You don’t want to know. You really, really don’t want to know what happened to the Metal Men. Bad, bad scene. I’m hoping Hypertime cleans it out.
God, I love Hypertime.
Wasn’t there a Secret Wars issue where Doc Doom got all the Beyonder’s powers and finally took off his mask, revealing a perfect face? It was angelic and shiny and stuff.
Is Grimjack ever coming back?
If there is anyone who can sell a set of comics (more than 2 or 3 issues) for 50% of the price guide value, i’ll take my hat off to them. The price guides (to the extent they have any utility at all, which is minimal) are written by retailers for retailers to set their own prices. When a collector wants to sell his collection, no retailer is going to pay anything near the guide price, as he has to expect to make a profit on the deal.
–Cliffy
In that situation the good “doctor” had healed his face with the Beyonder’s powers. We’ve seen the unscarred Doom face on plenty of occasions. At the end of Secret Wars the Beyonder puts him back to hideously scarred.
Various points:
Astro City: Local Heroes #1 ships in February. Kurt Busiek, the writer and creator of Astro City, has spent the last several years suffering from severe mercury poisoning which has limited his ability to write on the level Astro City demands. He’s been getting somewhat better and has managed to put together a handful of Astro City scripts which are being launched as a 5-issue bimonthly miniseries with more to come whenever he is able to produce it.
According to Marvel continuity, the Patsy Walker who became Hellcat is actually the daughter of Dorothy Walker, the woman who wrote the 1950’s and 60’s teen comics “Patsy Walker” and “Patsy and Hedy.” Mrs. Walker used Patsy and her pals as the model for the main characters in those titles. This doesn’t exactly jibe with Patsy’s pre-Hellcat appearances in Marvel comics (such as the abovementioned FF Annual #3), but it’s close enough. (In the real world, the Patsy Walker comics were written by Stan Lee, among others.)
As for the question about how fanboys turn their noses up at more “intellectual” comics, it is certainly true that many do. However, comics are a medium, not a genre. Superheroes are a genre, and a pretty damn narrow one at that. Without question the best comics being written today have nothing to do with superheroes (such as Judd Winick’s Barry Ween, Wood & Rolston’s Pounded, Greg Rucka’s Queen & Country, and Ted Naifeh’s Courtney Crumrin). However, due to the historical facts of the comics market, superheroes have the dominant market share. That’s changing, which is good, because superheroes are simply not that interesting to most readers, and if the industry hopes to survive it has to embrace the diversity that has been developing in the last decade. Many retailers are on the ball about this. Many are not – they will not last through this decade.
–Cliffy
I too love Hypertime, but I disagree about the Metal Men. I think what they did was brilliant.
Who’d have thought Tin would turn out to be the ghost of Leonardo da Vinci?
(Kidding on the last bit, of course)
Good point.
So the related “ask the comic guy” trivia questions: Who was Thriller? And can you name the members of the Seven Seconds?
Yep… found it in a bargin bin, heard good things, and read. And liked. I wonder where to find the other reprints-- I have Volume Two only.
There’s a big comic question I wish I knew the answer to: Is Hunter S. Thompson aware of the existance of TRANSMETROPOLITIAN? Does he care? I heard he was mad about Doonsbury’s Uncle Duke being based on him, and Spider Jerusalem is a more blatent rip.
Oh, and www.comicbookresources.com is a great site. The boards are filled with utterly obsessed continuity freaks… at least some of them…
I don’t know if he knows, and I wouldn’t know if he was based on uncle duke. CBR.com is a pretty good site. I jst love that column called you’ll all be sorry. hilarious stuff.
YABS ended a year ago, alas. Oddball Comics rocks, though.
Uncle Duke was based on Hunter S. Thompson, the gonzo journalist who wrote the “Fear and Loathing” books, among others. Apparently, he was pissed off at having a comic strip character based on him. Spider Jerusalem, the main character of Transmet, is cleary based on Hunter.
Speaking of which, who did Kevin Smith obliquly attack in BLUNTMAN AND CHRONIC?
Up until a few months ago there was a woman in Detective Comics, her name was Sasha Bordeaux. Wayne Enterprises hired her as a bodyguard to Bruce Wayne. In subsequent months, Bruce is framed for murder. Sasha was arrested as an accomplice and imprisoned. To make a long story short, Mr. Wayne was cleared and freed, Sasha on the other hand was seemingly left to languish in prison. As far as I know, that was the last time she was mentioned.
So, My question to you is, did Bruce Wayne just let an innocent woman rot? If not, did the writers just forget about her, or did I just miss something?
Arrimus:
You missed quite a bit. Bruce went to the prison with a good lawyer to try and get Sasha out, but Sasha, in the mean time, had gotten injured in a fight with another inmate. Bruce was told that she died of those injuries, but he (and obviously, we the readers) suspect she’s been taken by persons unknown for reasons unknown and sinister, and Bruce is searching for her.
As far as I know (I only glance at Batman occasionally), this plot thread is ongoing.
Chaim Mattis Keller
Nay – Eventually, Bruce tracked her down after letting her languish in prision for months. He discovered that her death had been faked when she was recruited by the government spy agency Checkmate. It looked like they might begin a romantic relationship, but Sascha knew that Bruce would drive her away like he does everyone else, so they parted on essentially amicable terms.
This was in Detective #774-75.
–Cliffy
Ooh… I have a question:
Is it actually stated anywhere in the DC Vertigo line that Matthew, Dream’s raven, is the same Matthew Cable of the Swamp Thing series, and if so where?
Fenris…Wasn’t it Banshee and Jean Grey that were surprised that Wolvie’s claws were part of his body?
I cant remember since it has been a while since I looked in my classic Xmen’s
-What the hell happened to Liefield? Does anyone even hire him anymore? Hope not…but thats just me.
-Has there ever been a true Marvel superhero (at once had his own comic could be a good rule of thumb) that has died and stayed dead? Captain Marvel comes to mind but I dunno…Longshot?
-What happened to Power Pack? Cloak and Dagger?
-What the fark is happening to Frank Miller? I used to worship this guy as a god but sheesh did DK2 stink!
Yup.
When did this happen? In The Dreaming? Didn’t that come after 2000? And shouldn’t there be spoiler tags around all this?
But if we’re doing Sandman trivia, give me a hard question… sadly enough, I have the Companion.
It coulda been. I really thought it was Scott, but now you’ve got me wondering.
One sec…lemme check
You’re right. It was Jean and Sean.
Fenris
I coudn’t find anything about current liefeld projects.
Bucky(he was the sidekick in the cap book, kinda counts), Captain marvel as you mentioned… hmm…
Power Pack- heh. i have the final issue buried somewhere in my collection…
Powerpack had a miniseries a little while back… I think they moved to NJ or something and everything was back to normal.
Apparently Dagger is in Marvel knights and is currently searching Cloak.
He’s probably got gainful employment flipping burgers. I hope so, anyway. Shame to let a guy like that starve.