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COMIC NERD IS ORBLE KING FOR A DAY!

January 29th 2007 12:32

Eat it losers! Yours truly, otherwise known as The Comic Nerd, has been crowned Orble Post of the Day by Cibbuano. Or as I prefer to think of it...

ORBLE KING FOR A DAY

That's right peons. And to pick out my crown I have enlisted the help of Comic Nerd Favourite Grimlock, leader of the Dinobots.

Nah, think I like the middle one. Must be gold, though...

Thank you, my Autobot friends! Thank you my loyal subjects and groupies!

And thank you Cibbuano. Check's in the mail buddy.

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MY LIFE IN COMICS: PART 1

January 27th 2007 18:25

I've been gabbling on about comic books for a good few months now, without ever really providing a background for how I came to love what I love, why I love it, and what it is exactly that I do love. So here is part one of a series, pretty much explaining how I got into comics and what titles did the trick. It's almost my life story, which could be depressing.

OK, so I can't remember the exact first comic that I bought. But I do remember this: whenever Mum would take me shopping with her when I was but a wee lad, she'd buy me a comic book. And a Star Wars figure too! Thanks Mum, you were awesome! I usually picked what comic I wanted based on whatever cover I thought was cool at the time. I wasn't following characters, or series, I was just going with my gut. As it turns out my gut was pretty good, and sometimes pretty odd. (And no, jokes about fat comic nerds don't apply - I'm at the other end of the stereotype!)

I don't have most of those books anymore, but a bit of detective work on the good old internet was able to refresh my memory. As regular readers of this blog might have figured out already, my collection was almost entirely Marvel. I had a few old Superman and Batman comics, but just about everything else was from their competition. I must have had a massive thing for Spider-Man, because he's the hero I had the most of, with the Hulk a distant second.

Looking back, I had a lot of issues from what are now considered classic runs. I had a couple of Amazing Spider-Mans by Roger Stern, a Daredevil by Frank Miller, a John Byrne Fantastic Four, an Iron Man by Bob Layton and Dave Michelinie, a Chris Claremont X-Men. But this was in the era of about 1982, when Marvel were cranking out a lot of good books - I'd rate it their best era ever. I also got some oddball things, like a couple of issues of Spider-Woman (god knows why) and an issue of Power Man and Iron Fist guest-starring Moon Knight which sounds like the height of awesome, but I can't remember it much now.

THE HIGHLIGHTS:

Spidey Super-Stories #32: I'm guessing as to whether this is the correct comic, as this one seems to be cover-dated 1978, but it seems like the right one. All I remember is that Spidey meets Spider-Woman for the first time ever, and Doc Ock enters himself in Wimbledon. Of course it all ends in a big tennis match, with Dock Ock holding a racquet in each of his mechanical arms, and Spidey making his out of webs. Crazy.

Amazing Spider-Man #232: Man, this one was classic. Mr. Hyde is trying to kill his former partner the Cobra, and Spidey's trying to stop him. Carnage ensues, and some of the outright funniest Spidey banter ever. When I found out that Roger Stern's run was so well regarded, I wasn't surprised to discover he wrote this one. I really must track down the rest of that run some day.

Uncanny X-Men #163: This is right in the middle of the classic Brood Saga, with the X-Men on an alien world fighting for their lives, not knowing that alien eggs are about to hatch inside them. I only understood about half of what was going on in this thing at the time, but something about it really grabbed me. It was all so serious and desperate and adult and complicated, and it always stuck with me. In terms of my later buying habits, this was probably the most significant of these early purchases. It also had a great cliffhanger, one that took me fifteen years to track down the resolution of!

But now we come to the pick of the crop, the absolute favorite comic of my childhood:

Incredible Hulk Annual #11: The Day the Earth Turned Green! Hulk's super-smart enemy the Leader has concocted some formula that will turn everyone into Hulks, and he's dumped it into New York's water supply. Pretty soon people start coming down with the 'green flu', and most of them think that the Hulk is to blame. So the Avengers and Spider-Man go after him, which results in an awesome big fight. Of all the comics I no longer have, I miss this the most.

NEXT: Hasbro conquers my life!

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CYCLOPS: RACIST?

