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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 13, 2022 15:06:03 GMT -5
The only thing good about that cover is Plastic Man's reaction
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 13, 2022 17:57:47 GMT -5
I only buy the variant if i like that cover more than the standard cover.
so yeah..if the Metal Men are featured on a cover prominently ? I'll get it.
it's a sickness!
Whenever I suffer from insomnia, I read a Metal Men story. It always works.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 13, 2022 18:16:39 GMT -5
I only buy the variant if i like that cover more than the standard cover.
so yeah..if the Metal Men are featured on a cover prominently ? I'll get it.
it's a sickness!
Whenever I suffer from insomnia, I read a Metal Men story. It always works.  Incoming, @bert. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2022 20:57:59 GMT -5
I only buy the variant if i like that cover more than the standard cover.
so yeah..if the Metal Men are featured on a cover prominently ? I'll get it.
it's a sickness!
Whenever I suffer from insomnia, I read a Metal Men story. It always works. the very early ones from the 60's? yeah. . but read some of the later issues before the hiatus or from the 70's when they really got fantastic (in particular, my favorite issue: Metal Men vs the Plutonium Man). but I can see why you would be bored by them, George. they all have feet, and don't grit their teeth. .and not NEAR enough pouches for your liking.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 13, 2022 22:58:11 GMT -5
I really enjoyed the Keith Giffen-Kevin Maguire version that was a back on in Doom Patrol.. hilarious!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 14, 2022 4:12:18 GMT -5
(...) or from the 70's when they really got fantastic (in particular, my favorite issue: Metal Men vs the Plutonium Man). (...) Probably mentioned it somewhere around here before, but I *love* the '70s revival of Metal Men. Fun stories by Gerber, Conway and Pasko, and fantastic art by Simonson and Staton. I think it's criminal that only the five issues drawn by Simonson have been reprinted. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2022 17:25:37 GMT -5
Metal Men was goofy, unpredictable and an example of Kanigher Krazy, but for all of those reasons it was a breath of fresh air in the DC lineup, along with the Doom Patrol, Sugar and Spike, Bob Hope, and a couple of other titles. Mind you, a lot of DC might have been seen as goofy-- Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, for example, and Jack Schiff's Batman -- but they were repetitively goofy. We'd seen all the goofery before, and it never rang true.
But the Metal Men were unafraid to be weirdly goofy, like Tina's unrequited love for Doc Magnus, Iron's stolidity, Mercury's sarcasm, lovable little Tin, and all the chemical and elemental bad guys: the Gas Gang, the Plastic Perils, Chemo, the Cannibal Robot, --hell, all those evil robots -- and it never took itself seriously. HOw many times were they melted down for slag and re-created?! It was Marvel without the melodrama revved up to 11.
Give me the Metal Men any day!
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