The Not New Comics Thread!

[JewishHobbit]

I'm wierd in that I hate reading a series unless it's from issue 1 onward. So spiratic issues wont' really do much for me.

I'll see if I can 'aquire' them elsewhere

 

[Phaedrus45]

I'm wierd in that I hate reading a series unless it's from issue 1 onward. So spiratic issues wont' really do much for me.

I'll see if I can 'aquire' them elsewhere

I know what you mean.

BTW, I finished issue 3 of Man-Thing, and have begun Claremont's run on the series. It's real interesting what was happening at that time. The letter's page explains that readers were very unhappy with the direction of those first issues; so, Marvel canned the original writer and brought in Claremont to swing it into a new direction. As I mentioned, Man-Thing almost has to focus on other characters in order to make the comic interesting...and, Claremont was currently doing a good job with writing Dr. Strange. Essentially, issue #4 picks up where the last 3 issues of Claremont's Dr. Strange was going, and works real nice taking what went before in both titles, and meshing them in a struggle against Baron Mordo with this issue four. At least for this issue, the difference is extremely noticable, and the comic improves drastically over a very weak Yeti storyline from the previous two issues. (But, it's really more of a Dr. Strange comic than a Man-Thing.)

It's going to be interesting to read the final issue, #11. I know Claremont shows up in this final issue from the first page.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm up to Thor vol. 1 #221. Thor's kicking Olympian ass after returning home from dealing with a malevolent solar system (suck on that, Morrison ) to find that Pluto's enslaved an Asgardian girl. He's fighting Hercules, although it looks like a frame job by Ares (who still has his awesome mohawk/beard combo that I truly wish he'd get back in the current comics).

 

[JewishHobbit]

I dug the Ares mohawk in his mini a few years back. I hated that it was shaved off once he joined he Avengers.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I suppose it would've been awkward given that he wears a helmet all the time now, but it's comics, so it wouldn't really have mattered.

 

[JewishHobbit]

True, I mean, look at wolverine. How's he tuck his little hair wingies into his mask? it could have worked. Ares could have had an open spot in his helmut for his mohawk to stick through.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Heh, that would be funny. A helmet that protects everything except his hair.

 

[JewishHobbit]

It's God hair... it's okay.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

i gotta toss a bone also too

"we who are about to die salute you!"

I totally dug this book. because it totally spun that superhero origin on its ear!
in the future earth had been invaded by aliens. to stop the invaders people underwent the "Morituri process". Basically it would give you unknown super powers and you would be able to kick mucho alien ass only.........In a year you would be dead from it!

The bad guys were sorry but that really wasnt what the book was about. It was about what kind of people would do that.i started to like some of the characters and pow they were gone.I thought this was cool as hell.it was a constant changing lineup and some of them were totally jacked up. Some did it out of duty, some because they never were strong and some My boy"revenge". My boy had lost everybody he loved and had nothing to live for so that was all he wanted "revenge"( that was cool ass name) and underwent the process.
I always thought this would make one kick ass movie!!!A great book that i think went un notice. i suggest giving it a Look and tell em Vulcan sent ya

 

[Franklin Richards]

Here's one of my favorites. I got this one in a paper that doesn't even exist anymore.

Collossus enjoyed the fried butter. Kitty however couldn't put down the corny dogs.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Yes, Strikeforce Morituri was awesome!!! If I remember right, it came out around the same time as the New Universe and The Nam. I have all the issues, and the special 4-part series that came out after. (As for The Nam, I'm only missing 2 issues now: 81 and 83. Those final issues are hard to find, and generally pricey.)

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Yes, Strikeforce Morituri was awesome!!! If I remember right, it came out around the same time as the New Universe and The Nam. I have all the issues, and the special 4-part series that came out after. (As for The Nam, I'm only missing 2 issues now: 81 and 83. Those final issues are hard to find, and generally pricey.)

