The "persona" wasn't complex at all.
Namor's persona is complex. Parker's persona is complex. Batman is archetypal.
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Faves?
The Flash! So cool. Anybody remember the mercifully short lived TV series that came out right after the release of the Tim Burton BATMAN movie? My brother and I still laugh at the memory. He had armor. That's right Flash armor. Now if there was ever a superhero whose persona was the exact opposite of a knight in armor it was Flash. But hey Batman was successful and he had armor so... If there is a better example of the sheer stupidity of TV I can't think of it.
Other faves over the years-
Steve Ditko's run on Dr Strange. When he left he took all the magic.
Jim Aparo's run on Phantom Stranger
Anything by Jack Kirby especially Fantastic Four.
best Superman villain - Braniac 5!
The Flash! So cool. Anybody remember the mercifully short lived TV series that came out right after the release of the Tim Burton BATMAN movie? My brother and I still laugh at the memory. He had armor. That's right Flash armor. Now if there was ever a superhero whose persona was the exact opposite of a knight in armor it was Flash. But hey Batman was successful and he had armor so... If there is a better example of the sheer stupidity of TV I can't think of it.
Other faves over the years-
Steve Ditko's run on Dr Strange. When he left he took all the magic.
Jim Aparo's run on Phantom Stranger
Anything by Jack Kirby especially Fantastic Four.
best Superman villain - Braniac 5!
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'Twixt collecting old issues and the hardcover collections:
Steve Ditkos visualization of DR. STRANGE is just dynamite - and should any film version (inevitably) materialize, I would (in vain) wish it to work off the look created by Ditko - a look of surreal squalor (I'm thinking mainly of Ditko's origin story - where Strange starts out as this self-centered asshole - a greedy version of House, if you will - and winds up a derelict on the New York docks. Evocative stuff!)
FANTASTIC FOUR, apart from John Byrnes run on the book - the LAST time FF had something going for it! - Kirby's issues #41 through #88, then Buscema up to issue #112. There was one final memorable storyline drawn by Rich Buckler - issues (I think) #174-#179 (High Evolutionary versus Galactus). But Kirby's issues, for myself, in the numbers I named absolutely REIGN.
AND, as mentioned, so much other stuff by Kirby: I actually loved his adaptation of 2001.
And BLACK BOLT - one of my favorite characters.
Frank Miller's run on DAREDEVIL.
Buscema's run on THOR.
Sal Buscema's run on the HULK (Herb Trimpe, too).
...A thought, too, about the Silver Surfer: I always preferred Kirby's interpretation of the character - a more estranged and unpredictable personality - than the comparatively "woosed-out" version reinvented by Buscema and Stan Lee.
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Only regular books I ever took interest in were Green Lantern and Batman. But I only actually bought graphic novels from the company's output, never their regular titles.
Steve Ditkos visualization of DR. STRANGE is just dynamite - and should any film version (inevitably) materialize, I would (in vain) wish it to work off the look created by Ditko - a look of surreal squalor (I'm thinking mainly of Ditko's origin story - where Strange starts out as this self-centered asshole - a greedy version of House, if you will - and winds up a derelict on the New York docks. Evocative stuff!)
FANTASTIC FOUR, apart from John Byrnes run on the book - the LAST time FF had something going for it! - Kirby's issues #41 through #88, then Buscema up to issue #112. There was one final memorable storyline drawn by Rich Buckler - issues (I think) #174-#179 (High Evolutionary versus Galactus). But Kirby's issues, for myself, in the numbers I named absolutely REIGN.
AND, as mentioned, so much other stuff by Kirby: I actually loved his adaptation of 2001.
And BLACK BOLT - one of my favorite characters.
Frank Miller's run on DAREDEVIL.
Buscema's run on THOR.
Sal Buscema's run on the HULK (Herb Trimpe, too).
...A thought, too, about the Silver Surfer: I always preferred Kirby's interpretation of the character - a more estranged and unpredictable personality - than the comparatively "woosed-out" version reinvented by Buscema and Stan Lee.
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Only regular books I ever took interest in were Green Lantern and Batman. But I only actually bought graphic novels from the company's output, never their regular titles.
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A correction: Kirby's FF books #41-94.
BTW, villains...we can't leave out the bad assholes: ANNIHILUS is one of my faves (since I mentioned the Buscema issues that featured the ruler of the Negative Zone).
BTW, villains...we can't leave out the bad assholes: ANNIHILUS is one of my faves (since I mentioned the Buscema issues that featured the ruler of the Negative Zone).
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I followed Surfer for a while in the 90's. Couldn't believe how many artists couldn't draw him, usually making him look like a puddle of lead - the Grey Surfer more like.
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Kirby does nothing for me. Runz.
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Kirby does nothing for me. Runz.
Like I said...genetically incapable!
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K. M. Kirby wrote:So, who will be catching the midnight dkr showing tonight?
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What is wrong in colorado?
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