January 25th 2007 12:18

OK, you all probably know Cyclops. Uptight leader of the X-Men, always making time with Wolverine's girl, all of that. He's a usually a decent guy, you know, when he's not abandoning his wife and child to run off with his ex-lover returned from the dead. But what are his views on the people of the Middle East in these troubled times?

Bloody hell. No wonder the X-Men have never achieved equality for mutants.

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MAGNETO: MASTER OF DISGUISE!!!

January 23rd 2007 13:21

And now I post this panel... IN THE NAME OF HOMO SUPERIOIR!

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What's your favourite Comic Cover?

January 22nd 2007 12:04

There have been a lot of great comic covers over the years, and since I'm feeling lazy I thought this would be a great time to share my favourite since it's a post that won't take very long.

The thing is, there's a veritable assload of covers that this could be. I have a lot of favourites. If we're narrowing it down, I suppose I have to go with something from The Uncanny X-Men, as it's been the series that I've stuck with longer than any other. But there are a lot, from lots of different series, and if you ask me tomorrow I might have changed my mind

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CONAN VS. WOLVERINE!!!

January 21st 2007 10:05

WHAT IF vol. 2 #16 by Glenn Herdling and Gary Kwapisz

What If Wolverine Had Lived During the Age of Conan the Barbarian?
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MARVEL'S APRIL SOLICITATIONS: TAKE 2!!!

January 19th 2007 07:15

Ok, given that I got a bit sidetracked when talking about Marvel's releases for April, I'm back today to give the list a more thorough treatment. I covered the major Civil War related stuff last time, but there are a few other new releases I feel like I ought to bring to your attention:

SPIDER-MAN/FANTASTIC FOUR #1 of 4: Normally I wouldn't bother to highlight this miniseries - it has all the signs of being an excruciatingly insignificant piece of filler. But the writing credits say Jeff Parker, and the pencilling credits say Mike Wieringo, and they're both awesome. Parker has been entertaining me all year with such fun books as Marvel Adventures: The Avengers and Agents of Atlas, so I expect this to be a hell of a lot of fun. Throw in Wieringo, whose style is perfectly suited to this kind of series, and you've got what looks like a top-notch book. I'm sure it'll still be insignificant, but what does that matter really

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MARVEL'S APRIL SOLICITATIONS

January 17th 2007 09:13

It's that time of the month again folks: Marvel has revealed it's product for April (thus dictating what comics I'll be reading on my honeymoon!) and let me say there are no surprises - Civil War is *still* rolling on...

The first thing that springs to the eye is tha the following titles are all CLASSIFIED INFORMATION: Avengers: The Initiative #1, Black Panther #27, Fantastic Four #545, Iron Man #17, Ms. Marvel #14, New Avengers #29, and She-Hulk #18. Nothing in the solicitations except for the creator credits and some cover previews. The reason is obvious - they're trying to keep the SHOCK ENDING!!!! of Civil War a secret. But perhaps with some deductive reasoning and diligent clue-scraping and utter bullshittery, we can put together a reasonable stab at future events

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CONAN VERSUS THOR!!

January 15th 2007 11:25

Be ready for things to get... GORIER IN HYBORIA!!!!

WHAT IF #39 by Alan Zelenetz and Ron Wilson

"What If Thor of Asgard Had Met Conan the Barbarian?
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An Ass-Kicking Interlude - guest-starring Conan!

January 13th 2007 09:17

As I'm feeling a bit run down today (head fried by a day in the sun, plus a lifetime of reading comics instead of actually moving) this will be a brief one. Brief - but ass-kicking!

We all love Conan the Barbarian, right? But what does Conan love? According to the movie, the best things in life are "to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!" He left out the fourth one - "to engage in senses-shattering clashes with adamantium-clawed mutants and Asgardian thunder gods!!!!
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THE FIVE BEST THINGS SAID IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - EVER!!!! Part 1

January 12th 2007 13:23

Once more I'm without the time to make a proper post today (watching the cricket, you know), so instead I'm coming at you with more hyperbole. Recycled hyperbole, in fact. Here's the deal - a few posts ago I declared several bits of dialogue from Fantastic Four #6 to be among the five best things in the English language, ever. They, and others that fit in the top five, must be preserved for prosperity and the good of all! And now, the list, in no particular order:

#1. DOCTOR DOOM: "Never fear! I am strong -- strong enough to join the powers of science to those of darkness! Show me the puny mortal who does not tremble at the name of Doctor Doom
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