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Post by bobc on Nov 11, 2006 11:09:55 GMT -5
repeat after me--it's just comics, it's just comics...
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Post by bobc on Nov 9, 2006 9:55:29 GMT -5
I have immense respect for Kirby's work in establishing the Marvel Universe. For that alone, he is pretty much head and shoulders above everybody. But Kirby was always erratic in terms of art quality--I'd guess the reason being he was drawing about a thousand books per month at one point. In the mid 70's I think Kirby had lost it completely. His art really declined. I can barely stand to think of Devil Dinosaur and his Black Panther run. All of that stuff seemed really dated to me. My friends and I would make fun of Kirby's art on the school bus every morning. What a little brat I was!!
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Post by bobc on Jun 7, 2006 13:43:00 GMT -5
I saw that at the comic store and almost bought it!
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Post by bobc on Jun 6, 2006 17:24:26 GMT -5
I forgot about the Champions! I kind of liked them, although looking back on it it was an odd choice of characters
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Post by bobc on May 26, 2006 19:44:11 GMT -5
I had GS #1 from the get go. I remember walking to a store during a break between finals and finding it--I was like who are these people? I remember being very excited that there were all these new characters to find out about! Looking back on it, the New X-Men were the first superheroes I was in on from the beginning and that was exciting for a kiddo! Then when the Phoenix thing came along it was all over. I was hooked for life!!
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Post by bobc on May 25, 2006 23:45:59 GMT -5
We're starting to sound like old men, DL!!
By the way--I went to see an advance showing of X-Men 3 tonight, and it kicked AZZ!!!! Yeah it had some problems, and yeah it wasn't a slave to X history, and yeah Magneto's helmet looks dorkey as hell--but X3 still kicked ASS!!!!!!
Kitty Pryde was GREAT--showing surprising leadership skills, The Beast was really good, Angel looked great, and Phoenix was really, really scary.
I was scared that this movie was gonna be crap, but it was exciting and very cool. The audience loved it! Marvel has a hit on its hands! Again!!
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Post by bobc on May 25, 2006 16:12:30 GMT -5
oh God--I remember thinking that was a lot of money at the time! I was a po' little kiddo cleaning out horse stalls for money. Maybe that explains why my posts are so crappy.
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Post by bobc on May 24, 2006 17:07:07 GMT -5
Holy crap--I totally forgot about "Bring on the Bad Guys" and those other books! I guess they were the precursors to graphic novels
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Post by bobc on May 19, 2006 17:16:27 GMT -5
I loved Stan Lee's good-natured chutzpah.
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Post by bobc on May 19, 2006 15:23:09 GMT -5
Remember Killdozer? hee hee~ definately back in the day!
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Post by bobc on May 19, 2006 13:26:27 GMT -5
What about Black Canary? Who's ever heard of a canary that's black? Plus, the Black Canary isn't even black!
Has teh whole world gone mad?
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Post by bobc on May 19, 2006 9:38:30 GMT -5
I wasn't into the moster books either. other than Tomb of Dracula--but there's something about those monster books that says 70's to me! Werewolf by Night, TOD, Brother Voodoo. Brings up great memories of when I was a kiddie
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Post by bobc on May 19, 2006 9:06:55 GMT -5
The first comic that sprang into my mind when I read the title of this thread (The Groovy 70's) was, for some reason, The Tomb of Dracula. Do you all remember that? It was really good back then when Gene Colan was drawing it. Whatever happened to Gene? Is he still around?
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Post by bobc on Jun 28, 2006 10:05:01 GMT -5
I should have said some mutants keeping their powers with no explanation.
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Post by bobc on Jun 28, 2006 10:04:20 GMT -5
Uhg. I'm not sure what's more annoying, having thousands of mutants, or getting rid of their powers with no explanation.
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Post by bobc on Jun 27, 2006 14:30:21 GMT -5
uuhhhhh why did some of them get to keep their powers?
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Post by bobc on Jun 27, 2006 9:53:44 GMT -5
I didn't know he lost his powers. When did that occur? The last I knew, he was faster than ever but that was back in the late 90's I think. Nobody can call me a gossip--I never know what's going on.
Quicksilver needs to be in the Avengers, causing problems there, NOT in the X-Men. Bob has spoken.
