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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 12, 2014 20:46:57 GMT -5
RICK JONES RULES #2. Rick Jones uses his mind to create superheroes and save the entire Freakin' universe!
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Post by dupersuper on Jun 12, 2014 20:49:28 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 12, 2014 23:45:18 GMT -5
After reading a number of his appearances in World's Finest, I have come to fully and truly loathe Metamorpho and everything about his silver age / bronze age strip. Hate. Haaaaaaaaaaaaate. I always kind of liked Metamorpho in small doses. The first time I saw him was in World's Finest (my brother had a copy) and I remember him from Batman and the Outsiders, where he seemed OK. But two years ago, I was buying the occasional cheap copy of 1960s to 1970s era comics that I'd never read before (which led me to love Kamandi and The Metal Men), I picked up an issue of Metamorpho.
Yeah. It was bad. I have a high tolerance for some really goofy Silver Age DC (I have about 12 issues of 1960s Metal Men ... and I love them!), but Metamorpho was more than I could handle.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 12, 2014 23:46:39 GMT -5
But Action Ace's Metamorpho scan is actually very intriguing!
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 13, 2014 0:10:27 GMT -5
One thing I've always found hilarious is when older comic artist, who are obviously well out of touch with fashion trends, attempt to draw teenagers and young women's fashions. You can trace this nicely with John Byrne (one of my favorites by the way). In the 70's and 80's he was obviously still using references from fashion magazines (which he admitted to doing) but by the time he was doing stuff like New Gods, Hidden Years and later Lab Rats, everyone started wearing generic baggy shirts and slacks, as if society had turned into a giant slumber party. (He made a bit of a fashion comeback with Superman/Batman: Generations, but I'm guessing the strict dictates of it being a collection of period-pieces necessitated this return to form.)
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Post by dupersuper on Jun 13, 2014 1:19:39 GMT -5
After reading a number of his appearances in World's Finest, I have come to fully and truly loathe Metamorpho and everything about his silver age / bronze age strip. Hate. Haaaaaaaaaaaaate. I always kind of liked Metamorpho in small doses. The first time I saw him was in World's Finest (my brother had a copy) and I remember him from Batman and the Outsiders, where he seemed OK. But two years ago, I was buying the occasional cheap copy of 1960s to 1970s era comics that I'd never read before (which led me to love Kamandi and The Metal Men), I picked up an issue of Metamorpho.
Yeah. It was bad. I have a high tolerance for some really goofy Silver Age DC (I have about 12 issues of 1960s Metal Men ... and I love them!), but Metamorpho was more than I could handle.
How did you folks like the Gaiman/Allred Metamorpho strips that came out a few years back?
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 13, 2014 1:24:54 GMT -5
But Action Ace's Metamorpho scan is actually very intriguing! I was surprised how good that Showcase Presents: Metamorpho is. Especially the first 2/3 of it. The snarky humor is like Golden Girls on meth.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 13, 2014 6:05:16 GMT -5
After reading a number of his appearances in World's Finest, I have come to fully and truly loathe Metamorpho and everything about his silver age / bronze age strip. Hate. Haaaaaaaaaaaaate. I always kind of liked Metamorpho in small doses. The first time I saw him was in World's Finest (my brother had a copy) and I remember him from Batman and the Outsiders, where he seemed OK. But two years ago, I was buying the occasional cheap copy of 1960s to 1970s era comics that I'd never read before (which led me to love Kamandi and The Metal Men), I picked up an issue of Metamorpho.
Yeah. It was bad. I have a high tolerance for some really goofy Silver Age DC (I have about 12 issues of 1960s Metal Men ... and I love them!), but Metamorpho was more than I could handle.
Metamorpho , like a few other characters, annoy me because he has an unbeatable power yet he still remains a C lister. (Firestorm and Captain Atom I'm looking at you guys too.)
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 13, 2014 6:08:04 GMT -5
One thing I've always found hilarious is when older comic artist, who are obviously well out of touch with fashion trends, attempt to draw teenagers and young women's fashions. You can trace this nicely with John Byrne (one of my favorites by the way). In the 70's and 80's he was obviously still using references from fashion magazines (which he admitted to doing) but by the time he was doing stuff like New Gods, Hidden Years and later Lab Rats, everyone started wearing generic baggy shirts and slacks, as if society had turned into a giant slumber party. (He made a bit of a fashion comeback with Superman/Batman: Generations, but I'm guessing the strict dictates of it being a collection of period-pieces necessitated this return to form.) I believe that many Artists take shortcuts as they advance in years. It's easier to draw baggy shirts and jeans than to put the work into a page. Byrne began to have pages full of floating heads in his latter work.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 21:54:07 GMT -5
RICK JONES RULES #2. Rick Jones uses his mind to create superheroes and save the entire Freakin' universe! So Rick Jones is cool because he does what every writer who has written a super-hero story ever has done? Doesn't that just make him a Gary Stu type standing in for the writers who are surreptitiously writing themselves into the story as wish fulfillment? -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 14, 2014 6:10:30 GMT -5
Can't agree. Rick Jones has always been a perspective character who was used to explain what other people were doing in various books. Considering how many books he's been a part of, he's an important part of tracking Marvel history. He has helped to chronicle growth In the Hulk, Captain America,The Avengers team,Captain Marvel and Rom. He was never used as a "Wesley Crusher" who always had the answer, he's made as many mistakes as he has helped save the day.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 14, 2014 9:16:24 GMT -5
Are these three unrelated panels? Is that Ras Al Ghul in that second panel? Thirdly, don't leave me hanging on that last panel! :-)
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on Jun 14, 2014 11:04:16 GMT -5
Are these three unrelated panels? Is that Ras Al Ghul in that second panel? Thirdly, don't leave me hanging on that last panel! :-) The 2nd is Deathstroke; from Superman (vol. 2) #68. The third is an attack from Silver Banshee in Action #662, the issue where Superman finally lets Lois in on the secret ID. :been reading the Triangle Era again:
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2014 13:13:40 GMT -5
I read in another thread about someone having to pay for an autograph from Neal Adams recently. While I was digging around my boxes I ran across some books that I had autographed by artists at various shows. I paid nothing for any of them. Too bad they started charging for them. Curt Swan on the "last" Silver age Superman story.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2014 14:32:50 GMT -5
The Late Dave Cockrum autographed his Futurians Ongoing for me.
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