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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 16, 2023 7:36:20 GMT -5
I hadn't thought of Silver Sable for a long time... now she's turned back up and you mention it here.. weird how things work.
She's hunting for Nightcrawler in the current Uncanny Spider-Man
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 16, 2023 16:28:13 GMT -5
Day Three of my annual quest to see who I can offend.
The Shade - This was an also-ran that very possibly could have been a also-was if it hadn't been so long since I've read it.
Jezebel Jade - I've never actually managed to track this down (to be fair, I haven't tried that hard). But it's a book I'd like to read. I really like Comico's Jonny Quest. So, well done.
Magik - I bought this off the rack when it came out, because I was buying New Mutants at the time. I know that I didn't like it much at all when I bought it. I suspect I'd like it a lot less now, because Claremont is pretty terrible.
Squadron Supreme - I only ever ended up with about two issues of this book. I'm not sure why. I feel like it was maybe a very early direct only book. But that could be wrong. I've never gotten around to rectifying that and reading it.
Darkdevil - This was well after I'd stopped reading anything Marvel. So I got nothin'.
Hawkeye - I know I've read that mini-series. I have zero memory of it. So...clearly it stuck with me.
Black Panther in JUNGLE ACTION - Once upon a time this would have gotten serious consideration. Now I find McGregor almost unreadable. Billy Graham was a great artist though...buried under aaaaaaaall that text.
Hit-Girl - I'm pretty sure I've read this. I run hot and cold on Millar (leaving aside his personality...which screams to be left aside). I really don't much care for Romita, Jr. I just don't really remember this.
Mr. Majestic - I know nada about Mr. Majestic except that he should be played by Charles Bronson.
Chili - The great chili controversy. Beans or no beans? Is white chili really chili? What's up with that stuff in Cincinnati? Wait? What's that? Never mind.
Dreadstar - Have I mentioned I don't like Jim Starlin? I know I should...but I don't. Nothing he's ever done has really worked for me. That includes Dreadstar.
Marsupilami - I have seen this funnybook. I know bupkis about it. And now I find out it's a spin-off. Will the learning never stop?
Silver Sable and the Wild Pack - This feels like something I'd hate.
Highland Laddie - I considered one or more of the mini's spinning out of The Boys. Ultimately it had been too long since I'd read any to make an informed choice.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 16, 2023 16:37:51 GMT -5
Well obviously not me, but guess you've already turned Howard into Duck a l'orange.  |
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Post by Jeddak on Dec 16, 2023 21:07:24 GMT -5
Day 3 - JugheadFirst Appearance - Pep Comics #22 Series I'm talking about - Jughead's Time Police, appearing in Archie Giant Series Magazine 590 & 602, Jughead 14, and 1-6 of its own title.  It seems like just about everybody who ever appeared in an Archie comic got their own series at some point. Jughead himself has had several, but this little oddity is my favorite. Jughead is recruited by an agent of the Time Police, because he's fated to save a future president. At the end of that first story, he's learned that he's a major hero to the 29th century, but the TP wipe his memory. No worries; he and the agent who recruited him fell in love so quickly and powerfully that the wipe didn't fully take. And it turns out that Jughead's beanie is a thought-activated time travel device, created centuries after the 29th. So he is made a deputy, and he's off - fixing history and avoiding (creating?) paradoxes in between lunch and homework. Written by Rich Margopolous (and with Gene Colan on the art for the last 4 issues) this was a fun and intelligent series that could easily have fallen into the trap of being about the times Jughead visited, even becoming (horrors!) educational. Instead, the series was solidly about the time travel itself. Jughead found out where (when) his beanie came from, he learned the truth about Riverdale's Civil War hero, he saved the town from what history recorded as a devastating flood, he met a slightly older version of himself, a much older version, Morgan Le Fay and Merlin, the Time Police and the mysterious Observers from even further in the future. It was clever, imaginative, and still managed to feel like an Archie series.  But my favorite thing about the series was that TP agent who first recruited Jughead. You know, the one he fell in love with almost immediately? Yeah, her name was January McAndrews, and she was a descendant of Jughead's best buddy, Archie. She also looked a whole lot like her ancestor. Which raises some interesting questions about Jughead's relationship with Archie. But that's one thing the series did not go into too deeply. Or at all.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 17, 2023 16:26:02 GMT -5
10. Wolverine Its kinda hard to admit that I was 18 when the Wolverine mini-series arrived. I had been a fan of Franks for a few years because of Daredevil. Ninjas were still cool. Wolverine wasnt in every team at the same time. Ninjas.
