tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post8158818662386109703..comments2024-03-27T11:32:34.392-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #18Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-73393242838069790702016-09-13T13:10:30.998-07:002016-09-13T13:10:30.998-07:00Lately, inspired by Mark Gruenwald, I've taken...Lately, inspired by Mark Gruenwald, I've taken to referring to the S.F. Giants' first baseman as "Brandongar Beltagon".Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-20294869516865227282016-09-05T09:30:42.888-07:002016-09-05T09:30:42.888-07:00I absolutely love a random Inhuman woman saying “H...<br>I absolutely love a random Inhuman woman saying “Hello, The Human Torch!”<br /><br /><i>// “The Dark Phoenix Saga” happened nine months ago, you guys. <br />Yeah, I don’t buy it either. //</i><br /><br />Nor I (which I guess is where your anticipatory "either" comes from, so apologies for the endless loop...). Going only by events occurring in <i>X-Men</i>, Scott left the team and met Alex and returned and met Maddie and married her — all of Cockrum’s second run, then Paul Smith’s, and the first half-dozen issues of JRJr.’s run have transpired.<br /><br /><i>// Why can’t they just be named Black Bolt and Medusa? //</i><br /><br />I don’t think it’s a bad idea for them to have actual names of some kind, especially since the superheroey ones by which we know them are, well, superheroey — and English, or in Medusa’s case at least idiomatically so, although that could all be a matter of translation — but the coincidence of “Blackagar Boltagon” reducing to “Black Bolt” is heinously stupid.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-48322336606243259462016-06-21T09:26:26.370-07:002016-06-21T09:26:26.370-07:00I thought the current Spidey 2099 sounded good -- ...I thought the current Spidey 2099 sounded good -- Miguel O'Hara back, written by Peter David -- until I learned it's set in the modern day, not the year 2099! That severely dampened my interest.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-67694020665984248112016-06-16T14:00:31.012-07:002016-06-16T14:00:31.012-07:00I was referring to your previously done Byrne FF i...I was referring to your previously done Byrne FF issue, where I got the wording pretty much lifted from the "forcefield suddenly disappears" scene and the fact that she does have especially bad showing on this one, first launching herself off from the artificial gravity zone and then setting the door button booby trap off.<br /><br />I cherish my ignorance of what's currently going on in Marvel Universe, though I may have to check out the recent-ish PAD Spider-Man 2099 stuff they got on Unlimited sometime soon.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-67945982987567136782016-06-16T09:54:12.664-07:002016-06-16T09:54:12.664-07:00Yeah, the artwork fits with Byrne's ongoing st...Yeah, the artwork fits with Byrne's ongoing style, that's true. It's just not as polished and dynamic as I normally associate with M.D. Bright.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-58783908223818223642016-06-16T09:53:20.061-07:002016-06-16T09:53:20.061-07:00Back to being a green joke as in nowadays in curre...Back to being a green joke as in nowadays in current Marvel comics? I confess I haven't read any in years, though I see She-Hulk has some big role in the current CIVIL WAR II crossover.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-34905568879448028172016-06-16T09:52:12.376-07:002016-06-16T09:52:12.376-07:00Thanks as always for the backstory, angmc43! It l...Thanks as always for the backstory, angmc43! It looks like I even have that AVENGERS ANNUAL in the ABSOLUTE VISION: BOOK 1 trade paperback! I'll have to check it out.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-2221847432800782392016-06-13T21:43:09.475-07:002016-06-13T21:43:09.475-07:00The art at least is suitably Byrnesque enough, and...The art at least is suitably Byrnesque enough, and the Dark Phoenix Saga bits and the Attilan in general especially for the backgrounds are very on-model in their looks. If it was for example Sal Buscema or Frank Miller filling in for this kind of occasion, the obvious disconnect in the styles would make it look wrong and render everything around it a bit unacceptable. The classic stories have their own look.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-14739877944751668362016-06-13T21:29:19.796-07:002016-06-13T21:29:19.796-07:00Well, that was fun, moreso than I would have expe...Well, that was fun, moreso than I would have expected a Dark Phoenix re-visitation to be by anyone who's not Claremont. Byrne so had this planned the minute he chose to park the Attilan on top of the Blue Area of the Moon.<br /><br />Gotta admire the fellows splendidly pulling up the auld 'enemy agents stationed far from home find they're closer to each other than anyone on their own side' trick. You see it coming on the first pages when they're jocularly addressing each other by name, but in a way that you'd be disappointed if they didn't.<br /><br />Shulkie is back to being a green joke, I see.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-55064087087036878512016-06-13T13:08:32.179-07:002016-06-13T13:08:32.179-07:00I recall PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY's original ...I recall PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY's original ending commented that the two warriors killed each other.<br /><br />AVENGERS ANNUAL#12 dealt with the U.S. Government first learning about the Inhumans. Despite the FF's explanation (including a scene showing Ben in his 'Oatmeal' form) and best defense of the Inhumans' peaceful intentions, the Government still think Attilan may be a threat. So- because the FF had opposed federals before- they send the Avengers to confirm things: Cap, Wasp, Starfox, Thor, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Vision, and Scarlet Witch (the latter two had already visited Attilan-Moon in the first VISION AND THE SCARLET WITCH LS, where they discovered Magneto was their father). <br />Remember in FF#240 about Maximus the Mad's offscreen sacrifice? Well, it turns out Maximus is entombed in some life-sustaining coffin. Shortly after their moon migration, the entombed Maximus managed to switch bodies with his brother Black Bolt (and yet somehow lacked his powerful voice problem). 'Black Bolt' makes an alliance with the evil scientist group the Enclave to conquer the Earth by dropping asteroids into it. He also has the Inhumans fight the Avengers. But the fighting stops when Shulkie threatens 'BB', forcing him to make a vocal protest that completely blows his cover. Medusa- having suspected something was up before the protest- begins to hair-strangle the impostor into revealing the truth. 'Maximus' is freed and reverses the switch. Both teams defeat the Enclave and establish peaceful negotiations with the USA. angmc43@hotmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15379700547226493861noreply@blogger.com