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x men issue 192 up until then i had spent my allowance mostly on candy and star wars cards and maybe g i joe figures my interest in comic books had been growing though and i regularly looked at the spinner rack of comics at the local meijer grocery store in 1985 i decided i d finally spend my allowance on buying my own comic books i think i had already been drawn to the x men for no particular reason other than they seemed very unusual so different from the spider man and superman comics the x men were weird i had a couple dollars to spend and i kept looking at all the comics trying to decide what i d buy and my eyes kept returning to the x men issue 193 a special double sized issue with a spectacular battle raging across the cover had just come out the thing was 193 cost 1 25 while all the other comics cost 65 cents so i figured purchasing issue 192 despite it not looking as cool would leave me with money left over to buy some candy or star wars cards looking at it now this is a pretty unusual issue to be the comic that would instantly convert me to an x men reader and general marvel zombie wolverine only appears in a couple panels and he s just standing there magus the super techno alien father of the new mutant warlock shows up and really i can t have had any idea who he was or what he did there s already some chris claremont space time bending sub plot and despite some good action a lot of the issue seems to be fairly verbose i think there s lots of reasons that this issue would be so attractive to my young ten year old self the alienation of the mutants the fact that rogue had never been kissed just like me the powerful heroes lacking confidence who are just waiting for the world to wake up and see how great they really are all the things any kid with a martyr complex would relate too visually john romita jr s art is deceptively strong there s some great panels in this issue and page compositions that are striking and dynamic the story itself seems to move along quickly even though the issue reads as if it were longer than the 22 pages of content above all though what this issue does is hint at something more i couldn t help but wonder how colossus and rogue would gel with the team or how nightcrawler would handle the mantle of leadership even though i didn t really understand what this team was i wondered why people hated mutants and who this professor guy was i was intrigued by this really bad ass wolverine character who s so awesome that he can t even be the leader because he s so awesome looking at it today i would almost think this comic would be too dense and convoluted for a ten year old kid to really appreciate too dependent on back story to stand alone as a single issue too strange to pull someone in after reading just one issue for me it came at the exact right time i guess and did just the right things to my developing brain and its importance is seared deep into my psyche it was just what i needed jeffrey brown posted by jeffrey brown at 5 16 am no comments labels x men thursday march 26 2009 where did everybody go i m thinking about another post for this blog is anyone else still on here it s like a ghost town posted by tom neely at 4 19 pm 2 comments tuesday october 7 2008 fear of mad when i was a kid growing up in chicago in the 1960 s my next door neighbor george perhatch was an avid collector of mad magazine we were good friends we were both around 6 or 7 years old but i did not share his interest in mad at first mad used to scare me i was still at an age where i took everything seriously or at face value i used to tell georgie that everyone in mad seemed to be mean to each other in one of georgie s paperback book collections of mad i remember a panel where a little girl had a little boy tied up and gagged to me it was horrifying she had him laying on his back and was pressing his head down so it would get hit by a toy train as it went around the track i knew it was a gag but i took the situation seriously i knew it would still hurt how could that little girl do that it was inhuman mad magazine gave me a headache it actually made me queasy and alfred e neuman s smiling face on the cover it really bothered me that he seemed happy indifferent to the cruelty i saw inside the pages i just couldn t understand i even developed a fear of mad it was like a fear of the unknown mad seemed to endorse cruelty it got to the point of where i couldn t even look at them because it stimulated either fear or disgust georgie picked up on this one time we were camping in his back yard in a small tent when i was inside the tent georgie went inside the house and came back with an armload of mad magazines and unzipped the entrance and threw them all inside i couldn t get out i backed up in fear all the way to the back of the tent and couldn t get out the memory is burned in my head to make matters worse george kept pointing out that i kinda looked like alfred e neuman and it bothered me to no end his mother not knowing of my neurosis agreed i m totally intrigued by those old publications now but it took a long time for me to come to terms with the twisted ideas of mad magazine it s strange to me that today i am a cartoonist who specializes in mad like artwork pat moriarity blog pat moriarity n stuff biz info http www linkedin com in patmoriarityart home page http www patmoriarity com buy original art here http www comicartcollective com cartoondepot video animation http www youtube com profile user patmoriaritydotcom music related art http www myspace com rockstarart posted by muscles moriarity at 10 30 am 8 comments thursday september 11 2008 weird war tales 49 i loved all that weird war stuff with jake the robot and the creature commandos the only dc books i ever really read were the seventies horror comics usually the titles involving war of some sort therefore i give you the mystery and madness of weird war tales 49 this issue begins with a competently drawn relatively straightforward story about how terrible it is to have to shoot children if they re wearing an enemy uniform you ll have to read it i have no interest at the moment in arguing whether shooting children is a good idea what i do want to talk about is hostess fruit pies here we have a classic example of the green lantern learning about the fruit pie scene let me tell you the fruit pie scene is where it s at it s happening it s now i m what s going on and you re what s going down don t be surprised if you and i ever meet and this phrase slips from my lips within five minutes i ve made a vow to say this to every single person i meet from now on the plot of this ad involves dr live spell it backwards shrinking the green lantern down and putting him in a jar with a bunch of other small people the green lantern uses his uh green lantern to reverse the process so the people can resume their sales pitch for fucking fruit pies a if green lantern could reverse the process that easily why didn t he just clobber that bow tie wearing motherfucker as soon as he walked in the door b that one guy didn t mind being small and in a jar the only thing that bothered him and his compatriots is that their mouths were too small to eat fruit pies wouldn t a mouth be able to nibble off at least a little fruit pie at any size you don t have to eat fruit pies whole you stupid son of a bitch i don t understand why dr live can t just talk forward like everyone else anyway on to why i wanted to show