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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 12, 2018 12:54:52 GMT -5
I read Thor #212-216. It's a long ongoing story. Thor goes to Asgard to confront Odin, only to find Asgard bereft of Asgardians! Thor & company run into some lizard men there, who tell them they're former slaves of the Golden Star. Thor & co. take the lizard men back there, the lizard men turn on them in the ensuing battle. The Asgardians (and Tana Nile) are all taken prisoner, to become slaves. Odin and the other Asgardians are already enslaved. Thor discovers that all of the slaves have been drugged to make them submissive. They find some allies from the underground who help them defeat the lizard slavers and destroy their drug factories so that, once the drugs wear off, all of the slaves will be pretty angry with the lizard men! Anyhow, Sif and Karnilla are not with the other Asgardians, and Thor finds out that they've been taken as slaves to the Dark Nebula. Thor & co. (now including Odin and Heimdall added to the ranks of Hogun, Fandral, Hildegarde, and Tana Nile) take off for there, and have to battle the miners who have apparently taken Sif & Karnilla. While they are fighting, the three miners surrender themselves to a gigantic jewel in their mine. The jewel then erupts from the surface and Thor sees that Sif and Karnilla are trapped within the jewel. The voice of the jewel tells them that if they come any closer, they will die. The jewel creature Xorr causes a vibration that knocks everyone out. When they awake, they are deep underground. Xorr is apparently the embodiment of a world that was to be destroyed by its sun going supernova. Too much to go into here. Anyway, Thor can't rescue the damsels in distress without killing them due to the crystal creature Xorr. Along the way, Thor also had to battle Mercurio, the 4D Man and his cronies, who want the jewel to save their world. Odin, working behind the scenes, is apparently able to induce Xorr to try to absorb the energy from a huge star, the energy is too much, end he explodes. The ladies are free, and Mercurio is free to pick up the pieces of the crystal to take back and save his world.
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Post by Cheswick on Feb 13, 2018 7:48:36 GMT -5
I just read X-Men #2 by Lee and Kirby (with Reinman). It's such a wonderfully goofy issue. Highlights include the Vanisher teleporting into a military base to tell them he will return later to steal the defense plans rather than just taking them then, and Iceman using "fast-drying liquid ice"(Wha???)
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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 13, 2018 8:00:24 GMT -5
The Doctor Strange appearance in this issue was a nice treat seeing as how it's the characters first step out into the greater Marvel Universe. At this point, I'm frankly ready for Namor to evolve past trying to kidnap Sue while brooding about it, alone, on his throne in Atlantis. Reading between the lines, Stan and Jack seem to have been thinking the same thing given the conclusion. I think his next appearance in X-Men (when Magneto tries to recruit him) is a much more interesting story.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 15, 2018 3:22:48 GMT -5
I'm making my way through every issue of Not Brand Echh and #12 seems particularly trippy. There's a tryout for famous artists who want to write and draw a new Unhumans comic ... so you get one page of the Unhumans by Walt Kelly, so it's Pogo style, and then one page of Little Orphan Annie with Crystal as Annie and her dog Lumpjaw. Also, see Triton as Dick Tracy! And in the Peanuts parody, Snoopy is as big as Lockjaw! It's REAL DANG WEIRD! And there's Ayn Rand jokes! And then ... a Beatles parody called Sgt. Fury's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fury, Reb, Dum Dum and Pinky are the Fab Four. There's a two-page spread parodying the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. And then you turn the page ... and get parody lyrics, all with Sgt. Fury themes, like Adolf in the Sky with Buzz Bombs. And this is one of the later double-sized issues, so I've barely read half of it and I have no idea what else lurks in this WEIRD COMIC BOOK!
