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The Batlord · 08-02-2018, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I agree that after Memnoch the entire vampire race was as good as dead: not quite sure why she had to do that, seemed a real "Christianity wins mother****ers!" kind of thing to do. So then as you say all there was was to go backwards and do stories from before that time. Kind of annoyed she basically abandoned the vampires to go on the Godsquad, though whatever I guess, it's her life. Haven't read the "new" Lestat novels yet, though I feel Marius would have a very interesting backstory.

Apparently she's about to delve into the world of, um, werewolves next?

No the vampires aren't dead, but after Memnoch the narrative was over, Lestat stopped being the focus, and it was almost nothing but cash grab origin stories treated as flashbacks and framed by modern day storylines that added little to nothing to the lore except giving characters boring endings so fans would feel like they had closure if they never appeared in another book. Not all bad, I seem to remember Armand's book being cool, but clearly Rice was just in it for the money.

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Originally Posted by Contrarian1

I haven't been keeping up with anything current at all, I read mostly older stuff. For years me and my old man would go to comic shows and keep adding to the collection, since I've been married and I'm more accountable I cant really spend hundreds of dollars on a single comic any more so when it's father's day or Christmas I tend to get my dad an old Strange Tales or Tales of Suspense that he's missing as those are just as old but not nearly as expensive as a Spiderman #4 for example.

For myself, I love to mostly collect Gold Key and King comics from the silver age, like Flash Gordon, Doctor Solar, Turok Son of Stone as they are older (50's/60's) but very affordable to get in decent shape. I also collect some stuff like original Swamp Thing comics. Gold Key in particular have beautiful painted covers that I can't get enough of:

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I love the history of comics, so I enjoy reading old newspaper dailies and weeklies of everything classic like Dick Tracy, Mickey Mouse and The Phantom.
The Phantom Sunday's are beautifully colored and I just love the retro art sytle:

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however, the stories are often not very complex and sometimes cheesy, and there often isn't any character development. So it's hard to recommend to a current reader which older comics to start with unless you can appreciate art, history and even camp (Dialogue can be super corny)

I also like DC stuff like The Atom and Challenger's of the Unknown (early Kirby sci-fi). Other stuff, TMNT, recently Dredd. For Marvel I love Submariner , classic X-Men, and Incredible Hulk among others.

If I had to suggest an old school book to get into, I would suggest Mandrake the Magician dailies because of how interesting and fantastic Mandrake's powers were for the time (He was legit the original Doctor Strange). Again, don't look for complex story telling or character arcs.

But really I just LOVE comics and cartoons!

It is indeed hard to get into Golden Age comics but I've been meaning to get into, Plastic Man, OG Captain Marvel, and Will Eisner stuff like The Spirit. I'm more of a Bronze Age/80s' guy, myself if I'm going back in time: Denny O'Neil Batman, anything Alan Moore, Claremont X-Men, Grant Morrison. And I've been meaning to read Jack Kirby's Fourth World series for a good long time now.