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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 8, 2017 12:00:54 GMT -5
Just one. It was an issue of The Eltingville Club (which one, I honestly can't remember), but it was so vile, with horribly misogynistic themes and terribly offensive language, that I knew I was never going to read it again nor did I want either of my daughters to ever pick it up and leaf through it. Huh, which one? I love the Eltingville Club.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 7, 2017 11:54:47 GMT -5
My dad was not a comics fan at all, but he did have a handful of undergrounds which he let me read at a young age which likely warped me completely.
He also had some vague enjoyment of the Spectre, because he was so psycho. But he got the name wrong and said the Spirit. That inadvertently lead me to discover Eisner's character, which was far more interesting in the long run.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 7, 2017 11:49:59 GMT -5
I have never thrown out a comic, although there were a few that were so bad that I left them laying about on tables at cons for random passers-by to pick up! And there were many I donated to libraries or friends with small kids.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 7, 2017 11:47:59 GMT -5
I loved this series at the time and think it holds up well. Although I think a few of Roy's retcons are regreattable, in general the writing is much stronger than on All-Star Squadron.
I was never a fan of Robbins' art (I detested that he came in the middle of Captain America's battle with the Serpent Squad in his own comic and basically trashed the series in my eyes), but he was PERFECT for The Invaders, giving it an energetic but slightly old-fashioned feel. In fact I would say the series took a creative downturn after he left.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 1, 2017 11:38:14 GMT -5
If you read Englehart's Squadron story arc, they are definitely satirical, and it remains my favorite of all of them.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 1, 2017 11:35:41 GMT -5
It's not like the usual American sci-fi ... it's very abstract and intellectual ... but I also love the film.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 31, 2017 11:34:29 GMT -5
Hank Pym naturally went through many identities: Ant-Man, then Giant-man (due to his new ability to grow to giant size, natch), then Yellowjacket (when he suffered a nervous breakdown), then simply Dr. Pym, scientific adventurer (when he tried to give up costumed identities, which he viewed as a factor in his ongoing psychological problems), then Giant-Man again, then the Wasp (in honour of his supposedly-deceased ex-wife), and nowadays I have no idea who he might be. He also called himself Goliath for a while. I forget why; was it in reponse to the time when his growing powers as Giant-man were limited?
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 30, 2017 11:48:33 GMT -5
Kona was one of the downright strangest comics I have ever read, I own one issue and the characters all speak in this frenetic near-poetry.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 30, 2017 11:46:52 GMT -5
I liked the first 18 issues. When it switched to the Squadron I lost interest. I bought it in trade. I loved the first book, liked the second book, and thought the third was okay. When it switched names and went from the Icon to the Max line (or the other way around, whatever) it seemed like the logical place to bail.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 29, 2017 12:02:30 GMT -5
Another issue, which we got ameliorated due to the Crisis but eventually would have become serious: when the JSA were first revived, they were only 20 years older than the JLA. The Earth-1 heroes were in their 20s and the Earth-2 heroes in their 40s. By the time of the Crisis, the Earth-1 heroes were still in their 20s but the Earth-2 heroes in their 80s. How long would that have been sustainable?
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 29, 2017 11:59:18 GMT -5
I loved them when they appeared in Avengers and Defenders and got to be occasional satire. I have no interest with them as stars of their own comic.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 28, 2017 12:21:59 GMT -5
DC is the one I always think of with the most problematic sliding timeline, because of (a) the characters who are nailed down into the 1940s chronologically, and (b) the vast number of kid sidekicks who are now adults.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 28, 2017 12:19:54 GMT -5
Steranko devoted a full chapter of his History of Comics to the Spirit. He knew his stuff and definitely considered him an influence.
I would say rather that Eisner was influential on two different generations of cartoonists, in two different ways. He was a prime mover in the 40s (and remember, a lot of the Quality comic titlea as well as work from other companies were purchased from his studio), and then when the Warren reprints started in the 70s he influenced another set of creators who came into their own in the 80s.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 23, 2017 12:19:48 GMT -5
I suspect that a lot of current or recent comics with existing characters would have worked better as independent projects - Tom King's Mister Miracle comes to mind. Of course, that's the exact opposite of the theme of the thread. I've been waiting to pick up a copy of Darwyn Cooke's Minutemen for cheap, and frankly I wish he had told the same stories with a different bunch of characters.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Aug 21, 2017 11:38:53 GMT -5
I think Im more annoyed that a TV show like Big Bang Theory wants to show everyone what nerds are realy like. Yet the only thing that in the writers' minds that makes them nerds is they read comics, watch Star wars, and once fought over a prop ring from Lord of the Rings, and try to make clever quips about comics or Sci Fi usually in front of their hot girlfriends so the girls can roll their eyes to show how unnerdy and clueless they are abour anything their men say. Not to mention its painfully unfunny?
I've always compared BBT to the Eltingville Club -- which is much more negativistic about geeks and nerds but is incredibly funny.
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