MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX: BUT HE SAID HE LOVED ME #1(OF 5)
"The master of irreverence, Keith Giffen joins forces with LAST KISS genius John Lustig, FIN FANG FOUR's Roger Langridge and jumpin' Jimmy Palmiotti to give some old love songs a new soundtrack. With art by some of the industries greatest, this blast from the past promises not to tug at your heart strings so much as tickle your funny bone. 32 PGS./All Ages ...$2.99."
Art in the first issue is by Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Gene Colon and Dick Giordano. New cover art by Giffen.
[ March 26, 2006, 03:44 PM: Message edited by: Thriftshop Debutante ]
Posted by MLLASH on :
I've already clamored for this to become an ongoing, sight unseen, on the MARVEL FEB SOLICITS thread. It certainly deserves its own topic so we can eagerly await its arrival.
Perhaps this will make my historically least-favorite month of the year more exciting!
Sure wish that Lustig/Supergirl deal hadn't fell through at DC. That would've been an utter scream. Nice to see Marvel team him with the Giff.
Marvel seems the place to be for fun lately-- She-Hulk, The Thing, GLA (now GLX), Defenders and now this. I approve muchly!
Posted by MLLASH on :
If this mini is a success, dare we hope for a quarterly GIANT SIZED MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX series?
Posted by MLLASH on :
I'm actually looking forward to the Jack Kirby art-- never seen his take on a romance comic before.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Someone's a li'l excited.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
WAY a li'l excited! My LAST KISS's and TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE tpb need companions!
Kirby? Must click!
Posted by MLLASH on :
"The publisher refuses to give you access to the requested page"!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Link works for me! Guess you're just gonna have to work harder. Ha, ha, ha!
Go to www.comics.org and search for "Love Romances." (I linked to 105.) Or anything else ya want!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Why not just post the real cover?
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
That girl only got one thing on her mind.
Posted by MLLASH on :
That cover is FREAKIN' SWEET!
I miss Giff's art.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
But what will become of Whiney, Pathetic Love?
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
Looks good. A little Lustig should perk up everybody's February.
Marvel is also releasing a TPB of "regular" romance comics from the 60s & 70s - stories such as "It Happened at Woodstock". ???? It may be hard to tell the difference between the real and the redux....
MARVEL ROMANCE TPB Written by STAN LEE, GARY FRIEDRICH & MORE Penciled by DICK GIORDANO, JACK KIRBY, GRAY MORROW, SOL BRODSKY & MORE Cover by JACK KIRBY MY LOVE. TEEN-AGE ROMANCE. LOVE ROMANCE. “It Happened at Woodstock!” “My Heart Broke in Hollywood!” “Love on the Rebound!” Featuring Smart Styles and Heavenly Hairdos with Patsy Walker in a pre-Hellcat tale!
Posted by MLLASH on :
NO FREAKIN' WAY!!!
****MUST PURCHASE!!!!****
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Oh, "My Heart Broke In Hollywood" is a good one! It features psychedelic/pop art by Jim Steranko.
Posted by Reboot on :
No Giffen, but Lustig's still around
MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX: GUYS & DOLLS #1 Written by JIMMY PALMIOTTI, JEFF PARKER, JOHN LUSTIG Penciled by JOHN BUSCEMA, DON HECK, JOHN ROMITA, GENE COLON Cover by AMANDA CONNER Continuing the noble pursuit of taking funny old pictures and putting funny words on top of them! We’ve asked some of the funniest writers in comics today to look at the romance comics of yesteryear and put in some new dialogue that’ll make us laugh! Unfortunately, the FUNNIEST writers were busy, so we had to settle on these guys. Hey, you get what you pay for! 40 PGS./All Ages ...$2.99
Cover: Posted by Fat Cramer on :
Marvel seems to be on a romance kick. The April previews show two weddings and two suffocatingly soulful kisses (one with Wolverine, of course).
Posted by Reboot on :
*reacts with surprise that Lash hasn't gushed over the first issue of this yet*
Posted by MLLASH on :
It's out? I haven't been to the CBS in a couple of weeks.
I'll swing by there Friday, so expect gushing sometime this weekend!
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
I'll gush! It was great. Falling in love with a comics geek, falling in love with the guy you were hired to kill, "President Stripper" and lots of interfering mothers... this is what romance comics were meant to be.
It's also funny (to me) that all the stories were written by guys. In these satires, the women tend to be stronger and more independent than in the originals - but just as manipulative, catty and backstabbing. Romance is evil!
Posted by MLLASH on :
Gallaghers! Now I'm *REALLY* excited! Come on, Friday!!!
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
There's also "I Heart Marvel", which has three romance stories - one with the ubiquitous Wolverine, one that's funny and one that's ?cute ?sweet - the middle story was worth the price of the issue.
