I bought this one on a whim, not really expecting to enjoy it, but pleasantly surprised that I did. I had expected it to be another post-modern screed of Hank’s inevitable insanity and microscope on a dysfunctional relationship that was doomed to fail. What I found instead was an updated retelling of TTA #27 & 44 (and, to a lesser extent, all the issues in between). It also smoothes over some of the seamier aspects of the beginnings of their relationship (when viewed through a post-modern lens).
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Without even looking at it, it sounds to me a bit like IRON MAN: THE IRON AGE (1998). The Busiek-Chen run of IRON MAN (art on the mini was by Patrick Gleason, some of his earliest work I think) was like an extended love-letter to the SUSPENSE run, almost at the expense of everything in between (which, at the time it was done, was not such a bad thing).
Maybe I'm crazy, but somehow I never found anything "seamy" about the Hank-Jan relationship, at least, not until Roy Thomas stuck his nose into it. From then on, it was a steady downhill thing, like a snowball increasingly in size with each new writer adding more and more bad things to it. Originally, they just seemed to me to be 2 people who were made for each other-- even if they didn't always act like it.
...Is it that Jan , I guess , was I suppose a late teenager or just past it when she was introduced ?
( Sue Storm was , I guess , just barely past Johnny's age in FF#1 while already having a relationship w/a prominently grey-templed WWII veteran .
Then there was Professor X's " Oh , Jean !!!!! " orbidden romance...And Peter Parke and " older woman " Betty Brandt...which the UNTOLD TALES title , I believe , pinpointed as " She's 17/18 and just barely out/dropped out of HS " , I believe . )
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Without even looking at it, it sounds to me a bit like IRON MAN: THE IRON AGE (1998). The Busiek-Chen run of IRON MAN (art on the mini was by Patrick Gleason, some of his earliest work I think) was like an extended love-letter to the SUSPENSE run, almost at the expense of everything in between (which, at the time it was done, was not such a bad thing).
Maybe I'm crazy, but somehow I never found anything "seamy" about the Hank-Jan relationship, at least, not until Roy Thomas stuck his nose into it. From then on, it was a steady downhill thing, like a snowball increasingly in size with each new writer adding more and more bad things to it. Originally, they just seemed to me to be 2 people who were made for each other-- even if they didn't always act like it.
Neither did I, really. I added that comment thinking of a response to the "Crisis of Infinite Non-Crisises!" thread on October 4.
...Is it that Jan , I guess , was I suppose a late teenager or just past it when she was introduced ?
( Sue Storm was , I guess , just barely past Johnny's age in FF#1 while already having a relationship w/a prominently grey-templed WWII veteran .
Then there was Professor X's " Oh , Jean !!!!! " orbidden romance...And Peter Parke and " older woman " Betty Brandt...which the UNTOLD TALES title , I believe , pinpointed as " She's 17/18 and just barely out/dropped out of HS " , I believe . )