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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 15, 2023 17:53:08 GMT -5
I read Avengers #14 this afternoon.
Avengers #10 is bad, but it’s bad like a bad issue of Silver Age Avengers.
Avengers #14 is bad like a bad issue of Silver Age Justice League.
I’m glad I’m past it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 15, 2023 16:13:46 GMT -5
I am watching Little Old New York (1923). I really love Marion Davies. In this film, she plays an Irish girl who dresses up as a boy to go to New York and claim an inheritance. I’m finding it very amusing.
The film is set in New York about 1806 or 1807. One of the highlights of the film is Robert Fulton launching the first steamboat on the Hudson River. And that happened in 1807.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 14, 2023 21:08:32 GMT -5
I got ahead reading the Avengers. So I went back and read the Doctor Strange stories that came out the same months as Avengers #10 and #11.
While Immortus was plucking Attila the Hun out of the timestream and teaching him English, and while Kang was making a Spider-Man robot and luring the Avengers to a Mayan temple because reasons, Dr Strange was engaged in his first battle with Dormammu in Strange Tales #126 and #127.
Cool!
I also read Avengers #12 and ... you know, it’s not as bad as I remembered it. The Mole Man’s plan is horrifying, but remember ... he hates all mankind. He is a monster. How he got the Earth to rotate faster is explained as vaguely as possible, but it’s not any more vague than any other Marvel science. And it’s not that far-fetched that the ants would be the first to notice. Also, I think it makes sense for Hank to make a big deal about it, but the response of Thor (THE ANTS TOLD YOU THIS!?) is perfectly natural.
And then ... THE RED GHOST! Just because. It’s odd to me that he’s fine with the Mole Man’s plan. You’re going to kill all the life on Earth’s surface? Let’s be partners!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 14, 2023 11:06:46 GMT -5
Noooo. I liked 12 a lot. Thor and Giant-man almost come to blows at the beginning. Well, that’s next. I haven’t read it for a while. I got Marvel Masterworks: Avengers, Volume Two more than ten years ago, and I used to read #15 to #20 quite a bit and usually skipped #11 to #14. Maybe I’ll like it better this time.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 14, 2023 11:03:55 GMT -5
It’s been a while since I read #11. It’s as bad as I remember. But I did find one thing I really liked ... the Chic Stone inking!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 14, 2023 9:55:37 GMT -5
Of the first 16 issues of Avengers. I feel the Immortus one was the weakest. Cap fighting the Avengers became he thinks they sold Rick out was inane. Why would the villain lie? Geez, Cap. But it’s not the worst. #14 is really really bad. #12 is not as bad ... but still pretty bad. I don’t know whose idea it was to treat the Mole Man as the major character discovery of the early 1960s. He is all over the place in early 1960s Marvel. (I do like the storyline in Tales to Astonish where he’s having a turf war with Tyrannus and it’s drawn by Bill Everett.) #11 is another big disappointment. I have to read that next.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 14, 2023 0:02:41 GMT -5
Immortus is lame! For a guy who’s Lord of Limbo and Master of Time, Space and Dimension, he’s not very good at this.
He brings up Goliath of Gath to fight Giant-Man and the Wasp.
And here comes Merlin to fight Iron Man.
And here’s Hercules to fight Thor. (It must be some fake Hercules. Or maybe it’s the mortal Hercules, the king of Tiryns.)
And all of Immortus’s champions get beat within a few panels.
The Enchantress casts a spell sending them all back in time a few days. The Avengers forget all about Immortus. But the Masters of Evil remember!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 13, 2023 22:56:25 GMT -5
I read the first few pages of Avengers #10.
THRILL to a four-panel battle between the Executioner and Paul Bunyan!
YOU’LL BE WOWED as Immortus transports Attila the Hun over the centuries into our own time and tutors him to speak very good English, probably with a New York accent.
Immortus can do ANYTHING!!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 13, 2023 12:32:09 GMT -5
I love The Black Dossier. I read most of it when I first got it and thought it was great. But there were a couple of the text pieces that I didn’t really get into, so I had it for four or five years, and would skim through it a lot without reading the whole thing.
Anyway, I finally treated it like a novel and read it from start to finish over a week to 10 days.
The Lovecraft/Wodehouse cross-over story is brilliant. Maybe my favorite segment from the entire series.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 13, 2023 6:53:34 GMT -5
Another bit I found amusing in Avengers #7 was the Executioner and the Enchantress visiting Zemo to join the Masters of Evil. Zemo says: My other two associates - the Radioactive Man and the Melter - are in the custody of the police. Wait ... wasn’t there another one? What was his name? The Porcupine! No, that’s not it. The Scarecrow, maybe? The Eel? Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but, just in case, the missing Master was good old Nathan Garrett a.k.a. The Black Knight.
Cei-U! I summon the armored asshat!
Poor Nathan Garrett. Not only did Zemo forget he ever existed but also he died fighting Iron Man and nobody noticed for two years.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 13, 2023 0:15:50 GMT -5
I’ve requested Play Misty for Me from the library.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 13, 2023 0:12:03 GMT -5
I read Avengers #9, which is a pretty good one, the introduction of Wonder Man.
Now ... there’s a run of stories that are mostly not good. I guess #13 is OK. But #10, #11, #12 and #14 are a mess.
I’m going to soldier on. It gets good again with #15.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 12, 2023 20:13:19 GMT -5
There’s usually a few films mentioned from every year that I haven’t seen. But 1971 has several major films, films that I keep hearing I should see, that I just haven’t got around to.
Play Misty for Me The Beguiled Duck, You Sucker!
These all seem like major blind spots that I should try to watch in the next month or so.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 12, 2023 19:00:11 GMT -5
Another bit I found amusing in Avengers #7 was the Executioner and the Enchantress visiting Zemo to join the Masters of Evil. Zemo says: My other two associates - the Radioactive Man and the Melter - are in the custody of the police.
Wait ... wasn’t there another one? What was his name?
The Porcupine! No, that’s not it. The Scarecrow, maybe? The Eel?
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 12, 2023 18:31:35 GMT -5
I forgot to mention something I noticed in Avengers #7.
Iron Man is disciplined for not replying to an Avengers alert in Tales of Suspense #56. He gets suspended from all Avengers activities for one week. (I’d think Stark would be happy for the vacation! Now if the bad guys would lay off attacking Stark Industries for a few days!)
They mention that he missed an important mission but they don’t say what it was!
There’s a missing Avengers mission from the early days of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!
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