Another week we have to post pone the FLASH FRIDAY WITH PAUL RYAN post to pay homage to one of the great creators whose mind - blowing work has had a big impact on comics not once, not two but three times.
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So far I have not written a birthday post for Frank Miller because I had all my Frank miller art scattered around various folders. But after last year´s anniversary I have made a special folder where I kept all the Frank Miller stuff with a special subfolder for his Daredevil pieces to be prepared.
Now so far I have written a few posts about Daredevil but I have not written much about Frank Miller´s Daredevil run. Because it is not my favorite Daredevil period. Sacrilege, I know. Of course his input in the series is what cemented his version as the definite coda, the blueprint all later versions followed - at least the good ones - and you possibly cannot find a better complete package where the mood, storytelling and art is concerned. And as every comic fan worth his salt I have read all of the issues. But that does not mean it is the version I really enjoy the most.
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Just like with the UNCANNY X - MEN, where I won´t deny that the run by Chris Claremont and John Byrne is the gold standard. BUT if you ask me what my favorite run of that series is - something for what I was willing to shill out the 100 EUROS and more the Artist´s Editions cost over here in Germany - I would probably say it´s the run by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri with the period when John Romita Jr. drew the book as a close second. I don´t know if it has something to do with nostalgia as there are people who will try to brainwash you into thinking you always like the first version you experience of a comic the most. Which I always found a bit faulty because - like let´s say for the X - Men - the definition of the first version you experience is not that easy. Is it the really, for good very first time you ever read a comic from that series ? In my case that would have been the X - TEAM which was the back up feature of HULK by Williams.
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Which didn´t grab me because that was the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. So it must have been the first issue of the all new team with Storm and Colossus and Nightcrawler and Wolverine. That would have been a spanish issue by Vertice but then it makes no sense that I rate the John Romita Jr issues higher on my personal preference list. I mean I just keep buying those issues again and again. And I vividly recall the first spanish issue of John Romita´s run of UNCANNY X - MEN I ever bought which was not a X- MEN issue in Spain at all. Much rather it was issue 16 of LAS GUERRAS SECRETAS because they continued SECRET WARS with SECRET WARS and just kept on with the numbering. But they did not only publish the main series, they also got the license for all the tie - in issues which is how a lot of books series that were not published in Spain ( or at least were not that far ahead in their numbering ) found their way to spanish audiences like UNCANNY X - MEN 196. I think I have lost count how many times I have bought this issue. I got at least two spanish copies, one the normal issue with the left hand corner cut off for whatever reason and one as part of a GUERRAS SECRETAS trade ( which are just five issues glued together with a cheap cardbox cover ), as part of a german pocketbook, as part of a pocketbook from PANINI UK, as a X - MEN CLASSICS reprint ( for some reason the series was canceled a few issues before they could fill the gap in my X - Men collection ) and it´s also in my SECRET WARS II omnibus.
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Which by the way is more evidence that the runs by John Romita Jr and Marc Silvestri are higher on my favorite list : I have a SECRET WARS II omnibus and an INFERNO PROLOGUE omnibus but so far none from John Byrne´s tenure on the book. It´s true, I have a MARVEL MASTERWORKS with The Dark Phoenix Saga but just because you already have something does not mean you won´t buy it again. A few months ago I bought the Epic Collection X - MEN : THE GIFT ( at a big discount at amazon´s bargain books section ) although I already have all the issues in pocketbook form.
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So back to favorite runs and the whole reason for this tangent, just like my favorite run on UNCANNY X - MEN is by Marc Silvestri my favorite run of DAREDEVIL - for which I would go so far as to buy an Artist´s Edition - is the John Romita Jr run. And yes, both of these were published around the same time which is when I first started buying american comics at train station newsstands so that could be a factor although I´m not convinced it has that big of an impact. Longtime readers already should know that, as I have written numerouspostson the subject ( and there will be more as soon as I can continue with my LIKE A BOOK OUT OF HELL series ) and even wrote a special post to pimp the Epic Collection DAREDEVIL : A TOUCH OF THYPHOID . Which for me is one of the best they have published so far and you still can get it from amazon for 24 EUROS shipping included.
