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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 1, 2017 17:37:51 GMT -5
While the story itself was decently executed (I loves me some Aparo), I thought killing Aquababy was a huge mistake. Being a family man made Aquaman unique in the DC Universe. There were many plotlines they could have spun out of that set-up far more interesting than the undersea variation on the Spidey/Gwen/Green Goblin shocker from three years earlier Micheline gave us. Cei-U! All in my opinion, natch! Micheline ? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 1, 2017 19:36:31 GMT -5
I'm up to Iron Man #22 and the death of Janice Cord. Poor Janice. She was really bad at picking boyfriends. Great cover. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 1, 2017 19:56:45 GMT -5
I just finished reading All Star Superman # 1-12. This series is one of the modern day classics. Just a masterpiece. Quitely never disappoints with his layouts which provide so much visual yumminess. Just to scan across his pages adds so much to the story. That's one of my favourite comics of all time. I shelled out for the Absolute Edition, and it's worth every cent to see that gorgeous art in all its glory. I think it might be aimed at nostalgia buttons that I just don't have? I was really excited for the follow-up to WE3, but I mostly just thought this was boring. I've read it a couple times and I can't remember anything that actually happened in All Star Superman. |
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 1, 2017 20:06:39 GMT -5
That's one of my favourite comics of all time. I shelled out for the Absolute Edition, and it's worth every cent to see that gorgeous art in all its glory. I think it might be aimed at nostalgia buttons that I just don't have? I was really excited for the follow-up to WE3, but I mostly just thought this was boring. I've read it a couple times and I can't remember anything that actually happened in All Star Superman.  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2017 0:59:42 GMT -5
I'm thinking of tackling the first 20 issues (or so) of Marvel's Captain Marvel when I'm done with the Silver Age Iron Man, Captain America and Namor comics I've been reading lately. So I read #12 and #13 of Marvel Super-Heroes recently. I used to have #12, but it's been a while. Very nice Gene Colan art. I read #13 a few days ago. It's the first time I ever read it. And there she was ... it's the first appearance of Carol Danvers. I used to have a few of the early issues of Captain Marvel, so I knew that Carol Danvers goes all the way back to the Silver Age. But I haven't read these issues for a long time, so I hadn't thought about it too much for years. But WOW her first appearance is Mar-Vell's second appearance. Carol Danvers has been around for a long time. I think she deserves the Captain Marvel name just for her longevity, not to mention that dumb story in the Avengers where she was mind-controlled and "seduced" by Immortus. So bad you'd think it was written by John Byrne. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2017 1:06:28 GMT -5
I'm up to #21 in Namor's Silver Age series. But I'm displaying the cover to #20 because it's a better story than the one in #21. John Buscema art! I recognized the splash page right away! I think it was reprinted in one of those issues of Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up in the 1970s. Namor is loose in New York. Aliens have stolen his gills (or something) so he can't breathe underwater and neither can he fly. And the cops are after him! But he's offered sanctuary by ... the Latverian embassy! It's um, a rather contentious confrontation. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 2, 2017 7:47:13 GMT -5
I read Journey into Mystery #116. The Trial of the Gods was cool, and with a surprise ending, but the setup was kinda dumb. Odin has this trial because he doesn't know whether Thor or Loki is telling him the truth?! Really? He doesn't know whether to believe Thor or Loki? Odin is really an idiot in a lot of these stories, believing Loki was too often. That's the different between omnipotence and omniscience.
I also read Omega Men #3. I just happen to have Omega Men #3-5, and haven't read them since they first came out in 1983. The series has always intrigued me, though I never really got into them for some reason. Anyway, #3 was a good story with excellent art. I'm surprised to see so many deaths in a 1983 comic.
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 2, 2017 9:53:03 GMT -5
I'm up to #21 in Namor's Silver Age series. But I'm displaying the cover to #20 because it's a better story than the one in #21. John Buscema art! I recognized the splash page right away! I think it was reprinted in one of those issues of Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up in the 1970s. Namor is loose in New York. Aliens have stolen his gills (or something) so he can't breathe underwater and neither can he fly. And the cops are after him! But he's offered sanctuary by ... the Latverian embassy! It's um, a rather contentious confrontation. Did his gills being stolen lead to that black costume he wore for a while? I have to say, I really dug that costume. Way better than the green speedos, if you ask me. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 2, 2017 10:09:14 GMT -5
I'm up to #21 in Namor's Silver Age series. But I'm displaying the cover to #20 because it's a better story than the one in #21. John Buscema art! I recognized the splash page right away! I think it was reprinted in one of those issues of Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up in the 1970s. Namor is loose in New York. Aliens have stolen his gills (or something) so he can't breathe underwater and neither can he fly. And the cops are after him! But he's offered sanctuary by ... the Latverian embassy! It's um, a rather contentious confrontation. Did his gills being stolen lead to that black costume he wore for a while? I have to say, I really dug that costume. Way better than the green speedos, if you ask me. No, the Reed Richards-designed black suit happened in Sub-Mariner #67, after Namor's body chemistry was changed by the nerve gas that put the rest of Atlantis into comas. Cei-U! I summon the history lesson! |
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Post by dbutler69 on Oct 2, 2017 11:05:07 GMT -5
Did his gills being stolen lead to that black costume he wore for a while? I have to say, I really dug that costume. Way better than the green speedos, if you ask me. No, the Reed Richards-designed black suit happened in Sub-Mariner #67, after Namor's body chemistry was changed by the nerve gas that put the rest of Atlantis into comas. Cei-U! I summon the history lesson! Thanks. I have to brush up on my Namor history. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2017 11:28:29 GMT -5
No, the Reed Richards-designed black suit happened in Sub-Mariner #67, after Namor's body chemistry was changed by the nerve gas that put the rest of Atlantis into comas. Cei-U! I summon the history lesson! Thanks. I have to brush up on my Namor history. I just read Sub-Mariner #22 and his little gill problem is solved in one or two panels when he goes back to Atlantis and the Atlantean scientist Ikthon performs surgery and Namor is totally cured just in time to be summoned by Dr. Strange (the Blue Man Group version) to help in the fight against the Undying Ones. And the next issue blurb: Orka! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 2, 2017 15:14:49 GMT -5
This was the period when I couldn't wait for my weekly trip to the Piggly Wiggly to grab the latest issues of Sub-Mariner, Iron Man, Thor, Amazing Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and The Avengers. No matter how tight my budget was on any given week, these six were always must-buys.