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Post by Farrar on Dec 17, 2023 18:15:34 GMT -5
Day 3/Selection #10: "Veronica" 1989 series, starring Veronica Lodge
First appearance: Pep Comics #26 (April 1942)
Spin-Off Series: Veronica #1 (April 1989)
Back when I was reading comics on a regular basis, if I couldn't find a Marvel or DC on the stands--or had already read that month's issues--then I'd buy an Archie comic (no sense wasting that 12 cents my granny gave me!). I couldn't stand the "goody good" Archie characters, namely Archie, Betty and Jughead, so my choices regarding what to buy were limited. My favorite Archie character by a wide margin was Veronica (Reggie was a distant second). Yes, both Ronnie and Reggie were devious and self-centered and were presented as far more flawed than Arch, Betty and Juggy...but those flaws made them more interesting and human and relatable to me. And they were fun! So more often than not I'd pick up an issue of Betty and Veronica, even though the dreaded Betty was a co-star. I'd also occasionally buy Reggie and Me. It bugged me that in addition to B&V Betty also had a solo series ( Betty and Me); I always wondered why there was no Veronica/Ronnie and Me comic. But at least there were some solo Ronnie stories in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals comic, so I consoled myself with those. Anyway, fast-forward a few decades, to the 2010s. When I started visiting online comics sites/databases, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Veronica had had her own series starting in 1989! Better late than never, I thought, and I obtained some issues and started reading. The issues and stories I've read so far are charming and silly and I really liked that the first several issues didn't involve Archie (she and her parents were travelling the world). Now reading these comics as an adult is quite a different experience than reading them in the innocent blush of youth, but I was very glad to see Veronica finally got her own mag... and so this series earns its place on my favorite spin-offs list. Veronica's debut in Pep #26  From Veronica's own series    
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2023 18:19:55 GMT -5
^ Glad to support anything Archie related  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 18, 2023 3:28:14 GMT -5
(...) Back when I was reading comics on a regular basis, if I couldn't find a Marvel or DC on the stands--or had already read that month's issues--then I'd buy an Archie comic (no sense wasting that 12 cents my granny gave me!). I couldn't stand the "goody good" Archie characters, namely Archie, Betty and Jughead, so my choices regarding what to buy were limited. My favorite Archie character by a wide margin was Veronica (Reggie was a distant second). Yes, both Ronnie and Reggie were devious and self-centered and were presented as far more flawed than Arch, Betty and Juggy...but those flaws made them more interesting and human and relatable to me. And they were fun! So more often than not I'd pick up an issue of Betty and Veronica, even though the dreaded Betty was a co-star. I'd also occasionally buy Reggie and Me. (...) That kind of depends on the writer, though, doesn't it? One thing I recall from my initial reading of Archie comics in the 1970s is that Veronica was quite often portrayed as kind-hearted despite being a spoiled rich girl (which was why she loved Archie, who would otherwise be 'beneath her'). Also, I found it interesting when more recently reading Archie reprints, esp. from the 1950s, that Veronica was sometimes portrayed as sweet and even a bit naive, while Betty was portrayed as a sort of jealous schemer trying to find ways to put a wedge between Archie and Veronica. Regardless, though, I've always been on team Veronica as far as the Archies are concerned. And one other thing I really liked: the fact that Veronica is the smartest member of the gang in those Flintstonesque Archie caveman stories.
