I thought you guys might like to read the first issue of The Avengers (November 1963), so here it is:
http://www.jordanorlando.com/avengers
Octopunk, you're going to just hate it.
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(2007) * First of all let me say that as far as I could tell there are absolutely no dead teenagers in this entire film. Every year just ...
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I own Avengers #2-10 but sadly not #1. Years ago an older cousin gave me a huge box of comic books that he did not want - I bet he's sorry now. It also included the Hulk 80, the first appearance of Wolverine.
"Hate" is too strong a word. I can certainly respect the historical underpinning this kind of material provides for the raw thrill I've gotten from many more modern comics over the years, but I don't get that thrill from this stuff. It just seems silly, and the panels too cramped.
The hilarity is pretty much non-stop.
-- Loki's eyes floating around
-- The lame explanation that covers the fact that Hulk would've smashed the bridge anyway, regardless of whether the dynamite was real.
-- The way Ant Man and Wasp have to keep using various devices lying around just to talk to people
-- Iron Man's suit powered by "transistors"
-- Everything about The Teen Brigade
-- I could go on and on, but by far the funniest thing in there is "Holding onto the unbreakable thong!"
It sounds facetious but I just love that I've got friends with such sophisticated overlapping tastes whose preferences are nonetheless so far apart from each other on various spectra.
My friend Arthur is a movie and comic book geek par excellance, and yet he
1) prefers 1930s cartoons to 1940s cartoons (i.e. likes Popeye and Max Fleischer more than Chuck Jones and Tex Avery)
2) Prefers 1930s movies to 1940s movies
3) Prefers old-school comic strips (Dick Tracy etc.) to modern stuff like Doonesbury and Peanuts
4) Would rather listen to Sinatra than Radiohead
entertaining, and yes, unintentionally hilarious.
the language is great. we need to bring back "bah!"
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