Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #109

By: fourth worlder

fourth worlder — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:40:32 +0000

Badgers? BADGERS???? WE DON’ NEED NO…
oh never mind

By: chroom

chroom — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:24:49 +0000

“I remember you mocking the pies. And their sweet fruit filling.”

Or something along those lines. My nephew “borrowed” my Spidey-Torch digest a freakin’ yer ago and I’m starting to doubt I’ll every see it again.

See why we don’t need more kids getting onto comics? Comic-thievin’ badgers!

By: Mark Guttag

Mark Guttag — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:34:19 +0000

Glad to know others appreciated Dan Slott’s take on Spidey, Torch, Red Ghost and the Super Apes:

Human Torch: “It’s the Red Ghost and his Super Apes . . . and they’re stealing your car!”

Spider-man: “Worse! They’re getting monkey fur on my upholstery!”

This exchange reminds me of how fun and goofy bronze age comics could be.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:44:40 +0000

You know what I’d do with all those old throwback Communist villains? Red Ghost, Crimson Dynamo, Titanium Man, all those guys?

I’d have ‘em team up. Then take over Russia. Think about it. It was the West’s big worry in the wake of the fall of the USSR, that the military would wind up just rolling over everything and Russia would become the world’s biggest banana republic. Even now, there’s still tons of unrest and the country is teetering on a knife edge because of organized crime, military strongmen, and would-be Presidents for Life trying to assert themselves over the country. Add into that shapeshifting monkeys, guys in power armor, and all the other crazy super-villains we got over the years from the Reds in Marvel history, and dang. That might not just be a storyline, it could be an ongoing series.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:06:35 +0000

stupid link!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:06:10 +0000

Amazingly, Stalin really did try to create super-ape warriors! Take that, “realism”!

By: fourth worlder

fourth worlder — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:22:08 +0000

FF # 13 had pretty murky inking and was a bit slow. That big-headed Watcher must have looked pretty outre in 1962.

But FF# 29 (“It Happened on Yancy Street”) was pure Super-Ape splendour, one of my favorite old FFs.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:40:43 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but I was never a big fan of FF #13…took me forever just to get through it.

Great concept, though…

-M

By: M Bloom

M Bloom — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:59:31 +0000

Pete Milligan’s run on X-Men was a pretty bad misfire all around, but the one totally awesome thing he did was that arc with Red Ghost and the Super-Apes. Even the revisionist history and random gratuitous nudity of the Black Panther issues couldn’t detract from the awesomeness of the Super-Apes.

By: veghead

veghead — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:39:41 +0000

Sweet. I’ve been waiting for an orangutan appearance.

Fun fact: orang utan means “forest person” or something like that in Indonesia.

By: oscar

oscar — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:37:55 +0000

In Human Torch and Spiderman from Slott we learn that the Super-Apes can drive

By: stephen cade

stephen cade — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:35:49 +0000

Here’s another thing about the superapes–
usually apes get called monkeys–here a monkey (baboon) gets called an ape.

By: sterg

sterg — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:49:17 +0000

What, you speak of the Red Ghost and his Super-Apes with no mention of fruit pies?
Blasphemy!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:41:03 +0000

Red Ghost and crew decided to gain superpowers by going up in a rocket like the FF. It worked.

The U-Foes decided to gain superpowers by going up in a rocket like the FF. It worked.

Has anyone tried this and it didn’t work? Instead of the standard space tourism for billionaires that we have in our world, in the Marvel universe could you pay for a rocket ride without cosmic ray shielding?

Has anyone tapped this while I wasn’t watching?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:58:07 +0000

I always thought RG and the Super-Apes were a better anti-FF than the Frightful Four ever were.