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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 11, 2014 0:40:18 GMT -5
I didn't read them,most likely for good reasons,but Neal Adams' Continuity Comics had this massive crossover epic war story going on through all their titles for about a year when all of a sudden the company went belly .
Also in the 90s,I recall Comico's The Elementals being revived and in the midst of a huge multipart storyline when it folded again
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Post by berkley on Jun 11, 2014 0:50:39 GMT -5
The Mangog saga in the mid-150s of The Mighty Thor: Thor and the entire forces of of Asgard fighting the Mangog in an epic 4-issue running battle that they can't win ... until Odin wakes up and points a flashlight at him.
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Post by tolworthy on Jun 11, 2014 1:11:59 GMT -5
A classic example would be the original Galactus trilogy where nothing would stop Galactus from devouring the earth,not even his servant The Silver Surfer turning against him.Nothing in the universe ever stopped Galactus in cosmic history-except something that looked like a can-opener called the Ultimate Nullifier that Reed Richards stole out of Galactus' kitchen It wasn't the planes that killed King Kong. It was beauty that killed the beast. I agree with Chris Sims: The nullifier just gave him a face saving excuse to leave after his heart was no longer in it: he could never let it be said that a blind ant defeated him! But as for stories with big build up and little payoff, let's see... 99 percent of comics published in the last 25 years or so. The one that had the biggest effect on me was the penultimate issue of The Thing. We finally began to see realistic results of all the drug dealing, and we finally saw Ben's life going somewhere. The whole series was about his decades overdue soul searching, when he finally left the FF. And as his body reflects his inner soul, Ben began to mutate. It was superb! Realism, drama, danger, consequences, the big story, real change, something believable and deep... that issue got me so excited. And the next issue? It was all pretty much ignored. I was gutted. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 1:19:21 GMT -5
I recall 2 or 3 months where no Superman or Adventures of Superman or Action shipped.Look up GCD or Mike's Amazing World of Comics to confirm.The lack of shipping made you believe it was permanent Huh, it seemed like immediately after to me at the time. Maybe because I expected to never see them on the stands again and hardly made it out to the comic shop. Either way, a whole four issues until everything was put back in place, for an event that was front page international news for what seemed like months? |
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Post by tolworthy on Jun 11, 2014 2:59:26 GMT -5
Huh, it seemed like immediately after to me at the time. Maybe your comics have the same schedule as mine: four days ago I received Fantastic Four issue 4 through the post. Today I received issue 5.  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 11, 2014 17:55:34 GMT -5
The Mangog saga in the mid-150s of The Mighty Thor: Thor and the entire forces of of Asgard fighting the Mangog in an epic 4-issue running battle that they can't win ... until Odin wakes up and points a flashlight at him. I was totally gonna post that one. Wasn't hugely thrilled with the story right before that where Thor beat Galactus, either. From the art it looked like Kirby had some huge idea about focused transatronic energy from Thor's hammer being interdimensionally processed through the alien spacecraft, but the dialog was just like Thor " Have at the!" Galactus: " Ouch. I leave now." And while I will always defend the first Galactus story, the Inhumans story right before it in Fantastic Four is really bad. Everyone just kind of decides that Black Bolt is king again. |
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Post by benday-dot on Jun 11, 2014 19:19:51 GMT -5
Wasn't hugely thrilled with the story right before that where Thor beat Galactus, either. From the art it looked like Kirby had some huge idea about focused transatronic energy from Thor's hammer being interdimensionally processed through the alien spacecraft, but the dialog was just like Thor " Have at the!" Galactus: " Ouch. I leave now." And while I will always defend the first Galactus story, the Inhumans story right before it in Fantastic Four is really bad. Everyone just kind of decides that Black Bolt is king again. Kirby had planned and even penciled a pretty nifty and involved origin story of Galactus that when it actually saw print in Thor 168 and 169 (after the Mangog saga) was pretty much eviscerated by Stan Lee. The Jack Kirby Collector showed some pretty heartbreaking hints at what could have been. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 11, 2014 20:50:03 GMT -5
Huh. I kind of liked those, but I've only ever read 'em once. I didn't know that there was huge behind the scenes rewriting. (Same way with the HIM storyline in FF. I know that was hugely rewritten at the 11th hour and it's a shame, but I really like the actual version that made it to print.)
