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Post by Felix on Jan 9, 2024 19:26:25 GMT -8
Curious who got killed off? From what I gather it was Wade Collins, the former Crimson Guardsman who served with Stalker, Snake-Eyes and Storm SHadow in Vietnam. Oh, just a failed nobody Hama created. Glad he didn't go Resolute and kill Bazooka for no good reason. |
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Post by Swindle on Jan 9, 2024 19:28:14 GMT -8
It had to be somebody 'who mattered' for Snake Eyes and friends to be the guys carrying the casket.
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Post by Felix on Jan 9, 2024 22:03:40 GMT -8
It had to be somebody 'who mattered' for Snake Eyes and friends to be the guys carrying the casket. A safe choice for someone Hama could off one of his own creations. I'm just glad it's not Duke. But he's probably next. They already killed him in the live action movie. |
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Post by Swindle on Jan 10, 2024 10:05:35 GMT -8
 These are the back issues I got from that canada seller on hipcomic. Arrived today (as well as two others going to my Infernio extras I'm building). Love that Rob Liefield New Mutants cover. Cable should always be drawn with a receding hairline imo. There's some very gimped looks for him over the years. Did you know some writer wanted him to be called Solider X and Rob was like, ummm, no, the character would be dead in the water out the gate, so Rob won that mini-war and he was called Cable. Seller also threw in a Nick Fury card as a freebee. |
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Post by Felix on Jan 10, 2024 11:36:35 GMT -8
Cable should always be losing his hair.
Daredevil cover with Pyro looks amazingly awesome.
The New Mutant girls are pretty cute :-)
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Post by Swindle on Jan 10, 2024 12:03:26 GMT -8
I still own less than 25 issues of New Mutants even with my recent influx of issues lol. There's really only two pricy issues, 87/98 (First Cable and first Deadpool, both will run you about 500 bucks or so, a bit out of my price range lol). Rest are usually 3 bucks or less, though some of those Liefield issues he drew might go up to 10 bucks depending on the seller.
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Post by Felix on Jan 10, 2024 14:41:48 GMT -8
500 is crazy money for a comic book. I would try to print off a copy on the internet and call it a day.
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Post by Swindle on Jan 10, 2024 15:02:49 GMT -8
500 is crazy money for a comic book. I would try to print off a copy on the internet and call it a day. I remember seeing NM 87 on a wall at a comic shop for 25 bucks when I was a kid. The prices on those two issues (and also Amazing Spider-Man 300, first Vemon), that's a case of the market speaking. Some of the biggest characters created in Marvel in the modern era. So I actually think those prices are fair. I own all three in reprint form. I remember watching cartoonist kayfabe guys doing a review of Fantastic Four #48–50 (The Galactus Trilogy) with a buddy of there's and he had the original copies, those are VERY pricy comics, like thousands of dollars worth and he was like, these are mine and if we're reviewing this classic story we're going to the original printing. LOL |
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Post by Felix on Jan 10, 2024 19:56:02 GMT -8
Wow. Those sound pretty awesome.
I do remember that New Mutants cover with Cable, once I spotted the wolf kid (don't know his/her actual name).
Something about that group I always liked. It was during that time I drifted away from Wolverine as a fan, and liked Cable more.
In the X-Men animated series, I love how easily he fights the X-men.
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Post by Swindle on Jan 10, 2024 21:02:00 GMT -8
Wow. Those sound pretty awesome. I do remember that New Mutants cover with Cable, once I spotted the wolf kid (don't know his/her actual name). Something about that group I always liked. It was during that time I drifted away from Wolverine as a fan, and liked Cable more. In the X-Men animated series, I love how easily he fights the X-men. Wolfsbane The deal with New Mutants was such that Chris Claremont had a vision for X-Men where a guy/gal would do their time on the team and return to civilian life. Eventually 'new mutants' would replace Wolverine, Cyclops and so on. Editorial disagreed and I can't say I blame them. Its not easy to create great IP lol. New Mutants was on its death bed by the time Rob Leifeld had come on, so editorial didn't care if he was offering radically different direction. Cable basically as a character wanted to reappropriate the New Mutants and make them into a paramilitary x-squad (secretly he had his eye on Cannonball who he wanted to groom for leadership as Cannonball in the future is very important). This would build and build tension between him and other x-teams. Hit its peak when Styfe who has Cable's face would shoot Prof X at a mutant tolerance concert (Uncanny X-Men 294). The book needed new energy and ideas. Stryfe and the Mutant Liberation front, Stryfe also using a group for his own means. Then Deadpool and (fake)Domino are all introduced. New team members like Shatterstar. |
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Post by Felix on Jan 10, 2024 21:43:06 GMT -8
Wow. So that's the deal.
I remember I got bored with X-men.
Logan would get drunk most of the time, and flirt with the girlies.
The idea of New Mutants was refreshing.
Cable, he knows what's going to happen, and its not good.
Dare I ask another question...who is Youngblood?
I seem to remember him and Wolfsbane together in some capacity?
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Post by Swindle on Jan 10, 2024 22:07:48 GMT -8
Wow. So that's the deal. I remember I got bored with X-men. Logan would get drunk most of the time, and flirt with the girlies. The idea of New Mutants was refreshing. Cable, he knows what's going to happen, and its not good. Dare I ask another question...who is Youngblood? I seem to remember him and Wolfsbane together in some capacity? No, Youngblood is just Rob going off to Image comics and making his own concept... Youngblood is basically Image Comics version of the Avengers, leaning into superheroes as celebs. Youngblood SUCKS. Its unreadable, there's no characters, there's no story, the art isn't even as exciting. The advantage of Cable/Deadpool/etc is it was concepts grafted onto X-Men lore and its long standing status as comic's great soap opera. ITs very hard to build something like that from the ground up. Rob had great ideas, but he didn't have countless great ideas. Wolfsbane has a history with, actually, Havok (Cylcops' brother)... mentally bonded to him by scientists in Genosha. She stays in her wolf form because they hand generically altered her in human form as one of their slave mutates. Its pretty horrific what those people did to many people. Here's a great issue of X-Factor I'd recommend to read, you can learn alot about what makes Wolfbane tick: readcomiconline.li/Comic/X-Factor-1986/Issue-87#1 |
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Post by Swindle on Jan 12, 2024 13:33:40 GMT -8
 Last comics for the month. Two more Daredevils, Spider-Man, randomly New Warriors for the heck of it. Another one of those guide issues. |
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Post by Felix on Jan 23, 2024 15:42:44 GMT -8
My Thundercats Ratar-O and Snarf wave arrived.
Ratar-O is very good.
Snarf is okay. They used colored plastic for his face instead of paint...such a cheap move for this expensive of a Snarf.
But at least he completes the main cast.
Willa is cute. I really wanted the amazon female girls when I was a kid.
Mongor, the only one I didn't bother taking out of the box...looks good though.
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Post by Swindle on Jan 23, 2024 16:10:54 GMT -8
I looked up Ratar-O, he actually had a vintage figure, shows how out of the loop I was, I think he was a toon only character.
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