The romance TPB is very good - just flipped through it so far. It begins with stories from the 1960s and continues to 1974, so just the changes in art style are interesting. The Steranko psychedlic art is really nostalgic!
Scanning through the readers' names (girls wrote in with hairstyle and dress designs - no letters, I guess), it struck me that I would never have bothered to look much at the names as a kid, because I wouldn't have known anyone outside of my town - but, with the internet, we're in contact with comics fans throughout the world. (Didn't recognize any names, however. )
Posted by MLLASH on :
Gallaghers! Couldn't wait until Friday, so I scraped together what I could and went on to the CBS today. Got about half my pull, including this! Cover is excellent-- can't wait to dig in later!
(I also put the MARVEL ROMANCE tpb on hold in my pull; may have to go back tomorrow or Saturday for that and the rest!)
Posted by MLLASH on :
I forgot to gush! It was GREAT! "President Stripper", indeed! And the Gene Colon/Jim Mooney art on "Hit or Miss" was breathtaking!
The "I (HEART) MARVEL" books have been EXCELLENT as well! I've read OUTLAW LOVE, MY MUTANT HEART, WEB OF ROMANCE and MARVEL AI, with the artist's stunning rendition of Medusa.
Posted by MLLASH on :
Marvel Romance RIPOFF??!?!?!
So, unable to bear the comicless torment any longer, I scraped together about $45 to take to the CBS today, to knock my pull down.
Among the items I chose to purchase was the $20 Marvel Romance tpb.
Much to my chagrin, upon a flip-through at home I discovered that virtually the ENTIRE first issue of MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX (with original scripting) was included in this tpb.
Now I'm not sure whether to:
A) Be enraged that I paid so much for stories I've already seen, in altered (and probably bettered) form.
OR
B) Be excited that I have a chance to compare the originals to the reduxes.
I don't like being torn about stuff I was initially thrilled about.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
I don't mind the stories from Redux, but WHAT ABOUT "IT HAPPENED AT WOODSTOCK"?!? Hmph.
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
The repeat was part of the charm for me. It was very hard to decide which is funnier - the original script, or the redux. To think that some young girls might actually have taken those stories as guides to real life casts a chill over the soul.
There's one notable story that wasn't reduxed - the girl who spends her time reading romance comics then meets and falls in love with the writer of those comics, and she becomes a character in the comics.
Plus the Steranko art... Posted by MLLASH on :
As it turns out, I adored it from cover to cover. Finished it today.
So much so that my next post will be an Oscar-style awards presentation.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
I enjoyed the "Well, well, I see that you know how to read! Is it the latest Mickey Spillane thriller or a comic book?" bit from The Summer Must End. (The original, not the Redux!)
Posted by MLLASH on :
MARVEL ROMANCE TPB OSCARS
Actress in a supporting role: Nan from "Patsy's Secret Boyfriend", who helps teach us to always give our friends the benefit of the doubt before we accuse them of being man-hungry sluts!
Actor in a supporting role: Tom from "One Day A Week", who shows us that true love wins out, even if your girlfriend is vaguely dissatisfied, easily fooled and wants to live in the cab of a truck!
Worst hairdo: Sally Rogers from "Give Back My Heart". Good Lord! What the hell was that terrifying mess all about? And you mean she never changed her style in FOUR YEARS?
Most melodramatic splash page: "JILTED!" Y'think it's over? I get the feeling that it IS.
Best artwork: Jim Steranko, for "My Heart Broke in Hollywood". Best Steranko artwork I've ever seen.
Worst pickup line: "You little FOOL!" used by both Whitey in "Jilted" and Art Nelson in "I Want Him-- But He's Hers!"
Biggest Name Screw-Up: "The Dream World of Doris Wilson", in which our heroine is actually named Doris Nelson.
Best original story that was REDUXED: "I Do my Own Thing-- No Matter Whom I Hurts", which was brilliantly reduxed into the hilarious "President Stripper".
Cutest boy: Stephen from "As Time Goes By", as drawn by Gene Colan.
Cutest girl: Kathy, from "Love Isn't In The Cards For Me", as drawn by J. Buscema, J. Romita & F. Giacoia.
Girl that most resembles Teeds: Joellen Jacobs, from "Formula For Love".
best 'FLOATING-HEAD' scene: The splash page of "One Day A Week", where the visage of Tom the trucker looks not unlike it is carved into the mountain like Rushmore!
Actress in a lead role: Jill, from "A Teen-Ager Can Also Love", who teaches us that if we put our own emotional and physical needs aside and focus all our energies on a has-been teen idol, he will again become famous and then years later, marry us.
Actor in a lead role: How can I not give it to Humphrey Bogart, from "As Time Goes By".
Best story: "I Do My Thing-- No Matter Whom It Hurts". . . . .
