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post #51 of 61
1/9/07 at 10:28pm
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Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt
Pretty good but it did introduce a bunch of crap characters because they created champions of other countries. Blitzkrieg (Germany), Collective Man(China), Defensor (Argentina), Peregrine (France), Shamrock (Ireland), and Talisman (Austrailia). It's funny that they had these d listers on the two contest rosters. Of course I'd want Sabra and Collective Man on my team while Mr. Fantastic and The Vision do nothing.
Personally I love obscure also ran characters. Perhaps that's why I bought all those cheesy mini-series. Just like rooting for the underdog.

I don't remember any of those guys though. I'd love to see pictures.
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post #52 of 61
1/9/07 at 10:31pm
EDIT: Didn't see the forum it was in.
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post #53 of 61
1/9/07 at 10:37pm
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/appchar.htm

Here. Go shit-wild.
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post #54 of 61
1/9/07 at 10:52pm
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Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt
Yeah but you realize once you married her she'd stop sucking your cock, don't you?
That's no different from any woman, really.

You know the joke - "why do brides smile when they walk down the aisle?" "Because they know they've given their last blowjob"
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post #55 of 61
1/22/07 at 11:07am
Not that it's considered junk by *everyone*, but for some unknown reason I purchased the first issue of "Howard the Duck". I never bothered going for ish #2.

Also, DC had a series called "First Issue Specials" back in the mid 70s. I bought several of them and was introduced to a couple of my all time fave characters there (Warlord and Bloodstone, as I recall). Unfortunately, I was also introduced to the Creeper at around the same time.

I also had the full run of "Mark Hazzard: Merc" in the Marvel New Universe. But I got better soon afterwards.

Yeah, had some Team America, too.
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post #56 of 61
1/22/07 at 5:25pm
I think I have a case of those Pope John Paul comics that Marvel published. The catholic school I attended were passing those out like crack.


.............Aaand maybe an Amethyst, Princess of Gem World book...Or two.
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post #57 of 61
1/22/07 at 7:10pm
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I never read it, but I wonder if Amethyst was all THAT bad; Gaiman did make brief mention of the Gemworld in the "Books of Magic", when Dr. Occult took Tim on a tour of the planes of existence.
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post #58 of 61
1/22/07 at 9:28pm
Amethyst was very oriented towards girls, but I think it's a pretty solid effort all things considered.
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post #59 of 61
1/23/07 at 12:26am
Thread Starter 
I'll bet Neil gaiman could have reworked it 'til it was cool, if he wanted to. Hell, he saved also rans like Cain & Abel and the Demon Etrigan, didn't he? (Yeah, I know about the miniseries; I own it. And yeah, Alan Moore started the Etrigan makeover in Swamp Thing. But Gaiman's take was even better).
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post #60 of 61
1/23/07 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg
I'll bet Neil gaiman could have reworked it 'til it was cool, if he wanted to. Hell, he saved also rans like Cain & Abel and the Demon Etrigan, didn't he? (Yeah, I know about the miniseries; I own it. And yeah, Alan Moore started the Etrigan makeover in Swamp Thing. But Gaiman's take was even better).
I don't know that it necessarily needs to be re-worked, though, of course, someone with as comprehensive a knowledge of myths as Gaiman could probably make it more interesting.

But as it was, it took the standard pre-teen girl "lost princess" fantasy and put it on paper. The Gemworld was a bit stupid of a conceit, but no worse than many fantasy novels - and it was wonderfully rendered by Ernie Colon.

So, aside from the fact that it's a little girly, it's not the most shameful series to have (I may be biased, as I have 6-7 issues of the run).
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post #61 of 61
1/23/07 at 2:02am
Robert Rodi's Codename: Knockout...all of them.

I thought I was in for funny, sexy, 'Foxy Brown' / 'In Like Flint' kind of thing, it was Vertigo and I figured that meant instant quality, plus Robert Rodi is an out writer and Angela St. Grace had a gay sidekick named Go-Go Fiasco, so I thought I had no choice but to love it.
Of course my high expectations went down like the fucking Hindenburg as I, after about 4-5 issues, realized that Robert Rodi couldn't write shit if his name was Charmin.

Somehow Codename: Knockout became something I picked up till the bitter end because I'm such a slave for the concept and I had some smidgen of hope that it would get better, but alas...
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