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Post by Confessor on Dec 15, 2024 13:44:08 GMT -5
NUMBER 10: SLASH MARAUD (1987)
(Written by: Doug Moench/ Art by: Paul Gulacy) Ha ha! Well done for including this. It only just failed to make my Top 12. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Dec 15, 2024 13:45:24 GMT -5
10. Robert Kanigher's Lois Lane, #105-119Lois Lane as a series was always goofy as hell. But when it came time to dump Mort Weisinger and take the series in a new direction, someone had the great idea: "what if we take all that goofiness and combine it with relevancy?" And then that person turned out to be Robert Kanigher. The result, of course, is infamous.  And it's very much not just this one issue. I've mentioned it many times before, but #110 is just as bad as #106, and in all the same ways.  I love this run! Kanigher gets unhinged with the best of them, but in addition to that, there's stuff tying into Kirby's 4th World, which has just launched - specifically with Morgan Edge - and Kanigher also introduces The 100 as an ongoing threat. He also introduces Rose and Thorn in a new backup series, which deals with The 100 and crosses over into the main Lois story as well. It's a super fun mix of intrigue, action, romance -- and absolute face-palming idiocy from a creator who clearly was working through some serious mental health problems right on the page.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 15, 2024 13:46:56 GMT -5
10. Todd McFarlane's Amazing Spider-Man This is one of those entries that have me going, "Huh? What's guilty about that pleasure?" I have a lot of time for McFarlane's run on ASM, which, while it's not perfect, is very good overall, I think. I always thought it was reasonably well liked by most fans too, though I know it does have its detractors (especially here in the CCF). Black suit Spider-Man definitely always seemed popular to me, but maybe guilt is in the eye of the beholder. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 15, 2024 13:59:56 GMT -5
This is one of those entries that have me going, "Huh? What's guilty about that pleasure?" I have a lot of time for McFarlane's run on ASM, which, while it's not perfect, is very good overall, I think. I always thought it was reasonably well liked by most fans too, though I know it does have its detractors (especially here in the CCF). Black suit Spider-Man definitely always seemed popular to me, but maybe guilt is in the eye of the beholder. I'll probably address this at more length...or maybe not...who knows. I'd say it may just be part of a general McFarlane/Image Founders backlash. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 15, 2024 15:38:30 GMT -5
(...) (Another such convention that remains mostly confined to engineering and math is putting a horizontal strike through the letter 'z'. It's such a habit for me that I do it in my ordinary handwriting still...in those very rare cases that I do any hand-writing that uses a 'z' any more.) (...) In the US maybe, but in many parts of Europe, putting a horizontal strike on the letter 'z' and a slash through a zero is common among 'ordinary' (i.e., non-engineering, math or other technical) people. Also, it's pretty common to put a horizontal strike on the number 7 - because the way people write the number 1 by hand makes it look a lot like a seven. I first noticed this when I came to Croatia in the early '90s, and in many cases started to do it myself (esp. the zero slash and the strikethrough 'z'). |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Dec 15, 2024 15:51:54 GMT -5
On the third day of Christmas, Chaykin brought to me something that wasn't Silver Age-y 10. Twilight - by Howard Chaykin and J.L. Garcia-Lopez (DC 1990)
(...) For my part, I'll join the ranks of those who don't like Chaykin's Twilight, but not for the same reasons. Like you, I have no sentimental attachment to any of the characters used as they were also way before my time. I just didn't like the story as such - in other words, even if he had made up a bunch of his own, new characters, I still think I wouldn't have liked it very much. I just found it excessively cynical and bleak and not even Garcia-Lopez's always exquisite art could salvage it. And I should add that otherwise I'm generally a pretty big fan of Chaykin's work, but for me Twilight definitely falls among his occasional misfires.
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 15, 2024 16:07:08 GMT -5
This is one of those entries that have me going, "Huh? What's guilty about that pleasure?" I have a lot of time for McFarlane's run on ASM, which, while it's not perfect, is very good overall, I think. I always thought it was reasonably well liked by most fans too, though I know it does have its detractors (especially here in the CCF). Black suit Spider-Man definitely always seemed popular to me, but maybe guilt is in the eye of the beholder. Just so I'm understanding, that's the opposite of the McFarlane run, right? He'd been wearing the black suit until McFarlane came on board to return him to a more colorful look. |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 15, 2024 16:41:24 GMT -5
10. Todd McFarlane's Amazing Spider-Man This is one of those entries that have me going, "Huh? What's guilty about that pleasure?" I have a lot of time for McFarlane's run on ASM, which, while it's not perfect, is very good overall, I think. I always thought it was reasonably well liked by most fans too, though I know it does have its detractors (especially here in the CCF). I'm probably detractor #1, and yet my problem is entirely with McFarlane himself (and the solo Spidey series he had total control over to a lesser extent). I don't really have an opinion on his Amazing Spidey run. I know it's definitely over-hyped in some circles, but I don't know of any specific criticisms against it that aren't general criticisms of McFarlane's art. |
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