tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868509096107161157.post4818191846687674399..comments2023-05-18T05:41:22.018-07:00Comments on Jeremiah Blues: EPIPHANY: SIGHTINGS OF SAINT CLAREMONTLa Teyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05651688700033763289noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868509096107161157.post-9414115067512052072008-10-12T18:38:00.000-07:002008-10-12T18:38:00.000-07:00The War Journal TPB collects the comics that got m...The War Journal TPB collects the comics that got me nuts about Punisher and Wolverine in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Earliest Jim Lee works. Carl Potts wrote and even did the layouts - he couldn't trust that Korean kid to go it alone on the art until several issues into the run. Claremont noticed Jim Lee's Wolverine in these issues (first time the Canucklehead tangled with Punny) and seduced him to come onto Uncanny X-Men. The rest, as they say, is history... :)Edmund Lauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764555123754526332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868509096107161157.post-51806422679514118492008-10-12T00:18:00.000-07:002008-10-12T00:18:00.000-07:00BREED. Jim Starlin first independent comic. I saw ...BREED. Jim Starlin first independent comic. I saw it selling the first time I started buying X-Men. So I was at this very moronic used-bookstore called ironicallly 'Angel Bookstore' that actually have the no.1 issue of Breed in a box, in black embossed cover with a red blood stained knife, not unlike Miller Sin City. No luck finding a complete collection. Embossed covers rocks! I also took note a Volume 2 of Starlin Punisher, Blood of something... <BR/><BR/>Ask the store lady how much for the comics and was told that 'these' were original comics, direct import, and so, original pricing... Tried to explain to her these were comics from ancient times ago but was slammed. "We don't sell old comics..." She's a skrull. Confirmed. (In need of wild sex...)<BR/><BR/>Saw the WARZONE TPB & the BREED TPB. Saw a WAR JOURNAL TPB today. Capitalism is for the dogs. <BR/><BR/>Your comic on the way via the usual courier service. Disinfectant not included.pltypushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09904522029747510183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2868509096107161157.post-30429326366434035962008-10-11T18:09:00.000-07:002008-10-11T18:09:00.000-07:00Jim Starlin wrote some damn fine Punisher tales. I...Jim Starlin wrote some damn fine Punisher tales. I had his two-parter "The Blood of Innocents" (two prestige format TPBs). Frank tried to take down the Kingpin but some innocent kids died in the process and he then questioned his whole crusade. <BR/><BR/>That was Starlin after his "cruel streak" (in the late 1980s), following "Batman: The Cult", "Batman: A Death In The Family" and "Cosmic Odyssey". At that time, Starlin was the ultimate nihilist in comics. He literally *worshipped* death (like his creation, Thanos). Hundreds of homeless dying in "The Cult", Robin II (Jason Todd) beaten cruelly to death in "A Death In The Family" and an entire galaxy dying in "Cosmic Odyssey" (featuring art by a young Mike Mignola).<BR/><BR/>Thankfully, his visions became more refined with the "Infinity Gauntlet" stuff later on. Still on to nihilism but more refined. Thanos killing the entire universe. Starlin was back recently with "Death of the New Gods" (see the continuing "death" theme?). But thankfully still more refined rather than the cruel streak he was on when he wrote the above stuff.<BR/><BR/>Best of luck tracking down "The Blood of Innocents". <BR/><BR/>You found the Chuck Dixon / John Romita Jr. / Klaus Janson classic "Punisher: War Zone"? That's been reprinted in a TPB actually.Edmund Lauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764555123754526332noreply@blogger.com