Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #146

By: Wilbur Lunch

Wilbur Lunch — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:12:18 +0000

Me:
â€œâ€¦Speaking of Busiek, what happened to Marvels II ? Iâ€™m pretty sure it was announced, like, 8 years ago? In Wizard #100, I think? What happened? I know the artist painting was pretty slow but is it still in production or not?â€

comixkid2099:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/12/21/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-82/

Actually, I was referring to:

MARVELS: EYE OF THE CAMERA #1 & 2 (of 6)
Written by KURT BUSIEK
Pencils & Covers by JAY ANACLETO
The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning publishing sensation that made Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross into stars begins here! News photographer Phil Sheldon's back, with the man-on-the-street's perspective on the big events of the Marvel
Universe, from the Avengers, the all-new X-Men and the Secret Wars to Dracula and the Werewolf By Night. But this time, Phil's world is going to be rocked not just by superheroes and super-villains -- but by something far more personal, as well.
Featuring the Marvel debut of artist Jay Anacleto, whose gorgeous, photorealistic pencil renderings give a new look at the Marvel Universe, and what it would be like to actually be there.
32 PGS.(eaach)/Rated A ...$3.99 (each)

Available in December, according to http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18060

By: Rick Klaw

Rick Klaw — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:14:43 +0000

I quote fairly heavily from the Bradbury story in this piece for the latest edition of my column "Nexus Graphica" over at SF Site.

http://www.sfsite.com/columns/graphica273.htm

By: danjack

danjack — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:35:21 +0000

As someone who as a kid read both Marvel & DC, i loved both KC & Avengers Forever. i love history so they both worked beautifully for me. Also, i'll read almost anything by Kurt Busiek. AF was great as it did clean up lots of bad continuity, which always makes me feel better. :]

By: Keith Callbeck

Keith Callbeck — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:22:46 +0000

They spent nearly a year building to the time when one of my all-time favs, Dick Grayson, finally took on the mask, and then ended it before it even began.
So you're saying that Knightfall was always going to end stupidly. That doesn't make me feel better.

By: Michael-Sensei

Michael-Sensei — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:00:01 +0000

All those who state that Ray Bradbury is awesome are correct.
On a more maudlin note, RIP Arthur C. Clarke. Can anyone tell me if there have been any adaptations of his work other than Kirby's 2001?

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:12:26 +0000

That was Mrs. McIlvaine. Ms. MacGuffin is a joke.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:58:56 +0000

KnightsEnd: The Search had Bruce searching for his girlfriend (Shondra Kinsolving) and Robin's dad (Jack Drake). The think MacGuffin was the name of the Drakes' nanny (staying behind to take care of Tim during this time).

By: km

km — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:12:19 +0000

Isnâ€™t it awesome to see something that could have been ugly resolved so nicely?

Yeah. Because, upbeat guy though he may be, Bradbury has never been above using his formidable genius - not to say ability to articulate it - to tear strips off people who misused his work.

Also, kinda O/T, but interesting point about our expectations re: artists. I've recently been working on an article about the comedy team Bob & Ray, and that's one of the things that fascinated me the most - that these two men could be simoultaneously brilliant satirists of the American mindset onstage, and harmless products of it in private life.

By: Strangefan

Strangefan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:42:29 +0000

I read rumours that Dick was not supposed to permanentely step in as Batman but that he was going to beat Jean-Paul instead of Bruce beating Jean-Paul so that Dick would earn the mantle even more.

I would have liked this ending much more as I hated the way Nightwing was defeated by Jean-Paul and in a storytelling sense it would have worked out very well.

By: Joe Zhang

Joe Zhang — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:36:22 +0000

I have an Urban Legend I want to see investigated. In the letter column of an issue of John Byrne's Next Men, Byrne claimed that whenever he ripped off a panel or cover from Jack Kirby or any Marvel artist, he sent a small payment out of his own pocket as a "design fee" to the artist he swiped from. I was reading the John Byrne Forum a few weeks ago and the topic was artists who swipe, Byrne now says he never made the claim he sent out money, he now says Mike Carlin instituted the idea at DC, years after Byrne stopped working at Marvel. Byrne said there was nothing in place at the time he was writing stories specifically to throw in tons of swipes from earlier Marvel comics so he didn't think it was the right thing to do. He also said other artists should pay design fees out of their own pocket to the artists they swipe from, more hypocrisy from Byrne, of course, but is there anyway to find out if Byrne ever really did pay someone like the Kirby estate whenever he did his many Fantastic Four #1 "homages"?

