Monday, April 10, 2006

Who remembers Scorpio?

My brand-spankin' new Comics You Should Own column features The Defenders #46-50 from 1977, the fantabulous Scorpio storyline. Go check it out and find out why these issues are glorious comic book goodness cranked up to eleven!

9 Comments:

Blogger Harvey Jerkwater said...

This is why Marvel needs to hurry up and churn out "Essential Defenders" volumes 2 and 3 RIGHT NOW!

NOW!

WANNIT WANNIT WANNIT WANNIT!

4/10/2006 02:28:00 PM  
Blogger Bill Reed said...

Hank Scorpio?

4/10/2006 04:41:00 PM  
Blogger Bully said...

Shoot. I thought this post was about Scipio.

(Seriously, I agree: I loves me some seventies Marvels, and want more more more!)

4/10/2006 05:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey! Just wanted to let you know the exhibition Masters of American Comics, is on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum April 29 – August 13, 2006. The exhibition will feature works from Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, Charles M. Schulz, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware. ALSO, artist Chris Ware will be making a visit on Thursday, May 4, 6:15 p.m. Press preview will be held on April 26,1-4 pm. It's going to be awesome!

4/10/2006 05:10:00 PM  
Blogger Bully said...

Wow. On-subject, but yet still spam.

4/10/2006 05:41:00 PM  
Blogger Richard said...

Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, you left out one major aspect of Scorpio in that story -- his bizarre Judy Garland fixation. I remember reading it at the time and wondering "Are they trying to tell us Scorpio is gay?"

For that matter, his romantic interest in building a "Virgo" -- an eternally youthful LMD who by definition could only ever stay virginal -- and her subsequent tragic "death" both seem to fit into that same idea...

4/11/2006 12:04:00 AM  
Blogger Greg said...

RAB: He mentions Judy Garland a few times, but I didn't get the sense that he was fixated on her. Shoot, now I'll have to go look. That's a good point about Virgo, though.

4/11/2006 10:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I always figured the suggestion was that Scorpio was gay or at least bi, though that doesn't entirely square with his plan to create the Virgo android as a sex toy. (Read between the CCA-approved lines.)

But the Judy Garland thing, plus his line about having "unpleasant experiences" in the Army...I dunno. I wonder what the implication was really meant to be.

These were the comics that got me into comics, though. The idea of a super-villain having a mid-life crisis because all his plans have gone to crap is an excellent one.

4/16/2006 11:14:00 PM  
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