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All that said since most of the Frank Miller material I have is from Daredevil I decided to make this the topic of Today´s post. I mainly want to feature Frank Miller the artist and not only Frank Miller the writer so I excluded all material from BORN AGAIN since that could be part of a future post. After selecting the pieces I liked best I realized most were from issue 181 which is only natural since it´s one of best from his run and in comics in general. Since it is a double sized issue - and I wanted to include some original art - I cannot put all the pages in this post but surely there will be others.
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and as you can see the pictures I used are all different because as always wanted to post the best. So I have to give kudos to the websites where I found them like COKE, GAMES & ONE MORE THING and
and MY MARVEL LIFE 1980 and
and HERO GO HOME and
and FLASHBACKS OF OL´ MARVEL and
and AROUSING GRAMMAR and
and MONKEYS FIGHTING ROBOTS and
and LOWBROWCOMICS ( which focuses on the fight between Bullseye and Elektra; they also have a post with a fight between Daredevil and Elektra from DAREDEVIL 179 ) and
and Elektra is mentioned in The Six Reasons Why You Should Not Date Daredevil by Richard Morris on THE SOURCE and
and there is a post about storytelling on PULP FICTION that uses two pages from Daredevil 178 as examples and
and since I mentioned Artist´s Editions and Frank Miller and David Mazuchelli´s Born Again Dan Nadel on THE COMICS JOURNAL has some interesting thoughts on it and
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Rosamund Pike 38 Jack Reacher
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Fabian Harloff 47 Notruf Hafenkante, Großstadtrevier, SK Babies voice of the german version of Teletubbies main villain in Die Rote Meile
The series was named after the red light district of St. Pauli in Hamburg and was a sequel to The King of St. Pauli. It follows the lives of strippers, prostitutes and their pimps but they are all portrayed like regular people not like in american tv series where people from this walk of life are always portrayed as bad people. I remember an episode of a series about beach cops on bikes ( that sounds as action packed as it was ) with people from the porn industry and they also made them killers because all people in adult entertainment are horrible people. Anyway, I watched every episode of Die Rote Meile because they had a very easy concept : one strip in every episode which was not interrupted by commercials. I don´t know if they could do that Today as they put commercials into everything.
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Even if they did not go totally topless - sometimes they had pasties on - I was glued to the tv watching such hot sexbombs like Yasmina Filali above.
Daimn, that girl really has the prototype of the heart shaped ass. Now longtime readers know that one of my pet peeves is giving credit to the unsung actresses who upgrade movies and tv shows by getting naked on camera and there were sure some among them on Die Rote Meile as I found out when I tried to find the names of my favorite strippers. Yes, only the " real " actors are mentioned in the cast meaning those with a speaking part which tells you which place some women still occupy in Today´s society. So if anybody out there knows the name of the living blow up sex doll with the huge melons below put it in the comments.
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Anyway, one of the best strippers of the regular cast is Sylvia Leifheit who has a secret identity in the series as she plays the typical devoted wife by day, secret stripper by night. Sylvia made me realize two things : firstly, while I usually don´t go for skinny chicks she is just oozing so much sex appeal that I would do her in a minute. And second, hair color can really make a difference because her character in the series is actually a blonde and despite having the same figure as a blonde she´s kind of a - meh - looking girl while as Luna with the black wig she´s a real firecracker !
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A few years back I got the complete first season of Die Rote Meile on DVD at amazon at a pretty decent price and I´m glad I seized the opportunity because it really goes for ridiculous prices now. I can really recommend this show and Sylvia Leifheit alone is worth the price of admission.
