tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14452367165138952472024-03-17T22:03:27.210-05:00Comics Make No SenseInsulting Everything You Hold Dear About Comic Books!Adam Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.comBlogger2309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-8612346504274679092021-12-14T13:56:00.000-06:002021-12-14T13:56:15.645-06:00Whatever Happened to Adam?<p> Dear Ones,</p><p>I'm sorry for the abrupt conclusion to this blog. 10 years of blogging is a long time, and I thought I could keep it going after the hiatus, but I was just burnt out. So, I took the plunge and tried my hand at writing.</p><p>So far, it's going pretty dang well. I've written two novels and think I have two more in me before I wrap things up.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Judas-Goat-adam-s-barnett-ebook/dp/B07ND37PPR/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjySkwOmt84H6NmpHRFfdCva4XecFS85LsJK_UoUpBVp8UPuku3lEjJCPsh3-qXbgc5kAkaRIMvDm6SyyqBCjd5aDHWLn9iRtMa0kYaQgi2m7V8TWTXM8VXsOhxmSvWs2cjtLVzVcUTR9issNZXkKYvEYddXgZh0hnT5jODXu2KXpaODGwhJ_R1HcoE=w344-h446" width="344" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>The Judas Goat</i> is a legal thriller about a small business owner who is prosecuted for murder after he kills a teenage assailant during a robbery attempt. It gives the reader an inside look at the criminal justice system through the eyes of the accused as well as the defense attorneys. Also, since I'm Adam, there are many laughs to be had. Not always <i>appropriate</i> laughs, but...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09J98S99Z/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="314" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwWiIeNrwHPZUowpU3htuPJ73q9fvhNvBC07nsRjFLKPKYKgq-9vpnu9ba0ZfF3ByNlvEQ_9UDl91TSj_YaAmBwBsDlQi6Y3TQwMa7TXS9Md0PKOPg5IRymRs8a5Gs825J1gUTV34kOR5LRRD1IlLqLitlyP1hy6FUCEqYxk5bYW0ryydagVtDz-hG=w306-h488" width="306" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>What Happened and Why It Wasn't My Fault</i> is a dark comedy/satire about a marijuana distributor who has to search for America's next vice so he can pay off his supplier, a drug lord with a Christmas fetish. It's fun!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I would also invite everyone to join me on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adamsbarnett" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> so I can keep you updated (and let you know when I put my books up for promotion so you can snag 'em for free)! I hope everyone is doing well and I hope to see you there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Adam Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573914395859734760noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1445236716513895247.post-34776346109039517792018-06-06T15:47:00.000-05:002018-06-06T15:47:00.698-05:00In Which Mike McGuire is Sick of Hash and Stew.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let's take a gander at some random panels I found in <i>Daredevil Comics</i>, starting with this beauty:</div>
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Mike McGuire amuses me. He reminds me of that "I want an Easter Egg!" kid from the Bugs Bunny cartoon.</div>
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Wait... Is that racist? I mean, it's positive stereotyping, but I'm still pretty sure that's racist.</div>
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Wow, did kids ever really talk this way? Not that I have any problem with patriotism, but I'm skeptical that even Boy Scouts ever voluntarily talked like that.</div>
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Now, I totally believe that people talked like <i>that</i>.</div>
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Okay, I'll get back to <i>PPTSSM</i> after I get through a few more <i>Daredevil Comics</i>. Also, programming note: I am taking a spring break for the next couple of weeks, so there may not be any posts until June. Hey, I'm lucky my rickety self can crank out what I do these days.</div>
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Also, watch <i>I, Tonya</i> if you haven't already. Brilliant.</div>
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Anyhoo, let's plow into the story that appeared in <i>Daredevil Comics</i> #6 instead of the "Mysterious Trunk" one we saw yesterday. The first thing I noticed was this:</div>
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Wow, that went dark in a hurry. Before the turn of the century, I don't recall very many kids dying of violence on camera. Sure, you'd have the occasional kid dying of a rare disease whose last wish was to have Superman fly him around the world and take him to the Chicken Ranch in Vegas who would bravely pass at the end, but that was about it.</div>
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Anyway, our shooter gets an offer from the prison doc to escape before the strap him to a chair and pull a <i>The Green Mile</i> on him:</div>
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And so, a little nip and tuck leads to:</div>
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Yup. He's now a wolf. Fortunately, people don't seem to recognize wolves when they see them:</div>
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Is that kosher? I mean, if you're a human being in a wolf's body, do you lose all of your rights as a human being? This is a very disturbing precedent.</div>
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Okay, gang, you know how I loves to see things in comics and then see what I can find out as things spilled over into real-world history. And many of you are much better at it than I, so I'm going to submit this to you and see if anyone can clue us in as to what the heck happened.</div>
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Remember in the previous post, Charles Biro put a caption box in the Daredevil story saying he couldn't run a story called "The Mysterious Trunk" and was really cryptic about it. He promised he would run it in the next issue, but I opened <i>Daredevil Comics</i> #6, and this is what I found:</div>
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At this point, I started wondering if this wasn't some brilliant marketing scheme to get readers committed to buying the next issue. It would actually be quite clever: Promise something if your followers will just stick with it and always be unable to completely fulfill the promise... but you'll be able to someday! It works for religion.</div>