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Post by bobc on Jun 21, 2006 9:25:41 GMT -5
Right Shiryu--the "bad" Avengers like Quicksilver and Mantis always made for more interesting stories. I want Quicksilver back in the Avengers to perk things up. He's a pain in the azz.
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Post by bobc on Jun 19, 2006 18:09:20 GMT -5
Well I think the idea of a synthezoid is a lot more interesting than a robot. I like the idea of a fake human. I've known a few.
You know now that I'm an adult I find the idea of Wanda having a relationship with a fake human kinda creepy. I like Millar's take on that in the Ultimates
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Post by bobc on Jun 19, 2006 8:56:04 GMT -5
wow--I didn't know that, Alaric. I like the Vision best way back in the 60's and early 70's, when he was spookier and seemed mega-powerful. He's another character that seemed to lose something over the years. I remember when he would stomp the floor and bring a whole house down--but his power level seemed to just ebb past the 70's.
Looking back on it--that whole storyarch where the Grim Reaper offers the Vision Wonder Man's body in return for betraying the Avengers, was one of the greatest stories ever. I remember that last panel where the Reaper asks him if he'd betray the Avengers, and the Vision just says "yes"--and then I had to wait a freakin month to find out what evil thing was about to transpire!! hee hee! Man comics meant so much to me back then.
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Post by bobc on Jun 17, 2006 9:45:50 GMT -5
I deserve a good hexing. Or even a Wasp sting.
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Post by bobc on Jun 16, 2006 14:56:44 GMT -5
Bored--that explanation was completely crackpot. You not only do not get the no-prize, but I'm afraid you must submit to a public flogging as your penance for crimes against this forum.
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Post by bobc on Jun 15, 2006 14:56:27 GMT -5
I'll go to my grave swearing she was hexing AND flying.
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Post by bobc on Jun 14, 2006 11:42:14 GMT -5
The Legion of Superheroes all have flight rings if I recall correctly. Maybe Shooter was confused about which book he was writing.
You know, Wanda really should have the ability to fly if you think about it. If she can levitate boulders and things like that, she should be able to levitate herself. OR if you go with the whole witchcraft thing, she should be able to fly like Storm.
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Post by bobc on Jun 13, 2006 12:54:02 GMT -5
Bored--you're right, I vaguely remember that. BUT to me that was a hastily concieved excuse written in later, since if you actually look at the issue where she flies, Wanda clearly has a hex sphere going on at the time. I also find it a bit of a stretch that Tony Stark can create jets and super-powered flying armor, but couldn't seem to pull a flight ring together. So I think the whole Wanda flying thing was a mistake which needed a likely explanation or cover up.
Remember Wanda is the most confused character in all of Marvel, power wise. She went from fighting the Enchantress to a standstill in an ealry episode, casting "spell" after "spell," and then just a few issues later she practically had to have a weeks vacation after forming one crappy hex. She was pretty much useless from the mid sixties until the mid seventies, the poor thing.
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Post by bobc on Jun 12, 2006 20:57:22 GMT -5
So many contradictions so little time! Yeah the whole Wanda flying things seems to be another example of how all over the place her powers have been over the years.
And yeah Ant Man shouldn't be able to ride an ant if he retains his mass. But this topic has been discussed over the years, with some comic fans saying his mass is deposited into another dimension when he shrinks--something wacky like that.
To me one of the biggest flaws in the Vision's history is Pym's statement that the Vision is "inch for inch a human being, constructed of synthetic parts." Not true! In that very episode we saw flying, metallic plates that acted as a defense mechanism when Ant Man was nosing around in there. I'm pretty sure no real human has those! And over the years, the Vision has been shown to have lots of metal and wires inside him--so saying he's a synthetic human is a stretch. He's more like a robot.
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Post by bobc on Nov 2, 2006 11:21:23 GMT -5
Hawkeye had the hots for anything with two legs and a hole in between. He was definately the horniest Avenger of all time. True he never tried to get wit' Jocasta, but I heard that that was because she wasn't anatomically correct if youknowwhatI'msayin'.
Imperious--why bother being "troubled" over incompetent writing? Hopefully Wanda will bend reality and make Bendis go away before he does any more damage.
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Post by bobc on Apr 7, 2006 13:25:42 GMT -5
Don't even look at John Buscema, DL!! HE'S MINE!!!
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Post by bobc on Apr 13, 2006 10:24:55 GMT -5
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Post by bobc on Apr 13, 2006 10:23:44 GMT -5
Thanks guys!
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