Issue I Loved That Everyone Else Hated: American Flagg! 42 You people just don’t understand how important it was at the time to know that you were never more than 30 days away from another Alan Moore Swamp Thing story. His work went a long way toward teaching me exactly what an inker contributed to the page. Baker worked as a journeyman inker for Marvel during the mid to late 80s, and he was one of the first artists whose brushwork I could instantly recognize. Finishes were by Kyle Baker, and his style was a complete and utter revelation to me at the time. Breakdowns for the issue were by Bob Hall, who also did the art for Emperor Doom. This one shot issue is an epilog to the classic Roger Stern/John Buscema “Under Siege” storyline. This is the first issue of the two-part “Roach Wrangler” storyline, which climaxes with the main characters being hopelessly overrun by cockroaches while Badger screams, “Goosh! Goosh for all you’re worth!” You’d be amazed at how often life provides you a proper context to quote that line. The entire First Comics run is worth your time, but the issues drawn by Bill Reinhold (5-32, plus the Hexbreaker graphic novel) are a particular highlight. One of great uncollected runs in the history of comics is Mike Baron’s Badger. At any rate, it’s past time we gave this one a reevaluation. The book does a good job – a fantastic job when you stop to consider the audience it was aimed at and the political climate of the late 80s – of addressing the bind these heroes find themselves in, and – of course – Captain America seems to be the only one who is utterly convinced that freedom of choice is more important than freedom from starvation and war.įrankly, I’m surprised that this story wasn’t discussed more over the last year, with its obvious similarities to Jonathan Hickman’s recent Secret Wars crossover. Suitably horrified, he wakes up a few of his Avenging friends, including Captain America at his most self-righteous. Doom ruling a world devoid of war, crime, and poverty. Future movie-star Wonder Man is the point of view character here, as Iron Man asks him to volunteer for a Plot Device/Lengthy Sensory Deprivation experiment, so that he alone is spared the ravaged of the Purple Man’s mind control. Doom used The Purple Man to take over the world? And what if the world seemed better off for it? The perennially underrated David Michelinie hits this one out of the park. O’Neil’s Zen take on Victor Sage is firmly in place, and the art really gels this issue, with penciler Denys Cowan and inker Rick Maygar coalescing to form one of the unsung art teams of the late 80s. After a fairly rocky start – with writer Denny O’Neil pushing the reader’s suspension of disbelief a bit too far on the debut issue (the clearly human lead character was shot in the head and drowned, but somehow gets better in issue two) – issue five finds everything working. The Question was my favorite ongoing comic at the time, and issue 5 is probably my favorite single issue of the run. Let’s take a look at the edited highlights of what comics I bought that month. Lacking anything more important to say, today we’re setting the coordinates for March 1987 (a randomly chosen destination, for sure), when I was 17 years old. If you’re not familiar with the site, you pick the month and year, and Mike spits out all the comics published that month. So, I recently discovered The Newsstand feature at Mike’s Amazing World.
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