Confessor
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Not Bucky O'Hare!
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Post by Confessor on Jan 12, 2020 12:29:31 GMT -5
I didn't like that, either. Nor do I like Aunt May being a babe in the movies.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 12, 2020 13:55:00 GMT -5
Unlike Aunt May they had never shown this Aunt Petunia, people developed a mental image based on the Thing's exaggerated quips and it was in contrast to that to show she wasn't a Basil Wolverton caricature.
Well, I recently finished the Siege Of Wundagore storyline from Heroes For Hire #15 & 16, Quicksilver #11 & 12, and Heroes For Hire/Quicksilver Annual 1998... and I'm heartbroken over Lady Ursula's final heroic act. That's two Wundagore Knights, three if you count Sir Wolf, done-in by John Ostrander. It is well done but, darn, a fighting lady bear knight was cool, stop killing my heroines. Grr! I would've sooner the Gator and Vermin went... they have to go on being a chivalrous reptile and a rat while the world is deprived of a bulldog named Churchill and the ultimate Mama Bear with a sword. Churchill got a particularly pointless single panel ending. Boo hiss. Spoiler: Everything and almost everyone else ends up back to normal at the end too.
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Post by wickedmountain on Jan 12, 2020 14:52:23 GMT -5
Margot in bad town 1 shot ( 1991)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2020 11:18:13 GMT -5
From 1964: Read this last night, b/w reprint in the first "Showcase" volume. It's a very atmospheric tale, and I am sure the b/w is part of that. The Dynamic Duo travel to England to extradite a fugitive, but the person they are after isn't the person on the run (he just looks like him). The person, who owns a castle, invites Bats and Robin in for hospitality, but strange occurrences take place in the castle. Someone is clearly attempting to kill the duo. But who could it be? There's a little bit of a mystery here. And it's fun. Batman and Robin don't get to do much detective work here, being more reactive (they even poke fun at themselves about that later on in the story). That's not a problem, though. You can't go wrong with any story set in a castle, right? I'll say this, though: 60s Dynamic Duo, minus the body armour, are very vulnerable to hoodlums with guns. They're practically walking targets at times. The "Showcase" volume is good because we are seeing detectives doing some detecting. I hope we get to see a movie Batman use his detective skills one day.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 15, 2020 12:32:08 GMT -5
I read Amazing Spider-Man Special #3, from 1966. I was looking forward to it, but I have to say, it was actually kinda bad. So much in this story made no sense at all. At least the art was good.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 15, 2020 12:34:21 GMT -5
Been reading Third World War Book 1, really great stuff. I'm usually not too big of a fan of Ezquerra's artwork, but given how grungy and undeniably punk the story is, it kind of fits (also, no tread-marks?). Mills is also, more often than not, a really good writer, but that goes without saying. Basically it's about a girl named Eve, acting as a wartime corespondent on behalf of Free Aid, an effort funded by a multinational corporation called Multi-Foods to basically gentrify South America for the benefit of the corporation I also really, REALLY like Paul/Finn and it was nice to see where he got his start even though his eventual solo run has almost nothing to do with Third World War
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 15, 2020 21:18:48 GMT -5
Avengers/Squadron Supreme Annual 1998 -> Squadron Supreme: New World Order 1 (1998, One-shot) Chock full 'o superheroes. I guess there is a lot of continuity regarding the Squadron Supreme between mid '70s Avengers and this, and most of it I am ignorant of, but I still enjoyed this team-up 'romp', and I think I still managed to understand most of what had and was going on. The majority of them return to their own universe for the one-shot that followed and a lot of things have changed there since they were last home. Not brilliant but if you are a sucker for dystopian realities with a lot of characters with history this prestige format type comic was well done. There's also the spot the DC inspiration to the characaters, Princess Power seems to be Wonder Woman, Dr. Spectrum green Lantern, and there is a Phantom Stranger kind of dude I don't think was shown before. Dedicated to Mark Gruenwald at the end.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 16, 2020 6:33:37 GMT -5
