tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post1712475254013042044..comments2024-03-28T22:35:06.739+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: December 21st, 1977 - Marvel UK, 40 years ago this week.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-80999404308941282172017-12-24T12:54:09.701+00:002017-12-24T12:54:09.701+00:00Merry Christmas to you too, Colin.Merry Christmas to you too, Colin.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-19201762469975535672017-12-24T12:18:04.460+00:002017-12-24T12:18:04.460+00:00Merry Christmas, Steve, and to everyone who reads ...Merry Christmas, Steve, and to everyone who reads Steve Does Comics :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-90213587537556105432017-12-24T06:03:16.247+00:002017-12-24T06:03:16.247+00:00Don't know about Santa, Charlie - I thought it...Don't know about Santa, Charlie - I thought it was long established that the terrigen mists and Inhumans were a Kree experiment. Although the precise details seem to change as the demands of retro-continuity means the story gets more complicated each time its revisited.<br />Last I read, the Celestials (inevitably) were involved somehow. <br /><br />Forgot about the Andes, Steve - sorry about; although to be fair, they're cold too so the point about Medusa holds.<br /><br />-sean<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-82743148778826770722017-12-23T18:20:44.096+00:002017-12-23T18:20:44.096+00:00Ahhh... that explains a bunch. Some event happene...Ahhh... that explains a bunch. Some event happened in the Marbel Universe to release Terrigen gas the world over. Hmmm... wonder if only a one-time release was necessary for the every inhuman present and future to appear as an inhuman? <br /><br />I.e., no more latent inhumans in humanity waiting to morph or be exposed to gas? <br /><br />Maybe I'll ask Santa if I see him, lol. He's got all the answers! Charlie Horse 47https://www.blogger.com/profile/00906538705798228800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-16775153222597692872017-12-22T20:33:42.492+00:002017-12-22T20:33:42.492+00:00I think they're now viewed as being a kind of ...I think they're now viewed as being a kind of mutant, but ones whose powers are only activated when they're exposed to Terrigen gas.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-48351789527957211732017-12-22T19:04:11.408+00:002017-12-22T19:04:11.408+00:00Steve - didn't know that.
Anyhow, the whol...Steve - didn't know that. <br /><br />Anyhow, the whole Inhumans living next to NYC, with a little draw bridge to get to their fortress, is really implausible. Who would want to see something that silly in a movie? <br /><br />Help with a point of clarification: Are Inhumans considered muties like the X-Men?Charlie Horse 47https://www.blogger.com/profile/00906538705798228800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-30725103604179378142017-12-22T16:03:10.240+00:002017-12-22T16:03:10.240+00:00Timothy, the gaps in human knowledge are genuinely...Timothy, the gaps in human knowledge are genuinely terrifying.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-67904028332317847952017-12-22T16:01:49.022+00:002017-12-22T16:01:49.022+00:00Charlie, I believe that Lee and Kirby had great di...Charlie, I believe that Lee and Kirby had great difficulty remembering exactly where the Inhumans were supposed to live and their homeland tended to drift around the globe fairly randomly.<br /><br />As for their recent status. Basically, because Marvel didn't have the film rights to the X-Men, they decided to replace them in their movies and TV shows with the Inhumans, hence having them live amongst ordinary people and be the product of genetic mutation. To accommodate this, Marvel also implemented this plan in the comics as well. Presumably, now that Disney own most of Fox, Marvel films can use the X-Men, so the Inhuman strategy has proven to be unnecessary.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-26435902761361158572017-12-22T14:37:33.987+00:002017-12-22T14:37:33.987+00:00Steve- You been hitting the egg nog a little earl...Steve- You been hitting the egg nog a little early? Internet Man? Well, as long as Internet man didn't also impregnate Gwen Stacy prior to her death and she delivered his twins too (like the Green Goblin's) I guess I'm cool with it.<br /><br />Wait - didn't the inhumans live in the Andes? Not withstanding where they used to hang out I did buy the Inhuman run about 2 years ago and they had relocated themselves outside NYC. Also some gas had been spread over the whole (!) world and now everyone who has any Inhuman DNA has morphed into their Inhuman-ness. Good lord... maybe Marvel needs Internet Man to cure them of this madness?