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Post by coinilius on Mar 9, 2023 14:39:54 GMT -5
I just think if you’re gonna keep repeating things, what’s the incentive to buy new stuff? I believe the original run of The Amazing Spider-Man lasted 441 issues, from 1963 until 1999. If 440 issues were all the same as the first issue, why would I buy the trades? Why not just acquire the first issue and re-read that once a week? Yeah, like I said it depends. Not sure how I feel about Peter marrying MJ and her becoming America's top model, but I like that Peter and Flash eventually became friends. Still, did Peter/Spider-Man really change? He was still the same character in essence. I feel like Spider-Man is a great example for the whole ‘illusion of change’ thing - because Spider-Man started as a 15 year old teenager, his character and stats quo pretty much had to go through changes as they slowly allowed the character to age (sometimes slower than other times). You can see Peter graduate high school, go to college, see his relationships with his peers change as he goes along - I started reading Spider-Man in the late 80’s, early 90’s so Peter marrying MJ was just part of the series for me, I hated all the efforts they went through to remove it later on.
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Post by coinilius on Mar 9, 2023 14:34:09 GMT -5
What is the general thought on this forum about the Green lantern series? Is it a good franchise, or is it the same as Hawkman and , 2 series that always get canceled ? I am aware that Geoff Johns had a nice few years and made the book popular for a while, but it always seems like the book has never been solid. As a franchise, it works best when they are 'space cops' and kinda off on their own, not really doing things on Earth or with the rest of the heroes. I find Hal Jordan boring as heck. Guy is fine. Kyle's MY Green Lantern, and he worked best as an actual super hero in the DCU, imo. John Stewart is great for being the leader of the Corps when they do space things. I hated the emotional spectrum stuff, that made me stop reading, and I don't love all the GLs of earth being around at once. My thoughts on the Green Lanterns are pretty similar, although there is room for the space cop stuff to be done as their own book as well, I generally find the attempts to give the Corps a spin off series to usually be kind of dull. Silver Age Hawkman and Hawkwoman are just some of my favourite characters though, before all the retcons and reboots. I liked the new Hawkman series that was around recently but I didn’t like how it’s decision to fix Hawkman’s origin was… too add more things it the origin. And completely make Katar just a version of Carter.
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Post by coinilius on Mar 7, 2023 16:32:20 GMT -5
I loved the Secret Files and Origins issue on the headquarters, with a Grant Morrison story about the Justice League cave, and a story about the Legion’s headquarters where it’s revealed it is actually the corpse of Fortress Lad, a Legion try-out who sacrifices himself to save them. I’ve always wanted a story where the Legion headquarters has been infiltrated, the Legion are all defeated except for like one member who reveals that the clubhouse itself is a living, breathing Legionnaire…
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Post by coinilius on Jan 28, 2023 1:01:00 GMT -5
There is a really good video on the creation and process of creating Strangehaven on YouTube by In Praise of Shadows:
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Post by coinilius on Aug 24, 2022 7:54:28 GMT -5
You’d think Hal would make sure there was no yellow around in his apartment or whatever, just in case accidents like that happen!
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Post by coinilius on Aug 23, 2022 16:34:36 GMT -5
Hal Jordan slips on a bar a soap. I thought his ring protects him . It should have been yellow soap… …oh someone already made that joke lol
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Post by coinilius on Aug 15, 2022 16:37:18 GMT -5
I hated 90s Rob Liefeld Captain America and wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I’ve always had a soft spot for those issues - even bought the ‘follow up’ Fighting American mini-series that repurposed some of the unused later material!
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Post by coinilius on Jul 19, 2022 16:32:26 GMT -5
Have you ever discovered a character a different way from just buying a comic? Of course, my first major exposure to Marvel and DC characters were the Spider-Man (and his Amazing Friends) and Superfriends cartoons, but my first exposure to the Fantastic Four I had was via this children's book I got when I was around 6 years old: It's actually a pretty fun story that shows off the abilities of the FF and was a good starting point for me to discover who they were. I had that book as well! I always found it so strange lol the art is indeed very lovely though
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Post by coinilius on Feb 7, 2022 23:52:53 GMT -5
Also Deadpool is ruined now. He actually use to be a good character. Now he is just .... ugh. Made it through 10 minutes of the first movie and walked away. He's also annoyingly obnoxious in Ultimate Spiderman animated series, a show I otherwise liked. Could not agree more. I watched half the first movie, stopped it and never came back to it - it just did not do anything for me. One day I am going to have to make myself watch the rest of it…
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Post by coinilius on Dec 5, 2021 4:21:07 GMT -5
Looking online, an article at the Jack Kirby Museum mentions that the 1977 Jack Kirby Collector 14 has a story on the Galactus origin, if that helps the search.
