If you're on Instagram... my condolences... but also, I've posted a short draft version of the better video I'll post on YouTube Sunday or Monday. Feel free to check it out.
You want a happy relationship? Find anyone who cares as much about you as Instagram cares about you signing it on what it imagines is a new device.
I've yet to see the new Fantastic Four film, I don't go to the cinema much these days as grumpy old man syndrome has really kicked in these last few years. People have forgotten how to behave in public situations, but that's not my reason for this post.
The controversy over a female Silver Surfer, not on this site of course, got me thinking about my first outraged fanboy incident.
In my pre teen years I was an uncritical consumer of Marvel comics. I bought every superhero book they put out. Remember when that was possible on kid's weekly pocket money?
Looking back not all of it was good and some were pretty terrible, I'm looking at you Ant-man and pre Kirby Thor! But I read and enjoyed them all. Then came Silver Surfer #1.
I was excited to get a Silver Surfer solo book, then strike 1, it wasn't by Kirby. OK I thought Buscema is still a great artist that's fine.
Strike 2, it was more expensive than the regular, comics but it was more pages so again a qualified OK.
Then strike 3, I read it with an increasing " what the ..." is this. Stan Lee had taken Jack's original outsider learning how to react to human beings and turned him into another Lee's woe is me my life is terrible but I have no choice but to be me character.
It wasn't directly stated but hinted at that the Surfer was actually a creation of Galactus and now he was a human like being with a tragic but noble back story . That really didn't sit right with me. And I was outraged I tell ya ... outraged.
Maybe I was just getting older and my critical reasoning was starting and yes I still continued to buy the series.
Anyone else remember their first disappointing read?
My first disappointing read? This is probably not it, but I gave it some thought and the first thing that popped into my head was Charlton's Vengeance Squad #1. I bought every #1 I came across back in those days, not because I thought they'd be "worth somethning somday" but because I wanted to get in on the next "Big Thing." I jst remember being hugely disappointed in Vengeance Squad #1. The only highlight was the back-up feature: "Mike Mauser, Private Eye" from E-Man (which I loved!). Looking at the covers for this series, I realize that I did, in fact, buy #2 as well. I was a "completist" even then. The series lasted six issues, but I never saw another.
To clarify I'd had little disappointments before, usually when Don Heck replaced Kirby on a book.
I later in life came to appreciate Heck as the fine artist he really was, he just had the misfortune to be in the company of giants like Kirby and Ditko.
But SS #1 was the first time I actually thought, this is bs and shouldn't be allowed. Later writers I believe tried to explain the change as Galactus had removed the Surfer's emotions and memories to spare his feelings as he condemned worlds to extinction.
So, if I understand you correctly, you're looking for something each of was really looking forward to that ended up being a big disappointment, right? In that case, not my first but certainly my most recent would have been when Steve Rude returned with Nexus... but without Mike Baron.
MethodEng, I reccommend for you "When Calls Galactus," the 2014 Epic Collection which collects every single appearance of the Silver Surfer prior to 1968's Silver Surfer #1.
It reprints Fantastic Four #49, 55, 57-60, 72, 74-77 - plus material from Fantastic Four #48, 50, 56 and 61, Fantastic Four Annual #5, and Tales to Astonish #92-93, all in chronological order. It went back to press in 2019 so you should be able to find a copy fairly easily if you want one.
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If you're on Instagram... my condolences... but also, I've posted a short draft version of the better video I'll post on YouTube Sunday or Monday. Feel free to check it out.
You want a happy relationship? Find anyone who cares as much about you as Instagram cares about you signing it on what it imagines is a new device.
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I made some jambalaya this afternoon and Tracy brought to my attention the recent recall of radioactive shrimp.
I wonder what super-powers I'm likely to get from the consumption of radioactive shrimp...?
Have you noticed your eyes being able to move independently?
You might get to fight Godzilla!
I've yet to see the new Fantastic Four film, I don't go to the cinema much these days as grumpy old man syndrome has really kicked in these last few years. People have forgotten how to behave in public situations, but that's not my reason for this post.
The controversy over a female Silver Surfer, not on this site of course, got me thinking about my first outraged fanboy incident.
In my pre teen years I was an uncritical consumer of Marvel comics. I bought every superhero book they put out. Remember when that was possible on kid's weekly pocket money?
Looking back not all of it was good and some were pretty terrible, I'm looking at you Ant-man and pre Kirby Thor! But I read and enjoyed them all. Then came Silver Surfer #1.
I was excited to get a Silver Surfer solo book, then strike 1, it wasn't by Kirby. OK I thought Buscema is still a great artist that's fine.
Strike 2, it was more expensive than the regular, comics but it was more pages so again a qualified OK.
Then strike 3, I read it with an increasing " what the ..." is this. Stan Lee had taken Jack's original outsider learning how to react to human beings and turned him into another Lee's woe is me my life is terrible but I have no choice but to be me character.
It wasn't directly stated but hinted at that the Surfer was actually a creation of Galactus and now he was a human like being with a tragic but noble back story . That really didn't sit right with me. And I was outraged I tell ya ... outraged.
Maybe I was just getting older and my critical reasoning was starting and yes I still continued to buy the series.
Anyone else remember their first disappointing read?
My first disappointing read? This is probably not it, but I gave it some thought and the first thing that popped into my head was Charlton's Vengeance Squad #1. I bought every #1 I came across back in those days, not because I thought they'd be "worth somethning somday" but because I wanted to get in on the next "Big Thing." I jst remember being hugely disappointed in Vengeance Squad #1. The only highlight was the back-up feature: "Mike Mauser, Private Eye" from E-Man (which I loved!). Looking at the covers for this series, I realize that I did, in fact, buy #2 as well. I was a "completist" even then. The series lasted six issues, but I never saw another.
To clarify I'd had little disappointments before, usually when Don Heck replaced Kirby on a book.
I later in life came to appreciate Heck as the fine artist he really was, he just had the misfortune to be in the company of giants like Kirby and Ditko.
But SS #1 was the first time I actually thought, this is bs and shouldn't be allowed. Later writers I believe tried to explain the change as Galactus had removed the Surfer's emotions and memories to spare his feelings as he condemned worlds to extinction.
So, if I understand you correctly, you're looking for something each of was really looking forward to that ended up being a big disappointment, right? In that case, not my first but certainly my most recent would have been when Steve Rude returned with Nexus... but without Mike Baron.
MethodEng, I reccommend for you "When Calls Galactus," the 2014 Epic Collection which collects every single appearance of the Silver Surfer prior to 1968's Silver Surfer #1.
It reprints Fantastic Four #49, 55, 57-60, 72, 74-77 - plus material from Fantastic Four #48, 50, 56 and 61, Fantastic Four Annual #5, and Tales to Astonish #92-93, all in chronological order. It went back to press in 2019 so you should be able to find a copy fairly easily if you want one.
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