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daydreamerdrew · 1 year ago

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Comics read this past week:

Marvel Comics:

The Avengers (1963) #29-35

These issues were published across April 1966 to October 1966, according to the Marvel Wiki. Issues #29-34 were written by Stan Lee. Issue #35 was plotted by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas and then scripted by Roy Thomas. Issues #29-31 were penciled by Don Heck and inked by Frank Giacoia. Issues #32-35 were drawn by Don Heck.

Natasha starts appearing in this book in issue #29, having last appeared as an Iron Man villain allied with Hawkeye in Tales of Suspense (1959) #64 in January 1965. In her Tales of Suspense (1959) appearances she’d been a spy of the Soviet Union, motivated by loyalty and then fear of punishment, she’d derailed Hawkeye’s original intentions of becoming a superhero by seducing him so that he’d help her fight Iron Man, and then she’d genuinely fallen for Clint and wanted to stay with him, so the Soviet Union threatened her parents so she’d keep working for them. Where we’d left off with her, her and Hawkeye’s plan to defeat Iron Man had failed, and Clint had fled, taking Natasha with him, because she was injured, despite her protesting because she was afraid of the punishment for failing to defeat Iron Man again. In these issues it’s revealed that she’s been brainwashed into serving the Soviet Union again, the first time in her publication history that she’s been portrayed as brainwashed, which is significant because in more recent decades her background has gone through a lot of retcons with her prior backstory being revealed to be largely false memories implanted through brainwashing. Though I think the original reveal that she was orphaned as a baby and was raised by Ivan Petrovich happened in the 70s, complicating the appearance of her parents, or people she believed to be her parents, in Tales of Suspense (1959).

In issue #29 Natasha recruits the Swordsman, who is also emotionally tricky for Clint as he was Clint’s mentor, and Wonder Man to her mission of destroying the Avengers. When Steve gives Clint the S.H.I.E.L.D. update about Natasha, he’s ecstatic, exclaiming, “Natasha!! Alive!! And coming here??!!! I always knew it… There is a Santa Claus! Once I find her, I’ll never let her go again! Gangway, Methuselah… I’ve got a date with a dream!” And when Steve tells him that Natasha’s likely been brainwashed, Clint says, “So what am I supposed to do… Forget that I’m in love with her?? Don’t hold your breath for that to happen, chum!” Clint goes back to “the old mansion which used to be her headquarters,” thinking, “I don’t care if she has been brainwashed! I don’t care about anything… so long as I find her again… so long as I can take her in my arms again… and never let her go,” and calling out, “Natasha!! Natasha… Are you here? This is Hawkeye! I’ve come back for you!” When he sees her, he says, “Natasha… My darling!! You’re as beautiful as ever! I never dared to hope.. I thought I’d lost you… forever! Don’t just stand there, honey! You’re the only gal in the world for me… And it’s been so long… I’ve missed you so much..!” When Clint sees the Swordsman and Wonder Man, despite that Natasha was strangely “cold” and “distant” and that she calmly presented them to him, and as though he’s never heard of the possibility that she’s been brainwashed, he assumes that they’re holding her hostage and goes to protect her from them, declaring, “There aren’t enough menaces on Earth to endanger you while Hawkeye lives!” Natasha explaining that they’ve joined up with her to destroy the Avengers is a shock, but he thinks, “But, I can’t forsake the only girl I’ve ever loved! I’ve got to free her from these two, and find some way of bringing her back to her senses!!”

In issue #29, when Natasha is asked why she’s trying to destroy the Avengers, she says, “I can think of no definite reason… Yet, strangely enough, I am consumed by a burning hatred of them!” Then she thinks, “For some reason, I cannot bear the thought of any harm coming to the daring archer… even though I have been taught that he is my enemy!” In issue #30 she thinks, “I don’t understand it! I know the Avengers are my enemies… And Hawkeye is an Avenger! Yet, I cannot get the handsome archer out of my mind!” She also thinks, of her two recruited allies, “I need their help in order to defeat the Avengers… And yet, why do I fear and distrust them!?”

