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Nom oficial: Thomas, Roy William, Jr.
Data de naixement: 1940-11-22
Gènere: male
Nacionalitat: USA
Llocs de residència: New York, New York, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Educació: Southeast Missouri State University (1961, B.S. in Education)
Professions: comic book historian
comic book writer
editor
High school English teacher
public relations director
journalist (mostra-les totes 7)
machinist
Relacions: Maxey, Jean (1st wife, 1968)
Couto, Danette (2nd wife, 1981)
Organitzacions: DC Comics
Marvel Comics
Premis i honors: Alley Award for Best Writer (1969)
Shazam Award for Best Writer ( [1971])
Shazam Award for Best Individual Story ( [1973])
Shazam Award, Superior Achievement by an Individual (1974)
Eagle Award (Favourite Comic Book Writer ∙ 1977)
Nominated for Favourite Single Comicbook Story at the Eagle Awards ( [1977]) (mostra-les totes 13)
Nominated for Favourite Writer at the Eagle Awards (1978)
Nominated for Favourite Continued Story at the Eagle Awards ( [1978])
ominated for Best Comic Book Writer, US, at the Eagle Awards (1979)
Nominated for Best Continued Story at the Eagle Awards ( [1979])
Eagle Award (Roll of Honour ∙ 1980)
Author That We Loved at the Haxtur Awards (1996)
Eisner Award (Hall of Fame ∙ 2011)

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The Avengers. The birth of Ultron de Roy Thomas

Witness the startling creation of one of the Avengers most deadly foes: the insane automaton known simply as Ultron.

Discover what drives this metallic menace, as it undertakes a terrifying (a scheme that will leave the Avengers changed forever! Plus, change is afoot as two mysterious new members, the Vision and Yellowjacket, join the team. Collecting Avengers vol. 1 #54-60 and Avengers Annual #2.

From my TBR pile, when at the time of reading, the second Avengers movie (Age of Ultron) is still in post production with an expected release in 2015, exact date dependant on region.

This is NOT the book of the film. This is a collection of early Marvel comics, charting the initial appearances of Ultron (Ultron-5), plus a few additional lesser known cast members in the Avengers canon. There's no "original publication date" I can see for the source comics, but judging on style, presentation etc, I'm guessing they were originally published in the 1960s. Of course, Marvel have a back history of the character.

The makeup of the Avengers here is not the team set up that modern audiences are currently used to (Thor, Iron man, Hulk, Black Widow etc). There is a "New" Avengers consisting of the lesser known Giant Man, Wasp, Black Panther, along with the better known Captain America) and Hawkeye.

The presentation as a Graphic Novel is lovely, with the hard cover, a collection of related strips etc. I have to admit that this is not my style of Comic Strip. I am very much a fan of the later style of Comic/G.N. with related narrative, violence and design, where as this is from the 1960s/1970s with a much more "innocent" (retro) style of cell construction, drawing and violence. Cells colours are lighter and brighter, exposition and story line is progressed though chunks of in-cell text explaining what's going on to the reader. There are also occasional handy arrows guiding you from one cell to the next in case you hadn't worked out where to go next! It reminded me somewhat of the Adam West Batman series - all gaudy colours, cheese and make believe fighting. There is also some bad alliteration at the start of each episode as to who wrote or drew what. These are the strips I would expect to see in the weekly "funnies" and that I would be able to pass onto Nieces and Nephews as a more "acceptable" level of violence.

Several characters are introduced, such as Ultron-5, The Vision (an android sent y Ulton to kill everyone, only to have a change of heart), and YellowJacket - yet another SuperHero character for Hank Pym to add to his other alternate characters of Ant-Man, Giant Man etc.

In summary: nice to have read as a backfill to the new Avengers movie, but not really my style of Graphic Novel

Here is one of the trailers for the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie:
http://youtu.be/MZoO8QVMxkk… (més)

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nordie | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Oct 14, 2023 |

The Savage Sword of Conan 2 de Roy Thomas

Good fun! Stirring, unsanitary adventure in the best pulpy style.

Any fans of Cerebus will see where Dave Sim got his art style for his first book.

At times it's sexist, racist, or both (Conan fireman-carries the floopy, helpless buxom blonde away, saving her from the ravening cannibalistic rapist black men!). These comics, made in the 70s, tone that down a bit from the stories on which they are based, written in the 30s. It is what it is.

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grahzny | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Jul 17, 2023 |

75 Years of Marvel. From the Golden Age to the… de Roy Thomas

Awesome read. Beautiful artwork. The book is actually TOO HEAVY to read seated. Had to sit at a table. (Seriously! My legs fell asleep on the couch! 15 pounds!)
Content skims over the "sales depression/speculator crash" of the 1990's.

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HFCoffill | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Apr 21, 2023 |