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Man look at that beautiful John Buscema art on the Silver Surfer comic! This is what I meant when I said JB was incapable of drawing an awkward human pose. Look at the movement captured in Thor's form! I mean he really, really looks like he's going to bat the Surfer out of the stadium! One of the simplest, most striking and all around BEST covers ever to grace a comic book. As an artist, I can tell you that capturing that sense of windup and motion is so frikkin' hard--especially when capturing it that well!

Contrast that to the Kirby Thor cover. I love Kirby, but his human anatomy could be a little stiff. I just want to redraw Thor's mid-section to sag down a little!!! Poor Thor must be experiencing rigor mortis!

Right on, Human Belly.

There is a DISGUSTING lack of nobility in Marvel characters these days. I will say that Hudlin, in the past year, has made the Black Panther and Storm noble again, but beyond that...

Come on Tana! Brother Man had that 70's black exploitation thing going on! Like when Luke Cage used to call everybody, male or female, "Sugar!" It was super bad!

Yeah Bendis has made yet another of his uhhhh "creative" re-workings of a Marvel character. I can't wait to see the pimply-faced fan boys gushing over how ingenious this is.

YOU GO SQUIDBOY!!!

I think you're right, Woodside. To me, Loeb really is an old school writer in the sense that Busiek is old school (not saying he's as good, he just writes in a similar vein)--pretty conventional super hero stories. When he sticks to that, I like what he does (The Defenders vs the Offenders is okay, kinda fun). But he always has to throw in dismemberment or cannabalism or vulgar curse words or what appears to be underage sex--and it just comes off desperate to me.

Sigh. All true, I'm afraid. This is why I spend my time these days fossil hunting--and spend my time with fellow fossil hunters. We understand each other and have such an appreciation of history--and I'm not talking just fossils either.

As Ricki Lee Jones once wrote "This world is turning faster than it did when I was young..."

I suppose it's all in how the gore is handled. I think Millar pulls it off with some class and it never seemed gratuitous to me. Sometimes it was funny--like when he did The Authority. But when Loeb does it he seems to over-do it and handle it in a low class way. Also--I saw Millar's Ultimates as a very distinct, separate thing to the mainstream Marvel Universe, so I didn't mind him killing off a character or two. But now the Ultimate Universe seems to have swallowed the old Marvel and there's very little distinction between the two. Oh well nothing lasts forever

This is an opinion forum, Freedom. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on Marvel and I'm sure you have too--so whoever doesn't like it, doesn't have to read it.

The people in my office here were just talking about people who "fail upwards" in the video game field. It is universal in this genre.

I've been reading comics a long time and seen the good, bad and mediocre--but Loeb is the only writer who has creeped me out, unintentionally. I felt the same way when he wrote Ultimates--some of those "romantic scenes" between Thor and his girlfriend made me feel like I'd downloaded kiddie porn.

Maybe I'm just an old man but I think comics should have some decency. As film director John Waters once said "There is good bad taste, and bad bad taste. You have to have really good taste to appreciate good bad taste."

I agree that Valkyrie would be a good Avenger

I agree with every word, Starfoxx.

SW--yeah I was talking about that last line. Maybe I misinterpreted it, but the Hercules I used to know never worried about surviving fighting anybody.

RIGHT HUMANBELLY--I am still scratching my head, twenty five years later, as to why such a stunning character as Storm needed a makeover? She'd only been around for a couple of years and it wasn't like she needed a jump-start.

You are so right about the whole Earth Mother thang. I loved how, when Storm was first presented, African villagers thought she was a goddess and wanted to sacrifice animals to her. Now that was novel and cool! Storm also represented the first time a female team member was the most powerful person on the team. It was unheard of at the time! Remember when the X-Men snuck into that military base in like the second or third issue, and a Storm just swept away those soldier by summoning a flood? And Cyclops just sort of stared at her? Now that was an impressive moment

And Bendis writes GREAT dialogue! It's just SUPER!

Cool--HB--hope you like Ghostbusters. I left that company two years ago and farnkly that game shoulda been done two years ago but there was all this drama over changing publishers. I'm just happy that after 4 years it's gonna finally be released. I think it's going to be a very good game. I've already gotten great responses just from what we showed at various trade shows. You can see screenshots from it on my website bobcooksey.net. The graveyard scenes and the Times Square scenes are from Ghostbusters