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Post by sabongero on Aug 15, 2020 13:02:13 GMT -5
Iron man #176"Turf" November 1983 Writer: Denny O'Neil & Ann Nocenti Penciler: Luke McDonnell Inker: Steve Mitchell Colorist: Carl Gafford Letterer: Rick Parker Editor: Mark Gruenwald Editor-In-Chief: Jim Shooter Synopsis: For a thousand years, an alien has been preventing an alien invention from entering the portal on Earth. At Stane International, Rhodes and Morley went to Stane's office to effect their resignation. Morley planned on starting his own company. Elsewhere, a homeless man was about to get a beatdown from a gang of teenagers before a homeless Tony Stark bribed them with a cufflink with diamonds to leave the homeless man alone. Both homeless men talked about the downturn in their lives. At Rhodes' home he contemplated calling a lady from his black book for companionship, but changed his mind and put on the red and gold armor to take a look at the vortex when he "saved" Voorhies. Arriving at the bunker of the Daughters of Ishtar, Iron Man was received by the women. The "sensitive" announced the creature underneath the vortex is growing weaker, as she can sense it. Curious about the technology, Iron Man and the "sensitive" phased down the floor until they reached where the creature was. Meanwhile the homeless man told Tony about his war wounds from the Korean War, and Tony just nodded not paying attention to him. And Iron Man and the "sensitive" arrived where the Guardian/Alien was preventing a full scale invention. Sensing the creatures pain, the "sensitive" collapsed into unconsciousness. An alien ship appeared through the portal. Sitting against a building's wall in the sidewalk, Tony starts getting wet as rain poured down, the other homeless man offered him a place inside his cardboard "home." Iron man tangled with the alien ship. The "sensitive" told Iron Man he has to close the portal as the Guardian/Alien is dying. Using his repulsors to maximum power, Iron Man caused a cave in to cover the portal. And in that instant, the Guardian/Alien disintegrated into dust. In the cavern, Iron Man brought the "sensitive" back to the surface area. Elsewhere, the rain stopped and the cardboard home of the homeless man was destroyed. He went to go find another place to put a "home." Tony just walked away and sat in another street and sat down looking at a piece of cardboard. Comments: It's a serviceable throw-away story. It's too bad there weren't any back story given to the alien or perhaps even getting a glimpse of the technology. Unfortunately, throw-away stories aren't deep and we have a sample over here. Given Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter's strict deadlines, this story felt like it was hurried just to put an issue of Iron Man in the stands at the time. Too bad that Guardian/Alien creature story wasn't written in the modern era, perhaps we could have had more depth than just it preventing an alien invasion for a thousand years. Also, the creature was a generic looking wraith. It could've had more "originality" than looking like the Dire wraiths that Rom was facing around that era in Marvel. The most exciting part of this issue was when Rhodes and Morley resigned from Stane. And that's saying something about this issue.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 15, 2020 11:48:25 GMT -5
Hi guys. Can I just ask. Since John Romita Sr. was an illustrator on romance comic books, hence when he took over ASM duties from Steve Ditko, his Peter Parker illustrations were of a good looking guy instead of Ditko's nerdy-looking Peter Parker. But that's not my question. My question is "What do you think of the romance comic books produced by Marvel or DC? Were they cheesy or did they at least have some semblence of 'realistic'-like love stories?" Also, what romance comic books from DC or Marvel have any of you read, and are there reprints available by any chance? Thanks. Generally speaking, romance comics were about as "realistic," as your average Harlequin romance novel. They are fantasy as much as the superhero comics. I only sampled them, 'cause...cooties; but, there were some really well done ones and there was the pure crap. They boasted some of the best pure "artists" in comics. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez did some stunning work on Charlton's line of romance comics. Steranko did at least one, if not a couple, at Marvel. I know there have been a couple of reprint issues, at DC and there is John Lustig's Last Kiss, which are humorously altered segments of Charlton's First Kiss romance comic. This book, from Amazon's CreateSpace print-on-demand service, collects some Golden Age romance stories. In 1979, Fireside Books published 3 collections of genre comics from DC, one of which was Heart Throbs, The Best of DC Romance Comics, edited by Naomi Scott (the others were America At War and Mystery In Space, both edited by Batman producer Michael Uslan). Of the three books, it commands the highest prices, as it is far rarer than the others, which were a bit rarer than the bulk of the Marvel collections from Fireside. The Amazon listing for it also has related links to a collection of Stan Lee Marvel romance comics and one of EC's Modern Romance. There is also an entry for some romance stories from Ogden Whitney. Fantagraphics published Young Romance, The Best of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics, with an intro by noted fan authority and collector Michelle Nolan. Nolan also wrote a history of romance comics, Love On The Racks, A History Of American Romance Comics. Jack Kirby illustrated romance? Man I can't wait to get a hold of that and see some Kirby Crackle during the lip-locking.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 15, 2020 10:57:11 GMT -5
Hi guys. Can I just ask. Since John Romita Sr. was an illustrator on romance comic books, hence when he took over ASM duties from Steve Ditko, his Peter Parker illustrations were of a good looking guy instead of Ditko's nerdy-looking Peter Parker. But that's not my question. My question is "What do you think of the romance comic books produced by Marvel or DC? Were they cheesy or did they at least have some semblence of 'realistic'-like love stories?"
