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Post by coinilius on Jan 8, 2020 17:09:23 GMT -5
I prefer it when the crossovers Treat them as actual crossovers, with the heroes and villains travelling from one world to another to meet up - but I also like to think that sometimes the universes converge and they exist on the same earth for periods of time - so the old Superman/Spider-Man crossovers etc all still happened, the universes just aligned for those stories, allowing them to happen. When I was organising my Spider-Man stories into a chronological order I even used the first Superman/Spider-Man to help smooth the placement of some other stories lol
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Post by coinilius on Jan 7, 2020 16:52:08 GMT -5
I did form an attachment to Ben Reilly. And convoluted though the "Clone Saga" was (they'd have made the producers of the Saw films proud!), it sort of looked like it had been the plan all along even though it required major suspension of disbelief. To be honest, I was also happy at the thought of Peter Parker retiring to a quiet life. I don't think I'd have minded seeing Reilly remain in the role. I’m currently up to the 80’s in a Spider-Man read through I’ve been doing, and I chose The Final Adventure mini-series as my end point, treating it as an actual final story for Peter Parker. While I don’t think Ben was all that good an idea or the Clone Saga all that well handled, I did like the character and wished he had been used differently.
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Post by coinilius on Mar 8, 2019 9:48:16 GMT -5
I think it’s a reference to the aborted Alan Moore Twilight of the Super Heroes project
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Post by coinilius on Jan 29, 2019 2:57:40 GMT -5
You can purchase copies of the scripts to the issues that Steve Engleheart had completed for the Captain Victory project from his website - I bought them and read them a while ago and they are an interesting read, both in the context of what Topps was doing with the ‘Kirbyverse’ and in relation to the other takes on Captain Victory there has been over the years.
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Post by coinilius on Jan 18, 2019 22:12:55 GMT -5
About the cover... Here, we see the Mike Sekowsky Shaggy Man cover (with Murphy Anderson inks) for Justice League of America #45 (June, 1966) and this review's JLA #104 (February, 1973) by Nick Cardy. My, my, how Shaggy Man & the JLA benefited the next time around. The Cardy cover is not exactly spectacular, but its an undeniably energetic layout taking most of the same basic elements of #45, but actually giving it life. Typical of the great Cardy, no matter what he worked with/on. Great comparison of the covers, although I would disagree about which one works better - the original Sekowsky image seems far more powerful to me, with a more striking use of colour contrasted against the black background (and possibly some hints of Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son in it's depiction of the Shaggy Man). The Cardy version just looks a bit cluttered and overly busy, no doubt an effect made worse by the smaller amount of cover space given to the actual image.
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Post by coinilius on Dec 29, 2018 18:51:14 GMT -5
Yes the original came with 3d glasses so you could read it in 3d, with the conceit being that the glasses you were given were made from pieces of Superman’s 4D armor from the story.
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Post by coinilius on Dec 29, 2018 8:42:54 GMT -5
And the Superman Beyond tie-in to Final Crisis involves the use of 3D glasses as part of the story.
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Post by coinilius on Dec 7, 2018 17:56:58 GMT -5
Really enjoying this thread so far!
Are you going to look at the JLA/WildCATs crossover as well? It is also by Grant Morrison from this period, featuring the electric blue Superman and the Lord of Time as the villain.
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Post by coinilius on Sept 21, 2018 18:44:54 GMT -5
Did anyone else read the BSG vs BSG mini series that came out recently?
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Post by coinilius on Jul 19, 2018 16:34:24 GMT -5
I always thought it was called ‘To Riverdale and Back Again’ but it looks like it had multiple names - I remember seeing an ad for the comic adaptation back in the day lol
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Post by coinilius on May 27, 2018 23:41:40 GMT -5
About Grant Morrison’s take on Magneto - I felt at the time that it really wasn’t as big a departure as other people seemed to think, not based on what had been done with the character in Eve of Destruction just before Morrison’s run started. And Magneto as an addict had been seen before with Fabien Cortez. It was still not a take on Nagneto I liked, but it didn’t feel completely removed from what had been happening with him - but it’s been a long time since I read Eve of Destruction and I have no plans on reading it again so I could be completely off base, just going with what I remember feeling at the time.
Also just wanted to say that this has been a great thread to follow, There has been so much insightful commentary and observations!
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Post by coinilius on May 12, 2018 21:42:00 GMT -5
I was looking for it a few months ago but didn’t end up picking it up - I did get the three comics Marvel put out to coincide with the first movie, which included a movie adaptation, a follow up to the movie and another set in the original Aircel continuity. They were all written by Lowell Cunningham, the original creator and writer.
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Post by coinilius on Mar 19, 2018 9:42:59 GMT -5
Yes I know Shockers appearance in the last issue of Uncanny Avengers is old yada yada, I was just asking if Shocker appearaed anywhere else in any of the newer Legacy Spider Man stuff or nit. Jeez Jeez sorry I honestly didn’t know he even had appearances in Uncanny Avengers - I stopped reading that book long before the shocker turned up in it and don’t know if it continued or had a volume 2 or what - you asked if Shocker had appeared recently and I said that he had, in Spider-Man, and they were talking about parole so he was out of jail. As far as I know, I gave you a possible answer to your question? Like I said in my previous post, my reading schedule is hardly bang up to date, so i’m hardly going to be casting aspersions on someone else who is reading old stuff (especially on a Classic Comics board!) - hope that clears things up a bit.
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Post by coinilius on Mar 18, 2018 21:02:31 GMT -5
Shocker was just in an issue of Spider-Man, the one that isn’t written by Dan Slott, and he was coming out of the ‘bar with no name’ (that currently has a name) where JJJ and Betty used the idea of taking photos of him associating with criminals to send to his parole officer as leverage to get him to tell them something or do something for them, I don’t quite remember the details.
No idea how that relates to the issue of Uncanny Avengers either in real life or within the fictional universe though (given my reading schedule it’s probably a couple months old at least by now).
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Post by coinilius on Oct 15, 2017 4:08:18 GMT -5
I’ll have to track down a copy and check it out...
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