Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #107

By: Johnny Bacardi

Johnny Bacardi — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:40:53 +0000

I just now noticed...Sam is totally looking up Angel's skirt on that cover to #3...!

By: Punch

Punch — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:42:29 +0000

Art Adams has done some GREAT King Kong pics that should be included somewhere this month.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:36:06 +0000

Matt Brady said:
"Did Art Adams do the covers for the Vertigo series? It looks like him."

Yep, that's him. He did the covers for all 4 issues. He was the reason I took a chance on issue #1 in the first place and I'm glad I did.

By: Billy F

Billy F — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:44:16 +0000

oh hell yeah

I can't help but think of them as the DCs version of Cloak and Dagger (yes, I know Angel and the Ape were first...). Also, I'm not saying that's a bad thing.

By: Matt Brady

Matt Brady — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:24:47 +0000

Did Art Adams do the covers for the Vertigo series? It looks like him.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:47:17 +0000

"If you collected all their appearances, could you get a â€˜Showcase Presentsâ€™ out of it? Because Iâ€™d totally buy that. "

I second that.

-M

By: David C

David C — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:10:59 +0000

The biggest revelation for me here is learning Sergio Aragones' secret identity!

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:08:38 +0000

If you collected all their appearances, could you get a 'Showcase Presents' out of it? Because I'd totally buy that.

By: J To The AAP

J To The AAP — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:35:09 +0000

Foglio had Sam talking English. Chaykin & Co had him completely silent. Foglio played down the cheesecake, Chaykin & Co played it up.

I've read neither but I'm taking a wild guess by saying Chaykin presumably wins this face off.

By: Denn

Denn — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:47:59 +0000

Everyone knows hippies supported the Germans in both world wars. That's why everybody hates them.

By: Steve Flanagan

Steve Flanagan — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:14:37 +0000

It's worth reading the two revival mini-series back-to-back, as a test case of how you can take what is recognisably the same concept and go in opposite directions with it. The Foglio series is a superhero story, which goes to great lengths to stress its place in the DCU (the Guardians and GL Corps are in there too). Chaykin, Tischman and Bond did a murder mystery in a world of its own. Foglio had Sam talking English. Chaykin & Co had him completely silent. Foglio played down the cheesecake, Chaykin & Co played it up. And so on.

By: Chuck T.

Chuck T. — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:36:39 +0000

Sam and Angel also appeared in Showcase #100. It was an anniversary issue featuring every character that had ever been featured in the title.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:30:05 +0000

The Chaykin mini was quite good. It's been a couple years since I last read it but now I feel like digging it out. Definitely worth tracking down. Too bad they never did more with the Vertigo version of the characters...

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:25:31 +0000

You forgot their one-panel cameo in Darwn Cooke's SOLO issue.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:07:10 +0000

Actually, that did occur to me, and I almost typed up something akin to "do they rent next to Benedict Arnold High?" but I ended up cutting that line. I am glad the blogosphere's resident Super-Hip expert thought the same!

By: Johnny Bacardi

Johnny Bacardi — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:20:11 +0000

The Oksner Frankenstein and Dracula on the Meet Angel cover look just like Dr. Van Pyre and gym teacher Frank N. Stein from Adventures of Bob Hope's Benedict Arnold High School faculty...a comic also drawn by Oksner at about the same time. Just wanted to share.