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Post by batusi on Feb 22, 2018 13:45:59 GMT -5
Truth there for me as well. Lots of annuals and the DC dollar comics were all passed by for not having enough money or considering a $1.00 too much to spend for 1 comic book when I could instead get 3-4 comic books and candy/soda! I think the "limited" selection of the local spinner rack actually helped force me into expanding my comic book purchases. Instead of knowing there were multiple LCS where I will be able to track something down as a back issue months from now, I spent knowing there may not be another chance to get those comics or that I might not find them at another convenience store in town. It was buy now and not wait because tomorrow could be too late. I usually made the rounds on my bike to 3 or 4 stores to make sure I got all the books out that week. Ah, the good old days when we were forced to get a vigorous workout for the love of our addiction.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 28, 2018 8:00:07 GMT -5
Remember When the Hulk's favorite foodstuff was beans? Pretty sure this explains his great leaping abilities far more creatively than he has incredibly super strong leg muscles. Gamma generated flatulence which propels Hulk across the miles is much more fun IMO! More Hulk eats beans more Hulk Farts! Hulk is the Fartiest one there is! Add in the belches and hilarity ensues each issue! Beans Beans Beans, the fruit what makes you toot I know Martian Manhunter loves him those Oreo's. Gotta be double stuffed i would bet! Petey Parker adores his Auntie May's wheat flap jacks. Batman and the Avengers like having their morning, afternoon and evening coffee served by Alfred and Jarvis. Have there been other notices of Hero/Villian favorite or particular food likes?
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Post by Cheswick on Feb 28, 2018 10:40:26 GMT -5
The first to come to mind is Green Arrow's chili. This topic might be worthy of its own thread.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 1, 2018 8:02:12 GMT -5
There is Deadpool's association with Chimichanga's that I had forgotten about.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 1, 2018 11:42:19 GMT -5
Peter Parker was partial to Aunt May's wheat cakes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2018 18:07:58 GMT -5
Peter Parker was partial to Aunt May's wheat cakes. You've got that one right!
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Post by brutalis on Mar 9, 2018 13:57:45 GMT -5
Remember When: you were young and your collection was small and you read and re-read those few comics you owned over and over again each day or week? Sometimes only affording a single new comic at a time and after excitingly having flown through it in that 1st reading you would return to reading it again that same day/night once more or even read it again after having just finished? That no matter how many times you may have read something and memorized the entire issue you still found joy and pleasure in the reading of it repeatedly? This is how some of my favorites series became my favorites. Avengers, Fantastic Four, Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes, Doom Patrol, Metamorpho, Deathlok, Killraven, The Demon, Mister Miracle and others. All were series that while incomplete with only a few issues I ever found were for me what I read until those issues were falling apart. From there grew my desire to collect. Starting by trades with cousins and then with friends/neighbors until being able to searching out through used book stores and then the LCS in missed issues and seeking out the entire run of comic series I adored. The natural progression from finding then for collecting and then to addiction and finally obsession. Such a great hobby that now consumes shelves,boxes and room(s) in the house. They say you can't take your possessions with you when you die but hey, I am gonna build my coffin out of my comic book collection and then I can take them with me!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 9, 2018 15:29:24 GMT -5
Oh, yeah. Reading comics over and over again. I especially did this with the series I loved the most, like X-men (Claremont/Byrne run especially), Michelinie & Layton's Iron Man, Miller's Daredevil, Byrne's FF, New Teen Titans or Levitz & Giffen's LoSH. When there were multi-part stories, I either a) re-read the previous issue(s) and then the new one, or b) read the new one immediately and then went back and re-read the preceding issues and the new one again. (I also remember that same process was in play for the Project: Pegasus story in Marvel 2-in-1, and also the amnesiac Black Widow story in Marvel Team-up #s 82-85.)
