tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post8081729696738597642..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: Score One More for Capitalist DecadenceComicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-18478988051942063192018-02-24T10:45:37.118-05:002018-02-24T10:45:37.118-05:00Wow when Iron Man rips off T-man's helmet and ...Wow when Iron Man rips off T-man's helmet and ready's a sock to the face you really see that Boris is actually large like his Armour, maybe the suit gives him a growth spurt like Pym's Giant Man.Iainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-9890212374677988412013-04-10T01:35:33.419-04:002013-04-10T01:35:33.419-04:00Despite being a Bronze-Age of comics junkie, I was...Despite being a Bronze-Age of comics junkie, I was never a big fan of Iron Man, although I'm not sure why, exactly. His rogue's gallery, I thought, was less than compelling, his motivations contrived and it seemed to me that ol' Shellhead worked better in the team concept of the Avengers.<br />As for Boris, apparently those hormone treatments worked a little to well, and its interesting to see how the character was viewed differently in the 70's and 80's than the 60's, when he was characterized as just another in a long line of craven communist bullies.<br />Steve Gerber and Steve Engleheart both addressed the paradoxes that patriotic Russian superheroes might have dealt with during that time; I thought that the female Red Guardian was a great character in a lot ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com