless you can appreciate art, history and even camp (Dialogue can be super corny) I also like DC stuff like The Atom and Challenger's of the Unknown (early Kirby sci-fi). Other stuff, TMNT, recently Dredd. For Marvel I love Submariner , classic X-Men, and Incredible Hulk among others. If I had to suggest an old school book to get into, I would suggest Mandrake the Magician dailies because of how interesting and fantastic Mandrake's powers were for the time (He was legit the original Doctor Strange). Again, don't look for complex story telling or character arcs. But really I just LOVE comics and cartoons! |
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08-02-2018, 06:07 PM | #6164 (permalink) | |
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Damn it I just checked and it's on sale on Amazon for like $80 and I can't justify spending that right now but I know the price is gonna be back up when I'm good for it.
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08-03-2018, 11:10 AM | #6167 (permalink) |
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Not all of them as far as we know. But the big guys like Mael and the other one whose name I can't remember went up like torches, and the intimation was that every vampire, or most of them anyway, was making his or her way to that church to "gain forgiveness" and die.
I always thought there should have been scope for a vampire who literally had God's blood in his veins to really expand the story, but as I say I have yet to read the new Lestat novels and I feel they're going to be based in a time before Memnoch, given the last line and her sign-off to him.
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The story really wasn't affected by Memnoch tbh. Lestat just kind of faded into the background and it became about all the other ones, except many of the books weren't linked. Nobody even talks about anything that happened in Memnoch. Rice clearly had nowhere to go afterward so she just ignored it and told pointless stories about Armand and Marius and Pandora and whoever else that technically took place in the present but were mostly taken up with flashbacks and they're all the ****ing same even when they're interesting. For the last few books Rice even made it a crossover with The Mayfair Witches cause I guess that was as good an idea as any. I repeat: you can probably forget whatever you assumed about the post-Memnoch books. Memnoch doesn't matter. Oh **** I was just looking up the titles of the books on Wikipedia and there have been three new books since 2014 (the first since 2003). One of them is named Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis. I'm torn between cracking my skull open against the wall or riding my bike 20 miles to the nearest Barnes and Noble.
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Also, why not just download the new books?
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