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....and I mean the ORIGINAL Iron Man 74. (Just in case there's been another Iron Man 74.)
Why bring this up? For those of you who haven't read it, the story features a subplot about an evil bad guy; the Black Llama, who'd been shuffling through Marvel's comics offering the bad guys their heart's desire if they play his game.
....and it's not 'cos this idea sort of got recycled as "Secret Wars" a decade later that I bring it up. Rather; I find it interesting that this story is almost exactly like the multi-book, zillion issue non-events plaguing superhero books nowadays. But without the hype. And this sort of thing happened a lot back in the day, but without the hype.
So.... how did they go off the rails? I think it's 'cos the ever escallating hype for these things has outstripped the story potential of 'em. And that's 'cos the audience is pretty sure that nothing's gonna REALLY happen when all is said and done. At least not for too long.
Don C.
Why bring this up? For those of you who haven't read it, the story features a subplot about an evil bad guy; the Black Llama, who'd been shuffling through Marvel's comics offering the bad guys their heart's desire if they play his game.
....and it's not 'cos this idea sort of got recycled as "Secret Wars" a decade later that I bring it up. Rather; I find it interesting that this story is almost exactly like the multi-book, zillion issue non-events plaguing superhero books nowadays. But without the hype. And this sort of thing happened a lot back in the day, but without the hype.
So.... how did they go off the rails? I think it's 'cos the ever escallating hype for these things has outstripped the story potential of 'em. And that's 'cos the audience is pretty sure that nothing's gonna REALLY happen when all is said and done. At least not for too long.
Don C.
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