What Jim Steranko is able to accomplish in this 7 page story using color, captions, and the special effects for which he is famous is nothing short of miraculous. Tower of Shadows # 1 "At The Stroke of Midnight". Only 5, Groove? Very difficult, but I was able to pare it down to these: What are yours? Please share your choices in the comments section! Stay well, and Pax! It was a chore to narrow this list down (I wanted to add a bunch of Conan, Red Sonja, Jonah Hex, and Jim Starlin cosmic stuff, f'rinstance), but those are my five picks. It ain't Stallone, baby! Read it yourself if you haven't already! (Then you'll want to read EVERY volume!) And why did Ol' Groove pick this particular volume? Two words: Cursed Earth. Do you get the feeling I love Judge Dredd? I'm betting that a LOT of non-comics fans can be won over by the work of guys like John Wagner, Pat Mills, Brian Bolland, John Gibbons, Mike McMahon, and company.
His future is a glimpse into our day after tomorrow. He lives in a world that seems insane-until we turn on the news. Judge Dredd is Batman, Joe Friday, Dirty Harry, The Lone Ranger, Buck Rogers, and a whole bunch more heroic icons rolled into one and given a bad attitude (minus any sense of humor). was (and still is) one of the coolest, funniest, most gut-wrenching, mind-bending, and breath-taking comics ever conceived. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 02: The Unites States wasn't the only country that could turn out fun, unique, off the wall comics back in the Groovy Age! The star of 2000 A.D. If E-Man had been a comic strip it'd probably have lasted for decades! Staton's art was joyous, filled to the brim with action, power, and some of the funniest sight-gags ever. Cuti's characters were loaded with personality, his scripts were crisp and loaded with character bits (and ladled with just the right amount of puns), his plots imaginative, and just complex enough to allow us to enjoy the underlying silliness without it being farce. The adventures are fanciful and fun, but grounded in the realities of the 1970s without being preachy like the "relevant" comics that were in vogue a couple years before its debut. It's the story of a sentient blob of energy with a fun-loving-yet heroic personality who befriends a liberated 70s young woman working her way through college as an exotic dancer. A throwback to heroes like Plastic Man and The Spirit, but totally 1970s and original. Published by Charlton Comics, a company that rarely published super-heroes, E-Man was a breath of fresh air. Here are my top choices, in no particular order:Į-Man: The Early Years: Another comic that stands out from everything else is Nick Cuti and Joe Staton's E-Man. funnybooks? Instead of berating them for their misguided concerns, we should use the opportunity to educate them-and, mayhap, to convert them to the cause of comicdom! Which leads us to the question of the week: If you could choose only five collections of Groovy Age comics to show said family member(s) why they should be reading comics, which five would you choose to help you recruit them into the ranks of Groovy Age comicdom assembled? And why those particular collections? (I'm choosing collections over single issues, 'cause, let's be realistic.we have to walk before we can run, Groove-ophiles!) But what about when boredom sets in.for them? You know, those family members who still don't get how cool comicbooks are? What if they start nagging us about why we still read those. Now, we denizens of Groove City have our comics, so boredom as we safely sequester shouldn't be a problem. Maybe we can share our favorite diversions with our families to help get our minds off the madness outside our doors for a while? That's our hope with today's post, and we hope y'all take it in that spirit. So, besides using common sense so we can stay safe and healthy (and practicing being kind to each other while we're out getting what we need to eat and stay healthy), it's likely that we're going to have to hang at home with our families for a while.
With the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the best-case scenario (and that's what we're hoping and praying for all of our pals and gals) is that we're stuck at home with our loved ones for a while. You know that Ol' Groove has always worked hard to make the Diversions a haven from The Real World of Right Now, but this is one of those rare times when I just wouldn't feel right not mentioning what's happening out there right now. What Five Groovy Age Collections Would You Share With Your Non-Comics Reading Family Members to Get Them Into Reading Comics?
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