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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 8:18:33 GMT -5
I absolutely love...team-up books! A man of impeccable taste.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 8:17:08 GMT -5
Since venting a little is always good... I am sure there is a special circle of Hell for these people: 1) those who set up youtube channels "teaching" you how to pronounce words (like, say, those confounding Irish names) where, instead of hearing the word pronounced by a native speaker, you get a machine reading the word aloud letter by letter; 2) those who follow bloggers devoutly and feel the urge to contribute to the comments section by writing "nothing more need be said" after each new post; 3) those who put fish in the office's microwave and stink up the place for hours. ...And yes, if these seem oddly specific, there's a reason. There. I said it! *cough! gasp*!!! You forgot to include those who have to say "First Post" and then there are usually others who are 4th or 5th away from being 1st and still say 1st post! First Post!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 8:16:05 GMT -5
The only thing more boring than watching Basketball , is watching college Basketball. The least of all the Major sports , even including Hockey. There I said it. On a similar note, the joke where people pretend to like American Football (the single most boring activity in all of time, space, and eternity) JUST to mess with me has gone on far too long. I'm actually now convinced that there is a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance that as many as three people who were born in the last 150 years actually enjoy watching Football. . . . . . . Nah, impossible.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 8:04:24 GMT -5
November 2009: Citizen Rex #5Written by Mario, drawn by Gilbert Hernandez. I really liked this SF story about a robot revolt, I think? I'd have to read it again to refresh my memory of the story but I remember enjoying the general ambience of the futuristic city and its weird characters, and of course Gilbert's art. Ooh, there's one I bought. I think I was buying a bunch of comics at this point but there doesn't seem to be a lot of overlap. (Also while I didn't get it when it came out I loved, loved, loved Greek Street in an "I can't imagine this appealing to anybody else in the WORLD" kinda way.)
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 7:55:03 GMT -5
I'm thinking that's a collage of images from Byrne's Marvel Team-Up run of the '70s, so might be a bunch of different inkers. In fact I'm thinking maybe some were from Champions and other titles to represent their Team-Up appearances, like the Ghost Rider. The Beast I don't think is by Byrne at all. Good catch! Yeah, only a handful of characters (Omega, Spider-Woman, Nova, Howard the Duck*) never appeared in Team-Up or Giant-Size Spider-Man. And off the top o' my head the only guest stars from the first 60 issues of MTU that I don't see are the (Grant Greer Nelson) Cat and the Man-Wolf. I don't see what you see in the Beast, but... that's a Sal Buscema mouth on Nova. If this is Byrne it is Byrne aping Sal. (Side-note: All of the Byrne issues of Marvel Team-Up are great.) * Howard appeared later on in the series after Byrne left as regular artist. Edit: Also missing the Sons of the Tiger and Dracula. Edit Edit: And Killraven.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 1:33:15 GMT -5
Eisner wins.
Still can't forgive the Silver Age X-Men for being the worst Marvel super-title for years.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 1:26:44 GMT -5
I dunno.. the overall composition of the thing just looks like mush to me. Maybe I'm spoiled by Perez, who could turn dozens of characters into an interesting formal design, with pleasing shapes and nice symmetry.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 4, 2020 1:22:33 GMT -5
Contractually I have to vote for the Steve Gerber title.
I've loved the Silver Age Legion ever since 2014 when I was a wee young lad of 37 but I never really got into anything after that.. maybe if the library gets nice trades of the Giffen run I might change my mind. Also really, really liked the post-2000 pre-movie version of the Guardians!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 2, 2020 17:35:01 GMT -5
I tend to find unboxing videos... I don't know, kind of "peak first world." But a 26-minute unboxing video for a slipcased set of books? Yeeesh! Does the guy lead with "And while I have never read a comic book, these will look great on my never-touched bookshelf" or does he wait till the end?
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 2, 2020 17:32:30 GMT -5
variant covers for any new X-Men comic series including the previous Return of Wolverine or Resurrection of Jean Grey, yeah some of the variants are cool but most of the time comic shops jack up the prices from 8 to 30 bucks. So theyre about as bad as people scalping prices on ebay or amazon with the variant covers. Im glad this kind of crap didnt go on a whole lot back in the 1990s. All we had back then were the dumb hologram covers for Spectacular Sider-Man, Spider-Man and the X-Men comics for Falal Attractions. Arent the Scottie Young cover variants for the new Wolverine # 1 and other X-Men stuff arent they getting jacked up prices right about now anyway at your local comic shop from 8 bucks or higher? Crazy But you can't blame the comic companies. Imposing imaginary and arbitrary limits on scarcity to increase "collectibility" for easy profits is always a great, successful business model. Look at Beany Babies! Still super popular and creating millionaires every day!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 28, 2020 10:24:28 GMT -5
Supergirl only really worked for me in the Jim Mooney days so it's hard to vote against that. But despite never having seen a full episode of the cartoon, I always appreciated the '90s Animated Series look.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 28, 2020 10:20:52 GMT -5
There were kid teams from various back then really, like Nedor’s Commando Cubs: Were they delineated in personality? Looks like. I assume all the Kid Gangs could be traced back to the Little Rascals, so there was a "smart" one a "tough" one a "funny" one, etc/ And, wow, is this a kid gang with a black member who isn't 1000% an "hilarious" racial stereotype? Kirby and Eisner etc. coulda learned a lot from Oskner & etc. The clearly defined personalities thing doesn't strike me as THAT big a deal. The Sub-Mariner acted differently from the Human Torch who acted very differently from Toro, ferinstance. And virtually all humor books had strongly deliniated characters, so most funny superheroes - Red Tornado or Johnny Thunder or Supersnipe - did as well.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 26, 2020 19:13:31 GMT -5
There was also the Magician From Mars, who first appeared in Amazing-Man Comics #7 (1939), with her feature continuing for a few more issues of A-M. As her name suggests, she was half-Martian. Her powers included super-strength, immortality and super-intelligence. Yeah, nice. That might be it. "Magician" ties her to the Mandrake archetype which isn't exactly a superhero but, well, she looks way more like a superhero(ine) than, say, Zatanna. Nice work!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 25, 2020 19:29:30 GMT -5
Young Allies! Marvel Family! Legion of Super-Pets! Liberty Legion! Justice Society, Super-Squad, and All Star Squadron as three different groups! Super-Friends! Mighty Crusaders! Liberty Legion! The Bat Squad! Legion of Monsters! Batmen of Many Nations! Liberty Legion! Lady Liberators! That Time All The Characters in Golden Age USA Comics Teamed Up In a Two Page Text Story that Was Supposed to Be Continued And Then Totally Wasn't! Liberty Legion
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 25, 2020 19:17:24 GMT -5
If I'm remembering right, Trina Robbins called The Woman in Red (Nedor Comics March 1940) the first superheroine. I forget the reasoning, but I suspect this is because Fantomah (A) was called "Mystery Woman of the Jungle" tying her to the Sheena-esque archetypes and (B) was so damn weird. Sad this comes up when Cei-U is off the internet.
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