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Peter Laird 63
Steve Leialoha 65
and check out Tegan O´Neil´s ( no relation to the Turtles´ April O´Neal ) post about Marvel´s first foray into Star Wars on A.V. CLUB and
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Dan DeCarlo 2001
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So far I have not written a birthday post for Frank Miller because I had all my Frank miller art scattered around various folders. But after last year´s anniversary I have made a special folder where I kept all the Frank Miller stuff with a special subfolder for his Daredevil pieces to be prepared.
Now so far I have written a few posts about Daredevil but I have not written much about Frank Miller´s Daredevil run. Because it is not my favorite Daredevil period. Sacrilege, I know. Of course his input in the series is what cemented his version as the definite coda, the blueprint all later versions followed - at least the good ones - and you possibly cannot find a better complete package where the mood, storytelling and art is concerned. And as every comic fan worth his salt I have read all of the issues. But that does not mean it is the version I really enjoy the most.
Just like with the UNCANNY X - MEN, where I won´t deny that the run by Chris Claremont and John Byrne is the gold standard. BUT if you ask me what my favorite run of that series is - something for what I was willing to shill out the 100 EUROS and more the Artist´s Editions cost over here in Germany - I would probably say it´s the run by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri with the period when John Romita Jr. drew the book as a close second. I don´t know if it has something to do with nostalgia as there are people who will try to brainwash you into thinking you always like the first version you experience of a comic the most. Which I always found a bit faulty because - like let´s say for the X - Men - the definition of the first version you experience is not that easy. Is it the really, for good very first time you ever read a comic from that series ? In my case that would have been the X - TEAM which was the back up feature of HULK by Williams.
Which didn´t grab me because that was the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. So it must have been the first issue of the all new team with Storm and Colossus and Nightcrawler and Wolverine. That would have been a spanish issue by Vertice but then it makes no sense that I rate the John Romita Jr issues higher on my personal preference list. I mean I just keep buying those issues again and again. And I vividly recall the first spanish issue of John Romita´s run of UNCANNY X - MEN I ever bought which was not a X- MEN issue in Spain at all. Much rather it was issue 16 of LAS GUERRAS SECRETAS because they continued SECRET WARS with SECRET WARS and just kept on with the numbering. But they did not only publish the main series, they also got the license for all the tie - in issues which is how a lot of books series that were not published in Spain ( or at least were not that far ahead in their numbering ) found their way to spanish audiences like UNCANNY X - MEN 196. I think I have lost count how many times I have bought this issue. I got at least two spanish copies, one the normal issue with the left hand corner cut off for whatever reason and one as part of a GUERRAS SECRETAS trade ( which are just five issues glued together with a cheap cardbox cover ), as part of a german pocketbook, as part of a pocketbook from PANINI UK, as a X - MEN CLASSICS reprint ( for some reason the series was canceled a few issues before they could fill the gap in my X - Men collection ) and it´s also in my SECRET WARS II omnibus.
Which by the way is more evidence that the runs by John Romita Jr and Marc Silvestri are higher on my favorite list : I have a SECRET WARS II omnibus and an INFERNO PROLOGUE omnibus but so far none from John Byrne´s tenure on the book. It´s true, I have a MARVEL MASTERWORKS with The Dark Phoenix Saga but just because you already have something does not mean you won´t buy it again. A few months ago I bought the Epic Collection X - MEN : THE GIFT ( at a big discount at amazon´s bargain books section ) although I already have all the issues in pocketbook form.
So back to favorite runs and the whole reason for this tangent, just like my favorite run on UNCANNY X - MEN is by Marc Silvestri my favorite run of DAREDEVIL - for which I would go so far as to buy an Artist´s Edition - is the John Romita Jr run. And yes, both of these were published around the same time which is when I first started buying american comics at train station newsstands so that could be a factor although I´m not convinced it has that big of an impact. Longtime readers already should know that, as I have written numerouspostson the subject ( and there will be more as soon as I can continue with my LIKE A BOOK OUT OF HELL series ) and even wrote a special post to pimp the Epic Collection DAREDEVIL : A TOUCH OF THYPHOID . Which for me is one of the best they have published so far and you still can get it from amazon for 24 EUROS shipping included.
