6/5/14

The New Warriors #15

The New Warriors is a great series (then and now), and damn is 1991's issue #15 is a super fun fucking read! I do have most of the run... but this was one I was always missing.  -Can't remember the last time I had this much fun reading an old back-issue!!!


"Don't ever fuckin' call me kid-fucking-Nova again...  seriously. I'm ALL MAN now!"

5/19/14

The other little things in comics...


I was never interested in supplemental advertising/promotion type stuff when reading my comics; I would only ever skim them, if not skipping over them entirely... They're largely shameful, not funny, and/or uninteresting.  I remember reading the Marvel Cool-o-Meter and then wondering why the fuck I just read the Marvel Cool-o-Meter. Stuff like Stan's Soapbox, Bullpen Bulletins, Daily Planet, DC Universe... I just never found any of them worth reading. (Okay- the Bullpen Bits comics were great!) The checklists of that months comics were handy enough at first- but became rather pointless once you were into Wizard and/or Previews, or had a file at your LCS. Even the letter-columns; I would mostly skip. A lot of fake praise, stupid questions, stuffy replies, and inserted straw-man arguments.  Really; The Maxx and The Savage Dragon were the first comics I ever read to make the fan letters / responses a truly genuine, comical, and engaging experience.  They even made the copyright small-print in the front worth reading!

5/15/14

-King's not home much...

~The Shroud is basically The Shadow of The Marvel Universe... that's pretty-much all you need to know about him for this post.  Oh, and you may have noticed that I missed Monday's update. -Totally my bad.  (Plus, I had to deal with this.) I won't be updating the blog as much in the next few weeks, either... new job, no time.  Adjusting.  -You know how it is.
So, anyways; here we go!:

Foolish woman!  You cannot seduce The Shroud!!!  He will laugh in your general direction...

 -He is beyond the needs of the physical body, for he is imbued with the extrasensory perception of  The Darkforce Dimension... that, and also... he's blind.   
So...  yeah.  You could be Kate Upton, bitch- Shroud don't give a fuck!
(That's what she gets for trying to cheat on me, anyways.)

5/8/14

Superman (Part 3)

~Tired of hearing (er, reading) me talk about Superman yet?
Don't worry- this is the final part!:

(How awesome is that?  Our Worlds At War had a lot of cool moments in it!)

5/1/14

Superman (Part 1)

-I'm a total Superman mark. 


   Since Saturday morning Super-Friends, in my Superman sleeping-bag, wearing my Superman footie-pajamas with the Velcro-on-cape...  I've never thought he was cheesy, lame, or corny-looking. The only two times in my life I was not reading Superman comics was during the Red/Blue fiasco... and now

4/28/14

-Almost there...

   Here we are, my Mental Organisms, with the last post of the month already!  Post #47, to be precise...  I'll have to do something special for the big #50!  I'm talking special-cover COLLECTOR'S ITEM special!  -Just like they did with comics in the 90's: Every twenty-five issues was a big deal for some reason! (That's a link is to my 25th Post by the way.)

But first off:  Doctor Doom is bored with this conference meeting.  -Doom would rather be...

...SHOPPING!

4/20/14

4:20 He-Man!!!

-It's FOUR-TWENTY, y'all!!!


That means that it's time to watch some fuckin' cartoons!  But first- a quick look at Star Comics' Masters of The Universe #2, and #3 from 1986.  Written by the infamous Mike Carlin, and penciled by the always awesome Ron Wilson...
(This all ties together, trust me; I'm not high yet!)

Smash-cut to "Snake Mountain":

4/10/14

~Sunbow & Star Comics bring you: Visionaries!




   You know, I think the biggest "fault" of this show was that it was way too high-concept for kids (and even for its own damn self) at the time. -You're taking Thundarr The Barbarian, Brave*Starr, Dungeons & Dragons, and King Arthur and the Knights of Justice- and throwing them all in a fucking blender... Yes, I remember watching it, and liking it- but I did not love it... And in the end, anyone who looks back at Visionaries- just says: "Oh, yeah- those were those Hasbro toys with the holograms, right?" or as I say: The less cool Supernaturals...
   But the show was so much more than its action-figure's gimmicky-premise. I was amazed, in re-watching the series for this post, how many of the visuals from the show I remembered so vividly.
The animation was absolutely beautiful in many scenes, per episode- due to Sunbow Productions sending a large amount of it to Japan to be done by TMS Entertainment.  -Resulting in random moments of pure, detailed, fluid 80's anime-style gold!  -Particularly, I noticed, on the episode Trail of The Three Wizards...
   Issue #2, which is what I'll mostly be talking about here, is basically the last couple minutes from the end of episode 1: The Age of Magic Begins, and a few ideas/scenes from episode 2: The Dark Hand of Treachery, but reworked- with much more detail, character development, and explanations given. The exact opposite of what happened previously with Solarman...

-If you are unfamiliar with Visionaries, Google is your friend... but here's the basic outline:

 "A violent, angry man- that one..."  -It's like he's talking about everyone on the Internet! 
But if the age of technology is over- then there is no Internet. Unless... MAGIC INTERNET!

4/1/14

The TOP 10 Best, Most Greatest, Marvel Comics / Superheroes EVER Of All The Times!!!

-Not my opinions... This is cold, HARD fact.  
These are simply the best Marvel Comics / Characters that have EVER been produced!!!

You can disagree- but you'd just be wrong. 









...and a loser!

So, let's get it started with-

3/31/14

-Fox Kids & Marvel Comics bring you: SOLARMAN!

~The #1 issue I'll be talking about in this post is an adaptation of the cartoon show's failed pilot- originally made, and released on VHS in 1989 to tie-in with the Marvel comic of the same name; Solarman (penciled by Jim Mooney, and created by David Oliphant.) It eventually aired as a "special" in 1992, on Fox Kids.

The episode clocks in at around 22 minutes long... Now, how long does it usually take you to read a standard super-hero comic? -Five, maybe seven minutes? Ten to twelve minutes at the most.  So, right from the start- they have to condense the script down by, at least, half... and it's Stan Lee who adapts this too!  -That combination makes this comic SO hilariously, generically, matter-of-factly straight-forward.  I can't stop laughing at it, and reading these ridiculous conversations aloud (which really freaks out my cat)... 

-I just had to share some of this little gem with you.


 
UBIQUITOUSLY STANDARD-SPACE-PLOT MODE HAS BEEN INITIATED:



3/27/14

The Weird Hookers:

~Because what better way to remind the reader who The Weird is... than with space-hookers?

 From Mystery In Space with Captain Comet #6 by Jim Starlin and Al Milgrom

3/20/14

The Local Comic Shop of my youth...

~Check it out, Mental Organisms!
                                                   Clout:
 Yup, that's fourteen-year-old Me, at my local Comic Shop of the time, as "A customer"!  
In retrospect... it is kind of worrisome that I had NO idea my picture was being taken by a stranger...

3/17/14

A Big Redhead- You Know- Stacked, I Mean.

~By far my favorite Batgirl design is the one from the Elseworlds miniseries Thrillkiller: Batgirl & Robin by Howard Chaykin & Daniel Brereton:

-Huge fan of Brereton's style.  I have almost everything he has ever worked on...