So having dispatched your worlds Superman analog what is a Hero Hunter to do?
Why head to the Big Apple of course.
Come Along as Marshal Law gets far more specific and far meaner.
Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill present:
Here is the original epic Mini from yesterday:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/isin26c62viynli/ML+Original.zip
(Haven't storytimed since the archive went down it is strange)
I wonder what this thing would have looked like if it wasn't an epic book at this time.
I think Steve may be my favorite parody in this issue.
>>78426568
God I love this comic. I want to get one of the collections of the first arc 'cause my floppies are all fucked.
>>78426927
They put out a big book with most of the stuff in it last year I want to say.
>>78426568
I've never read this series before and now I'm mad for sleeping on it or so long. These are some good comics. Thanks for the Storytime and links last night, Legionary. Reminds me on some levels of Last American which makes sense considering they're both Epic titles.
>>78426945
Yup. From DC, even.
>tfw Pat Mills got Marshal Law to be published by Marvel AND DC.
>>78427022
It was only missing the named property tie ins I think Mask, Hellraiser and Savage Dragon.
This next bit is SOOOOOO dumb but it makes me laugh so hard every single time.
>NUFF DEAD
And the best joke saved for last.
>>78426945
Yeah I saw that but thanks--I don't know whether to just go with a nice hardback collection of the original Epic miniseries or get that, it's tempting for sure! What else is there, I'm forgetting...I know there was a new Marshal Law arc started in the early nineties British weekly Toxic (it had Mutomaniac by Mike MacMahon in it and that terrible Accident Man comic and was, I believe, edited by Mills) but can't remember what it was called.
Are you the person with the nice collection of self-published and small press stuff that used to get posted in the shelf/collection threads? A good few photos shooped together? pretty sure you are....didja get the latest Pope Hats? I remember you had one or two issues of that, if I'm thinking of the right poster. You had the second ish of Thickness too, right?
Who's afraid of the big black bat?
>>78427141
I got the Pope Hats in May at TCAF I haven't gotten to read all of it yet.
I heard that the sequels weren't as good as the first mini before I read the deluxe edition but I rather enjoyed them when I read them.
>>78426610
There's a new archive:
https://desustorage.org/co/search/
>>78427202
I think the book gets better the mean and more directed it gets.
They might be referring to the stuff not in the deluxe.
I don't know what happened to the first 5 or so pages of this scan but whatever.
>>78427184
Coolio. You should post your updated collection some time would love to see it! I take it you're keeping up with Lose and Deforge's other stuff--I got Dressing today and Lose #7 a couple of weeks back--best stuff he's ever done.
Have you picked up any new Ryan Cecil Smith comics?
>Marshall Law
>Moonshadow
>Captain Confederacy II
>Last American
>Groo
>Elektra: Assassin
>Moebius stuff
>Clive Barker stuff
>Sam & Max stuff
>some manga named Akira maybe you've heard of it idk
I firmly believe that Epic is THE most underrated American imprint. At the very least, best of that special "late 80s-early 90s" period
Every night I perform dark rituals begging the Old Ones to bring Based Shooter back to Mahvel
>>78427266
Lose 7 is still on a list of stuff to get and I have most of the RCS stuff.
>>78427283
Epic Illustrated was them too.
>>78427283
>Sam & Max stuff
Meh, the cartooning is good but I just find the writing unreadable.
This page is expertly creepy.
>>78427283
Most underrated mainstream/genre imprint, definitely, Anon. Wasn't the Stan Lee/Moebius Silver Surfer one-shot Epic, too? I know you wrote: "Moebius stuff" but I'm not sure whether it was regular Marvel. I have a few old issues of The Airtight Garage, that comic was such an eye-opener back in the days to pubescent me.
>>78427313
You should get Dressing as well, it's bloody amazing (it'd be nice if it was a tad bigger, though). His drawing looks so instinctive but not sloppy, it's getting more of a "doodled" directness to it and his colour palette (in the new Lose, too) is stunning. I wouldn't be surprised if he's either stopped pencilling completely or just doing very little of it...crazy, exponential progression.
>>78427471
>Wasn't the Stan Lee/Moebius Silver Surfer one-shot Epic, too? I know you wrote: "Moebius stuff" but I'm not sure whether it was regular Marvel. I have a few old issues of The Airtight Garage, that comic was such an eye-opener back in the days to pubescent me.
It was originally two issues long and yeah, it was Epic. It's under the Marvel label these days, though.
>>78427471
>Wasn't the Stan Lee/Moebius Silver Surfer one-shot Epic, too?
It was.
>>78427471
Yeah I have some shopping of my own to do over the next week because we Canadians are smart enough to put the shopping holiday after the gifts are handed out.
The thing I always forget about this series until I read it is how on point it is and still is 3 decades later.
The Dead Walk
What is worse than these modern day heroes? Their predecessors dried up golden age remains.
>>78427514
Oh it was two issues? Didn't know that. Wasn't it reprinted soon after as a GN by Epic--hence me mis-remembering it as a one-shot? And is it actually any good? I remember flicking through it back in the days but I don't recall much about the story. Is it worth getting just for Moebius? Same question for >>78427522!
>>78427532
Canny! I can't remember whether I've asked you this before but are you anywhere near The Beguiling? Fuck, that shop is my Platonic Ideal of a LCS....
>>78428284
Yeah they are doing 2 weeks of sales and I can't decide between the half of hardcovers or the half off back issues week to go on.
>>78428336
You lucky sonofabitch. I could just go and stare at the original art in there...that would be a hard decision, personally I'd pick up some back issues but that's just me. 'Cause I know they have a wicked selection of stuff. Pick myself up some David Collier stuff I missed first time around....
>>78428284
It's collected as a graphic novel called Silver Surfer: Parable and it might have been reprinted in one single floppy issue some years ago.
It's a very good comic and Lee's dialogue wasn't bad as I expected it to be (I've had some problems with it before).
I like that Law is more humanized than you would initially expect, based on the fact that it's a parody comic about a government-sanctioned superhero hunter in a gimp suit. I think the world building helps a lot to distance itself from being a lazy Dredd pastiche
>>78428627
Yeah it's not the best, is it?! I love all the classic Lee/Kirby and Lee/Ditko stuff but I've always wondered whether a pairing like Stan Lee and Moebius would work! I'll have to check it out sometime. I know it's considered a canonical cape comic by some.
>>78428653
Yeah, even though I'm one of those who thought the later sequels weren't as good as the first, I think there's always a good scene or two in each one. Like Law getting scolded by his father for not being an ordinary cop in the zombie invasion.
>>78428711
And you can always count on O'Neill which can support even some of the more lacking plots.
And sometimes brutal simple humor is just what the doctor ordered.
>>78428723
That's true. I didn't really like Super Babylon that much but the part I really, really enjoyed was the fucked-up history on the Golden Age heroes. Mills and O'Neill did a pretty good research on the general history (and weaving it together with Hollywood Babylon, the McCarthy hearings, SOTI) and meshed it with not just the JSA but also other Golden Age heroes.
I mean if you look at >>78428715
there's some parodies of really obscure (at least at that time) GA heroes.
This from 2 issues of Toxic technically was published before the previous Zombie related adventures.
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So Lynn ends up a bitter feminist zombie super-villain because society forced her to be an egghead bra burner who found everything sexist and homophobic (as seen with her actions in the first mini-series protesting super heroine costumes and writing papers about how all super-heroes are secret fascists overcompensating for having small dicks and accusing everyone of being gay in order to cover up their own homolust)?
