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Post by brianf on Oct 5, 2020 16:42:29 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #2 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bruce Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Butch Guice / Art Adams Exploring the asteroid-like intelligent strange object The Micronauts try to return to their ship. Huntaar checks out some eggs and gets captured. The rest of the crew escapes and get back to their ship. The alien being launches itself in search of it's maker, shedding eggs in hyperspace. Huntaar returns changed, and as Rann communicates with the alien he discovers the aliens desire to commit suicide, so the Micronauts escape from the alien and hyperspace, leaving the alien to its fate. At the end of the issue the ship seems to be drifting in space and the crew are diagnosed with deadly radiation poisoning. Its hard for me to really get a grip on this issue. I mean, it's not horrible, but I'm not sure where things are going.   |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 6, 2020 13:52:09 GMT -5
I want a space gun that says Vreep! I'd settle for Frazz! but Vreep! would be coolest.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 6, 2020 21:49:41 GMT -5
I want a space gun that says Vreep! I'd settle for Frazz! but Vreep! would be coolest. I prefer the somnambutol weapons, from American Flagg.... (center and bottom panels)  |
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Post by brianf on Oct 8, 2020 17:10:48 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #3 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bruce Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Kelley Jones Searching for a planet to inhabit in uncharted space, Bug plays a game with holo X-Men, Mari destroys parts of the sick bay when she discovers a mini body banks onboard, plus due to sitcom levels of convenience the robots have not informed the crew of their deadly radiation poisoning. They find a weird planet where everything is coated in metal and the atmosphere is a giant laser. As the issue ends the robots seems to be blasted by the natural laser planet while the rest of the crew get dragged underground. While its not terrible I just find myself having a hard time caring - the Micronauts seem to make some really dumb decisions here. Also remember when Mari was basically leading the team? She seems to be ineffectual now.   |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 8, 2020 21:34:27 GMT -5
Micronauts The New Voyages #3 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bruce Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Kelley Jones Searching for a planet to inhabit in uncharted space, Bug plays a game with holo X-Men, Mari destroys parts of the sick bay when she discovers a mini body banks onboard, plus due to sitcom levels of convenience the robots have not informed the crew of their deadly radiation poisoning. They find a weird planet where everything is coated in metal and the atmosphere is a giant laser. As the issue ends the robots seems to be blasted by the natural laser planet while the rest of the crew get dragged underground. While its not terrible I just find myself having a hard time caring - the Micronauts seem to make some really dumb decisions here. Also remember when Mari was basically leading the team? She seems to be ineffectual now. So, does she have an actual swivel joint, like a doll, or did her spine snap? I don't think the human body can twist that far, without paralysis. |
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Post by brianf on Oct 8, 2020 21:50:35 GMT -5
yep, definetley a candidate for a boobs n butt Escher Girls pose |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 9, 2020 11:19:46 GMT -5
Seeing the Micronauts assault that police car, I am reminded of the matter of their diminutive size. I suppose that the original idea in having the Micronauts be tiny in our world was inspired by the actual size of the toys. It also harkened to the days of the Land of giants TV show, which Bill Mantlo doubtless saw as a kid (because we all did!) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_GiantsNow, how is it that they are so tiny? After all Psycho-man, the Fantastic Four nemesis who also hails from a subatomic universe, isn't five inches tall when he visits our Earth. My opinion at the time was that the Micronauts are five inches tall, even in their own universe. We don't realize in the scenes set on Homeworld because their entire civilization is naturally built to scale. That means that whenever a Micronaut travels to Earth they will seem to be leprechauns, and whenever an Earthling travels to the Microverse they will appear to be giants. The only way to change that is if the travellers don't simply cross the Spacewall but use a McGuffin like Pym particles to adopt whatever size they want. Now why are the "microns" who currently run around the Marvel Universe are normal sized, I do not know. That's anyway less of an enigma than their being alive, considering they all sacrificed themselves to bring life back to the Microverse at the end of their second series. (Perhaps a grateful Enigma Force gave them a second lease on life, giant-sized, away from the microverse?) Yes, I believe this is correct. It's mentioned in one of these early issues that Micronauts and humans both retain their relative size when they go between the earth and the Microverse. and indeed, when Ray Coffin and Professor Prometheus travel to the Microverse, that are giants there. It depends on how you get there. When the FF travelled there via Reed's reducta-craft (hey, it does what it says on the label), they were the same size as the Micronauts. But when the Human Torch used the Prometheus Pit, he was a giant. |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 9, 2020 11:26:20 GMT -5
I am remembering some kind of scene with Psycho-Man running micronaut-sized out of his large oversized body which was a construct... perhaps that was in one of those Peter David Captain Marvels? Maybe you're thinking of the Byrne FF story where he was using an oversized body to make the FF think they were small?
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 9, 2020 13:27:30 GMT -5
Could be. This is what I get for reading so many comics from the '70s to early '00s the last while, they all get mushed together in limited short term memory cells (plus a lot of effort to keep late '90s Spider-Woman and Spider-Girl separate). I think I'm still not quite over there never being Marionette or Bug figures you could find in the toy department. Having said that I expect there could be now, and probably expensive limited editions! These might be one-of-a-kind though...    |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 9, 2020 17:06:27 GMT -5
Bug was based on Galactic Warrior. He's even named that in the roll call in the earliest issues.