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Post by brutalis on Mar 15, 2018 8:48:22 GMT -5
Remember When: there weren't very many comic book toys/collectibles to be bought and instead you had to be creative when playing superhero? When you couldn't just purchase a costume or accessories other than at Halloween time? The rest of the year was spent running around in a blue shirt and jeans with a red sheet tied around your neck pretending to be Superman! You used the aluminum garbage can lid as Captain America's shield or worse tried to find a red/white/blue Frisbee to throw at your evil sibling. And if you were lucky enough to borrow from Dad's tool box some giant rubber mallet for heaving about Mjolnir across the yard?!? Of course being Two Gun Kid or Rawhide Kid or Kid Colt or Lone Ranger was fairly easy with cap guns. I converted my old karate gi along with an old pair of boots into becoming Luke Skywalker with my 1st official flashlight with a plastic tube light-saber one Christmas. Ever jump onto your bicycle as you hummed the Batman theme zooming around the streets of your neighborhood. In high school fencing we all pretended to be Zorro, Robin Hood and John Carter or Conan in afternoon duels.
Imagination was the key element in those bygone days of summer childhood adventure. Playing with your friends or cousins fighting the good fight against villainy and boredom during those hot summer days...
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Post by batusi on Mar 15, 2018 10:16:58 GMT -5
Remember When: there weren't very many comic book toys/collectibles to be bought and instead you had to be creative when playing superhero? When you couldn't just purchase a costume or accessories other than at Halloween time? The rest of the year was spent running around in a blue shirt and jeans with a red sheet tied around your neck pretending to be Superman! You used the aluminum garbage can lid as Captain America's shield or worse tried to find a red/white/blue Frisbee to throw at your evil sibling. And if you were lucky enough to borrow from Dad's tool box some giant rubber mallet for heaving about Mjolnir across the yard?!? Of course being Two Gun Kid or Rawhide Kid or Kid Colt or Lone Ranger was fairly easy with cap guns. I converted my old karate gi along with an old pair of boots into becoming Luke Skywalker with my 1st official flashlight with a plastic tube light-saber one Christmas. Ever jump onto your bicycle as you hummed the Batman theme zooming around the streets of your neighborhood. In high school fencing we all pretended to be Zorro, Robin Hood and John Carter or Conan in afternoon duels. Imagination was the key element in those bygone days of summer childhood adventure. Playing with your friends or cousins fighting the good fight against villainy and boredom during those hot summer days... I remember. Me and another friend used to pretend we were bionic men, we would go out in the woods and make the bionic noises as we karate chopped limbs/tree branches! Yeah, imagination was indeed KEY!
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Post by brutalis on Mar 15, 2018 13:15:03 GMT -5
Remember When: there weren't very many comic book toys/collectibles to be bought and instead you had to be creative when playing superhero? When you couldn't just purchase a costume or accessories other than at Halloween time? The rest of the year was spent running around in a blue shirt and jeans with a red sheet tied around your neck pretending to be Superman! You used the aluminum garbage can lid as Captain America's shield or worse tried to find a red/white/blue Frisbee to throw at your evil sibling. And if you were lucky enough to borrow from Dad's tool box some giant rubber mallet for heaving about Mjolnir across the yard?!? Of course being Two Gun Kid or Rawhide Kid or Kid Colt or Lone Ranger was fairly easy with cap guns. I converted my old karate gi along with an old pair of boots into becoming Luke Skywalker with my 1st official flashlight with a plastic tube light-saber one Christmas. Ever jump onto your bicycle as you hummed the Batman theme zooming around the streets of your neighborhood. In high school fencing we all pretended to be Zorro, Robin Hood and John Carter or Conan in afternoon duels. Imagination was the key element in those bygone days of summer childhood adventure. Playing with your friends or cousins fighting the good fight against villainy and boredom during those hot summer days... I remember. Me and another friend used to pretend we were bionic men, we would go out in the woods and make the bionic noises as we karate chopped limbs/tree branches! Yeah, imagination was indeed KEY! oh yes, totally blanked on doing bionic noises while running around and wrestling with my brothers. Steve Austin was the man at that time! Also had a cousin who broke his leg jumping off his roof trying to be the Hulk.
