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iamrman

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Tom Mandrake

Kitty has gotten herself captured by the White Queen, so it is up to the New Mutants to fix her mess.

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iamrman

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Tom Mandrake

Something nasty awaits the New Mutants upon their return from the mall.

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iamrman

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Tom Mandrake

Kitty Pryde is goofing off with new kid Doug Ramsey. Also, the New Mutants have the temerity to be upset after Kitty was a jerk to them.

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iamrman

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Tom Mandrake

Amara doesn’t react well to life in the outside world.

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iamrman

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Tom Mandrake

In final battle with the priestess Selene!

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iamrman

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Tom Mandrake

Who had mental domination and enslavement on their Claremont bingo card?

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iamrman

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Tom Mandrake

The girls are sold into slavery while the boys are made to fight in the arena.

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flint_marko

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cyberghostface

( A Savage Innocence )

alicemacher

"The trouble with America is it has a very Manichean attitude [...] and I suppose that's what I want to address at the end of 'American Gothic.' It's this attitude that there's good and evil, black and white. And there isn't. That's what 'American Gothic' is about."
-- Alan Moore, in conversation with Neil Gaiman, c. 1985

( 'Little thing, you are in me... and I have a very great need.' )

cyberghostface

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superboyprime

"A one-off issue, just about anybody can do that. To have a four-to-six-issue series, you're better off than a one-shot. A one-shot shows you have a short attention span." - J. Michael Straczynski

Trigger warning for sexual assault.

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superboyprime

"Robin, Speedy, Bucky, Kid Flash, Rick Jones... they pissed me off. It's not just that they were an an obvious ploy to bring in young readers, it's also that at the age of thirteen I figured there was still time for me to grow up to be Batman or Green Arrow or someone like that. But the sidekicks were my own age and already doing stuff that I knew I could never do. Spandex-clas assassins of hope, every damned one of them.

So every month for the next twelve issues we are going to drive Flyboy deeper into madness and mayhem, darkness and depravity. We're going to do to him all the things mainstream comics writers stuck with sidekicks are told never to do to them."

- J. Michael Straczynski

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icon_uk

As we ponder what sort of view of normalcy the Batboys have...

"What sort of a night you had son?"

"Not bad... Werewolf. You?"

"Same.. Vampire"

"Cool!"

( You can be TOO casual about these things you know )

icon_uk

Firstly please excuse the quality of the scans, the comics themselves are 28 years old and have been much read! :)

So this is another of my "Accentuate the Positive" posts, a glimpse into the past at some story or concept I thought was well presented, to prevent me making another angry post about current comics (Though I'll still post about the good ones of those I find too of course)

( Enemies? Sometimes. Rivals? ALWAYS! )

icon_uk

Following my recent Scarecrow posting, I mentioned this story, and was asked to post if I could. And I can, so I will.

It's from Detective Comics 835 and 836, the post OYL era, in the midst of the Paul Dini run on Detective. This story isn't by him though, it's a fill in two-parter by John Rozum, with art by the legendary Tom Mandrake and some seriously creative used of colour by Nathan Eyring.

It's also VERY cinematic, this was written and drawn like a damn good horror movie IMHO (Or possibly a "terror movie", I believe Boris Karloff used to distinguish the difference between the two; A "horror movie" may make you sick to your stomach, a "terror movie" makes you scared to go upstairs to your bedroom in the dark after watching it. I know what he means)

So draw the curtains, turn down the lights and welcome to the Scarecrow in a whole new light... the light of....

( Absolute Terror )

thehefner

First off, my Henchgirl--being the learned and brilliant fangirl that she is--was sick and tired of all the misinformation about Catwoman's Post-Crisis history and origins, partially due to the fact that most of those stories are out of print. So she pulled together a ton of canon through scans and factoids and created the definitive, complete origin timeline of Catwoman.

She managed to incorporate and reconcile events in canon from several different sources, creating a single cohesive narrative that works beautifully and makes perfect sense. It's a thing of beauty, and biased though I may be, I'm honestly in awe. If only more actual comic writers gave the character as much thought and care as fans like Henchgirl does.

She put a ton of work into this project, and it shows. Check it out. Leave feedback/love/cookies.

Now, onto the Two-Face-Ness!

So I've been thinking a lot about Doug Moench lately. Not just his dubious Two-Face stories, but also Black Mask and Circe. And it's not just because I've been planning to post today's story, Moench's first Two-Face tale which also features the return of Circe (Black Mask's ex-girlfriend, whom he scarred and took on as his own henchgirl).

I've been putting off this issue for a long time, as I generally consider it one of the worst Two-Face stories of all time. For one thing, Moench is trying to juggle five or six plots at play over four issues, so the resulting story is a mess. At least I'll be simplifying things here by just focusing on Harvey and Circe, who actually meet here.

Be warned: this story takes a sharp left turn into Cracksville, by way of Ridiculous Lane.

( Masks, makeup, flesh, and scars, all behind the cut! )

So what really happened to Circe? Anybody know? I'm thinking of making a whole profile page about her for ComicVine, because really, who the hell else will?

Moench would go on to write Harvey several more times, several of which are infamous (to those of us who care) as being among the very worst Two-Face stories. But perhaps memory is being too harsh. When I review them here and/or at my fanblog, I'll do my best to give them a fair shake. Yes, even with The Face Schism. *shudder*

thehefner

If there's one classic* Batman villain I've come to hate over the past ten years, it's Black Mask.

Thanks to his prominent roles in War Games, he dominated the Bat-books for a couple years, getting big parts in Nightwing, Catwoman, and Under the Hood, thus also appearing in the last one's DVD adaptation, as well as Teh Batman. So I really shouldn't be surprised that this one-dimensional, nasty, pointless, generic, hollow non-character actually has fans. Not surprised, but disappointed.

But why? How the hell did this character become a thing, while better gangster-style villains (the Penguin, Harvey, the Ventriloquist and Scarface) got shoved to the side?

So, as I was already writing about a related Two-Face story from 1985, I decided to check out the original Black Mask appearances by Doug Moench. What I was surprised to discover was that Moench's original Mask in no way, shape, or form resembles the version which DC rose to prominence a few years ago.

I'm not saying he's a good character, mind you. But he's a far more interesting (and cracktacular) character. Hell, just look at the cover blurb:

So yes, prepare for the ultra-modern Batman villain who makes all the other villains look like CRAP! At least, according to Doug Moench.

( Push it to the limit (LIMIIIIIIIT) behind the cut )

When Selina killed Roman a second time, I reacted with a weary "finally." But now, after reading Moench's originally stories, I feel disappointed for Ed Brubaker and subsequent writers for wasting what little potential there was for this character, and further distaste for anyone who actually likes the skull-faced version of Black Mask.

Finally, a question: anyone else think that Jeph Loeb ripped off Black Mask when he created Hush? Really, everything that Loeb tried to say with Tommy Elliot, I feel like Moench already said better with Roman Sionis. Just another little way that Moench's original creation has been swept under the rug by DC.

*I hate Hush and Dr. Hurt more, but they ain't "classic" just yet.

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Swamp Thing: The End

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When the Martian Manhunter Hung Out With the Kents

Oh, JMS.

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Fun Nightwing scene from "Superman/Batman - Vampires and Werewolves"

How to introduce a rival team - The New Mutants meet the Hellions

The Scarecrow does it "Old School"

Two-Face Tuesday! Plus, a must-read link to the definitive, COMPLETE Catwoman origin timeline

Behind the (Black) Mask: the Rise of Roman Sionis

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