In issue #30, when Clint is fighting the Swordsman and Wonder Man again, Clint makes the assumption that Natasha has sided with him when she holds out the arrows he lost to him. He says, “I knew you couldn’t ever really side with those two creeps! My heart told me.. when the chips were down… it would just be you and me again… Just like it used to be! Quick, honey… Let me have them… And I’ll finish this off before you can pucker up! C’mon, baby.. Don’t just stand there! Let’s get it over with!” Natasha promptly uses her Widow’s Bite on him. So Clint then says, “So! Cap and the others were right! It can never be the two of us again, huh? Okay, gorgeous… Then we’ll play it your way!” But really Clint is still refraining from actually directly fighting Natasha, and when the chips were down she did come through for him, using her Widow’s Bite on Power Man when he was strangling Clint. After the fighting is done, Clint then goes to leave, explaining that he belongs with the Avengers and, “I don’t know why you helped me at the last minute, Natasha, but…” But then Natasha explains that her brainwashing wore off and Clint reacts with shock, again acting as though he’d never heard of the possibility of her being brainwashed. Natasha exclaims, while hugging Clint, “Oh, my darling! Did you think I would ever harm you… ever turn against you..?? It was the Reds! They brainwashed me into betraying you! But, when it mattered most, my love for you won out! I freed myself from their insidious control! You- You must believe me!” Clint responds, “I want to, Natasha! Oh, how I want to…!”

It seems from then on that they’re together again. Natasha doesn’t appear in issue #31, but Janet asks whether Clint wants to come on an Avengers mission, which makes Clint think, “She still doesn’t fully trust me- because of my love for the Black Widow!” Natasha appears again in issue #32, wanting to “redeem” herself to Hawkeye. She tells him that she’s coming to him as “a friend,” to which he says, “A friend? Once we might have meant so much more than that to each other! But- that was a thousand lifetimes ago!” She responds, “My feelings for you have never changed- and they never will! It is you who have lost faith in me! But, I am here to prove I can be trusted- to help you- and the Avengers!” This makes Clint think, “Natasha- Natasha! When you look at me like that- my heart melts!” In issue #33 Clint and Natasha break into the lair of the Serpent Society, who had taken Steve hostage, and Clint keeps the soldiers distracted while Natasha rescues Steve, a plan which required Clint to have a lot of faith in Natasha. It takes some time, but Natasha pulls through, and Steve tells her, “I wouldn’t have hidden from you if I knew you were on our side! You’re kinda hard to keep track of, lady!” Later, Natasha rescues Clint when he’s being threatened, and he says, “Good girl, baby! I was beginning to think my lucky star was an 8-ball!” Natasha ends the issue walking away with the Avengers after everything’s been resolved.

Natasha doesn’t appear in issue #34, but Steve tells Clint, “You look pretty cheerful, Hawkeye! There must be a female in your future,” to which Clint responds, “There sure will be, if I can help it! I’m not lettin’ Natasha get away from me again!” Then when the Avengers are returning home from a mission in Costa Verde at the end of issue #35, after Steve has made a particularly dorky comment about the Statue of Liberty, Clint says, “Cap, if you think ol’ Hawkeye is gonna quarrel with sentiments like those… Forget it! I’m too busy looking forward to see the Black Widow again!” But when he does see her, she’s pissed and throws a vase at him, yelling, “You mean you ran off to a holiday vacation spot like Costa Verde and didn’t take me along? How could you?” Clint defends himself, “Now take it easy, ‘Tasha! Honest, baby… A vacation spot it wasn’t!”

