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Post by bobc on Apr 12, 2006 22:38:04 GMT -5
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Post by bobc on Jul 24, 2006 10:34:21 GMT -5
Even I'm not that ancient, DL. Sorry. I know back in the 70's my Dad whined about how he threw out his Superman #1 way back when, so there was some awareness in that era.
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Post by bobc on Mar 31, 2006 10:47:50 GMT -5
Did your sea monkeys build any advanced civilizations?
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Post by bobc on Mar 30, 2006 11:29:13 GMT -5
I bought those damned Sea Monkeys, which, according to the ad, were tiny fish people who built extraordianary underwater civilizations.
Let's just say I proved that timeless addage "a fool and his money are soon parted."
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Post by bobc on Apr 4, 2006 12:11:22 GMT -5
I never thought of it until you all said it, but Wanda really has been directly involved in almost every interesting interpersonal conflict the Avengers ever had! She's a real drama queen!
hmmmm my favorite female Avenger?
I like She-Hulk for her personality and the fact she's nearly as strong as the strongest male Avengers.
I like the Wasp's powers and leadership.
I love Wanda's wierd powers--but liked them better when they were more erratic.
I liked Ms. Marvel, she's probably the Avengers' best "warrior" female type, and felt her calm and disciplined approach to everything offset the drama queen aspects of some of the other characters.
I loved Mantis for all the wrong reasons--that big old ho!
Black Widow was cool but may have been too low powered to be believable in a group like this.
Let's see--Crystal--I associate her with the FF and Inhumans so I never really took her seriously in the Avengers. She always seemed to be just there.
Jocasta--blech.
Invisible Girl--really, really bad idea.
Tigra--another one who seemed to be just there for no apparent reason.
Mockingbird--too low powered. Never liked her much.
Spiderwoman--she's okay. Plus she has large breastesses.
Did I miss anybody?
Overall I'd probably say Wanda or the Wasp.
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Ultron
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Post by bobc on Mar 27, 2006 10:56:49 GMT -5
I like when he calls people "miserable fleshbags ." It's really creepy.
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Post by bobc on Oct 26, 2006 10:59:53 GMT -5
I felt that Mantis should have disappeared after she became the madonna. I hated when she married that damned tree--that was stupid.
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Post by bobc on Mar 17, 2006 10:48:41 GMT -5
Bendis probably thinks Spiderwoman is Mantis. After all they both have large breasts.
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Post by bobc on Mar 15, 2006 15:46:29 GMT -5
I hope so. I loved Mantis-she was the Omarosa of the Avengers--a total scheming, back-biting hag, but she sure could perk up a dull storyline! I was hoping Wanda would scratch her eyes out but sadly, we were denied that catfight.
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Post by bobc on Mar 16, 2006 17:23:17 GMT -5
Do we know if Essential Avengers 6 is going to ever come out?
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Post by bobc on Mar 15, 2006 10:44:33 GMT -5
That was an awesome find! Who'd have thought to look in The hulk?
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Post by bobc on Mar 14, 2006 12:35:59 GMT -5
Yeah I'm thinking this must be some non-Avengers comic like Fanfare, too. The whole Thor on a Viking ship thing is throwing me bigtime as far as a mainstream Avengers book is concerned. Hawkeye was in Mideval times during the Busiek/Perez 90's run, which puts that storyline squarely out of the 80's realm, and Bucky/Cap stories are a dime a dozen but they never (to the best of my recollection) ever overlap the other scenarios. I think I'd remember, to be honest. That's how big a nerd I am.
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Post by bobc on Mar 13, 2006 16:15:09 GMT -5
I'm drawing a blank. I've read every Avengers issue ever put out, and have seen all these scenarios in individual issues, but never saw them all in one issue together. Either that or I'm just senile.
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Post by bobc on Mar 8, 2006 14:28:02 GMT -5
Of course!! From an era when people actually knew how to write a coherent, fast-paced, interesting story. The writer also understood ALL the characters and it showed. Which is more than I can say for some writers whose initials start with BMB.
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Post by bobc on Oct 9, 2006 17:16:01 GMT -5
well come on guys--don't quote the obvious. Bendis, with his usual arrogance, just threw this character in the garbage can, along with his history. Expecting him to show respect for the characters we grew to love is like getting blood out of a rock. I have almost stopped buying Marvel comics for this exact reason. Bendis is like a fungus that is growing and destroying its host. You can see the Bendis effect even in Civil War--his hands are all over that and suddenly even Mark Miller is writing characters completely out of character.
