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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 10:42:10 GMT -5
Definitely the Crossing, and the 'Teen Tony' era of Iron Man. While I haven't read it, I suspect the 'Cap was always a Hydra Agent' will be tooWhy? If you had read it, you'd know that there is a sound premise behind it which neither contradicts nor invalidates any previos Cap story, and that it's obviously intended to be an arc with a very definite end point. It's seldom a good idea to make judgements based on incomplete information. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 10:30:00 GMT -5
Sure if your just a selfish consumer and only care about the finished product you see, then you would love Jim Shooter. Never mind how he drove away creators like Gene Colan and Roy Thomas. Never mind how he sided with Marvel management against Jack Kirby in returning his art. He got issues of Dazzler out in time and that's what counts for ones legacy. But...yeah, that is kind of all I care about, because it's the only part of Shooter's legacy that directly touched me. He might well have been an amateur human being and a total a**hole to work with, but there are a lot of a**holes in this world and, anyway, I didn't work with him. Can we not enjoy the fruits of creatives just because of their conduct towards the people they work with might be repugnant? If that's gonna be the case, then I need to stop listening to so much old blues music, because a lot of those guys were misogynistic, womanising criminals and/or murderers. Same goes for someone like Ike Turner: he was a king-sized a**hole and a much, much worse human being than Jim Shooter, but I still think he made great, great records in the 60s and 70s. The people Shooter may or may not have been crappy to at Marvel were still getting paid, however unpleasant working under him might've been -- it's not as if he was some kind of slaver, exploiting children in a sweatshop or something. He was just an a**hole boss (allegedly). There are a lot of them about! Let's get some perspective here. I tend to agree. Aside from anything else, these are people working a comparatively small industry where a lot of creators know each other, and factionalism and clashes of personality do tend to arise. Getting outraged on behalf of someone you don't know when you may only be hearing half the story seems a bit pointless to me. I know a few people in the British comics industry; one of them has been vilified for years by a very vocal faction, but has always seemed to me to be a decent guy who bears no resemblance to the person much of fandom now thinks he is. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 9:57:24 GMT -5
I first discovered Marvelman when I randomly picked up a copy of Warrior #4 (AKA the Warrior Summer Special) in 1982, and it-and the rest of the magazine-made enough of an impression on me that I not only diligently bought every subsequent issue but sent off for the first three as well, quite a commitment for a twelve year old! When Warrior were forced to stop MM's saga mid story I thought we'd never see how it ended, so it was a bit of a godsend when Eclipse picked up the rights in '85, though I still resent the name change to Miracleman. I'm still hoping we'll eventually get the whole story completed, and preferably reprinted in a nice big omnibus, with all the names relettered back to what they should be... I first looked at it when Moore and Totleben were working on "Olympus", mainly due to scarcity and access. It was real hard to find in my area and it wasn't until I graduated college that I was able to track down all of the issues and read the whole thing. A couple of years later I found a run of Warrior and bought them up, then found the rest via mail order. I really wish Eclipse had used that Warrior #7 cover; that thing is gorgeous. Late in their life Eclipse put out some t-shirts and I ordered the Miracleman shirt (and the Black Terror one), which was pretty darn cool to walk around in. Warrior was a pretty darn good magazine and I enjoyed most of the features in it. In retrospect, I'm kind of surprised Eclipse didn't leap on V for Vendetta, especially given cat yronwode's politics. I've never seen an account of why that ended up at DC and not Eclipse, especially since they were doing Marvelman and Laser Eraser & Pressbutton. Also kind of sorry we didn't get more Big Ben stories, as I liked the idea of John Steed as a superhero. Big Ben! I quite agree, I always loved "the man with no time for crime".  Eclipse also reprinted The Spiral Path, but nobody seems to remember that. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 5:55:22 GMT -5
Still getting rather confusing information about what happened. The police have said they believe the man who carried out the attack acted alone, but they've arrested seven people, including three in Birmingham... You'll have to excuse me, ting, but I'm gonna rant to you, rather than do it on Facebook and alienate a lot of my friends... A terrorist incident like this sure does highlight the right-wing nutjobs among one's Facebook friends. I've seen seemingly perfectly reasonable people this morning ranting about bringing back the death penalty, jailing the attacker's entire family or extraditing them back to -- and I quote -- "whatever shit hole they came from" (never mind the fact that they could well be British nationals who were born in the UK). Then there's the whole "marking yourself safe" thing, using Facebook's tool. I have just one friend -- my sister, actually -- who works in the Palace of Westminster and who walks across Westminster Bridge on a daily basis, and yet, so far, 25 of my Facebook friends have decided to mark themselves "safe" during the London terror attack -- including some that live in Eastbourne, Hastings and Birmingham! People are weird! It's sort of like they've got some desperate, unhealthy desire to somehow be a part of this tragedy and marking themselves as "safe", even though they may be miles from London, sort of involves them in it somehow. I mean, even if you work in London, unless you're specifically in the Westminster area there really is no need to mark yourself as "safe" on Facebook at all. Yeah, someone I know marked himself "safe" too, and he lives and works in Bromley. Very odd. There are also now people demanding that all our police be armed, despite the fact that most of them don't actually want to be. We lived through decades of random attacks when the IRA were active, and most people just got on with life and ignored the buggers rather than validating their attention seeking behaviour by panicking about it. What has gone wrong with our society? The attacker was a British national, incidentally. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 3:49:20 GMT -5
Still getting rather confusing information about what happened. The police have said they believe the man who carried out the attack acted alone, but they've arrested seven people, including three in Birmingham...
