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Nov 12 15 9:38 AM
deejayway wrote:600+ pages fits my comfort zone nicely. I dare anyone to read vol. 1 and then not sign up for the rest. Once you've read 'The Crystal Connection' (issues 29-31) your soul is well and truly cooked.
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Nov 12 15 10:43 AM
G Man wrote:Although I only read the issues with Gulacy as a kid, I think I will be in for the full Omni ride!!!
Although I only read the issues with Gulacy as a kid, I think I will be in for the full Omni ride!!!
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Nov 12 15 11:53 AM
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Nov 12 15 11:57 AM
deejayway wrote:G Man wrote:Although I only read the issues with Gulacy as a kid, I think I will be in for the full Omni ride!!! While the mag never again reached the same halycon heights of the Moench & Gulacy at their peak - issues 29-50 - the runs by Moench, Zeck & Day (issues 71-101) and Moench & Day (102-120) are very good in their own right and are among the best mainstream comics published at the time, late 70s/early 80s.
Nov 12 15 12:10 PM
G Man wrote:Thanks! I am actually looking for reading these issues quite a bit... How about issues 52-70?
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Nov 12 15 1:25 PM
Five Years Later wrote:As much as I love this series, Razorfist has to be one of the all-time most inane villains ever ever! How can I be afraid of a guy who can't even wipe his own butt?
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Nov 12 15 2:40 PM
deejayway wrote:Five Years Later wrote:As much as I love this series, Razorfist has to be one of the all-time most inane villains ever ever! How can I be afraid of a guy who can't even wipe his own butt?That makes him even scarier....Moench had a thing for amuptee villains. He had a passle of them.
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Nov 12 15 2:52 PM
G Man wrote:Thanks! I am actually looking for reading these issues quite a bit... How about issues 52-70? I never heard anything about that period... Lots of change in the art department during the issues before Zeck and Day went on board?
Nov 12 15 3:22 PM
czeskleba wrote:G Man wrote:Thanks! I am actually looking for reading these issues quite a bit... How about issues 52-70? I never heard anything about that period... Lots of change in the art department during the issues before Zeck and Day went on board?The regular artist was supposed to be Jim Craig, but he had problems with deadlines that resulted in a pile of fill-in issues and the occasional reprint which really disrupted the flow of the stories (since tight issue-to-issue continuity was a big part of the series). The deadline problems with the pencils also resulted in them assigning John Tartaglione as inker... he was one of those old pros who could hack work out quickly, but it wasn't very good work. The art is unfortunately an inconsistent mess over this period of the series. Zeck finally became the regular artist with issue #67 (he had been one of several fill-in artists for Craig in prior issues) but his first few issues were wrapping up a storyline begun by Moench and Craig. Issue #71 is where a new storyline begins and that's generally considered the beginning of the classic Moench/Zeck run. And then with issue #76 Gene Day comes aboard as inker.
Nov 12 15 3:43 PM
G Man wrote:Nice!! Thanks. Good to know. That means volume 2 will probably have the highest point over the whole series (38-51), and the lowest (52-70)... Ah well, I still want it!!
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Nov 12 15 4:23 PM
Matthew McCallum wrote:Five Years Later wrote:As much as I love this series, Razorfist has to be one of the all-time most inane villains ever ever! How can I be afraid of a guy who can't even wipe his own butt?Actually, he does. That's just how tough that guy is!
Nov 12 15 4:47 PM
czeskleba wrote:G Man wrote:Nice!! Thanks. Good to know. That means volume 2 will probably have the highest point over the whole series (38-51), and the lowest (52-70)... Ah well, I still want it!!The lowest point in the series is easily the final five issues, after Day was taken off the book and Moench quit. And issues #20-28 are pretty unexceptional too. But when the series was good, it was pretty much unbeatable.
Nov 12 15 5:36 PM
Five Years Later wrote:I never even bothered reading the final, non-Moench, issues.
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