CBR Pipeline: 9-Dec-2008

[jclaus]

First of all, CONGRATULATIONS ON # 600!

Now, I'm just waiting to see if Magneto attacks Spider-Man in a junkyard next month. I also wonder if enough of my readership was reading comics during "Acts of Vengeance" to get that joke.

Ummm...that would be me. AOV came out when I was in college. I loved that "special event". A lot of my non-comics reading friends (they had read comics in their youth) also really liked that story. Cosmic Spidey ruled! Maybe the Tri-Sentinel will be the true mastermind behind Dark Reign?

Secret Invasion: I am in the same school of thought as you Augie. I did not go into the series expecting War & Peace or something, but I did not get the epic feel from the main series. The minis gave me that, but that seems like a cheat by Marvel because IMO the main book did not deliver on the "you only need to read this" to get the crux. And the fact that BMB has said the last page in SI #8 is what sold the whole pitch, lends credence to the whole story was just a set up. At the end of the day, I did enjoy the story (all the covers were beautiful) but there were a number of missed opportunities.

I do have interest in DR, so let's see what happens.

[torippu]

Now, I'm just waiting to see if Magneto attacks Spider-Man in a junkyard next month. I also wonder if enough of my readership was reading comics during "Acts of Vengeance" to get that joke.

jclaus beat me to the punch! I'm one of those folks as well who was reading ASM during AOV. If I am not mistaken, this was one of Erik Larsen's first issues on the book and I remember being worried about the art after the awesomeness of McFarlane but was pleasantly surprised to find that the book was in good hands after reading that issue.

Who knew that 15 years later I would still hold Larsen in high esteem while really not caring about McFarlane?

[torippu]

And here is the cover...ah, good times!

http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/19/13135_20051126174420_large.jpg

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Yup, it was Erik Larsen on that issue and, as I recall, Colleen Doran on the one just before or after it. And the letter writers a couple months later complained that Peter Parker looked too feminine.

Crazy times, indeed. =)

-Augie

[torippu]

All this talk of McFarlane and Larsen drawn Spider-Man has me thinking that I really do need (depending if the kids will allow) to re-read ASM #298 ~ 350 when I have access to the books while visiting the grandparents over Christmas. This is my "golden age" of Spidey comics! :biggrin:

[dancj]

Now, I'm just waiting to see if Magneto attacks Spider-Man in a junkyard next month. I also wonder if enough of my readership was reading comics during "Acts of Vengeance" to get that joke.
I was reading comics at the time. I just wasn't reading Marvel ones. I've still yet to find much in the way of Marvel comics from before Bill+Joe that I actually like. I think it's basically Frank Miller stuff, Damage Control and Thor Visionaries: Walt Simonson v1 (which was okay)