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San Pueblo translates as Saint Town.
THE FUTURIANS (v2):
The Futurians, the story of eight extraordinary humans with super-powers gained by way of genetic namipulation from the future, began as Marvel Graphic Novel #9. The graphic novel went to three printings and a series was called for. But creator Dave Cockrum was lured away from Marvel by the independant publisher Lodestone with promises of "pie-in-the-sky money" (Cockrum's term). Three issues were published in 1985, but a fourth had been completed. In 1986, Eternity released The Futurians (v2) including the fourth issue, but the print run was so small I didn't even know about it. In 1995, Aardwolf published the fourth issue as a standalone b&w (numbered "zero"), to gauge interest in a possible new series. None was forthcoming, so I guess it didn't sell, but at least I finally got the read the end of the second story that I didn't even know existed. I recently nominated The Futurians to the "What should be collected next?" discussion, which got me thinking about the hard-to-find second volume. With the help of the internet, I did find a copy (but I'd still like to see a single volume of both stories, recolored).
Besides the inexpensive EC Archives series, I've been getting and enjoying the Clover Press DICK TRACY collections that contain an entire calendar year in each volume. Of course, the drawback is that the story doesn't end on December 31st so one has to wait for the next volume. I have 1941, 1942 and 1943!
I am eagerly awaiting 1944 as that one contains Itchy Oliver, the Brow, Gravel Gertie and, of course, Flattop!
I'm also getting the ASTERIX COLLECTOR VOLUME series that have supplemental material! I got Asterix and Cleopatra (seen the animated version) and Asterix and the Big Fight.
My main issue is that the Druid is called Panaramix not Getafix as I know him!
Dave Cockrum's The Futurians (see above) and John Byrne's Elsewhen put me in the mood to read some Cockrum/Byrne X-Men, so todat I read #107-108.
I recently finished reading the Cockrum/Grell era of the LSH through Archives v11, then skipped ahead a bit to the Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes TE HC (2022). By the time DC released All-New Collectors' Edition C-55 in 1978, I had long since dropped all TEs from both of the "Big Two." Although I do have it reprinted on high quality paper stock in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 1 (2017), this was my first time reading it at the size it was originally published.
I had completely forgotten that I myself had started a discussion of Kirby Genesis back on May 16, 2011. The discussion I was thinking of is Chris's "post mortem" from May 25, 2013. I found the comparison between Kirby Genesis and Project Superpowers of partucular interest today, after having recently re-read them both, in their entirety, in a "satisfying chunk."
Let's see what else I can find to read in my "Kirby Inspired" box...
Jack Kirby's Starr Warriors Starring Adam Starr and the Solar Legion (2023) is a faithful adaptation of Jack Kirby's work from Crash Comics #1-3, when he was just 22 years old, "remixed" by Tom Scioli. (If you want to see the original version, that's available, too, in the "Science Fiction" volume of The Simon & Kirby Library.) On the other side of the timeline is Captain Victory #13 (1984) when he was 67. Although it is the third part of the "origin trilogy," it can be read as a standalone space opera (with a mind-blowing double-page spread of "Ranger Center" on pp. 8-9).
I finally got around to reading Gotham City: Year One, another Tom King miniseries that plays with characters, placing them on the edge of continuity. Here, it posits how the city turned from a paradise to a crime-ridden dump, throiugh a circumstance that of course features the Wayne family. Specifically, Bruce Wayne's grandparents, Constance and Richard. Slam Bradley is brought in to quietly investigate the kidnapping of their baby daughter Helen. King then spins a crime noir talo of secrets and intrigue, revealing that the upstanding citizens in Gotham are anything but.
It was well-written, although it clearly was meant to be a 1930s-type story, but that wouldn't work for Batman today. And to make the story work, Slam Bradley is presented as a lifelong Gothamite who has an easy familiarity with people on both sides of the tracks ... and why is one of the secrets in this telling. That didn't bother me as much as King's uprooting Bradley from Metropolis; everything I've ever read about Slam Bradley told me he's from there.
Now, if they really needed a true Gothamite to make the story work, I would have gone for Steve "Shotogun" Smith, a Gotham P.D. detective who appeared in a few issues of Detective Comics in the wake of The French Connection; Smith clearly was DC's answer to the movie's Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle. But I have a long memory, and a minor character who hasn't appeared anywhere in four or five decades might not fit the bill. But I would find that preferable to telling us Slam Bradley is from Gotham when he never was before.
Apart from that, Gothem City: Year One is an okay read.
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