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    Comics that I miss.

    Hiya,
    Just thought I would bring up some of the comic books that I used to like alot but have been cancelled.

    StarMan: I loved this one, Jack Knight was a great hero, very human and real. I liked the whole retro feel of it, read the whole Grand Gugnoil storyline and I loved the writing and artwork.

    HitMan: Just to show how varied my taste are. This was to me a very funny comic in a dark style. Tommy Mohnagan had alot of personality and I liked the whole 'I only kill criminals', morale code he had.

    Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt: Yeah, It was short-lived, but I thought it had alot of potential. I liked not only the main character but the supporting cast was well done IMO.

    ROM Spaceknight: Just plain cool. ROM kicked ***, I mean how can you not like a cyborg that fights shapeshifting aliens that want to take over the world. Then when we banishes them to limbo they appear to be disintegrat-ed, so that it looks like ROM is killing people. That whole angst thing was great.

    So what comics do you guys miss?
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    Bob Layton Iron Man.

    George Perez Avengers.

    Simonson Thor.

    Byrne FF.

    Peter David Hulk.

    McFarlane Spider-Man.
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    Elementals (Bill Willingham)

    JLA (Waid's stuff - Tower of Babel etc.)

    Avengers (Byrne's old stuff)
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    Last year's reboot of She-Hulk (Great sense of humor)

    Rom was kinda silly, but then so am I. I had nearly every issue.

    The original Marvel Team up (Last version just didn't do it for me).

    The original What If? was great. I forgot how much fun it was until the recent What If threads.

    I'd like to see The Eternals, with the original Kirby flavoring.

    Captain Marvel (Mar-vel).

    Last year's Thanos series was my favorite (outside of Astonishing Xmen).
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    Re: Comics that I miss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Blue
    Last year's reboot of She-Hulk (Great sense of humor)
    Y'know, they started another She-Hulk comic a couple months ago, has the same artist & writer as last year's. Still really fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by starblaze
    Hiya,
    Just thought I would bring up some of the comic books that I used to like alot but have been cancelled.

    StarMan: I loved this one, Jack Knight was a great hero, very human and real. I liked the whole retro feel of it, read the whole Grand Gugnoil storyline and I loved the writing and artwork.

    HitMan: Just to show how varied my taste are. This was to me a very funny comic in a dark style. Tommy Mohnagan had alot of personality and I liked the whole 'I only kill criminals', morale code he had.

    Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt: Yeah, It was short-lived, but I thought it had alot of potential. I liked not only the main character but the supporting cast was well done IMO.

    ROM Spaceknight: Just plain cool. ROM kicked ***, I mean how can you not like a cyborg that fights shapeshifting aliens that want to take over the world. Then when we banishes them to limbo they appear to be disintegrat-ed, so that it looks like ROM is killing people. That whole angst thing was great.

    So what comics do you guys miss?
    I remember ROM, I only ever had a few issues of it but they were some awesome stuff. I actually recall one issue where Galactus, lead by Terrax, tried to eat Galadorn. Terrax took on all the Spaceknights at once and two, who's names I forget, died during the fight.

    Anyway the Spaceknights manage to defeat Terrax in a hard fight while ROM goes up to Galactus' ship and destroys a memorial he had of planets that he'd eaten. ROM and Galactus face off and ROM manages to save Galadorn....by siccing Galactus on the Dire Wraith homeworld!

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    ROM Spaceknight: Just plain cool. ROM kicked ***, I mean how can you not like a cyborg that fights shapeshifting aliens that want to take over the world. Then when we banishes them to limbo they appear to be disintegrat-ed, so that it looks like ROM is killing people. That whole angst thing was great.
    Add my voice to the Chorus for ROM, it was "The Day the Earth stood still" meets Green Lantern Corp.

    I also miss "The Man called Nova"... both 70s and 90's version.

    Guess I enjoy space faring heroes.

    Related to the Nova comic, the first run of New Warriors was fanastic use of some other wise under used characters. There was a great synergy. Of course, later Marvel would drop the ball on them utterly. So very very sad.

    Nomad, by Fabian took Jack Monroe and made him truly live up to the name. Sure, he had Baby Bucky strapped to his back as he went through America trying to do the right thing... even if he wasn't always sure what the right thing was, but it was some of the best character development I'd seen.
    It makes what happened to Jack in Brubaker's excellent run all the sadder.


    I loved the first two years of "Blue Devil" by DC comics.Before they offed Dan only to bring him back as a real demon chok full of angst *sighs*
    The "Weirdness Magnet" aspect was brilliant. The Blue Devil comic didn't wrestle with coinicidences and strange occurances... it embraced them!
    BD was loads of fun, and had a heart as big as the Hollywood sign.



    Since I'm waxing nostalgic, I'd like to see a Dr. Strange solo series take off again that embraces the whacky dual world of mundane and magic he lives in.
    I hear JMS did a good version with his limited series, but I didn't get my hands on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Superskrull
    Y'know, they started another She-Hulk comic a couple months ago, has the same artist & writer as last year's. Still really fun.
    I knew they had plans to, but I'm currently still in my anti-comic jihad against bad comics. But it occurs to me that buying no comics will just hurt the good ones. So I might break down and go check it out.

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    Re: Comics that I miss.

    Micronauts

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    Pretty much anything from its heyday. But the magic can't last forever.
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    Most of these are early in their runs before they were ruined or twisted beyond recognition.

    New Warriors
    Elementals
    Justice Machine
    Micronauts (Marvel)
    Micronauts (Devil's Due)
    Star Man (Wil Peyton)
    Captain Atom
    Iron Man
    Thor
    Avengers
    Blue Beetle
    Blue Devil
    Iron Fist and Power Man
    -or- Heroes for Hire

    EDIT: Add Alpha Flight to that list as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by austenandrews
    Micronauts
    Now I never collected the comics (my brother did), but I did have about 80% of the toys. My favorite toys of all time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blue
    Now I never collected the comics (my brother did), but I did have about 80% of the toys. My favorite toys of all time!
    Well that's because they were the best toys ever created by mortal man. Everyone knows that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by proditor
    EDIT: Add Alpha Flight to that list as well.
    Oooo... I can't believe I forgot the early run on Alpha Flight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hermit
    I loved the first two years of "Blue Devil" by DC comics.Before they offed Dan only to bring him back as a real demon chok full of angst *sighs*
    The "Weirdness Magnet" aspect was brilliant. The Blue Devil comic didn't wrestle with coinicidences and strange occurances... it embraced them!
    BD was loads of fun, and had a heart as big as the Hollywood sign.
    Yep. Seconded.

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    Morrison JLA.
    Perez Wonder Woman.

    Crossgen: Sigil, Negation, Scion, Mystic, Way of the Rat.... pretty much thier whole line.
    Hardcase and great chunks of the Ultraverse.
    DP7 from the New Universe - seeing them again in the pages of Exiles was cool.
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