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Friday, July 18, 2014
Making a Splash: John Byrne's X-Men, Part 3
And we're back with the third (and sadly final) batch of John Byrne X-Men (issues 132-143, January-December 1980) splashes! These splashes are (putting it mildly) part of the stuff of legend! The legend of Dark Phoenix, that is! Claremont, Byrne, and Austin were clicking on all cylinders! Their various artistic visions blending and melding (sometimes in spite of their differences) into a run of awesome comics that are nigh-unto-impossible to beat! As promised, Ol' Groove is including post-Dark Phoenix splashes...including the almost as legendary Days of Future Past storyline! Plus, the debut of Wolverine's John Byrne-designed tan and brown uniform! Can mere mortals dare gaze 'pon such magnificence and not have their lives forever changed? Dare ye find out, Groove-ophiles? Dare ye?
Friday, July 11, 2014
Making a Splash: John Byrne's X-Men, Part 2
Man, when Ol' Groove makes a boo-boo, he makes a good'un! It was this time last year that Yers Trooly ran a post featuring the first batch of John Byrne's X-Men splash pages. A year! Well, being a situation recitifier from 'way back, gonna rectify that sitch right now! Today we're gonna lay Byrne's scrumptious splashes from X-Men #117-131 (October 1978-December 1979)! All of 'em except #118 were inked by Terry Austin (#118 was inked by Ric Villamonte), and of course all of 'em were plotted/co-plotted and scripted by Chris Claremont. Most of 'em were colored by Glynis Wein and lettered by Tom Orzechowski. They were all edited by Roger Stern, who helped put together the ultimate X-Men dream team! These were the days, baby! Sunfire! Spidey! Arcade! Proteus! Moira McTaggert! Kitty Pryde! Dazzler! Oh, yeah, and Alpha Flight! All this, plus sub-plots leading to the classic Dark Phoenix Saga! Are you ready to relive a hunk'a comicbook nirvana, Groove-ophiles? Here we go!!
Never fear, Frantic Ones! Ol' Groove isn't gonna let yet another year pass before we wind up with John Byrne's X-Men Part 3! No way! Look for Part 3--featuring Dark Phoenix and beyond--next Friday! 'Til then, stop by each weekday to see what we do to kill time 'round here!
Never fear, Frantic Ones! Ol' Groove isn't gonna let yet another year pass before we wind up with John Byrne's X-Men Part 3! No way! Look for Part 3--featuring Dark Phoenix and beyond--next Friday! 'Til then, stop by each weekday to see what we do to kill time 'round here!
Friday, July 26, 2013
Groove's Countdown: Top 10 Wolverine Moments of the Groovy Age
The Wolverine hits theaters 'round the U.S. today, and Ol' Groove is rarin' to see it. Yeah, tall and handsome Hugh Jackman isn't our Groovy Age Wolvie, but in the Marvel Movie-verse he's got the swagger and attitude to pull off playing our fave berserker. That's not the point of today's post, though, Groove-ophiles. Ol' Groove'll stop the pluggin' and get on with it! Today's all about...
NOTE: These events are in chronological order, not order of importance. Just sayin'...
10) X-Men #96: First view of Wolverine's Berserker Rage! We'd heard about Logan Unleashed, but we finally saw Wolvie cut loose with all his fury on one of the N'Garai...did a super-HERO ever go that nutso before?
9) X-Men #98: Wolverine Unmasked! He has a face! And a funky hair-do. Who'da thunk it?
(Yeah, Logan was unmasked on page one of ish 98, but we didn't know it fo sho until the panel above that it was Wolvie. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it...)
8) X-Men #98 (again!): Wolverine's Claws Are a Part of Him! Here we were thinking those adamantium Ginsu knives were in his gloves...
7) X-Men #101: Wolverine Says It with Flowers (Or Not)! A rare early glimpse of Wolverine's tender side as he deals with his feelings for Jean Gray in his own inimitable way...
