Even *I* feel too young for this thread.
That NEVER happens.
Even *I* feel too young for this thread.
That NEVER happens.
"All it takes for sexism to prosper is for good men to see nothing."
Let's not forget that the Avengers AA Annual gave us this gem:
Yeah, but Lifeform wasn't even close to a Defenders story. Other than DD appearing in a flashback in the Hulk story, the characters didn't even apear in each other's chapters.
I never saw this sponge when Atlantis Attacks was coming out, but I wonder if it was one of the first Marvel promos?
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
The "Von Strucker Gambit". I have those somewhere.
Also how about the one that ran in the Spider Man Annuals (Amazing Spider Man, Web of Spider Man, and Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider Man) called the "Vibranium Vendetta" that had Spidey teaming up with Iron Man and the Black Panther to take on Kingpin, the Ghost, and Ultron.
Guess you'll like this:
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Peace
LOL! Yes, there are plenty of us old geezers still around. ;p
Is that where that came from? Awesome.
Stationary store? Those are mostly gone now, too, aren't they?
7-11s are regional. They were everywhere in Colorado, but we don't have any or very few down in the South. As a kid we used to have Majik Marts, but now I think the convenience stores are Circle K and others -- though they don't carry comics now.
I didn't think of it that way, but they are stories that can fit outside of the narrative of the ongoing. And while they don't have all that wonderful extra stuff you mention, I've enjoyed reading a couple of the trio of annuals format Marvel is using now. I think it's also a try out for writers and artists, much like it was in the past.
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
I loved Atlantis Attacks, and Evolutionary War too. Reread them many times. I have been thinking about them recently and thought that Marvel should revisit this format for their events. I know they wouldn't be able to sell as many tie-ins, but there would be less complaints from people, and I am sure sales would remain. Have one Annual a week across three or even four months, you'd get 12-16 oversized issues, all part of the main story, and not derailing the main series. Have them written by the same writer as the regular series, or have one popular writer write all the issues... whatever Marvel thinks would work best. They could even run multiple events a year (which they do anyway) by varying the length of the story and then starting a new one as soon as the old one is done. 52 weeks a year, Marvel probably has approximately that many on-going titles... an Annual a week.
By the way, there were a few Atlantis Attacks stories outside the Annuals. One was a short Hulk story in Marvel Comics Presents where the Hulk fights a crazy whale at a thinly-veiled Sea World parody. Another was in an issue of West Coast Avengers which really served as a lead-in to that book's annual. (I think it was literally a panel.) Finally, there was the crazy oversized What If...? #25 where Namor dies, the Punisher and Moon Knight are turned into snakes, and Thor fails in his quest to recruit the Demogorge, so set basically wins. A lot of What If...? comics are dark, but man, that one was dark.