Andy Gardner
@zodiacfire
#Celticfc but also a massive NERD into rpgs, board games and comic books. Left leaning politics.
…and Grant Morrison was always a fan of ‘everything happened and it all happened five minutes ago’ so you have a scene where a forgotten Jack Kirby character from 1971 is being fanboyed by a super team has been literally created for the comic and it plays like you’re meant to know who everyone is.
Jon Bogdanove is equally magnificent in the X-Terminators mini. This is a wonderful time for superhero comic art. Fun, cartoony, confident and stylish. Breaking away from the Kirby/Ditko era but before we hit the style-over-substance 90s.
It’s a terrific fight, Spidey is so cool and graceful. I think Chuck confronted his guilt and made amends the following issue so all good there.
This 4 issue 1996 mini series by Peter Milligan with fantastically gritty and stylish art from John Paul Leon (shame Klaus Janson doesn’t ink more than the first issue) is helpful background reading for Gillen’s take on Mister Sinister. And a cracking comic in its own right.
I was waiting for this one. Deeply flawed but wildly ambitious, no other event before or since gave you as much bang for your crossover buck - you literally have to read every issue, and a fair number of them are excellent, particularly Week 4 and the hilarious JLI #10.
It’s also Jimenez’ attempt to emulate his great influence George Perez, but deadline pressures undermined him. That the messy plot lines fail to cohere at the end is emphasised by the multiple pencillers and rushed looking inks (or simply unfinished pages)
My initial reaction was I thought this would be ranked higher, but you’re right, all the juice is in the spin offs. Did Grant Morrison nick the ‘make a main part of the story a Superman tie-in’ idea from this?
I’d love your take on the best/worst event spinoff characters. This guy has to be right up there…
Lovely Sam Keith tribute. Joe’s suggestion that Wood redrew Ditko got me digging out The Destructor issues online (and he so did) but then I carried on reading all 4 issues and felt sad that Gerry Conway’s bonkers underground mutant story was never resolved. And then I saw the news. RIP Mr Conway.
Dr Who Weekly and a few other Marvel UK reprints like Hulk and Spider-Man with original strips like Night Raven and Black Knight. Hooked for life.
You’d have thought they would have figured out tactics before they got on the pitch…
Some bullshit justification there from ol Supes, who changed his tune in the 80s…
This issue, the dark centre of Byrne’s Supergirl saga is my favourite from the era, told in double page spreads. Ordway packs so much detail and mood into these pages, terrific world building. Really sharp and sympathetic inks from Dennis Janke too.
There’s no real sense that for all his sense of mutant kinship Brian has any feelings for Meggan, and having been rejected by her own parents and community Meggan’s feelings towards him are immature infatuation. But then she becomes a beautiful woman and he’s straight in there. Creepy af.
Kurt appears as a love rival early in Meggan and Brian’s relationship and she is as you point out still adjusting to no longer being the ugly duckling. In many ways Kurt is the first adult male suitor she has met, as her relationship with Brian does cross the line from child/guardian to lovers.