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Top 100 Summer Comics #10

By admin | Published September 10, 2010

In comics, everyone dies. It’s almost inevitable. Moreso than that, everyone comes back to life. Almost.

There’s a few who I never thought would make it back. And even fewer from that group that I thought would come back and it would be AWESOME… and not corny.

Bucky fell into this rare grouping.

#10 – Captain America 14 (2005)

I urge you, click. See that price tag. Wha? And note, the other copy I found on Ebay was in line with that outrageous price. Still, I understand why. This is the linchpin issue of the modern Captain America saga. Bucky is back as the Winter Soldier – and it’s awesome. The groundwork for Cap getting killed and replaced… and for once, I’d be okay with the replacement keeping the position, even with a resurrected Steve Rogers creeping around the Marvel U again.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #11

By admin | Published September 9, 2010

Recently Marvel has been doing some good things with event books. Avengers #500? Game changer. I think this set the tone and bar for Marvel U to do great things with issues that by sheer number SHOULD be great.

This issue certainly fits in with the pedigree.

#11 – Daredevil 100 (volume 2)

Incredible cast of artists including Lee Bermejo, Gene Colan, John Romita Sr and more recent DD favorites Maleev, Lark, and Djurdjevic. Brubaker holds it down and if you are a fan of any modern books, check this one out. It might make you rethink how cool Daredevil can be.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #12

By admin | Published September 8, 2010

So if you have been detached from the comics world for a minute, lemme catch you up.

Essentially, the Scarlet Witch flipped the entire world inside out and created an alternate reality before reverting to the one we know and love… except that now there’s a whole lot less mutants. (I would go with the “no more mutants” tag, but you know, it’s outdated.)

In the process, she kinda killed Hawkeye, who obviously was not okay with that. So… what happens next?

#12 – New Avengers 26

Hawkeye finds her, disguised as a simple villager in the frozen in time villages of Wundagore Mountain. The Witch seduces him, things go down, and he realizes he is in no position to exact revenge from a demigod. Bendis spins a great yarn, one of the many in New Avengers, but Alex Maleev is on point. A style which is both gritty and smooth, he was the perfect artist to pen this issue – an underrated feature is his ability to develop facial emotion and buildup through his panels, which is on full display here.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #13

By admin | Published September 7, 2010

Bad luck is for suckers, so here’s #13.

Alan Davis bangs out one of the best annuals. Maybe the coolest X-book that doesn’t really feature any true X-Men.

New Mutants? Check. Pre-Ninja Psylocke? Check. O.G. Excalibur? Check.

Doug Ramsey saving the day? DOUBLE CHECK!

Here’s the thing – I never liked Doug Ramsey. He sucked. He was the most transparent attempt at an everyman / everychild for the meek and meager to relate to. As if Cannonball wasn’t lame enough?

When he was killed (or put down like a poor old dog in my opinion) the New Mutants were able to grow. The team could face dangers and conflict with a different tone – simply put, Doug’s greatest contribution was dying. However, this is the best Doug story, and Alan Davis knocks it out of the park. I think this was the era when Arthur Adams was the king of the x-annual, and I think Alan Davis rose to the challenge. Home run issue for anyone who likes any of the following.

1. Alan Davis art (seriously, some of his best stuff)

2. New Mutants

3. Excalibur

4. Word Balloons galore aka Claremontian storytelling

5. Doug Ramsey aka Cypher aka the lamest duck.
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Top 100 Summer Comics #14

By admin | Published September 6, 2010

I’ve mentioned Acts of Vengeance enough on here that really, I need to recommend you check it out. Marvel is putting out an omnibus so I’ll get that up at some point. But this corner of the meta-crossover was so good I often forget it was even consider a part of it.

#14 – Uncanny X-Men 256

This is by far the coolest the Mandarin has ever been. Claremont and this newbie artist by the name of JIM LEE just upped the ante on the whole game with this 3 issue jaunt. Psylocke returns as a crazy ninja assassin and Wolverine is trying to get her back, despite looking like a Jersey Shore cast member trying to wake up at 7 am. Not pretty.

The best part about all this? Not surprisingly, Lee’s pencils were absolutely on point. The tone and imaging of the book resonates so well that the story was leaping off the pages. A great story that was just taken another step by the visual – perfect example of the validity and value of comic books in the literary marketplace.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #15

By admin | Published September 5, 2010

I talked about Iron Man and his rogues gallery yesterday. Here’s an example of a well placed oddball villain making for a killer issue. Had he become a regular, it would have ruined the moment. But that’s why comics are put out in single issues, and why it’s slowly becoming a lost art.

