The other day, after a routine doctor's appointment, I had an entire day to myself, with no responsibilities at all, and I sat down and read all four volumes of THE FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS. Totally messed with my mind. With comic like this, who needs acid?
Of course that would be DC, not Marvel. But Jack was King no matter where he plied his pencil.
I am still kicking myself all these years later for parting with my first comic collection, which included tons of Marvel Kirby(Captain America, FF, Thor, The Eternals) and all of the DC Kirby. I did think he jumped the shark a bit with his inclusion of Don Rickles in his Jimmy Olsen run though.
I am still kicking myself all these years later for parting with my first comic collection, which included tons of Marvel Kirby(Captain America, FF, Thor, The Eternals) and all of the DC Kirby.
That leads me to a (somewhat related) question:
If one has the original books aka "floppies", do you read those or buy trade paperbacks? I read the floppies and don't buy trades unless I'm missing issues of a run. I'm not a collector in that everything must be mint, but strictly a reader who accumulates.
I am still kicking myself all these years later for parting with my first comic collection, which included tons of Marvel Kirby(Captain America, FF, Thor, The Eternals) and all of the DC Kirby.
That leads me to a (somewhat related) question:
If one has the original books aka "floppies", do you read those or buy trade paperbacks? I read the floppies and don't buy trades unless I'm missing issues of a run. I'm not a collector in that everything must be mint, but strictly a reader who accumulates.
Sadly, I'm also one of those who lost his 70's comics stash over the years..so I replace what I need with the trades.
These days there aren't any series I follow monthly, so I tend to wait until arcs are collected and then buy those trades.
Given the almost irreparable damage and profound professional disrespect he displayed during his dictatorship, we'd substitute somethin' else to fit inside that SH---ER description.
Here's a nice blog that features some in-depth and witty discussions of the Bronze Age of Comics, as the era in which near-oldsters like me grew up reading:
Yea verily, e’en for those of us not-quite-Immortals who were fabulously fortunate enuff to have been around at/ from and during the very beginning of Da truly revolutionary Marvel Age, we gotta admit we first thought Smiley’s unapologetic banner at the top of each cover was Herculean hubris in the extremis 'cept for one definitive thing.
...may be one of the first comic books I ever bought (and still have). I bought two that day, one of the FF reprint mag, and the then-current FF issue, and at first couldn't figure out the continuity, until I realized on of the two was originally published a decade earlier.
n April 2012, DeZuniga suffered a life-threatening stroke.[13] Doctors were able to save him, but numerous complications quickly arose. Both the Philippine and international comics community made an effort to raise funds for his treatment.[3]
At 1:25 a.m. on May 11, 2012 DeZuniga passed away, the stroke having led to and brain damage and heart failure. The doctors attempted to resuscitate him but could not. [14][1] The local comics community continued calls for contributions to the DeZuniga family, to help defray the significant costs the family incurred during DeZuniga's hospitalization.
I know DeZuniga's work from his time on JONAH HEX, over at DC. I liked his style and associate it with that great run with the book's writer, Michael Fleischer.
The 90-year young Fearless Face-Fronter issued the following acclamation:
[ "Attention, Troops!... Your leader hath not deserted thee! In an effort to be more like my fellow Avenger, Tony Stark (Iron Man), I have had an electronic pacemaker placed near my heart to insure that I'll be able to lead thee for another 90 years.
"But fear thee not, my valiant warriors. I am in constant touch with our commanders in the field and victory shall soon be ours. Now I must end this dispatch and join my troops, for an army without a leader is like a day without a cameo!"
And Not To Be Undone By Their Distinguished Competiton,
There's This from the (Alas No Longer) House of Ideas Department:
But the one most highly recommended is Sean Howe's dang near definitive
in which he accomplishes the miraculous brilliantly-belated achievement of specifically not forever painting Smiley as evil incarnate whilst generally rescuing The King from unbesmirchable sainthood (something we've a general suspicion amounting to an absolute certainty he'd not have sanctioned anyway) ...
Given the almost irreparable damage and profound professional disrespect he displayed during his dictatorship, we'd substitute somethin' else to fit inside that SH---ER description. 
NEvah 
eNuff Said!!! 
And Not To Be Undone By Their Distinguished Competiton, 
