tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post576745143790625475..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Wednesday Comics: DC, November 1980 (wk 1, pt 1)Treyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-11346008673761045522021-08-04T11:26:31.082-04:002021-08-04T11:26:31.082-04:00Escapologist Batman must have had a certain demogr...Escapologist Batman must have had a certain demographic. I wonder where they are now and where that trope goes. Love the reminder that someone named "Moroni" (who is really the "Carousel" twirling around like the wheel of fortune) was involved in the uncanny birth of Two Face. Shame there was never an Arkham Asylum 2 to delve these tarot tropes but probably just as well in the long run.<br /><br />As for Mongol, if memory serves (might be very wrong) this only became a big deal when Byrne took over. But the challenge of dialoguing a super-confident man of tomorrow is an interesting one. Does he ever need to say anything or even have thought balloons? Or is reading a "good" issue of Superman a little like watching the weather channel?bombasticushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09570356997079883076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-28602366804846800852021-08-04T10:17:35.416-04:002021-08-04T10:17:35.416-04:00These last two Starlin drawn (but written by diffe...These last two Starlin drawn (but written by different people) stories so I kind of different Superman. He's very confident (perhaps a bit condescending) and doesn't listen to others. Given the similar portrayals, I wonder if Starlin sort of plotted these stories and the "writers" just gave feedback and dialogued them, but I don't know.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-88243242370358756642021-08-04T09:15:47.017-04:002021-08-04T09:15:47.017-04:00There sure are a lot of disguises going on in that...There sure are a lot of disguises going on in that Batman story!<br /><br />I'm going to assume that Superman giving Mongul the key's to the War World is something that doesn't get brought up much in later years, because it makes Superman look really bad. Especially his whole vow to kick Mongul out of War World or die trying. More like, kick him out within the next half hour, or give up and let Mongul go on an intergalactic killing spree, apparently. Really not Superman's finest hour!Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493700749333105771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-88774240170848423022021-08-04T08:08:42.877-04:002021-08-04T08:08:42.877-04:00Yes, it's 223. I fixed it.
Well, Mongul had t...Yes, it's 223. I fixed it.<br /><br />Well, Mongul had to be after Darkseid and Thanos, but yeah, I would have guessed a couple of years earlier.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-44832191733368401472021-08-04T07:58:11.314-04:002021-08-04T07:58:11.314-04:00Did you mean GI Combat #223? That's teh cover...Did you mean GI Combat #223? That's teh cover you're showing, and #224 came out in December 1980 if the database I looked at is correct. I read a lot of HT over the years but this one's a bit beyond my time, so the contents remain a mystery either way.<br /><br />The "ghost dog" thing sounds like it could be a decent basis for a story, but the writers on Ghosts were usually phoning it in so probably not getting that much effort.<br /><br />Had no idea Mogul was such a relatively recent character. Would have thought he was around in the 1970s, partly because (as you noted) the whole "War World" thing has always had distinct overtones of being a Star Wars ripoff, which were everywhere in the later part of that decade.<br /><br />There must be a joke waiting to be told about Batman, Wonder Woman and appearing on thinly-veiled bondage fetish covers, but I can't quite assemble it. At least Bruce isn't being spanked or whipped there.Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com