Hooboy.
Jul 20Marvel has been publishing these great Marvel Universe codex-style books, but each one focuses on a particular decade – I picked up the 1970s issue to check it out. So much great stuff. Bios for favorites like The Punisher and Power Man, as well as bizarre rarieties, like Hellcow and Hypno-Hustler. Sooo cheesy good.
The book also takes a look at groups that existed in the 70s and covers their 70s exploits in broad terms – Power Man replaced The Thing in the Fantastic Four, so that’s covered. The exploding roster size of The Avengers was covered, for example. And The Lady Liberators were covered;
The short version can be found online, though I’d recommend the book account as it has more pictures. Here’s my super-short version. Amora the Enchantress appears as Valkyrie and convinces the women members of The Avengers to overthrow their male oppressors – they head off to where the male avengers are fighting the Masters of Evil. They stomp the Masters and then proceed to stomp the Avengers. The whole plot comes out when the Enchantress turns on the Liberators.
Once he wakes up from his thumping, Giant-man chides the women for dabbling in Women’s Lib. The Scarlett Witch retorts, “That’s what you think– male chauvinist pig! One of these days, the Liberators will stage a comeback– right, Jan?”
And they lived happily ever after, until Hank Pym beat Jan, and Wanda (the Scarlett Witch) marries a robot, has two imaginary kids, and goes insane. Sheesh. Nice try, Marvel – whatever it was you were trying. The background of the Valkyrie bears some repeating, but I’ll leave that for another day.
"I have a peculiar taste in these matters."
Jul 20As Sarah pointed out earlier, the Holmes Trooper actually posted a comment to our site. Then Sarah’s post went away. Then his comment went away. Then I went away, drank heavily, returned, beat my computer with a baseball bat, and then everything was working – better yet, I found copies of everyone’s stuff in some cache files. Hooray!
The Trooper’s post is particularly notable, as you can buy Holmes Trooper schwag from Cafe Press – Heeeeee! And better yet, I’ve discovered they have MySpace pages. Fuck Tom, I want THEM on my friend list (sorry Tom.)
What, No Gagh?
Jul 20I was just at Subway, grabbing a cheap lunch-on-the-go, when all of a sudden I hear the unmistakably sonorous tones of Lieutenant Worf (son of Mogh) ordering a footlong turkey on wheat.
That’s right, friends. MICHAEL FUCKING DORN was in line behind me. He likes avocado, in case you were wondering.
Comic-Con Mania!
Jul 20My brain, she is already San Diego. The rest of me will join her there on Friday. In the meantime, check out this most excellent field guide to Comic-Con fans on Story Boredom. Link found via Heidi MacDonald’s The Beat, which recently changed locations — update your bookmarks!
I think my favorite is Bob. Bob made me laugh for a full minute straight. You go, Bob!
SPINS A WEB, ANY SIZE!
Jul 19I fixed it, I fixed it! Holy shit!
I wrestled with the php and the mysql and the satan, and I won!
Time for a victory dance! Take it away Spidey!
Fixing the style bugs that are bugging Matt is next – but they’re easy.