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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 15, 2018 6:45:29 GMT -5
I'm making my way through every issue of Not Brand Echh and #12 seems particularly trippy. There's a tryout for famous artists who want to write and draw a new Unhumans comic ... so you get one page of the Unhumans by Walt Kelly, so it's Pogo style, and then one page of Little Orphan Annie with Crystal as Annie and her dog Lumpjaw. Also, see Triton as Dick Tracy! And in the Peanuts parody, Snoopy is as big as Lockjaw! It's REAL DANG WEIRD! And there's Ayn Rand jokes! And then ... a Beatles parody called Sgt. Fury's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fury, Reb, Dum Dum and Pinky are the Fab Four. There's a two-page spread parodying the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. And then you turn the page ... and get parody lyrics, all with Sgt. Fury themes, like Adolf in the Sky with Buzz Bombs. And this is one of the later double-sized issues, so I've barely read half of it and I have no idea what else lurks in this WEIRD COMIC BOOK! I'm still reading "The Marvel Age of Comics" chronologically, but I'm looking forward to reading Not Brand Echh for the first time. I remember picking up a few "What The?!" issues in the late 80's. I know I had the Byrne Superman parody at the very least. Marvel and DC should do more parody books. I think they take themselves waaay too seriously nowadays.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 15, 2018 9:22:09 GMT -5
I'm making my way through every issue of Not Brand Echh and #12 seems particularly trippy. There's a tryout for famous artists who want to write and draw a new Unhumans comic ... so you get one page of the Unhumans by Walt Kelly, so it's Pogo style, and then one page of Little Orphan Annie with Crystal as Annie and her dog Lumpjaw. Also, see Triton as Dick Tracy! And in the Peanuts parody, Snoopy is as big as Lockjaw! It's REAL DANG WEIRD! And there's Ayn Rand jokes! And then ... a Beatles parody called Sgt. Fury's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fury, Reb, Dum Dum and Pinky are the Fab Four. There's a two-page spread parodying the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. And then you turn the page ... and get parody lyrics, all with Sgt. Fury themes, like Adolf in the Sky with Buzz Bombs. And this is one of the later double-sized issues, so I've barely read half of it and I have no idea what else lurks in this WEIRD COMIC BOOK! This was my first issue of Not Brand Echh, bought straight off the rack at the 64th Street Piggly Wiggly. My best friend Stevie and I thought it was the funnies thing we'd ever read, and we quoted individual lines from it for months afterwards. A couple of years ago, Rob Allen picked up a copy at Emerald City and I read it for the first time in some 40 years. I was prepared to be disappointed but damned if it wasn't still hilarious! Cei-U! I summon the reason I can't hear the title song from Camelot without mentally calling it Comiclot!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 15, 2018 10:38:47 GMT -5
I'm making my way through every issue of Not Brand Echh and #12 seems particularly trippy. There's a tryout for famous artists who want to write and draw a new Unhumans comic ... so you get one page of the Unhumans by Walt Kelly, so it's Pogo style, and then one page of Little Orphan Annie with Crystal as Annie and her dog Lumpjaw. Also, see Triton as Dick Tracy! And in the Peanuts parody, Snoopy is as big as Lockjaw! It's REAL DANG WEIRD! And there's Ayn Rand jokes! And then ... a Beatles parody called Sgt. Fury's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fury, Reb, Dum Dum and Pinky are the Fab Four. There's a two-page spread parodying the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. And then you turn the page ... and get parody lyrics, all with Sgt. Fury themes, like Adolf in the Sky with Buzz Bombs. And this is one of the later double-sized issues, so I've barely read half of it and I have no idea what else lurks in this WEIRD COMIC BOOK! This was my first issue of Not Brand Echh, bought straight off the rack at the 64th Street Piggly Wiggly. My best friend Stevie and I thought it was the funnies thing we'd ever read, and we quoted individual lines from it for months afterwards. A couple of years ago, Rob Allen picked up a copy at Emerald City and I read it for the first time in some 40 years. I was prepared to be disappointed but damned if it wasn't still hilarious! Cei-U! I summon the reason I can't hear the title song from Camelot without mentally calling it Comiclot!This happens to me with Mad song parodies. Old Man River will always be Old Man Dithers to me.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 15, 2018 11:52:54 GMT -5
I have not been commenting on every issue of NBE, but it is frequently HILARIOUS!
Marvel published NBE #14 last year and I hear it's pretty funny.
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Post by String on Feb 17, 2018 12:10:24 GMT -5
Fantasy Masterpieces #1 which reprints Silver Surfer #1
Lee at his best: "But neither missiles nor meaningless mouthings of petty pedagogues can halt the progress of the Silver Surfer, nor stifle the longing in his tortured soul..."
Art, outstanding.
