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Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors collects together the four issues of the Squee comic book series from SLG Publishing. It also contains reprints from the popular Jhonny the Homicidal Maniac series that didn't appear in the JTHM: Director's Cut book.
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Squee.......2007-09-12
Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors is a great buy for anyone who finds morbid humor entertaining. I purchased this book, and it is totally worth the low price.
Highly recommended.
awesome.......2007-08-05
i bought this after buying Invader Zim Complete Invasion (3 vol. set) and I really liked it. that about says it all. This book is awesome.. buy it.
I like this book.......2007-05-09
I bought this book because I liked it when I read it. I shouldn't really rate it less than a 5 because I knew what was going to be in it before my purchase.
Awesome & Interesting Read.......2007-04-12
If your a fan of the JTHM series or Jhonen Vasquez, this is another book to own. Based upon a child named "Squee" who lives next door to JTHM. Squee has a very traumatic childhood, but remains a loving yet constantly haunted little boy. Also "filled with meanwhiles", the book also expands on other various storylines seen throughout all of Vasquez' work.
SQUEE!!!.......2007-01-12
what can i say it's Squee, if you read JTHM you'll like this book.
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When the internationally famous barbarian hero returned to comics, with an all-new fresh start by award-winning writer Kurt Busiek (JLA/Avengers, Astro City) and dynamic artists Cary Nord, Thomas Yeates, and Dave Stewart, the result was instant sell-outs and multiple printings to keep up with the demand. Now Conan's earliest adventures are collected in a handsome 192-page collection. Catch all the action and savagery as he wars with the murderous Vanir, meets the Frost Giant's Daughter, and is taken as a slave by the ancient sorcerers of Hyperborea! This top-selling new series faithfully expands on original author Robert E. Howard's literary creation.
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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-08-02
The stories here are ok--they should be, as one of them is a straight Howard take.
However, I have a big problem with the artwork. The painted, somewhat pastel at times indistinct style makes Conan look like an eyeless kobold at times, and at others like big-eyed wild madmen all over the place. Non-inked fuzzy style looks crappy, to me.
Growing up with Barry Windsor-Smith this is a change much for the worse.
I won't be reading any more of this with the same art style.
Great magazine!!.......2007-05-14
This could not be better! The drawings are fantastic! Storyline is very good, great characters. Brutally fantastic! You should have this in your comic collection, it will be worth to have it.
Awesome art and a great read.......2007-03-12
This is one of the few comics books that I enjoy to read not just for the great art but also the amazing story. Very well written book, it moves at a nice pace, lots of action and it's not afraid to pull any punches; it definitely caters to an adult audience.
The art by Cary Nord is fantastic, this book doesn't disappoint at any level.
Another great Conan .......2006-07-03
This is a compilation of various of Conans adventures when he was young. Great reading
Conan's Code.......2006-06-12
Conan is more than just the muscle bound barbarian that only thinks of women and riches, which I think is the opinion many who have not actually read a Conan book believe. He has a sense of honor and loyalty to his friends, even those he just met. Granted, he does get to indulge in the pleasures of life, but only after great suffering. He is a man that wants to have his food, drink and women and be left alone. But when the times come that he needs to step up, he will, and you'll regret waking the barbarian within.
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Worth the purchase..........2002-02-16
There is a lot to like about this volume of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck by Carl Barks. The two major stories (as well as the few single page gags) are beautifully drawn, vibrantly colored, and highly entertaining. The humor in the first half of "The Sunken City" is enough to get my recommendation. Yet the strorytelling (particularly in the SECOND half of "Sunken City") is not as satisfying as one would hope from a talent like Mr. Barks. The conclusion seems arbitrary and rushed, and the potential of this Atlantis story is never really explored. But don't get me wrong. The strengths far outweigh the shortcomings. The second story, "Luck of the North", also has it's moments and the packaging of the two stories together make this a good investment for anyone interested in the Disney ducks, Carl Barks, or just wonderful comic-book work.
beautifully illustrated comic book.......2000-04-28
Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck Giant Special #2 has an introduction by Geoffrey Blum and two full-length stories--"The Sunken City" and "Luck of the North." The first has Scrooge descending to Atlantis in search of the rarest coin in the world. The second has Donald sending Gladstone to the arctic with a phony map and then feeling guilty. It's Donald and the nephews to the rescue. The colors are vivid and the stories are even more fun than the later Duck Tales cartoon series.
