tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post3187233103344806991..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-aminations in June 2018 (-ish) Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-250061667343577682018-06-22T19:29:49.766-05:002018-06-22T19:29:49.766-05:00I vote retro, and not the least because I get the ...I vote retro, and not the least because I get the sense I am one of the older readers of this blog and was probably around to read a lot of it when it came out. I provide the same service over at Matt's blog for 70s stuff, after all! Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00605826105741513741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-83577005488869885802018-06-21T22:03:54.111-05:002018-06-21T22:03:54.111-05:00I'd love to see a few more retro reviews. You ...I'd love to see a few more retro reviews. You always post things that I didn't realize the X-Men were part of. I'd love to see a list of X-Men appearances outside of the regular X-Books for the Gold/Silver age up until they started appearing everywhere. Like when you covered the Hulk issues with Havok and Polaris or Captain Marvel having Brotherhood appearance and then the Marvel Super-Heroes that covered the unpublished Captain Marvel final issue. Scott Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795112175606617848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-53334922387991932922018-06-21T16:06:11.268-05:002018-06-21T16:06:11.268-05:00I know Hulk has been an official Avengers since th...I know Hulk has been an official Avengers since the first movie in 2012, and he's in the movie and is considered one of the "core" group with Cap, Iron Man, and Thor, but having living in a world where he really wasn't an Avenger for pretty much my entire life up to the point -- not to mention the fifteen or so years prior to my birth -- I still have a really, really hard time considering him a member of the team.<br /><br />Forget differences in technology or societal norms -- non-Avenger Hulk vs. Avenger Hulk will easily be the biggest generational hurdle for my son and me to overcome as he grows up.<br /><br />Anyway, my vote is probably retro. There's always older stuff to look back on, and it makes for a nice change of pace once in a while to check back in with the Silver or Bronze ages.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-65595486979383092742018-06-21T14:17:57.549-05:002018-06-21T14:17:57.549-05:00My virtual 50¢:
If the Retro Reviews are written...<br>My virtual 50¢: <br /><br />If the Retro Reviews are written, or mostly written, or fairly easily to be written, go that route. You have precedent for running special installments on a one-per-week basis, and you’ll preserve the general three-per-week schedule of the main chronological posts when they resume. The next couple of months are an opportune time to break from the normal continuity anyhow, since it’s summer for most of your readership and folks going on vacation or hosting visitors or what-have-you can drop out for a spell without really falling behind. <br /><br />If preparing each of the Retro Reviews takes the same time as preparing a regular post, however, or even more, then sticking with the regular posts but throttling them back to an intentional one-per-week release as you bank material with an eye towards returning to your normal schedule obviously has its appeal versus giving yourself more to do right when you’re playing catch-up and potentially just kicking the can down the road.<br /><br />Which is more advice than a vote, maybe… but at least informed by my preference?<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-1711940979420663712018-06-21T13:14:31.068-05:002018-06-21T13:14:31.068-05:00Journey into Mystery featured Thor. Tales of Suspe...Journey into Mystery featured Thor. Tales of Suspense had Iron Man and, eventually, Captain America. Tales to Astonish originally had Hulk and Ant Man.<br /><br />Astonishing Tales wouldn't return to the Marvel line-up until the 1970s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-25688555713582993772018-06-21T09:53:47.594-05:002018-06-21T09:53:47.594-05:00Hulk resigns in #2 I believe at which point his bo...Hulk resigns in #2 I believe at which point his book ceases to be an Avengers book. But either or, it's an undoable thing what you're fantasizing about.<br /><br />Also I notice I should have said JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY and... ASTONISHING TALES (?) or TALES OF SUSPENSE (?) instead.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-64895443740162448602018-06-21T09:41:25.475-05:002018-06-21T09:41:25.475-05:00Ha!
Someday, in a magical future where I have mo...Ha! <br /><br />Someday, in a magical future where I have more free time, I'd love to give the X-aminations approach to the Avengers and all their connected books. Though, like you, I wouldn't quite know what to do with Hulk - he's technically an Avenger, but his series never really weaves in and out of the main Avengers narrative the way Cap, Thor & Iron Man's does. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-81215675373364487602018-06-21T07:44:38.033-05:002018-06-21T07:44:38.033-05:00I've decided I need to read the AVENGERS start...I've decided I need to read the AVENGERS starting from #1, and I got immediately stuck at #2 because I needed to go read TALES TO ASTONISH, and now I have to decide what to do with HULK and THOR. I didn't really know there was a thing that is the Ant-Man catapult.<br /><br />There's no Cable catapult, or Bishop catapult. My vote is retro. Teemunoreply@blogger.com