Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

[Lockdown]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

my favorite was DAMMAGE from DC, it was well done untill the last few issues where they were doing some lame and outragous showing how he had all the DNA of the heros in the DC universe that could be collected.

OK i can understand a few.. but all of em?? jeez!!!

[BigJackBrass]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

I really don't like the Showcase concept...

 

Fair enough. There ought to be enough shelf space for showcases and mini-series, but these days the mini is certainly king. Perhaps they are seen as having more appeal to collectors?

 

Anyway, back to the thread:

 

Anyone remember DC's Major Bummer? (Which was, ironically, a mini-series!) It got off to a good start, but I missed the conclusion. Never saw anything else of the character after that.

[RDU Neil]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Fair enough. There ought to be enough shelf space for showcases and mini-series, but these days the mini is certainly king. Perhaps they are seen as having more appeal to collectors?

 

Anyway, back to the thread:

 

Anyone remember DC's Major Bummer? (Which was, ironically, a mini-series!) It got off to a good start, but I missed the conclusion. Never saw anything else of the character after that.

 

That was great stuff. More Mahnke artwork. I've got every issue.

[Mike W]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

When Marvel went through their stretch in the early 90s of creating tons of new characters, I thought the Nightwatch character had a lot of potential, but of course when they gave him a short series, they just put him in a time loop that he couldn't break and then left him there.

[HeroGM]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

World of Krypton..................1979

Untold Legend of Batman.......1980

Green Lantern Corps.............1981

Contest of Champion's..........1982

O.H.o.t.Marvel Universe........1983

[Hugh Neilson]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Where's Secrets of the Legion? I recall it between the BatBook and the GL mini, but I could easily be mistaken.

[Enforcer84]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

...can't remember the title. But it was an indpendant black and white comic drawn by Ron Lim (who did Silver Surfer for Marvel a while back) it had two superhumans, and some aliens and robots. One of the robots, Lancer had a comic collection, the other one was called...Skeech? It had some nice story going but I think it lasted less than 10 issues.

[HeroGM]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Where's Secrets of the Legion? I recall it between the BatBook and the GL mini' date=' but I could easily be mistaken.[/quote']

 

Secrets of the Legion......................1981

Tales of the New Teen Titans...........1982

[Vondy]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Wait. The 'Nam was set in the real world, or so I recall. How could a Marvel Universe character show up in it?

 

 

That would be what killed it.

 

It was done because Punisher was new and all the rage at the time and they wanted to boost sales. So, suddenly, pre-punisher frank castle shows up in The 'Nam.

[BNakagawa]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Also, stuff that really amuses me, but doesn't exactly fly off of shelves:

 

Savage Henry, Those Annoying Post Bros. Keif Llama.

 

Howarth's a nutball, but in a good way.

[casualplayer]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

People have been showing much love for John Ostrander; did anyone else read Wasteland? Co-written with Del Close with a rotating quartet of artists, and Vertigo before Vertigo. It was mental, but so good.

 

Many of the comics I adored are being resurrected. I've had new Jon Sable, Grimjack and Maze Agency recently and I am well pleased. First Comics is virtually resurrected, now if someone would resurrect Eclipse Comics life would be great.

 

I would love to see new Justice Machine and Hero Alliance also. Might as well wish for some Willingham Elementals while I'm at it.

[BcAugust]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Hmm, I'll be an wierd one here. I liked

 

Darkhold(Marvel, early 90's) Though the art was awful, the storylines tended to be very solid and good, a perfect way to, as another thread puts is, do CoC in a superhero univers. And the characters... the characters made this book. Anyone else ever read it?

 

Blade, The Vampire Hunter(mid 90's) I've read two printings of this series out. Good stuff. It's far more Tomb of Dracula then Nightstalkers, and there are a lot of moments when...let's just say there's reasons Blade doesn't consider himself a hero(He nearly turns a dying friend of his into a vampire, even though he knows it would endanger his friend's soul, to see if he can save two other friends of his). And the mysteries.... argh, I'd so love to see them take up even one of the threads of this book.

 

Black Lamb(Helix, don't remember) I picked this up because it seemed... neat. Was not expecting the very black sense of humor in the slightest. And the main character *shudders*, was a good story, though I'm torn on deciding if it's good or not they didn't continue it, it was a complete story. But darn it, I want more of the world.

 

(ps. On the age thing I just read, I'm 28. And I've read good comics, it's just hard to say, oh, Crimson, Out There or a few others when they were very popular.)

[Kristopher]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Hmm, I'll be an wierd one here. I liked

 

Darkhold (Marvel, early 90's) Though the art was awful, the storylines tended to be very solid and good, a perfect way to, as another thread puts is, do CoC in a superhero univers. And the characters... the characters made this book. Anyone else ever read it?

 

I loved it.

 

Somehow they even made the guest appearances by the "hot" Marvel characters make some sense.

[Dominique]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

So, besides me, did any of you guys read Strikeforce Moritori? I'm feeling like the Lone Ranger on this one. Where's the love.

[TheQuestionMan]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

So' date=' besides me, did any of you guys read Strikeforce Moritori? I'm feeling like the Lone Ranger on this one. Where's the love.[/quote']

Wadda yah mean we kimosambi?

 

 

 

LOL, I thought it was a good enough series that it should be a TPB.

