Four-Colour Fetish!

xpost where are our super-prostitute experts when you need them?

Also, Greg Horn & his early _Emma Frost_ covers.

An example re: writers & fave characters - CC & Sage definitely come to mind. Also, Chuck Austen & those super-powered mutant werewolves (he used them in an UXM story, and then in an _Exiles_ arc where the Exiles just happened to pop into the "real" Marvel universe).

The X-Men had a super-powered prostitute in their ranks (oh ha) during Joe Casey's short disowned run on UXM. I think she boffed the POTUS.

_Transmetro_ was Ellis, BTW.

Ellis: lots of rants filled with futurebabble, profanity, and explicit references to the internal organs of various species (and lately, l33tsp3@k). Also, hot girls who can't stay away from cranky, misanthropic guys.

Ennis: lots of lads hanging out in pubs, war stories, A-Team style punch-outs, high-horse speeches about friendship and ladeez' honor, horrible but "amusing" treatment of homosexual characters, and depictions of various exposed internal organs.

Um, they've both done some great work though.

THANK YOU. That sounds right. Now where the hell would I have read it? Was it a one-shot?

_The Pro_ was a one-shot. There might be a sequel out in the near future.

I think the first 'fan' publication I ever bought was some history-of-the-Avengers thing with a big Engelhart interview and I remember thinking he seemed like a 'radical dude'.

haha Karen Berger and everything Neil Gaiman ever touched.

Peter David and Rick Jones in that last issue of the Hulk where Rick commented on how brilliant Peter David's next storylines WOULD HAVE BEEN.

Marky Mark Waid overidentifies with everyone he writes.

Jack Kirby and Ben Grimm.

Steve Ditko to the thread! Mr. A and The Question in particular.

I wonder if he dates/marries exceptionally tall women (that's the other thing I remember, he kept drawing attention to her height; you don't have many people telling Tony Stark he has a mustache).

"What is it, Pepper? What's wrong?"

"No, no, it's nothing. I thought you had -- nevermind."

"Well now it's all built up, you have to tell me."

"It's just, I thought there was something on your lip, but no, it's just your mustache."

"I need that mustache to live, Pepper!"

"I know, I know."

"That mustache is the solar panel for the cybernetic pacemaker that keeps my heart pumping!"

"I know, I kn-- wait, what?"

"The solar panel for the cybernet--"

"Last week you said it was an alien symbiote that lived on your face in exchange for curing your alcoholism!"

"I -- yes! That's what I meant! An alien symbiote solar panel that --"

"It's just a mustache, isn't it? You just WANT A MUSTACHE."

"No, no, alien symbiote, solar heart protector, oh no, look out, I might commence to drinking --"

"Come clean, Tony, you have to. Is that a voluntary mustache?"

"It's, um, LOOK, RHODEY'S FUCKING A UNICORN AGAIN!"

"What?"

*dashes away*

)

I'm surprised Tep hasn't made mention of Shooter & his forbidden love of Ill-Defined Omnipotence. And I hope Mr. Skidmore stops by the expound on the amour between Mr. Claremont and England.

Can I just say (again) (& again) that the current She-Hulk series is utterly fantastic?

xpost - from the creators of AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED comes the next shocking saga that will leave you penniless: IRON MAN DISCOMBOBULATED!

Shooter's omnipotence fetish is very weird and will always shape my memory of early-to-mid 80s comics, for better or worse. In part, I think, because the fetish was so everpresent that it actually shaped the mechanics for the Marvel Super Heroes roleplaying game (the only rpg I was allowed to play).

(One thing he always did was to have the enormous FITE take place next to whichever comics shop he liked best in the city in question)

(White Wolf's original supplement for New Orleans had a secret network of tunnels leading away from the subway system, which was a much worse error in what-the-fuck-ity.)