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Anyway, I found the next issue courtesy of the good folks at <a href="http://comicbookplus.com/" target="_blank">Comic Book Plus</a> and, sure enough, there was the story:</div>
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And now I'm more befuddled than ever. This was a real case and someone got executed???</div>
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Well, I tried to find some more details on it, but haven't had any luck. Here are the pertinent pages of the story, just in case it might jog someone's memory:</div>
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So, what do you think, campers? Will we ever know the truth behind this odd turn of events? Sadly, Charles Biro died in 1972 and I can't find any indication that he ever talked about the matter. So, if anyone has any ideas, slap 'em in the comments!</div>
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Dear Ones, it amazes me that I used to be able to crank out posts five days a week. It's not for lack of wanting to, I think I'm just getting older and it's hard to find time. Thanks for bearing with me!</div>
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Just for fun, I took a look at <i>Daredevil Comics </i>#5 from the Golden Age! It starts with a couple of messages from the editors:</div>
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Okay, I'm totally picking up issue #6 because I've got to know what that was all about.</div>
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Someone is murdered, robbed, or kidnapped every twenty-two seconds! Enjoy your comic book, kids!</div>
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The lie detector is pseudo-science, by the way. Just putting that out there. Anyway, let's check out the death detector:</div>
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So, you'd think that would be the end of that, right? Nope. Daredevil grabs the machine for safe keeping and is asked to deliver it to the government. And no less than <i>twelve</i> bad guys are dispatched to keep that from happening. Thusly:</div>
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These days, that would be a summer crossover event in every title put out by the Big Two. But <i>Daredevil Comics</i> says, "Oh, these twelve guys? Psh. I've got so many ideas, I'll take them off the board before this introductory story is even finished."</div>
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And then, in a complete break of kayfabe, Daredevil invites you to ask that they be brought back for another beating:</div>
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Second? When birds fly into glass panes, it is not funny at all. This, however, was unintentionally <i>hilarious</i>. I mean, look at that last panel! That's some <i>Muppet Show</i> level humor right there!</div>
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No spoilers on <i>Infinity War</i>! I'm still behind in my Marvel movies. I just saw <i>Thor: Ragnarok</i> and it was awesome.</div>
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And you need those labels to tell the mean blonde from the nice one.</div>
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<i>Revenge!... REVENGE! (tm!)</i></div>
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You know, the same Spidey Sense that enables him to dodge bullets probably should have kicked in there. But hey... if Spidey doesn't lose, this story comes to an end and the <i>Fantastic Four</i> #218 is going to consist of nothing but Reed and Sue binge-watching <i>Stranger Things</i>.</div>
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<i>PPTSSM</i> #41 had a guest appearance by Giant-Man. No, not that one. Nor that one. The other one.</div>
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Believe it or don't, <i>this</i> Giant-Man's alter ego, Dr. Bill Foster, ran around the Marvel Universe for nine years before getting super powers, which is unheard of for a comic book character who worked in a lab. He had a solo book of his own back when he called himself "Black Goliath," but it didn't make it beyond the five issue mark.</div>
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Although that Meteor Man did have a Marvel Comics adaptation of that movie, so... there's that. But no, we're talking about the unfortunately-named Norton Fester, who was originally called the Looter (which was a pretty cool name) and changed it to Meteor Man (which is <i>not</i> a cool name).</div>
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If you were a child in the 1970's (as I was), you couldn't resist the urge to take the cloth costume off one Mego action figure and stick it on a different one. I'm thinking someone took the costume off their Spider-Man figure and stuck it on the Lizard one and that's how we got here.</div>
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Okay, does anyone think that Electro and the Sandman really need the Wizard and the Trapster? I mean, if Electro and the Sandman can't get the job done, I don't see the Wizard and the Trapster being the game changer. I know the "for the want of a nail" poem and all that, but... I don't know, if you're limiting yourself to four guys, I wouldn't waste two slots on the Wizard and the Trapster. Just saying.</div>
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Aaaaaand we're at<i> </i>issue #39 and it doesn't look like I'm going to reach the end any time soon. I give you, "SCOURGE OF THE SCHIZOID MAN!"</div>
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<i>Spider-Man! I have danger to warn you about, if you would kindly not shine your little belt spotlight thingie right in my face. Seriously, we've met a thousand times. We're way past the theatrics here.</i></div>
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The baby actually appeared to form Mjolnir, which is actually more impressive than it is upsetting IMHO.</div>
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All together, class: That's not what being schizoid is. When you are schizoid, you are disconnected. I mean, there's more to it, but that's basically what it means to be schizoid. These kind of blunders disproportionately annoy me. It's not like this isn't an easy thing to fact-check.</div>
