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We have concepts, designs.. and that's it. Strange but sad. No Dr3dd's Art or making of book. Who knows in the future... but i doubt it.

I've been taking a look at the Making of Judge Dredd(Sly movie). I have the pair: both the Art of and this one. It's sad how i feel that the books are way better than the final product. Some discarded scenes concept art(it says "unfilmable"), but people, the scene looks right out of the comics!.

What they wanted to do?.

Yesterday was time for some horror stuff. So i read the Breath of the Wendigo. An US/Europe team-up. Mathieu Missofe at the story, and The Walking Dead's artist, Charlie Adlard, at the pencils.

Basically it's about

[spoiler]An American Indian Soldier that comes voluntarilly to fight on WWI, with the American Army, around 1917. Has a sacred mission: to seek and kill the Wendigo, that has gone to France, and it's killing both Allied and German Soldiers. So a rag-tag team of German and Allied troops is reunited, and with the indian in head, they go to hunt the beast. And the rest... you have to read it.[/spoiler]

It's cool to see Adlard outta TWD. It's a very talented artist that can do whatever is needed. Terror with a mystic and WWI flavour.

Those "policemen" are in fact the Marvel Movie versions of the Nova Corps. Yep, the space policemen "similar" to the Green Lantern Corps.

Richard Ryder and friends. I supose they've done this this way preciselly to wake up "suspicions" of copying the GL Corps.



But i'm not too convinced, they even have an arm cannon. Looks like a merging of the Gladiator movie helmet, Starlord uniform, policemen uniform, and Stargate SG-1's Anubis Super-Soldiers.



I have yet to see them in action, though.

That's really great. Creepy, scary...

I have to read Moore's Swampie. Everyone i know recommends it.

Oh, cwipes(Walter mode off)... that radiator comment just made me laugh, and i mean laugh a lot.

Yep. We seriously need a "like" button. But i haven't seen any in the forums i use/i've used with the Soft this one uses. So i dunno if it's possible. But this forum really needs one. Tons of cool stuff.

Well, now on the thread again. I've read quite a few things these days. Mainly european comics, and Rogue's Tales from New Earth 1... and just a few moments ago i've "annihilated" Green Arrow: Year One. This Jock+Diggle work, the same team that gave us The Losers, is an interesting origin story for good ol' Ollie.

Interesting "coming of age" of Green Arrow, similar in some points to the "Arrow" series, but way, way different in a lot of ways.

This was the "old one" cover:

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I was expecting the trade with the "normal" cover, but what i've received was a re-printing from this year. So Jock made a new cover, more similar to the pose of the series Ollie:



The series actor pose:



The resemblance is quite obvious.

And i'm trhough the(sadly) incomplete Sky Masters of the Space Force series(spanish edition). An edition so good, than got praises from the Kirby Museum and US fans. But the last tome(they were suposed to be three), won't be released, ever. They bargained the two existant hcs.

For a curiosity, it has even a poster(i dunno if i can get it out), of a facsimile of a rough art version folding poster of the cover of the first ever SM story. Good, ol' Master Kirby pencils. With that sensation of a real drawing page. Man, i love those classic Sci-Fi newspaper strips.

I've read a lot these days. On the 2000ad front, after CCF5, i'm trough the first Tales of Nu Earth. Good stuff, the rogue trooper tales.

And changing of genre and type of lecture: i've just started "Lone Survivor". The book of the Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell. I've seen that whey're gonna release a movie soon, and i saw the trailer. And since i have the original material for a while, it's time to read it and compare screen-to-page.

So far is nice and touching, but a little too "patriotic" for my taste, type "we are the best", "we do it for patriotism, for America"... and all that. Distracts a little from the soul of the story, but it's not a gung-ho patriotical pamphlet, at least from now.

I've read a lot, and i mean a lot, these days.

Yesterday, i've finished Dredd's CCF5. The road to the Apocalypse War that (i think) began with that "innocent" short story on CCF3, ends with a Bang, and... quite a bang!.

