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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 6, 2017 10:22:26 GMT -5
I read Marvel Premiere #47-48 last night. The first appearances of the Scott Lang Ant-Man. Good story, with the human interest angle of a single father trying to save his daughter's life, and some excellent John Byrne/Bob Layton art.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 7, 2017 17:13:27 GMT -5
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Post by sabongero on Jun 7, 2017 17:42:40 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 8, 2017 7:24:03 GMT -5
Is Clark just a little bit jealous when Jimmy calls Captain Marvel his favorite superhero?
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Post by String on Jun 8, 2017 10:28:57 GMT -5
I'm amazed that some fans still claim this issue was not 'written' simply because of lack of dialogue.
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Post by MDG on Jun 8, 2017 11:31:10 GMT -5
I'm amazed that some fans still claim this issue was not 'written' simply because of lack of dialogue. Fundamental misunderstanding of comics.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 8, 2017 11:47:20 GMT -5
I'm amazed that some fans still claim this issue was not 'written' simply because of lack of dialogue. Fundamental misunderstanding of comics. Indeed. Those are the comic book readers that prefer to have something to read. Personally, I would enjoy a Snake Eye comic book series with no written dialogue and everything is told via the illustrations. Plus you can have dialogue baloons/boxes in a comic book and change the written dialogue and the whole scene could mean something entirely different.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 18:09:00 GMT -5
Finished reading The Flash #1-4 from 1987. I really liked the Vandal Savage story in 1 & 2, especially because they adapted some of it into a great episode of Young Justice. The Kilg%re story in 3 & 4 was not nearly as good. It was cool to see the character of Tina McGee show though.
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Post by String on Jun 9, 2017 10:07:46 GMT -5
Master of Kung Fu #83-88
If you gonna have action and intrigue in Casablanca, then of course Clive Reston knows Rick Blaine! (I think I spotted an homage character to Sydney Greenstreet as well in one panel of #87 as our heroes regrouped there).
Although, in #88, with Shang's battle with Maru atop one of the World Trade Center towers, I found the imagery of Maru's death disconcerting. Maru's head afire from Fu Manchu's electrodes as he fell, Moench's description was poetic but also brought to mind the images of 9/11 as some people, trapped and fearful at the top, jumped instead of waiting for the flames to consume them.
I know there's no way Moench and Co could have predicted such a sentiment 30 some odd years ago but I think this small instance highlights again how classic art and story can be viewed afresh with modern perceptions.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 9, 2017 15:12:08 GMT -5
Well, I decided my next major run to read online would be the Adventures of the Sub-Mariner, from Tales to Astonish #70 to #101, then Iron Man and Sub-Mariner #1, then into Sub-Mariner #1 up to #72. I have had scattered issues of these books, read a few in Marvel Super-Heroes reprints and other places (Sub-Mariner #8 is in a Marvel Treasury Edition) but I doubt that I've ever read more than three or four consecutive issues in the whole run. So for a lot of these stories, I kind of know what's going on, but I don't think I've ever read an entire storyline from these issues. I read tales to Astonish #70 and #71 over the last few days. I used to have very beat-up copies of these two, but I didn't really like them too much. The Sub-Mariner stories are the first two parts of a quest to find Neptune's trident, and I've never read any of the other chapters. And the Hulk stories - well, I'm a big Hulk fan, and I love the Ditko issues from a few issues previous to these, and then Bill Everett provides some amazing art a few issues later, but the last few issues of that wide-ranging arc from TTA #60 to #74 have always been a big disappointment. But this time around, I find myself liking these a lot! The Sub-Mariner has returned to Atlantis to find that Warlord Krang has usurped the throne! Namor can prove he is the legitimate sovereign by completing a quest, a journey through various locations in the sea, facing very perilous perils, until he can find Neptune's trident, and that will show that he is truly the one true Sub-Mariner, the Avenging Son, the King of Atlantis! The art is by Gene Colan and Vince Coletta, and I remember that when I was a kid, I didn't like the Colletta inks at all! But over the years, I've come to appreciate most of Colletta's work up to about 1975, and I think he's especially good here. Those scratchy inks give the impression that you're actually watching Namor operating underwater. It works a heck of a lot better than I remember from the last time I read more than twenty years ago! Tales to Astonish #71 ends with Namor being SQUISHED by a giant seaweed man! It's been years and years since I read that, and I've never seen the next issue. But I'll get to it in the next few days and I'll finally find out what happens next! As I've already read all the Hulk stories from TTA #70 to #101 (mostly in The Essential Hulk), I hadn't planned on reading them while I'm reading the Namor stories ... but when I was done with the Namor story in #70, I couldn't help myself. It's been a while since I read these Hulk stories. And I find myself liking them a lot more than I used to. Even the Mickey Demeo (Mike Esposito) inking that I used to hate so much! Bruce Banner is dead, shot in the head by a bullet from General Ross's soldiers, but quick-thinking Rick Jones takes the body to one of the hidden labs and shoots the body with gamma rays. And he turns into the Hulk, only now he has Banners brain! And with the U.S. military still hunting the Hulk, the Leader sends a giant humanoid construct to destroy the base! It's great! I'm so glad I'm getting such a newfound kick out of stories I didn't much like 20 or 30 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 22:02:57 GMT -5
Shazam: Monster Society of Evil I'd never read it before and yesterday was the 107th birthday of C.C. Beck, so I decided to celebrate by going for it. It was a great read.
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Post by Spike-X on Jun 10, 2017 3:40:09 GMT -5
Geez, Rick! At least wait until they find a body before you go blabbing a guy's secrets! This is why nobody likes you.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 10, 2017 21:10:09 GMT -5
Adventures Into Fear #10-#13 In an attempt to try and reacquaint myself with one of my two loves of teen-hood, Steve Gerber, I reflected on how intensely prominent Man-Thing is in Howard The Duck (my favorite is the opening of the somewhat mediocre 2007/2008 series where Howard is playing interdimensional poker) Anyway, back to the actual comic. It starts out very slowly and then just continually gets more and more bizarre in the typical Gerber sense of the phrase with two kids accidently summoning demons in the Florida swamplands, permanently rupturing a hole between our dimension and what lies beyond. Said demons find solace in the bodies of gentle, easy going floridians and cause them to lash out irrationally with a furious and unfounded hatred for their fellow man. Oh, and there's also wizards for some reason who force the kids to have Man-Thing fight for them in a gladiatorial arena, because that makes sense...
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Post by Spike-X on Jun 11, 2017 3:19:27 GMT -5
I've been seeing a lot of talk lately about Cosmic Odyssey, the Jim Starlin/Mike Mignola prestige format miniseries from the 80s. I had a look on Comixology, and they had it for $1.99 an issue, so I figured why not? I had a vague memory of having bought at least the first issue when it came out, but apparently not, because after having read it yesterday and today I don't remember having read so much as a single panel before! The first issue is basically all setup, so we'll see where it goes from here. Oh yeah, I finished this a while back. The art was nice.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 11, 2017 5:57:04 GMT -5
Finished reading The Flash #1-4 from 1987. I really liked the Vandal Savage story in 1 & 2, especially because they adapted some of it into a great episode of Young Justice. The Kilg%re story in 3 & 4 was not nearly as good. It was cool to see the character of Tina McGee show though. Mike Barons run set the stage for the Wally West Flash to be great. I read #1-18 on a yearly basis.
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