Jon Sable: Freelance storytime
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Feel free to shoot the shit, comment on the comic or bump the thread. It'd be much appreciated.
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>Grell
Why have I never heard of this
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I had the same reaction. It's also pretty damn good. But then agains so were most First Comics. Alot got overlooked I feel beacuse of American Flagg
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First comics is a forgotten goldmine of 80's action comics.
American Flagg, Badger, Nexus, Starslayer, Grimjack, Dynamo Joe, Dreadstar
Basically the company went under and DC snatched a lot of talent like Grell, Truman, and Ostrander
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Has this entire series been scanned yet? I keep finding it up through some issue or other, but with some of the later issues missing.
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I'm not sure. The torrent I grabbed had the 56 issues of the original, about 25 of the Marv Wolfman one and all the minis. Hope that helps.
(Plus comic mix is putting out "omnibuses" for it so if there aren't complete scans there will be)
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That's not even everything. Whisper, Team Yankee, Corum, Elric, Evangeline, E-Man, Warp, etc. Best good:bad quality ration of any comics publisher ever by far.
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DC is really good at poaching talent it seems.
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>Elric
Shame that all the trades for it apparently are awful quality, I can never find any torrents for it, But yeah. They were full of gems
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Badger and Nexus were legit hits as well. IIRC Sable was their second highest selling book. I don't remember what kind of numbers Grimjack moved, but I think it was relatively respectable.
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80s indie comics are a fucking goldmine of quality stuff that most modern comics fans have never even heard of.
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Issue 2
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Plus Shatter, Sensei, Time2, etc.
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>Shatter
I completely forgot. I might include the back ups for it that started in Jon Sable.
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I really think the 1980s was the best time for comic books. The art hits that perfect medium between modern feel and newspapery. I don't like the glossy color on all the new stuff.
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We're forgetting the true masterpiece, TIME BEAVERS
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Issue 3
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Thank you very much anon
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DC was arguably at their best ever, Marvel was almost unquestionably at their best ever, First and Eclipse were two of the best "small publishers" ever, and there were some other notable odds and ends here or there (like Pacific, Comico, etc.)
Plus manga and yuro shit were starting to get translated more frequently and the quality control was incredible before all the weeb shit started coming over.
And this was all before the 90s style garbage took off and the shelves got flooded with crap.
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Grell worked at DC for ten years before this, read The Warlord. It's nearly as good as Sable, but not quite since Sable is one of the top ten greatest comics of all time. Good choice OP.
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90s wasn't all bad, I think 90s indie is good too but in a different way. Also I can see the argument for the 80s but I would say DC was at their best ever in the 90s.
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Thank you. May I ask what the other nine are?
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Issue 4
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A lot of the indie "stars" of the 80s worked off and on for DC and/or Marvel around the same time period, some before they even did indie books. Even Howard Chaykin started at DC and Marvel doing D-list work in the late 70s before he struck out on his own.
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What ongoings did DC even have in the 90s besides Vertigo, JLA, Spectre, and Hitman? Excluding runs that started in the 80s (like Suicide Squad).
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Martian Manhunter
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also The Demon (I think)
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Thanks
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Issue 5
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OP here. My internet connection suddenly and violently shit itself.(I'm having to post from my phone) I'll try and get it worked out so I can round off this thread tommorow. Apologies.
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I know that feeling. Thanks anyway, OP.
They tried to make a tv series with Sable. Might have done better if they followed the original story line.
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Resurrection Man, The Demon, Major Bummer, Lobo, Supergirl, Azrael, Martian Manhunter, Waid's Flash and Impulse, Milestone had some cool books, and then they got Wildstorm right when Wildstorm hit their peak with the Moore books and Ellis' Authority and Planetary.
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Do you have download links for the series?
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Love Grell, but Sable left me cold.
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http://getcomics.info/other-comics/jon-sable-freelance-collection/
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Issue 6
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>OP actually comes back and continues the storytime
Awesome.
Seriously, we should keep this bumped all day. It deserves it.
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Was this the single best thing ever inspired by James Bond?
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It's certainly a contender
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No problem Anon. And if you did it would be much appreciated.
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Issue 7
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There really need to be more old school indie storytimes on /co/.
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It'd be a refreshing change of pace thats for sure.
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Issue 8
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There really were some slick covers on this series.
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Thank you
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This
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NOW EVERYONE KEEP THIS BUMPED
bumping for others
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This
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Cause you're a casual
I love First Comics but serious cannot get into Mike Grell, everything has that 70s television melodrama vibe I do not enjoy, everything is so bland and monotonous. Definitely comics for an audience that no longer really exists.
Jon Sable doesn't get nearly enough love.
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This
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IDW did some nifty reprints a few years back
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Man, I love Sonny.
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Someone needs to do scans of the full series.
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>Basically the company went under and DC snatched a lot of talent like Grell, Truman, and Ostrander
Grell worked on DC long before Jon Sable (he worked on Legion of Superheroes, GL/GA, and Warlord). And I think part of the reason he came back to DC is that Mike Gold (who was editor at First) eventually went to DC.
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Yeah, long before he did American Flagg, Chaykin did stuff for the big two. I think until Flagg he was mainly known for Dominic Fortune and doing the art for the adaptation of Star Wars A New Hope. He even did some stuff outside of the big two during the 70's and 80's. Some stuff for Heavy Metal, like "Shakespeare For Americans", written by him and drawn by Walt Simonson:
http://thebristolboard.tumblr.com/post/115432935008/morioh-forgotten-masterpiece-the-complete
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Oops, forgot to mention that Simonson wasn't the only artist on it, Chaykin drew some and so did Peter Kuper.
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What I've seen of Whisper kinda looked like shit.
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It was fun in a "80s NINJA MANIA" kind of way.
bumping in the name of good tatse
Thanks OP, been wanting to read this for a while.
>>89218756
I loved this series bac in the day. Still like it, at least up to the point where Grell starts to get sloppier and sloppier.
Don't regret getting the TPs from one years back though.
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IIRC played on telly by Rene Russo's legs.
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This dude knows what he's talking about.
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Wasn't Scout one of theirs too?
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Sweet, love me some Grell
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That was Eclipse.
Thanks, OP.
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Ah, Chaykin's run on Star Wars... shame he and Roy Thomas were taken off after #12, but they DID make it so fucking dippy...
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This.
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lol