scans_daily

Aug. 29th, 2015

"I grew up reading about dinosaurs, still love them to this day. Occasionally I pop into the Natural History Museum here in New York just to wander around the dinosaur halls — which are the best in the world, as far as I know — and gaze up at the huge skeletons, letting my imagination go." - Garth Ennis

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thanekos

He was called for by three brothers working in real estate.

He met them at a construction site on the Arcadian waterfront; the eldest, who'd employed him before, paid him his $25,000 in advance.

The middle, who hadn't, objected to that..

( .. thinking the service they were paying for wouldn't be rendered. )

Current Music: One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx

laughing_tree

'It's a tightrope that's tougher to walk than it might first appear. It would be so easy to turn this into such a straight up super-hero book that it may as well be Spider-Man. But, again, if that's the approach, then why not just write Spider-Man? Likewise, it would be equally easy to do nothing but street level crime stuff, but again, I'm not as good a crime writer as Bendis. I'm not as good a crime writer as Brubaker. Why go that route? From my point of view, this seems like the first time in 15 years that somebody has given me the keys to the car and said "do what you wanna do", and I have, and it's succeeded. Generally, I do what I think is best to reinvent a franchise and write for the non-hardcore audience, and the nerd rage is off the charts.' -- Mark Waid

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laughing_tree

"Think ‘True Detective,’ but with Throg the Frog of Thunder playing the Rust Cohle part." -- Jason Aaron

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alschroeder3

The FIRST super-team, the Justice Society, got all the mentions, all the glory. But Harlan Ellison said,

"Before the Magnificent Seven, there was the Seven Soliders of Victory; even more so than the Justice Society (which I adored), I loved this bunch. Particularly, the Vigilante."

Let's find out why, shall we? For the next few Saturdays, I'm going to examine the Seven Soldiers of Victory's individual adventures...and even though the SSOV was the SECOND super-team ever invented, this is the FIRST origin of a super-team ever published--because the Society's origin story was never revealed during the Golden Age, but retconned by Paul Levitz and Joe Staton decades later. How did these heroes get together? The SSOV, unlike the JSA, showed us.

From LEADING COMICS #1, 18 out of 56 pages, written by Mort Weisinger, creator of Vigilante, Green Arrow, Aquaman, Johnny Quick, and later Superman editor from the late Golden through the Silver Age.

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