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Post by berkley on May 18, 2024 11:55:54 GMT -5
Oh, I imagine they've done lots of different things with them by now, over the years. I may even have seen something of the 2010 event, since that was during the CBR years and I would sometimes look at Marvel and DC comics on the comic store shelves back then so I'd know what people were talking about on those message boards.
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Post by berkley on May 18, 2024 1:34:08 GMT -5
I always think more could have been done with the Marvel Olympians. Maybe Kirby didn't feel as much personal or creative connection with that mythology as he did with the Norse pantheon but I thought his visual take on some of the characters was almost as impressive as his Asgardians. Was the buffoon-like personality given to Hercules due to Kirby or Stan? And was it just to provide a contrast with Thor or did it reflect how Kirby and/or Stan saw the Greek myths in comparison to the Teutonic? One could argue that it's the reverse of the mythological characters, though that wouldn't be quite right either.
Anyway, huge potential but never quite brought to fruition, certainly not by anyone who came along in later years while I was reading Marvel. If Kirby had had time to take on another series I'd have loved to see him do an Olympian book. Perhaps that was one of the things in the back of his mind when he came up with the Eternals in the 70s.
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Post by berkley on May 18, 2024 1:14:24 GMT -5
I'm very curious to see how I'll feel about it next time I watch the series, hopefully this time from start to finish with minimal interruptions or delays. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, because of the circumstances under which I saw the final episode (separated by a few years from my viewing of the rest of the series) I've never really assimilated it to the series as a whole. It felt like an afterthought, almost a Hunger Dogs-type return to something previously left unfinished by the creator. Even so, I don't remember it in a negative way or disliking it completely, more as a curiosity, something I didn't quite understand but still found interesting.
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Post by berkley on May 18, 2024 1:01:09 GMT -5
I've had a cellphone since 2014 but I've never really become used to the whole phone culture we're all expected to take part in now, where people expect you to be available practically 24/7, or at least during waking hours, no matter where you are or what you might be doing. So I miss a lot of calls and texts because I don't always have my phone with me or I don't have the sound turned on or whatever, so I might not see a message until later, sometimes quite a bit later.
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Post by berkley on May 16, 2024 22:16:54 GMT -5
I thought the western episode was great. When I first watched it as a kid, I actually thought the show had been replaced by some new western series until of course later on I realised that this was indeed another episode of the Prisoner. I found it all very well done.
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Post by berkley on May 16, 2024 0:02:41 GMT -5
Lockjaw was my first reaction and for a minute I even thought he might be the only comic book dog character I liked - but then the thread reminded me of others, e.g. Snoopy, Tintin's dog Milou/Snowy. What do they have in common, I wonder - maybe that I don't see any of them as sidekicks, but as effective characters in their own right? Or am I just projecting that preference onto them - I suppose Milou could be considered a sidekick to Tintin - but then he(?) is more of a real dog than the other two.
Where does the term sidekick come from BTW? I can't think of any sidekicks I like - for the simple reason that the term seems to imply the idea of a character that is only there for the sake of another character: IOW, a character that has no raison d'etre of its own, which to me is never a good start.
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2024 23:30:45 GMT -5
I love dogs, and have always enjoyed the likes of Krypto and Ace. I'm going to throw out a crazy one...if the Hulk had a "gamma hound" as a companion. Ok, it might seem a little silly, this green gamma ray infused Hulk pup. But besides the spectacle of it, Hulk always feels so lonely and outcast, and what better companion than man's best friend but in an incarnation that can hang with him.
Didn't they have "gamma hounds" of a sort in one of the Hulk movies - maybe the Ang Lee one? Or one of the others from around that time,before the whole Marvel Movie franchise really took off. They weren't sidekicks, though, but vicious attack dogs the Hulk had to fight off.
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2024 21:54:37 GMT -5
The dog that chased his owner off the cover of his own comic book: What are you talking about, there's a tall green street lantern right there alongside the car!
