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by **Keb** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:02 am

Hey Punchy, I saw a bunch of Tintins at the used book shop. Pretty cheap price too. Are they good?

by **Punchy** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:10 am

Keb wrote:Hey Punchy, I saw a bunch of Tintins at the used book shop. Pretty cheap price too. Are they good?

Yes, you may find them a bit childish (and the early ones a bit racist), but they are good fun, and the artwork is excellent.

by **Keb** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:40 am

Cool. I may pick some up next time I get money, read them and send them to the orphanage in Sri Lanka.

by **GHERU** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:32 am

by **Arion** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:14 pm

Punchy wrote:
Yes, you may find them a bit childish (and the early ones a bit racist), but they are good fun, and the artwork is excellent.

Racist and colonialist, but I'd say that's part of Tintin's charm.

by **Keb** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:50 pm

Yay racism!

by **LobsterJ** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:37 pm

Read Ultimates 3 from the library. It really is as bad as they say. Terrible writing and terrible art.

by **Arion** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:43 pm

Keb wrote:Yay racism!

Well, you gotta understand that Tintin was written, shall we say, in simpler times?

by **covalesky** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:13 am

I'm still halfway in. The dialogue is wonky, but the art is very cool. Love painted stuff.

by **Arion** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:27 pm

LobsterJ wrote:Read Ultimates 3 from the library. It really is as bad as they say. Terrible writing and terrible art.

I'm sure it must have terrible writing, but the art too?

by **LobsterJ** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:30 pm

Arion wrote:
I'm sure it must have terrible writing, but the art too?

I loathe Joe Mad's art.

Also read the most recent volume of Fables, and I am finally quitting. I don't give a shit about these characters spinning their wheels and Willingham can't write kids for shit. I know it ain't the popular opinion, but this book should have ended at #75.

by **Keb** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:10 pm

X-men: Mutant Massacre - this was a cool crossover. The writing was typical 80s and the only issue I didn't care for was the Daredevil issue. Otherwise it was fun with the Thor crossover and all the things that happened. Didn't really understand the need for the dazzler stuff in there either. What I really like was the cohesion of events without the necessity to read everything. Didn't understand why all of the Thor issues needed to be printed with all the Balder subplot stuff etc. but I'm rereading Simonson Thor so it was nice to see.

by **GHERU** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:13 pm

Finished Fear Agent Library Volume 1

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great comic, not a big fan of the Jerome Opena chapters

by **LobsterJ** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:13 pm

Keb wrote:X-men: Mutant Massacre - this was a cool crossover. The writing was typical 80s and the only issue I didn't care for was the Daredevil issue. Otherwise it was fun with the Thor crossover and all the things that happened. Didn't really understand the need for the dazzler stuff in there either. What I really like was the cohesion of events without the necessity to read everything. Didn't understand why all of the Thor issues needed to be printed with all the Balder subplot stuff etc. but I'm rereading Simonson Thor so it was nice to see.

Wasn't the DD issue the one with Sabretooth in the sewers written by Ann Nocenti? Where he abducts the girl? Man I loved that issue!