i am digging the cheesecake/sleaze vibe of that blog
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 02:56 (nine years ago) link
"I'm too late!" is kissing cousin to "For all my powers" http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/green-lantern-1960/95-1.jpg
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Sunday, 12 April 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
The one Marvelism that has always puzzled me is "...IN A WORLD HE NEVER MADE!" Apparently it's a line pinched from A.E. Houseman, but how this relates to the plights of Dr Strange and Howard The Duck is still somewhat oblique.
https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1383939213/6709953.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nWhwv-6S5c8/UVmEIfau8nI/AAAAAAAB4BY/DktNoywlV6k/s1600/Howard+the+Duck+01+-+00+-+FC.jpg
― Pheeel, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
someone on another message board speculates it may have come to marvel via this 1950s sci-fi story
http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/jpeg/4ef36b4e55f02396344655848725b3b22737a0f5.jpg
― let your hip go hippety pump pump (soref), Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
that is one giant woman
― Nhex, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
busty giantesses something of a specialty for Amazing Stories cover artists
― let your hip go hippety pump pump (soref), Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
haha, yeah, i always struggled to parse "a world he never made," figuring it had to somehow be a pun or something, given its association with Howard the Duck.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
do any other Marvelisms feature prominently in rock songs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOAdhIWpgk8
― let your hip go hippety pump pump (soref), Sunday, 12 April 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Ha, that makes me realize that "Waitin' For A Superman" is basically a magnificent re-rendering of these covers in ballad form.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 April 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
The strapline from the new series, "Trapped in a world he's grown accustomed to", is sadly the only good thing about it
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 12 April 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
This sorta fits into the "too late" meme - either way I just love this cover
http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/superman/408-1.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 12 April 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Bonus points for creeeeepy doll
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 12 April 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Housman is pretty bummed about the world he never made:
The laws of God, the laws of man,He may keep that will and can;Not I: let God and man decreeLaws for themselves and not for me;And if my ways are not as theirsLet them mind their own affairs.Their deeds I judge and much condemn,Yet when did I make laws for them?Please yourselves, say I, and theyNeed only look the other way.But no, they will not; they must stillWrest their neighbour to their will,And make me dance as they desireWith jail and gallows and hell-fire.And how am I to face the oddsOf man's bedevilment and God's?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.They will be master, right or wrong;Though both are foolish, both are strong.And since, my soul, we cannot flyTo Saturn nor to Mercury,Keep we must, if keep we can,These foreign laws of God and man.
― Brad C., Sunday, 12 April 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
feel compelled to make a Legion of Super-Heroes/A Shropshire Lad joke but can't quite get there
― let your hip go hippety pump pump (soref), Sunday, 12 April 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
The Houseman is very Jack Kirby if you just add an exclamation point to the end of each line.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 12 April 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
The laws of God, the laws of man!He may keep that will and can!Not I: let God and man decree!Laws for themselves and not for me!Gone! Gone! -- the form of man -- Rise, the Demon Etrigan!!
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 13 April 2015 08:56 (nine years ago) link
A+
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 13 April 2015 10:30 (nine years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xsIrDo19itU/VSL1MEz_P7I/AAAAAAABI1s/MPoGAmi4ixU/s1600/Marvel%2BTeam%2BUp%2B061-01.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
That does not look like a Byrne page!
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 24 April 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Sloppy secret-ID security to refer to himself by govt name out loud.
― WilliamC, Friday, 24 April 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
huh I hadn't noticed but yeah that really doesn't look like Byrne does it
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
WHAT A MESS!
