Comments on: Into the back issue box #29 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:59:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sharon wortman farnham http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/comment-page-1/#comment-101653 sharon wortman farnham Tue, 29 May 2007 22:02:28 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/#comment-101653 To violent for me but that is the trend today violence and more violence. To violent for me but that is the trend today violence and more violence.

]]> By: Andrew Collins http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/comment-page-1/#comment-100511 Andrew Collins Mon, 28 May 2007 03:50:45 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/#comment-100511 God, was this really 2004? I remember the hype surrounding the 'streamlining' of Hawkman and I remember buying this issue when it came out. Johns and Morales did great work with the character and made me care about Hawkman and Hawkgirl for the first time since, well, ever. Palmiotti and Gray did a nice follow-up job on the title too. Too bad what happened to the book OYL. God, was this really 2004? I remember the hype surrounding the 'streamlining' of Hawkman and I remember buying this issue when it came out. Johns and Morales did great work with the character and made me care about Hawkman and Hawkgirl for the first time since, well, ever. Palmiotti and Gray did a nice follow-up job on the title too. Too bad what happened to the book OYL.

]]> By: Jon H http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/comment-page-1/#comment-100443 Jon H Mon, 28 May 2007 00:56:38 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/#comment-100443 Oh, oddly enough, Philadelphia has, or had, a 'voodoo store', which looked damned authentic. I believe the operators were black, and probably old. When I was in college (89-94), it was on South Street, but not in the touristy part, it was well into the sketchy part towards Broad Street. It was tiny, looked like it had been there for decades and the front area was packed with dusty bottles of mysterious substances, mummified and stuffed critters, maybe a shrunken head. It definitely did not have the air of a post-sixties kind of occult/wiccan/new agey shop - no featured books by people with ridiculous names like 'Solstice GoldenMoon'. I wonder if it's still there, or if the neighborhood has been bought up by developers. Oh, oddly enough, Philadelphia has, or had, a 'voodoo store', which looked damned authentic. I believe the operators were black, and probably old. When I was in college (89-94), it was on South Street, but not in the touristy part, it was well into the sketchy part towards Broad Street.

It was tiny, looked like it had been there for decades and the front area was packed with dusty bottles of mysterious substances, mummified and stuffed critters, maybe a shrunken head. It definitely did not have the air of a post-sixties kind of occult/wiccan/new agey shop - no featured books by people with ridiculous names like 'Solstice GoldenMoon'.

I wonder if it's still there, or if the neighborhood has been bought up by developers.

]]> By: Jon H http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/comment-page-1/#comment-100441 Jon H Mon, 28 May 2007 00:46:29 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/#comment-100441 More disturbing than the mere violence in this was the issue of Micronauts that showed a big device for industrial production of babies: IIRC, it was like a fat column with emanating spokes that were like iron lungs, with a woman's head jutting out of the end. The women, by implication, were being impregnated and then the baby at birth would be seized. IIRC, the machine was destroyed, and one of the mothers, now insane, was shown holding a baby and leaping to her death down a convenient Death Star-like bottomless pit. I think this was the so-called 'Body Banks' of the villain, used to breed 'dog soldiers' for his army. (Humans, not dogs, that wasn't literal.) And this was in a book back in the early 80s, in a series based on a toy line. More disturbing than the mere violence in this was the issue of Micronauts that showed a big device for industrial production of babies: IIRC, it was like a fat column with emanating spokes that were like iron lungs, with a woman's head jutting out of the end. The women, by implication, were being impregnated and then the baby at birth would be seized.

IIRC, the machine was destroyed, and one of the mothers, now insane, was shown holding a baby and leaping to her death down a convenient Death Star-like bottomless pit.

I think this was the so-called 'Body Banks' of the villain, used to breed 'dog soldiers' for his army. (Humans, not dogs, that wasn't literal.)

And this was in a book back in the early 80s, in a series based on a toy line.

]]> By: Lucion http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/comment-page-1/#comment-100440 Lucion Mon, 28 May 2007 00:42:54 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/05/27/into-the-back-issue-box-29/#comment-100440 My interest is piqued! Unfortunately, whenever I see an interesting comic featured in these columns it is usually something I will never be able to enjoy. Sometimes I want to see how the trainwreck ends, but in this case I want to see what happened to the Headhunter's body. Plus, having never read a Hawkman comic, I find he has much more depth and possibility than I initially gave him credit for. I thought, "Man with wings and a big mace, can't be that exciting." Now at least I see there is a bit more to the character. My interest is piqued!

Unfortunately, whenever I see an interesting comic featured in these columns it is usually something I will never be able to enjoy. Sometimes I want to see how the trainwreck ends, but in this case I want to see what happened to the Headhunter's body.

Plus, having never read a Hawkman comic, I find he has much more depth and possibility than I initially gave him credit for. I thought, "Man with wings and a big mace, can't be that exciting." Now at least I see there is a bit more to the character.

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