Comments on: Top 70 Most Iconic Marvel Panels of All-Time: #30-21

By: dan

dan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:46:01 +0000

The “Mutie” panel is from the X-Men Graphic Novel: God Loves, Man Kills. At least, I think it is.

By: GohanWinner

GohanWinner — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:17:15 +0000

Wow, that “Mutie” panel is really powerful. What’s it from?

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:12 +0000

I remember quite well when Pym was reintroduced as Yellow jacket he was suffering from schizophrenia. He didn’t even know he was Pym, braging that he had killed Pym/Giant Man. He was pretty much a villain. So i’m not surprised that this happen. If he were manipulated I wouldn’t be surprised by it also, it would make sens. Maybe not by Kang but by Egg Head or by somebody with a past of mind manipulation.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:14:42 +0000

The Ultimate Cap panel, mean-spirited as it is, doesn’t belong ahead of the FF panels. Call me old-fashioned but I prefer the stuff that shows the heroes as heroes, not jingoistic jerks.

Okay, you’re old-fashioned.

Personally like to have stuff that shows heroes as flawed individuals.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:17:34 +0000

Hi, Brian, thanks for putting this together!

You’re very welcome!

Hey, Dan, I got a spam e-mail from you. It was funny (obviously, it was not from YOU, just like the spam e-mails I get from myself are not actually from me, but it was still funny to see an e-mail from “Dan Felty” and have it be spam).

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:34:21 +0000

No, Mary, not that he never hit her, but the reasons why he hit her were changed. It was revealed that Kang was tampering with his mind, and a lot of stuff he did during that era was from him going crazy due to Kang’s manipulations. Hank DID hit Jan, but it was all Kang’s fault. Again, this is all based on a story I don’t remember 100%…

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:27:42 +0000

Oh God, did that really happen? Did they really try to say Hank never hit her? That is inexcusable! How could the editors permit something like that?

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:18:33 +0000

I think the Hank slapping Jan was retconned, during the “Crossing”…it was supposedly part of Kang tampering with Hanks mind…but since not many people remember that horrible story (I wish I didn’t!), I’m not sure if it’s still in continuity or not…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:10:31 +0000

Count me in for the Skurge panel as well, but almost any Thor splashpage during the great Walt Simonsons legendary run could be considered.

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:33:57 +0000

Hi, Brian, thanks for putting this together!

I voted for the Skurge panel, but it’s really missing something because it doesn’t include the line, “he stood alone at Gallerbru.” Also, I feel like I should give propers to John Workman for his awesome lettering. Also, yes, the Executioner is lopping off a skull with a machine gun. Jesus Loouiezus, everybody should buy the Thor Visionaries trades!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:46:21 +0000

Way to go, Mr, Pym! ;D

By: PO!

PO! — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:52:14 +0000

kitty panel is one of the best it should be in the top 10 and paul smith is a GOD

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By: a.s.f.

a.s.f. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:29:12 +0000

The “No More Mutants” panel is an awful choice for such a high-ranking place. It represents the very typical post-2000 habit of self-created or “forced” important moments that really mean nothing and bear very little influence. “No More Mutants”–except afterwards there were still hundreds of mutants, always enough to fill out the rosters of the X-teams, always enough mutant villains out there, and always enough slots open for new mutants to be introduced. Is it a cool little panel? Sure. It might rank in the top 20 OF THE LAST FEW YEARS, but #27 of the last 70 years? Ridiculous. Only someone with no sense of history, a sucker who gobbled up everything the Marvel hype machine put in front of them, would think so.

By: Mike Klander

Mike Klander — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:49:10 +0000

God Loves Man Kills: To this day that opening scene, before Magneto finds the children puts chills down my spine. It was the first time I remember seeing a hate crime depicted in a comic book on such a realistic manner. As real as comic books about mutants can get I guess!!!

By: DanT

DanT — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:29:22 +0000

Well a couple of mine finally showed up. I too, cannot believe the FF hands finished so low. I’m looking forward to the top 20, but starting to worry that *newer* panels were chosen for coolness, over iconic. I’m surprised to see the *death* of Captain America is in the top 20 given that the scene has been undone by Marvel in less than 2 years…

Holding breath now…

By: Brian from Canada

Brian from Canada — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:02:58 +0000

For me, that Kitty Pryde panel was the one that definitively broke up the X-Men into ranks and teams. Professor Xavier demoted her for immaturity and she throws a tantrum — because, unlike other books, she COULD be demoted to another book (and, in fact, was for a short while). And she reacted like a child, which is the tone that the New Mutants did but not The X-Men.

Plus, Xavier IS a jerk. I mean: seriously. Ever notice how the X-Men always seem to do better when he’s not around, but run into major crises when he IS running them?

And that’s part of the charm with Kitty. Annoying, self-absorbed, real teenager — but she grew into adulthood and has a part of her that’s not definable like Wolverine, Beast or Cyclops (who are, like most, two-note characters). That’s why *I* picked it in my top 10 (third to go).

By: KangarooOnTheLoose

KangarooOnTheLoose — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:27:30 +0000

Wow, the FF’s hands at 21? I would have thought that would be top if Jackpot wasn’t….

Roll on Ultimate Cap

By: MatthewC

MatthewC — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:45:23 +0000

I lost one more this time around, Hank hitting Jan. I’ve always been impressed that Marvel never tried to back down on that one and say it was a skrull or that Hank was mind controlled, or that it was an accident. Nope, he’s just a flawed man who did a bad thing once upon a time, but is not necessarily a bad man. As people do.

By: dgmagill

dgmagill — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:14:16 +0000

I’m shocked and disappointed that the FF hands panel isn’t in the top 10. I agree that it seems most people voted for one of the FF #1 panels (if any) and split the votes there. I only have 5 left from my list that made it to the top 20, as I’m an old fogey who hasn’t read current Marvel since the start of New Avengers.