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THE BEST OF THE BEST !.......2002-07-10
This huge comic album is great and is loaded with good long stories. The theme of the album is Uncle Scrooge versus his nemesis Flintheart Glomgold, the second richest duck in the world. It has four long and really good stories in it. In the first story Scrooge and his nephews go to Africa to see if Glomgold is richer than Scrooge is. Then they become involved in a fierce contest to see who is the richest duck. In the second story Scrooge and Glomgold get in another contest to see who is richer when they change all there money into silver dollars and measure the piles. But the cheating Glomgold is up to no good. The third story is safari/adventure themed with Scrooge and his nephews in the wilds of Africa trying to beat Glomgold to an important auction. And in the fourth story Scrooge and his nephews race towards the Inca gold high in the Andes so they can try to get to it before the pursuing Flintheart Glomgold can. These were very good high quality stories with better color on the pages compared to other comic albums.
very good!.......1999-11-05
What can I say.... it's Don Rosa. The best drawer Disney have had since Carl Barks. A must have for all Disney fans. Allso the more adult crowd
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Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing Vol. 1 (Action Philosophers!)
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PLATO: Wrestling Superstar of Ancient Greece! NIETZSCHE: The Original Ubermensch! BOHIDHARMA: Grandmaster of Kung Fu! They'sre not just great thinkers... They also make great comics! ACTION PHILOSOPHERS details the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust, told in a hip and humorous comic book fashion. Reprints #1-3 of the award-winning AP comic book series.
Customer Reviews:
Fabulosity--ideal and real.......2007-06-01
While the Action Philosophers series is better used as a gateway drug to some hard core philosophy than a substitute for actual study of the source materials, it has amazingly lucid graphic explainations of both Plato's Allegory of the Cave (vol. 1) and Descarte's Cogito, Ergo Sum (vol. 2).
I give it my heartiest reccomendation. In fact, so long as it's part of Amazon's 4 for 3 deal, I'm stocking up. I plan to give a set to each of my MA professors who teach literary theory, to gift one to my younger brother, and to keep one in my bookbag for work--tutoring high schoolers. AP is quick, portable, and nutritious.
Educational and Humourous.......2007-05-12
A great intro into some of the great thoughts and thinkers. The humour is very witty. If you like Monty Pythonesque silly intellectual humour, then this book will be a treat.
Very Funny.......2006-07-10
This is hysterically funny. For anyone who knows the history of philosophy and likes to laugh. Philosophically accurate.
Not a comic fan.......2006-07-09
I have never been a comic fan, however I work with two die hard comic guys and they came to me all jittery and excited telling me I had to see this comic book about philosophers. You see, I've studied philosophy for 10 years, edging closer and to the elusive BA. I am a natural skeptic but I caved in and looked. I laughed out loud at least four times merely leafing through the pages. When I had time to sit down and actually read through the "big red thing" I was very impressed at the blending of humor and accuracy. The spin put on these brilliant thinkers offers true laughter while remaining very accurate to the spirit of their ideas. I had to bring the book to my philosophy professors to test them out and to my pleasure they found it as funny and accurate as I! Nothing like a little brown nosing through comics! I am very impressed with this book and I will purchase every issue of the comic from now on! well done=)
buy this.........2006-06-25
I saw these guys at the Alternative Press Expo, looked interesting, I wasn't prepared for how much I was going to like their comics. The stories are accurate,informative and funny. I've always been interested in philosophy, even took a couple of classes in college, but trying to read through their books and understand their ideas was difficult to impossible.
Action Philosophers presents the lives and basic ideas of great minds in an easy to understand way (with humour), citing their major influences and showing their place in the bigger picture. They also provide a reading list if you would like to learn more about your new favorite philosopher. It never occurred to me that anyone could make philosophy fun, but these guys have done it. I'm almost through this book, and I eagerly await the next issue of their comic book. If you want to read a comic book with a little more to it than just *biff* and *bang*, get this book.
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Treading the long and winding path toward his eventual monarchy, Conan becomes witness to the corruption and devastation of many a fantastic kingdom along the way. Not the least of which being the marvelous, and equally dangerous, lands of Harakht - home to the fearsome Hawk-Riders and their enormous avian beasts. Despite the overwhelming odds and the presence of a mysterious, earthbound space rock, it will take more than a flock of giant and savage birds to strike fear in the Barbarian's heart. With his lover Belit - the Queen of the Black Coast - at his side, no threats, terrestrial or otherwise, will prevent Conan from fulfilling his destiny.