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 April 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/7509105030_4a5b2cd4e8_c.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
that cover is one of those panels that if you try to imagine in what order the action and the dialogue take place, your brain will break
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 April 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
like did he see ulik running down the street at him and he just planted his thor self in front of a truck and soliloquized and at the end ulik rams him into a truckor is he micromachining through the dialogue as ulik rams himdoes he get halfway through the speech and then ulik connects and he just screams the rest as he's flying through a truckwe just can't know
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 April 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
this particular phrasing seems almost entirely limited to Marvel, like it was just a stock phrase approved for use by editors
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
He gets rammed between the round balloon and the spiky balloon, obviously. "Oh, Ulik's back" RAM "Oh shit, I'm in trouble."
Who is Ulik, BTW?
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 24 April 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
classic kirby baddiehttp://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Thor%20Fights/ThorvsUlik01137.jpg
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 April 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
RE: the Byrne Marvel Team-Up page - well, SOME of it looks like Byrne (especially one of Spidey's legs!) but I'm guessing his pencils weren't that tight, or the whole page was heavily reworked by the John Romita art 'correction' squad. Dave Hunt was Joe Sinnott's long-time assistant, and could also be a fairly dominating inker at times.
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/11/martin-hands-sketch-a-day-challenge-unleashes-mash-up-mayhem/
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 24 April 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Chris Claremont's Marvel Team Up run is a classic Marvel run and one that seems to be a bit under the radar in compilation. I think the story with John Byrne on artwork with Spider-man and Luke Cage saving the people in the building fire is one of the 10-20 best single issues in Marvel comics.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 April 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ypEVbxTnmsA/VTwzR7QfrVI/AAAAAAABJMA/6JyspZYvaS4/s1600/19112.jpg
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051103171303/marveldatabase/images/thumb/4/4d/Iron_Man_Vol_1_193.jpg/300px-Iron_Man_Vol_1_193.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
hawkeye's all 'i'm not fighting a fuckin' dinosaur, i'll make tony do it instead'
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 1 May 2015 08:43 (nine years ago) link
hawkeye otm tbf
a little tangential buthttp://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070918195543/marvel_dc/images/f/f1/Action_Comics_402.jpghttp://www.comicbookbrain.com/_imagery/2012-08-22/bb-158-wonder-woman-aparo-cover.jpghttp://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/4/51711-3816-68542-1-superman.jpg
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 May 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
those are some high-waisted shorts on that last cover
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 1 May 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
left his anti-dinosaur-explosive arrows at home by accident
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 May 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
doesn't contain the line but sentiment is there
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kd4GsjDdbak/VUqsbx4x1fI/AAAAAAABJZE/-IJ5x_oIg1k/s1600/20895.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 May 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Nice selection of pieta covers here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10153063529589051&type=1
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 28 May 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Sonic-136.jpg
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 May 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080811190150/marveldatabase/images/4/4f/Marvel_Premiere_Vol_1_9.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
Omg emo sonic in his big boots
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
https://41.media.tumblr.com/33ff497bb87b7e3d9e49b3e7621cc39d/tumblr_nv3v3qZrP91qbgo38o1_540.jpgDoctor "All My Power" Strange
― OOOoWoOo (Dr. Superman), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AAYZnAn0HLs/ViQ5Al6o3UI/AAAAAAABNvg/zAMYvKJ8BkI/s640/2752.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 November 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
tv version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPPZbLB49tw
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 November 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
how could I have forgotten this one, the comic book issue I have owned the longest:
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhighqualitycomics.com%2Frawpics6%2Finvaders21gbus.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
ha, i like the interthread communication there
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:49 (eight years ago) link
the "now you're going to pay!" could be an entirely new thread
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 January 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LDDWqg_EWco/VquiZ7QEydI/AAAAAAABQZs/XLKp3c2EeRg/s640/18303.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 February 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
this is not really the same thing, but I like it when 60s marvel books have a final panel in which the hero ruminates on his own failings, and sad Iron Man is just killing me
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LZ2ZuuzjBQQ/UZAh1MWsG0I/AAAAAAAAAhQ/X5qXe7aq4kE/s1600/tumblr_majjd468qI1qm2a7co1_500.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 13 February 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link