Comments on: Comic Book Alphabet of Cool – L http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/ Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:23:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeff Ryan http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-650001 Jeff Ryan Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:10:39 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-650001 For all the folk who say Quasar's a loser: Losers make the list! For all the folk who say Quasar’s a loser: Losers make the list!

]]> By: DanCJ http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-649710 DanCJ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:45:52 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-649710 Phew - I thought for a moment that this post was going to be about the crappy Andy Diggle series. Phew – I thought for a moment that this post was going to be about the crappy Andy Diggle series.

]]> By: Graeme Burk http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-648931 Graeme Burk Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:47:06 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-648931 When I was a kid I read an issue of Our Fighting Forces with the Losers as headliners. It was issue 135 from 1971 (I read it in the mid-'70s-- someone left it at my Grandmother's house long before). http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24775&zoom=4 It was the issue where Capt. Storm dies (he comes back from the dead much later) but I vividly remember being moved by the end of the story where The Losers go on (only now having Ona on the team) in spite of the Capt. Storm's sacrifice. Great story. Kanhiger was in top form and the art by John Severin was gorgeous. In fact, the whole issue may well be one of the best single issues of a comic I've ever read. Every story in it was solid, even the reprints. It made me realize how unsung DC's war comics really were When I was a kid I read an issue of Our Fighting Forces with the Losers as headliners. It was issue 135 from 1971 (I read it in the mid-’70s– someone left it at my Grandmother’s house long before).

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24775&zoom=4

It was the issue where Capt. Storm dies (he comes back from the dead much later) but I vividly remember being moved by the end of the story where The Losers go on (only now having Ona on the team) in spite of the Capt. Storm’s sacrifice.

Great story. Kanhiger was in top form and the art by John Severin was gorgeous. In fact, the whole issue may well be one of the best single issues of a comic I’ve ever read. Every story in it was solid, even the reprints. It made me realize how unsung DC’s war comics really were

]]> By: Brian Cronin http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-647191 Brian Cronin Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:31:43 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-647191 I'll admit, O, that I was going to specify that Kubert didn't do them all, but I decided against it. I guess I should have! :) I’ll admit, O, that I was going to specify that Kubert didn’t do them all, but I decided against it. I guess I should have! :)

]]> By: "O" the Humanatee! http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-646904 "O" the Humanatee! Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:57:05 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-646904 Note that the cover to OFF #149 that you show, which follows the formula you describe, is not by Joe Kubert but by Frank Thorne. Thorne's style is not so different from Kubert's, at least on that cover (perhaps Kubert laid it out). But the second I saw "Ona"'s pert breasts, I thought, "That's not Kubert, that's Thorne!"; the signature just confirmed it. Note that the cover to OFF #149 that you show, which follows the formula you describe, is not by Joe Kubert but by Frank Thorne. Thorne’s style is not so different from Kubert’s, at least on that cover (perhaps Kubert laid it out). But the second I saw “Ona”‘s pert breasts, I thought, “That’s not Kubert, that’s Thorne!”; the signature just confirmed it.

]]> By: Dave Sikula http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-646481 Dave Sikula Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:49:52 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-646481 I think Kirby's run on The Losers is some of the best stuff he ever did. It just reeks to me of experiences he picked up during the War. I think Kirby’s run on The Losers is some of the best stuff he ever did. It just reeks to me of experiences he picked up during the War.

]]> By: Bryan http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-645685 Bryan Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:01:55 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-645685 Don't forget the Losers in Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier: Losers vs. Dinosaur Island in a battle to the death. Great stuff. Don’t forget the Losers in Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier: Losers vs. Dinosaur Island in a battle to the death. Great stuff.

]]> By: Ralph http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/04/comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-l/comment-page-1/#comment-645579 Ralph Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:07:08 +0000 http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/?p=15659#comment-645579 I´d really like to see Garth Ennis take on The Losers. I´d really like to see Garth Ennis take on The Losers.

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