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Essential DC TPBs

 
  

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This Sunday
21:45 / 04.09.04
Quick list: Morrison's JLA (all of it; this is the DCU in purest, smoothest form, even if it could've used better art of the most part), Morrison's 'Arkham Asylum (it's the psycho-passion of BatJesus and the mystery play of the DCU), Gaiman's 'Books of Magic' mini (tour of magic in the DCU), Dark Knight Strikes Again (you read that right); Moore's Superman stories ('cause they are, in my experience, the purest Supes and he is the balance of the DCU just as Bats is the saviour), and er, 'Ambush Bug' (because nobody else is going to say it).
 
 
FinderWolf
01:07 / 05.09.04
I love Ambush Bug!!! Except there are no Ambush Bug books collected in paperback anywhere...they should make an Ambush Bug compendium.
 
 
Benny the Ball
10:25 / 05.09.04
Ambush bag is fantastic - there is a site dedicated to his appearances, can't remember where I saw it, but here is another basic one;

http://www.angelfire.com/ab/AmbushBug/cheklist.html

It wouldn't take that much effort to do a trade of these, might be a good time as well, seeing as ICBINTJL (Justice League) is being cancelled/put back/replaced with butt raping comics everywhere, give us a bit of light fun through all the grim and gritty crap.
 
 
Benny the Ball
10:29 / 05.09.04
Here's the site I meant;

http://www.fourhman.com/ambushbug/1985.htm
 
 
This Sunday
00:14 / 06.09.04
I coulda sworn there was a trade, or at least an oversized floppy collection, of some Ambush Bug stuff.
No? Well, damn.
And I still don't see why they can't just slap an 'Elseworlds' stamp on ICBINTJL and release it. I mean, is anyone really going to let 'not in continuity' stop them?
Actually, there probably are, but I don't want to think about that contingent.

Completely separate from that - does anyone know if the new edition of 'Arkham Asylum' has anything new in it? Georgie M. has dropped a few times, how much of what he wanted to do with that, wasn't allowed to happen, it ought to be riper for a 'director's cut' than, say, the latest issue of Avengers.

I'm still amazed at how clearly and elegantly early JLA works as a map of the DCU, while still giving us David Icke style White Martians, Barbe-antisun-archon-bomb, fifth dimension alien narrativising gamers, without making anything out of place or inappropriate.

And then he went and did roughly the same for Marvel with 'Marvel Boy', but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
07:43 / 06.09.04
Yeah, I am working through the JLA run and "Crisis Times Five" has a great deal of conceptual similarity to the Filth Paperverse and the Invisibles game.
 
 
_Boboss
10:30 / 06.09.04
legion of superheroes archives 6 and 7! the writer's fourteen! it's 1967! the teen heroes of a thousand years' hence are growing up, facing down the government and arguing with their parents! curt swan! the costumes and powers are quite silly! super-pets!
 
 
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21:43 / 11.09.04
Now, there's a thought. Ambush Bug collected! That would be the essential primer to everything that was stupid and fun about the DCU. Strangely, AB was one of the first DC comics I ever bought from WHSmith in the 80s along with Swamp Thing and ToTT. I reckon we need a miniseries of Cheeks: Combat Medic does Iraq.
 
 
Benny the Ball
14:39 / 20.09.04
Green Lantern - Emerald Dawn.
 
  

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