Indeed. She even took on Juggernaut!
“Whatever you say, Jennifer Walters … alter-ego of She-Hulk.”
“This man’s head is on fire! Somebody call an ambulance!”
I miss Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s Marshal Law, which was originally published under Marvel’s “Epic” line. Given this age of grim dark superheroes, I could totally see the story from the original six-issue series being made into a movie.
When I first got into comic books, in the 1980s, one of my favorites was Art Adams’ Longshot limited series. The character was then in the X-Men for a while, and has shown up occasionally over the years, but the original story is still a favorite of mine.
And I always loved Beta Ray Bill, too.
And the ART! Bill Sing-kev-itz at his most creative… and manic.
I leant the first issue to a coworker. He texted me a screenshot from a comic site that was selling it for $1500 (he did give it back, though…)
Say, what about the end of Grant Morrison’s Animal Man run? Last panel of one of the last issues was our hero entering an old house where a very ordinary man sat at a typewriter: “Hello. I’m Grant.”
Had a comic book store clerk thrust this into my face when it came out “YOU…need…to BUY this!” (I did; loved it)
I have a panel of this on my phone. Slapstick’s creeping around a circus at night. In the background, a poster showing aerialists advertises "The Falling Greysons! Limited Engagement!"
I really liked the original version of Marvel’s Omega The Unknown-[Highlander 2]It’s too bad it ended on a cliffhanger.[/H2]
I liked the PETER CANNON - THUNDERBOLT series in the '90s, which did the typical “Clark Kent Type Keeps Rescuing Lois Lane Type” tale with the twist that – well, look, who the hell keeps trying to abduct a woman who clearly has a costumed admirer standing by to smash would-be kidnappers like some kind of super-powered hero? Seriously, does that make any damn sense to you?
Yeah, that crime syndicate keeps coming for her because she’s – the head of a rival crime syndicate moving in on the locals. So, full marks for putting crooks behind bars; it’s just that he’s doing it to one side, and not the other, without actually realizing who the players are in the chess game of subway knifings and car bombings.
Likewise, you know that old quip about how Batman stories only make sense if he’s unknowingly pumping out a ‘make people stupid around me’ effect when he has the mask on? Yeah, that’s – literally true, here; even our hero seems to believe he’s dazzling the bad guys with sheer damn athleticism, such that they obligingly stand around looking hesitant and intimidated while he takes all the time he needs to line up a devastating kick for the win – but, no, it’s that he secretly acquired the power to make opponents act like characters in a comic book.
And so it goes, with other winks at silver-age scripts and a quirky supporting cast and art that was expressive without quite being cartoonish, and – nope.
Greatest Hits, a 2008 miniseries. It was published in monthly issues and then vanished. It was never reissued or released in collected form.
Wow, I completely forgot about that series. I remember liking it a lot. I wonder what happened to my copies?
Rats, that’s the one I was going to mention. I haven’t tried the new version of the character.
ROM: Spaceknight
Most people think of the garish toy, but only a few are aware of the Marvel comic. ROM is back as a comic, but a little lackluster since he’s been decoupled from the Marvel universe.
DC had an Atari Force comic book along with some other adaptations packed with various 2600 carts. Atari Force was apparently popular enough to run as a standalone. It’s pretty good albeit very '80s kitsch. You can read the pack-ins here. (The Centipede comic is adorable).
Not DC nor Marvel, but Foglio also wrote “Dynamo Joe,” an early giant robot comic…and one of the best of the genre.
The shout-outs to Blue Devil are not a surprise, as the title was one of DC’s big hits in the late 80s.
Yep. Beautiful Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez art. And two massive twists - one of the team is a double agent, and the true identity of the Dark Destroyer. I really liked it.
I loved Metal Men as a kid. I’m not sure it would stand the test of time with me, though.
Frankly, I think a very small percentage of people would remember either, but that the comic would have higher recognition than the toy. The comic lasted for 75 issues over 8 years. I’m sure the toy was long off the market by then. (I had every issue of the comic, but while I saw the toy in stores, I never had one.)
I’m just glad someone else remembers him.
Moon Knight…he was near always my overall second favorite after the Fantastic Four, thanks to seeing this cover and some other artwork (including this cover) in a Marvel coffeetable book when I was nine. And these days, given the unfortunate treatment of the FF due to the Fox fiasco, honestly has grown to become my utmost favorite. I need to read MK’s current series…not only are a lot of my comic reading friends praising it, but it has the added bonus of being disconnected from the rest of the too-event-happy-for-its-own-good Marvel Universe.
groo the wanderer is argones and evaniers best work
I have about half of the Atari force collection
Remember the last issue of the 80s rom ? where marvel had just about every title they had going to show up and save him because he was immobile and ready to do some self destruct thing to take out the entinty he was fighting once and for all …
and when shooter was trying to make a kid friendly set of titles aka “star comics” they had a title that I only seen once “the amazing spiderham” which was basically a furry version of Spider-Man I only bought the first issue and never seen or heard of it since …
And to think Bill Sienkwavickdingalongadingdongck used to get stick for his art. He single-handedly made New Mutants readable.
I agree, the comic has a lot more cachet than the toy. I genuinely can’t remember if I had the toy or not - I remember playing with it a few times when I was little, but I’m not sure if it was something I owned, or something a friend had. It was a pretty shitty toy.
The comic, on the other hand, was awesome.
The Spectacular Spider-Ham is now officially part of mainstream Marvel continuity. They did a big event comic a couple years back, where someone was going through every alternate reality, and killing that universe’s version of Spider-Man. The main universe version ended up recruiting as many survivors as he could to fight back… including one from a universe where everyone was an anthropomorphic talking animal. He ends up playing a pivotal role in beating the big bad guy, even.
Sienkiewicz was, at least IMO, also the sole reason to get the Doug Moench issues of Fantastic Four (FF #222-231). For me, it’s quite ironic that the very man who created Moon Knight turned around and wrote what many FF fans (including myself) consider to be among the worst FF stories ever…including such ‘gems’ like The Samurai Destroyer (FF #226), The Brain Parasites (FF #227), and most particularly Ego-Spawn (FF #228).