#15 – Iron Man 252

Somehow a washed up former Iron Fist villain showed up JUST enough for a great issue. I was at the height of my encyclopedic knowledge of the Marvel universe… and I had never heard of this guy. A good isolation issue.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #16

By admin | Published September 4, 2010

As a precursor to the fall DC project, I’ve been thinking about one of the weakest points of Marvel’s biggest heroes.

Past the arch enemy, the big name rival, the selection of enemies are thin, broadly speaking. Spider-Man is good, let’s mention that. He’s got depth. But what other Marvel characters have a rogues’ gallery that can compare to the Flash? Or Batman? Or Superman?

I could only come up with one.

#16 – Iron Man 220

Mid ’80s Iron Man. Somehow over the years they’ve fallen off the radar for the most part, but at one point Iron Man had a formidable selection of villains. The Ghost. Spymaster. Modok. The Controller. Madame Masque. Blizzard. Crimson Dynamo. Gray Gargoyle. AND those are just the b-rate villains. I didn’t even need to mention the Mandarin. Iron Man, led by the pencils of Bob Layton, was just on top from about issue 200 to 265 (mention to some great issues and runs from Byrne and JR Jr., respectively). Can’t miss.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #17

By admin | Published September 3, 2010

For reasons now lost to memory, for the past four days I’ve had a wikipedia tab opened on my safari browser to the entry on Shinobi Shaw. I don’t know why. Throw me a Delorean and I’ll go back and ask Tuesday Bob, for now, I’m not questioning it. Just embracing.

#17 – X-Factor 67

Whilce Portacio kills in this issue. My copy of this was traced about a thousand times – and afterwards I was still not much of a better artist. However what sells this story on top of that are 1) Inhumans 2) Apocalypse before he became ’90s played out 3) Portacio’s Iceman was the best 4) Shinobi Shaw.

I guess this is father v. son week in the summer hundred, because I can’t think of a better “Hey dad!” moment then Shinobi Shaw buying out his father’s company, ruining his financial profile, implying that his colleague (a fat fat gross dude by the name of Harry Leland) was his actual father… and then using his mutant ability to give him a heartattack.

Talk about angst.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #18

By admin | Published September 2, 2010

Spider-Man is a great super-hero. I think, that as time goes by, he will age better than other super hero titans Batman and Superman.

Why? He’s dynamic. Very dynamic. Think about this – Batman is a loner, dark, and edgy. When he’s played anything else, it either comes off campy or just straight up stupid. Doesn’t work.

Superman is slightly less pigeon holed in the tone department, and the darker, isolated angle of Superman is rarely played up. What detaches him from the audience is his near omnipotence. At one point (multiple points?) DC has had to reign in the spectrum of his power to give him boundaries.

#18 – Web of Spider-Man 60

This was reflected during the Acts of Vengeance crossover very well. The myriad of villains he was faced with somehow worked really well. While other results varied from mediocre (to be honest, a lot) to zany (Fantastic Four) to surprisingly cool (Captain America v. Magneto), Spider-Man faced a handful of b-rate villains and somehow it didn’t fall to far from his results with his normal stable of villains. Strong era for Web of… and I loved this issue. Always partial to Goliath as a villain. Love to see him revisited with this look and maybe a slight “gigantic-human-with-a-grudge-and-a-rage-on” decimation of some midwestern towns.

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Top 100 Summer Comics #19

By admin | Published September 1, 2010

The son, the father.

Always an amazing dynamic. Easily the most cataclysmic family dynamic of the Marvel Universe.

And when Marvel Boy’s father got to be a bit too abusive… well, as my friend Jason Scheller would say… “Click, Click, BOOM.”

#19 – New Warriors 20

Maybe one of the most out of left field murders in Marvel history. But it led to a trial, and to be honest, this was the tipping off point – it’s not that I didn’t like New Warriors after this point, but it was just not the same. The book was start to spread out the characters, and the dangling plot lines were being tossed every which way. Note that this is off of 20 years of memory, but I still enjoyed. I am dying to dig into the attic at my mom’s house to pull out my New Warriors run and nerd out…

*That said, I only said it once in the first of these posts some 80 days ago, but the random summer comics are only Marvel. Why? Because when I was at the height of my comic book revelry, I was a strict Marvel zombie. That said, with age, I’ve grown to like all sorts of gross stuff, like salad dressing and sushi. So I’ve developed a certain love, respect, and downright enjoyment for many things DC… so in the fall I’ll be doing the sequel to this run, the “30 things DC does better than Marvel” postings. Hope you enjoy.
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