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2024 21:51:11 GMT -5
I was never a huge Marvel lover when I was really getting back into comics at the time but Marvel Knights got my attention. Having Paul Jenkins and Garth Ennis come over from Vertigo and getting Kevin Smith into comics was perfect timing for me to dip my toes into the Marvel pool.
I think it was a nice idea to try bringing in writing talent from other media even though the results were probably mixed at best. Looking at the chronology, I see that the Kevin Smith DD was one of the earliest of the Knights line, in 1998. I had been following Smith's movies right from Clerks so I was immediately curious when I heard about him writing comics, but I'm not sure now if that was a few years afterwards, when I was becoming aware again of Marvel and DC in general, or if I heard about it or happened to see it in 1998.
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2024 20:02:01 GMT -5
I'm seeing reports that comics artist Don Perlin has passed away at age 94. -M
Ah, another favourite of mine, if only for his self-inked work on Werewolf By Night and a few early Moon Knight solo stories
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2024 19:51:43 GMT -5
I didn't follow that series, but didn't Millenium end in an episode of The X-Files? That's like Skull the Slayer concluding in Marvel Two-in-one! Or ending Warlock in an Avengers Annual and, once again, Marvel Two-In-One.
Perhaps Marvel should have had a special series dedicated to ending other series that had been cancelled or characters whose storylines had lost a home somehow or other. It would have provided some nice symmetry to their series meant to launch new characters.
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2024 19:46:55 GMT -5
I was looking at the Fantagraphics site a few days ago and they have a bunch of interesting things coming up. The two I remember off the top of my head, probably because they're from creators I'm already familiar with, are a new book from Charles Burns called Kommixx and a new miniseries from Peter Bagge, Hate Revisited.
I'll have to go back and look again to see what else caught my eye but I'll be getting those two for sure.
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Post by berkley on May 14, 2024 22:40:31 GMT -5
Canadian writer and Nobel Prize For Literature-winner Alice Munro has passed away, at age 92.
She and Mavis Gallant are two highly-acclaimed Canadian shot-story writers I've been meaning to read for years. But I should finally get to something by each of them soon, having recently cleared up another big 20 century short story collection (of Irish writer Frank O'Connor) that I wanted to finish before embarking on anything else in that line.
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Post by berkley on May 14, 2024 0:19:19 GMT -5
I don't mean to turn a blind eye to the breadth of other original quality works that have been shared in this community over the past year, but I do feel it's necessary to nominate a previous winner here because Roquefort Raider 's style continues to evolve in staggering ways, as does the breadth of his work, Le Bras d'Orion. He continues to raise the stakes with his output, leaving me in total awe.
Seconded! Or thirded, if Prince Hal's post was a seconding. I am soon about to embark upon a re-reading of Book 3, coincidentally.
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Post by berkley on May 12, 2024 23:52:10 GMT -5
Looking up the wiki page, I see that it started in 1998 which was a few years before I started looking at mainstream Marvel/DC superhero comics again sometime in the 2000s. This was mostly because of joining the discussions at the old CBR and hearing about various things there then having a look at them at the local comic shop. I couldn't see any great difference between Marvel Knights and the regular Marvel series - they all seemed much the same style to me, probably because it had been so many years since I'd tried reading anything of that kind.
From the wiki list, I see that I did buy at least one Marvel Knights miniseries, The Frank Cho Shanna one, which wasn't that great. I also read the first instalments of both the Kevin Smith Daredevil and the Gaiman 1602 but didn't continue either series past their respective #1 issues. I thought the Moench/Gulacy MoKF miniseries that I read around that time might also be a Marvel Knights but they don't list it on the wiki page so maybe not. I also recall buying a Bullseye miniseries in collected form at some point, again, not sure if it was part of the Marvel Knights line or not. I never did get around to reading it but I think I must still have it around here somewhere as I don't recall getting rid of it. The MoKF was all right, a bit up and down but enough good parts that I was glad to have read it.
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