[ March 26, 2006, 02:36 PM: Message edited by: MLLASH ]
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: MARVEL ROMANCE TPB OSCARS Girl that most resembles Teeds: Joellen Jacobs, from "Formula For Love".
Oh, thanks a lot!
Well, she does have a rather demented look on page 136, panel 3.
PS to Lash: page 116, panel 1. Remind you of anyone?
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante: I enjoyed the "Well, well, I see that you know how to read! Is it the latest Mickey Spillane thriller or a comic book?" bit from The Summer Must End. (The original, not the Redux!)
Dang, I should have had an evil villain & villainess category!
But Cynthia Worthington from "I Wan Him-- But He's HERS!" would have also been a contender!
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante:
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: MARVEL ROMANCE TPB OSCARS Girl that most resembles Teeds: Joellen Jacobs, from "Formula For Love".
Oh, thanks a lot!
Well, she does have a rather demented look on page 136, panel 3.
PS to Lash: page 116, panel 1. Remind you of anyone?
It was the glasses-- plus she cleaned up to be a hottie!
Hmmm... page 116, panel 1... let's look... Hmmm... I *do* love that white scarf! And he smokes (p. 117, panel 6)!!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
I dig the white scarf too. But re-view p.116, panel 1 again. Besides looking a bit Feister/Harris, it also kinda looks like someone we know. (The dialogue is a hint.)
Posted by MLLASH on :
EDE?
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Posted by MLLASH on :
He's got such dreamy blue eyes! Just call me Victoria Grant!
Posted by MLLASH on :
Here's hoping this TPB sold enough to warrant future releases, or even an ESSENTIAL chock-full of old romance comics!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Have you guys checked out Fantagraphics's Romance Without Tears, a TPB with reprints of 40s/50s St. John romance comics? Good stuff. $15 on Amazon.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Oh, and I agree with Lash about reprints. I'd REALLY prefer color, but I'd probably get a B&W Essential if there was one.
Posted by MLLASH on :
I haven't but will now.
Do you have TRUER THAN TRUE ROMANCE, which is Lustig-style reduxes in a big full-color TPB by Jeanne Martinet? It's good too.
Posted by MLLASH on :
I also prefer the color, but those colossal ESSENTIALS/SHOWCASEs are a pretty good deal too!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
I've borrowed TTTR from the library. Fun!
And may I add that if there are more Steranko stories and they put 'em in a trade, I'm there.
Further edit: from what I've read, Jim Steranko doesn't hasn't done all that many comics (when compared to others) and the only romance-type comic I found on this list was the one we already know.
Side note: this isn't a romance comic, but I've always liked this cover
[ March 26, 2006, 04:30 PM: Message edited by: Thriftshop Debutante ]
Posted by MLLASH on :
Steranko is just one of those rare comics SENSATIONS...
I mean, the guy really only did a *handful* of X-Men and S.H.I.E.L.D. issues... I actualy had *no idea* he had done any Romance (or any OTHER) comics at ALL!
And the X-issues I've seen (I've even owned a few of them, my favorite cover being the one featuring POLARIS--- # 50 or maybe # 51) were nowhere NEAR as hot as "My Heart Broke In Hollywood"!
Posted by MLLASH on :
Gee, I should have checked Teeds' links before I posted!
Can you beLIEVE I owned a practically mint-condition of X-Men # 50 (THAT cover!!) and freakin' SOLD it?!?!?!
I'm STUPID (ALL of me stupid)!
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
quote:Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante: Have you guys checked out Fantagraphics's Romance Without Tears, a TPB with reprints of 40s/50s St. John romance comics? Good stuff. $15 on Amazon.
Read about it but haven't read it. It's supposed to be "realistic" romance, which could be an interesting contrast.
I'd like to nominate "Kathy's Kooky Kards" (Nutty Notes! Swingin' Stationary! with spelling mistake!) for best Romance Story Business.
Excellent review of MHBIH; Steranko had more going on than I realized in that story.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Crames! That ain't a typo. It's kooky. Posted by Fat Cramer on :
Well, I wasn't sure if they were so devious as to put "stationary" and "swingin'" together as a joke. But if they did it on purpose, it's certainly groovy.
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
Another Romance Redux ("Restraining Orders are for Other Girls") came out, last week I guess, with more great rewrites of classic romance. Kyle Baker's was especially weird, good weird, but weird. Robert Loring Fleming's was ... drivelicious!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Got Guys & Dolls & Restraning Orders. Wasn't wowed. The G&D cover was great, but I just don't like the other one.
I've picked up most of I Heart Marvel. It turns out the one I liked most --- the Spidey and MJ one -- was the one I almost didn't get.
Posted by MLLASH on :
I really enjoyed the I HEART MARVELs quite a bit, more than I suspected I would.
Upson reading RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE FOR OTHER GIRLS the first time, I wasn't impressed, but will give it a re-read upon completion of te mini.