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Post by urrutiap on Feb 18, 2018 0:20:29 GMT -5
From yesterday to earlier today I read these old comics
John Byrnes Man of Steel 1-6 John Byrnes old ongoing Superman series issues # 1 and 2.
Lex Luther really lost his red hair mullet at the time it was crazy
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 18, 2018 4:50:41 GMT -5
Well, quite recently I read one complete story, "The New Crimes of Two-Face" from Detective Comics #68. Not a reprint, either - the story from the genuine, original comic book itself: You may be asking: why just that one story and not the entire issue? Well, in late January I visited relatives in the US, and before that, I ordered some stuff from eBay and had it mailed to the US address to avoid exorbitant global postal rates; one of the eBay sellers partially padded the comics I ordered in pages from old tattered and frayed comics. I immediately noticed that these were Batman comics, and was able to assemble the complete Two-Face story. There's also parts of two other stories from that issue, "The Atom Cave Raiders" and "The Secret Life of Batman's Butler," but unfortunately the first few pages from the former and about two pages from the middle of the latter are missing. However, the two complete Varsity Vic features more than make up for that ... I have to say, though, that since it's from 1951, that's the oldest comic book (or part thereof) I've ever had in my possession.
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Post by maskedavenger on Feb 18, 2018 15:37:44 GMT -5
Brave and the Bold #99This is an insane, bemusing, marveling, plain ridiculous story that can probably be never made today. So many things here that makes you wonder exactly what was the thought process in creating this story. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy DC in the 70s and early 80s, the unpredictable stories really adds that level of excitement. I'm just going to list some oddities in this issue here: -Batman goes to Jail, and the Flash of all people pays his bail to have him released. -Batman learns that his dad, Thomas Wayne was secretly performing insane scientific experiments to cross over into the afterlife, and COME BACK into the real world after his death. -Thomas Wayne predicts his own death in a secret journal he kept. -Flash knocks out a possessed Batman in one punch (always nice to see, ha) -Flash takes Batman and runs/vibrates into the afterlife to meet his parents. A truly WTF story here.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 18, 2018 15:49:16 GMT -5
Brave and the Bold #99This is an insane, bemusing, marveling, plain ridiculous story that can probably be never made today. So many things here that makes you wonder exactly what was the thought process in creating this story. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy DC in the 70s and early 80s, the unpredictable stories really adds that level of excitement. I'm just going to list some oddities in this issue here: -Batman goes to Jail, and the Flash of all people pays his bail to have him released. -Batman learns that his dad, Thomas Wayne was secretly performing insane scientific experiments to cross over into the afterlife, and COME BACK into the real world after his death. -Thomas Wayne predicts his own death in a secret journal he kept. -Flash knocks out a possessed Batman in one punch (always nice to see, ha) -Flash takes Batman and runs/vibrates into the afterlife to meet his parents. A truly WTF story here. I WAS going to read Flex Mentallo #1 after I get off work tonight but I changed my mind and I'm going to see if I can find B and B #99 online.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 18, 2018 15:51:01 GMT -5
Well, quite recently I read one complete story, "The New Crimes of Two-Face" from Detective Comics #68. Not a reprint, either - the story from the genuine, original comic book itself: You may be asking: why just that one story and not the entire issue? Well, in late January I visited relatives in the US, and before that, I ordered some stuff from eBay and had it mailed to the US address to avoid exorbitant global postal rates; one of the eBay sellers partially padded the comics I ordered in pages from old tattered and frayed comics. I immediately noticed that these were Batman comics, and was able to assemble the complete Two-Face story. There's also parts of two other stories from that issue, "The Atom Cave Raiders" and "The Secret Life of Batman's Butler," but unfortunately the first few pages from the former and about two pages from the middle of the latter are missing. However, the two complete Varsity Vic features more than make up for that ... I have to say, though, that since it's from 1951, that's the oldest comic book (or part thereof) I've ever had in my possession. Is this one of those stories where it's somebody besides Harvey Dent? I especially like the one where actor Paul Sloane goes nuts and thinks he's Two-Face.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 18, 2018 17:30:01 GMT -5
Is this one of those stories where it's somebody besides Harvey Dent? I especially like the one where actor Paul Sloane goes nuts and thinks he's Two-Face. Yep, this is the Paul Sloane story.
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