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Wheat Loaf posted:I was reading about these small publisher that sprang up amidst the 90s boom and it perplexed me a bit: who was backing up this softcore porn comic that it could pay top dollar to get Keith Giffen writing stories about superheroes loving? Presumably Bob Guccione, the same multi-billionaire who was behind every other Penthouse thing.
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Gavok posted:Yeah, he was called the Red Goblin and was treated as the final end boss of Dan Slott's Spider-Man run. Eddie Brock even lent the Venom symbiote to Spider-Man to make it an even playing field. A red goblin should have just been called Red Cap.
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Rhyno posted:They accepted our offer! Rhyno gonna own a house! That's awesome. My partner and I were knee-deep in the process of house-hunting when her parked car got entirely totalled by a drunk guy careening the wrong way up our street, which put the house thing on the backburner, so I know what an ordeal even the early parts of the process are.
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It is indeed that Wallace Wood. Whether or not it's good I can't say. It definitely was not my cup of tea and I didn't finish, and it isn't really Wood at his most inventive, but it's definitely very very beautifully drawn and if you're more into the macho-camp bit you might like it-- it reminded me quite a bit of a slightly more poker-faced Archer.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Yeah, I ended up getting the second trade of Little Annie Fanny thinking "Kurtzman and Elder, how could it not be awesome!?" But it was lackluster and did nothing for me. Maybe in its original context it was more interesting or something. I fear the Cannon thing would probably be similar. IIRC it was made for a weekly paper, Overseas Weekly, that was mainly distributed to American military personnel stationed overseas from the 50s through the 70s. Although OW was subversive in a number of ways-- I remember reading about how it ran editorials pushing back against the distribution of far-right John Birch poo poo by officers-- it was still a kind of sleazy tabloid definitely geared for rowdy sharing, so a lot of its features were definitely titillating in a kind of "boys will be boys" nudging, leering way that I found fairly unsavory, with Cannon being no exception. Little Annie Fanny is actually a pretty good reference point.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Yeah, I have a bunch in binders and like every page of 9 cards has 4 or 5 90s characters no one has thought about in 30 years. It's nice to think back on them as a time capsule of who was considered high profile enough to merit a card. I remember having the 1992 set as a kid and thinking Maelstrom was an incredibly big deal, when really he was just currently wrapped in a Quasar arc. IIRC the 1993 set where everything was split into 9x9 murals was also a treasure trove of C-listers-- Slayback! Splice! Terror Inc! Individual members of Six Pack or whatever Cable's other team was called!
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