Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed #184

By: Squashua

Squashua — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:41:24 +0000

Brian, you've got to spin werehawk's earlier post here into something for an Urban Legend. Something like, "Marvel intended to do more with the Neo Knights that were introduced in Transformers". Coincidentally, I watched G.I. Joe the movie and was wondering if there was a greater, more super-hero-based purpose for introducing "Cobra-La", but so far Wikipedia is telling me that it was just a push by Hasbro to introduce a background for Serpentor.

By: taffysaur

taffysaur — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:15:38 +0000

I like to think that those strips are Willie's stories before he moved to the big city and started delivering to teh Baxter Building. =0D
I'd love to read the story someone mentioned that links the two.

By: LouReedRichards

LouReedRichards — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:13:10 +0000

It's all kinds of awesome to find out that the Velvet Underground had an influence in the creation of the Sandman.

Thanks Brian.

By: michael poirier

michael poirier — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:10:19 +0000

Bob Budiansky was always a much better writer than Simon Furman. Budiansky's dialogue was wordy, but his plots were always interesting (Shockwave takes over from Megatron; Blaster & Goldbug on the run from Grimlock, etc.).

I still don't see why Claremont's X-men was seen as a benchmark series, but Larry Hama's G.I.Joe and Budiasky's Transformers were considered 'kiddy' books. The latter two got me into comics, and I still re-read them every few years or so. They really do hold up

By: Steve Weiner

Steve Weiner — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:37:33 +0000

Stan Lee & I worked on a book project a few years go. Surprisingly, he was very down to earth & unassuming, very different in person than his professional persona.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:45:56 +0000

Sorry, Basara, that was because I discovered that a bunch of people who linked to it in the past were now not getting it, and I figured more people linked to it BEFORE I changed it than AFTER (as it is a recent change), so i went with the older links.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

By: Basara

Basara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:54:31 +0000

BTW, was that an accidental inclusion of "urban" back into the archive/thread link, because it's make my new link to the archive (made since "urban" was dropped) stop working.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:22:10 +0000

This is one of my favorite features of any blog online...love Bronze/Silver Age comics and obscure info about them. However, I can no longer visit the site without using adblockers. It totally locks up. I have no idea which ad it is, and I really don't care to find out either. I'm just blocking them all now. I like to support sites I enjoy by visiting their advertisers but I can no longer do it for anything on CBR.

By: Anthony Z

Anthony Z — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:49:58 +0000

Wow. I totally forgot Circuit Breaker even existed. I have fond memories of an issue of Transformers I got off a friend as a kid, with no cover, that was the issue Unicron turned up to eat Cybertron and some other one where Prime was sad Ratchet had died. Who would have thought we could get so emotionally invested in robots? But yeah, I always thought the idea of a team of sort of superhumans fighting Transformers was sort of cool.

By: Marty Hecla

Marty Hecla — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:36:36 +0000

Clearly "You're all POST OFFICE, m'boy!" needs to reenter the public lexicon; as any old person can tell you, it was the original "spongeworthy."

By: Bert Duckwall

Bert Duckwall — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:46:13 +0000

I wish Simon Furman died in battle with Unicron. He is a hack writer. Circuit Breaker would be a good addition to the Thunderbolts. Don't you agree, KW?

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:34:37 +0000

Some people can't pass up an opportunity to dump on Stan Lee, it seems, even if it is for bogus and/or marginal reasons.

Jeez.

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:24:21 +0000

...not that this has ever stopped anyone from resurrecting a character.

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:21:26 +0000

Didn't Circuit Breaker die in the end of Simon Furman's original Transformers run, in the final battle against Unicron when she tried to use her powers to stop him? It's been years and years since I last read that issue, so my recollection of it is kinda hazy.

By: Alex Rogers

Alex Rogers — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:10:28 +0000

Marvel's Transformers book was a great. It's the first Marvel book I ever picked up that I can remember.

By: sgt rawk

sgt rawk — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:22:35 +0000

Circuit Breaker, for all her charms, is burdened with a terrible name and an awful costume. Let her R.I.P.

I DON'T love Stan. And that strip was putrid. DeCarlo's a master good girl artist, although in that promo, it looks like Willie is enjoying unnatural relations with that auto.

Stan = Funky Flashman. Nuff Said! Face Front, True Believers!

By: TF_loki

TF_loki — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:47:34 +0000

Not sure the Neo knights ever got an appearance outside TFs so they must be hasbro property.

By: Bob Hughes

Bob Hughes — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:25:36 +0000

Jerry Siegel grew up in Cleveland. He did go to Glenville High School. And he did write some early Torch stories. This is recounted in Men of Tomorrow, which is always worth a plug.

By: gaastra

gaastra — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:30:52 +0000

Circuit Breaker would make a great iron man enemy. I would love to see her in avengers inititive also. The team she joins are the neo-knights. Guess what., marvel owns them to! They are a super hero team of mutants. (even transformers had mutants.) In a transformers letter page marvel said a mini-series for the neo-knights was in the works but it never got made.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:40:51 +0000

Back when Sandman first started, Neil said, visually, Morpheus was based on former Bauhaus lead vocalist Peter Murphy( i think with a bit of the Cure's Robert Smiths crazy ass hair thrown in for extra gothness...even though both say they were never goth)