That's hella cool that you dug Morituri too Phaedrus( Plus you get more cool points for digging Micronauts) I dont think that book got enough attention.It was really cool. I remember reading the 1st 7 issues and everybody was laughing and kicking butt and then the 1st chick burned out and died( they didnt come back in that book either) and everybody was standing around like "OH &^%$#!!!" what did i get myself into?!?! it was cool cause you have to ask yourself would you want to get powers if you knew in a year you would be dead?
Yeah Morituri came out with all the new universe stuff, but for me this and the Nam( i dug that book too) like you mention were the best ones!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Another Thor/Ego/Galactus crossover going on in Thor now, with Firelord and Hercules this time. I swear, back in the '60s and '70s, Thor must've been the character with the most guest appearances by the G-man outside of the FF and the Silver Surfer.

 

[Phaedrus45]

I remember Marvel reprinting those classic Thor vs. Ego comics when they had the Maximum Security event happening in 2000. Can't remember if that event was any good, though. Looking at Wikipedia, I didn't even remember it was featured in so many of Marvel's books at that time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It wasn't that great. The Kree, tired of Earth's interference, decide to use it as a prison planet and start dumping prisoners there. Cosmic criminals obviously cause problems on Earth and various heroes try to stop them.

Although, to be honest, I only read the Thor comics involved in Maximum Security and can't for the life of me remember Ego being involved. But I do remember that reprint you're talking about with Thor and Ego's earlier encounters.

 

[Themanofbat]

Hot Dog!!
This

was the everloving &^%$#@*!!!

with commander Rann, Bug,( i swear to god DC got Ambush Big from that guy) Biotron, Acroyear, Marionette and Baron Karza. This was around the time when marvel stsrted to try other things besides Superheroes like shogun Warriors , Godzilla and Rom. Man those Toys sucked but this book was great! Killing, Sex and Suspended animation and more killing and Sex! Just the kind of things a young impressionable mind like mine was looking for. Baron Karza was a sick and twisted SOB as and he conquered the mircoverse with our intrepid band of freedom fighters trying to stop him. This was a good ride!

While I loved the Micronauts comic as a kid (as well as an adult), this was the #$#$ back in 1978, especially to an 11 year old like myself at the time... and if you have the pleasure of reading the first 28 issues of this series... or at least the first 12, then you will be giving yourself the biggest pleasure ride ever (at least, when it comes to comics).

This was simply Bill Mantlo/Michael Golden at their finest...

 

[JewishHobbit]

Maximum Security was an okay story, though very very pale in comparison to today's standards. But if you like just a nice story, it's not bad.

I do think it was probably the first event in a long time that tied in every aspect of the Marvel Universe from the Avengers to the FF to Spider-Man to the X-Men. They were all key figures in one way or another.

 

[Franklin Richards]

Rom meets Galactus.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I've always been curious about Rom. I'll try him out one of these days.

 

[Franklin Richards]

There is one issue... I can't remember the number... but it's the issue where Rom finally frees himself from his armor. He's living on this paradise world and then of course... everything goes wrong. His body starts to rot away. It's really a good issue.


Anyone remember that one?

 

[Vartha]

One of my old Faves was Weird World. The whole run was great.

 

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[PaleRider]

Great idea for a thread Hobbit! The two titles I just did this with are Alpha Flight and man thing. I didn't know much about either so I got issues 1- 20 of the first Alpha Flight, and i love it so far. i can't believe how much I like Puck. man thing came out of no where. I read an issue of fear I had with him and loved it so I got all the issues of Fear that featured him and slowly started his first solo and again can't believe how much I enjoy them!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Man, Gerry Conway's Thor run is really hit-or-miss. He's got awesome concepts like the Black Stars that he ends on a really anticlimactic note (basically, Thor and the Black Stars' inhabitants just talk it out and then Thor leaves ), he's got really solid character work (Sif basically moving heaven and earth to save Jane Foster's life, of all people, simply because she loves Thor enough to lose him to Jane), and then he's just got all-out flops (Thor and Herc are almost killed by fear--literally, the emotion "fear" in the form of an unseen creature--and they beat it with sunlight ). It's a shame too, because he clearly gets all the characters and stays true to Lee's characterizations of them or evolves them in logical ways. But his plots... just all over the place. It is kind of nice to know that ups and downs with creators are not a new thing, though; the good old days really weren't always good.

Oh, and dear God, if Sif continues to be a f***ing useless damsel in distress whenever she returns, I'm gonna break something. "Warrior goddess" my ass.