The beginning of the Bwahaha era of the Justice League – and one of the most iconic covers of all time. I’m not a huge fan of Pat Broderick, but his style really worked on this story. And by “solid” I mean engaging and horrifying. This graphic novel adaptation of Martin’s short story – later adapted for television as the first episode of a mid-90s revival of Outer Limits – was pretty solid. DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel 7: Sandkings Starting with this issue, the art really started to work for me. Badger has a very unique art style, and his pencils were not well served by the more traditional inks of Randy Emberlin. This was also the first issue of the run to be penciled and inked by Mark Badger.
One of the things I loved about it was conversations like this one: DeMatteis’ much-maligned American Flagg run, and it won’t be the last. This isn’t the first time I’ve mentioned my love of J. So, you get (among many others) Captain America by Mike Zeck:īest of all, the book ends with a double-page spread illustrated by a who’s who of early 80s comic book artists: The book manages to rise above novelty status due to the wonderful idea of having each character (or group) illustrated by their signature artists. This is exactly what it sounds like: the heroes of the Marvel Universe put on tuxes and make fun of the Fantastic Four. Other Comics I Read From February 1977Ī rather silly one-shot from 80s Marvel’s humorist-in-residence Fred Hembeck.
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The brilliance of this is not only did it get rid of the bad guy without further violence, but it also managed to free perennial side-kick Rick Jones from the curse of hanging out in the Negative Zone whenever Captain Marvel was needed. The hook of this sort of villain is that the more (and more powerful) heroes you add to the fray, the harder the bad guy is to defeat. The villain of the issue, the Super-Adaptoid, was a pretty blatant rip-off of DC’s Amazo: I wasn’t a regular reader of this book in 1977, but the Avengers were on the cover, so I snatched it up – and was glad I did. This will afford readers the opportunity to chastise me for not reading specific comics, and/or laugh at the horrible, horrible choices I made in the past. (The idea is that after five years of monthly columns, I will have covered an entire lifetime – in this case, fifty years – of reading comics.) I also list all the comics I read that particular month. Each month I go back in time – in five year intervals – to examine key comics that came out those months. Rand is back to share his fond memories of decades of comic collecting and reading in this month’s Random Access Memory.Īuthor’s Note: Random Access Memory is me looking back at the specific comics that shaped my life.
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