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It's takes place during Halloween and by a remarkable coincidence, we have Morbius the Living Vampire... which I think is a paradox, but anyway...</div>
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<i>And then all three of them immediately updated their Match.com profiles to include "vampires" as a "turn-off."</i></div>
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Wow... could that have <i>been </i>any more of an offensive stereotype? Seriously, do even the Irish people who still live in Ireland talk like that?</div>
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Oh, well... <i>ACADEMIC MONTAGE!</i></div>
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Yeah! Action in the Mighty Marvel Manner.</div>
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Anyway, one thing leads to another and:</div>
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Okay, this isn't <i>supposed</i> to be the same lady Morbius got earlier... but it sure <i>looks</i> like her!</div>
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Fight scene!:</div>
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Hmmm... I appreciate the officer's restraint, but I would think shooting at a suspect <i>flying above everyone else</i> would be a pretty easy target. But I'm not trained in law enforcement, so don't pay any attention to me.</div>
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Yup! He's cured! <i> Because</i> <i>SCIENCE! (tm!)</i></div>
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This series is really worse than I remember. I'm only reading it for you, my lovelies! See you soon!</div>
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Behold the glory that is <i>PPTSSM</i> #36!</div>
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That's right! THE SWARM!</div>
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But first, workplace bullying!</div>
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Yes, because Steve has to stop all this "working quietly" business!</div>
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Granted, Steve didn't exactly throw a flashbang on Chip's desk, but it really grinds my gears when extroverts feel like introverts have some sort of character flaw that needs fixing. I'm sorry Chip doesn't share your childish, insatiable need for attention, Steve. You certainly seem like someone worth his time.</div>
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We've got much more of THE SWARM! in the next issue. Thusly:</div>
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Second... THE SWARM! is correct:</div>
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Yup. Spidey got pantsed by THE SWARM! It was blind luck that he wasn't killed on the spot.</div>
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And this is the fundamental problem with the otherwise perfect character that is THE SWARM!: You can't really <i>defeat</i> him.</div>
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But the big fight is... just this:</div>
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Okay, I'm not proud that I read this, but here is <i>PPTSSM </i>#35:</div>
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It starts out promising, what with teases of a <i>Disembodied Floating Head (tm!)</i> and Spider-Man saying, "W-AAAGHH!"</div>
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So, when we last left our hero, we were given the motive for Carrion in that... I don't know. Clones. Gwen Stacy's death. Something.</div>
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But first, it's another appearance of Darter!</div>
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<i>ANYHOO</i>...</div>
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Yay! And look! He's ready to kick ass and chew bubble gum!</div>
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<i>There</i> we go!</div>
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And we're back after yet another hiatus! Hey, it's a marathon, not a sprint. I figure we've got about another 5 years or so of this.</div>
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But back to <i>PPTSSM</i>. A lot happened, but none of really funny. It had some good Frank Miller artwork, though, which made it very collectible and 'spensive back in the day.</div>
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Oh, no. Is that Holly? I thought we were rid of Holly.</div>
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No! Don't reconcile, Holly! You were right the first time! Leave! Leave him forever!</div>
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I thought she was Hispanic. But every issue after that has her as African-American and I didn't even notice until now. This is why I would be a terrible eyewitness in a trial.</div>
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And it made no sense, because Carrion had taken out Hector not too long ago. And I realize Hector had gone all White Tiger on us, but even so, I would think that if Carrion couldn't take out the Tiger, I don't know why he thought "Darter" would be much of a distraction.<br /><br />So, time for the big reveal. What's Carrion's beef? We've waited several issues.</div>
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Yup! Peter had not only seen them on the Sons of the Tiger back in <i>Marvel Team-Up</i>, but he had run into the White Tiger a couple of times... who again, <i>wears the source of his power and his very life on a strand flopping around his neck.</i></div>
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Spoiler: It's Lightmaster again. Yeah, the same "mysterious mastermind" we met at the start of the series. I guess any time someone seems to be working behind the scenes, Spidey should see if Lightmaster has an alibi. It would probably save a lot of time.</div>
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Read it with a Brooklyn accent: <i>"AGAIN with the Enforcers! Oy!"</i></div>
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PLOT TWIST!:</div>
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Um... Holly was also in the diner during the battle. Clearly. You could ask her about it instead of casually murdering the wrong guy. I'm just thinking out loud here.</div>
