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That's definitely in the running for one of the best Legion archives! I liked Shooter at 13 more than I liked him at 35 or so.
Definitely one of DC's greatest Silver Age runs, which continues with the next volume or two!
Speaking of writing comics professionally at age 13, I once submitted a proposal for a Silver Surfer limited series... when I was in college. (At the time, Marvel mini-series where intended to produce some sort of change in the character, and my intention had been to free the surfer from his imprisonment on Earth.) I got a rejection letter from either Carl Potts or Elliot Brown (whoever was submissions editor at the time), explaining that Stan Lee had a proprietary hold on the Surfer, and other writers were allowed to use him only under rare circumstances. I have always felt that that fact saved him the trouble of telling me how unprofessional my plot was. (It was probably pretty bad.) Later, Steve Englehart went on to write a SIlver Surfer series and accomplished the same end I set out to, and did so in a much better fashion.
I once "corresponded" with Jim Shooter as well. I sent a not-entirely-complimentary letter to Marvel Comics, and the EiC sent a hand-written reply (in Sharpie): "We hear ya!" It wasn't much, but it meant a lot to me at the time. I should still have both of those letters somewhere, but I haven't come across them in some time.
Finally, I was all set to meet Curt Swan, who was scheduled to be a guest at a comic book show in St. Louis in 1996, but he died the week before.
INVINCIBLE:
I generally prefer reading tpbs to periodicals, and hardcovers to trades. By the time I discovered Invincible, most of it up to that point had already been collected in tpb, so that's how I read it. If I would have only known how good it was, I might have collected it in hardcover. Because of the animated televsion show, Image is keeping it in print in a variety of formats, inclusiong thick softcover compendiums, and hardcover omnibuses. We watched the first episode of the TV series. I liked it, but Tracy didn't. From what I have heard about it, like the TV adaptation of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, it follows the same basic plotline as the comic, but changes things up to keep things fresh for those already familiar with the print version. Perhaps I'll try the tv show again after I make my way through the comic book series.
i've read Sugar, a boy-meets-girl tale of two souls who engage in a sugar daddy relationship.
We begin with Julia, a struggling college student working not one, not two, but three jobs and still can't keep up with the bills. She sends every dime home to her mother, who must care for her kid sister who was badly injured in a vehicle crash, leaving the family with $40,000 in medical bills not covered by insurance. It doesn't help Julia's mood that she has no time for romance, or that her roommate Christy brings home random guys for loud and enthusiastic sex.
Then there's John, so blindsided and heartbroken by his cheating wife's demand for a divorce that he signs a terrible deal against his lawyer's advice. His lawyer also tells him the way out of his doldrums is to get laid. So does John's business partner Richard, who admits he's got a chick on the side, which John did NOT want to know. Richard also counsels John to be a "sugar daddy" -- basically, to engage in a relationship where he pays a girl for companionship, no strings attached. John goes to a sugar daddy mixer and one girl comes on to him; he's intrigued but by the time he retreats to the men's room and returns, she's giving the exact same spiel, word for word, to some other dude.
Julia and John meet when he comes to her bar. The manager starts getting handsy with Julia and John calls him out, so the bouncer send him packing ... and Jula goes with him. He walks her home, invites him in, one thing leads to another ... and after that passionate encounter, John sees a TUITION FEE NOTICE lying around.
The next morning, Julia wakes up and Johh is gone, and she finds $500. She texts him angrily that she's not a hooker! He apologizes and asks for a proper date; she agrees but pledges to return the money. But she's got to pay that tuition bill or risk dropping out ... and the money is in her hand ...
They have a nice time on the date, and another night of passion, this time at his place ... and John makes a proposition. He'll give her $3,000 a month to spend her weekends with him. After hemming and hawing, Julia asks her roomate about it. Christy says, "So let me get this right ... he's handsome, makes you laugh, treats you nice, takes you places and he wants to pay you to be his girlfriend? How do I sign up for this?" Julia is concerned it makes her out to be a hooker; Christy says, "A hooker has sex with five guys a day and never sees them again. You're talking about getting an allowance to be a guy's girlfriend that you've already slept with and you actually like. That sounds like a win-win to me." Christy also advises that Julia can help her mom more and buy Christy stuff! "Just don't fall in love with him."
So, Julia accepts with two conditions: Take down all the photos he has of his ex-wife all over the house, and the money is a loan she intends to pay back. With that, the not-exactly-a-romance progresses with a lot of fun outings and passionate nights ... until the ex, Karen, comes back into John's life specifically to screw with his head. He's not over her, so it's pretty easy for her to do, and Julia gets hurt.
The writer is VERY sympathetic to Julia and bends logic into a pretzel to dismiss the morality of what she and John are doing. I suppose your enjoyment of this book depends on how much you are willing to accept sugar daddy arrangements as okay.
This was supposed to be the first of a trilogy, but no follow-ups were published.
The writer is VERY sympathetic to Julia and bends logic into a pretzel to dismiss the morality of what she and John are doing. I suppose your enjoyment of this book depends on how much you are willing to accept sugar daddy arrangements as okay.
The older I get the less I think it's any of my business who is poking whom, how it's arranged, or what passes between them.
This was supposed to be the first of a trilogy, but no follow-ups were published.
The Amazon description says it's part of a series, but no other books are listed, so it looks like you're right. Weirdly, Amazon also calls Sugar "A companion book to both Sunstone and Swing." I've read some Sunstone (explores B&D relationships) and I can guess what Swing is about. I guess they're related by being non-vanilla relationships? That could cover a lot of ground (and a lot of GNs).
The City We Chose, one in a series of Toronto Comics, features twenty-eight artists and writers in a series of unrelated vignettes about people choosing their city (not always Toronto). These range from realistic slice-of-life to fantasy to a thoughtful account of possums settling in the Six. I purchased a copy from one of the contributors at a recent con. The art is solid; the thirteen stories vary in quality. I'd have prefered maybe three fewer and a little more development to some of them. The best (as I see it) I really enjoyed though. "Il Pescatore" reads like an actual immigrant tale from the not-so-distant past, and may be based on one-- both writer and artist are of Italian descent. "Blood-Sucking Monsters" addresses the plight of vampires in the current world. So many of their potential victims can't invite them in, because they don't own the houses they live in. The writer, Malcolm Derikx, takes this premise in some unexpected and entertaining directions. Like many of the stories in this collection, it becomes political, but it isn't only political.
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ARCHIVES v6 (reprinting LSH stories from Adventure Comics #350-358):
Now I'm to the point at which I need to make a decision: Do I continue on with the LSH Archives series, or jump ahead to the SW6 batch?
That's a neat plan -- read up the where the SWG batch was frozen, and then read from where they were revived? It'd be interesting to see how faithful that was to continuity. With the Biernbaums involved, I imagine it hews pretty close (although maybe not exactly, since I think the nature of theSW6ers was up in the air for a while). What's the point in time where the split happens?
I don't know whether or not it was ever nailed down exactly when the split occurred, but I seem to recall it was after the death of Ferro Lad. (Andrew Nolan was a part of the "SW6" batch, but they found a way to write around it.) The reason I place it here is simply because I'm between volumes.
I think the nature of theSW6ers was up in the air for a while
For a while it was uncertain if the teen Legionnaires were were biological copies of the older LSH members or if the LSH members were themselves copies of the Legionaires. Eventually it was established that they were "temporal clones."
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