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 18, 2023 14:04:32 GMT -5
10. The Deadly Dozen1st appearance: Sgt. Fury #98 Choice run: Combat Kelly and His Deadly Dozen #1-9 The idea of the Deadly Dozen is a direct rip-off from the film "The Dirty Dozen." In their first appearance, the Deadly Dozen are led by Dum-Dum Dugan, but when the team spun off into their own title, they gained a new leader in the form of Combat Kelly (not to be confused with the Atlas character of the same name). The series was a lot gritter than Sgt. Fury right from jump street, but what really makes the short run stand out is the insanely violent and depressing end to the series. Sure, in the movie, many members of the Dirty Dozen were killed, but they still accomplished their mission and there was a sort of "happy ending" for the survivors. Not so here. In the last issue, the whole team dies horribly trying to save Kelly's lady love from Nazis. Kelly himself is the only survivor, but they don't really manage to save her - by the time they rescue her, she's been brutally experimented on by Nazi scientists and left unable to walk. Kelly is left a broken shell of a man who no longer believes in war but has no other way out. It's a shocking and memorable finale. 
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 18, 2023 19:12:58 GMT -5
Another "better late than never" entry:
#10. Jughead
My favorite of the Archie characters. He's odd, he knows it and is completely happy with it.
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Post by MWGallaher on Dec 18, 2023 22:08:37 GMT -5
10. The Deadly Dozen1st appearance: Sgt. Fury #98 Choice run: Combat Kelly and His Deadly Dozen #1-9 The idea of the Deadly Dozen is a direct rip-off from the film "The Dirty Dozen." In their first appearance, the Deadly Dozen are led by Dum-Dum Dugan, but when the team spun off into their own title, they gained a new leader in the form of Combat Kelly (not to be confused with the Atlas character of the same name). The series was a lot gritter than Sgt. Fury right from jump street, but what really makes the short run stand out is the insanely violent and depressing end to the series. Sure, in the movie, many members of the Dirty Dozen were killed, but they still accomplished their mission and there was a sort of "happy ending" for the survivors. Not so here. In the last issue, the whole team dies horribly trying to save Kelly's lady love from Nazis. Kelly himself is the only survivor, but they don't really manage to save her - by the time they rescue her, she's been brutally experimented on by Nazi scientists and left unable to walk. Kelly is left a broken shell of a man who no longer believes in war but has no other way out. It's a shocking and memorable finale. Discovering that comics like this existed are like a glimpse of an alternate reality. I was buying comics at the time this was published, but I either forgot or never realized that things like this and OUTLAW KID were running new material rather than reprints (because I didn't ever even crack up most war, westerns, cartoon, or romance comics as a pre-teen). I start feeling like an expert, both from my own memory of what was on the stands and decades of articles, histories, discussions, and then something like this crops up: nine all-new issues by familiar creators that went so far under the radar I could never have conjured up the most meager of recollections of them! Now if only someone would point out seven issues of a new LORNA THE JUNGLE GIRL from 1972, or an APACHE KID revival running discreetly in WESTERN GUNFIGHTERS, or a long-forgotten Black Knight feature tucked among the reprints in JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY... |
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Post by Pól Rua on Dec 25, 2023 22:33:18 GMT -5
First appearing in the pages of Ben Edlund's 'The Tick', comes our next entry... #10. The Man-Eating CowOriginally appearing as part of a deathtrap ("A deadly pit of man-eating alligators and cows!"), the Man-Eating Cow would escape by virtue of simply wandering off while nobody was paying attention. She later appeared in her own title which was so much better than it deserved to be. This series became a favourite of mine for two main reasons. The first was, as a big fan of Steve Gerber's work on 'Man-Thing', I love the idea of a protagonist who's more of a force of nature, directed by unknowable instincts. In the series, The Cow tends to favour devouring unpleasant, violent people and is provoked by aggression, but other than that, her motives are completely undiscernable, with the result being that stories tend to be focused more on how the characters around her act and respond. Secondly, while it's definitely a satire, the absurdity is played entirely straight-faced. The struggles of our lesser protagonists - a former superhero named Crime Cannibal, whose powers make him an ideal suspect for the Cow's activities, a rodeo-clown on a desperate to track down the cow before she can kill again, like Sidney Loomis in facepaint and a career cop who's beginning to realize there's more going on than his superiors are willing to believe - are all treated with sincere gravitas. And I'm an easy mark for both of those factors.  |
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