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Post by coinilius on Dec 2, 2021 23:00:16 GMT -5
An outstandingly classic example of misguided writing.
Without any input from Kirby, SILVER SURFER #1 gave the Surfer an origin that actually managed to COMPLETELY CONTRADICT everything about his character and personality that had been published up to that point!
A few years ago, a rumor came out that there were 3 different writers-- all uncredited-- who actually did the stories in that run of SILVER SURFER: Roy Thomas, Denny O'Neil & Archie Goodwin. As soon as I read that, I found it very believable. Roy's work was always overly-serious and pretentious; O'Neil's was the same, but if anything, even more downbeat and depressing (that pretty much sums up that entire run). Only Goodwin was a really decent writer... and my suspicion was, that he did the ONE issue that dealt heavily with science-fiction concepts, as it seemed better than the rest. (#6: "Worlds Without End")
In a more subtle and insidious way... Kirby was writing an origin for Galactus to appear in THOR... but somewhere along the way, the pages he did were published completely out of sequence, spread out over several issues, and with the dialogue totally altering everything Kirby had done when he wrote the story originally.
This is what happens when you have one guy doing the writing... and ANOTHER guy deliberately IGNORING everything the 1st guy did, altering the published work so it bears almost no resemblence to what the actual writer had intended.
Interesting - I remember an article in the Kirby Collector that tried to reconstruct Kirby's original intentions for the Surfer - have they ever done something similar with that Galactus origin story in Thor? I agree that it's always seemed an oddly un-Kirby-like thing to do with the character but I've always just written it off as a momentary lapse in judgment. It would be fascinating to see what he actually had in mind at the time. I’m pretty sure they did, but it’s been a while… maybe I’m thinking of an a discussion Tolworthy might have had? I think there was an issue of the Jack Kirby Collector that was about Galactus’ origin and it involved the Watcher?
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Post by coinilius on Sept 2, 2021 21:17:12 GMT -5
Star Trek received the parody treatment while it was first-run on NBC. MAD #115 produced the first with "Star Blecch" (December, 1967). Art by Mort Drucker & written by Dick De Bartolo. ...and for Trek fans, it was great to see publicity photos of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy on the set, reading the very issue of MAD featuring their series - By 1976, Star Trek was a major pop cultural phenomenon, and among the near-endless publications about the series released in that year, MAD placed their own spin on how the series might be exploited in "Keep on Trekin' - The MAD Star Trek Musical" from MAD #186 (October, 1976). Art by Mort Drucker, written by Frank Jacobs with a Jack Rickard cover. Almost every satire magazine tried their hand at sending up Star Trek, but the early MAD work seen here was head and shoulders above the rest. I’ve got a MAD special from when I was a kid that collected all the Star Trek parodies they had done (up to Undiscovered Country, which unfortunately doesn’t have Mort Drucker art) - it’s a great collection and I’m pretty sure they have done subsequent collections with later parodies as well
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Post by coinilius on Aug 20, 2021 5:02:08 GMT -5
I’m not sure the green scarlet witch costumes are ‘mistakes’ exactly - I always figured they just deliberately coloured her that way to make the cover images more striking or something, and this being the early days of marvel they just weren’t as interested in whether that was ‘correct’ or not…
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Post by coinilius on Jul 20, 2021 6:10:02 GMT -5
Wow congratulations and good work - while I don’t always agree with your theories, I love the passion you bring to them all and always enjoy reading them!
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Post by coinilius on Dec 15, 2020 14:47:10 GMT -5
At least a couple of those comics actually had new content, for example Spider-Man Comic #607 (1984) Anybody have a list of which ones? There was a British four-part story in #607-610 involving Assassin-8. They were considering switching to original stories in case reprints with Spider-Man in his black costume were poorly received. There was a one off story during the time Peter had the alien symbiote as his costume as well, in the Secret Wars and Zoids comic (issue 25 I think)
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