tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post3509023041050536439..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: My 10 Favorite 80s Single-Issue StoriesSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-26181684023676634152015-05-06T20:42:57.878-03:002015-05-06T20:42:57.878-03:00The two that leap to my mind are the Blue Devil Su...The two that leap to my mind are the Blue Devil Summer Fun Annual and the Superman Annual with For The Man Who Has Everything. Let's see, what else? Cerebus #51 ("Exodus"). Crisis on Infinite Earths #7. Myth Adventures #7 (In which Foglio makes a big divergence from the original text). I'll go with Saga of the Swamp Thing Annual #2 for that series, Violent Cases, Legion of Super-heroes #30(Brainy's Lucky Day), New Teen Titans #38 (Who is Donna Troy), and round off with Suicide Squad #1.Jeff R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-60526193323418034552015-05-05T16:20:45.627-03:002015-05-05T16:20:45.627-03:00Solid, solid picks man.
I shudder at the prosepct ...Solid, solid picks man.<br />I shudder at the prosepct of picking my favorites, only because I believe most of them weren't one in dones.<br /><br />Gotta' go find that Captain Atom issue though.<br />I definitely have to say the way that characters personality has changed over the years, not to mention his appearence, you'd think there realy were three different Captain Atoms.Mr. Morbid's House Of Funhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721085161381688977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-75713822416081631262015-05-04T19:39:18.664-03:002015-05-04T19:39:18.664-03:00Oh HECK yeah! Good single issue tales were rare e...Oh HECK yeah! Good single issue tales were rare even back then, but now they seem to be extinct.Sea-of-Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813600516703661200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-19782804299157857732015-05-04T17:36:20.840-03:002015-05-04T17:36:20.840-03:00I'll second Madeley's endorsement of Dared...I'll second Madeley's endorsement of Daredevil 241. I read it as a kid when it first came out, and it occasionally returns to haunt me even now.Simon (formerly Johnny Sorrow)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08429628635241033885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-40408533373847469862015-05-04T16:08:35.642-03:002015-05-04T16:08:35.642-03:00Man, Romita Jr, Marvel Hunk of the Month as he was...Man, Romita Jr, Marvel Hunk of the Month as he was, sure drew a hell of a lot better back then.Randalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-62771468322662634712015-05-04T09:49:25.273-03:002015-05-04T09:49:25.273-03:00Not here, but elsewhere, I have been highly critic...Not here, but elsewhere, I have been highly critical of Nocenti's body of work in the nu52 -- she ruined every title she touched, basically because she eschewed the normal techniques of storytelling (plot, tension, dialogue where it seems like characters are actually in the same conversation) in favor of what I might very euphemistically call a "quirky" style. Green Arrow, Catwoman, Katana, Klarion -- read the reviews, there is near universal agreement that they were all terrible under Nocenti's watch.<br /><br />But when it came to Marvel in the 1980s, man, Nocenti had the mojo. (I didn't mean that as a pun, but it works out nicely, since she did the "Longshot" miniseries.) My personal favorite of hers was Warlock of the New Mutants deciding that he wasn't learning enough about the world from watching TV, so he morphed into the Mach 5 and drove to NYC to experience reallife. Nocenti could really hit stuff like that out of the park.<br /><br />Is it possible there are two comic book writers out there who happen to be named "Ann Nocenti", and one is really awesome but hasn't done much work the past decade or two, and the other is getting writing gigs solely because of the confusion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-9093895263238232312015-05-04T09:25:32.231-03:002015-05-04T09:25:32.231-03:00Ann Nocenti's run on Daredevil is still my fav...Ann Nocenti's run on Daredevil is still my favorite Daredevil run ever. Mark Waid is giving it a run for its money, but both definitely above Miller's, which is still seminal.<br /><br />I'll keep Sandman 13 in mind for my inevitable 90s follow-up.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-8627207881206338132015-05-04T08:51:24.472-03:002015-05-04T08:51:24.472-03:00A couple of alternative choices for me would be Da...A couple of alternative choices for me would be Daredevil 241, also written by Ann Nocenti. Black Christmas, a haunting story that didn't have a villain in it, just an unhinged one-off character that reflected Murdock's unhealthy thrill-seeking side. I'm sure I've mentioned it in comments here before, it was the first American-format comic I read, and probably made me the fan I am today.<br /><br />Sandman 13, the first Hob Gadling story and my favourite Sandman story. It was the Sandman story I liked even back when I didn't really "get" Sandman. It's 90s rather than 80s, but only by a month or two.<br /><br />One for the Brits: Transformers 100, the UK comic. Dark, surreal, disturbing, Optimus Prime is hunted in Cybertron by his own side, and tells a dying Autobot the story of how he and others were once trapped in limbo between worlds. It exemplifies the ambitious kind of story Simon Furman was able to get away with because no-one was watching what he was doing with a Marvel toy tie-in licence in a British comic Marvel HQ assumed no-one cared about. Utterly blew my 8 year old mind.Madeleynoreply@blogger.com