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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 21, 2018 17:38:04 GMT -5
In as much as ALL these stories are fiction, I will rephrase my point- Bringing Bucky back was inconsistent with many a story that verified that he died. One of my favorite stories was Avengers #56 in which Captain America , along with the Avengers, use Dr. Dooms time machine to see if he could have survived the explosion on the drone plane. That well written story led to Avengers Annual #2 which pitted the Current Avengers against the original 5. The story is still great in my mind and the WS story doesn't compare.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 21, 2018 20:05:51 GMT -5
In as much as ALL these stories are fiction, I will rephrase my point- Bringing Bucky back was inconsistent with many a story that verified that he died. One of my favorite stories was Avengers #56 in which Captain America , along with the Avengers, use Dr. Dooms time machine to see if he could have survived the explosion on the drone plane. That well written story led to Avengers Annual #2 which pitted the Current Avengers against the original 5. The story is still great in my mind and the WS story doesn't compare. That's a fair point. The Bucky-is-dead retcon might have provided some decent Avengers stories. I like both Avengers 56 and the Cap vs. Baron Zemo sequence in the older Lee/Kirby/Heck Avengers run. I don't think the retcon was worth turning a solid decade of Captain America continuity into a cluster$%^ mine-field that makes Hawkman continuity look simple, I do think it led to years of bad characterization choices in Cap's SOLO strips... And it's a plain fact that Bucky's death hadn't influenced or impacted Captain America's book much in over 25 years when he was resurrected. WS is Winter Soldier? Yeah, Brubaker's Cap run didn't do much for me, either. And I'm generally against the revolving door of death carousel in mainstream comics. Still, Bucky's death had stopped meaning anything and it had never (IMO) been a worthwhile motivation for Cap character-wise. Even at the time Bucky had never appeared in comics in years when he was brought back in Avengers # 4, his death didn't have any emotional impact on the readers - at least until he was a player in the early Cap Tales of Suspense run, but even then he wasn't a particularly interesting character. Avengers 56 was the first worthwhile Bucky story of the Marvel Age. The upshot is that I found no storytelling or character-based reason to keep Bucky dead circa. 2005, so I'm okay with bringing them back. This isn't Jean Grey. (Who was a well developed character so her death was actually impactful.) And I really liked the Winter Soldier movie.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 21, 2018 20:09:04 GMT -5
I made the distinction of comic books, because the Winter Soldier movie was entertaining.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 25, 2018 14:58:29 GMT -5
I just started going after Moon Knight books...I have some stuff from the 80's series and was wondering when (or if) this series ever dives into the multiple personalities of Steven Grant? I know some newer Moon Knight work by Lemire has done this and wanted to know if he just expanded on it or if it was something that was written about before Lemire's work on the title.
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Post by hondobrode on Feb 25, 2018 23:00:59 GMT -5
The original Moon Knight series by Moench and Sienkiewicz does IIRC
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 25, 2018 23:05:14 GMT -5
The original Moon Knight series by Moench and Sienkiewicz does IIRC Pretty much where the idea began. Quite frankly, that is also where you will find the best material, though there is plenty from later series.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Feb 25, 2018 23:16:41 GMT -5
Good then I'm tracking down the right stuff
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 27, 2018 16:27:50 GMT -5
Back in the early 80's I bought New Teen Titans # 1 and #2 and it was from England because it had 20p on the cover price. Is it considered the original book or a reprint ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 16:39:59 GMT -5
Back in the early 80's I bought New Teen Titans # 1 and #2 and it was from England because it had 20p on the cover price. Is it considered the original book or a reprint ? They are usually considered variants from what I can gather from listings in auctions and on online comic sales sites. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 28, 2018 1:34:27 GMT -5
Back in the early 80's I bought New Teen Titans # 1 and #2 and it was from England because it had 20p on the cover price. Is it considered the original book or a reprint ? They are usually considered variants from what I can gather from listings in auctions and on online comic sales sites. -M Yeah, Mile High would list things like that separately, on their site; British, Whitman, newsstand vs direct, etc...
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Mar 1, 2018 10:04:12 GMT -5
Was Gil Kane a regular at comic cons before he passed away? Did he sign a lot of stuff?
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Post by MDG on Mar 1, 2018 10:36:08 GMT -5
Was Gil Kane a regular at comic cons before he passed away? Did he sign a lot of stuff? I don't know how much of a "regular" he was, but I saw him at two or three in the NYC area, and he signed things. (again, I'm going back to when there weren't near the number of shows as there are now and the idea of paying for a signature was unheard of)
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Mar 1, 2018 10:44:37 GMT -5
^Thanks! I have always wondered how old the signature of his I have is, that is why I was asking.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 1, 2018 11:34:16 GMT -5
Was Gil Kane a regular at comic cons before he passed away? Did he sign a lot of stuff? I met him at a HeroesCon, in Charlotte, in 1992. Got him to sign a cover of THUNDER Agents #15, which he drew... He said he hadn't seen an issue of the comic in years and started flipping through it, to see if he did an interior story. I had just picked up the comic at the show, as this was early in my collecting of the series. If I had known he was going to be there, I would have brought issue #14, from home, which featured his Raven cover and interior story. I was a little too intimidated to talk much to him. I actually had a longer conversation with Dave Dorman, about the Kubert School (I had applied there).
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 1, 2018 15:10:13 GMT -5
Has Daredevil ever tracked anyone by smell? I remember numerous occasions of him tracking things by listening , but never by smell.
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