Also, what romance comic books from DC or Marvel have any of you read, and are there reprints available by any chance? Thanks.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 14, 2020 11:16:57 GMT -5
Amazing Spider-Man #269 & #270 The Amazing Spider-Man takes on the power-cosmic powered former herald, Firelord. Two of my favorite comic books as a kid. I remember reading Firelord as a character with Unearthly Strength (100 tons or more) in the Marvel Universe Official Handbook, while Spider-Man was like at something like 5-10 tons are his limits. And Spider-Man knocked out this guy at the end. Wow!
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Post by sabongero on Aug 12, 2020 12:10:33 GMT -5
Hercules tows Manhattan with a chain... -M I can confirm that this event actually happened...
because a friend of mine told me that she read about it on the internet. She said it was really neat that, after towing Manhattan back into place, Hercules was able to perfectly align Manhattan's East River shore with the Bronx and the Heights, and how he was also able to re-connect every power line, gas line and subway tunnel underneath within a few hours... Holy smokes. NYC needs to hire Herc as MTA Maintenance. Since he's faster at it than the whole outfit.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 12, 2020 12:08:45 GMT -5
Lex invents the Amazon.com delivery drone. Post-crisis Lex would've patented that thing. Scientist pre-crisis Lex... well he's not into the business aspect of his inventions.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 7, 2020 14:56:05 GMT -5
I realize this isn't a great description, but hopefully someone can help. I'm trying to remember the name of a historical comic (possibly set in Rome or Greece) that was done entirely by one person. I'm not sure if it's still coming out, but I know it was intended to take a really long time to actually complete because the creator was being really meticulous. Quick guess: Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower? www.age-of-bronze.com/Oh man I am such a big lover oh ancient history and ancient historical settings. Besides Age of Bronze, does anyone else know of any comic book series (limited series, ongoing series, old completed series) that is on ancient historical based settings? I'd really appreciate it, Thanks.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 3, 2020 11:29:55 GMT -5
Okay since this happened back around the Infinite Crisis crossover era around 2006, and since they're going to eventually meet with the new creative team on the ongoing series, what do you think about Wonder Woman eventually coming face-to-face with Maxwell Lord ? I mean after all, this happened in the past:
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Post by sabongero on Aug 3, 2020 10:48:41 GMT -5
Oh man, I could really use a good joke right now. I've been running on empty on really LOL jokes the last few weeks. The forthcoming presidential race this year not joke enough for you?!?🤯 Okay okay I have to admit that was a good one. I could use that in a punchline somewhere.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 3, 2020 9:58:57 GMT -5
Hi. Do you recommend this series as an ongoing to follow for readers? I haven't followed an ongoing war series since the 80's-early 90's NAM and the fake war on G. I. Joe A Real American Hero in the 1980's. I think it's just a mini but definitely worth following, the art is fantastic and the characters are solid. I wouldn't even have heard or known about it if you didn't mention it here. I'll check it out along with Wonder Woman #759 (WW 759 out of curiosity of an Eisner winner writing that title and the person illustrating draws great dinosaurs). Too bad it's just a mini-series. By the way do you know of any WAR comic books even if it's a mini series that came out over the last decade by any chance ?
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Post by sabongero on Aug 3, 2020 9:03:44 GMT -5
Looking forward to passing by the local comic book shop this week to pickup Wonder Woman #759. The new writer for the series won the 2020 Eisner so hopefully she puts out new stories for one of the DC's Trinity.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 3, 2020 8:44:43 GMT -5
Oh man, I could really use a good joke right now. I've been running on empty on really LOL jokes the last few weeks.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 3, 2020 8:43:22 GMT -5
No comments on the last couple of pages of discussion on that particular recently deceased person. Whoever that is, at least no more suffering physically. Of course this is coming from someone whose got renal kidney failure and needs a machine to stay alive three times per week, disabled after a hit and run. So whew... glad to still be part of the living.
I just want to comment on the RIP Thread to say, hopefully we don't have any more deaths from writers and illustrators of the select few from the Silver Age that are still alive this year.
