Marvel Comics, anyone?
 

Any other fans? Lets talk

Yeah I know I'm crappy at starting threads, and I know marvel isn't a progressive choice.. but what the hell, i love em.

Patsy Walker aka......



Rrrrrrrrrrrrrooowwwwwww.....

Just picked up the ninties revival series of hers, when compared to the rest of marvel's late ninties fare, its pretty good stuff XD.
Wasn't she some sort of archie comics wanna be back in the golden age?

Now Archie Comics I know about.....

I've only got the one Hellcat comic (which was under the 'Defenders' series) and it's obviously had quite the impression on me since I still remember it. We're talking circa 1982. I think the story was called "To the Devil a Daughter" 'cause it had to do with her trying to find her real father who was or wasn't Satan.

A friend of mine has one of those "Marvel Universe" tomes that has a write-up of all the characters. I've checked this out and got a bit of an insight into the character of Hellcat.

But I'd like to get my hands on some more comics about her. She seems like an interesting character.

But don't lets confuse me as a comic-book collector. I house-sit my friend's place from time to time and he's got a shitload of comics (mostly Batman and DC stuff) and I get my fix at his place.

Spiderman!!!

Haha nothin wrong with comic collectin... as long as you aren't a complete nerd about it, and yes while I am a nerd about comics XD (not too extreme), I don't go on about it when I'm around people who I know are uninterested like normal nerds

i likes me some x-men

Steve Ditko is God. That's all anyone needs to know.

Marvel comics never really managed to maintain the brilliance of its 60s heyday. In the seventies, the British comic 2000AD brought a whole new vaguely punkish attitude to the super-hero, with the creation of characters such as Judge Dredd and Halo Jones. It was also a breeding ground for a new crop of writers - headed by Alan Moore, who went to America in the 80s to create arguably the greatest comic series ever written: Watchmen, which called into question the whole basis of the super-hero - especially in its character Rorschach - a kind of semi-psychotic Batman:

(Rorschach, from Alan Moore's Watchmen.)


Stan Lee has never been willing to adapt to the innovations brought about by figures like Moore and as a result Marvel increasingly seems stuck in a bit of a timewarp. Still to this day though, its roster of classic characters is without equal in the world of comics.

Ditko era Spiderman aside, my favourite Marvel character is definitely Lee and Jack Kirby's the Silver Surfer - probably the most beautiful and complex (for Marvel) super-heroes in the companies history.

He recieved a revamp in the 80s by the French artist Moebius which I always think is one of the best of the marvel 're-imaginings'.



God, I could waffle on about this kind of thing forever.

i like dave cockrum



i've never read silver surfer, but i've been meaning to for years

How could anyone not? I mean just look at the guy:)
What a legend!

This thread makes me want to send off for a Spalding basketball and some X-Ray specs!

storm with a mohawk was one of the coolest things marvel have come up with




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Thor
X-Men
Spiderman
Fantastic Four

I never really got into the whole Hellcat thing, but that's probably because I was never a big fan of the team up thing, although I sort of loved the way she had these mad little cameos in other heroes' stories.

this is the best i could find

Yeah, he's a weird one in that he never really had the popularity I'd expect. I know he was one of Stan Lee's fave characters and he kept pushing him in a bid to increase the character's fanbase, but for some reason he never quite caught on with the public. Weird really, considering bollocks like Thor was flying off the shelves. Saying that, I read somewhere that he gained a cult following amongst surfers in California - but that's hardly surprising I suppose.

Storm was really sexy, definitely. Although my heart will always belong to Judge Anderson, I'm afraid.

If you're older than 13 and still need books with pictures, then there's something wrong with you.

How dare you call Thor bollocks?

the best character marvel ever created

Hahe. Fortunately, in the case of Thor, a picture speaks a thousand words:

i dont like marvel comics.

''That's it!''

I thought that was Moon Knight at first and was trying to work out why he was being a shit to The Thing. Dr Doom (alongside Magneto) was definitely my favourite of the Marvel villians, but i'll always think of Spiderman, Silver Surfer and The Hulk as their greatest characters.

I always thought Ghost Rider looked fantastic but his character was so boring. As a friend once commented, "at the end of the day he's just a skeleton on a motorbike."

have you ever read MAUS, FROM HELL, SANDMAN, WATCHMEN, DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, SIN CITY, ETC?

them shits is fucking awesome.

MAUS won a fucking PUlitzer.

read more comics!

I started off as a huge John Byrne fan when I was a kid in the late 70's. I followed him from Marvel Team-Up through to his run on the Uncanny X-Men and then through every issue he did of Fantastic Four.

Now my tastes run more along the lines of classic Kirby, Ditko, Neal Adams, and Bill Sienkiewicz. Sienkiewicz's run on New Mutants is one of the greatest since Neal Adams on X-Men.

Sienkiwicz is my favorite.

the first seven issues of THE SHADOW which he drew in 1987-88 were fucking GREAT

and he did all that shit without a computer.

I hate reading the computer colored and drawn comics. they look like glossy shit

And the covers are always far better than the crap inside.

yeah a lot computer stuff just looks crap, but there are some people who i think do really good stuff, like joshua middleton

from NYX, an x-men spinoff






from sky between branches

marvel > dc





stray toasters > all

when I was a kid I read GI Joe, X Men, Thor, Hulk.

I read alot of marvel but i really like alot of Image comics, especially THE WALKING DEAD, its addicting. DC blows kinda

marvel? the superheros with the spandex?

not really.

i've recently been getting into Vertigo comics:





good shit!

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actually i know nothing bout marvel comix so disregard my comment above.

Edika is one of my favourite comic artists of all time.