tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post8921109767927833268..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: ...And One Shall Fall!Comicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-17338210375768361822018-03-01T19:33:32.068-05:002018-03-01T19:33:32.068-05:00tiboldt, I'm pretty sure it was in a church be...tiboldt, I'm pretty sure it was in a church because they were getting married. I don't actually read comics, though... so I could be wrong.Natnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-56658192698390123592018-02-09T22:18:13.342-05:002018-02-09T22:18:13.342-05:00You know, Iain, now that you mention it, the scene...You know, Iain, now that you mention it, the scene you reference now reminds me of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92lwym9QL2g" rel="nofollow">the piano scene entrance</a> from <i>Johnny Guitar</i>. Too bad Ultron is really only "playing" his control panel--I would have been bowled over if Mr. Perez had instead made it a piano!<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-35960632402420414442018-02-09T21:16:02.477-05:002018-02-09T21:16:02.477-05:00I reas this years ago before I got big into the Av...I reas this years ago before I got big into the Avengers or knew who Ultron was the scene where the Avengers burst into Ultron's chambers where he seems to be playing a piano then Yellowjacket threatens him and calls him names cause his weapons dont work anymore confused me as a kid, just who was the bad guy here Ultron minding his own business or this aggressive Yellowjacket and then all the Avengers go hell bound to KO the Ultron. I must have wondered what this poor robot had done to earn such abuse but then I hadnt read any previous Ultron/Avengers tales.Iainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-81786634869849427332017-12-15T04:47:00.829-05:002017-12-15T04:47:00.829-05:00Warren, my understanding is that Ultron's ence...Warren, my understanding is that Ultron's encephalo-beam puts the victim into a coma, which leads to death within hours. Perez's drawing of it no doubt makes it look more severe to human flesh than it is (previously it looked as if it actually punctured the victim's head and exited from the rear)--probably a simple display of wavelight directed at the target would have been sufficient.<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-76059526195415899012017-12-14T21:29:25.948-05:002017-12-14T21:29:25.948-05:00Hank in the middle of that scrum - pfff. That'...Hank in the middle of that scrum - pfff. That's the kind of 'fear and hatred' I could live with.<br /><br />"Ms. Marvel at this point in time was interacting with the Avengers in her own struggling title... (The title's downward spiral would continue, regardless.)"<br /><br />The more things change...<br /><br />"Remember this--? Stark built it out of spare parts..."<br /><br />Not to be outdone by the FF's flying bathtub, the Avengers got themselves a flying jacuzzi.<br /><br />Does speaking latin to nuns really make them more conducive to a mob of folk who are really a little too old for trick-or-treat costumes?<br /><br />"... and thereby converting my flesh-and-blood mother into a suitable mate..."<br /><br />Uncomfortable. Ultron's really going whole-hog on the oedipal thing, isn't he?<br /><br />"I also devised treatments to bio-chemically immunize us to your deadliest weapon!"<br /><br />Uh, okay... You can take shots to protect yourself from laser-beams? Was there any explanation on how Ultron's encephalo-beam worked?<br /><br />"We haven't wandered into an episode of Batman, have we?"<br /><br />Join us next episode, same hex-time, same hex-channel!<br /><br />Jocasta's statement to Ultron... can't quite wrap my head around it.<br /><br />"Be thou <b><i>silent</i></b>, Yellowjacket!"<br /><br />What can I say? I laughed.Warren JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743987856127631574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-84972979673588868952017-12-13T06:53:43.623-05:002017-12-13T06:53:43.623-05:00Tiboldt, Mrs. Pike hurries off to a customer she l...Tiboldt, Mrs. Pike hurries off to a customer she left in the dressing room--Carol Danvers, who subsequently changes to Ms. Marvel and takes off to assist the Avengers. Blanche has designs on Mrs. Pike's job, and hopes the latter gets in trouble so that she can step up. Their little drama seemed an odd waste of panels and time by Perez and certainly Shooter, though I at least get the segue to Ms. Marvel's involvement.<br /><br />Heh--"...it's Shooter, not Gerber." Quite!<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-20851053682983087422017-12-13T06:35:29.277-05:002017-12-13T06:35:29.277-05:00A great issue but I'd like to bring up a numbe...A great issue but I'd like to bring up a number of points.<br /><br /><b>Artwork:</b> Though this is the same Perez/Marcos combination as the last issue, some of the early panels seem to lack the Perez touch. Take the opening page shown above - the blond guy on the right definitely has Perez hair, but that slightly wonky-looking, overly-muscled Cap in the middle is missing anything recognisable as GP's work, in my opinion.<br /><br /><b>The shop workers:</b> Do Mrs. Pike and Blanche ever reappear? There seems to be some back story here that I may be missing. Possibly a personal joke by Shooter?<br /><br /><b>The Convent:</b> So Ultron bizarrely took over a convent, a place pretty ill-designed to be adapted to the high-tech equipment he was using, especially the Hall of Mirrors. Why? Is it allegorical somehow?<br /><br />I suppose he could have pushed it further and had the Avengers squaring off against an army of robotic nuns but that would have been really weird and it's Shooter, not Gerber. The Norse God of Thunder punching out a Christian nun, robotic or otherwise, has 'meme' written all over it.Tiboldthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03787761673589485012noreply@blogger.com