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 3:39:34 GMT -5
 Still one of the most unlikely things Marvel UK ever published... |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 3:29:28 GMT -5
Jim Shooter was by no means perfect, but as far as far as I'm concerned, his time at Marvel gave us some damn good material, and his departure marked the beginning of their creative decline. He gets an A from me.
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 23, 2017 3:23:07 GMT -5
I first discovered Marvelman when I randomly picked up a copy of Warrior #4 (AKA the Warrior Summer Special) in 1982, and it-and the rest of the magazine-made enough of an impression on me that I not only diligently bought every subsequent issue but sent off for the first three as well, quite a commitment for a twelve year old! When Warrior were forced to stop MM's saga mid story I thought we'd never see how it ended, so it was a bit of a godsend when Eclipse picked up the rights in '85, though I still resent the name change to Miracleman. I'm still hoping we'll eventually get the whole story completed, and preferably reprinted in a nice big omnibus, with all the names relettered back to what they should be...
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 22, 2017 13:29:29 GMT -5
Death toll now at four, twenty injured.
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 22, 2017 11:37:21 GMT -5
Looks to have been a terrorist attack on the Houses of Parliament in London about 40 minutes ago, as I write this. Looks to be two coordinated attacks with one guy with a knife and another driving a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge... My sister and brother-in-law both work for the government right there in Westminster, but thankfully they're both safe. One person confirmed dead now, several others seriously injured. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 22, 2017 9:16:33 GMT -5
Reminds me of old British character the Steel Claw. He had an artificial steel right hand, and the power to turn invisible if his steel hand came into contact with electricity, meaning he had to electrocute himself every time he wanted to use his power. But his hand stayed visible, so whoever he was hiding from could still see a floating metal claw. A cool visual, but utterly pointless. Makes about as much sense as Captain America being frozen in the arctic and worshiped as a god by the Eskimos "Aiii. We must worship the god in the ice! For if we anger him, he will surely...stand very still and do nothing in particular." |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 22, 2017 8:07:28 GMT -5
The invisible plane always struck me as ridiculous. What's the point of having an invisible vehicle if you're visible?? Reminds me of old British character the Steel Claw. He had an artificial steel right hand, and the power to turn invisible if his steel hand came into contact with electricity, meaning he had to electrocute himself every time he wanted to use his power. But his hand stayed visible, so whoever he was hiding from could still see a floating metal claw. A cool visual, but utterly pointless. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 22, 2017 7:19:29 GMT -5
Mytek the MightyFrom Vulcan #3 (1975) Art: Eric Bradbury 
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 22, 2017 3:52:06 GMT -5
- In X-Men Apocalypse, Mystique has become the face of mutants everywhere, her face appearing on posters and in slideshows presented in schools, so how is it that, fifteen years later, the senator heading hearings on mutants doesn't recognize who she is when he first sees her? On this point, keep in mind the timeline was changed.Damn you, Barry Allen! Will no one stop this outrageous man!!?  |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 21, 2017 3:43:39 GMT -5
Theta Sigma
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