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Is that Todd Klein the lettering god writing the story in ‘New Talent Showcase’ #8?
Was the his comic’s debut or just his writing one?
I never knew he wrote as well.

Cover Homaged: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 151.

(Gad, but I love that comic)

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DC also used to run those odd “Bonus Book” inserts, which were basically just tryout books for creators, both writers and artists. I remember that Jim Balent got his first DC work published that way.

As to Cyclops, theoretically he shouldn’t be able to miss anything he can see, but this being comics…

I’d say that Cyclops can miss, because the optic blasts do not point in what ever direction his eyes are turned, but rather directly out from his face. So his ability to hit a target is controlled by turning his head in the proper direction, not his eyeballs. Id’s imagine that the visor limits his peripheral vision too.

Cover Homage: Ronin #1?

Actually I mean the Ronin TPB, but looking at it now and looking at Matthew Craig’s suggestion I’m obviously wrong

I read in an interview that Darwyn Cooke’s first published work was in an issue New Talent Showcase.

It was number 19 according to wikipedia.

“DC also used to run those odd “Bonus Book” inserts, which were basically just tryout books for creators, both writers and artists. I remember that Jim Balent got his first DC work published that way.”

So did Rob Liefeld, Hank Kanalz and Randy DuBurke.

And it’s nice to see Batroc once again rearing his moustached head around here…

Ah, so powerful was that issue of FF that Carlos Pacheco, Rafael Marin, and (whatt surprise) Jeph Loeb retconned it out by, I think, de-aging Valeria Von Doom and impregnating Sue with her fetus. Or something like that.

You know who else got a shot with those inserts? Dean Haspiel, drawing a Max Lord story in Justice League International #24.

I’d say that Cyclops can miss as long as his target is moving faster than his eyes can. Because he can see something doesn’t mean that something can’t dodge his blasts. Now, if Cyclops had the ability to keep his eye on his target, no matter how fast it was moving, then he likely couldn’t miss, but his reflexes are those of a normal human, as far as I know.
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Jarvis definitely appears a few months before Avengers #201 on the cover of Avengers #197.

Steve Lightle told me they used to call it the ‘No Talent Showcase’.

I didn’t know about ‘New Talent Showcase.’ Will definitely have to search out issues of that now. Sounds like an awesome series. I love reading the early work of current favorites. And Tom Mandrake??! Awesome.

How exactly does one disagree “with the idea of Sue having a miscarriage”? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

Not all the “new” talent in New Talent Showcase was truly “NEW”.

Some of them had already become professionals, but were still “green”.

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What’s amazing to me is that I’ve read one comic today: Fantastic Four 267.

How exactly does one disagree “with the idea of Sue having a miscarriage”? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

Quite a few people felt it was too serious/depressing of an event to happen in a superhero comic.

Note that it has been even since been retconned!

What’s amazing to me is that I’ve read one comic today: Fantastic Four 267.

That IS really freaky.

Did you like it?

Here’s my response to the ‘Snark Free Challenge’: Cyclops, like everyone with eyes, can see many things at a time. I’d say it is within the realm of possibility for him to mis-angle his head on occasion so that his optic blasts narrowly miss a target, and hit another object nearby instead. But that’s just me.

” Quite a few people felt it was too serious/depressing of an event to happen in a superhero comic.

Note that it has been even since been retconned!”

No it hasn’t. That kid’s still dead. Valeria is Reed and Sue’s third child.

No it hasn’t. That kid’s still dead. Valeria is Reed and Sue’s third child.

No sir. She is the miscarried second child. Franklin used his powers to save her.

Re: SNARK FREE CHALLENGE

I guess it depends on whether Cyclops’ blasts shoot from his pupils or just his eyes. Former, he’d have impeccable aim; latter, he’d be limited to where he turned his head, which makes it harder to aim. The other problem with the idea of the blasts coming from his pupils is that would mean that his blasts would always be huge in the dark and tiny in the bright sun.

“No sir. She is the miscarried second child. Franklin used his powers to save her.”

I’m regretting it before I even ask it, but…
Where was she between the time she miscarried in Byrne’s run and was brought back (presumably years later?)
(and why was this a better idea than just giving Sue and Reed a new child? Were they happy with what Franklin had done, or did they beat him around the head for making them go through years of misery?)

After giving this some thought, the answer is: Yes, it’s probably possible for Cyclops to miss, given the following caveats and questions.

1) Where, exactly, do the eyebeams come out of? I’ve always presumed the iris/pupil area (ie, not the entire eye, but where it’s focused on), based on the fact that he can control the direction without moving his head (or, at least, that’s the impression we get from the comics.) So he does target whatever he’s looking directly at.

2) How fast does the beam travel? This is the critical point–if the beam traveled at the speed of light, he’d never miss, because whatever he’s looking at would be instantaneously struck. But since it’s described as a “force beam”, and not a beam of electromagnetic energy, we can presume that it travels at sub-light speeds–and thus, anything moving faster than the beam travels would be there when he fired, but not when the beam arrived. So he’d have to anticipate his targets to hit.

Voila.

” That IS really freaky.

Did you like it?”

Yeah. It was the first time I’ve re-read it since I bought it in 1984. It’s funny how I remember the last page so well after all these years. I’m re-reading all my FFs (I stopped collecting them at 299 and recently purchased 300 to finish the storyline when I get there)and am surprised by the inconsistency in Byrne’s art thru this run. His inking himself started out OK and improved for a while, but then he started using a Sharpie to ink and that looked horrible until he went back to better pens and brushes a year or so before 267, but then by the time 267 rolls around his art seems to be taking a downturn again. To me, it doesn’t look much like early Byrne anymore, except on She-Hulk, who looks great. I’d have to say that inking himself was a mistake. Sinnott would not have worked, but wasn’t there someone at Marvel who could have complimented Byrne’s pencils besides Austin?

ah… i choked up a little bit when i saw that cover for New Talent Showcase #8… that was probably one of the first DC comics i ever bought (along with Thriller #4 and a few others), after having been a hardcore True Believer for a while. i remember there was a pretty cool Stephen DiStephano one-pager in there.

i think i still have #19 around somewhere, featuring Darwyn Cooke flaunting much more overt Kirby accents than his current style.

That FF was probably his best work on that series.

I bought it for Doc Ock–but the story was quite touching.

Makes me wonder if Byrne knew anyone who had a miscarriage?

I’d go with FF 236 as the best issue during Byrne’s run.

On the question of whether or not Cyclops can miss: apparently John Byrne walked out of the first X-Men movie because Sabretooth dodged a blast. Which seems screamingly ridiculous and more than a little bit petulant, honestly.

Of course he can miss. Just because his eyebeams emit light, it doesn’t mean they ARE light. If I turn a flashlight on and throw it at you, you can get out of the way, even if the actual light it makes touches you. Sure, it moves fast, but not light speed.

Quite a few people felt it was too serious/depressing of an event to happen in a superhero comic.

Boy, that sounds familiar…

That cover looks like a Man Thing cover to me.

Brian-

I found an earlier cover appearance from Jarvis.

I’ll give you some clues-

1) It’s from 1977

2) It is not from THE AVENGERS comic.

3) It’s not from a comic featuring an Avenger (at least up until February of this year anyway).

4) Jarvis is unconscious on the cover.

Answer after the click–

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=30947&zoom=4

I thought you would be the only other person to care–

Old thread reviver.