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Post by chaykinstevens on Nov 20, 2020 15:33:20 GMT -5
John Byrne retconned the Vision to have been made from the Torch's spare parts. According to Wikipedia, Avengers Forever later established that Immortus had diverged the Torch's timeline so he became the Vision but also continued to exist as himself. What happened to your taxi?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2020 15:42:45 GMT -5
The future is very much in things such as being a parcel courier or postman/driver. Also, with the push to electric cabs and the like, I think you’ll see a lot fewer people entering the profession, although I’m sure it’ll exist in some form.
Thanks for the answer, I never liked the idea of Torch and Vision sharing a history.
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Post by foxley on Nov 21, 2020 7:24:25 GMT -5
This is a long shot, but I figure if anyone will know, my friend at Classic Comics will.
I'm trying to identify a story I read many, many years ago when I was still in primary school.
It was in an Australian b&w reprint comic, but I feel certain it would have originally been in one of DC's mystery/sci-fi anthologies.
The story is about a middle class suburbanite whose life is in a rut: bored with his job, bored with his wife, etc. He desperately wants something exciting to happen. One weekend while fishing her hooks a bag containing three coloured disks. Whenever he touches one of the disks he thinks he is having a super-realistic daydreams in which he is the hero. I can't remember the first one, but the second one involved him being a kingdom of living toys and having to save a castle from a dragon. As a result of these daydreams, he turns his life around, rekindles his romance with his wife, etc. When he uses the last disk, he finds himself back in his hometown where he thwarts a bank robbery. When he gets back home, he discovers everyone is waiting. It seems he had thwarted a bank robbery and then vanished, and the whole town was looking to celebrate his heroism. On learning that it had been real, and so the other fantasies had also been real, he faints.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Nov 21, 2020 12:14:21 GMT -5
I'm trying to identify a story I read many, many years ago when I was still in primary school. Roughly how many years ago would this have been?
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Post by foxley on Nov 21, 2020 19:52:51 GMT -5
This would have been in the 1970s (or possibly early 80s), but the story itself might have been from the 60s as it was not a new comic, and Australian reprints could come out many years after the original.
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 21, 2020 20:47:24 GMT -5
Ah, yes; the old "Make a change to assert my authority" ploy. First sign of insecurity and poor leadership. Way too many editors like that, in comics. Way too many middle managers like that, in the corporate world and that invaded comics, too. My editor just whines at me to give him treats. He should probably work at DC; but, I think he is over-qualified.
Judging by the majority of the output by the "Big Two" over the last five years, pretty much any living thing with a pulse would be over-qualified as a comics editor at either of those places.
But then again, there's been a dearth of qualified, experienced editors throughout the publishing industry in general-- not just comics.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 22, 2020 9:16:10 GMT -5
My editor just whines at me to give him treats. He should probably work at DC; but, I think he is over-qualified.
Judging by the majority of the output by the "Big Two" over the last five years, pretty much any living thing with a pulse would be over-qualified as a comics editor at either of those places.
But then again, there's been a dearth of qualified, experienced editors throughout the publishing industry in general-- not just comics.
It is the same in ANY business anymore. The new thought is that everyone is replaceable or that anybody is capable of doing any job as long as they are young and paid less than the true professional's who actually worked their way up and learned the necessary skills. Soon enough every job will be done by pre-birth telepathic embryo's controlling robots. Or by monkeys until they rise up and revolt in taking over the world. Or a super computer so intelligent it figures out the truth of just how dumb humanity truly is and the computer decides it can and will do a better job. Science fiction/fantasy has caught up to our current reality...
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 22, 2020 13:06:33 GMT -5
Judging by the majority of the output by the "Big Two" over the last five years, pretty much any living thing with a pulse would be over-qualified as a comics editor at either of those places.
But then again, there's been a dearth of qualified, experienced editors throughout the publishing industry in general-- not just comics.
It is the same in ANY business anymore. The new thought is that everyone is replaceable or that anybody is capable of doing any job as long as they are young and paid less than the true professional's who actually worked their way up and learned the necessary skills. Soon enough every job will be done by pre-birth telepathic embryo's controlling robots. Or by monkeys until they rise up and revolt in taking over the world. Or a super computer so intelligent it figures out the truth of just how dumb humanity truly is and the computer decides it can and will do a better job. Science fiction/fantasy has caught up to our current reality... That, coupled with the idea that marketing can cover up the flaws.
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Post by Ozymandias on Nov 23, 2020 15:01:17 GMT -5
I does a good enough job so that it compensates whatever loss in sales derives from the flaws in production.