Have a good day everyone.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 3, 2020 8:36:37 GMT -5
Lost Soldiers #1Written by Ales Kot Art by Luca Casalanguida Summary: Soldiers of the Vietnam War find themselves engaged in the War on Drugs along the southern border. Plot: I've read this issue a few times now(it was actually the third book I read this week) and I'm still not entirely sure what to make of it. While I really liked the portrayal of war as something legitimately horrible and not just some lazy way to make a character seem tough, and the characterization of Burke and Kowalski was very strong I'm not really sure where it's going or why the two time frames of 1969 Vietnam and current day Mexico were chosen and what these men's lives will ultimately say. That said there's more than enough to keep me interested; there's a depth of emotions here that draws you and makes you want to see and know more. Hopefully things become clearer as the story progresses. Art: I think a lot of my optimism about where this story could go comes from just how beautiful the art is. Casalanguida doesn't shy away from the horrors of war and here he has a knack of not only portraying the physical effects but also the mental tole as we saw ghostly images of battle transparently overlayed over the shell shocked Burke just sitting in the middle of a crowded mess hall. It's a small detail but it really gets you into the character's head in a quick, but beautiful way. Grade: 7/10 Hi. Do you recommend this series as an ongoing to follow for readers? I haven't followed an ongoing war series since the 80's-early 90's NAM and the fake war on G. I. Joe A Real American Hero in the 1980's.
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Post by sabongero on Aug 1, 2020 22:02:42 GMT -5
Supergirl vol.5 #0October 2005 "The New Adventures of Supergirl the Girl of Steel!" Writers: Jeph Loeb Pencilers: Ian Churchill Inkers: Norm Rapmund Colourists: Christina Strain Letterers: Richard Starkings Editors: Eddie Berganza and Tom Palmer Jr. Executive Editor: Dan DiDio Synopsis: Responding to Air Force One's distress call, Supergirl darted from Paradise Island to try and save the damaged airplane carrying the President. Monitoring her was Superman and Batman at the Batcave. Having some difficulty as the winged engine she was holding tore off, Superman sped immediately and assisted her. With the plane safely down, she flew away immediately with Superman in pursuit. They were being monitored by someone (who turned out to be the super-villain The Calculator who was reporting to his superior about Supergirl) besides Batman. And Supergirl lost Superman in the moon, who was tailing her. She appeared in the Batcave a little annoyed that Batman and Superman were monitoring her lacking trust in her abilities, to which Batman responded that Superman didn't want her to get hurt. Telling him they were wrong, she left the premises and headed to Gotham City to monitor for criminal activities since she was in the area. Later that evening, Supergirl met Batgirl on the rooftops of Gotham City. They crashed a criminal activity being performed by Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. As the four tangled, security personnel under Poison Ivy's power shot at Batgirl but the bullets bounced off Supergirl who sped in front of Batgirl to prevent the bullets from hitting her. Poison Ivy then kissed Supergirl to gain control of her, but with no effect and she took down Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. But was attacked from behind by Batgirl who was unusually strong. But Supergirl knew "Batgirl" wasn't the real one as she knew Barbara Gordon was paralyzed and was now Oracle. Clayface revealed himself from his Batgirl disguise and wanting to test how powerful Supergirl was approached her. He never found out as Supergirl tore the concrete cement underneath him and hurled it and him far away towards the river. Later on, Supergirl and Superman spoke and commenting on her first encounter with super-villains was going to give her some advice and she flew off, that he just ruined it at the moment. Meanwhile, The Calculator reported to his benefactor regarding the report on Supergirl. And it turned out to be Lex Luthor who was wearing his armor with his gauntlet full of different colored kryptonites. Comments: That was an interesting read, more-so than I expected. I liked that Supergirl felt like an annoyed teenager being surveiled by parents in the form of Batman and Superman. And leaving Superman each time he was about to tell her something akin to a parent telling a teenaged daughter something that would annoy a teenager. Her emotions are bubbling just under the surface. It's amazing how powerful and faster she seemed than Superman to be able to lose him in the moon. It was fascinating to see Batgirl, the Barbara Gordon version, and I knew something was wrong because at this time in the comic book industry she was wheel chair bound and was known as Oracle. At the same time, it's good to see Lex Luthor and see in future issues what plans and schemes he has for Supergirl. Ian Churchill's illustrations are clear and very easy on the eyes. When illustrations are good to look at and not too cartoony it makes reading and looking at the sequential art to be more easier to read. I especially liked the action lines which were curved and solid red coloring to showcase two speeding flying superheroes chasing each other, and not just presented as straight solid black lines. Some of the panels had cinematic visuals which were great with the background of the city in complete details. They looked like postcard moments. Very nicely done.
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