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Sienkiewicz is an amazing talent. Admittedly, I was initially turned off by his style, but I later came to appreciate his great talent. This is the work where I started to really appreciate his work:
Great story too.
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For me, this was the death that had the most impact on me from a Marvel comic in the '80s:
Although Elektra's death and Jean Grey's death were both incredibly powerful, they had both been killed off before I started reading comics. Thanks to spoilers from later comics I knew both Jean and Elektra had died well before I was able to read the respective story that killed them off. So as great as those stories were, they simply didn't have the same power they would have had had I gone into the story cold. Kraven's Last Hunt I read as the issues came out, so Kraven's death was a big shock to me. And to Marvel's credit, they kept him dead for quite a while.
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I started out with my favorite in the 70s (Tomb of Dracula), and read Howard the Duck, Avengers, Daredevil, X-Men, Mighty Thor, Warlock...loved it.
Marvel is easily my favorite comic book publisher, my only complaint is that Mar-Vell never really came back all the way. He and Captain America were my favorite superheroes.
It's funny...the soundtrack (and to a slightly lesser degree the movie) to Man of Steel got me back into comics a few years back, and I went crazy with the movies, books, etc. But I became really disinterested after what for me was the height: the Civil War theme (best Marvel movie imo).
Something after just a bit after my falling in love with that movie: I snapped out of it and saw it for the phase it was.
Still love the scores: Winter Soldier (more fun than artistic), Man of Steel, the Dark Knight Trilogy(especially Rises). The Thor: Dark World score was a blast too imo. Nah, none of it is Goldsmith or Herrmann, but some really good listening imo.
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The upcoming BLACK PANTHER film is getting near-unanimous praise from critics, isn't it?
Should we be excited in a "this-film-lives-up-to-all-the-hype" kind of way? The last Black Panther trailer I saw turned into a car commercial!
The film is certainly getting some great reviews. Does it live up to the hype? Hopefully it does. I really liked how Black Panther was handled in CA: Civil War, and his appearances in the Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War trailers look great. Anyway, I will be seeing the film this Friday.
In the meantime, I have been reading this in anticipation for the upcoming film:
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Avengers Marvel Masterworks Vol. 18. The latter reprints #178-188, when John Byrne and George Perez were doing the art chores.
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I so love vols. 15-19 they are the Avengers I grew up with.
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J.M. DeMatteis' Defenders writing runs hot and cold with me, but lately it's been hot. I appreciate the personal side stories over the epic-scale battles.
I agree about Dematteis' writing. Although I haven't read his Cap run yet, his Spider-Man work is my favorite of his Marvel work. (For the Distinguished Competition, my favorite of his work was when he was scripting Keith Griffen's plots during the bwahahaha era of Justice League.)
Kraven's Last Hunt is one of my all-time favorite Spider-Man stories, and Dematteis also did some great work on Spectacular Spider-Man. I recently revisited some of his writing when reading this compilation, which includes a three part Vulture story he wrote:
I think that is the only part of his Spectacular run that has been reprinted. Hopefully Marvel will someday reprint his entire run as part of their Epic Collection series.
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