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Conan and Belit on the road to serpent-riddled Luxor and Thoth-Amon.......2006-08-22
"Chronicles of Conan, Volume 10: When Giants Walk the Earth and Other Stories," reprints issues #72-77 and 79-82 from "Conan the Barbarian." The gap in the continuity is issue #78, which reprinted "Curse of the Undead-Man" from "Savage Sword of Conan" #1, which teams up Conan and Red Sonja, albeit now in color. This is the point in the chronology of the character where Roy Thomas is milking the epic Conan story "Queen of the Black Coast" by Robert E. Howard for all it is worth. Conan first joined up with Belit in issue #58 and it would not be until #100 that we got to the death of the she-pirate and the end of the story. What made this work so well for the comic book was that Thomas was coming up with multi-part stories as key elements of the larger story. What we have here is one of the major stories within that epic, where Belit finds out that her father is still alive and wants to go rescue him. But in these ten issues Conan and Belit only get as far as starting to travel up the River Styx. Once they begin their travel there is an adventure in Harakht (#75-77) and a side trip that Conan has to take without Belit (#79-81). All of the stories are written by Thomas and inked by Ernie Chan, but the first set of reprints are penciled by John Buscema while guest illustrator Howard Chaykin shows up for the second storyline.
"Vengeance in Asgalun" (#72) begins with Conan, Belit and the Black Corsairs raiding a Shemite merchant vessel, but then heading to the royal palace at Asgalun to fetch a vial with a special herb to help old N'yaga's bones heal. There Conan and Belit pretend to be a bickering husband and wife to be able to get the vial. But along the way Belit learns that her father is alive and supposedly in Luxor. "He Who Waits--in the Well of Skelos!" (#73), freely adopted from a plot by Howard, starts off with the cowardly Kawaku, making his move against Conan and Belit to take over the pirate ship "Tigress." So Conan leads the traitor to the Temple of the Toad, knowing full well what is waiting in the Well of Skelos. "The Battle at the Black Walls" (#74) has Conan coming face-to-face with Thoth-Amon, albeit in a dream and is shown the "Tigress" burning at sea. Belit also has a dream that night, but it is of her father. When they raid a Stygian ship, its last defend walks forward onto Conan's words rather than tell what he knows of Luxor. They find a Zingarian girl named Neftha aboard, and she helps guide them on the long and dangerous road to Luxor.
"The Hawk-Riders of Harakht!" (#75) certainly strikes me as owing a dept to the tarnsman aspect of John Norman's novels about the counter-Earth named Gor, as our trio travel up the River Styx and encounter archers riding on giant hawks who attack the trade ship they are on from the skies. When one of the giant birds takes Belit, Conan tries to follow on another, only to edge up in a crocodile infested marshland fighting for his life. "Swordless in Stygia" (#76) finds Conan pursuing the captive Belit to the walled roofs of Harakht, city of the Stygian hawk-god. But when he finds Belit, he also finds the star that fell on Stygia, which is protected by a giant who wants to kill Conan just for touching the sacred stone. "When Giants Walk the Earth!" (#77) concludes this diversion on the road to Luxor as Conan makes sure there is somebody new sitting on the throne of Harakht.
"The Lost Valley of Iskander" (#79), freely adapted from another non-Conan story by Howard, has Conan agreeing to take the Eye of Set, a holy gem, to the village of Attalus in the rugged hills of Stygian exchange for safe passage to Luxur. On the way Conan is attacked by Stygian worshippers of Hun-Ya-Di and discovers a woman named Bardylis to Attalus, which is ruled by her brother, Ptolemy, king of the Valley of Kiskander. "Trial by Combat" (#80) has Conan being accused of being a wizard, believe it or not, by Ptolemy's henchman Ablah. After beating the king in the titular fight, King is not the de facto king of the valley just as three hundred Stygians storm the pass and enter the valley. In "The Eye of the Serpent" (#81) it turns out Hun-Ya-Di is leading the Stygians, which means another big fight, this time with swords, before Conan restores peace to the valley. "The Sorceress of the Swamp!" (#82), adapted from Howard's "Black Canaan," finds Conan hurrying back to Harakht to rejoin Belit, but getting side tracked by what is happening in a swamp between Stygians and Kushites. Conan is also threated with the Call of Damballa by a woman who may be a demon out of hell and he STILL has not yet made his way back to Belit.
