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Misty
Dec 3, 2019 2:34:58 GMT
Post by helrunar on Dec 3, 2019 2:34:58 GMT
I really have no idea what this thread is about, but thanks to Cauldron Brewer's edifying elucidations, I definitely get why some of you are so excited about what I keep thinking must be a manga for 14 year old Japanese girls.
cheers, H.
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Misty
Dec 3, 2019 6:18:46 GMT
Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2019 6:18:46 GMT
Did I mention that "End of the Line" includes whipping scenes and maid outfits, in addition to people in cages? I'm on the case! I'm on the case!
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Misty
Dec 3, 2019 11:05:25 GMT
Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 3, 2019 11:05:25 GMT
You see, the mole people are immortal because they've consumed the Elixir of Life that the sinister aristocrat brewed from his beloved fungi. They still dress in their 19th-century servant clothes and dwell in a quaint underground Victorian village. Thanks; it all makes sense now.
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Misty
Dec 5, 2019 1:49:09 GMT
Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 5, 2019 1:49:09 GMT
I really have no idea what this thread is about, but thanks to Cauldron Brewer's edifying elucidations, I definitely get why some of you are so excited about what I keep thinking must be a manga for 14 year old Japanese girls. I spent the better part of a decade being similarly baffled by the references to Misty on this site. Now I'm a convert. Misty Vol. 3 focuses on wolf-themed stories. It opens with a serial, "The Wolf Girl," about a young woman who is raised by a wolf from infancy to the age of two and then adopted by a well-meaning couple. When she hits her teenage years, she learns her backstory (her parents really should've told her sooner) and gives into her feral urges: attacking chickens, howling at the moon, and sleeping on fur coats at a store. Her parents send her packing to Scotland for a "vacation," but she runs off into the woods, releases a pack of wolves from captivity, and fights for alpha status. It's a rather tame tale, never approaching the giddy depths plumbed by "End of the Line."
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Misty
Dec 16, 2019 21:25:06 GMT
Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 16, 2019 21:25:06 GMT
Along with "Wolf Girl," Misty Vol. 3 includes four short wolf-themed comics: "Poor Jenny" -- About a young woman who awakens with no memories. She has nightmares of transforming into a wolf, but it turns out she's not exactly a werewolf. "Cure of the Wolf" -- Two young women on a hiking trip stop at an out-of-the-way village. The locals warn them to move along, but instead they choose to investigate. Always a bad idea. "Twin Catastrophes" -- Lita survives a carriage accident, but her twin sister Nita apparently dies. Years later, she's found living with a pack of wolves. Lita is overjoyed--at least until she discovers Nita's secret. "Wolfsbane" -- Groovy Sara goes to the disco, meets a young hunk with a motor-bike, and accepts his offer of a ride home. She should've listened to what her Aunt Agnes said about traveling after nightfall (also appears in Misty Presents: The Jordi Badia Romero Collection). Just to say that I'm loving this. The variable quality of covers is an interesting one - I wonder if it's because the content of UK comics was so varied as opposed to more focused titles with just one or two stories, as they were in the USA and Europe? So maybe it's just that some cover choices don;t appeal to the individual as much as others, while editors were trying to balance readership and content choice? I was reminded of this when going through some old Valiant annuals for Steel Claw stories last week - some very strange juxtapositions of comedy, cartoon and serious stuff! Those eyes are great, though... About five years back I saw Pat Mills speaking and he commented that he preferred writing on girls titles as they had the possibility of greater story depth in terms of text and art than boys comics, which had a much more rigid editorial remit. Maybe this is why they fascinate more now? It was that depth he wanted to bring to boys comics with Warlord, Action and 2000AD. Well, Mills and Wagner might have, but some of the boys writers missed the point... Yes, maybe the variable quality of the covers was connected with the varied contents. This morning, I took photographs of Misty issue 8 (with the thought of posting them here) and paused to analyse the contents of the comic. About three quarters of it was given over to five serialised stories, no one of them related to any other. Most of the remainder was taken up with two self contained stories (again unrelated). Additionally, there's the cover, a Misty's introductory page, the letters page, horoscopes, a very small humour strip (sharing the horoscopes page)... Of the five serials, four had been running since issue 1 (The Cult of the Cat, The Sentinels, Paint it Black and Moonchild). The fifth one (Salamander Girl) had started more recently. (Incidentally, I've now taken pictures of the first 8 issues, but am a bit behind with uploading them to photobucket and editing them in that place. I'm struggling, a bit, to find time for this.) And, yes, it would be hard to deny that the girls' titles have a greater emotional depth than the boys' ones. In that, surely, lies much of their fascination. In the case of Misty, it was (if you will take the distinction) a terror comic rather than a horror comic. It lacks the gruesomeness found in horror. Rather, it seeks to convey (and often succeeds in conveying) how the protagonists feel about what is going on. Often, a great deal is conveyed by the eyes. The serials in Misty have more interesting plots and characters, but they seem to favor happy endings. By contrast, three of the four short comics in Vol. 3 feature messy fates for the main characters. Vol. 3 closes with a short essay, "Beware of the Werewolf," and a poem about Misty herself.
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Misty
Dec 18, 2021 21:16:02 GMT
Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 18, 2021 21:16:02 GMT
The folks at the Treasury of British Comics are back with another Misty reprint collection: Misty Presents: The Jaume Rumeu Collection. From the description: I ordered a copy, but it may be well into 2022 when it arrives.
