Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 104

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:09:09 +0000

I wonder if the moon as halo was intentional? I just sighed when I saw that image of Cap…

Firestar’s moment was cool. Interesting that she defers to Spidey.

By: Pedro Bouça

Pedro Bouça — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:37:51 +0000

Mark Waid, Maximum Carnage… Is this month a big April 1st?

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:36:20 +0000

Yeah. Sal Buscema’s great, but he’s no spring chicken anymore. I remember an interview with him I once read, where said something akin to “Penciling is work. Inking is fun.” I’m sure he’s happy to have a steady inking gig.

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:25:04 +0000

@raghu, Sal no longer wants to pencil anymore. He’s been the regular inker over Frenz on Spider-Girl (and from what I understand, is VERY happy doing that.)

By: DanLarkin

DanLarkin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:26:25 +0000

Cap’s gotta be the king of “cool moments that happen outside his own book”, no? I guess Superman’s had his share, too.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:44:04 +0000

What Maximum Carnage video game were you people playing? That thing was arse.

By: Vincent Paul Bartilucci

Vincent Paul Bartilucci — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:42:02 +0000

Spider-man, Firestar, Black Cat, Venom, and Carnage … not sure where the cool is here exactly …

A Sal Buscema Captain America. Buscema was the artist on Cap when I first started buying it on a monthly basis. His Cap is one of my favorite interpretations of the character, easily the equal in my mind of Byrne or Zeck.

Okay. That’s cool.

By: raghu

raghu — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:58:27 +0000

@Ike, I agree, Sal was a great artist. Loved his Spidey and Conan works. Is he drawing anything at the moment?

By: Ike Iszany

Ike Iszany — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:11:38 +0000

Sal when he wasn’t drawing nineteen books a month showing what he could really do.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:32:07 +0000

Maximum Carnage was in the upper half of brawlers in the 16-bit era, which isn’t bad since there were a metric ton of them. It’s no Turtles in Time / Streets of Rage, but you could certainly do worse (Death and Return of Superman, come on down!)

Plus, one of the cooler ending swerves in gaming history.

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:57:39 +0000

I’d long given up reading the Spider-Man titles by this story (hell, I’d stopped with most all of Marvel and DC by then) BUT it’s great to see Sal’s Spider-Man (as well as Cap). Nice final panel. That sums up so much about those two characters.

By: Thenodrin

Thenodrin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:43:13 +0000

I think that the Firestar moment is cooler than the Cap moment. Because she gets a lot fewer moments in which to be cool.

Theno

By: Da Fug

Da Fug — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:52:59 +0000

Holy crap! Who knew the Maximum Carnage video game was any good? I feel like I missed out and the Sega Genesis was the last video game system I ever owned. I even liked the first Spidey video game for it even though my brother figured out how to beat Sandman by kicking the fire hydrant before I did. Stupid brother.

And I was sure Firestar was gonna say, “Go for it!”. But instead we get a God-Cap moment. I don’t know. I guess it’s all right though maybe a bit overdone with the moon halo and the Hope caption. But I guess in a superhero comic event called Maximum Carnage we’re not exactly going for subtlety.

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:37:50 +0000

This is surprisingly good, but that double page spread wouldn’t work at all. The point of the spread is that it’s a big revelation, but the landscape format would definitely take me out of the story. It would be a lot better as a splash page.

By: Dawn Davenport

Dawn Davenport — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:35:23 +0000

“Oh baby…do it to ‘im! DO IT TO ‘IM!”

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:35:46 +0000

Sal is a very underrated Spider-artist.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:32:13 +0000

The Maximum Carnage video game was fantastic. One of my favorite Genesis games. 5 or 6 years ago I decided to read the story for the first time, since I had liked the game as a kid, and I figured it would be good, dumb, fun. Turned out it was much heavier on the “dumb” than the “fun.” Oh well, still a great game.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:48:04 +0000

By the way, I was sad when the Spider-Doppelganger was killed in this series. Maybe he was one of those characters symbolic of everything that was wrong with the 90s…but darn it, he looked cool, and went out like a chump.

By: The Dude

The Dude — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:27:57 +0000

Sorry, I grew up reading this era of Spidey comics,so I love Maximum Carnage and I don’t even call it a guilty pleasure. It was just a fun crossover.

Besides, shortly after this came the return of Peter’s parents (that turned out to be robots), Spidey went emo for awhile and then came the Clone Saga.

Maximum Carnage is a masterpiece in comparison with what would follow.

By: Glen Newman

Glen Newman — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:01:26 +0000

BKV used Cap in similar, and also cool, fashion in the first volume of Runaways, although he added a little bit of humour to the scene.