Posted by MLLASH on :
I should do more posts in the form of awards ceremonies.
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: MARVEL ROMANCE TPB OSCARS
Actress in a supporting role: Nan from "Patsy's Secret Boyfriend", who helps teach us to always give our friends the benefit of the doubt before we accuse them of being man-hungry sluts!
Actor in a supporting role: Tom from "One Day A Week", who shows us that true love wins out, even if your girlfriend is vaguely dissatisfied, easily fooled and wants to live in the cab of a truck!
Worst hairdo: Sally Rogers from "Give Back My Heart". Good Lord! What the hell was that terrifying mess all about? And you mean she never changed her style in FOUR YEARS?
Most melodramatic splash page: "JILTED!" Y'think it's over? I get the feeling that it IS.
Best artwork: Jim Steranko, for "My Heart Broke in Hollywood". Best Steranko artwork I've ever seen.
Worst pickup line: "You little FOOL!" used by both Whitey in "Jilted" and Art Nelson in "I Want Him-- But He's Hers!"
Biggest Name Screw-Up: "The Dream World of Doris Wilson", in which our heroine is actually named Doris Nelson.
Best original story that was REDUXED: "I Do my Own Thing-- No Matter Whom I Hurts", which was brilliantly reduxed into the hilarious "President Stripper".
Cutest boy: Stephen from "As Time Goes By", as drawn by Gene Colan.
Cutest girl: Kathy, from "Love Isn't In The Cards For Me", as drawn by J. Buscema, J. Romita & F. Giacoia.
Girl that most resembles Teeds: Joellen Jacobs, from "Formula For Love".
best 'FLOATING-HEAD' scene: The splash page of "One Day A Week", where the visage of Tom the trucker looks not unlike it is carved into the mountain like Rushmore!
Actress in a lead role: Jill, from "A Teen-Ager Can Also Love", who teaches us that if we put our own emotional and physical needs aside and focus all our energies on a has-been teen idol, he will again become famous and then years later, marry us.
Actor in a lead role: How can I not give it to Humphrey Bogart, from "As Time Goes By".
Best story: "I Do My Thing-- No Matter Whom It Hurts". . . . .
Posted by Leap Year Lass on :
Perhaps you should.
Posted by MLLASH on :
It's only fun to do in the romance genre, I'll bet.
Posted by Leap Year Lass on :
So be it.
Posted by MLLASH on :
If only there was something coming out to read in the romance genre...
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Posted by MLLASH's back on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH's back: MARVEL ROMANCE TPB OSCARS
Actress in a supporting role: Nan from "Patsy's Secret Boyfriend", who helps teach us to always give our friends the benefit of the doubt before we accuse them of being man-hungry sluts!
Actor in a supporting role: Tom from "One Day A Week", who shows us that true love wins out, even if your girlfriend is vaguely dissatisfied, easily fooled and wants to live in the cab of a truck!
Worst hairdo: Sally Rogers from "Give Back My Heart". Good Lord! What the hell was that terrifying mess all about? And you mean she never changed her style in FOUR YEARS?
Most melodramatic splash page: "JILTED!" Y'think it's over? I get the feeling that it IS.
Best artwork: Jim Steranko, for "My Heart Broke in Hollywood". Best Steranko artwork I've ever seen.
Worst pickup line: "You little FOOL!" used by both Whitey in "Jilted" and Art Nelson in "I Want Him-- But He's Hers!"
Biggest Name Screw-Up: "The Dream World of Doris Wilson", in which our heroine is actually named Doris Nelson.
Best original story that was REDUXED: "I Do my Own Thing-- No Matter Whom I Hurts", which was brilliantly reduxed into the hilarious "President Stripper".
Cutest boy: Stephen from "As Time Goes By", as drawn by Gene Colan.
Cutest girl: Kathy, from "Love Isn't In The Cards For Me", as drawn by J. Buscema, J. Romita & F. Giacoia.
Girl that most resembles Teeds: Joellen Jacobs, from "Formula For Love".
best 'FLOATING-HEAD' scene: The splash page of "One Day A Week", where the visage of Tom the trucker looks not unlike it is carved into the mountain like Rushmore!
Actress in a lead role: Jill, from "A Teen-Ager Can Also Love", who teaches us that if we put our own emotional and physical needs aside and focus all our energies on a has-been teen idol, he will again become famous and then years later, marry us.
Actor in a lead role: How can I not give it to Humphrey Bogart, from "As Time Goes By".
Best story: "I Do My Thing-- No Matter Whom It Hurts". . . . .
The above is MY SINGLE MOST FAVORITE LW POST I have made of ALL TIME.
Also, Teeds-- you notice a Gene Colan boy won for cutest!!
Posted by MLLASH's back on :
I wanna do something like this again. Maybe with the DC HEARTBREAKERS miniseries or something, I dunno.
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Just call me Victoria Grant!
