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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2014 12:06:03 GMT -5
Hey Shax, nitpicky 101-it's Mike Gold the editor of ACW and Michael Golden the artist known for Micronauts and other things...
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 12:25:03 GMT -5
Hey Shax, nitpicky 101-it's Mike Gold the editor of ACW and Michael Golden the artist known for Micronauts and other things... -M Thanks. I'm still hopped up on post-surgical pain meds and wondered if I could push out a review without screwing something up
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 19, 2014 12:35:52 GMT -5
Yeah,I was getting confused why artist Micheal Golden was going on about Action Comics
From my dim memories,after the Showcase tryout issue and Secret Six #1, each issue would focus on one of the cast. Details on their background and what secret Mockingbird was utilizing to blackmail the person to do his biding. There were clues (or red herrings) why that person couldn't be Mockingbird such as their thought balloons. Whether Carlo's reveal makes sense from what was shown in the original run is unknown to me. Secret Six #7 was the Carlo issue but I no longer have it. I always thought E. Nelson Bridwell,the series creator, never told anyone the answer to the mystery
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 12:39:22 GMT -5
From my dim memories,after the Showcase tryout issue and Secret Six #1, each issue would focus on one of the cast. Details on their background and what secret Mockingbird was utilizing to blackmail the person to do his biding. There were clues (or red herrings) why that person couldn't be Mockingbird such as their thought balloons. Whether Carlo's reveal makes sense from what was shown in the original run is unknown to me. Secret Six #7 was the Carlo issue but I no longer have it. I always thought E. Nelson Bridwell,the series creator, never told anyone the answer to the mystery I've never read the original series, so I don't know whether it was revealed there or first revealed in ACW, but the original Mockingbird was August Durant according to the ACW feature. Carlo DiRienzi has only been serving as Mockingbird since Durant's death at the beginning of this series.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 19, 2014 12:47:32 GMT -5
From my dim memories,after the Showcase tryout issue and Secret Six #1, each issue would focus on one of the cast. Details on their background and what secret Mockingbird was utilizing to blackmail the person to do his biding. There were clues (or red herrings) why that person couldn't be Mockingbird such as their thought balloons. Whether Carlo's reveal makes sense from what was shown in the original run is unknown to me. Secret Six #7 was the Carlo issue but I no longer have it. I always thought E. Nelson Bridwell,the series creator, never told anyone the answer to the mystery I've never read the original series, so I don't know whether it was revealed there or first revealed in ACW, but the original Mockingbird was August Durant according to the ACW feature. Carlo DiRienzi has only been serving as Mockingbird since Durant's death at the beginning of this series. Secret Six was abruptly cancelled after #7 with no reveals.Durant's focus issue was #2 and I know thats where he proved he couldn't be Mockingbird. So I wonder if that reveal also made sense. Knowing how most comics work,probably not
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 19, 2014 14:10:54 GMT -5
One big question answered.
Coming up soon, the eleven year saga of Action Comics Weekly #642.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 14:12:53 GMT -5
One big question answered. Coming up soon, the eleven year saga of Action Comics Weekly #642. If you mean the whole thing that transpired with Neil Gaiman's script, I am so ready
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 19, 2014 14:36:52 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 14:51:06 GMT -5
Great articles. For what it's worth, Durant was exposed as being the original Mockingbird in Action #627, not #629. Seems, based upon what the author states in these articles, though, that Pasko's correct, and the original Mockingbird had to be Durant. There's no other logical option.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 19, 2014 15:01:07 GMT -5
Thanks for the links Hoosier,that made fascinating reading. The Secret Six was such an innovative (for comics) series back in '68. Probably the most mature title DC had in the 1960s. Hell,I'd rank it as one of the best reality-based series in comics for the 20th century.Thats a pretty bold statement. But what other book grounded in reality would compete?
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2014 15:02:31 GMT -5
I'll agree that those articles have really enticed me to check out the original series.