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 10, 2020 12:07:47 GMT -5
Since Trevor resurrected this, an item of interest for Micronauts fans/collectors. A copy of the Micronauts board game form the 70s is currently up for auction in Lonestar auctions, ending tomorrow night. Lonestar auction  I was tempted to bid, but I have a shelf of games that never get played and I doubt I could get anyone to play this one with me around here, so I am holding off. Love the reviews Trevor, feel free to pick up where I left off man, as I don't think I will be doing reviews of anything for a long while. -M That's awesome! I've never even heard of that. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 10, 2020 12:09:47 GMT -5
Micronauts #12  Writer - Bill Mantlo Penciler - Michael Golden (his last issue, alas) Inker - Al Milgrom Colorist - Carl Gafford Letterer - Diana Albers Editor - Al Milgrom Cover Artist - Michael Golden Wikia Synopsis Karza is dead! The Great Pit is dark, the Body Banks are quiet, the Dog Soldiers are imprisoned. The people of Homeworld honor the Microns at a rally. Then the time comes to heal, to rebuild, to chart a new future. The team mourns Bug, who disappeared after an explosion. Acroyear must part from the Microns to return home and lead his people through their own renewal. On Earth, Colonel Macey sifts through the wreckage in the Human Engineering Life Laboratory. He finds an Acroyear preserved in a tube and sends it to SHIELD. Later, Nick Fury and Dum-Dum Dugan summon Agent M to take it to someone in New York. That evening, Ray Coffin and his son, Steve, share a bonding moment after their recent experiences. On Spartak, Shaitan stands trial for treason. He has always hated his brother, King Acroyear, and turned him over to Karza as much out of revenge as ambition. When the king offers exile instead of execution, Shaitan invokes the tradition of blood-feud, that is, trial by combat. Acroyear and Shaitan are dropped off in the Shattered Plains, the least habitable part of Spartak, to hunt and kill each other. A light crosses the sky. Acroyear remembers that this same Herald Comet appeared when he and Shaitan were born. Shaitan takes advantage of this distraction to ambush him, by crushing him under a boulder. Acroyear loses his power sword under the rubble. The battle begins. While he fights for his life, Acroyear again offers to spare Shaitan's. The traitor accuses Acroyear of growing soft during his time with the Microns. Acroyear contends that emotions such as love denote strength, not weakness. Without his sword, though, he finds it hard to prove his point. Shaitan beats him back to the lip of a magma pit. Acroyear gropes for a weapon, anything, to deflect the next blow. He finds Shaitan's sword and raises it to parry Shaitan's force-hammer; but Shaitan lunges forward, impales himself on his own sword, and dies. "Are you satisfied now, you cold, unfeeling world?" says Acroyear. "Brother has killed brother! Justice has been won by the sword! By the Holy Rock, how I have come to despise your 'justice'!" He sees the Herald Comet again. This time, though, it is a Time Traveler following Bug through hyperspace. Once Bug, still unconscious, returns to normal space, he falls through a forest canopy and lands on Kaliklak, his own world .... While this is a cool cover, I think they should have had Acroyear fighting Shaitan on the cover instead. I think that would have been a lot better in terms of selling the issue. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 10, 2020 17:04:00 GMT -5
Yes, I believe this is correct. It's mentioned in one of these early issues that Micronauts and humans both retain their relative size when they go between the earth and the Microverse. and indeed, when Ray Coffin and Professor Prometheus travel to the Microverse, that are giants there. It depends on how you get there. When the FF travelled there via Reed's reducta-craft (hey, it does what it says on the label), they were the same size as the Micronauts. But when the Human Torch used the Prometheus Pit, he was a giant. I'd try to get a no-prize by saying that Reed's device changes people's size (kind of like Hank Pym's gas), but the Prometheus pit shrinks you until you shift from our universe to the Microverse, where you have your "normal" relative size. Ditto when you break the spacewall. |
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Post by brianf on Oct 13, 2020 16:13:54 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #4 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bruce Patterson, Akin & Garvey Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Keith Pollard Once underground Mari & Rann get zapped into a dancing dream world while the other 'Nauts fight robots and a crushing room, until the turd-like aliens that occupy the planet make themselves known. The robots dig underground and get somewhat blasted. The action is predictable and drawn out. Yawn.   |
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Post by brianf on Oct 13, 2020 16:39:13 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #5 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Pat Redding Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Keith Pollard With the aliens help the team tries to save the robots, but Biotron attacks Mari so Rann has to shoot it - is it destroyed? The Aliens take the Micronauts to their home planet and in a confusing scene it appears Rann is flying in the partially destroyed Endeavor II, but that winds up being a memory tape dream? Once on the alien planet they find the population copying their body types, Bug gets sad as Mari & Rann seem to be reigniting their romance, and there's talk of spiral universe (or something) created by the makers. Overall, I just don't care. I'll try to keep my negative comments to a minimum as I force myself to read this series, damn it. Its like I'm being forced to eat food that I don't like the taste of. Brussel sprouts, again?   |
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