Cei-U!
I summon the pre-LCS era!
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 2, 2017 17:09:30 GMT -5
I read some of my Golden Age series over the last few days. The Wonder Woman, Gay Ghost and Wildcat stories in Sensation #9 and #10. (The REAL Diana Prince returns in #9! That's a good one!) Five or six Sky Girl stories. Several Futura stories. (The art changes a lot in Planet Comics #50 to #55.) Three Atomic Knights stories. All great stuff! But what I really wanted to talk about was Fletcher Hanks's Space Smith! Space Smith was in Fantastic Comics, a series most famous for the Lou Fine covers. (Although in recent years, maybe Fantastic Comics is more famous for being the home of Stardust, one of Hanks's most well-known creations.) The first two Space Smith stories describe the conflict of "Space" and Dianna (his female companion) with the Great Central Brain of Mars. The Brain is a dude with a great big head and great mental powers that he uses to control various weird monsters that live on Mars. In Fantastic Comics #1, they barely escape the Brain, his Martian imps and a giant Martian mosquito as big as a house. But the Brain is still a menace who wants to kill all Earthlings! So they vow to go back to Mars and get him. In the second issue, they are on their way to Mars to fulfill their vow when they are ambushed by Martian ogres in spaceships. The ogres are of course controlled by the Great Central Brain! "Space" and Dianna defeat the ogres, but the Great Central Brain is still largely free to do what he pleases in his Martian domain. In the third issue, "Space" and Dianna are again on their way to confront the Brain but as they pass by Venus, they are attacked by the Leopard Women of Venus, who ride on winged lizards and they want to turn Dianna into a Leopard Woman! They get out of that one, and as of Fantastic Comics #7, the menace of the Great Central Brain of Mars has not been mentioned since. In #4, they investigate a new comet and encounter a fellow named the Thinker and his enslaved Headless Men. In #5, they are trying for a new speed record from the Earth to the moon when they are attacked by Hoppers from a floating ball of space gas. A caption in Fantastic #6 mentions that they are on their way back from "red planet" when they end up on "the Vacuuum Meteor" where they meet mummified Vacuumites. And then in #7, the art isn't by Fletcher Hanks! He's back in #8. Anyway, I'm wondering if the plot with the Great Central Brain of Mars was ever resolved! Maybe he's still out there, plotting the destruction of all Earthlings! Oh, where is Space Smith when you need him? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 3, 2017 17:03:02 GMT -5
This was the period when I couldn't wait for my weekly trip to the Piggly Wiggly to grab the latest issues of Sub-Mariner, Iron Man, Thor, Amazing Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and The Avengers. No matter how tight my budget was on any given week, these six were always must-buys. Cei-U! I summon the pre-LCS era! I am enjoying these 1969-1970 issues of Captain America, The Sub-Mariner and Iron Man immensely. When I get to Iron Man #30, I'm going to take a break from Iron Man for a while. With The Sub-Mariner, I'm going to stick with it up to the last issue (#72) and I'm probably going to read the first few issues of Super-Villain Team-Up because I didn't start reading SVTU until #4 or #5, although I had both the Giant-Size issues and I think I picked up #2 at a used-book store. I stopped reading Captain America at #126 because I've already read the issues from #127 to #156 in the Essential Captain America, Volume 3, which I got from the library. As a kid, I started reading Cap as of #191 (I think) and I had most of the issues from #180 to #190. And scattered issues from #157 up to #180. Eventually, I'll have to get back to Cap and read all the mid-1970s issues that I've never read. (By the way, regarding the cover of #125: The Surprise Villain is ... {Spoiler: Click to show}The Mandarin |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 3, 2017 17:22:49 GMT -5
Now that I've read every issue of Silver Age Captain America, I was thinking I should broaden my reading a little and not read so much Silver Age Marvel. (And I'm getting pretty close to reading all of the Marvel Silver Age comics. I'm using December 1970 as the end of the Silver Age (a fairly arbitrary date, I admit) and I only have these comics to read: A few issues of Iron Man and The Sub-Mariner; a few issues of Marvel Super-Heroes; about 20 issues of Captain Marvel; the Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD series; and 40 or 50 issues of Sgt. Fury.)
I was going to tackle the first few story arcs in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol. But I find myself very interested in Astro City: The Dark Age. I read a couple of issues of Book One last week and got really interested, and now I'm up to the first issue of Book Two. So I'm going to finish The Dark Age before I move on to Morrison's Doom Patrol.
And to be perfectly honest, I know I can count on Busiek not to write pretentious drivel. He delivers pretty close to 100% of the time. (I read The Legend of Wonder Woman #2 fairly recently and I love it as much now as I did when I read it the first time in the 1980s.)
Morrison on the other hand ...
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