Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Feb 21, 2016 20:24:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the Axa reprints info mrp and tingramretro. I'd like to sample these strips again. I was only around 9 or 10-years-old when I used to sneak a naughty peak at the strip in The Sun (along with George & Lynne and Page 3). I have no idea whether Axa was really any good, but it sure looked interesting.  |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 22, 2016 2:44:10 GMT -5
Not really a story but an idea, and not really one that everyone hates so much as a situation which I suspect arose when the people who loved the idea just quit buying and those who hated it stuck around.
Spider-Man being married. I was one of those that stopped buying. I doubt I will ever buy another Spider-Man book. I was one of those who stuck around. I've been thoroughly enjoying Spidey over the last few years. I had no objection to his being married, but it wasn't an integral pat of the character for me as he was single when I first discovered him, so losing the marriage was not a big deal. |
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Post by batlaw on Feb 22, 2016 2:49:59 GMT -5
I remember totally digging "Inferno" but seems pretty slammed by everyone nowadays.
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 22, 2016 2:54:03 GMT -5
Thanks for the Axa reprints info mrp and tingramretro. I'd like to sample these strips again. I was only around 9 or 10-years-old when I used to sneak a naughty peak at the strip in The Sun (along with George & Lynne and Page 3). I have no idea whether Axa was really any good, but it sure looked interesting. I personally loved Axa, it was a hugely imaginative series and the art, of course, was gorgeous. An interesting bit of trivia (well, in my opinion): in the mid 1970s Enrique Romero drew a series called Supercats for the British girls comic Spellbound (the series later transferred to the pages of Debbie) about a team of four female crimefighters in the spaceship Lynx. One of them, the superhumanly strong Hercula, was physically identical to the later Axa (who first appeared in 1978) even down to her rather curious bracelet, though she otherwise wore a form fitting spacesuit rather than a rag bikini. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 22, 2016 4:44:03 GMT -5
^^ Good skills there (as the kids these days say), tingramretro.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 22, 2016 6:43:52 GMT -5
Not really a story but an idea, and not really one that everyone hates so much as a situation which I suspect arose when the people who loved the idea just quit buying and those who hated it stuck around.
Spider-Man being married.
It really seems like a no-brainer to me that a series about a kid (and later adult) who goes through various stages of life (high school, graduation, college, a job in the field he studied in, etc) should naturally progress to the point where that kid/adult gets married. I know characters don't usually age in comics and when they do, they do it do differently from the rest of us, but I'm not talking so much about age as I am progression. A large part of the appeal behind Spider-Man is here's a guy who has to do the same stuff that most people within his age category does only he has to juggle his Spider-responsibilities with his everyday routine. Wasn't Spider-Man supposed to be comic's Everyman (albeit with super powers)? Agreed! At the time I thought the marriage had happened a little too fast, since there was basically no build-up to it... but Peter Parker as a young newlywed was a logical progression, and I was expecting the mag to show us all the little indignities and joys of his new status, just as we had seen him go through high school, college and the life of a penniless struggling photographer. Marvel dropped the ball when they made MJ a supermodel and made the couple rich. That basically put an end to Peter as an everyman. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 8:49:30 GMT -5
I remember totally digging "Inferno" but seems pretty slammed by everyone nowadays. I still quite enjoy a lot of those issues today. I liked the main stories in X-Men and X-Factor...New Mutants not so much. I still dig the tie-ins that occured in Spider-Man, Daredevil and Thor the most. So count me as still a fan. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 22, 2016 10:36:11 GMT -5
Excalibur seemed to handle Inferno pretty well, but the premise just seemed a bit too out there to be seen as a legit threat for the Marvel Universe's multitude of superhero denizens
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 22, 2016 11:47:06 GMT -5
The Daredevil tie-in issues to Inferno were sheer brilliance. Actually, so was the Fall of the mutants one!
In the X-titles, I welcomed the writers' attempt to undo the character assassination that Cyclops had been the victim of when X-Factor was founded, but it was too little too late. The death of illyana was also a major waste of a great character, and the ongoing plot of her Belasco-given medallion with the bloodstones was just dropped.
By the way, who is today's Illyana? Her wikipedia page suggests she's some kind of being reconstituted from other people's memories of her. Is her actual soul actually in there? Is Belasco still around?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 22, 2016 14:22:45 GMT -5
There's a Daredevil/Punisher mini that seemingly everyone hated that i really liked, the one by Dave "Stray Bullets" Lapham.  I htink most of the hate was due to Marvel's over milking of both franchises, but really, as with the majority of Lapham's work, this was quite solid. Which reminds me that he truly is one of the greatest cartoonist of our age, some of the best storytelling skills around, and his stories often are exciting if not original. He has some epic misses, but those can't IMHO overshadow his many successes. |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 22, 2016 14:27:46 GMT -5
The Daredevil tie-in issues to Inferno were sheer brilliance. Actually, so was the Fall of the mutants one! In the X-titles, I welcomed the writers' attempt to undo the character assassination that Cyclops had been the victim of when X-Factor was founded, but it was too little too late. The death of illyana was also a major waste of a great character, and the ongoing plot of her Belasco-given medallion with the bloodstones was just dropped. By the way, who is today's Illyana? Her wikipedia page suggests she's some kind of being reconstituted from other people's memories of her. Is her actual soul actually in there? Is Belasco still around? As I recall, there was a story a while back in which the destruction of the bloodstone medallion reunited Illyana with her soul, so yes, she's back. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 22, 2016 15:18:36 GMT -5
The Daredevil tie-in issues to Inferno were sheer brilliance. Actually, so was the Fall of the mutants one! In the X-titles, I welcomed the writers' attempt to undo the character assassination that Cyclops had been the victim of when X-Factor was founded, but it was too little too late. The death of illyana was also a major waste of a great character, and the ongoing plot of her Belasco-given medallion with the bloodstones was just dropped. By the way, who is today's Illyana? Her wikipedia page suggests she's some kind of being reconstituted from other people's memories of her. Is her actual soul actually in there? Is Belasco still around? As I recall, there was a story a while back in which the destruction of the bloodstone medallion reunited Illyana with her soul, so yes, she's back. Hurrah! |
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Post by sabongero on Feb 22, 2016 15:59:05 GMT -5
 This much maligned super delayed series that produced ten issues spanning 3 calendar years is one of my most enjoyable reads in comic books. Perhaps my absence in reading comic books from late 1988 to late 2006 helped me appreciate this story of a menacing Batman on the brink of lunacy. This was a very polarizing title at the time of publishing, but I really enjoyed it. After all the title character of the comic book says it all "I'< THE GODDAMN BATMAN!" |
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 23, 2016 1:57:16 GMT -5
Morrisons JLA made me fangasm (and still might be my favourite ongoing series ever), the funny JLI era made me laugh, the silver age through to the satellite era set the standard...but I still like JLDetroit fine.
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Post by SJNeal on Feb 23, 2016 12:01:55 GMT -5
The Justice League books post-Giffen/DeMatteis through Zero Hour are still some of my favorites.
I don't believe anyone else has ever said that...
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