(...) and there is a Phantom Stranger kind of dude I don't think was shown before. (...) He's appeared quite a bit before that in various guises. He's actually Thomas Lightner, who was Blacksun in that one issue of Marvel 2-in-1 (the team-up with Doc Savage) and then later, also in Marvel 2-in-1 during the Project Pegasus saga, the Nth Man, who ended up going to the Squadron Supreme's dimension after that, as recounted in the Squadron Supreme graphic novel, Death of a Universe. As you saw in the two issues you mentioned above, he becomes the Phantom Stranger equivalent, just as almost everybody else in the Squadron's universe are analogs for various DC characters.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 16, 2020 13:08:46 GMT -5
I read The Brave and the Bold #112, a 100 page giant! The lead story is the only new one. It's an OK story. Not bad, but certainly not great. Cool seeing the world's two greatest escape artists together, though, and I love Mister Miracles costume! One of my all-time favorites. The other stories are all reprints from old Brave & Bold issues. The second story is an Aquaman/Hawkman story which is zany, but fun. The third story is a Silent Knight story. The art is nice, but the story is nothing great. The fourth story is a Batman/Green Lantern team-up. Not so great, frankly. Still, I love those 100 page DC Giants of old. Lots of reprints in there that introduced me to Silver Age and sometimes even Golden Age stories that I'd never have been able to read otherwise.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 14:08:40 GMT -5
Batman #165 via Showcase Volume 1. "The Man Who Quit The Human Race" is about a governor who has evolved to become a mutant. He doesn't want to harm anyone, but Batman and Robin have to deal with him as he becomes erratic. And it seems Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are not keen on mutants. God knows what they'd think if they met the X-Men!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 16, 2020 23:50:22 GMT -5
Defeat those mutants!
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jan 18, 2020 12:33:19 GMT -5
I have been seeing several Silver and Bronze ages comics lately, and there is a thing I’ve wanted to say since the year started, who remembers Kalel Kent/Jon Hudson/Lewis Parker, Superman 2020? Weird invented slang like Ten-Er? The weird tennis they had “since 2007” or something?
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 18, 2020 14:18:57 GMT -5
I have been seeing several Silver and Bronze ages comics lately, and there is a thing I’ve wanted to say since the year started, who remembers Kalel Kent/Jon Hudson/Lewis Parker, Superman 2020? Weird invented slang like Ten-Er? The weird tennis they had “since 2007” or something? Somehow I missed those... might make a fun collected edition for this year if they were to remember it. I was buying Action then but not Superman. I did have this one '60s comic with the Superman of 2965... but all I remember about it now is that it was a pretty confusing read.
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jan 18, 2020 14:50:29 GMT -5
I have been seeing several Silver and Bronze ages comics lately, and there is a thing I’ve wanted to say since the year started, who remembers Kalel Kent/Jon Hudson/Lewis Parker, Superman 2020? Weird invented slang like Ten-Er? The weird tennis they had “since 2007” or something? Somehow I missed those... might make a fun collected edition for this year if they were to remember it. I was buying Action then but not Superman. I did have this one '60s comic with the Superman of 2965... but all I remember about it now is that it was a pretty confusing read. Well, it was the 80s Superman Comics. dc.fandom.com/wiki/Kalel_Kent_(Earth-2020) Superman Vol 1 354 Superman Vol 1 355 Superman Vol 1 357 Superman Vol 1 361 Superman Vol 1 364 Superman Vol 1 368 Superman Vol 1 372
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 18, 2020 16:33:47 GMT -5
I have been seeing several Silver and Bronze ages comics lately, and there is a thing I’ve wanted to say since the year started, who remembers Kalel Kent/Jon Hudson/Lewis Parker, Superman 2020? Weird invented slang like Ten-Er? The weird tennis they had “since 2007” or something? I remember those, but not well. I had wasn't a very regular reader of Superman, but I did have one issue with a Superman 2020 back-up in it. Based on the information you linked, it might have been Superman #355, but I'm not entirely sure. I know the story had all three Supermen flying around, i.e., not just young Kalel, but also the original, gray-haired Supes and his middle-aged, graying at the temples son.
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