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"Due to my situation at home, I've been pulling out some older trades that I had scanned but never fully read.
This week is S.H.I.E.L.D. by Lee & Kirby: The Complete Collection. I am reliving those early days of SHIELD with Nick Fury in command,…"
This week is S.H.I.E.L.D. by Lee & Kirby: The Complete Collection. I am reliving those early days of SHIELD with Nick Fury in command,…"
"JSA #15: I'm growing increasingly disenchanted with this "JSA: Year One", everyone seems way out of character, and I feel like continuity is bing nchanged in unnecessary and unproductive ways. If I keep buying this book, it'll be out of inertia or…"
"Cornell addresses the Beast's lack of involvement on the Korvac Saga, but that really wasn't the intended purpose of the story because it was taken from inventory. He also mentions the fact that Korvac Saga never really did have an adequate…"
"I always thought that its purpose was to explain why the Beast vanished from the Korvac Saga so soon but there already was an explanation in X-Men #111-114 (JU-O'78)."
"That is on my to-read list. Thanks."
"Not to my knowledge, no. His Reckless books seem to me to have a bit of Travis McGee in them, though. There's the great tough-guy action stories, but they tend to have a layer of talking about the changes to the California environment and cities…"
"Brubaker also did a dark take on the Archie gang ("Last of the Innocents"). Has he done Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys yet?"
"I'm guessing what the Beast might feel needs killing in him -- which might be a different thing than the empathic figure intended -- is a feeling of guilt that he's a sham. That in leaving the X-Men for the Avengers, in a way he's casting off his…"
"I was about 20 when this fill-in came out, and don't remember being impressed. But, like y'all, I am also not the world's greates Gerber fan.
I find it interesting that Buscema's cover, which I found strangely disjointed at the time, was lifted…"
I find it interesting that Buscema's cover, which I found strangely disjointed at the time, was lifted…"
"Other than, "It is, however, a masterpiece"? About the ending specifically he said that it "indicates one of two things: either the business of control in U.S. society is a series of boxes all inside each other and the agents are just as much…"
"I read Friday, by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente. College freshman Friday Fitzhugh comes back to town on winter break. She immediately falls back into a mystery with her middle- and high-school mystery-solving partner, Lancelot…"
"I just read this issue. I liked the beginning -- basically up until the Manipulator shows up -- but the end is a mess. What does Cornell say about it? "
"Frankly, I always thought that Gerber was hugely overrated."
"AVENGERS #178:
First, let me preface this by saying that I am not as enamored of Steve Gerber as some. I have come to appreciate his Howard the Duck, Man-Thing and Omega the Unknown, but his more mainstream super-hero work, yes, even his Defenders,…"
First, let me preface this by saying that I am not as enamored of Steve Gerber as some. I have come to appreciate his Howard the Duck, Man-Thing and Omega the Unknown, but his more mainstream super-hero work, yes, even his Defenders,…"
"Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, vol. 16: Kobayashi and pals are caught up in Loki's "Arena of Trials", and the results are not what anyone expected, not even Loki."
"Yes.... I think that Crumb is as paranoid as he says he is. It's just that he's also sane enough to question his paranoia along with everything else in the universe."
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They're good fun. I think I'm scratching the itch I had as a kid when I couldn't afford those big lumps of colourful plastic that looked so cool in the ads.
Actually I'm downloading them as I just know I'm going to visit that site some day and see that they've been taken down...
If you happen to find out the creative credits for the different episodes and their publishing dates I'd be grateful for the info. I couldn't find them anywhere.
Here's a birthday present for you.
http://www.geocities.com/cheezelordmaxwell/UKcomics.html
Good luck finding the pertinent bits!