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On the other side: Korvac is my favorite Avengers story between Avengers # 1 and the first volume of the Ultimates - It's the contrast between "small" moments like the Avengers taking public...

Sure. Why not? Not like Colleen Coover hasn't drawn porn before....

Y'know, Jean Grey co-ed was absolutely my favorite part of the original X-men series.

Except for Bernard the Poet.

OhMiGod. I have the best idea for a series...

Holy crap. I had no idea.



I don't think I've read either of those. The X-men kept getting writers I really, really like (including Brubaker and Fraction) to do what I considered mediocre...

I'm not sure, but I think I've got Adventures of the Fly # 26. I like this thread because I mostly remember stuff that's this old, but it's new enough there's a chance that I'll have some books from...

Maximun Carnage does not stand with the best of Marvel's pre-2000 output.


I liked it. Even if I hadn't liked it, I would like it from your description.


Well, Carey would know about...

Anyone here remember the George Carlin Shellshock bit?

But I'd love a collection of these. The handful that I've read were really good.

Finished Atlas Heroes Vol. 2. And it got better. The Human Torch strips - and there were 14 of them, as he appears in all the titles collected here, even Captain America - were the weakest of the...

Did Zatanna have her own book? Was this super recently? I missed that.



As a comics history nerd, statements like this bug the crap out of me. Is it REALLY a bigger change than, say, the...

Marvel Masterworks reading notes: Starlin's Warlock didn't do much for me, but I really, really, (really!) liked his Captain Marvel. I think it was because he was fleshing out an already solid...

I'm with you there - It was the "merged" Manhunter of the eighties where he ended up with his psychic detective powers PLUS a bunch of Superman powers all at once that ruined the character for me. ...

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Although I do own, like, a 25 issue run of X-Factor. I tried to read it once. I think I made it nine pages in before throwing in the towel and watching paint dry or something more entertaining.
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Having just read everything up to the Thomas/Adams X-men for the first time...

In general I agree. But when they were removed from the school setting, they could all be fairly interesting. I...

Some of it. I own one issue and I've read all the Doom stuff in Essential Super-Villain Team-Up. I thought that was a pretty great series, overall, with the Gene Colan drawn final issue as the high...

See, not everyone treats their opinions as unchanging holy writ.

For instance: I went from mildly positive to loathing hatred of Alpha Flight because of this thread. (I never got the Hockey Puck...

I didn't hate it, exactly. I just thought it was odd. There's a nice Sekowsky-monster and Karnak in a swami costume. I do get the feelin' that Roy didn't read it before he plotted his Avengers...

I don't remember much about the actual story - And I know I'd only read scattered issues of Kirby's Eternals when the Gaiman version came out - But the art completely floored me. Romita Jr.'s the...

I got one.

The Mandarin. Just seems like a generic Marvel evil mastermind fixed to a dated Fu-Manchu template.

He's a good visual. He has a cool carrot nose. And he's the ultimate innocent, completely beholden to the whims of fate. Manny's almost the polar opposite of the traditional superhero power...

Giant Size is published quarterly the same month that the Torch is the lead hero in Team-Up. So Marvel's trying to keep two (no more, no less) Spidey comics on the stands each month.

Free Comic Book Day Related Sales got me:

Marvel Masterworks Human Torch Vol. 1 TPB (I have 15/30ths of all the Golden Age Masterworks Volumes, now!)
And Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Heroes Vol....

Holy shit. That's awful.

And yeah. Comics are probably a fairly terrible long term investment. The higher grade key issues keep going up in price - But showing all the signs of classic...

Anyone else do a spit take at that?

I'd say both. Marvel, in particular, has been releasing extremely limited print runs of it's recent collections. (Which I take as an admission that they've completely failed to build up a...