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 Post subject: Favorite Amalgam Comic
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:03 pm 
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Amalgam might be one of my favorite comic events. The main miniseries is completely forgettable, but the one-shots that spun out of it were brilliant.

So, which of the Amalgam books was your favorite? To jog your memory, here's a list.



Amazon: John Byrne
Assassins: Chichester/McDaniel
Doctor Strangefate: Marz/Garcia-Lopez/Nowlan
JLX: Jones/Waid/Porter
Legends Of The Dark Claw: Hama/Balent
Super Soldier: Waid/Gibbons
Bruce Wayne, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D: Dixon/Nord
Bullets & Bracelets: Ostrander/Frank
Magneto & The Magnetic Men: Jones/Matsuda
Speed Demon: Mackie/Felder/Larroca
Spider-Boy: Kesel/Wieringo
X-Patrol: Kesel/Kesel/Cruz
Bat-Thing: Hama/Damaggio/Sienkiewicz
Dark Claw Adventures: Ty Templeton/Rick Burchett
Generation Hex: Milligan/Pollina
JLX Unleashed: Priest/Oscar Jiminez
Lobo The Duck: Grant/Semeiks
Super Soldier : Man Of War: Waid/Gibbons/Palmiotti
Challengers of the Fantastic: Kesel/Grummett
Exciting X-Patrol: B. Kesel/Hitch/Neary
Iron Lantern: Busiek/Smith
Magnetic Men Featuring Magneto: Peyer/Kitson/Panosian
Spider-Boy Team-Up: "R.K. Sternsel" - aka Stern/Kesel/Ladronn
Thorion Of The New Asgods: Giffen/Romita Jr.

Also, what Amalgam would you like to see?

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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:21 pm 
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I liked Doctor Strangefate for some reason.Those one shots were pretty good.


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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:23 pm 
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From the first go-round: Super-Soldier was my fave followed VERY closely by Doctor Strangefate.

From the second go-round: Challengers of the Frantastic was my fave followed by Iron Lantern.

Amalgams I'd like to see? Howzabout the JSI: The Justice Society of Invaders. Or maybe the Suicide Thunderbolts. Or the New Teen Warriors.


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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:29 pm 
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Tough call, because it's been such a long time since I read them. I remember that I liked the Super-Soldier and Spider-Boy books a lot.


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 Post subject: Favorite Amalgam Comic
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:05 pm 
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Bruce Wayne, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a favorite of mine, along with Iron Lantern.

Amalgams I'd like to see:

The Doomed Four (FF and Doom Patrol)

Man of Iron (Iron Man and Superman)

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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:08 pm 
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Monk wrote:


Super Soldier: Waid/Gibbons

Bruce Wayne, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D: Dixon/Nord

Spider-Boy: Kesel/Wieringo

Super Soldier : Man Of War: Waid/Gibbons/Palmiotti

Iron Lantern: Busiek/Smith

Spider-Boy Team-Up: "R.K. Sternsel" - aka Stern/Kesel/Ladronn

Thorion Of The New Asgods: Giffen/Romita Jr.


These are the ones I liked the best.


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 Post subject: Favorite Amalgam Comic
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:13 pm 
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Asking me what my favorite Amalgam comic was is like asking me who was the smartest of the Three Stooges.

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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:16 pm 
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So...Larry?

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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:06 pm 
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Matt, I collected all the Amalgam stuff, but my favourites were Dr. Strangefate and Lobo the Duck.

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 Post subject: Favorite Amalgam Comic
PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:55 pm 
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Of those I've read...
Spider-boy Team Up


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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:16 pm 
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I found that the Strangefate comic was head and shoulders above the rest.

Though I always give credit to Byrne for drawing an actual shot of Baton Rouge as his establishing shot, instead of just drawing a generic city.


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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:15 am 
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Monk wrote:
So...Larry?


That would be my answer as well.

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 Post subject: Favorite Amalgam Comic
PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 2:11 pm 
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I never read any of these, but I remember that Bruce Wayne, Agent of SHIELD was a concept I really liked just from reading the name. (Were his parents killed by HYDRA in this version?) And I saw some of the Strangefate art in the JLGL appreciation thread; very nice. I may have to check a few of these out.


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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 2:39 pm 
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Jim Yingst wrote:
(Were his parents killed by HYDRA in this version?)


Yep.


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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 2:47 pm 
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Thanks A LOT, guys. All this Amagam talk has prompted me to buy the first trade. (the other three are still out of print)

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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:01 pm 
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 7:11 pm 
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The Dark Claw done as an Adventures style book was the only one i liked.


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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:19 pm 
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Super-Soldier.


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