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Misty
Jan 19, 2022 21:53:17 GMT
Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 19, 2022 21:53:17 GMT
Misty Presents: The Jaume Rumeu Collection (Rebellion, 2021)
Introduction - Pat Roach
The Black Widow - Script: Bill Harrington, Art: Jaume Rumeu The Spider Woman - Script: Bill Harrington, Art: Jaume Rumeu Dressed to Kill! - Script: Unknown, Art: Jaume Rumeu Spend Spend Spend! - Script: Unknown, Art: Jaume Rumeu
Essays Context and Girlhood - Julia Round Mise En Scène - Geraint D'Arcy Stylistic Analysis, or "Sweating the Small Stuff" - John Miers Tangled in a Web of Ink - Ian Horton A Posture's Worth a Thousand Words: "Mind Reading" Characters in The Black Widow - Dona Pursll
The latest installment in Rebellion's Misty reprint series collects four stories illustrated by Spanish artist Jaume Rumeu (a.k.a. Homero, full name Jaume Rumeu Perera).
In her silken lair, hidden from the eyes of the world, she who was to become known as the Black Widow, gloated.
The first two stories, "The Black Widow" and "The Spider Woman," are serials featuring the arachnid-loving Mrs. Webb, who is out for revenge on the government (for her husband's death) along with a side of world domination. The scripts aren't as creative as the ones Malcolm Shaw wrote for the magazine, and the illustrations aren't as elegant as the ones drawn by Jordi Badia Romero, but it's all good fun, with a smattering of deadly spider attacks on the way to upbeat resolutions.
Like many of the Misty short-short stories, "Dressed to Kill!" and "Spend Spend Spend!" offer up darker, more sardonic endings. The former involves a costume party where one girl dresses as a fly and another dresses as a spider, while the latter pits a greedy teen against a pack of gnomes with an eye for the fine print.
I haven't read the essays yet, but a glance suggests that this volume probably features one of the finest collections of scholarly analysis on Misty.
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Misty
Jan 19, 2022 22:19:11 GMT
Post by andydecker on Jan 19, 2022 22:19:11 GMT
These collections have so beautiful artwork. I ordered the collection Sugar Jones by Pat Mills and Rafael Busom Clua. This is from some girl comic called Pink (no jokes please) from the 70s. If you squint hard, you discover some subversive jokes from Mills amidst this terrible nonsense, but the art is wonderful.
At the time publisher Rebellion offered a half-price sale, and I ordered this and the annotated America by Wagner and MacNeil. I was very tempted to buy one of the Misty, thanks to your recommendation. Unfortunately I didn't, and now those collections have become very expensive as taxes have been re-introduced.
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Misty
Jan 19, 2022 22:24:12 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 19, 2022 22:24:12 GMT
Tomorrow, when I've done my thing, I'll look through the old Mandy annuals I have and see what ghost stories are in them and list them by annual.
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Misty
Jan 19, 2022 22:58:49 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 19, 2022 22:58:49 GMT
I'm looking at the Mandy annual 1985, and there is a rather horrible one called The Portraits, that is narrated by someone in a cloak with hood called The Storyteller. Valda, Girl of Mystery is in it. There is a strip about a fairy called Charmette, the wishing well fairy. There is a one page time travel type one that is an actual story, and is about a doll. Emily it is called. There is a one page brief facts about Halloween with illustrations. It's a Date it's called. There is a one called The Raggady-Anne Doll, that I can't say anything about so as not to spoil it. Another It's a Date is about Guy Fawkes. There is an odd one called A Christmas Story. Again I don't want to spoil it. It's a bit mysterious. There is a one called Who, that is a horror story really. There is a one about a rich girl in Victorian times who is dying of a disease and has devoted her last days to helping poor children. It's quite nice, and is about a boy who lived down the sewer and a young blind girl. Angel it is called. There are a lot more stories in this annual with horror/supernatural elements than I remember when I first read it.
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Misty
Jan 20, 2022 5:41:27 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 5:41:27 GMT
My earlier posts about Mandy and Valda appear to have been removed. They don't show up on a search.
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Misty
Jan 20, 2022 6:03:26 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 6:03:26 GMT
I don't know why they would be removed as they were harmless. They were about books I inherited from my dead mother, and weren't doing any harm.
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Misty
Jan 20, 2022 6:12:00 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 6:12:00 GMT
I'm disappointed by this, as now I don't know how many other posts of mine have been taken down without my knowledge. I'm really not happy.
I am not accusing dem bones of doing this, but it means other posters might have suffered the same.
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Misty
Jan 20, 2022 8:38:19 GMT
Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2022 8:38:19 GMT
My earlier posts about Mandy and Valda appear to have been removed. They don't show up on a search. I don't know why they would be removed as they were harmless. They were about books I inherited from my dead mother, and weren't doing any harm. I'm disappointed by this, as now I don't know how many other posts of mine have been taken down without my knowledge. I'm really not happy. I am not accusing dem bones of doing this, but it means other posters might have suffered the same. Posted on the Latest find's thread; MandyValdaIf you think there are any more, let me know.
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Misty
Jan 20, 2022 8:47:14 GMT
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 20, 2022 8:47:14 GMT
My earlier posts about Mandy and Valda appear to have been removed. They don't show up on a search. I don't know why they would be removed as they were harmless. They were about books I inherited from my dead mother, and weren't doing any harm. I'm disappointed by this, as now I don't know how many other posts of mine have been taken down without my knowledge. I'm really not happy. I am not accusing dem bones of doing this, but it means other posters might have suffered the same. Posted on the Latest find's thread; MandyValdaIf you think there are any more, let me know. Thank you. They still don't show on my searches. It's odd as the latest do, and mentions of the Mandy name from 2019.
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