Comments on Heroes In My Closet: Survival of the Fittest, Part II

Groo? Oh wow, that brings back memories. I loved...

2009-07-13T11:21:17.073-04:00

Groo? Oh wow, that brings back memories. I loved that comic for a short time in my adolesence. I remember my friend and I kind of nervous our parents wouldn't approve of Groo, so we usually hid them. Now that would be a fun series to (re)collect! If you want to read Elfquest again, just go to their main site, Elfquest.com Every book ever done is there to read right from the site. Enjoy!

Straczynski's done notable stints on the afore...

2009-07-11T10:44:27.117-04:00

Straczynski's done notable stints on the aforementioned Amazing Spider-Man restart, a great revamp/revisioning of Squadron Supreme, a Dr. Strange mini-series and the current Thor run. He is considered one of the hottest comic writers these days.

I am familiar with ElfQuest and started picking up Marvel's colorized rerelease of the series in the 80s, but never stuck with it... just too many other books I was reading at the time and my tastes were focused on traditional superhero stuff—although I loved Mage, Grimjack, Dalgoda, Dynamo Joe, American Flagg, Beanworld, Groo...

Say what? The creator of Babylon 5 took over Marv...

2009-07-10T17:12:56.637-04:00

Say what? The creator of Babylon 5 took over Marvel?? Hmm.. Well, I loved that series, but really interestng that he took over comics. Who woulda thunk? My collections are well read too, as long as pages are not missing, I don't care. Do you know about Elfquest? The graphic novels were split up into comics by Marvel back in the 80's. I was (and still am to a point) completely hooked on it. It sounds like they are getting close to an animated movie. They've been trying to do one since 1981.

Hi John! I think they restarted the numbering on ...

2009-07-09T16:40:01.665-04:00

Hi John!

I think they restarted the numbering on Amazing Spider-Man when J. Michael Straczynski took over in the late 90s; then returned to the old numbering when they reached the 500th issue. I believe they did the same thing with 500th issue of Fantastic Four and 600th issue of Thor, the latter coincidentally also written by Straczynski. I lost the passion for collecting soon after leaving Marvel. My collection had become an accumulation and I'd forgotten why I'd started collecting in the first place. I sold off the brunt of my mass o' comics, keeping most of my original collection. They are well-read and wouldn't rate much on the CGC scale, but I love them.

Good reading as ever. I can see how so many of th...

2009-07-09T15:11:01.441-04:00

Good reading as ever. I can see how so many of the interrogators could get on your nerves. As much as I loved comics, I've never been to a comic convention. I don't actively collect anymore, but I did recently complete a fair collection of Batman, G.I. Joe and Iron Man collections I started as a child. I am debating doing Spider-man too. But that would a be a huge undertaking. And Spider-man got weird with their alternate reality thing they did years ago. Didn't the whole series start over again or something?

John