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07-23-2019, 01:36 AM | #61 |
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I’m my opinion the best art ARAH ever had were the issues Hama pencilled.
As far as Kirby goes... well, probably almost anything you like about comics comes directly from Kirby, Lee, and the early Marvel team. Without them we would have all quit comics at age eight when we got tired of reading about the adventures of Bat-Man’s goldfish or the time Lois Lane got really fat. |
07-23-2019, 11:38 PM | #62 |
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No, Larry is playing the political flavor of the month, Hollywood is doing the same thing and watching numbers drop with many movies. You're right many kids from the 80s want to see what Gi Joe used to be, and many of us try to read the comics, it's difficult when you know what's going on.
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07-23-2019, 11:44 PM | #63 |
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No, Larry is playing the political flavor of the month, Hollywood is doing the same thing and watching numbers drop with many movies. Your right many kids from the 80s want to see what Gi Joe used to be, and many of us try to read the comics, it's difficult when you know what's going on.
Larry Hama took what would have been a short-run licensed title that nobody paid attention to for more than a few years, and he used it to build up the mythology which everyone else still picks from. The continued existence of the title which hooked me on comics in the 80s is such a rare gift and so improbable that it should be celebrated by the comics industry and seen for the amazing feat that it is. The characters have grown and evolved, and some of the character arcs are more meaningful than anything a more mainstream could ever be allowed to achieve. Most of the dead characters have stayed that way, despite a few notable exceptions. We were even able to just have an entire issue devoted to the fallen. The character of Sean has grown and evolved over the years and Dawn herself has had as much if not more development than most of the figure-characters from the 80s. This title and Larry have long-ago moved beyond the corporate constraints imposed on him in the 80s. The evolution of ARAH since it came back has been phenomenal. At this point in time, Larry Hama has been operating on his own platform of freedom, creating a story within a world of his own making and it doesn't need to be dragged backwards into the status quo of decades ago. This title deserves to be counted in with the best of comics history, but it doesn't deserve that categorization if it just goes back to being an advertisement. Perhaps the existence of this Rob Liefeld Snake-Eyes story is best thing I could hope for! It can give speculators and trend-hoppers the cartoon Snake-Eyes action figure wank they deserve while hopefully being it's own continuity and bypassing the ARAH series. There's no reason to upend a series which has been one of the longest running non-mainstream non-superhero titles just to appease a small amount of fair-weather-trend "fans" who will be here one minute, and gone the next". Actually there's a problem with ARAH that's why many want to see some new people take on the project. Last edited by silentmaster1; 07-23-2019 at 11:49 PM.. |
07-24-2019, 12:42 AM | #64 |
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Great! There are several new Joe comics coming out for you. The Rob Liefeld one will be the closest to what you want and remember from the 80s.
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