Happy anniversary! It was one year ago today that the CBGXtra forums were shut down and we were assured they would be back shortly!
Fortunately, CBG contributor Captain Comics came to the rescue and exuberant conversations about the Silver Age and other topics are ongoing here.
Thanks, Captain!
Hoy
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Has it really been a year already? Wow! Maybe in the second year of the Cap'n-ized Mr. Age Forums, I might actually get around to starting a thread myself!
In the meantime, though, what better way to celebrate than this visual reminder of all that is great and wonderful about comics, from ANY age.
...Kirby said " climax " . Huh . Huh . Huh . Huh . Huh huh . Huh . Beavis , your Mom's a slut . Huh . Huh huh .
It's been a year? Time flies when your having fun.
I want to thank the Good Captain, Mr. Silver Age, Commander Benson, and all the rest for making this long time CBGXtra blogger feel welcomed here.
I hold no animosity towards Brent and Maggie in regards to the forum closing, for whatever happened was a decision made over their heads. I still subscribe/read/support the Comics Buyers Guide magazine.
In all honesty, it's been a long time since I've been to the website, but a quick check revealed the forums are STILL AWOL!
Oh, well....
Noting our anniversary with that cover is just so wrong, but I understand the sentiment. But I really need to post a countervaling argument:
I would never have remembered the anniversary, frankly, as it doesn't seem like a year since they shut down. I don't think Brent still knows why they did it (and didn't tell the truth about the reason), but I'm glad we could carry on. Thanks to everyone who followed us over here and joined in the conversation over here!
-- MSA
Happy anniversary!
Thanks for joining us! You've been a welcome addition to our merry band of comics and pop culture lovers!
Happy Anniversary from me too! Some of us have been together for somewhat more than a year, going way back to the Compuserve Comics Forum and it's nice to know that a bit of that comradeship still continues, with both old and new.
Andy
P.S. In honor of the anniversary I'm posting the first comic I remember reading - though oddly enough I never owned it, and never saw it again.
P.S.P.S. Note to Mr. Age: posting that JLA cover is just as "wrong" as the JO cover for all the same reasons. Many of which are why we are still here.
I understand the sentiment on JLA #11, but it's not "just" as wrong for many reasons:
1. It actually came out during the Silver Age.
2. It was the first JLA comic I ever bought (I later read #10 in a three-for-a-dime pack).
3. It's a very cool story (possibly aided by my reading it when I was about eight).
4. As such, it needs to be defended against scurrilous rumors at every turn.
5. It, sadly, is symbolic of the fact that we always find things to discuss and seldom resolve them. (Unlike the SPJO cover, which is, just, sad).
6. It's a cool Silver Age comic, no getting around it, no matter what visions some people see inside.
-- MSA
P.S. I have that issue of Adventure, if you've forgotten the terrible secret behind his super-sentryness.
Both the covers to JLA # 11 and SPJO # 141 aptly illustrate the old adage: You can't judge a comic book by its cover. In the case of SPJO # 141, there is of course no actual scene in the story where Superman and the Guardian carry a round bubble with Don Rickles' mugshot emblazoned across it. But the story is still a lot of fun anyways.
Similarly, the cover to JLA # 11 doesn't accurately show what happens in the story, as the perspective of where the JLA members are standing, where their frozen hands are positioned, where Green Lantern's power ring was strategically nestled -- all these things are hidden from the reader's eyes on the front cover. In the story itself, of course, we learn how GL was able to deceive the giant demon, as well as the effect his cosmos-saving actions had upon one of his fellow JLAers, namely, Wonder Woman.
Both comic books are undeniably "cool" as we kids of the 1960s used that term. SPJO # 141 misses the Silver Age by about a year; in fact, Kirby's return to DC and his taking over the Jimmy Olsen feature was one of the surest signs that the Silver Age was over. But since I was 12 when SPJO # 141 came out, it by its very definition was a key moment in my own personal "Golden Age" and let's face it: that cover has the two greatest blurbs in the history of cover blurbs.
That's my cue.
Hoy
>I understand the sentiment on JLA #11, but it's not "just" as wrong for many reasons:<
I agree whole heartedly with your assessment of the issue in general. That and the previous issue, ie pt 1 of the story, were certainly an SA highpoint by anybody's estimation.
But you and I - and anyone else who's been following the discussion all these years - know that it's all about point 4. An oh so eloquent response to the SPJO cover. Including your denial:)
Andy
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