tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post3005676365543839500..comments2024-03-27T11:32:34.392-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: MARVEL TEAM-UP #61Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-71285677482817284132021-05-25T08:34:43.479-07:002021-05-25T08:34:43.479-07:00I have the same issue with Patreon. It's not t...I have the same issue with Patreon. It's not that I don't <b>want</b> to "patronize" people -- it's the opposite. There are just too many, and I don't know who to cut! I really do want to at least get to Austin's stuff someday, though I know I'm way behind at this point, with his having done X-MEN 2099, the X-MEN cartoon, CHAMPIONS, and now working on MS. MARVEL.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-6820547161452999272021-05-25T08:33:18.345-07:002021-05-25T08:33:18.345-07:00No problem, Blam! As always, thanks for reading!No problem, Blam! As always, thanks for reading!Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-19118141941312894642021-05-25T05:45:29.987-07:002021-05-25T05:45:29.987-07:00P.S.: Lest you check your stats and wonder if ther...<br>P.S.: Lest you check your stats and wonder if there was an attempted DOS attack on the blog, I’ll mention that while searching out some old posts on which I wrote comments that were never sent I’ve taken the opportunity to subscribe to comments on your landing pages for various review series.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-90813434873345914312021-05-25T05:44:41.464-07:002021-05-25T05:44:41.464-07:00I got these issues off the spinner rack but haven’...<br>I got these issues off the spinner rack but haven’t read them in <i>so</i> long. For a variety of reasons the “M” boxes in my collection were the most inaccessible for a long time and just seeing the covers of these issues again has been a massive shot of nostalgia. They were probably my introduction to the Super-Skrull.<br /><br />… Which is nearly all I had to say in response to Austin’s post on this and the next issue for his <i>Ms. Marvel</i> reviews. (I’m not comfortable subscribing to Patreon myself because I know far more people using it than I can afford to patronize; I hijacked a friend’s account to read Teebore’s stuff.) Funny that not only did I just read <i>Team-Up</i> #61 & #62 for those posts of his and just come across these posts of yours while poking around here <i>[see follow-up comment]</i> but I just rehashed my experience with <i>Team-Up</i> #40 for your Tiger Sons intro and it relates to this discussion: I too very much enjoyed when the story would carry over from one issue to the next in series like <i>Team-Up</i> while rotating official, cover-featured guest stars, especially when previous guest stars would linger. There was a kind of “bonus” feel to the practice, even though it’s not like throwing in extra costumed characters upped the budget, and my fascination with logos surely factored in as well.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-86025743596609207892015-09-11T09:36:48.803-07:002015-09-11T09:36:48.803-07:00"That's...not exactly the place I would h..."<b>That's...not exactly the place I would have expected Super-Skrull's last appearance to have occurred.</b>"<br /><br />Yeah, a Tigra/Supe-Skrull fight seems like it would be a little one-sided!<br /><br />"<b>Again, I love this way of setting up the following team-up. Makes a series that should feel very episodic less so.</b>"<br /><br />Yes, though unfortunately that technique isn't long for the series, at least not the Byrne/Claremont stuff. After next issue it becomes very much an episodic affair, being mostly all one- and two-part stories.<br /><br />"<b>MTU is one of those series that gets used to tie up loose threads from other series/storylines</b>..."<br /><br />It definitely is, resolving Equinox last issue, bringing back Super-Skrull here, resolving Iron Fist's dropped plots, showing an X-Men "side story" when Havok pops up, etc. Though I read the full Claremont run a few years ago -- he did about thirty issues -- and it seems like it was mostly only during his brief time with Byrne that he did this sort of thing.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-47841528215163391132015-09-10T06:34:28.317-07:002015-09-10T06:34:28.317-07:00The Torch explains to Spider-Man that Super-Skrull...<i>The Torch explains to Spider-Man that Super-Skrull had been trapped inside an Indian “soul catcher” by Tigra in MARVEL CHILLERS #7</i><br /><br />That's...not exactly the place I would have expected Super-Skrull's last appearance to have occurred. 70s era Marvel was crazy fun weird. <br /><br /><i>Among the attendees is WOMAN magazine editor Carol Danvers, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel -- who will be Spider-Man’s co-star next issue.</i><br /><br />Again, I love this way of setting up the following team-up. Makes a series that should feel very episodic less so. <br /><br /><i>Funnily, despite his affection for the Skrull, Byrne would never use him in his lengthy FANTASTIC FOUR run</i><br /><br />Maybe he felt it was too obvious, yet not so obvious that he couldn't NOT use him (I mean, Byrne was gonna use Doom no matter what, but maybe he felt he could get away with not using Super-Skrull)? <br /><br /><i>. They're not overt -- Scarfe appears with no footnotes to IRON FIST for example -- and that makes them sort of like bonuses for those in the know, without penalizing a reader for not getting them. They build the world subtly, without bashing you over the head -- just the way good continuity should be utilized. </i><br /><br />Well said. I also like the way, at least during Claremont/Byrne run, that MTU is one of those series that gets used to tie up loose threads from other series/storylines, but in a way that, if you don't know the original story, it still works, but if you do, you get a little something extra out of it. <br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.com