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Post by urrutiap on Mar 17, 2018 18:30:47 GMT -5
When I was a little kid in the early and mid 1980s I and my older sister we didnt have alot of comics just a few issues here and there of random stuff from Coman, Red Sonja the movie adapation, Spider Ham, G.I. Joe issue 49 for me and Power Pack here and there and Alpha Flight and Elfquest which my sister was more into Elfquest than I was. But at the same time, we got our comic book fix by just watching the cartoons of Spider Man and Amazing Friends at the time along with the Bill Bixby Incredible Hulk show that would be on TBS and WGN all the time and the old tv movies of Nicholas Hammond as Spider Man.
Then when I was a teen in the 1990s thats when I was really getting into comics to keep up with whatever was going and I was kind of into Spawn which it first started. Dark Horse at the time I wasnt into but I did keep track of what was coming and going by reading Wizard magazine.
If I knew then what i know now, I when I was a kid back then in the 1980s, i should have had my parents get me more of Uncanny X Men and whatever was going on in Superman comics at the time from 1983 to 1985 before John Byrne changed everything
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Post by brutalis on Mar 27, 2018 8:50:55 GMT -5
Can you Remember When you discovered there was more to superhero comics than just the traditional good guy versus bad guy adventures? There was that instance during the late mid 70's when suddenly a lot of non-traditional comic book series began to being discovered. DC had O'Neill and Adam's Green Lantern and Green Arrow "on the road" series traveling across America finding real life situations and discussing so much more than good vs bad. Marvel had Starlin doing Captain Marvel going into full blown science fiction and cosmi surrealism while Starlin followed up on Thomas with Warlock touching upon religious and sociopolitical thoughts. Buckler delivered us full blown into the apocalyptic science fiction world of tomorrow with the cyborg Deathlok. McGregor and Russell went even further out there into the science-reality-fantasy War of the Worlds with Killraven and his friends fighting the Martians. McGregor and Buckler and Graham turned the Black Panther's kingdom of Wakanda into a cultural reality full of science and humanity in exploring the cultural diversity which was opening across the world. Englehart and Starlin followed by Claremont and Gulacy turned on the world utilizing an Asian lead that was grown from a martial arts trend for introducing philosophy and the raising and advancing of our spirits.
These were the beginnings of the growth and expansion of both comic books and readers/collectors alike as new writers/artist who had grown up reading comics began to create them. The world was suddenly opening up before the eyes of readers within the four color pages turning from mere silly funny books into more adult literature subtly (and not so subtly at times) helping us in expanding our consciences and horizons and exploring ourselves and neighbors beyond the fences of our back yards opening the world and our minds all in color with admittance prices being only for a pocketful of change...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 27, 2018 12:05:58 GMT -5
Yes, that pretty much coincided with the time when I discovered the X-men (staring with issue #120), Iron Man (a few issues after Michelinie and Layton became the backbone of the creative team) and Daredevil (literally right at the start of Miller's run, #158) right at about the same time, or within a few months of each other, in early 1979. All of sudden it clicked that besides the action and throw-downs with bad guys, there were these other, equally compelling aspects of the stories, as you note. Yeah, I loved comics before that, since about the age of six, but at that point, 10 going on 11, I became an addict.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 29, 2018 17:23:35 GMT -5
Yes, that pretty much coincided with the time when I discovered the X-men (staring with issue #120), Iron Man (a few issues after Michelinie and Layton became the backbone of the creative team) and Daredevil (literally right at the start of Miller's run, #158) right at about the same time, or within a few months of each other, in early 1979. All of sudden it clicked that besides the action and throw-downs with bad guys, there were these other, equally compelling aspects of the stories, as you note. Yeah, I loved comics before that, since about the age of six, but at that point, 10 going on 11, I became an addict. Yes those were great comics. X-Men was fun, Miller's Daredevil pure gritty pulp noir was spectacular, Stark's plunge into the bottom of the bottle struggle to redeem himself was brilliant and drew you in. This is the time when the Marvel writer's finally seemed to connect the dots and really begin writing character driven stories that mimic what Stan had done in his time. It was soon after this I think DC and the other independent comic book companies began to grow and expand utilizing the more realistic type of hero and villain rather than the 1940 through the 60's cut and paste good/evil interchangeable or stereotypical characters.
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