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Apr 30 09 11:55 PM
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May 1 09 7:32 AM
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May 1 09 10:43 AM
Golden Age
No, I thought the Wasp was being the bad guy. Like someone brain-washed her, and then they'd be fighting against each other.
But it couldn't be the Chameleon,
It's not exciting unless it has big, sharp teeth.
It was funny because you wouldn't expect to see a little education in a comic.
It's educational--it's the opposite of a comic book!
Since Hank is like a DNA scientist, I thought he might practice a chemical that he doesn't know what it does, and accidentally he liked poured it on himself, and he thinks it would make it easier to control the suit, or gooder, but it accidentally made him, like, brain-washed.
May 1 09 10:49 AM
Either way, Stan didn't do himself any favors with his ham-fisted segue to the diagram: "But we pause for a moment now, to bring all of you ant-lovers a special diagram which will better acquaint you with the intricacies of an average ant city."
May 1 09 12:02 PM
So how many memories did it in fact erase? Sammy's memories are part of what gave him a criminal personality. Either he'll just become a crook again, or Hank robbed him of so many memories that he's hardly the same person anymore, which seems a violation of civil liberties. Maybe that's why Hank doesn't make this serum available to psychiatrists and correctional facilities.
Actually I think that reads as exquisitely sarcastic, as if Stan is scathingly taking Burgos to task for inserting the diagram into the middle of the action. The kids will read the caption as sincere, while adults can choose to hear a dripping frustrated scorn.
This Giant-man story seems a lot more like a DC story to me than a Marvel one. The cover is decidedly in DC's "What on Earth is going on here? Buy the book and find out"-style than Marvel's "This scene is REALLY cool, buy the book to see it play out"-style, the plot about a crook stumbling over the hero's costume and taking his role is something I'm sure DC has done many times, and the plant subplot is exactly the kind of stuff I'd expect to see over there.
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May 5 09 5:09 PM
The issue ends with a mysterious villain following Peter Parker home. Does someone know he's the Spider-Man?!? Good way to build suspense. In the Spider's Web letter col we learn what the initials M.M.M.S. stand for, and Kathy Lucas from Alabama lusts after Sub-Mariner! Yowza! I wonder how many male comic fans sent him letters after this?
May 15 09 11:26 AM
"I've got a few things to say to you!" - Johnny Storm OK, did anyone not know who the "mystery villian" really was? ...I didn't think so. I think this was the first FF story since FF 23 to feature team members questioning Reed's role as leader. Pretty funny to see straight-laced Richards cook up a costume with a full-face mask (sporting a huge question mark motif) and then masquerade in said costume. What will he dream up next time this happens? Maybe he'll pull a "Wizard of Oz" and pretend to be the Watcher, explaining to the others why they should defer to Reed Richards's judgement. The highlight was the sequence of TnT trapped in the speeding cars. They fell for the usual ploy just like in FF 9, ASM 14, and a recent Giant-Man story. Even the Wizard lured Johnny much the same way in the first story of Human Torch Masterworks Vol. 2 (ST 118) with a TV charity exhibition. Better-than-usual cover on this one. A weird illo of the flaming Torch with his "Johnny face", even down to the hair. I presume his face was starting to come back because his power was ebbing.
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Oh, I would have totally punished her!
[Interviewer: Okay. Well, answer me this, why didn't Namor punish her?] [Son the Elder:] He was too tired! Mom would say, "I didn't punish you because I'm tired. So go away now, I have to get my rest."
they would train her
At this point, a reader could pretty much write the script himself for what would happen each time Namor bumps into the FF, so Stan and Jack keep it fresh by having absolutely no interaction between them at all.
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Dec 14 09 6:53 PM
Silver Age
Dec 14 09 8:19 PM
Man, I'm really starting to burn out from going through these so fast.
JIM 110: Every Hand Against Him...It's entertaining how Loki mundanely bails Hyde and Cobra out of jail rather than transporting them out or something equally magical.
At least Loki goes so far as to beef up the admittedly dismal powers of Hyde and Cobra….though doubling Cobra's powers still doesn't give you much.
since when does Loki bother to obey Odin's edicts on anything when the old man isn't looking?
I love the villains and Jane driving off in a taxi, of all things, while Thor stands looking on helplessly.
XM 8: Unus the Untouchable...If Unus can't control his untouchability, how is it that he's still on the ground?
Hulk vs. Chameleon...Like the Mandarin, The Leader seems to have his own motivations that aren't doctrinaire or beholden to another government.
Av 10...issues 1-10 are not my cup of tea at all.
If the Enchantress can send things back a few days at will, why doesn't she just keep doing it over and over again Groundhog Day style until they get it right?
ASM 19...Is Spidey's little song "All hail the Spider, a hardy breed is he tra la la la la" an original? I thought it might be a parody but Google is not showing me anything that he might have been taking off from. Given that, it's pretty bizarre.
the Sandman just surrenders to the police, apparently sick of dealing with these two teenagers. It seems awfully easy a resolution, but there didn't seem to be any vacuum cleaners around anyway.
Betty's jealousy scheme totally blows up in her face, as so many of these ploys do in this time period. You really see Stan's issues with females in stark vividness in these books.
FF 33: On the Side of the Sub-Mariner...p. 13: Namor goes all Winston S. Churchill
TOS 60: Iron Man Wanted for Murder....We also meet Sergei Amkov, who apparently is played by Robert Shaw.
Cap Battles the Assassins. Nice fakeout with the ersatz Cap at the beginning. But if they're supposed to take Cap alive, how is it that they're assassins?
Rick is in NY here and in the Avengers, but in the Southwest in the Hulk stories, and it's already been observed that Stan's not paying much attention to Rick's chronology. Just stick him in wherever.
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Aug 7 12 8:34 AM
I'm honored that DeBricazar remembered that I call this period "The Great Page Reduction of 1964" Yes, Pin-Ups did replace a page of story, but only temporarily. They soon would be replaced by something else.
As to Rick Jone's visit to New Mexico in this issue: it was a one-time thing because the Hulk was captured by General Ross. For now, Rick is still a New York Boy!
Could Rick be a full-time Avengers and still lead the Teen Brigade? Why not? It seems the Teen Brigade has evolved into an organization whose chief purpose is to help the Avengers anyway.
I kind of like the early Captain America stories in ToS #59-62. They may be no great shakes to some of you, but to me they are THE Captain America!
"How does Rick know that extreme anxiety is what counteracts the 'gamma-state inertia'?" Is it impossible to presume that Bruce and Rick keep in touch?
On continuity and continued stories: It doesn't matter! Quit be so obsessed!
Mutation: Namor is both a hybrid and a mutant. From his Mother's race he can breathe underwater and survive at crushing depths; from his Father's race he can breathe air and has peachy-colored skin: the fact that his strength is greater than other members of his race (on average) and that he has winged ankles are his mutation.
More on Mutants: This is my observation and deduction: A mutant (generally) is stronger than a typical human. Mutants with animal-like powers are even stronger. All mutants have a "healing factor" and heal faster than humans. Wolverine's real power is his animal-like strength and senses. I think the healing-factor angle has been over-played.
"Stop being so unal." Quite funny!
On Adamantno1's theory of Prof X turning the X-Men into the freaks he says they are: see the mutant story in AAF14, human prejudice against mutants existed before Prof X told the X-Men to keep everything on the down-low.
Captain America did get enhanced strength from the Super Soldier Formula; occasionally writers have forgotten to write him that way.
Immortus lures Rick in Avengers #10 by offering him superpowers. At least he didn't offer to star him in a movie like FF9, SpM14 and TtA61![to be concluded]
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