tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post8602083123104077201..comments2024-03-28T05:18:44.880-07:00Comments on comic bits online: January 2020 Up-Date: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! The NEVER To Be Beaten Mega-Post!Terry Hooper-Scharfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-84641357409566222562018-01-14T15:53:23.713-08:002018-01-14T15:53:23.713-08:00Well, my laptop is functioning again but I had to ...Well, my laptop is functioning again but I had to do a few things in the meantime. Also, there seems to be a limit to how much you can write in a comment ( maybe I should continue this as a post ). Anyway, initially I thought I could write a new post Today but it´s already too late for that so let´s continue with my comments on YOUR post :<br /><br />g. ) I really read the title religiously up to issue 300 ( about which I have written a few posts ) and came back when Paul Ryan did the art but I had already jumped ship at issue 380. I did enjoy THE GATHERERS saga ( yep, did various posts about that too ) but I was horrified by THE CROSSING which I only read because my younger brother was still buying the issues. I have mixed feeling about Rob Liefeld´s AVENGERS REBORN but I jumped back with both feet when Busiek and Perez did AVENGERS ASSEMBLE. I thought about getting the omnibus version but I have the entire series in hardcover. I heard that the omnibus books have better printing but I´m not made out of money and the thinner books are easier to read anyway. Marvel realized that they made those hardcovers too cheap so they will probably not reprint them at that price again.<br /><br />h. ) AVENGERS FOREVER - what can I say ? It´s the best. It´s huge. There is a hardcover but I never bothered with it because all copies I have seen were misprinted and the spanish hardcover costs only 18 € ( which is why I have two copies ).<br /><br />The last somewhat readable AVENGERS period was the Bendis era although he doesn´t know how to write people with a brain and AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED is one of the biggest crapfests I have read. At least until Hickman took over. The problem with him is not so much that he did not have an idea for a story, it was rather that he had no idea who the Avengers are because those were definitely not AVENGERS stories.<br /><br />Currently the only AVENGERS stuff I read are the occassional reprint of John Buscema´s second run with Roger Stern ( it´s a shame that it still is not completely available in hardcover ) in omnibus form as MARVEL MASTERWORKS or EPIC COLLECTIONS. Which I can only afford when it´s half priced at amazon or another online shop.<br /><br />In any case your post brought back a lot of memories ( or feels like the hip people say Today ) and it makes me sad what has become of earth´s Once Mightiest Heroes. SUBZEROhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04260927460011967560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-53857657398909236932018-01-14T15:47:15.521-08:002018-01-14T15:47:15.521-08:00I just checked the Williams Avengers. I have nr.4 ...I just checked the Williams Avengers. I have nr.4 -the Return of Captain America. A copy of a badly ripped and taped up..I cannot even read the number ...89 or 99 "Gerichstag" -where they go to the Savage Land and Hank turns ape-man. That's it? I used to have a good few. Condor Verlag's Nr. 25 with Starfox...wow. Now I go through my German comics box I see how badly my books were pilfered! But I find I have Super Comics Metall-Menschen nr. 24 -hey...75 Pfennig!!!! 75 pf. Those were the days and that Condor issue cost me DM 3-!<br /><br />Although I loved Watchmen before it got hyped out of existence (liked the movie, too) I have to say that Squadron Supreme over Watchmen every time. I mean, it is still a very good read and none of us thought genius Tom Thumb would croak. Great writing and characterisation.<br /><br />Perez I'm hoping makes a full recovery and gets back on projects soon. Bart Sears is running IDW I think. Two losses to drawing team books (they had talent and that don't cut it in comics today).<br /><br />The Female take-over of Avengers. One of the UK hardback annuals (I think 1976) has that story. Pointless for UK kids at the time. They then put Part 1 and Part 2 of the three part story in which the Avengers try to help stop the Squadron Supreme burning the Earth into a molten mass. No part 3!!! Take out the feminist story and put all three parts of the main contents in? Nah!<br /><br />Kree-Skrull War. A classic but people cannot read comics. I had a very bad review off someone back in the late 1990s who could not deal with more than five characters and a storyline. I knew it was all doomed then. But, seriously, if it is not a movie then forget it. People do not know how to or want to read! I'll post the front cover to K-S War<br /><br />John Buscema and Tom Palmer working together just blew me away. And the black Captain Marvel ...I need to check what they did to her!<br />Terry Hooper-Scharfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-23812824849299900552018-01-14T09:53:40.617-08:002018-01-14T09:53:40.617-08:00Okay, I see what you are trying to do here : now t...Okay, I see what you are trying to do here : now that I have decided to write shorter posts you think you can become the blog writer with the longest posts. We´ll see about that ......