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Back in the late 1980's it was a dark-ish time for the old school superhero fan (well, this one at least), a significant number of characters I liked had either been reimagined to unrecognisability, shot dead and the "dark antihero" was on the rise, a school of character I rarely like.

But every now and again, there were glimmers of hope (again, for me at least), a couple of everyman heroes (for a fairly white, straight, male value of "every" I grant you)

Marvel gave me Quasar, which I've posted in the past, and in 1988 DC gave me a new use of an old name, with Roger Stern and Tom Lyle creating a new spin on....

( Featuring a rather colourful costume... )

mrosa

Hate to post again so soon, but Stern's Avengers run is such a treasure-trove of great moments!

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Current Mood: amused

mrosa

Everyone has heard about the infamous story when Hank Pym slapped Janet Van Dyne. But few care to read it to learn how full of great character moments it is. One of them is a lovely sequence with Hawkeye and She-Hulk.

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Current Mood: rejuvenated

mrosa

Superhero 101:

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Current Mood: aggravated

mrosa

Going against the tendency of superhero assholes who wallow in macho posturing and behave like abrasive, shallow pricks, I'm posting a scene from gentler times, when superheroes were cordial, easy-going and seemed like cool people to hang around with:

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proteus_lives

Greetings True Believers!

Well, the Avengers funnies continue. The Avengers party down, no one is leaving until they get a good look at Thor's crotch and Janet is hard at work at her Avengers pairings.

Enjoy!

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Current Location: Earth-616

superfangirl1

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skjam

It's time for another Re-Week post (looking forward to seeing everyone else's!)

This time we look at Re-ign of the Supermen and the re-turn of...well, you'll see.

7 & 1/3 pages of 22.

( It can't end this way! )

Your thoughts and comments?

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: computer hum

pyrotwilight

( The Dream Lives on... )

skjam

...There was "Action Comics Weekly", DC's first attempt at a weekly comic book. It was an anthology comic somewhat on the model of 2000 AD, several continuing stories each week, with seven page chapters (and a two-page Sunday comics spread for Superman.) There were several interesting projects done during this run--I especially liked the new Secret Six they had. Sadly, sales and logistics reasons meant that the experiment lasted less than a year.

Love that Kirby art, though I think this might have been an inventory piece DC had lying around. 2 1/3 pages from each of the seven-page storiesin Action Comics Weekly #638 (2/7/89), one double-page spread, and a special treat!

( Remember relevance? )

Your thoughts, questions and comments?
SKJAM!
(http://skjam.dreamwidth.org/19423.html --see my fiftieth birthday approaching!)

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: "From a Distance"--Bette Midler

starwolf_oakley

Roger Stern had a series back in 1998 called MARVEL UNIVERSE that was going to cover the hidden history of the Marvel Universe. It was good, but only lasted 7 issues. Stern found out while he was plotting a story about Dr. Strange's first night back in New York City after he's finished his training with the Ancient One. And now Marvel is printing the story.
Preview from Newsarama.
http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album_view.php?gid=2912&page=1

( Welcome home. )

badficwriter

In the Clone Saga post, Ben and Matt bemoan the loss of the world's heroes during the Onslaught event. They weren't actually alone, but to average people nobody else really counted. The X-men, Hulk, and New Warriors were all pretty insular and often low profile. The strange result was that the two 'loner' heroes tended to show up together in crossovers. ( Read more... )

zechs80

I was tempted to go for DOOM.
But then I was reminded that my favorite things in life are Cyborg Supermen.
Though if I'm going to go with my favorite male character it's all about this being about business, nothing more. Someone utterly sane and rational. Someone so unlike the Green Goblin!

Someone who's returning after an over twelve year absence in Amazing Spider-Man #649!

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colonel_green

Four scans apiece from Captain America #608 and Captain America: Forever Allies #1.

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flint_marko

( Images behind the cut. )
title: amazing spider-man, creator: roger stern, creator: lee weeks, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: juggernaut/cain marko

flint_marko

( Images under the cut. )

title: amazing spider-man, creator: roger stern, creator: lee weeks, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: juggernaut/cain marko

skjam

In response to a request from Shadowpsykie, here's Action Comics #662.

For the previous fifty years, the Superman mythos had a status quo of "Lois Lane loves Superman, but isn't too keen on his secret identity Clark Kent. Meanwhile, Superman loves Lois, but conceals his double life from her for various reasons." But with the reboot of the franchise after Crisis on Infinite Earths the relationships had slowly progressed, and by 1991, Lois had gotten over her Superman obsession enough to realize that she had feelings for Clark, and they got engaged.

( Not a hoax, not a dream, not an imaginary story. )

It occurs to me that this kind of blocks off Silver Banshee's appearance in this issue; if at some future point someone's doing a character profile on SB, let me know and I'll trim a few pages at that point to make room.

Otherwise, your thoughts, comments, questions?

suggested tags
char: Lois Lane
char: Silver Banshee
char: Superman/Clark Kent
creator: Bob McLeod
creator: Brett Breeding
creator: Kerry Gammill
creator: Roger Stern
publisher: DC Comics
title: Action Comics

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: "Teen Titans Theme" --Puffy Amiyumi

cyberghostface

( Subtlety is not one of Stern's strong suits here... )

starwolf_oakley

Roger Stern's run on DOCTOR STRANGE began with the introduction of Morgana (one N, not two) Blessing, who eventually became Stephen Strange's girlfriend. Roger Stern himself explains:

"Morgana Blessing was the sort of woman that Doc would have had a relationship with, in his previous career as a high-priced surgeon. She was the Earthly love, in contrast with the ethereal, extradimensional Clea. All the regular readers loved Clea, of course, but the relationship she and Doc had was not exactly an enlightened one. If Clea had just been Docs lover that would have been okay, but shed also become his student, his disciple. It was a case of I love you, Clea. And I love you, Master. And not in a sweet, innocent, I Dream of Jeanie way, either. Not a healthy relationship, not healthy at all."

The first meeting, and a panel from the ILLUMINATI miniseries after the cut.

suggested tags: char: baron mordo, char: clea, char: dr. strange/stephen strange, creator: marshall rogers, creator: roger stern, publisher: marvel comics

( The meet and greet during a bank robbery )

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Cap to Spidey: "We don't want you in the Avengers!"

Hawkeye and She-Hulk

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Nice Superheroes

Janet ships the Avengers

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Before there was 52....

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