|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 18, 2024 12:27:11 GMT -5
IT’S NOT SILLY!! THERE’S A PERFECTLY CROMULENT EXPLANATION!! In fairness, Superman turning into an ant was a very serious situation! And let’s not make light of the Flash’s weight! It’s a dangerous health risk! (I laughed out loud at “It started when Robin injured his arm.”)
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 17, 2024 18:12:02 GMT -5
Detective Comics #241 (1957) IT’S NOT SILLY!! THERE’S A PERFECTLY CROMULENT EXPLANATION!!
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 17, 2024 13:37:43 GMT -5
Catwoman #64 Jay Garrick: The Flash #6 Superman #13 Wonder Woman #8
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 16, 2024 20:05:10 GMT -5
Comic-book hippies!
They’re worse than comic-book commies!!
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 16, 2024 0:12:26 GMT -5
I ordered a couple more 1970s Superman comics. Superman #320 and Action Comics #500.
And I put in a low bid on Action Comics #457. That’s the infamous “WTF?” cover with - well, you know. It’s one of the worst out-of-context covers of all.
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 15, 2024 22:51:24 GMT -5
Cool Moment:Creels escape from prison is a great page and displays his fierceness. I love this page. Crusher Creel is a guy who really knows what to do with god-given super-powers! Look at how happy he is! I had loved some of these early Thor comics as a kid, but I didn’t read this particular issue until several decades later. This whole sequence helped me realize there was a lot of Kirby Thor that I hadn’t read, and it seemed very likely that I was missing great comics!
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 15, 2024 13:45:24 GMT -5
I have read all the issues with Hobbs, yet don't remember him. Perhaps Odin enchanted me with a spell of forgetfulness. He’s the action journalist who always carries dynamite, just in case! How could you not remember Harris Hobbs!?
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 15, 2024 9:12:15 GMT -5
In the near future, Harris Hobbs … well, this might be a bit of a spoiler. So I won’t say what he does.
But let’s just say I don’t think it’s at all weird that Hobbs is carrying around some dynamite. I’m sure he has some dynamite with him at all times.
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2024 15:08:23 GMT -5
I ordered a few more for my 1970s Action Comics collection.
Action Comics #454, #459, #464, #467
They cost $3 to $4 each, and I saved on shipping by getting three from the same dealer.
I probably should have passed on #454 because of the shipping. But have you seen it? It’s the one where Superman is eating a bunch of cheeseburgers BECAUSE REASONS!! I had to have that!
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 14, 2024 13:33:10 GMT -5
A few years ago, I was visiting my Aunt Kay and, as she has limited mobility and lacks the energy for anything except walking to and from the car, we watched a bit of TV. And she watches a lot of stuff on nostalgia stations.
And so over the course of the week, I saw a few episodes of the Mod Squad and The Rookies, two shows I vaguely remember from my childhood. If I ever watched them with any regularity, it’s been so long ago that I’ve completely forgotten. And I really liked them both when I was staying with my aunt. Very entertaining 1970s television.
I must admit that I’m a little more partial to The Rookies. But The Mod Squad was very enjoyable too.
We also watched Hello, Dolly! with Barbra Streisand, which I’ve never seen before. But I know all the music because this is one of the soundtracks that my mom used to listen to over and over. Also very entertaining! And one of Aunt Kay’s favorite movies.
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 11, 2024 19:19:22 GMT -5
I’m still watching Star Trek: The Animated Series. It is so much fun! Last night I watched the one where Lieutenant Uhura takes over the ship! And I just finished the sequel to The Trouble with Tribbles.
I remember the one with the tribbles now. Fighting the Klingons by transporting tribbles into the ship is definitely something I remember from watching the show when I was a kid.
I also remembered a few plot points of the one with the giant space cloud that is eating planets. I remember Spock establishing mental contact with the sentient cloud and convincing it that it shouldn’t consume other sentient individuals, no matter how small.
