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X-Factor #42
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iamrmanWriter: Louise Simonson
Pencils: Arthur Adams
Inks: Al Milgrom
X-Factor fight the trolls for the life of young Thomas.
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X-Factor #41
May. 8th, 2025 12:29 pmiamrmanWriter: Louise Simonson
Pencils: Arthur Adams
Inks: Al Milgrom
Apparently, this Alchemy guy was the winner in a contest in which readers could design a new character. That explains why he has hardly appeared since. Saves Marvel having to pay the creator any money.
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X-Factor #40
Apr. 29th, 2025 08:25 pmiamrmanWriter: Louise Simonson
Pencils: Rob Liefeld
Inks: Al Milgrom
Nanny and the Orphan-Maker are out to get the Inferno babies.
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Generation X #15 & 16
Jan. 25th, 2025 03:17 pmiamrmanWriters: Scott Lobdell and Todd DeZago
Pencils: Tom Grummett
Inks: Al Milgrom
While most of the team are elsewhere dealing with a transformed Synch, Skin and Chamber are left at home.
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Captain America #357
Dec. 20th, 2024 10:49 amiamrmanThe conclusion to the camp of hate storyline and a prelude to one of my favourite Cap stories.
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West Coast Avengers #41
Oct. 29th, 2024 01:08 pmiamrmanAnother filler issue as it is time to fix the Mockingbird/Phantom Rider mess before John Byrne takes over.
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West Coast Avengers #40
Oct. 23rd, 2024 07:48 pmiamrmanMark Gruenwald dusts off a bunch of villains from his Spider-Woman run for this filler issue.
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West Coast Avengers #37
Oct. 13th, 2024 06:02 pmiamrmanI know I said that I was going to stop reading Steve Englehart's West Coast Avengers, but I couldn’t resist posting the end of his run. This One bets you can’t guess who pops up and makes everything about her...
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Tags:
- char: ant-man/giant man/hank pym,
- char: grim reaper/eric williams,
- char: hawkeye/ronin/clint barton,
- char: iron man/tony stark,
- char: nekra,
- char: scarlet witch/wanda maximoff,
- char: tigra/greer grant,
- char: vision,
- char: wonder man/simon williams,
- creator: al milgrom,
- creator: steve englehart,
- trigger warning: racism
knight_movesWe're slowly coming up on the classic Shang-Chi team of Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy, but it's not here yet. And Shang-Chi is still in Florida.
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West Coast Avengers #1
Aug. 30th, 2024 08:22 amiamrmanOoh, the West Coast Avengers get their own ongoing series! Roger Stern is still the writer, isn’t he? No? Who is the writer then? Oh. Oh, no...
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knight_movesI'll put myself out there: I've found Shang-Chi so far to be pretty strongly written, despite the dated aspects of it. You've got good art, you've got interesting characters, you've got a good pace. Is it damning with faint praise to say most superhero comics, then and somewhat now, aren't trying to be The Godfather, but simply Rockford PI, and that's a perfectly acceptable thing to be?
At any rate, this issue feels noticeably rushed and a little lame. Let's see if you agree with me.
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At any rate, this issue feels noticeably rushed and a little lame. Let's see if you agree with me.
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knight_movesMorally awakened as he is, Shang-Chi still killed someone. And people aren't about to let him get away with the loathsome murder of a helpless innocent. This isn't a Harley Quinn comic, after all.
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knight_movesFresh off telling his dad that it's on like Donkey Kong--because even in the seventies, you didn't just FIGHT your arch-nemesis, you had to feud for a while first--Shang-Chi goes to catch some shuteye in Central Park. Yeah, that's... that's not gonna work out for him.
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knight_movesControversial is an overused term in comics fandom, usually meaning a story that everyone thinks fucking blows except for the jackass writer. The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung-Fu, is a case where I feel the term is warranted.
On the one hand, it's a genuine and deserved smash hit, created by a murderers' row of talent that resulted in an iconic work of seventies counterculture.
On the other hand, it's dated, of its time, and arguably behind the times, as antagonist Fu Manchu was becoming a subject of parody and condemnation after several cheapie Bond-wannabes produced in the previous decade (starring Christopher Lee (!) as the good doctor). These days, 'Master of Kung-Fu' is looked back on seemingly little. Heavily retconned to bring Shang-Chi up to snuff as a presentable modern character and largely dismissed when the time came to "adapt" it to the MCU, it seems destined to fall between the cracks.
So let's take a look at it, warts and all, and see what all the fuss is about, no?
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On the one hand, it's a genuine and deserved smash hit, created by a murderers' row of talent that resulted in an iconic work of seventies counterculture.
On the other hand, it's dated, of its time, and arguably behind the times, as antagonist Fu Manchu was becoming a subject of parody and condemnation after several cheapie Bond-wannabes produced in the previous decade (starring Christopher Lee (!) as the good doctor). These days, 'Master of Kung-Fu' is looked back on seemingly little. Heavily retconned to bring Shang-Chi up to snuff as a presentable modern character and largely dismissed when the time came to "adapt" it to the MCU, it seems destined to fall between the cracks.
So let's take a look at it, warts and all, and see what all the fuss is about, no?
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Avengers #238
Mar. 31st, 2024 06:07 pmiamrmanThe Vision isn’t going to let being reduced to a holographic form stop him from tying up some loose ends.
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Avengers #237
Mar. 28th, 2024 10:48 amTags:
- char: captain america/steve rogers,
- char: electro/max dillon,
- char: moonstone/ms. marvel/karla sofen,
- char: photon/monica rambeau,
- char: rhino/aleksei sytsevich,
- char: scarlet witch/wanda maximoff,
- char: she hulk/jennifer walters,
- char: spider-man/peter parker,
- char: wasp/giant-girl/janet van dyne,
- creator: al milgrom,
- creator: roger stern
Avengers #234
Mar. 27th, 2024 10:49 amiamrmanCaptain Marvel is still new to the superhero business and she wants to get to know her teammates better. The Scarlet Witch is more than happy to recount her history.
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