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Post by MDG on Mar 14, 2024 12:09:53 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 19:14:28 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 14:51:08 GMT -5
A special summer swimsuit issue devoted to the ladies from Dixie: Swamp ThongAnd Marvel's competing title, aimed at a different audience: Man-ThongAnd it goes without saying that some of us require a Giant-Size Man-Thong.
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 13:51:06 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 12:32:40 GMT -5
Going out on a limb, you know who could've done a great Superman reboot? Keith Giffen! I predict he would have simultaneouly tanked DC's flagship IP and been completely brilliant. And I would have enjoyed every minute of it Joking aside, Giffen would have been really interesting depending on WHEN during the 80's he took the project on, I feel like he would have been reined in editorially more in the fashion of the earlier Legion material he did with Levitz, but if could have gotten the right mix of "mainstream hero" with Giffen "wit", that could have been really fun. Whenever I mention a mainstream creator, you can assume I mean "...before they went off the deep end."
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 10:58:25 GMT -5
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #53 (June 1961)
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 10:54:18 GMT -5
Going out on a limb, you know who could've done a great Superman reboot? Keith Giffen!
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 10:47:03 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2024 6:31:51 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 12, 2024 14:17:00 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 12, 2024 7:17:56 GMT -5
tartanphantom{I was expecting someone to post this one}
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Post by MDG on Mar 11, 2024 14:44:36 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on Mar 11, 2024 10:44:28 GMT -5
The biggest flaw in classic Spidey (and many other super-hero series), in my opinion, is that he had no confidante who shared his secret and could, if need be, help him maintain it, an Alfred Pennyworth or Tom Kalmaku. True, there wasn't anybody well-suited for that role until Captain Stacy and Joe Robertson came along but there could've been had Stan so chosen and I think there should've been. Cei-U! I summon the missing link! But that lack of a confidante works with classic Spidey, who feels the weight of the world on his shoulder and no way to share it--he's the lonely, picked-on, high school kid with nowhere to turn.
What could have been interesting is another 3-4 pages before the spider bite of Peter getting picked on and stewing in "someday they'll all be sorry!" Then his struggle might've been not about making money, but about why he shouldn't lash Flash Thompson to the spire of the Empire State Building for a while and let Flash know that he can choose to beat the crap outta him whenever he decides it's time.
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Post by MDG on Mar 11, 2024 10:31:34 GMT -5
On the Scorpion, Chaykin was always a interesting stylist, both in how he drew and how he told a story. I always felt that the Scorpion was one of the Atlas titles that could've found a loyal audience if the company hung on since, while derivative of the Shadow, it didn't feel as copycat as a lot of the other books.
One final note: at one point Alex Toth was slated to take over the comic, and apparently the publishers (or Chaykin) disapproved of his approach, instead turning him into a blandly generic contemporary costumed superhero. The Toth story was reworked as The Vanguard. This is one of my all-time favorite Toth stories and I wish he'd done more.
I've got to find that Vanguard story. There are a couple of pages printed in this book, which is what finally sold me on Toth after I picked it up on whim at (IIRC) Iron Vic's Comics in Poughkeepsie in the 80s.
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Post by MDG on Mar 10, 2024 16:09:03 GMT -5
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