6) X-Men #108: Wolverine Is HOW Tough? While battling the Imperial Guard, Logan is punched literally into orbit and survives. Yeah, the scene is played for laughs, but think about it. Approaching escape velocity. Alive. Wolverine. One tough dude!
5) X-Men #109: Wolverine's Not Just About Killing... Logan has a sensitive side and a depth neither the X-Men nor many of us readers had given him credit for up to this point...
4) X-Men #116: ...But Wolverine Will Kill Without Mercy! When lives are on the line and stealthy assassination is a must, Logan will do what he has to do . And his fellow X-Men will just have to live with it...
3) X-Men #118: Wolverine Meets Mariko. Logan meets the love of his life, giving us a new and very unique wrinkle in our enigmatic hero's personality--the romantic ronin. (And she'd better be in this new flick!)
2) X-Men #132: Wolverine Emerges from the Sewer, Ready to Kick Butt! ZOOM! Logan's cool-factor multiplied by triple-digits with the last page of X-Men 132, one of the all-time iconic images in all of comicdom. Beaten and humiliated, his teammates captured, the baddies aren't a bit worried about Wolvie. They think he's dead. Their bad.
1) X-Men #133: Wolverine Lives Up to His Promise (and Does a Pretty Good Dirty Harry)! We expected to see Logan go to war on the Hellfire Club's minions when we got our eyes filled with that last page of X-Men 132. We tear back the cover of ish 133 to see if our expectations are fulfilled. Boy, are they ever!
What d'ya think, Groove-ophiles? Those are my picks. What are yours?
The Top Ten Wolverine Moments of the Groovy Age!
NOTE: These events are in chronological order, not order of importance. Just sayin'...
10) X-Men #96: First view of Wolverine's Berserker Rage! We'd heard about Logan Unleashed, but we finally saw Wolvie cut loose with all his fury on one of the N'Garai...did a super-HERO ever go that nutso before?
9) X-Men #98: Wolverine Unmasked! He has a face! And a funky hair-do. Who'da thunk it?
(Yeah, Logan was unmasked on page one of ish 98, but we didn't know it fo sho until the panel above that it was Wolvie. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it...)
8) X-Men #98 (again!): Wolverine's Claws Are a Part of Him! Here we were thinking those adamantium Ginsu knives were in his gloves...
7) X-Men #101: Wolverine Says It with Flowers (Or Not)! A rare early glimpse of Wolverine's tender side as he deals with his feelings for Jean Gray in his own inimitable way...
6) X-Men #108: Wolverine Is HOW Tough? While battling the Imperial Guard, Logan is punched literally into orbit and survives. Yeah, the scene is played for laughs, but think about it. Approaching escape velocity. Alive. Wolverine. One tough dude!
5) X-Men #109: Wolverine's Not Just About Killing... Logan has a sensitive side and a depth neither the X-Men nor many of us readers had given him credit for up to this point...
4) X-Men #116: ...But Wolverine Will Kill Without Mercy! When lives are on the line and stealthy assassination is a must, Logan will do what he has to do . And his fellow X-Men will just have to live with it...
3) X-Men #118: Wolverine Meets Mariko. Logan meets the love of his life, giving us a new and very unique wrinkle in our enigmatic hero's personality--the romantic ronin. (And she'd better be in this new flick!)
2) X-Men #132: Wolverine Emerges from the Sewer, Ready to Kick Butt! ZOOM! Logan's cool-factor multiplied by triple-digits with the last page of X-Men 132, one of the all-time iconic images in all of comicdom. Beaten and humiliated, his teammates captured, the baddies aren't a bit worried about Wolvie. They think he's dead. Their bad.
1) X-Men #133: Wolverine Lives Up to His Promise (and Does a Pretty Good Dirty Harry)! We expected to see Logan go to war on the Hellfire Club's minions when we got our eyes filled with that last page of X-Men 132. We tear back the cover of ish 133 to see if our expectations are fulfilled. Boy, are they ever!
What d'ya think, Groove-ophiles? Those are my picks. What are yours?
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