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 11, 2014 22:29:31 GMT -5
I one that comes to mind for me was the Venom 2099 reveal... and really the end of 2099 in general, with the FF coming from the past and the stupid flood thing (alot like Ultimatum, if you thing about it).
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 11, 2014 22:49:41 GMT -5
Unity 2000 building up to mash V-1 and V-2 together but in the process take out certain things.
Loved both, but wanted this to happen. Never finished and it was good.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 23:22:24 GMT -5
Kirby not having a chance to do a proper ending to his Fourth World saga (or initial storyline at least) ranks at the top for me. ^^^^This for sure. The way it all started in those first two Jimmy Olsen issues was just epic. You had the Newsboy Legion and their awesome Whiz Wagon. A cool kat named Flippa Dippa was introduced. Of course you had Superman, who almost gets taken out by the mysterious Inter-Gang organization. Then you had that whole adventure into the Wild Area, where Supes and the Newsboys find a whole bunch of hippies and bikers straight out of Easy Rider, living in a humongous tree fort called Habitat. From there we get to meet Yango and Flek, Outsiders who ride futuristic three-wheeled motorized hogs over the Zoomway. Together the group rides the Zoomway to the Mountain of Judgment, a giant converted missile carrier controlled by the Hairies, another tribe in the Wild Area. Superman would later divert an attempt to bomb the MoJ, not knowing that Morgan Edge (boss of the Newsboys) is receiving orders from Darkseid. Superman and the Newsboy Legion find out that the Hairies were genetically engineered by the top secret DNA Project, and leave the Wild Area for good. The next issue would go into an entirely new (and not as good) arc, with an enraged Olsen clone. We never really get to see most of these "new" characters I mentioned again, other than Flippa Dippa and Morgan Edge. Although I enjoyed the Fourth World stuff, it was these two issues that hooked me in. I wanted to see more of the Wild Area, and more adventures with the Outsiders and their journeys down the Zoomway. And I can't imagine the Mountain of Judgment just sitting in an abandoned garage down there collecting dust, but that's pretty much what happened. It certainly deserved more fanfare than what it got.  |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 11, 2014 23:58:10 GMT -5
I love my Fourth World Omnibus', but after reading the whole saga, I feel that Kirby spread himself out too much; I think he had too many good ideas and consolidating his saga into New Gods and Mister Miracle, while forgoing Jimmy Olsen and The Forever People, would have lead to a more focused, cohesive, storyline.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 12, 2014 2:17:52 GMT -5
Kirby's Eternals. It always felt like The King was building towards something but the carpet got yanked out from underneath him, and having it finished later in a different title by other hands just didn't do it for me. -M Which reminds me of Gerber's Omega the Unknown. That one really hurt. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 12, 2014 2:57:52 GMT -5
I'll also offer up DC's Secret Six from the late 1960s.A Mission Impossible type of comic series with a mystery person named Mockingbird who was blackmailing each of the team players to work for him. The mystery of who is Mockingbird,who was supposed to be one of the teammates,was never resolved before the series suffered an early cancellation.
Thr fact that over 10 years later the mystery was revealed in an offhand way by other creators was no solace
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Post by MDG on Jun 12, 2014 9:03:30 GMT -5
I'll also offer up DC's Secret Six from the late 1960s.A Mission Impossible type of comic series with a mystery person named Mockingbird who was blackmailing each of the team players to work for him. The mystery of who is Mockingbird,who was supposed to be one of the teammates,was never resolved before the series suffered an early cancellation. Thr fact that over 10 years later the mystery was revealed in an offhand way by other creators was no solace I plotted a story that began w/ Nixon's resignation, implying that the Secret Six was instrumental in the exposure of his dirty tricks. 10 years later, the SS hadn't heard from Mockingbird since, but assumed that they were "on call." They get together, determine Mockingbird ins't one of them and try to find him. The actual revival (Action Weekly, right?) was pretty disappointing. |
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