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Post by brianf on Oct 13, 2020 22:26:09 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #6 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Michael Golden Nice cover by Golden. As Bug flies off looking for his homewold the other Mircos are betrayed as the aliens show their real intentions by being evil slave holders who like to sacrifice their prisoners' to their god Borborygmus... but nope, that never happened, it was just Bug day dreaming. Instead the (still) friendly aliens get attacked by space pirates led by a fly looking captain... nope, another Bug dream. Bugs space companion is getting bored by him, he dreams some more, then heads back to rejoin the Micronauts. Err..... lotta wheel spinning going on here. Nice cover by Golden.  |
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Post by brianf on Oct 13, 2020 22:44:09 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #7 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Akin & Garven Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Keith Pollard Flashback Acroyear issue. So yeah, does anything ever happen in this series without out dragging it out........ ? Will this particular story tie into anything? There's really no ongoing plot at this point - Micros are just hanging out in an alien galaxy, day dreaming and stuff.  |
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Post by brianf on Oct 13, 2020 23:05:24 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #8 (1984) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Keith Pollard Lets just plow through another issue...... Hey, this one actually has some kinda plot! As Bug returns he falls ill. Arriving back to the aliens world we see that the other Micronauts are sick too - from the radiation poisoning. Huntarr is the only one not effected. The egg from a few issues ago hatches and it's a H. R. Giger looking creature that's a "prime being" that cures the 'Nauts of their illness and even fixes Ranns hand. This issue's better than the last few, but it still feels less like forward movement of a story and just resetting things to where they were a few issues ago. There are some fun goopy visuals. Spin them wheels..... I'll keep reading.....    |
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Post by brianf on Oct 15, 2020 20:11:25 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #9 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Keith Pollard Devils back, the robots have been repaired & upgraded, and Bugs girlfriend (her name is Solitaire) fills the Micronauts in on her peoples history. Rann taps into the enigma force and they get a garbled transported Devil that they need to sort out to save him. The exposition runs deep this issue. If you're a fan of talky talk and low on the old action, then this is your talky comic.   |
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Post by brianf on Oct 15, 2020 20:35:14 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #10 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones With help from the Aliens (who are called The Confluence) the Miconauts head back toward their own sector of space, along with a fleet of alien ships. The shape shifting Solitaire has joined them. They try to breach the space wall separating the universes but the enigma force won't let them through, There's some gibber gabber and at the end of the issue Rann is old now.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 15, 2020 21:21:53 GMT -5
Micronauts The New Voyages #10 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones With help from the Aliens (who are called The Confluence) the Miconauts head back toward their own sector of space, along with a fleet of alien ships. The shape shifting Solitaire has joined them. They try to breach the space wall separating the universes but the enigma force won't let them through, There's some gibber gabber and at the end of the issue Rann is old now. Ain't got time for no gibber gabber!  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 18, 2020 11:29:10 GMT -5
 Micronauts #19 Writer - Bill Mantlo Art - Pat Broderick Inks - Armando Gil Colorist - Ben Sean Letterer - John Costanzia Editor - Al Milgrom Cover Artist - Michael Golden Synopsis: Bug, who went off by himself the previous issue, discovers a farm. After minor run ins with some barnyard animals, Bug is captured by the farms owner, the junior mad scientist named Odd John. The other Micronauts go searching for him, and with Biotron using "some kind of signal broadcasting on Bugs brainwave frequency" they find their colleague. Odd John uses mutagen gas on insects, which allows him to talk with and control his mutated critters. See - Odd John attack the Micronauts ship with a pitchfork! See - the male Micronauts do battle while the women stay on board the ship! See - Odd John expositionally take 3 pages to tell his origin story! By the end of the issue Bug has been mutated and Odd Johns insect horde attacks our heroes. We also see Ant-Man coming to investigate after being notified by distressed ants. Comments: Pat Broderick is by no means a great artist, but he's solid and he is obviously trying in his first outing at the new Micro-artist. The detail is wonderful to look at. There's a life to the pages that had been missing. But while an improvement over the last few issues, we haven't gotten 100% back on track yet. The villain is kinda silly, and while I do kinda like seeing Bug fight a chicken, it's not what i would call a super high stakes. But it is a fun read. I enjoyed the art here very much. Not quite as god as the Michael Golden stuff, but a big improvement over the Chaykin/Milgrom art of the last few issues. It's a shame that Broderick's debut was wasted on such a mediocre script. I've enjoyed Bill Mantlo's writing very much on this series, but the last two issues (and especially this issue, with a pretty poorly conceived antagonist) have been the worst in the series so far. |
