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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 16, 2007 12:00:03 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 16, 2007 12:10:45 GMT
I was seconds ahead of you in the ROM thread. Unfortunately, poking about the website in question reveals that the books are only available for US residents.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 1, 2008 14:45:00 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 18, 2011 16:49:59 GMT
I've been re-reading the DeMattis Cap run recently. 291 is a fill in issue written by Mantlo. So when I got to Bullpen Bulletins I counted up the number of titles Bill had written that month: 6 1/2!
Four were regular gigs too!
Rom
Hulk
Micronauts
Peter Parker the Spectacular Spiderman
Captain America
Micronauts Special Edition (reprint)
X-Men & Micronauts (with Claremont)
The man was a script machine!
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 18, 2011 19:33:44 GMT
He certainly had a work ethic!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jul 18, 2011 20:36:42 GMT
It is a very impressive tally isn't it?
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 24, 2011 20:28:33 GMT
A question: Which are your favourite Mantlo issues ?
I'd nominate the Power Man/Iron Fist, Nova & Galactus Rom issues that opened my mind to a wider Marvel Universe and the simply brilliant Hulk 290 (Ms Modok). (Andu & Karl: Please tell me you have read this comic)
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 24, 2011 21:12:48 GMT
Yes. Yes I have.
Two fave Mantlo issues.
Marvel Two in One 53 iirc the JohN Byrne illustrated issue with Adam Warlock and Spider-Man and the first issue of Rocket Racoon's Limited series.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 24, 2011 21:19:53 GMT
and is it not great?
That MTU Warlock issus isn't bad at all. I'm wondering if it'll be in the Byrne/Claremont trade as there's several stories each did without the other ?
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Post by legios on Jul 25, 2011 19:24:09 GMT
I'd nominate the Power Man/Iron Fist, Nova & Galactus Rom issues that opened my mind to a wider Marvel Universe and the simply brilliant Hulk 290 (Ms Modok). (Andu & Karl: Please tell me you have read this comic) I have, many years ago now but I most certainly have. T'was great stuff. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2011 19:44:56 GMT
Can't think of my favourite Mantlo issue just yet but my favourite Mantlo moment is in the issue of ROM when Brandy is getting married and ROM punches the door so hard it flies off its hinges, while he looms where it once stood shouting: "BRANDY! DO NOT DO THIS THING!". A sudden eruption of violence and melodrama in one mighty panel after a fairly sedate scene.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 29, 2011 12:01:42 GMT
Mantlotainment now on Marvel's comic app on Ipad. The Cloak and Dagger mini with art by Rick Leonardi and Terry Austin.
WOOOP!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 29, 2011 21:46:58 GMT
I've never actually read that.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 29, 2011 22:08:19 GMT
Well, you can read it on the robot train to Auto Assembly!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 30, 2011 9:35:03 GMT
Me neither
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 2, 2011 13:05:07 GMT
Well you can read it at AA as I will pass my Ipad on to you.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2011 15:45:14 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 6, 2011 15:55:48 GMT
I saw his words when I thumbed through his last Hulk issue in FPG last week.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 28, 2011 16:17:30 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2011 18:30:34 GMT
Why have I not known of this issue until now???
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 28, 2011 21:10:25 GMT
I have no memory of it! It's in my to-read (again) pile at the moment.
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Post by legios on Oct 28, 2011 21:31:52 GMT
I was completely unware of this as well. Looks like a lovely bit of meta-texuality
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 29, 2011 13:36:29 GMT
Fantastic stuff.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 12, 2011 14:39:57 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 13, 2011 21:57:55 GMT
And this is why I will never understand resistance of allowing free health care.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 13, 2011 23:24:58 GMT
Indeed not.
A bit upsetting to read.
Andy
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Post by legios on Nov 14, 2011 21:28:30 GMT
It is indeed more than a little upsetting.
I can't wrap my head around a viewpoint that says it is ok to have a system that treats a persons medical condition like that. I just can't see how it makes sense.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 18, 2011 9:14:44 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 18, 2011 19:10:52 GMT
It can only be the 'Total War' arc in ROM, when the book shifted gears into being a full-on war comic in which anyone could go at any moment and there were no safe characters.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 20, 2011 22:59:39 GMT
I'm currently reading my way through the X-Men/Micronauts limited series which features one of the most unlikely but entertaining teamups I can imagine - not the X-Men and the Micronauts, and not the Micronauts and Baron Karza, but Chris Claremont and Bill Mantlo with a shared writing credit. For a four issue limited series it is glorious bonkers and plenty full of incident - the first issue opens with a mass battle, a planet being blown up, the introduction of a seemingly unstoppable mysterious foe.... and then the X-Men are introduced into the mix. A break-kneck juggernaut of grandstanding nonsense ensues. It may not be the best work of either writer, but it is fine entertaining stuff.
Karl
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