Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Even The Filler Issue Was Well Done

Uncanny X-Men #106 Review

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Monday, November 27, 2006

A Really Nice Article On Dave Cockrum

Daves friend Clifford Meth shares his thoughts on Dave and his passing.

The Last Days of Dave Cockrum

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Thanks For Some More Great Art Dave

Uncanny X-Men #105 Review

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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Dave Cockrum Passed Away Last Night

Dave's work on Uncanny X-Men has always been under appreciated in my opinion. My love of the X-Men is based on his work on the early issues. I'm saddened by his passing. Condolences to his family and friends.

Details

As a tribute, over the next few days, I'll post reviews of Uncanny X-Men 104-107 that I wrote a few years ago.

Uncanny X-Men #104 Review

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It Took ALmost Six Year

I've hit 300 positive feedback on eBay.

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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving

This is a good day to reflect on my life and remind myself what's important, family and friends, and what's not, everything else.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

John Byrne on Civility

John cracks me up. "Be nice or I'll be.......even more of a dick then I already am." Or something....

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

It's Been About A Week.....

....since my last post and I have to say I don't miss posting to this blog one bit. A while back I thought it would be fun to add some content so I invited several people to contribute (that list of names over there --------------->). Needless to say, the added content never materialized.

Last week (and weekend) I put my time into building a new computer. It's been a couple of years since I built my last computer and it was getting dated. I also decided that I'd like to make it pretty quiet because in my new house it sits in the living room. So water cooling seemed like the way to go.

These are the specs:

Intel E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz @ 3.6GHz
GigabyteI GA-965P-DS3 mobo
Enermax Whisper II 535W PSU
Corsair XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB)
XFX GeForce 7900GT 256MB
WD Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM

By water cooling the CPU the system noise is almost imperceptible once you’re about 5 feet from the machine. Not to mention it's the fastest PC I've ever touched (workstation class). I'm able to overclock the new Intel chip by 1.2GHz and it's rock solid stable. Building that machine was fun. Posting here is not.

I may get back into it in a week or so, or maybe not. Maybe some of the other guys around here will start posting. Maybe someone that reads this blog would like to contribute? Who knows, time will tell.

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

X-Men

Carla Hewitt has an interesting take on the X-Men, then and now.

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Friday, November 03, 2006

I Used To Know Him.......

It's been a long time since OS Price Guide advisor David Matteini posted on the CGC message boards, so it's good to know he's still alive and enjoying the hobby by visiting Geppi's Entertainment Museum. Drop by the boards sometime and say "hi" David.

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Atomic Comics Destroyed

This sucks.

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

The Pull List

Not much action this week.

Uncanny X-Men #480 - Only one marvel book this week, and this one is just so I continue my complete run.....stupid
52 #26 - Still very strong.
Jonah Hex #13 - Part 1 of a 3 part story. So much for the "done in one" format...

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Zombie Fest

Ok ok, I've been bitten by the Zombie bug. It all started in the summer of '05 with Frank Cho's Zombie King #0 (link is to the entire issues free on-line). ZK was just about the sickest zombie story I'd ever read and I loved it! I couldn't wait for ZK #1 to come out. I waited, and waited, and waited, and........then in the summer of '06 Frank broke the news that there wouldn't be a ZK #1. What?! But wait......instead he was going make a ZK movie! Cool, if it ever gets made. We'll see.

Now you need to keep in mind that I've been a Marvel zombie most of my collecting carrier so the only reason I even read ZK was because my LCS guy recommended it and told me I could have my money back if I didn't like it. Needless to say, having Marvel tunnel vision was keeping me from the best zombie comic ever made.....but we'll get to that.....

So a little time passes and Mark Millar writes "Crossover" for Marvel's Ultimate Fantastic Four #21-23. In this story the FF travel to another universe inhabited by zombie versions of Marvel super heroes. It was a fun read and was also the lead in to the mini-series Marvel Zombies written by Robert Kirkman. The mini was a great read and lead into the final chapter "Frightful" in Ultimate Fantastic Four #30-32. I recomend all of the above if you can find them at a resonable price.

Having enjoyed the Kirkman MZ mini, and having been hooked on his book Invincible for a couple years (another LCS guy recommendation) I thought it was time to look into this Kirkman dude and see what else he'd written. Needless to say, it didn't take more then a google search and about thirty seconds to learn that he'd been writing the best Zombie comic ever, The Walking Dead, for the last three years.

Well the timing was perfect. Image Comics had just published a nice hardcover collection of The Walking Dead #1-12 for $30. I bought the book and planned on reading it over the next week or so. I read the entire volume the first night I cracked the cover open.

Total.

Comic.

Crack.

I've had fun over the last few months putting together a run of the original TWD comics (#1-31) and now only need the first and second issue to have a complete set. I also picked up the Walking Dead omnibus that collects issues #1-24. The thing is massive and the art is great to see at over 1.5x it's originally published size. These go for about $100 on eBay. If you consider the cost of putting together a run of the original books from #1-24, a $100 is a good buy. Even at cover price the originals were $72. The omnibus includes all of the color covers as well as some original material.

I've also found myself getting into Escape of the Living Dead and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead published by Avatar Press.

Kirkman is currently working on a one-issue prequel to Marvel Zombies called Marvel Zombies: Dead Days and that book will tie into Marvel Zombies Vs. The Army of Darkness, a five-issue crossover limited series co-published by Dynamite Entertainment and Marvel Comics. I'm really looking forward to this. Kirkman has also said that there will be a sequel to Marvel Zombies, Marvel Zombies 2. Nice!

Another future project of interest is a comic book adaptation of 28 Days Later: The Aftermath. It'll be published by Fox Atomic and Jimmy Palmiotti will edit it.

I wont even get into all of the great Zombie movies that have come out in the last few years or any of thee films currently in production, that's a story for another time.... If you haven't been bitten by the zombie bug yet..............what the hell are you waiting for?!

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