Also, Clint and Steve’s relationship got a lot of development in these issues. They’d previously been very combative with each other, with Clint being disrespectful and always insulting Steve, and Steve failing to not respond in kind. At the end of issue #29 Clint had an arrow aimed at the escaping villains, which he’s unable to fire because of Natasha. Clint says, “All right, Winghead.. Say it! Go ahead, say it! This is one time I got it coming!” But Steve says, “There’s nothing to say, fella! We’re all Avengers, yes… But we’re also human beings, with feelings, and emotions! You did what you could… No man can do more than that!” This makes Clint think, “And that’s the guy I’ve been riding for months! I wish the ground could swallow me up… right now!” In issue #30 the team splits up in order to search for the villains, and Clint thinks, “I hope I’ll be the one to find the first trace of Natasha, the Swordsman, or Power Man! I’ve got to do something to make up for crummy way I’ve treated the others… especially Cap… since I joined the team!” When a clue is found, Clint asks if he can go after them alone, to which Steve says, “It’s not necessary, partner! But, I know how you feel! Permission granted!” This makes Clint say later, “Only a real boss like Cap would’a given me this second chance! And, no matter what happens, I’m not gonna drop the ball!”

In issue #31 Clint says to Janet, “What’s wrong with me, lady? Much as I like that big cornball now, it still ruffles my feathers whenever he barks an order at me that way!” Janet responds, “Nobody likes to take orders, Hawkeye! You’ll get over it!” In issue #32, after Steve had a sweet interaction with Janet, Clint says, “Cap, if I didn’t know better, I’d suspect you were turning into a real human being!” Steve responds, “Careful, sonny- You’re liable to say something pleasant, and I’ll figure you’re an imposter!” In issue #33 Clint says to Steve, “Boy! If you ever give up super-heroin’, you’d make a real swingin’ preacher! But, y’know somethin’ wing-head? Even though you’re the world’s biggest cornball, I wouldn’t swap ya for any other partner in captivity!” Steve responds, “Naturally! No one else could take a galoot like you!” And Clint says, “Careful! You’ll give me a swelled head!” And then, in issue #35 when Clint thinks they’re about to die in a trap, he says, “Cap, I guess I’ll sound like even more of a cornball than you… But I want you to know it’s been an honor to be on the team with ya!” Steve responds, “Stow that kind of talk, mister… Nobody’s licked while he’s still defiant… unyielding…!” It’s really how Steve handles Clint and the Black Widow situation that changes Clint’s attitude, but I wonder if from Steve’s perspective it looks like it was partially getting the Black Widow back in Clint’s life that mellowed him out. I think it’s good that this change in Clint has happened, because I don’t think him being such a problem on the Avengers could have lasted forever and still made sense and been appealing.

Clint has still kept a bit of his snark, however. For example, in issue #34, after Janet has said that with their speech-making skills Hank and Steve could be politicians, he says, “They might not win any elections, but they’d be a great cure for insomnia!”

Pietro and Wanda leave the team in issue #30 because their powers are fading and they need to recover them. They briefly appear in issue #31, waiting for their powers to return and wanting to return to the Avengers, and then again in issue #32 with their powers on the mend, but they don’t return to the team in these issues. Though Wanda was on the cover of issue #33. I do like genuinely Wanda, and I like how much Pietro cares about Wanda, but unfortunately nothing with them so far has been too interesting to me except Wanda’s sympathy for Steve. I imagine that when they do get back they’ll notice and remark on how Clint has changed.

Timely Publications:

the Captain America stories in Captain America Comics (1941) #10-12 and All-Winners Comics (1941) #3

In this batch of 9 stories I went from January 1942 to March 1942, according to the issue cover dates. These stories ranged from 11 to 20 pages.

I generally default to citing the cover dates for Golden Age comics, and don’t attempt to cite the actual publication dates, because that information can be spotty for these older comics. However, I’d be remiss not to mention that, according to the Grand Comics Database, the on-sale date publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries for Captain America Comics #12 was in very early January 1942, meaning that I’ve finally reached Pearl Harbor and when the U.S. joined WWII in my Golden Age Captain America readings. I’m assuming that that influence will be more apparent in the next issue, when there’s been more time in the production of the issue to change the character around this.