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 10, 2024 14:52:22 GMT -5
I got the following comics on Tuesday:
Action Comics #1064: The House of Brainiac
Green Lantern #10: House of Brainiac tie-in
Suicide Squad: Dream Team #2
Action Comics #1064 is not bad! I had pretty low expectations, but I haven’t read modern Superman comics for a very long time, and I thought a cross-over called the House of Brainiac had at least a chance of being passable. And it was even somewhat better than that.
Green Lantern #10 has a main story that does not involve the House of Brainiac tie-in. I might not have bought it if I had known that the tie-in is a back-up story with Guy Gardner and Lobo, a couple of characters of whom I’ve had my fill many many years ago. But I actually enjoyed it. (Not enough to keep reading any series with Guy or Lobo when House of Brainiac ends.)
And I liked the Suicide Squad issue also. Most of the Bizarro panels are cracking me up.
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 9, 2024 22:31:46 GMT -5
I started the Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle vol. 2 hardcover. So far I've read Detective Comics #608-612. When I was a kid, my older brother was the one who bought some of the Breyfogle issues of Detective. I think those were mostly from earlier on. As I kid, I remember feeling ambivalent about Breyfogle. He had a very distinctive style, but it seemed like lots of characters were on the verge of exploding and I wasn't digging the impossibly long cape. But reading these issues now, I'm really enjoying the art. So far, I've read an Anarky two-parter, a Penguin two-parter, and a standalone issue with Catman and Catwoman. I like that there's some grit but also some humor. There are interesting plotlines instead of just grim ambience. I like the twist that starts off the Penguin story. I was aware that Anarky was a new villain in this era, but I've never read an Anarky story. It was one of those stories that I thought at first had elements that didn't fit, but that's because I didn't see Alan Grant's plot twist coming. The denouement made the pieces fall into place. I like Grant's writing so far. My one pet peeve is that he uses British spellings for something that's in print (a letter to the editor in a Gotham newspaper). If he's ever going to use British spellings rather than American, that's where it makes the least sense. I'm getting annoyed nerd flashbacks of people ignoring the Wikipedia Varieties of English policy to replace spellings that fit the policy with their own preferred spellings. All in all, this hardcover is off to a good start, but I might intersperse reading other comics as I make my way through this book. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find out that the Gotham Gazette preferred British spellings. Especially if it goes back to the 1770s. Maybe it started out as the Gotham Gazette and New York Colonial Free Trader in 1771.
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 9, 2024 2:02:12 GMT -5
I got the first two discs for the Star Trek animated series from the library. The show was on Saturday mornings in 1973 and 1974. It has the voices of most of the cast of the original TV series. I watched the first two episodes just now, before going to bed, and it’s actually very entertaining. It’s a lot like the show, just simplified to fit into a 22 minute time slot. I sort of remember watching this when I was a kid. I was nine or 10. I don’t remember any of the plots, but I do remember it had all the voices, and I remember the cat girl, and I remember the turkey man with the arm sticking out of his chest.
I only found out about this a few years ago and I've been very excited to see it ever since - or perhaps more accurately to listen to it, since it's the voices of the original cast that's the big draw for me. But I'm saving it for when I get into all things late-60s and early-70s in general. I've read about it a bit but I forget now - did they also have some of the writers from the original show?
A quick look at the Wikipedia page shows that a lot of the episodes were written by screen writers from the original series. Including a Tribbles sequel written by David Gerrold, who wrote the Tribbles episode for TOS.
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Apr 8, 2024 23:43:39 GMT -5
I got the first two discs for the Star Trek animated series from the library. The show was on Saturday mornings in 1973 and 1974. It has the voices of most of the cast of the original TV series.
I watched the first two episodes just now, before going to bed, and it’s actually very entertaining. It’s a lot like the show, just simplified to fit into a 22 minute time slot.
I sort of remember watching this when I was a kid. I was nine or 10. I don’t remember any of the plots, but I do remember it had all the voices, and I remember the cat girl, and I remember the turkey man with the arm sticking out of his chest.
|
|