Comments on: Top Five Black Goliath Cover Appearances

By: R. J. Sterling

R. J. Sterling — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:55:59 +0000

In that costume, he's not going to suffer injuries because his abdomen is exposed, he's going to suffer injuries because he can't see to his left or right wearing that ludicrously tall collar. No matter how tall he grows he won't be able to see over THAT.

By: KMFPL

KMFPL — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:43:31 +0000

To take Tracer Bullet's point one step further, shouldn't the stereotypical black super-hero be BETTER dressed than your average white super-hero? With a variety of stylish outfits?

Of course, this makes you run into the same trouble with fashion as we already have with current events: by the time the book hits the store, it's already an out-of-date reference.

By: Spiffy

Spiffy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:25:55 +0000

avengers63 said:
"Brian, I think youâ€™re running low on ideas considering that Black Goliath only ran 5 issues."

My Butt-insky reply, since Brian hasn't replied...

avengers63, I think that was the whole idea. This piece is humor.

By: Tracer Bullet

Tracer Bullet — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:29:08 +0000

I can accept that writers struggle to write dialog for black characters (especially in the 70s when everybody apparently read the same book on jive) but there is no excuse for some of the hideous costumes these characters were forced to wear. Why doesn't Black Vulcan wear pants? The Falcon looks like an over-accessorized disco dancer. Luke Cage?! There aren't that many high-profile black characters; at minimum they could dress well.

By: Doug Atkinson

Doug Atkinson — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:32:35 +0000

That Stilt-Man issue is wonderfully surreal. For some reason Stilt-Man has acquired a megalomaniacal god complex, and goes around giving speeches of the sort you'd expect from Dr. Doom hopped up on the Power Cosmic.

By: Jbird

Jbird — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:27:27 +0000

That is the baddest Stilt-Man I've ever seen.

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:17:08 +0000

"Hey, they both had kind of ignominious deaths, huh?" Maybe, but at least "Nomad's"* death made sense, had a degree of pathos and took place within a well-written, well-conceived story. Black Goliath's, not. *To me, the "real" Nomad will always be a disillusioned Cap.

By: StereotypeA

StereotypeA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:43:37 +0000

Black Goliath's costume looks like he put on the old Nomad duds but they were several sizes too small...for obvious reasons.

...insert penis joke here.

Hey, they both had kind of ignominious deaths, huh?

By: Mason King

Mason King — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:01:38 +0000

No. 4 is indeed a Kirby cover (sez Overstreet). Great image.

Random and fabulous choice, Brian. Can Top 5 month come back for a few curtail calls in August?

By: ken

ken — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:43:01 +0000

Aww, I had no idea he had been killed. I just looked it up and saw how it happened. I'm actually a little sad... he was a good, dependable character who was always there, and would occasionally pop up in a welcome appearance.

That said, this sentence from the Wiki page made me laugh: "For unexplained reasons, it isn't possible to reduce his body to normal size, so he is buried as a giant, with Tony Stark (Iron Man) paying for the thirty-eight burial plots required to accommodate him."

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:19:22 +0000

Don't forget that Atom-Smasher also came closest to killing Black Goliath, as his radiation gave him the cancer of which BG was "dying" for quite some time (before, of course, getting "cured" comic book style and eventually killed pointlessly). So I guess that adds extra points in the "arch-nemesis" score.

By: Thelonious_Nick

Thelonious_Nick — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:44:04 +0000

I'm working on getting every appearance of Stilt-Man and wasn't even aware of this one. Awesome, now I have one to add to my list.

By: Scott MacIver

Scott MacIver — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:32:22 +0000

Is that a Kirby Stilt-man?

That cover is awesome. I want one.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:44:26 +0000

Black Goliath sure looks a lot taller than fifteen feet, there. I mean, he's standing eye-to-eye with buildings.

By: Anthony Strand

Anthony Strand — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:18:26 +0000

Ha ha ha! Brilliant, Brian!

By: DanLarkin

DanLarkin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:59:11 +0000

Oh. I see that choirsoftheeye beat me to it. Green Arrow had an Arrowmobile.

By: DanLarkin

DanLarkin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:55:30 +0000

There's the Fantasti-Car, though it's not actually a car.

By: buttler

buttler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:52:05 +0000

You'd have to have the Supermobile in there, Shelper, because that one was freaking hilarious.

By: buttler

buttler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:47:48 +0000

Actually, number two should be Hat Guy. He's behind the car on #1, by Bill and Stilt-Man's knees on #4 (don't be fooled by the other guy with a hat, who's just a poseur), and on #3 he's running away with his hat falling off! Will he retrieve it before it's crushed by a hunchback or a giant foot? Will he have to get a new hat before the next issue? Does this cover count as an Action Comics #1 homage? Stay tuned!

By: choirsoftheeye

choirsoftheeye — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:01:37 +0000

FANTASTICAR