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100) (in no special order)
the INVADERS (Every run!! sorta)
I have LOST how many MINI's there have been in the last 20 years and I did enjoy each one as each had it's own FLAVOR and I am sorry to say there are ONLY TWO People on the planet who are qualified to WRITE the Invaders and they are ROY THOMAS and JOHN BYRNE.
As we know Roy did the bronze age original Invaders issues 1-41 and the annuals. He did a great job and defined the team but my favorite thing he did was the creation of the LIBERTY LEGION! Those characters were more obscure and in my opinion more exciting then Cap, Subby & the torches. Sorry.
John Byrne. He did the Baron Blood arc in Captain America and that was smoking!! Then when he wrote and penciled NAMOR, when he got to issues, 10-12, holy Fawk! I couldn't believe just how good he told that story and how much it had my heart pumping, it was almost like an old 40's serial and I was so overjoyed seeing them all together. I think I might have even cried...
The one invaders mini that first comes to mind is the one where they REINTRODUCE the BLAZING SKULL. I think I have MYSTIC Comics # 5, here somewhere, but alas it is SLABBED, so I have NOT read the issue. That blows, when I end up buying slabs!! My guess is they tried to pass him off as some kind of DEADPOOL-PSYCHO character and it didn't stick. Shame as I did like the novelty of the golden age character.
The other mini that I am thinking of is the one JAMES ROBINSON wrote and he included the (GA) VISION they ended up fighting the KREE and of course they win ( NO kidding) and somehow at the end he was attempting to mind control: GALACTUS!?!?!?! You would think Mr. DC Golden age , Mr. Starman/Jack Knight would be a shoe in to write the Invaders, but no. He fell on his *** and wrote a arc that was too OUT There. Oh James, wherefore art thou??????? Not sure if he is still married to JANN JONES. No comment there.
There was also the Avengers/Invader 12 issue Maxi and I enjoyed that as Steve Sadowski , pencilled it.
And my one lone brain cell is strained as I can't remember the rest. So with that I will end this first entry of my 100.
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