By: m!ke

m!ke — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:30:51 +0000

i'm pretty sure bruce wayne's love interest during knightfall/knightquest was sondra kinsolver.. kinsloving?... i definitely remember it being sondra though.

By: Jan Robert Andersen

Jan Robert Andersen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:34:26 +0000

When Avengers Forever was published back in 1998 to 2000 and despite its delays it was one of my favorite reads. Both Busiek with Stern and Pacheco shined on this massive and very rich story.

Busiek actually cleaned up a lot of the continuety glut during the mid 1990s. Marvel had backed itself into a corner of most characters and titles and at the brick of bankruptcy Marvel reestablished themselves.

It was a great format with cardstock covers, great design and alongside his run on Avengers Volume 3 it really did the Avengers team and the individual characters justice.

Sure it had a lot of continuity and references at times but as a non Marvel fan I really had next to no problems reading and understanding the story. All these references kind of made it more cool and whenever I did some research it was always accurate.

Busiek has proven himself a very professional and impressive writer on works such as Marvels, JLA/Avengers, Astro City and Conan and also on later Arrowsmith and Superman with Pacheco.

Sure he has written his share of more bland works such as JLA, even some of his Superman, Defenders, Ironman, Thunderbolts Untold Tales etc. but at the end of the day these are still good reads.

Pacheco was at his peak on Avengers Forever and while I have enjoyed his Fantastic Four, Superman/Batman, Green Lantern and Superman and even the rather bland JLA/JSA I must say my favorite is Avengers Forever with Arrowsmith coming close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_Forever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Busiek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Pacheco

By: Denn

Denn — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:28:38 +0000

As someone who didn't read either DC or Marvel as a kid, I enjoyed Avengers Forever way more then Kingdom Come. Both featured a lot of characters I'd never heard of but I actually cared about what was going on in AF, not the case in Kingdom Come. I still don't get the love that book recieves.

Oddly, I like the fact that KC Supes (eat it Byrne) is in the JSo'A

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:55:28 +0000

Ha!

Thanks, comixkid!

By: mykalel

mykalel — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:35:08 +0000

Howard Mackie is a regular poster on the John Byrne message boards (www.byrnerobotics.com). I don't think he's working in the comics industry these days.

By: yo go re

yo go re — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:30:30 +0000

did they ever address if there was any resentment from Barbara Gordon over Bruceâ€™s miraculous recovery?

She made a snarky comment to him about it in one of the Zero Hour issues, I believe, but that was it.

And hey, I'm looking forward to Marvels II, as well! Yeah, Jay Anacleto is slower than slow (but totally worth it), and the last I heard - about a year ago - was that he was still plugging away on the book...

By: Don

Don — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:03:03 +0000

I can't express the happiness Mr. Bradbury's books brought to my life as a teenager.

By: comixkid2099

comixkid2099 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:02:37 +0000

"â€¦Speaking of Busiek, what happened to Marvels II ? Iâ€™m pretty sure it was announced, like, 8 years ago? In Wizard #100, I think? What happened? I know the artist painting was pretty slow but is it still in production or not?"

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/12/21/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-82/

"â€¦Speaking of DC crossovers (and I bet this has been adressed already), Captain Atom WAS supposed to be Monarch in Armageddon 2001, right? Right?"

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/06/23/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-4/

By: Wilbur Lunch

Wilbur Lunch — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:52:13 +0000

Reading this week's CBULR made me think of two OTHER things I've dying to find out...

...Speaking of Busiek, what happened to Marvels II ? I'm pretty sure it was announced, like, 8 years ago? In Wizard #100, I think? What happened? I know the artist painting was pretty slow but is it still in production or not?

...Speaking of DC crossovers (and I bet this has been adressed already), Captain Atom WAS supposed to be Monarch in Armageddon 2001, right? Right?

By: Hypersonic

Hypersonic — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:16:55 +0000

Hmmmm. Avengers Forever pretty much rehashes most of the Avengers/Kang stories of the past. But I still love Kurt Buseik.