The story “Captain America and the Feud Murders” (possibly written by Manly Wade Wellman; penciled by Al Avison and Mike Sekowsky; inked by Syd Shores and George Klein) in Captain America Comics #11 had Bucky get accused of murder! At the beginning of the story Private Rogers and camp mascot Bucky try to intervene in a fight between two soldiers, and Bucky trips one of them before he can punch Steve. The guy then chases Bucky, and Bucky stops running and punches him, which surprisingly effects him more than expected. Then the guy falls over dead with a knife in his back, which is revealed to be “the knife the boys gave Bucky at his birthday party!” Steve says that Bucky lent the knife to the other soldier involved in the fight, and that other soldier says that he lost it. Steve disappears (to become Captain America and solve the case), the other soldier deserts, and Bucky is arrested and is supposed to stand trial because, “Sorry, Bucky. But you were the only person near enough to jab a knife into him.” Though Steve tells him, “Don’t go until you hear from me, kid,” Bucky escapes to help him, which he’s able to do because, “That guard house was made to hold big men! I was small enough to squeeze through the bars!” In the end the case is solved, though Bucky’s exoneration is unceremonious, and he and Steve end up getting K.P. duty as they often do.

the Human Torch story in Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) #6

This story was published in April 1940, according to the issue cover date. It was signed as by Carl Burgos, who is known to have written and drawn these stories. It was 12 pages.

The criminals of this story attempt to steal the plans for a bomb designed by the late Professor Morton, the Human Torch’s creator. When their evil plot starts, Jim is coincidentally “enroute to Midtown to investigate Morton’s incendiary bomb plans.” When he gets there, Jim is told that whoever has the plans has “the power to control the destinies of millions” because Morton had said “one of his bombs can burn out a complete town,” and so, “Imagine, Torch, if this bomb is turned against the United States! Cities destroyed in a minute! The dead piled in heaps! It’s horrible!” At the end of the story, when everything’s been resolved, Jim says, “Now there will be danger of anyone using such a devilish bomb against mankind!” At no point in this story is it acknowledged that Jim was the one to kill Professor Morton, which hasn’t been remarked on at all since it was revealed at the beginning of the Human Torch story in issue #2. I fully expect that some later-published comics will build more with this relationship, but this story at least adds that Jim has a (justified) negative view of some of Professor Horton’s other inventions and feels a personal responsibility in ridding the world of them. The artwork in the Human Torch story in issue #1 doesn’t show that the house is on fire from Jim burning a hole on the ceiling to escape from it, and the late Professor Horton’s notes from the beginning of the story in issue #2 have him writing about that event in retrospect, so it seems that that the Human Torch returned to Horton’s house and burned it down and killed him in some undepicted event in between those two stories. Also, when this event was acknowledged at the beginning of the story in issue #2 Jim claimed that it was justified, whereas in Horton’s notes Horton claimed that Jim’s running away was motivated by him misunderstanding Horton’s intentions.

Also, I noted previously that in the Human Torch story in issue #5, fire acts to their master’s benefit without his request by unnaturally not penetrating a circle around him when he was unconscious, and so not burning the friend he was with, also unconscious. In this story fire takes that a step further and unnaturally chases and kills one of Jim’s enemies while he was unconscious. Jim doesn’t react to this with any concern, or seem aware that it happened unnaturally. When he wakes up, he says, “What’s that burnt thing over there? Hah! It’s one of them! But how was he burned? I see, the forest fire!”

DC Comics:

the Guardian and Newsboy Legion stories in Star-Spangled Comics (1941) #7-9

These stories were published across April 1942 to June 1942, according to the issue cover dates. All were written by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Joe Simon. All were 13 pages.

Jim Harper is a good-natured rookie police officer with the regular job of patrolling the Suicide Slums. When he gets beaten up after work, he’s frustrated, saying, “A guy can take just so much,” and devises his Guardian costume for the opportunity to get back at them. His explanation of his actions after he beats them up is, “I’m a sort of.. a.. er.. guardian, I guess. Yes, a guardian of society… against your kind!” He intended for this to be his only time out as Guardian.