<br />Charlie Horse 47https://www.blogger.com/profile/00906538705798228800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-73582552776385115982017-12-22T12:00:19.248+00:002017-12-22T12:00:19.248+00:00I have searched the internet in hopes of finding a...I have searched the internet in hopes of finding a definitive spreadsheet for Marvel UK continuity/reading order. Sadly nobody was bored enough to make one.Timothy Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01455609500395912042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-74235946003405587952017-12-22T11:45:36.313+00:002017-12-22T11:45:36.313+00:00DrVin, it may be the Jazzy One. My memory is fuzzy...DrVin, it may be the Jazzy One. My memory is fuzzy on the matter.<br /><br />Colin, thanks for the FF info. It was always intriguing to see Ross Andru draw Marvel strips that weren't Spider-Man.<br /><br />Sean, I'm pretty sure that Valkyrie's in the Defenders story - and possibly finds herself strangely attracted to the Black Knight, despite never having met him.<br /><br />I do always find it odd that, in the Inhumans' first appearance, the Great Refuge was in the Andes but, in subsequent appearances, it was in the Himalayas, with not a word of explanation.<br /><br />Timothy and Dangermash, I like to think that reading Marvel UK greatly expanded our intellects, thanks to the amount of brainwork we had to put into keeping track of continuity in the face of the sheer randomness of the order in which stories were reprinted.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-31511234122679293962017-12-22T10:12:09.477+00:002017-12-22T10:12:09.477+00:00Yes. Not perfect for Rampage magazine to go strai...Yes. Not perfect for Rampage magazine to go straight from Avengers/Defenders War prologue to epilogue in a week with the war itself being in a different comic.<br /><br />But.....<br /><br />This isn't just a Marvel UK thing. When they had the first Secret War in the mid 80s, Amazing Spider-Man went from one month with Soidey walking into a spaceship that had appeared in Central Park to the next month with a magical black costume. And didn't the switchover happen around the start of the Secret War series, rather than at the end? So the black costume was a complete mystery to every body.dangermash aka The Artistic Actuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15669793446608643884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-46784429229039355722017-12-22T08:12:32.787+00:002017-12-22T08:12:32.787+00:00Don't know if it's this week's issue o...Don't know if it's this week's issue of Rampage or last's but it did at least have a page filling in the details of the Evil Eye saga, which seemed to have been published years previously in Spider-Man Weekly, though I guess it was probably only a year or so. Kids these days complain about crossovers being hard to follow.<br />Merry Christmas all.Timothy Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01455609500395912042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-21756212482411761412017-12-22T06:53:47.658+00:002017-12-22T06:53:47.658+00:00Correct me if I'm mistaken Steve, but isn'...Correct me if I'm mistaken Steve, but isn't Medusa from the Himalayas, what with being an Inhuman? Presumably she's used to the cold, and maybe likes showing off how hard she is making out it doesn't bother her. Like Geordies do (er... no offence intended).<br /><br />A bit odd to see a giant villain on the cover of Rampage that isn't holding a struggling Valkyrie in one of his hands - is she not in that Defenders story?<br /><br />-sean<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-2231489042743625382017-12-22T02:38:34.199+00:002017-12-22T02:38:34.199+00:00And both parts of this story were drawn by Ross An...And both parts of this story were drawn by Ross Andru which, for me, was a very welcome break from Rich Buckler.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-57650149572202746012017-12-22T02:35:08.749+00:002017-12-22T02:35:08.749+00:00Ternak was just a boring man-sized inside the comi...Ternak was just a boring man-sized inside the comic, not the giant he appears on the cover. As I recall, the story (part 2 next week) takes place in the Himalayas - the Torch and Medusa have crashed after returning from the Great Refuge. They soon fall into the clutches of Ternak and his followers who have built a dastardly machine which will turn the entire world into a frozen wilderness. The snowy theme of this story felt appropriately Christmassy at the time :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-24073253778545569212017-12-22T01:18:06.768+00:002017-12-22T01:18:06.768+00:00Could be John Romitas?Could be John Romitas?DrVinnoreply@blogger.com