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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2017 4:56:17 GMT -5
Don't forget Green lanterns ring talks to him and Thor's hammer has gotten chatty as of late.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 24, 2017 6:01:11 GMT -5
Don't forget Green lanterns ring talks to him and Thor's hammer has gotten chatty as of late. Which, judging by the recent leakage of Secret Empire's end-game, is why I'm beginning to think that Mjolnir is a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to picking someone as "worthy" to wield it
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2017 6:06:39 GMT -5
Don't forget Green lanterns ring talks to him and Thor's hammer has gotten chatty as of late. Which, judging by the recent leakage of Secret Empire's end-game, is why I'm beginning to think that Mjolnir is a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to picking someone as "worthy" to wield it Very good point. But I guess when reality was changed to include Cap being a Nazi, it changed all events afterwards. My head hurts...
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Post by The Captain on Apr 24, 2017 11:25:28 GMT -5
Which, judging by the recent leakage of Secret Empire's end-game, is why I'm beginning to think that Mjolnir is a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to picking someone as "worthy" to wield it Very good point. But I guess when reality was changed to include Cap being a Nazi, it changed all events afterwards. My head hurts...He's not a Nazi, he's Hydra, which existed way before the Red Skull and the Nazis got involved, and is more of a democratic socialiast community organization dedicated to making the world a better place, unless you're talking movie continuity, where Hydra was the Nazi science division led by the Red Skull... ...yup, my head hurts now too.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2017 11:29:56 GMT -5
Right now I'm hugging my Jack Kirby Cap collection in a Fetal position.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 24, 2017 13:54:28 GMT -5
I'm up to Sgt. Fury #17. Instead of Ditko or Giacoia inks over Dick Ayers's pencils, we get Vince Colletta. The results are ... unsatisfying. The Howlers take down two Stukas with their machine guns. (This is the kind of shenanigans that got Col. Wilhelm Klink transferred to Stalag 17.) They are still in the desert after last issue and they are told to head south for a different mission. This is that part of Africa where you walk south and the Sahara ends at the edge of the jungle. Gabe gets something to do. Yay! He dresses up us a witch doctor and dances the jitterbug to convince the natives that the Americans are better than the Nazis. Boo! It's not a great issue, no. I'll probably read #18 within a day or two. I've never read it before. Pamela Hawley dies. If I only knew the Sgt. Fury series from issues #11 to #17, I'd likely be saying "Who?" (She's in a few panels in #17, so the joke doesn't quite work.)
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 24, 2017 15:46:12 GMT -5
Which, judging by the recent leakage of Secret Empire's end-game, is why I'm beginning to think that Mjolnir is a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to picking someone as "worthy" to wield it Very good point. But I guess when reality was changed to include Cap being a Nazi, it changed all events afterwards. My head hurts...In a way, it kind of reminds me of the Guardians Of OA from Green Lantern where they're completely demeaning to any ring-bearer like Hal that can think for himself/herself. Maybe Mjolnir thinks that Thor knew too much about something and that's why it dubbed him "unworthy"
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 24, 2017 16:17:52 GMT -5
I haven't read anymore of the Avengers #98 to #120 run, but I did read these Avengers stories: This is the first part of a two-part Kang story. It introduces Ravonna, Kang's beloved, and gives Kang a little more development beyond "I am the conqueror of all space and time! Ha ha ha ha!" Great art! Don Heck inked by John Romita! One of my candidates for best Kang story AND best story of the Cap's Kooky Kwartet era. And I finished the three-part Kang story in Avengers #267 to #269. Another candidate for best Kang story. And a good example of why The Avengers was one of the best super-hero comics in the mid-1980s. Great art by John Buscema and Tom Palmer! When I'm done with #98 to #120, I'm thinking of coming back and starting with #270 and reading the next year or so of The Avengers. I especially love the way the Wasp is portrayed in these issues. And I love the way that every version of Kang is a total jerkwad to everyone ... including all the other versions of Kang!
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Post by shiryu on Apr 24, 2017 17:20:09 GMT -5
I love Stern's run on the Avengers in the '80s. The Under Siege storyline, Kang, the introduction of Captain Marvel (Monica), the Olympians storyline. I'm even one of the very few people to actually like Al Milgrom's art, probably because his work is the first I was exposed to.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 24, 2017 17:56:13 GMT -5
I love Stern's run on the Avengers in the '80s. The Under Siege storyline, Kang, the introduction of Captain Marvel (Monica), the Olympians storyline. I'm even one of the very few people to actually like Al Milgrom's art, probably because his work is the first I was exposed to. I re-read the Stern era and enjoyed it better than the first time around. And welcome to the forum shiryu !
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Post by shiryu on Apr 24, 2017 18:57:41 GMT -5
I love Stern's run on the Avengers in the '80s. The Under Siege storyline, Kang, the introduction of Captain Marvel (Monica), the Olympians storyline. I'm even one of the very few people to actually like Al Milgrom's art, probably because his work is the first I was exposed to. I re-read the Stern era and enjoyed it better than the first time around. And welcome to the forum shiryu ! Thank you!
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Post by MDG on Apr 25, 2017 5:25:16 GMT -5
I love Stern's run on the Avengers in the '80s.... I was at an Ithacon where Stern had a bunch of pencilled pages he had to dialogue and he just started talking out loud what he'd have the characters say, based on the story, but also explaining how he looked at characters' expressions and positions. It was pretty entertaining.
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Post by shiryu on Apr 25, 2017 6:10:50 GMT -5
I was at an Ithacon where Stern had a bunch of pencilled pages he had to dialogue and he just started talking out loud what he'd have the characters say, based on the story, but also explaining how he looked at characters' expressions and positions. It was pretty entertaining. I generally like most of his work. His brief run on Captain America or his stint on Spider-Man are among my favourites too, and I liked his collaboration with Busiek in volume #3.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 25, 2017 11:38:15 GMT -5
I read Avengers #109 this morning. You can skip this one. Hawkeye goes back to his old costume and quits the Avengers. And this nine-foot-tall bearded dude called the Champion offers him a million dollars to teach him archery. And the Champion, after he becomes a great archer, makes himself a dumb suit and tries to implement a plan to set off the San Andreas fault to cover up a nerve-gas theft. I can see why everybody - especially writer Steve Englehart - likes to act like this issue never happened.
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 25, 2017 11:52:39 GMT -5
Months ago, I pulled out Bloodstone #1 to #4 and I read #1 and meant to read the rest of the series, but I never got around to it. I finally read Bloodstone #2 before going to bed. I bought the whole series for a dollar each when I got back into comics in 2011. It's so much fun! I won't deny that it's kinda stupid. But I love Elsa Bloodstone and I love the set-up and I especially love the way they use the monster of Frankenstein! I don't know why this has been in the "To read" stack for so long. I seem to be getting enough new comics, and enough collector comics, and enough available online, that I'm not really getting to the stuff I'm re-reading too quickly. "The Legend of Wonder Woman" has also been in the stack forever and I've only read the first issue. But I have also been making my way through the 1970s Freedom Fighters series. I'm up to #6 and forcing myself not to read anymore until I post about the series thus far. Hopefully I'll get to that in the next few days.
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