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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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 18, 2024 11:55:01 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. They should've based the movie on the OGN. Maybe then it wouldn't have stunk.
Cei-U! I summon my apologies to those folks who actually like that turd!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 18, 2024 11:58:58 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. They should've based the movie on the OGN. Maybe then it wouldn't have stunk.
Cei-U! I summon my apologies to those folks who actually like that turd!
It's such a fun book, both the graphic novel and the continuing series. Just solid super-hero funnybooks.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 18, 2024 18:14:14 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. They should've based the movie on the OGN. Maybe then it wouldn't have stunk.
Cei-U! I summon my apologies to those folks who actually like that turd!
Johns' interpretation of Captain Marvel got under my craw for a long time, then I came to the conclusion that if the story was taking place in modern times, Billy probably would be a little bit of a jerk from getting bumped around in foster care. The sequel was a dud though and the Black Adam movie didn't help things either Still though, I'd love to have a series of films about the individual Marvel Family members leading up to a team-up where they clobber the crap out of Black Adam, Mr. Mind, and Doctor Sivana
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 18, 2024 22:52:02 GMT -5
They should've based the movie on the OGN. Maybe then it wouldn't have stunk.
Cei-U! I summon my apologies to those folks who actually like that turd!
It's such a fun book, both the graphic novel and the continuing series. Just solid super-hero funnybooks.
Best interpretation of Captain Marvel ever-- Firesign Theater's "Caped Madman." (clip is cued for his origin sequence)
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 23, 2024 20:32:12 GMT -5
I’ve been reading the Amazing Fantasy Omnibus lately, and I finished it last night. It reprints Amazing Adventures #1 to #6, Amazing Adult Fantasy #7 to #14 and Amazing Fantasy #15.
I love these stories! It turns out to be a concentrated collection of what was best about the pre-hero thriller Marvel comics. So much Ditko! Great Kirby monsters like Manoo and Sserpo. Dr. Droom!
Also … the first Spider-Man! And also a pre-X-Men story about mutants!
I saw quite a few stories reprinted from these series when I first started reading comics when I was 11. For some reason, a few of the stories were in the back of the X-Men reprints. And I also got a hold of Amazing Adult Fantasy #9 with The Terror of Tim Boo Ba! (I don’t remember how much I spent on it, but I’m pretty sure it was less than $10.)
I bought the Omnibus when it was fairly new, around 2010 to 2012, I think, and I was very happy to have the whole series. I had read a lot of the stories in one form or another, but there were still quite a few I had never read. So it was really fun to flip through it and to finally read all the stories I had never read.
But even though I’ve had it for a while, I had never really looked through it again. So I decided some time ago that I would pull it out of the bookcase and read through it, one or two issues every night, and read all of them in order for the very first time.
I finally got around to it! These stories are so great, and it’s such a short run, that I feel like I might make this a yearly thing!
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Post by tonebone on Sept 25, 2024 13:16:41 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. They should've based the movie on the OGN. Maybe then it wouldn't have stunk.
Cei-U! I summon my apologies to those folks who actually like that turd!
Well, I for one think our movie producer overlords did a fantastic job with Shazam! I mean, forget coherent stories and compelling characters... I want a rehash of BIG with his cape serving as a hoodie. And Poochie the dog rules!
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