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Post by brianf on Oct 20, 2020 19:14:04 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #11 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Patterson Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones Rann is old, Maris legs are paralyzed, they are stuck in space with a whole lotta destroyed ships - cue the pity party. The Confluence limps home and Rann goes with them, his soul crushed. The remaining Micronauts encounter the homeless Acroyear fleet traveling on the other side of the space wall, and Cilicia is still holding a grudge. But with their help they discover an ancient alien structure built on the space wall. They muck around a bit, some confusing things happen and the ancient structure starts to fall apart, and as the 'Nauts run back to the ship they find a metal skinned winged dude on their ship. Have I said I don't like Huntarrs new look? He's a goofy looking orange-alligator-overbite playdoh dude these days.   |
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Post by brianf on Oct 20, 2020 19:34:15 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #12 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bulandi Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones The story and action is more focused and clear this issue - I actually kinda like it. The new metal guy is Scion - he's the egg from earlier in the series, all growed up. He helps the Micronauts penetrate the space wall, so by the end of the comic they have made it back to the Microverse. So it took a year, but I see improvement  Scions look makes me think of a mash up of a couple of designs for a variant FF team from What If Vol 1 #6  |
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Post by brianf on Oct 21, 2020 17:03:58 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #13 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bulandi & Jones Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones I dunno, once again it seems like not much is happening, or at least not much interesting happens. Devils discorporated form is in great pain, which leads to Scion being a jerk to Bug. The 'Nauts land on a planet and explore and find some pointless battles and more Microverse mysteries. Kinda drags.  |
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Post by brianf on Oct 23, 2020 16:36:05 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #14 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bulandi Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones Scion warns the Micronauts of the dire threat of spreading pain, and brings them to a planet over populated by various groups who escaped their home worlds due to the poisoning by the corrupted enigma force. The story then cuts to Rann in the other side of space learning more about the Makers. The issue ends with Bug getting cocooned then being saved my Mari & Solitaire. A lot of this comic is just the Micronauts being told something, and then they just stand around.  |
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Post by brianf on Oct 23, 2020 22:24:54 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #15 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bulandi Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones Karza is back! No, thats not right - Karza is in a flashback! The whole issue is a flashback showing how Mari lost the use of her legs and had a dancer friend sacrifice her own limbs to assist Mari. Over all it's not a bad story, but it slams the breaks on the main story, and just drags things out even more.  |
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Post by brianf on Oct 24, 2020 14:31:17 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #16 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Kelley Jones Inks - Bulandi Editor - Macchio Cover Art - Jones Oh boy, a Secret Wars II crossover - just want this series needed. The issue begins with a few pages of recap, then a giant ship attempts to leave the refugee world, threatening the hundreds (thousands?) of huts built up around the ship. At first it appears the Micronauts fail to stop the beginning of the ships launch and the death of many, then the Beyonder shows up to fix it all. He also fixes Maris legs and changes Huntarr. Scion and the Beyonder go off and make plans. There's stuff about the death of Homewold causing the damage to the enigma force and the need to destroy other healthy planets as a fire line - killing billions to save the rest of the Microverse. The 'Nauts disagree with that plan and seemly stop Scion, destroying him. Once the team leaves the refugee planet in search of other ways to save everything the Beyonder returns, and revives Scion. There's a lot going on here but the writing just doesn't have much weight. Billions die in a panel but there's no drama in it. Destruction, rebirth, round and round we go, but the thin writing leaves me with an idea of what's going on, but no real engagement in the story. There's potential here, but what I read leaves me cold.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 24, 2020 15:00:51 GMT -5
Beyonder; a plot device walks out of a NYC disco...
a.k.a. Korvac II
They sure pushed this guy into almost every Marvel title, talk about getting around, and was he interesting even once? I remember reading the Thor they stuck him in, right before Thor gets turned into a frog for a couple of issues. Who is this jerk? A real run killer, 'beyond' me the appeal of him or either 'Secret War' (they should've stayed secrets). Not so much a cross-universe 'event' as a hard sell... in a couple years past the sell-by polyester Michael Jackson suit.
All these Beyonder cross-overs is when I pretty much stopped buying all Marvel comics, even Simonson's Thor. Got a plot, this dude will pretty much kill whatever there is of one while sucking up page after page trying to be mysterious and omnipotent yet really just making the established characters seem lesser for merely being in his presence.
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Post by brianf on Oct 25, 2020 19:43:40 GMT -5
 Micronauts The New Voyages #17 (1985) Writer - Peter Gillis Pencils - Howard Bender Inks - Bulandi Editor - Macchio Cover Art - K Pollard The Micronauts head back to Homeworld to reconstitute Devil. There's some heart to heart talks, Devil overwhelmed by Pain causing his death, and Rann returns via transporter. I kinda like this issue better (the character interaction and plot progression are positive steps), but the fill in art isn't that great and the never ending mystery gets kinda tiring as it keeps.... dragging...... along.   |
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