Marvel's Black & White SUPER ISSUES

[Jeff of Earth-J]

First there was Doctor Strange, then Iron Man, this week Daredevil. I'm enjoying these one-shots designed to look like '70s era b&w magazines (well, the covers, anyway; the stories themselves are modern). These comics are a good opprtunity to catch up on characters I don't follow anymore. The first story in te Daredevil one, "Second sight" drawn by Jason Latour, is the best of the three in the issue and is an excellent use of black and white. "Game Room," an illustrated prose story written by Ann Nocenti is something of an oddity. It's dialogue-heavy, yet she chose to write it witout the use of quotation marks (an odd choice).

 

I'm looking forward to more of these issues.

[Philip Portelli]

Don't forget The Savage Ax of Ares which was both a shocker and a tribute (?) to the god of war. Ares became the surprise character of the 2000s. Was anyone else amazed how a relatively minor (to Marvel, not classical mythology) figure became so important and scary? He was a cross between Thor and Wolverine. From his first mini to his horrific demise, Ares was a true personality, with good and bad qualities. I do miss him, in a weird way!

[Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man]

I have a Shang Chi issue from this same series. In fact, it's the only one I have from this series.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Hmm... I didn't know about either Ares or MoKF. I'll look for them at my LCS this coming Wednesday.

[Captain Comics]

Marvel is going to collect stories from them in October. See the October solicitations in the Comics News section.

[ClarkKent_DC]

I got the Master of Kung Fu, and one of the other ones, I think Daredevil ... it's hard to remember because they are quite remarkably unmemorable ...

[Jeff of Earth-J]

You think? I've liked the ones I read.

[Ron M.]

Olympians aren't like Asgardians, they're actually immortal. Ares isn't dead, just very very very badly hurt...

Does he still have that mohawk?

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

...Weren't some of these , anyway , magazine-sized reprints of material that also appeared in comic book-sized B&W miniseries , the magazine-sized reprints being anthologies with several characters included ?

  I bought at least one of these at a newsstand account .

  Perhaps Marvel was test-marketing if something like that 70s/80s B&W format could work again .

  Two stories I remember from these:

  A Dr. Strange story set in the post-Vietnam War " gritty , disillusioned " Seventies .

  An Iron Man story set in the future where Tony Stark had , before going into suspended animation , invented teh that made the world a semi-utopia - but had to be brought back (Spoiler ?) to everyday life by Pepper Potts' descendant when trouble occured .