conan rules.......2006-07-09
rule 1 thank dark horse comics for reprinting these classics. rule 2 buy these trades. rule 3 ENJOY
CONAN'S CONTINUING ADVENTURES WITH BELIT.......2006-04-21
Conan Volume 10 "When Giants Walk the Earth" is the latest collection which reprints the original Conan the Barbarian series from Marvel Comics. Included in this edition are issues # 72 - 77, 79 -82. As this book opens, Conan is continuing his adventures with the she-devil Belit and her black corsairs. In "Vengeance in Asgalun" Belit and Conan must go to the city state of Asgalun, which is also Belit's home' to find a hidden elixir to save the shaman N'Yaga. While there Belit discovers that her father whom she thought dead may be still alive. Conan's arch nemesis, the Stygian Wizard Thoth-Amon makes an appearance in "Battle of the Black Walls" as he appears to Conan in a dream and warns him to give up the quest to find Belit's father. Conan ignores the threats as he, Belit, and a Zingaran slave girl sneak into the Stygian city of Khemi and travel down the river Styx on a merchant ship where they are attacked by the Hawk Riders of Hor-Neb and Belit is carried off by the giant hawks. Conan attempts to rescue Belit but is thrown into a pit with a massive giant and discovers the secret which made the Hawks and this man grow so large.
The last few issues in the book are an adaptation of a Robert E. Howard story called "The Lost Valley of Iskander". This was not an actual Conan story but an El-Borak story. El Borak was the middle Eastern name for Francis Xavier Gordon, a mercenary and adventurer, circa the 20's and 30's who traveled throughout the middle east. Howard wrote several El-Borak stories and Roy Thomas ties this into Conan chronology by having the ruler of the Khemi send Conan on a diplomatic mission to the lost valley and the city of Attalus. The adaptation comes off pretty well as most of Howard's heroes were pretty similar in their make.
As usual the wonderful John Buscema handles the penciling chores on most of the issues along with the stellar embellishments of Ernie Chan. "The Lost Valley of Iskander" was drawn by Howard Chaykin also with inks by Chan. Whether intentionally or due to Chan's inks, Chaykin's art ends up looking a lot like Buscema's. Thomas had a great affinity for Belit, obviously as he extended her stay with Conan from an initial short story by Howard into a comics run that lasted a over three years and spanned some 42 issues until her death in the classic Conan #100. As with the other Conan collections Roy Thomas provides commentary about the various issues in the run including his freely adapted version of "The Lost Valley of Iskander". Great insight from Roy as always and why not...he was there when these were all being created. Another strong volume from Dark Horse.
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Customer Reviews:
Historic but dissapointing first..........2002-02-13
While this Duck book is significant as not only the first 'original' Donald Duck comic-book but also as the first Duck work by Carl Barks (he did not write it and drew only part of it) it is a dissapointing read, especially when compared with the far better Donald Duck or Uncle Scrooge books which followed. Adapted from an unproduced Disney animated film, the pacing is slow and the story, unexciting and uninvolving. I found it very tedious to get through. Better to pick this one up after you've read the good stuff (especially try the Uncle Scrooge story "Back to the Klondike" to see what I mean.)
Get it while you can!.......2001-03-30
"Reading level: Baby-Preschool"!? Try "Preschool-Deathbed." Most people might smirk at the idea of "Disney Comics," but legendary cartoonist Carl Barks imbued Donald and Uncle Scrooge with life, warmth, energy, and adventure. This is great reading for even the most cynical (who will delight in the fact that Barks got away with giving substance to Disney's cookie-cutter characters for decades). But Gemstone's contract with Disney has expired, and negotiations are under way. Barks has been getting a lot of attention in recent years (particularly since his death at the age of 99 last year), and Disney may decide to bring him "back into the fold." But they would never treat the work with the respect with which Gemstone has, and which it deserves. My recommendation: snatch up anything you can find with Carl Bark's name on it before it goes out of print (which might be very soon). Enjoy it yourself, and save it for your children (or nieces and nephews) and grandchildren (or grandnieces and grandnephews). Just don't let the little whipper-snappers damage the merchandise!
Book Description
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is an impressive collection of interviews dedicated to creativity. Insider Hermann Vaske has interviewed nearly all top-notch creatives (e.g. art directors, advertising strategists, movie directors and artists) on the subject. The book documents the very personal and different aspects of being creative. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants grasps the best-of Vaske´s eminent enquiries , including interviews and pictures with Oliviero Toscani, Wim Wenders, Dennis Hopper, Mike Figgis, Damien Hirst, Michael Conrad, Tony Scott, Adrian Lyne, Neville Brody, Alan Parker, etc.
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Insightful.......2003-08-13
Imagine you can actually talk with the legends of advertising business. Imagine that they indeed have half an hour for you. Imagine them telling you the circumstances and inspiration behind their noteworthy projects. That is the kind of info you receive in this book. Great work of Hermann Vaske, in his interviews he knows which buttons to push in order to access the Creative Side of the Force. Highly recommended
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