I am currently reading Howard the Duck Omnibus. It's really good.
I am currently reading Howard the Duck Omnibus. It's really good.
I've read about half of Daredevil Heart of Darkness Epic Collection. To be honest, I've found it to be quite terrible and find myself skimming through to get it over with. The writing is cringe worthy. Daredevil's characterization feels way off and to top it off, I don't like the art. John Romita Jr is just not someone whose art I enjoy. An Ann Nocenti Daredevil omnibus would be an easy pass for me.
Thatīs one of the books that is on my wishlist.
I have read it way back in pocket comic books many years ago,so i donīt remember much of the stories.I do remember though enjoying Reading them though.
I think it was the Nocenti/Romita Jr run in Daredevil that made me a Daredevil fan,if memory serves me well.
To me it was during that time that John Romita Jr looked the best to me,he had moved from a more traditional Marvel Style House he had in the early 80s and during that time the art looked better to me,nowadays i think is not as got as it was during Daredevil and Iron Man that he illustrated during that time but he still have a curent awesome art style.
I recently finished the Superman Secret Origin OHC Deluxe by Johns, Frank & Sibal. A treat. Nicely written with some beautiful art, a true homage to Christopher Reeve. I wish they had created a few more issues/chapters, it was a shame to finish.
Also read a few Indie mini-series:
Rover Red Charlie by Ennis & Dipascale
Dead of Winter by Kyle Starks & Gabo
Spy Seal by Rich Tommaso
JUst started the Sixth Gun, had the four volumes still sealed in boxes, so now I can start to read it, it was a complete blind buy (all four of them) but thankfully what little I have read, I’m really digging, it’s right up my alley
I donīt remember much of the stories from Nocenti Run because it have been many years since i read them all though i remember enjoying reading them,and the Nocenti Run was among the first Daredevil stories i read.I have the two epic Daredevil of the Nocenti run in my wishlist.From what i remember i did liked the stories of Daredevil writen by Nocenti maybe because the stories were quite diferent that the Frank Miller run in Daredevil thus making it a interesting run i would say.
JRJRīS art style (especially beggining from the early 90s or so) have a blockyness indeed.I can get why people donīt enjoy much of the art style.
Another artist that have ilustrated Daredevil as well in that time that i think has a great art style for the Daredevil stories is Lee Weeks.
I am reading now Hulk:Visionaries-Peter David Vol.5.
This volume have the first stories illustrated by Dale Keown.One of the best illustrators of Hulk in the Peter David run.
Have been years since i read those stories.
The Nocenti run is hit and miss for me. There were some good issues but overall I'm not a fan. It was a bit of a convoluted mess at times. JRJR's art is pretty good here , a lot depends on the inker with him and Al Williamson complemenrs him very well. JRJR is a very good storyteller but I'm not too fond of his art.
And yes, Lee Weeks is great, he's one of ny favourite artists, in particular on Daredevil, only 3rd to Miller and Mazzucchelli.
I have only read a small piece of her run so maybe theres some better stuff coming. I took break and go back to it in a different mindset. Experimental pig/people farm and inhumans/ultron. Some weird stuff.
What little I read of David's Hulk, I really liked Dale Keown's art. Really nice to look at.
Nocenti has a lot of "activist" themes mixed with Biblical "ideas" in Daredevil. Sometimes it's hard to nail down what she's trying to put across.
I just started re-reading Nailbiter deluxe #1 so I can read #2 after that. It is still good!
These three artistīs were indeed great illustrating Daredevil.
I have the Nocenti run that is collected in the Epic collection on my wish list,i donīt remember the stories being much convoluted but then again i donīt remember much of the stories to begin with.
I have just not goten those two epic books yet,because i have read those DD stories before but i will be buying them eventually.
Dale Keown illustrated around thirty issues of Incredible Hulk,not that many stories sure.But even so he illustrated still a good amount of Hulk stories before going tyo Image way back.
To me Dale Keown was the best artist that could had been illustrating Hulk way back,especially because he was after Jeff Purves a artist that have a more divisive art style.The illustrations by Purves were not bad,but i really think that Keown made Hulk a amazing comic book in terms of art and stories.Gary Frank was after Keown illustrating the Hulk,and he was yet another artist that have a great art style and was really cool on the Incredible Hulk.
I really recomend Reading all of Peter David run,i think only on the last issues the stories got not to be that consistently great.Other than that itīs one of my favorite runs in a comic book.