All that said since most of the Frank Miller material I have is from Daredevil I decided to make this the topic of Today´s post. I mainly want to feature Frank Miller the artist and not only Frank Miller the writer so I excluded all material from BORN AGAIN since that could be part of a future post. After selecting the pieces I liked best I realized most were from issue 181 which is only natural since it´s one of best from his run and in comics in general. Since it is a double sized issue - and I wanted to include some original art - I cannot put all the pages in this post but surely there will be others.
sin
links
and as you can see the pictures I used are all different because as always wanted to post the best. So I have to give kudos to the websites where I found them like COKE, GAMES & ONE MORE THING and
and MY MARVEL LIFE 1980 and
and HERO GO HOME and
and FLASHBACKS OF OL´ MARVEL and
and AROUSING GRAMMAR and
and MONKEYS FIGHTING ROBOTS and
and LOWBROWCOMICS ( which focuses on the fight between Bullseye and Elektra; they also have a post with a fight between Daredevil and Elektra from DAREDEVIL 179 ) and
and Elektra is mentioned in The Six Reasons Why You Should Not Date Daredevil by Richard Morris on THE SOURCE and
and there is a post about storytelling on PULP FICTION that uses two pages from Daredevil 178 as examples and
and since I mentioned Artist´s Editions and Frank Miller and David Mazuchelli´s Born Again Dan Nadel on THE COMICS JOURNAL has some interesting thoughts on it and
birthdays
Rosamund Pike 38 Jack Reacher
Fabian Harloff 47 Notruf Hafenkante, Großstadtrevier, SK Babies voice of the german version of Teletubbies main villain in Die Rote Meile
The series was named after the red light district of St. Pauli in Hamburg and was a sequel to The King of St. Pauli. It follows the lives of strippers, prostitutes and their pimps but they are all portrayed like regular people not like in american tv series where people from this walk of life are always portrayed as bad people. I remember an episode of a series about beach cops on bikes ( that sounds as action packed as it was ) with people from the porn industry and they also made them killers because all people in adult entertainment are horrible people. Anyway, I watched every episode of Die Rote Meile because they had a very easy concept : one strip in every episode which was not interrupted by commercials. I don´t know if they could do that Today as they put commercials into everything.
Even if they did not go totally topless - sometimes they had pasties on - I was glued to the tv watching such hot sexbombs like Yasmina Filali above.
Daimn, that girl really has the prototype of the heart shaped ass. Now longtime readers know that one of my pet peeves is giving credit to the unsung actresses who upgrade movies and tv shows by getting naked on camera and there were sure some among them on Die Rote Meile as I found out when I tried to find the names of my favorite strippers. Yes, only the " real " actors are mentioned in the cast meaning those with a speaking part which tells you which place some women still occupy in Today´s society. So if anybody out there knows the name of the living blow up sex doll with the huge melons below put it in the comments.
Anyway, one of the best strippers of the regular cast is Sylvia Leifheit who has a secret identity in the series as she plays the typical devoted wife by day, secret stripper by night. Sylvia made me realize two things : firstly, while I usually don´t go for skinny chicks she is just oozing so much sex appeal that I would do her in a minute. And second, hair color can really make a difference because her character in the series is actually a blonde and despite having the same figure as a blonde she´s kind of a - meh - looking girl while as Luna with the black wig she´s a real firecracker !
A few years back I got the complete first season of Die Rote Meile on DVD at amazon at a pretty decent price and I´m glad I seized the opportunity because it really goes for ridiculous prices now. I can really recommend this show and Sylvia Leifheit alone is worth the price of admission.
Peter Laird 63
Steve Leialoha 65
and check out Tegan O´Neil´s ( no relation to the Turtles´ April O´Neal ) post about Marvel´s first foray into Star Wars on A.V. CLUB and
Dan DeCarlo 2001
josie cartoon
josie in space
josie movie
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