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Post by spoon on Jun 20, 2021 21:09:52 GMT -5
Busiek, IIRC, goes big into that in his Avengers run... treating them as 'brothers'.. then Simon and Wanda start dating. It's kinda weird. I remember this was a theme of Wonder Man's series in early 90s too. Like Simon thought he could've met and married Wanda if he hadn't "died" before she joined the team.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Jun 20, 2021 21:54:39 GMT -5
Busiek, IIRC, goes big into that in his Avengers run... treating them as 'brothers'.. then Simon and Wanda start dating. It's kinda weird. I remember this was a theme of Wonder Man's series in early 90s too. Like Simon thought he could've met and married Wanda if he hadn't "died" before she joined the team. And which was a big part of the "What If Wonder Man Had Not Died? (in Avengers #9)" story from What If? vol 2 #5 from 1989
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 21, 2021 7:46:50 GMT -5
Just finished reading Mark Schultz'd Xenozoic tales.. wow. This had been one of those things that I'd been meaning to check out for a while, but never really had the chance until the (kickstarter'd, I think?) collection got a 2nd printing and showed up in Previews. Man, is that some amazing art! Too bad it takes so long, as the story could also really be something with more work... 14 issues worth over 10 years just isn't enough...even reading them all together, there are some plot holes, and it ends mid-story.
Still, that art! Hannah is easily my favorite 'good girl' character I've seen. Very happy I gave this a shot.
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Post by tonebone on Jun 21, 2021 9:15:12 GMT -5
Of all the Atlas/50s monsters, I wonder why Fin Fang Foom resonated so? The name? The short pants? It's a puzzlement. A few years ago, Barnes and Noble published a book about Stan Lee and Marvel, that had the cool feature of having a gadget built in with snippets that Stan Lee recorded via Audio. So as you read the article, it would include a number, you input the number in the gadget, and Stan would elaborate with more colorful anecdotes. For Fin Fang Foom, he talks about some monster movie that featured a monster or character named Chu Chin Chow, and how he borrowed the cadence of the name for the name of Fin Fang Foom . My kids loved this book, and loved playing Stan's colorful dialogue, and gravitated, in particular, to this story. So they would walk around the house yelling, in Stan's accent and cadence, "CHU CHIN CHOW, FIN FANG FOOM!"
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 21, 2021 9:33:34 GMT -5
That’s hilarious!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 21, 2021 9:41:19 GMT -5
I read Spidey #124 and #125, where Jameson’s son John turns into a Man-Wolf because of a red jewel he found on the moon. The second part is Ross Andru’s first issue!
And then I read #126 with the return of the Kangaroo! His demise is hilarious. Maybe I’m a bad person, but it cracks me up, what with his Aussie accent, his contrarian behavior and then the way he ignores Spidey’s warnings and is melted into a pile of scorched goo at the end!
I can see the headline in the Bugle the next day ... “Spider-Man Must Be Stopped Before He Kills Again!”
The guy reading the headline checks the date to make sure it’s not an old issue of the Bugle.
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 21, 2021 10:25:16 GMT -5
1934 starring Anna Mae Wong.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 21, 2021 13:48:39 GMT -5
1934 starring Anna Mae Wong. I love Anna May Wong. Piccadilly is such a good movie!
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 21, 2021 17:51:58 GMT -5
Just saw her in one of her last movies, Impact, where she played a Chinese Maid, but it was a key roll.
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Post by MDG on Jun 21, 2021 19:20:14 GMT -5
Just saw her in one of her last movies, Impact, where she played a Chinese Maid, but it was a key roll. That's a great movie. I think it's public domain, so pretty easy to find. Loves me some Ella Raines (though apparently she was a hard right-winger).
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Post by berkley on Jun 21, 2021 19:29:07 GMT -5
Just finished reading Mark Schultz'd Xenozoic tales.. wow. This had been one of those things that I'd been meaning to check out for a while, but never really had the chance until the (kickstarter'd, I think?) collection got a 2nd printing and showed up in Previews. Man, is that some amazing art! Too bad it takes so long, as the story could also really be something with more work... 14 issues worth over 10 years just isn't enough...even reading them all together, there are some plot holes, and it ends mid-story. Still, that art! Hannah is easily my favorite 'good girl' character I've seen. Very happy I gave this a shot.
It's a shame he gave up on the series and, it seems, drawing comics in general: last time I checked, he was spending most of his time writing - Prince Valiant, I think it was. What a waste of artistic talent!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 21, 2021 20:40:01 GMT -5
for sure! The collection does promise more stories in the future, but it's been 20+ years, so definitely not holding my breath
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 22, 2021 7:28:31 GMT -5
Schultz is working on a new Xenozoic graphic novel. But he is taking his time.
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 22, 2021 9:28:46 GMT -5
Incredible Hulk #214, guest starring the Jack of Hearts. Classic action from Len Wein and Sal Buscema.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 22, 2021 10:08:31 GMT -5
Ironwolf (DC, 1986) This one was published at that point in the 1980s when Chaykin had become a pretty big name thanks to the critical success of American Flagg, and someone at DC remembered that they had some early Chaykin stories in their inventory that could be used to wring a little bit more cash out of the fandom of the day. The book reprints the main stories from the last three issues of Weird Worlds that originally appeared in 1974. They're set in a far future in which the Earth is the center of a galaxy-spanning empire, controlled by a beautiful and ruthless Empress. The titular Ironwolf is a former commander in her military who rebels against her and begins to conduct raids against her forces. All three stories involve Ironwolf and his crew-mates evading attempts by the Empress to capture and kill them. It's pretty solid space opera fare (scripted by Denny O'Neil), but the real draw here is the early art by Chaykin which - despite his own self-deprecating assessments of this phase in his career - is pretty top-notch:
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