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You know, I was originally opposed to having the Angel retooled later as Archangel, but I'm starting to see that his role has been primarily to get his clock cleaned so someone with a more aggressive powerset can get the job done. I've always like the character, but he ain't exactly Hawkman.</div>
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Do you think the Angel hit his head on that ceiling a bunch of times like a bird would? I'll be he did and it was just too hard to draw.</div>
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Okay, let's take note of what Angel said there: No sudden smacks because it might "totally unbalance" Iceman, whatever <i>that</i> means. I don't think Angel picked up his M.D. in psychiatry at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, so I'm not sure why Spider-Man acquiesces that point.</div>
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Oh, so Angel is also there to shout "look out!" That's fair. In addition to getting his clock cleaned, he shouted a lot from his vantage points, so I guess that's something.</div>
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Getting back in the saddle for now. Beloved is having another surgery at the end of the month, so posts for the 6 weeks or so after that will most likely be few and far between as Nurse Adam reports for duty.</div>
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Okay, so after all that history in the last post, we're back to <i>PPTSSM</i> #17 to finish up with the Champions. Frankly, considering the patterns seems to be: "Cancel book, continue story in next book, cancel <i>that</i> book," I'd be reluctant in the same way that I'd be reluctant to share a comb passed among folks that we now know have head lice. But here we go:</div>
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I have a question about the building and it's the same question I have about the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building: Does the team occupy the entire building? Do they really <i>need </i>the entire building? I mean, the Avengers get by with a mansion and heck, the Justice League operated out of a cave more than once. What's with all that real estate?</div>
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Even though Ghost Rider was going through his "Johnny Blaze retains his personality as the Ghost Rider" phase (not exactly a high point), he was still a big draw for me. I hadn't heard of him before the Champions, but I thought he looked awesome. Keep in mind I was a child and hadn't seen a lot of biker tattoos.</div>
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You see, the original Rampage is the guy in the wheelchair and he <i>somehow </i>got Iceman brainwashed into wearing his armor and doing his bidding. I guess he just wheeled up to Iceman and said, "Here, put this on."</div>
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But if he's no longer the original Rampage's pawn and is commanding his own powers, why would Iceman do anything Rampage wanted? I mean, is this a selective brain shut-off kind of thing? It seems like you are either going to still be brainwashed and go after someone thinking you're Rampage, or you realize you're Iceman and go boo-hoo over Darkstar some more.</div>
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But when I read this as a kid, I thought it was awesome. We'll check out part two in the next post, which may be awhile because Adam is taking staycation next week. Stay frost, hepcats!</div>
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I had started to work on my next PPTSSM post, but I realized that there was so much backstory from other titles that I had to give you the non-comic nerdlingers a training level like they do in video games.</div>
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It wasn't the most accurate title, because pretty much every issue was villains <i>fighting</i> each other. Maybe that's how villains team up. Because, you know... villains don't follow <i>anyone's</i> rules, including how they're going to team up.</div>
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Yeah, see? It's all about Doom and Magneto not getting along. But more importantly, this began a story that wouldn't end in this title. There would be a few more issues of <i>Super-Villain Team-Up</i>, but they would be reprints of Doom not getting along with the Red Skull. Fun fact: This title existed to keep rival DC Comics from trademarking the term "super-villain." With all these intellectual property disputes, I'm amazed both DC and Marvel have a character called "Scarecrow."</div>
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So I'm going through <i>PPTSSM</i> and I've decided it's the Spider-Man book that Bob Haney would have made because things take some really weird turns.</div>
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So for the first couple of issues, we had a mysterious badguy hiring Vanilla Chicken, then Vanilla Chicken and Tarantula. Today's comic readers would expect this "mysterious badguy" angle to go on for about another ten issues with a crossover to every other <i>Spider-Man</i> title and a sideplot somewhere in a <i>Marville</i> revival. </div>
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And then we see that someone decided that Spidey should have trouble with foes he clearly should have no trouble with:</div>
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And for some reason, the Hulk makes an appearance, shaking the diamonds and Delicious Hostess Fruit Pies out of a giant artichokes head:</div>
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... hmmm, that may have been an ad. Oh, well. It's too late now. It's Marvel's fault for seamlessly blending their characters with mass-produced pastries!</div>
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But back to Spidey:</div>
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Okay, I appreciate the drama and everything. And I know that Kraven enhances his strength and speed by drinking herbal tea or eating herbal brownies or however that happens, but consider this chart from roughly the same era:</div>
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Spidey is in a power class with the She-Hulk and Luke freakin' Cage. There is no reason he shouldn't have easily made Kraven eat that knife, blade-first. If we're going to be reading the exploits of an inexplicably de-powered Spidey, this is going to be a <i>long</i> run.</div>
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