Marvel Comics blabbery

am I the only one who is inordinately excited about the idea behind A-Force

plz tell me this is a reboot of Atari Force

oh wait that was a DC property wasn't it :(

http://www.cnet.com/news/a-force-assemble-all-female-avengers-team-on-the-way-from-marvel/

"She's actually a cosmological event -- a pocket universe that gained self-consciousness during the radical upheaval of 'Secret Wars.'" Inspired by Q from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Singularity is "learning about the human race as an outsider," according to Wilson.

lol rmde

"that pocket universe has breasts!"

this is like the fourth "universe personified" Marvel has had!

how is that (adjectiveless) all-female X-Men book doing?

this is like the fourth "universe personified" Marvel has had!

Yeah I mean Captain Universe is currently an Avenger, this is nothing new.

how is that (adjectiveless) all-female X-Men book doing?

It's a top 100 book but afaict sales have been in a steady decline over the past year.

not to mention the Beyonder, who... something something secret wars

ftr I'm not as eye-rolly at things like Eternity or Captain Universe as I am at the idea that a universe has a gender

lady pocket universe's drive like THIS

gods having genders is stupid, sure

um, today's Spider-Man comic has Peter Porker saying "Face it pal, you just got hamboozled!"

lol

am I the only one who is inordinately excited about the idea behind A-Force

plz tell me this is a reboot of Atari Force

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:32 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wait that was a DC property wasn't it :(

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:32 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think Atari Force was actually owned by Atari, and that's why those comics have never been reprinted (which is a shame - beautiful Garcia Lopez a/work on those early issues).

well, funny thing: https://archive.org/details/atariforcecomics#collection-title

shame about the marvel micronauts series for the same reason, and that's a series that was very dear to my heart. It had its longeurs but there were several stretches where mantlo caught fire (not just the initial run with M Golden).

Yeah, it's unfortunate that, between that and ROM, Mantlo cornered the market on popular late-'70s/early-'80s Marvel titles that will likely never be reprinted.

Well, him and Moench, I guess.

re: Moench are you referring to Kung Fu...? I follow Diversions of the Groovy Kind religiously and he's always putting up issues of that, and given that he p much sticks to stuff that's never reprinted I was wondering what the deal was there.

It's because Fu Manchu is still somehow under copyright.

jeez, is that why they never reprinted Master of Kung Fu? Damn.

you'd think the copyright holder would be falling all over themselves to shed that most racist invention of the pulp era. But yeah. (I'm an HPL and REH fan despite their noxious facets, but I don't ever expect to reread Sax Rohmer).

Rohmer's Fu Manchu supporting characters Nayland Smith and Petrie also turn up in MOKF, tho I imagine their value as 'properties' are negligible.

There's another 60s Marvel repeated annoyance!

"Hey, look at Harry Osborn's Fu Manchu moustache" "You like my Fu Manchu moustache Peter?"

Don't forget Mary Jane's outtasight "ginchy" new haircut.

bring back "ginchy"

been there, done that

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/FullTextSearchControllerServlet?terms=ginchy&offset=0&searchtype=text&startdate=&enddate=&artefact=messages&idtype=null&sortorder=Relevance&boardid=0

I know the early Ultimate Spiderman comics had lots of nu-metal t-shirts and modern teenage speak but did any of those comics have stuff like "lol, random"?

this is just a thought but maybe you would enjoy reading comics from different eras more if you didn't come across as explicitly looking for things in them to complain about

To be fair, Harry's mustache and Mary Jane's new do are probably the biggest '60s Marvel tonsorial mistakes I've seen outside of Doc Ock's perennial bowl cut.

Harry's mustache and Mary Jane's new do

don't recall these - pics?

I read these comics mostly because those eras are my favourite in terms of American comic artists. Now I just tend to look at them instead of reading.

And I find some of the dialogue funny. There's a Spiderman annual with bonus page of Aunt talking hip and groovy and then Stan Lee actually apologizes for it in a caption below.

Harry's mustache has it's own marvel wiki page:

http://marvel.wikia.com/Harry_Osborn's_Fu_Manchu

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130421143111/marveldatabase/images/2/2f/Harry_Osborn_in_1969.JPG

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6512/558/320/File0501.jpg

nice.

lol

Extra points to anyone who can get a scan of Aunt May talking hip. I almost certain it's a backup in a Romita drawn annual.

When I watched the first season of SNL, I was ultimately more fascinated with the shots of the audience than anything else. Talk about a time capsule of godawful hair and style choices. So given the way things were headed by the late '60s, I really look forward to seeing Marvel's depictions of 1975.

Peter Parker's ugly jacket with tassels is the only thing that stuck out to me. I think his sideburns got longer too but it wasn't a bad look.

http://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/91.jpg

God DAMN but the influence on xaime is writ large there

it really is

Woody Allen Lives

Well done Bizarro Gazzara. Funny that even Fu Manchu is there.

I always thought Gilbert was the most Romita inspired one.

was wondering - is this Fu Manchu copyright thing also the reason the character is never referenced by name in the initial League of Extraordinary Gentlemen storyline?

yeah, it is

someone should do an intentional meta thing about the strange numinous menace of the licensed-character-who-cannot-be-named. (someone probably has, probably moore even)

Should just call him Nu Manchu and get on with it.

Marvel/Agents of Atlas sort of did that with Yellow Claw

Yellow Claw has been around since the golden age.

call him "Craig"