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Post by rberman on Jul 20, 2019 18:42:30 GMT -5
Okay, could Galactus consume the energies of Bizarro World? Or would it give him "food poisoning"? Apokolips did give him indigestion in “The Hunger.” Also, didn’t he fail to eat the Black Nebula of the Dire Wraiths in ROM?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 21, 2019 6:30:08 GMT -5
Okay, could Galactus consume the energies of Bizarro World? Or would it give him "food poisoning"? Apokolips did give him indigestion in “The Hunger.” Also, didn’t he fail to eat the Black Nebula of the Dire Wraiths in ROM? I think after he was sent to the Negative Zone at the conclusion of FF # 122, he didn't do too well there either.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 21, 2019 7:07:39 GMT -5
Apokolips did give him indigestion in “The Hunger.” Also, didn’t he fail to eat the Black Nebula of the Dire Wraiths in ROM? I think after he was sent to the Negative Zone at the conclusion of FF # 122, he didn't do too well there either. He shouldn’t have believed the hype about so-called negative calories diets!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 14:04:44 GMT -5
I'll have a search to see if it's been done already, but I am thinking about one day doing a topic about our favourite letters page titles. For every letters page that didn't have a title (wasn't one Spidey's books simply "Spider-Man"), there were great titles elsewhere. Some were ordinary and expected, e.g. "Detective Comments" in Detective Comics. But then you had a letters page title like "Them! The Readers Who Wrote" in It! The Living Colossus.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 21, 2019 14:47:01 GMT -5
You mean like, Greenskin Grab bag , or Send it to Shellhead ?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 21, 2019 18:48:48 GMT -5
The Hyborian Page was a good title, a great pun, and it was quite descriptive too!
But I’m usually biased toward all things Conan.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 21, 2019 18:52:22 GMT -5
I just thought of something, digital comics don’t have the letters pages from the actual books.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 6:10:39 GMT -5
They don't. And that's sad. It's why, although comiXology serves a purpose, I'd much rather buy back issues at a comic con.
Some have said letters pages are redundant in the digital age. I profoundly disagree. Firstly, an editor (a good one) will include a good mix of letters. I'd rather have that than be on the woeful DC Comics Forum, back when it existed and there seemed to be a lot of trouble. "Up yours, dude!" is not something you'll find on a letters page.
Secondly, it's the whole "snapshot in time" thing. I love that I can pick up comics from 10, 20 or 30 years before I was born - and see letters. It gives me an idea of how people felt about the title at times. And there's always something good to discover even now. I recently learnt that J. M. DeMatteis had had a letter published in a Sub-Mariner comic!
I like that Marvel still has letters pages (I got one printed in Immortal Hulk, requesting a Hulk/Lizard confrontation). DC just has boring ads.
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 22, 2019 7:33:16 GMT -5
I remember when "Let's Yap with Cap" was changed to "Let's Rap with Cap". Rap being Hippie slang for talking, well before it became a music genre.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 7:35:11 GMT -5
During the gray Hulk era, I liked the letters page title: "Gray Matter". And "Europinion" in Justice League Europe.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 22, 2019 15:37:42 GMT -5
I almost never read the letters pages in comics. The rare exceptions were comics where the letters pages actually added something to the comic. Sandman comes to mind. The letters pages and add-ons in Brubaker's books are generally worthwhile. But the standard letters page from Silver/Bronze Age Big Two books were as big a waste of time and space as the text features they replaced.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 16:16:22 GMT -5
I almost never read the letters pages in comics. The rare exceptions were comics where the letters pages actually added something to the comic. Sandman comes to mind. The letters pages and add-ons in Brubaker's books are generally worthwhile. But the standard letters page from Silver/Bronze Age Big Two books were as big a waste of time and space as the text features they replaced. Those are fighting words in these parts.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 22, 2019 19:01:40 GMT -5
I remember when "Let's Yap with Cap" was changed to "Let's Rap with Cap". Rap being Hippie slang for talking, well before it became a music genre. Well after hippies and everyone else stopped using the term.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 22, 2019 19:05:09 GMT -5
I almost never read the letters pages in comics. The rare exceptions were comics where the letters pages actually added something to the comic. Sandman comes to mind. The letters pages and add-ons in Brubaker's books are generally worthwhile. But the standard letters page from Silver/Bronze Age Big Two books were as big a waste of time and space as the text features they replaced. MOKF had decent letters; but, yeah, most Silver and Bronze Age letetrs pages were either fawning stuff or "When will Cabbage Man get a solo title?" Grendel and Mage had great letters pages, thanks to Diana Schutz, as did Eclipse's Miracleman. James Robinson's books usually did. Firearm had great discussion about books, as the character was a big reader. Starman had all kinds of stuff about collectibles. Mike Gold usually had good letters for Mike Grell's books and the Question had intriguing ones.
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Post by Trevor on Jul 22, 2019 19:14:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I’ve embraced digital almost fully. For about 50 cents an issue I own virtually every comic book in existence on Comixology or Dark Horse Digital, all available 24/7 on a glorious screen. But the primary reason I keep most of my physical comics are because they don’t digitize the entire book; I miss those ads and letters pages and other ephemera.
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