[spoiler]BlockMania... and then the main dish... what carnage. Top action, nukes everywhere, war, more war... but... i have yet to read more Dredd CCFs and i have a few stand alone tomes... what Dredd's Says: something like MC-1 was not ready for an invasion. Not only because of sabotages, Blockmanias... and nuke ar'us... but for the massive army that East-Meg 1 deployed to crush the city. ¿MC-1 doesn't have(or had), an army of some kind?. Apart from Judges, and the City-Def from the buildings, the TADs Suppanukes ... i don't see too many tanks, etc. They were owerwhelmed, simple as that.
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Ezquerra at the top of the mountain. Really, really good stuff.

And now i fix the pieces toguether of an

[spoiler]East-Meg story from the ¿Megazine?, from newer issues. That of the train to EM-2, with those "whyyyy" mutie-ghosts... they're "survivors" from the Apocalypse War... from the alternate, peaceful Earth that ate the TADs thanks to the Shield-dimensional barrel. In that story we can see how this was discovered, and was converted into a defensive system, without any care for the other Earth.[/spoiler]

I remember some Grant Doom Patrol comics from my infancy. Men... i would love an Omnibus of those too. DC, hear us and publish it!.

Another one to get. But to "evade" hypotetical custom issues, i'm gonna get it through European stores. I know that AmazonUSA makes some "tricks" to cheat customs, but...

Yep. 'Cause I am extemelly interested in getting stuff from the store. They have items in stock not available anywhere else. That's not counting the Termight Edition of Nemesis, or Zenith, etc.

I've asked them. So soon all the questions will be answered.

Ok, then. I'll ask them idrectly. Thanks.

I'm spanish, so i have a few questions about shipping and handling, mainly. You have stuff on stock not available anywhere anymore, and if they're available, at very high prices, or 2nd hand, etc.

Here are my questions:

*If i buy more than one item in a order, how they're shipped?. In individual parcels, or the whole order into the same box?.

*How they're shipped?. I supose it's via Royal Mail.

Thanks in advance.

A lot of stuff has fallen int omy hands these days. Mainly european comics, like WW2.2, D-Day(Jour J in english, an ucrony series), XIII, and some Star Wars Stuff: Darth Vader and the Lost Command, Jedi vol.1(the one with Qui-Gon Jinn), KOTOR, etc.

I've seen quite some bad reviews from DV and the LC... but i enjoyed the trade. Well, the art it's not that great, compared to let's say Dark Times(trade 3 is gorgeous), but it's not that bad, story-wise.

One thing that i can recommend without hesitation is the Pacific Rim comic Prequel. It explains a lot of things, from before the movie and way before it, etc. I won't spoil it but it's not bad at all. Let's see it's not the typical "trash" to milk the money cow outta people.

Here we have the "spectator's day"... precisely in the cinema i have very near of my house, the Warner movies are out of an offer they do: first pass, from Mon-Fry, non-hollyday: X euros. Normal days: quite expensive. It's strange, 'cause the other day i went to the cinema to see the progs, and from the 9 movies they put on it, three were out: MOS, Great Gatsby and Hangover III. All Warner.

But i think i saw some "small letters" on the advertisement, and i think they're not too more expensive that the ones in the X offer, perhaps a few pennys more. If it's so, i'll see it on Tuesday. Or not, if it's too expensive. I allways have money dilemmas when i'm not shure if i'm gonna enjoy the movie. I don't want to expererience again the "Kill Bill vol.1 Syndrome". I went totally blind-ticket, and i hated the movie.

Cam made quite a Good job on those Fett stories. Also the Dark Empire I and II(not the End of the Empire), alongside Tom Veitch, are some of the best SW comics ever. Way ahead of the Prequel Trilogy movies(DH put them to shame).

And it ya want more Veitch/Kennedy goodness: check out the 6 issue miniseries "The Light and Darkness War". Abslolutely gorgeous, imaginative, well drawn and painted... and difficult to get. Think that i had issues 1 to 4 and 6 in 1991, more or less, and i lost track of issue 5. I finally got it, on ¡2011!. I'm talking about the spanish edition.

This mini was out of Marvels "Epic Comics" line. Somehow the Vertigo of the 80s-90s. Full of fantastic, wild, and original stuff, like Marshal Law, The Last American, Alien Legion, and so on. I recommend it.

I dunno who has the rights of the Epic Stuff... we've seen Dynamite with Dreadstar, or DC with Marshal... or Dark Horse with the Legion... but ¿the other stuff?.