<br /><br />Anyway, a few comments :<br /><br />a. ) I didn´t know you no longer have your german issues by Williams Verlag of DIE RÄCHER. I was going to write you lost them but I´m not so sure if that is how it happened. I also have a few issues of them somewhere in my collection and while I have gotten the original version of them in the form of MARVEL MASTERWORKS or now the EPIC COLLECTIONS I still kept the german issues. They are just a lot of fun. Which issues did you have ?<br /><br />b. ) I still get emotional over Tom Thumb. I know it´s heresy but for all WATCHMEN has done for the comic medium if I had to choose between both of them I always liked SQUADRON SUPREME better because it was written inside of an already existing continuity and you could spin stories out of it. Which did not work with WATCHMEN which was practically the be - all of that universe. DC even proved that in a way with BEFORE WATCHMEN as the only new stories from that particular universe took place BEFORE the events of the mini series ( I almost wrote graphic novel ). Although I don´t know if DC can change this in the current THE BUTTON crossover.<br /><br />c .) ah, yes AVENGERS 83. John Buscema at the art was epic and women took over the Earth´s Mightiest Heroes. What´s so embarrassing is not how ham - fisted they tried to bring feminism across but that it took them 45 years to remember the idea of an all female Avengers team. If I had been a writer at Marvel that would have been the first thing I would have done. Put as many hot chicks on the team. But no, it took the SJWs to get Marvel to do A - FORCE and I don´t think that the sales numbers are very good on that since the trades are always in the bargain book section at amazon. Knowing the SJW writing it´s probably just a lot of women standing around and talking about their problems which are all caused by white caucasian males. Which in the hands of a good artist like Frank Cho - no, forget it, Marvel and the SJWs have castrated him. Or maybe Adam Hughes - nah, after what I saw in his issues of BETTY & VERONICA he has lost his gusto for drawing women. What about Jerry Ordway - oh, I forgot, his style is too old school for comic companies. And who knows what the hell Bart Sears or George Perez are doing now ? I mean, SIRENS wrapped up a year ago or so.<br /><br />Anyway, even though we might get an all female Avengers team now they are probably drawn like Squirrel Girl whom they had to make chubby and who looks like a Dyke with Graves´ Disease.<br /><br />d. ) the Kree / Skrull War. I watched the review video you posted and what I found very telling is how much the guy talked about the problems he had with reading the story because it did not only run from plot point to plot point. It also had a lot of characterization and different people with different personalities and a very big cast. Readers of Today are not used to stories that are not only there to serve for the big payoff and they also don´t know how to handle a large cast. The guy even complained that he lost track of what the Avenger members were doing at times. So in a way the low grading he gave the story spoke more about his own inadequacies as a reader and not so much about the quality of the work.<br /><br />Also, nice wraparound cover. I never knew the story was reprinted. Now I have to look for the other covers too.<br /><br />e. )loved the black Captain Marvel. As I have written on my blog AVENGERS 227 might have been the first american comic I bought at a newsstand in Ludwigsburg.<br /><br />f. ) John Buscema´s second run on AVENGERS. My next post is probably going to be a DC post but after reading your post I realize that I have to return to my TOP THREE AVENGERS COVERS BY JOHN BUSCEMA series ( it started out as top ten but I have only three left to go ).<br /><br />There were some other things I wanted to mention but I have to stop now because my laptop is rebooting in a few seco SUBZEROhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04260927460011967560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-75892782184643297682018-01-06T03:39:48.192-08:002018-01-06T03:39:48.192-08:00Think what MY eyes were like! Never again!!Think what MY eyes were like! Never again!!Terry Hooper-Scharfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-71482433586494080882018-01-05T20:25:21.771-08:002018-01-05T20:25:21.771-08:00Finally reached the spot where the scrolling stopp...Finally reached the spot where the scrolling stopped. Eye drops! I need eye drops!!<br /><br />Fine article, Terry. I remember the first two-thirds from my own collection.Erwin-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08077550093912328373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8266056566078305802.post-17560795466018851172018-01-05T18:17:19.727-08:002018-01-05T18:17:19.727-08:00That's a terrific spread, featuring the Time K...That's a terrific spread, featuring the Time Keepers vs. the Avengers, from Avengers Forever #12.<br />Thanks!Darcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598465647270663106noreply@blogger.com