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Post by Nowhere Man on May 2, 2014 8:56:57 GMT -5
Man, Rogue used to love her processed carbs!
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Post by the4thpip on May 2, 2014 8:58:33 GMT -5
Man, Rogue used to love her processed carbs! Maybe she had just touched the Blob? |
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 2, 2014 9:03:15 GMT -5
Very well could be. I HOPE that's the case.
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Post by the4thpip on May 2, 2014 9:08:45 GMT -5
Another great Bronze Age creation waiting for a comeback, from the pages of Karate Kid:  |
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Post by the4thpip on May 2, 2014 9:29:33 GMT -5
Maybe a tad too new to be classic, but I have to: The Secret Origin of Arm-Fall-Off-Boy:  |
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 2, 2014 9:43:16 GMT -5
John Byrne was the king of action scenes in his heyday.  |
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 2, 2014 9:46:26 GMT -5
Another favorite from FF #242. I've always like the shot of Sue on the Baxter Building. It always seemed to me that Byrne was an influence on some of the Manga and Anime that came in the wake of his late 70's and 80's material.  |
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Post by the4thpip on May 2, 2014 9:52:38 GMT -5
You know what I just read INVISIBLE FLICKERS as?
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 2, 2014 10:15:42 GMT -5
Knowing Byrne, it was probably a subtle jab at Chris Claremont.
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Post by the4thpip on May 2, 2014 11:55:56 GMT -5
At the tail end of Swamp Thing Vol. 1, they gave him a generic logo, a love interest and the ability to turn back to human at will. He also fought super villains.  |
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Post by the4thpip on May 2, 2014 15:12:00 GMT -5
The new expression to replace "jump the shark" shall be "wear the golden chicken hat!"  (from post-Byrne Alpha Flight) |
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Post by the4thpip on May 2, 2014 17:29:30 GMT -5
Last one before I go to bed:  |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 2, 2014 17:46:03 GMT -5
Last one before I go to bed: Oh, that J'onn J'onzz! I started reading comics in 1975, but since it was mostly Marvel, I don't think I ever saw J'onn J'onzz in a comic (at least not regularly) until the Justice League Detroit era. (Oh, wait! For a while I had a very beat-up copy of Detective Comics #300, with Batman at the mercy of Mr. Polka-Dot!!!!! And a J'onn J'onzz backup at the end. I must have read it because I read everything but I don't remember it.)
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Post by Icctrombone on May 2, 2014 19:17:16 GMT -5
Fantastic Four # 175. Big John Buscema  |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 2, 2014 19:33:14 GMT -5
Fantastic Four # 175. Big John BuscemaPages like these are why I roll my eyes when fans act like John Byrne's FF was as good as Lee/Kirby's FF (or maybe even better!) and then dismiss everything that happened between FF #102 and #236. I like Byrne's FF, but he made a few bad decisions here and there, and it's not all gold. And Bronze Age Fantastic Four is ... well, FANTASTIC!
Lots of Buscema/Sinnott art, but also Buckler, Perez and Sienkiewicz. (And Ross Andru. And Ramona Fradon did one issue that I love.) Yeah, there are some stories that don't quite work as well as we'd like (I don't like Crystal hooking up with Quicksilver. I don't think it works at all.), but there's several great Doctor Doom stories, the period where Sue is threatening to leave Reed for good, the Sub-Mariner, Medusa, lots of great stories with Thundra and the Frightful Four, that great bit where Ben can turn to the Thing and back and he goes all nutty and has to fight the Hulk, that great Hulk/Thing team-up in FF #166 and #167, Darkoth, and so on.
And I almost forgot a couple of good Galactus appearances, like the one you scanned and the one from about #120 where Reed takes over Galactus's ship.
I don't like it as much later on, from about issue #190 or so, but the earlier part of it is thrilling and usually well written.
I was a big fan of the Byrne years when they were brand new, but I thought they were about as good as the 1970 to 1976 era. They hardly compare to the best years of the Lee/Kirby issues.
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