Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Sept 12, 2024 4:54:19 GMT -5
I forgot to respond to one other thing: I love the idea of actress Karen Page getting a part in a Dark Shadows-type tv series. It's been a long while since I read these issues so I can't picture them clearly - do we get any scenes from that show? Because I think Gene Colan and Syd Shores would be a great team for the artwork of a Dark Shadows-type comic series. Yeah, issue #65 opens with a scene from the TV show where a terrified Karen is being stalked through the fog by Brother Brimstone -- the reader is led to believe that it's a real situation and Karen is in danger at first, before it is revealed that they are just shooting a TV show. All the other scenes associated with the show (which is called Strange Secrets BTW) are backstage scenes.
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Post by spoon on Sept 16, 2024 20:13:18 GMT -5
I read Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #251-258 and Legion of Super-Heroes #259. LOSH is one of those titles where I've got a big pile of unread comics. There are some eras (like the Baxter series and the DnA Legion) that I've read most or all of, and some eras where I assembled long runs without reading much yet. So I decided to pick one of those periods to read.
At first I wanted to read the start of the post-Superboy era, but it seemed it was continuing from a cliffhanger. Well, I kept trying to figure out where a good starting point would be without coming in mid-story. I went with #251, but I realized after a bit that apparently #250 was the jumping on point that led to #251. Most of these stories are by the team of Gerry Conway/Joe Staton/Dave Hunt, although Jim Starlin does #251 under the pen name Steve Apollo.
An ongoing subplot has Braniac 5 going a little crazy, and then Matter-Eater Lad going a little crazy too. For as much as some people portray Matter-Eater Lad as a forgotten Legionnaire, he sure seems to show up a lot. There's a pretty story of Legionnaires trying to snap Brainy out of his mental illness. There's also a two-parter that's a very DC gimmicky fake-out involving a new villain group called The League of Super-Assassins. They sound much better than whatever mediocre assemblage of assassins Rah's al Ghul tried to foist on the 20th century. Anyway, one of their members is Blok, in what I think is his first appearance. These Super-Assassins are misguided and Blok seems the most conflicted about assassinating Legionnaires. I'm interested in reading where he transitions to being a hero, because I've never read that before. One of the issues from that story (#254) has an error on the cover, as Shadow Lass is shown in place of Phantom Girl.
The transition in the title from #258 to #259 involves a villain named the Psycho Warrior. Superboy gets written out of the book in a way that reminds me of the issue that permanently wrote the original roster out of the original Defenders series. There, the original Defenders learned of a future catastrophe that may happen when they team up. Here, the Psycho Warrior informs Superboy of a tragedy in his future. There's some partial amnesia that occurs each time Superboy returns to the past so he doesn't retain too much knowledge. However, both Superboy and the Legion are concerned that they'll have to walk on eggshells to prevent Superboy from rediscovering the sad news. Saturn Girl hypnotizes Superboy so he won't return to the future again. That's how Superboy gets dropped from the Legion's title, and Superboy gets his own separate series again.
I have a couple of the issues from this run as Whitman editions, so it's a little reading a DC comic with a different logo and no issue number on the cover.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 17, 2024 10:08:20 GMT -5
Did a re-read of the Power of Shazam graphic novel (and issue #1 for that matter). Easily the best incarnation of the character since the Golden Age. Ordway is able to capture a bit of that fun magic but still update the character to a fairly modern sensibility. His art in the GN is perfect. It's not without some issues. The super heavy exposition during the fight between Cap and Black Adam is frequently clunky. But I can overlook a lot to get a decent version of Captain Marvel and Billy Batson.
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