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Post by MDG on Jul 22, 2014 20:02:55 GMT -5
Action Comics Weekly #628 Frank discussion from Mike Gold: Gold points out in the letter column something that I absolutely had not noticed before -- ACW never bore the Comics Code approval label. As he explains it: In point of fact, we do not submit ACW to the Comics Code Authority. We feel the price alone ($6.00 a month) tends to chase away the younger readers whose interests the Code attempts to protect. He goes on to add that . With all the upset over Action Comics no longer being a Superman title, I find it just a little more tragic that DC's second oldest title, beloved by children and adolescents for generations, was no longer considered "for kids" anymore. Sure enough, the entire industry has since moved in that direction, but it's sad to see such a trend begin on such a legacy title. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I wouldn't be surprised if the reason it didn't go by the code is the production schedule was too tight.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 22, 2014 21:43:48 GMT -5
Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I wouldn't be surprised if the reason it didn't go by the code is the production schedule was too tight. I'd agree with you except that the letter column suggested on a few occasions that they were working an average of 14 weeks ahead.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 29, 2014 12:08:32 GMT -5
Superman #28 "Superman in Exile" writer: Roger Stern pencils: Kerry Gammill inks: Brett Breeding letters: John Costanza colors: Glen Whitmore assistant editor: Renee Witterstaetter editor: Mike Carlin grade: B- There's little doubt in my mind at this point that I prefer Ordway's writing to Stern's. There's nothing wrong with this issue but, much like Stern's work on ACW, this story just sort of ambles along, lacking momentum even as it marks a major turning point for Superman. Essentially, we see Superman wander around in space, run into minor conflicts that seem to be there just to be there, while his exposé on Intergang breaks back on Earth, prompting Morgan Edge's assassins to try to eliminate Kent, mistakenly ambushing Amanda McCoy's hired private investigator instead, all of which interests me not at all. Important Details: 1st appearance of Team Luthor Minor Details: - Page 2 captures a better summary of Superman's Post-Crisis origin in two panels than Byrne's "Man of Steel" did in six issues. Worth noting is the renewed emphasis on Clark not being born until after he was removed from the birth matrix and no mention whatsoever of Clark having spent years anonymously saving people before becoming Superman. More evidence that the Post-Crisis timeline may be under revision. - In addition to the breathing apparatus Prof. Hamilton gave him, Superman now has a teleportation belt he apparently got from the Omega Men. When did this happen?? The belt is depicted at the end of Adventures of Superman #450, but I don't recall it being mentioned there. - It's a little weird that we never really saw Clark investigating the whole Intergang thing that has now become a ground-breaking exposé threatening to finish them off. Seeing him get the story would have been a lot more interesting and less jarring. And, while it makes sense for him to be away when the story breaks, has he given any consideration to the danger this might pose to his family and friends? - Stern seems to have fun exploring the "what if" of Superman being sucked into a sun's gravitational pull, simultaneously being recharged by it while it also threatens his safety. - Gammill never disappoints me. I love how he depicts Superman as looking so beaten and prostrate as he flails through space, his mental duress expressing itself through physical exhaustion. - This is by no means the first appearance of Luthor's Doctor Kelley (Superman #2), but this may be the first time she is mentioned by name(?) plot synopsis in one sentence: Superman is in space, recalling all that has led to his self-imposed exile, Perry recieves Clark's exposé about Intergang and gives it a special edition, deciding it's big news, Morgan Edge decides Clark expose has come too close and hires assassins to take him out, Brainiac is still knocked out from his run-in with Gangbuster last issue, and Luthor and Dr. Kelley are drugging him to make him a tool of Luthor's, Superman first finds himself on a planet he mistakes for the Pocket Universe Earth again, then almost falls into a sun, then stumbles upon a fertile world where he quickly becomes a hero and flees, fearing that he'll endanger these people just as he feared endangering all of Earth, Amanda McCoy continues to keep Clark's secret safe from the private investigator she has hired, electing not to reveal her suspicions unless the investigator arrives at the same conclusion, and also reiterates that the investigator not break any laws to expose Clark, but the investigator decides to break into Clark's apartment anyway, just as Edge's assassins show up to kill Clark, and they mistake the investigator for their target.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 29, 2014 20:43:51 GMT -5
- Superman reflecting that "with great power comes great responsibility?" I think Ordway got his characters confused. maybe not
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