people this book the day after tomorrow drawn by steve ditko and vince coletta that s it a cautionary tale for the youth of today who are looking for a new happening sound kids that want to follow glowing hippies around the wasteland those hippies are freaking radioactive you arrogant punks stay away from the hippies and after that we have another boring ad urch back up a second and check this out i can t find any kotter comics in the back issue bins anywhere they must be so great that the people that own them won t give them up i wonder how many kotter comics there were i know horschack ended up in the watchmen i wonder if any other sweathogs got their own spin off comics the last story in the comic mark of the conqueror seems to be cashing in on another popular sci fi story but i just can t place it it s about a planet full of ape like creatures man it s on the tip of my tongue this handsome fella is named torin and much like wu tang he ain t nothin to fuck with he likes to talk about how terrible he is and how his first born son will take over the dictatorship when he dies he also likes to blow away the wolf faced creatures that live out in the wilderness check out how that one werewolf monster s head is blowing right off his shoulders harsh through a kind of stupid sereis of events torin finds out that the wolf faced monster is actually his first born son and he s been wearing his son s skin as a hat ha ha that s the kind of irony that only alanis morrisette could truly appreciate every time i look at that last panel i imagine that comedic trumpet womp womp womp noise and here s one last ad like the kids reading this comic don t already have enough big as life hang ups elijah j brubaker epicure statesman graphic noveleer posted by elijah at 12 54 pm 2 comments labels elijah brubaker friday september 5 2008 crazy 61 like most kids that grew up to become cartoonists i was heavily influenced by mad so much so that i found out when newsstands got their weekly shipment and if the boxes were still unopened when i got out of school i d pester their employees into hurrying up and putting them on the racks if a new issue of mad was out i d run home and plead for my parents to give me an advance on my allowance since i couldn t wait three days one time my mother was outraged that it cost 60 cents for the new issue as if the publishers could still afford to charge a dime but chose not to i told her there was a thing called inflation to which she replied i know it makes garbage cost more and this was just last month no not really it was more than twenty five years ago but back to the story if the new mad wasn t out i d settle for cracked if that wasn t around either i settled for crazy if that wasn t out sick would do if i was really desperate i d buy wacko trash national crumb or one of the other myriad fly by night black white 52 page kids humor publications i d go down the ladder of humor magazine hierarchy so that like a methadone addict i could get my weekly fix crazy was a mad imitation marvel did this when marvel was still a subsidiary of a company that put out imitations of every successful magazine in existence crazy went a little bit further than most of the other juvenile satire mags mostly because some of the articles were things marvel staffers tried to sell to national lampoon one piece they published and reprinted several times that stuck with me was a parody of casper the premise was that harvey comics were tame and saccharine despite the fact that much of their audience read them only two years earlier kind of like how second graders call first graders babies can you imagine if 37 year olds considered all 36 year olds less mature anyway ed wanted the actual comic people had as a kid i had several boxes of these magazines aside from getting them fresh off the newsstands i would scour yard sales and thrift stores for them unfortunately i got rid of them by the time i was in high school i don t remember how but i know it s not the usual stories like my mother made me throw them out or i discovered girls luckily i was able to find this story online and the person who scanned it kept the stains and other damage the comic accrued over the years i think if you click on the images you can get versions that aren t cut off i like how the victims say what s happening to them in the throes of death and i guess wife beating and child abuse were okay for kids material as long as the characters didn t say bad words this particular comic freaked me out as a kid and i hid it under my bed for an eternity i e three months i wasn t superstitious at all or worried comic characters would come to life and get me i didn t have any belief in anything scary but for some reason i couldn t look at certain things a second time another comic that bothered me at that age was flob was a slob from mad 4 by jack davis and harvey kurtzman because of the face in this panel yes my father kept all the ec s he had as a kid but they weren t my earliest influences so i can t scan those sam henderson posted by sam henderson at 6 02 am 3 comments friday august 29 2008 for the love of a batman being cursed with the name robin has somehow naturally drawn me towards the fine world of comix from an early age on i was always an avid obsession with batman especially one year for my birthday my dad bought me a guitar which i had absolutely no interest in he could never seem to figure out exactly what to get me to make up for the gift that would suit a youngster far hipper than myself he bought me batman 101 it was a prime example of 1950 s batman it was cheesy made no particular sense and i loved it i figured that this issue had to be something special because of the batman being so exposed within and on the cover i sold it during a low point in my late teens when i foolishly thought girls were more important that comics what the hell was i thinking batman 195 was another landmark issue for me in my collecting history i found a ratty copy at flea market that even had the date stamp on the cover that so many corner stores loved to deface comics with i was stuck spending a day wandering around with the family on a horrid road trip in the back waters of vancouver island it still wasn t the gritty batman that i was used to but at least he had more balls than the batman of 101 i really loved the horror aspect of the cover and the reduction of cheese in comparisons with past examples neal adams to me was the ultimate batman cartoonist he was able to inject a new kind of life into the masked man getting the chance to interview him on the inkstuds was a dream come true even if he was insane and only wanted to talk about dinosaur bones his take on the whole batman mystique turned him into a different type of character i could read neal adams batman comics all day long the awesome writing by denny o neil doesn t hurt either if anyone has his email address please pass it along i really want to interview him i have gotten so into exploring the old batman s that i am working on getting them all bound so far i have about 200 issues of both batman and detective already in the hardcover tomes i love so much and am slowly working my way back let me know if you have a good hook up for crap shape silver age posted by inkstuds at 11 14 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2009 3 december 1 the official handbook of the marvel universe book november 1 march 1 2008 22 october 1 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