Guido deserves better than this. Added to the redo pile.
163 – Strong Guy
159 – Thanos
Interesting looking, interesting character, bizarre villain who first appeared in an Iron Man comic (bizarre, in that he is not a typical Iron Man villain).
157 – Beast
Nothing really to say. I like Beast, I don’t even know if he’s still in an X-Book or not, or if he still looks like a kitty cat.
But here’s a bonus Microhero:
156 – Jesse Custer
I love Preacher, but I will admit that when it was coming out monthly, it was getting on my nerves. However, apparently, I thought the final issue was fantastic, and seemed to be the only one out of my peers who were reading it was as well, that liked it. A few years after it ended, I re-read the entire series over a few weeks, and those issues that I hated when waiting month-to-month, seemed like an invaluable part of the whole, and made me appreciate what Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon accomplished. My friend Bruce bought me a piece of original Preacher art one Christmas (or birthday?) and it’s one of my prized possessions, and one of two pieces of original art I own that wasn’t drawn by somebody I know.
155 – Blue Beetle
Another Blue Beetle. Sad that there’s apparently no room in the New DCU for Ted Kord. I’ll still light a candle every night in the window for ya, Teddy.
154 – The American Scream
Happy 4th of July! Over at Ok, PANIC! we celebrated the holiday with the Patriotic Avenger, Captain America, the spirit of the potential of America. However, America has a prevalent shitty side, so I’m showcasing that here with The American Scream, the villain of the first 25 or so issues of Peter Milligan & Chris Bachalo’s Shade the Changing Man series, a favorite of mine. I’ll put the first 50 issues of that series up against more notable classic comics any day. Also Bachalo was never better than his peak at around issue 35 or so, when the book switched over to DC’s new Vertigo imprint (he carried that style to his first run on Marvel’s Generation X, after that, I have no idea what happened to him).
As a bonus “America’s Dark Side” piece, a drawing I did some years ago of a Bizzaro version of Captain America: Bizarro Amerika.
