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Legionnaires #19
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iamrmanPlot: Mark Waid and Tom McCraw
Script: Tom Peyer
Pencils: Jeff Moy
Inks: Ron Boyd
I think I can tell who the creators’ favourite is.
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The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #6
Oct. 23rd, 2021 12:51 amsuperboyprime
"The Silver Age innocence--or you might say willful ignorance--of Flash, Giant-Man, Wonder Woman, the Mighty Crusaders. These were heroes who trusted authority; in fact, their allegiance was compelled by the censors at the Comics Code. Even Thor, God of Thunder, came down from from Asgard to stop bank robberies; he cared about our property laws! Of course, by the time we had Wolverine and the Punisher and Watchmen and the Frank Miller Batman, heroes were alienated, violent, and liked to spend their nights sticking it to The Man. All of these played a part." - Tom Peyer
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The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #5
Oct. 16th, 2021 06:12 pmsuperboyprime
"The comics of any decade are usually better drawn and better written than the ones from the decade before, and that is of course great. But there have always been diamonds in there, and ways of approaching material I wouldn't like the world to forget. We're still benefiting from the Phantom Zones and Danger Rooms and Super-Gorillas of the Silver Age, and I think we will for a long time to come." - Tom Peyer
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The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #4
Sep. 25th, 2021 10:40 amsuperboyprime
"AHOY Comics is looking to shake up the publishing industry with a bold new format: comic book magazines. #ExpectMore" - Ahoy Comics
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The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #3
Sep. 12th, 2021 05:29 pmsuperboyprime
"Part Affleck-Batman, part Punisher and Wolverine and many other characters that have been in comics since the '80s. There have been a lot of heroes since the '80s who would just as soon kill you as look at you. They're all in there. Same with Dragonflyman. From the '30s through the '70s, most super-heroes were Boy Scouts. This is in many ways a Batman satire, and in other ways a look at the ways all super-heroes changed through the ages." - Tom Peyer
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The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #2
Sep. 9th, 2021 11:37 pmsuperboyprime
"If you love superheroes, you NEED this. If you HATE superheroes, this will change your mind." - Mark Millar
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The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #1
Sep. 5th, 2021 03:32 amsuperboyprime
"I have to say I never warmed up to the post-Crisis monoverse. I don't like to see comics walking away from imaginative ideas. Frankly, I never bought the 'readers are confused' rationalization. It felt to me like they were trying to make DC into another Marvel, which made me sad. We already had a Marvel. Of course, that was a long time ago, and everything gets reused eventually, including the multiverse." - Tom Peyer
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Penultiman #1
Nov. 15th, 2020 11:35 amhistory79
"We’ve seen characters who represent the ultimate stage of human potential—Captain Comet and Warlock come to mind—but I don’t think we’ve met any who are just a little worse than the best. Imagine being so advanced only to be outclassed. I guess a lot of science fiction that dealt with humans encountering extraterrestrials would have played on that anxiety, but I haven’t seen it played as comedy in a superhero comic."
- Tom Peyer
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The Wrong Earth #4
Jan. 10th, 2019 05:45 pmlaughing_tree
It’s broader than [Batman]. I would say the basic idea is every super-hero comic published before the mid-80s switches places with every comic since. For instance, you might not have had the full camp super-hero experience if you haven’t read 1965’s The Mighty Crusaders, or a 1958 Green Arrow story. -- Tom Peyer
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The Wrong Earth #3
Dec. 9th, 2018 02:05 pmlaughing_tree
If you love superheroes, you NEED this. If you HATE superheroes, this will change your mind. -- Mark Millar
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High Heaven #2
Dec. 2nd, 2018 10:44 amhistory79
HOLLYWOOD SOAPBOX: High Heaven is billed as a ‘savage satire.’ What are you and the team trying to satirize?
TOM PEYER:
A partial list:
◾The idea that you can’t be happy unless other people devote themselves to your happiness. Some of us, like High Heaven star David Weathers, are slow to grow out of that. (I think I was, if indeed I have.) David is such a baby, and artist Greg Scott sells his moods so well.
◾Austerity, the philosophy that says it’s somehow wrong to spend public money in the public interest, that we don’t deserve anything better than reduced library hours, bumpy roads, poorly equipped schools. If we don’t deserve those things now, why would we after death?
◾The social pecking order that earns the majority’s loyalty by giving it minorities to look down on. I can’t see that ending after death, either.
And more! New things to mock every day.
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High Heaven #1
Nov. 27th, 2018 11:40 pmhistory79
"I think it comes down to austerity, really. The people running things have enshrined this view that it's somehow evil to use public money for the public good, so the things we depend on just get worse and worse. Roads, public transport, libraries, schools--it's like we don't have a right to these things. And if we don't, why would that change after we're dead?"
- Tom Peyer
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