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Post by foxley on Nov 24, 2020 1:34:40 GMT -5
I'm currently rereading the Silverblade maxi-series, and was wondering if it had ever been collected as a trade paperback or hardcover. It's by Cary Bates and Gene Colan and is deserving of a wider audience (although it is very 80s and could not have been written at any time other than the late 80s).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 1:43:03 GMT -5
I'm currently rereading the Silverblade maxi-series, and was wondering if it had ever been collected as a trade paperback or hardcover. It's by Cary Bates and Gene Colan and is deserving of a wider audience (although it is very 80s and could not have been written at any time other than the late 80s). Not that I am aware of or could find a reference to. I thought I remembered a collection being solicited, but it was during that period 4-5 years where DC would solicit a lot of collections to throw on the wall and see what sticks, and then cancel those collected editions that did not garner enough pre-orders when solicited to make it worth their while, so it may be something along those lines I am remembering (though I may be conflating it with the Night Force trade because of Colan's involvement). -M
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Post by berkley on Nov 24, 2020 10:47:15 GMT -5
When were Jim Starlin's Titanians - Thanos, etc - changed into a branch of Jack Kirby's Eternals and who was the writer responsible? Was there a story or series about it or was it just mentioned in passing in somewhere or other? And how, do you think, have Marvel readers reacted to the whole idea over time?
Actually, I think I already know the answer to that last question: with indifference, since Thanos is the only really popular character from the Titanians, while the Eternals have never caught on with the readership as a whole.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 24, 2020 11:07:09 GMT -5
When were Jim Starlin's Titanians - Thanos, etc - changed into a branch of Jack Kirby's Eternals and who was the writer responsible? Was there a story or series about it or was it just mentioned in passing in somewhere or other? And how, do you think, have Marvel readers reacted to the whole idea over time? Actually, I think I already know the answer to that last question: with indifference, since Thanos is the only really popular character from the Titanians, while the Eternals have never caught on with the readership as a whole. I believe it was first established in the original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, but it wasn't depicted in a comic story proper until What If? #28, one issue after Marvel Boy's Uranians were also identified as Eternals. If memory serves, the idea was Mark Gruenwald's but Roy Thomas may also have been in on it.
And while I can only speak for myself, I really liked the change. Still do.
Cei-U! I summon the transplanted family tree!
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Post by MWGallaher on Nov 24, 2020 11:44:51 GMT -5
This is a long shot, but I figure if anyone will know, my friend at Classic Comics will. I'm trying to identify a story I read many, many years ago when I was still in primary school. It was in an Australian b&w reprint comic, but I feel certain it would have originally been in one of DC's mystery/sci-fi anthologies. The story is about a middle class suburbanite whose life is in a rut: bored with his job, bored with his wife, etc. He desperately wants something exciting to happen. One weekend while fishing her hooks a bag containing three coloured disks. Whenever he touches one of the disks he thinks he is having a super-realistic daydreams in which he is the hero. I can't remember the first one, but the second one involved him being a kingdom of living toys and having to save a castle from a dragon. As a result of these daydreams, he turns his life around, rekindles his romance with his wife, etc. When he uses the last disk, he finds himself back in his hometown where he thwarts a bank robbery. When he gets back home, he discovers everyone is waiting. It seems he had thwarted a bank robbery and then vanished, and the whole town was looking to celebrate his heroism. On learning that it had been real, and so the other fantasies had also been real, he faints. I'll keep an eye out, but this plot sounds more like the kind of story you'd see in one of the ACG books like Adventures into the Unknown than one of the DC anthologies to me. Writer Richard Hughes was really big on bored men working mundane jobs and mousy introverts becoming the unlikely hero, daydreams coming true or wishes being granted, fantasy settings with castles and dragons, and demonstrations of weakness like fainting. Seems like he also managed to work fishing into a lot of stories, too.
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Post by foxley on Nov 24, 2020 14:41:18 GMT -5
This is a long shot, but I figure if anyone will know, my friend at Classic Comics will. I'm trying to identify a story I read many, many years ago when I was still in primary school. It was in an Australian b&w reprint comic, but I feel certain it would have originally been in one of DC's mystery/sci-fi anthologies. The story is about a middle class suburbanite whose life is in a rut: bored with his job, bored with his wife, etc. He desperately wants something exciting to happen. One weekend while fishing her hooks a bag containing three coloured disks. Whenever he touches one of the disks he thinks he is having a super-realistic daydreams in which he is the hero. I can't remember the first one, but the second one involved him being a kingdom of living toys and having to save a castle from a dragon. As a result of these daydreams, he turns his life around, rekindles his romance with his wife, etc. When he uses the last disk, he finds himself back in his hometown where he thwarts a bank robbery. When he gets back home, he discovers everyone is waiting. It seems he had thwarted a bank robbery and then vanished, and the whole town was looking to celebrate his heroism. On learning that it had been real, and so the other fantasies had also been real, he faints. I'll keep an eye out, but this plot sounds more like the kind of story you'd see in one of the ACG books like Adventures into the Unknown than one of the DC anthologies to me. Writer Richard Hughes was really big on bored men working mundane jobs and mousy introverts becoming the unlikely hero, daydreams coming true or wishes being granted, fantasy settings with castles and dragons, and demonstrations of weakness like fainting. Seems like he also managed to work fishing into a lot of stories, too. That's sounding likely, as the protagonist used his fishing skills to defeat the bank robbers.
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