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Post by bobc on Mar 10, 2006 12:32:06 GMT -5
I'm not sure DL--I never really read WCA. It always seemed a little cheesey to me. When they started in with all that Vision and Scarlet Witch having babies stuff, I was over it. I mainly see the Avengers East Coast as the real Avengers history.
What a snob I am.
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Post by bobc on Mar 10, 2006 10:54:32 GMT -5
The Vision was made from the original Human Torch, but Byrne didn't have a thing to do with that story. This all happened long before Byrne came on the scene. If you go way back to the period of the Defenders/Avengers war, the Vision kept freezing up when he came in contact with water. It was all because he was fashioned from the original Human Torch, who was entombed in a water filled cage in (I guess) the 40's
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Post by bobc on Mar 8, 2006 14:24:47 GMT -5
Yeah--that whole era kicked azz! I liked that fight too, but was bitter at the time that Wanda spent all of it basically knocked out. Little did I know that just a couple of issues later, she'd be saving everybody's hide.
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Post by bobc on Mar 7, 2006 13:02:18 GMT -5
I've been a fan of the Vision from the time he began--and I liked him a lot better when he was more mysterious and scary. He is another Avenger who has been depowered over the years--there was a time when he would increase his mass enough to be able to stomp on the floor and make half a building collapse. He was considered the third most powerful Avenger, almost as strong as Iron Man or Thor--and his ability to become as hard as diamond made him virtually indestructable. The best thing about him, though, was that he was completely impossible to read in the early days. He was detached in a scary kind of way.
Do you all remember when the Reaper offered the Vision a deal to rat out the Avengers in order to to get the human body of Simon Williams? That was a classic, classic storyline. It defined his character in a way that's never happened since.
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Post by bobc on Sept 27, 2006 15:57:30 GMT -5
Maybe it's trannie Thor.
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Post by bobc on Feb 27, 2006 11:51:25 GMT -5
I liked the Wasp
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Post by bobc on Mar 8, 2006 14:29:29 GMT -5
Black Panther vs the Man Ape in Wakanda. That showed off T'Challa's catlike abilities to a tee--the powers which today Marvel is pretending never existed.
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Post by bobc on Feb 24, 2006 17:55:49 GMT -5
My favorite battle was when the Avengers took on Kang and his Macrobots--the one where Wanda brought down the meteorite.
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Post by bobc on Oct 7, 2006 7:55:56 GMT -5
oh god. Lyla the Skrull. Was it really necessary to bring her up? I was having a nice morning...
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Post by bobc on Sept 29, 2006 17:24:14 GMT -5
Hee hee! I loved all the crackpot inventions back then! Reed was always dreaming something up!
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Post by bobc on Sept 16, 2006 13:28:02 GMT -5
I'm with you, Dlw (as usual). I think John B's work on the early 70's FF was some of his best. Nobody could draw the Thing like John--the amount of emotion he could convey on Ben's craggly face was really astounding. Nobody's been able to do that as well since! And Sue never looked more beautiful--in fact, they all looked great. John could really achieve a look of drama.
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Post by bobc on Apr 5, 2006 16:26:41 GMT -5
Van I think you and the Super Adaptoid would make a lovely couple. Don't be coy.
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Post by bobc on Apr 11, 2006 21:35:05 GMT -5
I didn't like Gil Kane either. Yeah come to think of it he was the kind of up the nose shots, but george Tuska drew the long pointy noses on everybody.
Shiryu--John also told my friend that the only reason he did comics is because he couldn't make as much money doing anything else.
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Post by bobc on Apr 10, 2006 10:12:26 GMT -5
I just remembered George Tuska. God I hated his art. All those up-the-nose shots.
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Post by bobc on Apr 3, 2006 10:28:06 GMT -5
Hey--I thought John Buscema's early 70's FF work was amongsthis best! John was so incredibly talented--it was almost like he wasn't capable of drawing an awkward pose. Whereas most comic artists have a "catalogue" of poses, John could draw anybody in any position and pull it off beautifully every time. As far as human anatomy is concerned, nobody, but nobody, could match John B for consistancy.
I have a friend who knew John B, and I was broken hearted to learn that John B hated drawing comics--with the exception of Conan. John didn't even know who Ultron was, and had to be reminded that he created him. I'm dead serious
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