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Wasn't Tron a Disney movie?Cammy said:Tron is one of the comics I'm reading from Slave Labor Graphics, and I have to say I'm really enjoying it and I'm looking forward to the next issue.
Wasn't Tron a Disney movie?Cammy said:Tron is one of the comics I'm reading from Slave Labor Graphics, and I have to say I'm really enjoying it and I'm looking forward to the next issue.
Violet Indy said:Wasn't Tron a Disney movie?
Supernatural said:Just wanted to bring up the slew of layoffs taking place in Marvel.
They haven't had a book in the top ten sales chart since the New 52 launched. That's eight months ago.
People figure since Disney has deep pockets, they'll save Marvel.
That hasn't happened yet.
In fact, I'm willing to bet Disney doesn't even care. I'm sure they just bought Marvel for the movie properties. Most of which they don't even have access to.
By the way, I'm reading about a dozen titles from the New 52.
Nightwing being one of my bigger faves.
JuniorJones said:Don't you mean DC and Warners? Nightwing being Dick Grayson, the original Robin? A DC character?
As a kid I stayed up late to watch Bob Costas interview William M. Gaines, but all they talked about was the Congressional hearing. I guess that's why you can buy the complete Mad for $20 but EC comics are pricey hardbound comic books. Yes, Drifter, you probably lost a fortune.The Drifter said:I have been wanting to collect the old EC Comics such as Tales From the Crypt. Speaking of TFtC, my wife told me that as a teen her family moved from Alabama to North Carolina, while there the first day she found stacks and stacks of old Tales From the Crypt comics. I asked her why didn't she keep them so I could have them now, and she said that she let her step-mom throw them out! GRRRRR
Moedred said:Liberty Meadows 3 & 4 on the Amazon queue...
?Everyone is really excited at the idea of an all-female team, but we?re not trying to make it all about that. It?s an X-Men book, first and foremost? Last year, when I had a team of four women and one man, they were all called X-Men back then, you know? ?It seems like a no-brainer to me, now, or last year, or ten years ago. The female X-Men are amazing characters, they always have been, everyone knows that. They?ve been the best thing about the franchise.?
indyclone25 said:i just got done reading the new comic book "Superior Spiderman" liked the story but hated the artwork. plus i know that doc ock taking over peter's body won't last to long but , that was one stupid story line too.
The Drifter said:The only comics that I collect are Dark Horse's Conan, and Marvel's Conan.
Hit Monkey Origins said:An unnamed assassin was marked for death after his part in a failed political coup. After blowing up a squad of enemy soldiers, he decides to run for his life. Passed out in the snow after four days of fleeing, he was rescued by a troop of Japanese Macaques. The monkeys allowed the assassin into their clan, with the exception of a lone monkey. The man knew that he would be hunted so he trained daily. Quietly, the monkey that distrusted him watched, and eventually picked up on the fighter's skills. The assassin's health began to fail, and as the tribe of monkeys tried to save him, the lone monkey objected, eventually fighting the rest of the group with his new found skills. Because of the violence he displayed, the monkey was banished from his clan. However, on his own, he saw a group of men on their way to kill the assassin. He tried to run back and warn his tribe, but it was too late - the assassin had been killed as well as the rest of the monkeys. Furious at his clan's slaughter, the monkey picked up extra guns from a bag and proceeded to kill the entire group of men. Determined to avenge his fallen tribe, the monkey now dedicated his life to killing assassins - under the alias of Hit-Monkey.[10]
The major portion of this episode involves Gorilla Grodd teaming up with the Gorilla Boss of Gotham and Monsieur Mallah to overthrow the humans and put them in zoos so that Grodd can rule Apetopia, and, you know, that’s a good plot. Plus, Detective Chimp! Unfortunately, Chimp’s played for laughs and has some kind of bizarre half-English accent that comes off as the bad kind of silly, rather than the good, though I did enjoy his constant hitting on Vixen. Besides, how many times have you seen Detective Chimp in the last three decades, let alone on television? Exactly. I’m pleased to see the creators of this show dig deeper into the Silver Age and beyond. If the Green Team shows up, I’ll swoon. Also, the teaser features a full-on Jim Aparo version of the Spectre who turns a guy to cheese so that the rats he experimented on will eat him. That’s hardcore for what’s ostensibly a kids’ cartoon (but we all know it’s for the paunchier, balding kids among us).
Creators George Lucas and Steven Spielberg freely admitted, though, that Indiana Jones wasn’t a wholly original idea.
Not to discredit anyone, of course. Lucas and Spielberg brought together a slightly different mix of elements that, along with Harrison Ford’s on-screen charm, make for a great character. But there are some real life archaeologists whose own lives influenced what went into Jones. Men like William McGovern, a professor at Northwestern University whose Wikipedia entries begins, “By age 30, he had already explored the Amazon and braved uncharted regions of the Himalayas, survived revolution in Mexico, studied at Oxford and the Sorbonne and become a Buddhist priest in a Japanese monastery.”
Another real life archaeologist/adventurer that may have lent some inspiration to Indiana Jones was Roy Chapman Andrews. He’s perhaps best known as the first person to discover fossilized dinosaur eggs while searching the Gobi desert in outer Mongolia. His first death-defying escape came when he was in college; surviving a boating accident got people claiming that he was “born under a lucky star.” One of his first professional near-misses was in the jungles of southeast Asia where his assistant caught sight of a 20-foot python in just enough time for Andrews to shoot it with his pistol. There are at least a dozen of stories of him fighting off bandits and, to make the comparison to Indiana Jones complete, he and his team once endured a night of their camp being infested with snakes! He had enough more than enough adventures to warrant his life story being turned into a comic book adventure in 1950!
Andrews got cover-billed as the “Modern Dragon Hunter” in "True Comics" #81 for all the dinosaurs he dug up during his time in Asia. While perhaps not as artfully rendered as Indiana Jones’ comics decades later, and the story’s short length necessitates skipping over many of his adventures, it helped pave the way for comics in that same vein. Andrews may have preferred a campaign hat over a fedora (though the comic erroneously gives him a pith helmet) and skipped on the bullwhip entirely, but it would seem that Indiana Jones was out treasure hunting much earlier than you thought he was!
Half Past Danger Synopsis said:It?s 1943 and Staff Sergeant Thomas Michael Flynn is on a routine mission with his squad on a Japanese island in the South Pacific. When they begin to notice peculiar occurrences such as Nazi campsites and dinosaurs running amok, everything Flynn thought he knew about the war collapses. Two months later, Flynn is back in the United States. Sitting alone at a bar in New York, Flynn is approached by a massive, blonde haired British soldier named Captain John Noble and a striking, enigmatic woman addressing herself as Agent Huntington-Moss of British Intelligence, but he drunkenly brushes them off. What happens next will be the start of Flynn?s journey into the unknown.