Any fans of Continuity comics?

[icctrombone]

I was just re-reading Crazyman . I enjoyed the old school Neal adams influence. does anyone else have opinions of this line ?

[Red Oak Kid]

Well, I wasn't buying comics when this line was published. When I rediscovered comics I picked up most of these in quarter boxes. Some of the art is pretty good but I have to be honest and say I have been unable to read or understand any of the stories.

[mrc1214]

I bought a few for a quarter just for the Adams art. IM interested in Armor though its supposed to be a bit ahead of its time.

[Cherokee Jack]

I have SKATEMAN in my collection, but never kept any of the other stuff. Either it was taking w-a-a-a-y to long between issues (to hold my interest), or the stories were terrible, even if they loked nice. But that's just my opinion.

[JKCarrier]

I have to agree...gorgeously drawn, but mostly unreadable. Bucky O'Hare was fun.

[Red Oak Kid]

I don't think I have any Bucky OHare issues.

The problem with the other books is the same problem I had with Kirby writing and editing his own books at DC. New characters and villains were being piled on top of one another so fast that nothing was ever developed or resolved. The only goal of the stories seemed to be to have a shocking revelation every 4 or 5 pages.

[icctrombone]

I don't think I have any Bucky OHare issues.

The problem with the other books is the same problem I had with Kirby writing and editing his own books at DC. New characters and villains were being piled on top of one another so fast that nothing was ever developed or resolved. The only goal of the stories seemed to be to have a shocking revelation every 4 or 5 pages.


That's the impression i got as well. A companywide croosover while i'm still getting to know the characters is difficult to follow.

[MDG]

One of my favorite comic memories was when three friends and I were at Mid-Ohio con and somebody picked up a copy of Skateman #1 in a 50- or 25-cent box. That book generated a whole evening's worth of laughs.

[Alex Dragon]

I was a fan of the art on some of the books. The books all had a very heavy Neal Adams inspired art style but only a few really pulled it off well. I have/had a bunch of those books and never enjoyed reading them or even understood what was going on in them. After awhile I just stop even bothering to try and read them and bought them for the pretty pictures.

If I remember correctly the bulk of those books came out around the time of the peak of the Image era of pretty pictures, lousy stories and gimmicks. I recall one Continuity Comics book that boasted having a cover you couldn't tear. Also like Image Comics Continuity was always extremely late and promised great books and stories that never came out.

I've always been disappointed that Neal never did much work for Marvel or DC over the past few decades. I totally understand wanting just do work for his company but it would've been nice to see Neal do some special event projects for Marvel or DC that a large audience could enjoy.

[Red Oak Kid]

One of my favorite comic memories was when three friends and I were at Mid-Ohio con and somebody picked up a copy of Skateman #1 in a 50- or 25-cent box. That book generated a whole evening's worth of laughs.

This thread is for the discussion of Continuity Comics. Skateman was published by Pacific Comics.:biggrin:

[icctrombone]

I was a fan of the art on some of the books. The books all had a very heavy Neal Adams inspired art style but only a few really pulled it off well. I have/had a bunch of those books and never enjoyed reading them or even understood what was going on in them. After awhile I just stop even bothering to try and read them and bought them for the pretty pictures.

If I remember correctly the bulk of those books came out around the time of the peak of the Image era of pretty pictures, lousy stories and gimmicks. I recall one Continuity Comics book that boasted having a cover you couldn't tear. Also like Image Comics Continuity was always extremely late and promised great books and stories that never came out.

I've always been disappointed that Neal never did much work for Marvel or DC over the past few decades. I totally understand wanting just do work for his company but it would've been nice to see Neal do some special event projects for Marvel or DC that a large audience could enjoy.


Neals adams' line of books started with Pacific comics in the 80's with Ms. Mystic. And He tried to capitalize from the Image popularity in the 90's.

He was supposed to do a Spawn crossover with one of his characters , but it didn't pan out.

[GreatLakesAvengers]

Original art pages from the Spawn vs Valeria comics were previewed in a comic-sized mag called Comics Debut!

[Alex Dragon]

Original art pages from the Spawn vs Valeria comics were previewed in a comic-sized mag called Comics Debut!

I remember seeing ads for the Spawn/Valeria crossover but it never happened. It seemed like Neal was spreading himself thin doing art for some of his various Continuity titles. Neal's name popped up in the credits for a few of those books but it seems that he had a hand in helping out artistically in others where he got no credit. I would've rather see him putting his complete attention on one title and making it good instead of trying to bring all the other books up to a certain level and they end up being mediocre artwise.

Valeria was supposed to be his breakout character and I think he only managed to do 2 or 3 issues of the book. Just like Ms Mystic.

It would've been interesting to see what would've happened with Continuity if Neal had brought in some strong writers and let them do their thing. Also if he had let the artist draw in their own style. Most of the artist who did work there didn't really draw in a Neal Adams style when they did work elsewhere.