 

QM

 

P.S.: Strikeforce: Morituri

[http://207.200.81.7/Games/Roleplaying/Systems/Hero_System/Champions 154.11.218.34 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) ]

or

Confessions of an Unrepentant Champions Guru by Weldon Adams (October 09, 2003)

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=2005

or

The New Universe

http://www.technohol.com/new-u/index.asp

or

Strikeforce: Morituri - Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikeforce:_Morituri

or

Strikeforce: Morituri - International Superheroes

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/m/morituri.htm

or

Strikeforce: Morituri - Toonpedia

http://www.toonopedia.com/morituri.htm

or

The Morituri - International Superheroes

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/strikeforcemorituri.htm

or

Strikeforce: Morituri - Fan Resource Webpage

http://beyondheroes2.tripod.com/strikeforcemorituri.htm

or

Strikeforce: Morituri

http://members.fortunecity.com/jsc2593/cna/morituri.html

or

Strikeforce Morituri - Freedom Force Skins

http://hometown.aol.com/akyron/FFskins.html

or

The Morituri Process

http://beyondheroes2.tripod.com/morituri.htm

or

GURPS Strikeforce Morituri by Mathew Pook *****************

http://www.chorazin.org/pookie/gurps/sm/main.htm

 

 

.

[FenrisUlf]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

That would be what killed it.

 

It was done because Punisher was new and all the rage at the time and they wanted to boost sales. So, suddenly, pre-punisher frank castle shows up in The 'Nam.

 

So, in other words, to get a sales boost for one issue, they tossed out everything related to the 'real world' just to include Frank Castle?

 

Or was this a non-Marvel Universe Frank who just shared the same name and vocation as the Punisher Frank?

[Superskrull]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

...can't remember the title. But it was an indpendant black and white comic drawn by Ron Lim (who did Silver Surfer for Marvel a while back) it had two superhumans' date=' and some aliens and robots. One of the robots, Lancer had a comic collection, the other one was called...Skeech? It had some nice story going but I think it lasted less than 10 issues.[/quote']

 

Hah! If you count both versions, yeah, it got to 10. You're talking about the Eradicators comic from Silverwolf Publishing. That company later resurfaced as Greater Mercury Publishing.

 

Try here.

http://www.keithpaquette.com/silverwolfcomics/index.html

 

Y'know, I once wrote up a dozen or so of those characters in HERO. Always wanted to do something with them but never had a decent place for them.

[casualplayer]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

So' date=' besides me, did any of you guys read Strikeforce Moritori? I'm feeling like the Lone Ranger on this one. Where's the love.[/quote']

 

It made it more than 20 issues and was much loved until it went all SuperCyberPunk. Frickin' killed Brava, those bastards! Brent Anderson never went on to do anything else nearly as good, and the same for Mark Bagley.

[Dominique]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

When they decided to find a cure for the process, that changed the whole dynamic of the comic. before taht yiou really never knew who was going to survive an issue.

[RDU Neil]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

When they decided to find a cure for the process' date=' that changed the whole dynamic of the comic. before taht yiou really never knew who was going to survive an issue.[/quote']

 

Strikeforce Morituri was another of those I didn't feel met the "... but apparently no one else did" part of the topic.

 

Me and all my friends loved it. It's a classic, IMO... not an Eradicators style book. (Which I also own... )

[Agent 13]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

So, in other words, to get a sales boost for one issue, they tossed out everything related to the 'real world' just to include Frank Castle?

 

Or was this a non-Marvel Universe Frank who just shared the same name and vocation as the Punisher Frank?

 

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/phillipsicenam.htm

[Enforcer84]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

Tales of Shaou Lin...independant black and white Martial Arts comic by HERO alum Glenn Johnson (Strikeforce, Blood & Dr. McQuark, Coreolis Effect)...I never bought it in a comic shop but found two issues in a used bookstore in Hillsboro, OR. I had NO cash on me or I would have bought them and been a happy man. But alas they were gone when I returned.

 

*Sniff* I loved Glen's work. Can't find anything about him these days.

[Kevin B. Madiso]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

People have been showing much love for John Ostrander; did anyone else read Wasteland? Co-written with Del Close with a rotating quartet of artists, and Vertigo before Vertigo. It was mental, but so good.

Wasteland was amazing. It was how I learned what a bezoar is.

 

In the Ostrander vein, the Manhunter series was awesome too (although I never really had a thing for Doug Rice's art).

 

The next few are a bit shameful:

Stryke Force, Pitt and Youngblood.

 

In each of them I loved for what they could be, not what they tragically were (which was a steaming pile in all three cases....excepting of course the Alan Moore Youngblood).

[assault]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

The Australian Cyclone Comics titles from the 80s, especially Southern Squadron and the Jackaroo, deserve an honourable mention.

 

They were doomed by the size of the market they were in, but were really cool.

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/chaloner.htm

[Brother Dom]

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did

 

It's been awhile since I collected comics. It's seems that quite a few of y'all like similar things. Some of mine were:

 

John Sable

The DNAgents

E-Man ( loved the Mr.Z and the B-Team)

Mike Mauser

V DC Comics

The Futurians

The Elemenatals ( I remeber waiting years for Issue #3 )

 

Of course I never bought any, had plenty of friends with more dollars than sense.