The next day four orphan newsboys in the Suicide Slums- Tommy, Scrapper, Big-Words, and Gabby- attempt to rob a store in order to get the supplies to fix up their clubhouse, since they don’t have the money to buy the supplies, and are caught by Officer Harper. At their trial the judge declares, “In the past, you boys have stolen radiator caps, tires and other goods. These petty crimes brand you as potential enemies of society! It is my sad duty to commit you to an institution, where you will remain until you reach the age of twenty-one!” The boys are, of course, horrified. Jim comes to their defense, saying, “I know those boys, Judge Collins. They’re all good kids… They’re parents are dead… They’ve had to fight and steal their way through life to avoid starving! Sending them to reform school to associate with tougher criminals will only result in hardening their bitter little souls! I wish you’d reconsider your decision!” He asks for custody of the boys, explaining, “Let me prove that they can become useful citizens!!” Jim is granted a few months to make a change in the boys, adding to his premise a “job playing guardian to those kids.” Though it doesn’t seem that they move in with him in these stories and so are presumably still living in that clubhouse.

The newsboys aren’t exactly grateful to Jim for getting them out of being institutionalized, not being interested in his “big brother act.” He tries to win them over by giving them money to go see a movie and get sodas, but they refuse it, stating, “If we need money, we know where to get it!” This concerns Jim because it obviously sounds like they’re going to steal, and they do commit a crime, taking parts of a “jacked up auto-mobile” to sell to a fence. But the fence instead hires them to perform tricks outside a store, which is what Jim sees and relieves him. But this was really a plot to have the boys drum up a crowd outside the store so that when it was robbed by the fence’s associates it’s more difficult for them to be followed. The newsboys are upset that they were made accomplices to a serious crime, and are impressed that Jim didn’t fire after the criminals out of concern of hitting pedestrians while the criminals did fire at him and injured someone. Meanwhile, Jim has decided, “If they don’t listen to Jim Harper, I’ve got a hunch they’ll respect the Guardian!”

The Guardian saves the kids when they confront the fence and he tries to kill them, then the Guardian tells them not to follow him as he goes after the rest of the criminal crew, but of course they do anyway and end up saving him. At the end of the story the boys are less rude to Jim and speculate amongst themselves that he could be the Guardian, with Tommy being the most suspicious.

In the second story the boys are depressed because they’re hardly selling any papers and Jim gives them the advice, “You can’t sell papers sitting with your heads drooping!.. You’ve got to be up and at ‘em!” This motivates the kids to try to peddle their papers throughout the Suicide Slums, which was actually a terrible idea and leads to all but Big-Words being taken prisoner by criminals. When Big-Words tells Jim that the other boys haven’t come back yet, Jim is horrified, and changes into Guardian because “a cop in uniform couldn’t get the right time around here.” There’s no attempt at a cover story when Guardian joins Big-Words in searching for the others, but during this search Big-Words says, “Strange… The more I see of the Guardian, the more I’m reminded of someone I know, but who?” As Guardian is fighting the criminals who’ve taken the boys prisoner, Big-Words slips in and cuts the bonds of his friends and then they all also join the fight. Afterwards Guardian says, “Nice work, Big-Words! You’ve got quite a wallop, kid!” Big-Words, pleased, says, “I must say I was never aware of it, sir!” I think it makes sense for Jim to get along best with Big-Words since he’s the oldest of the kids.

At the end of the story Tommy says, of Guardian, “He talks like a cop!” And Scrapper, who this time is the most suspicious one, agrees, “Yeah, like that bull, Jim Harper!” And Jim good-naturedly tells them, “So my wards were disturbing the peace last night, eh? You fellas are certainly keeping the Guardian busy, but I do hear you boys did a nice job!”

The newsboys actually go through some pretty horrible stuff in the third story. After Jim is framed for bribery by a criminal he brought in, the boys take it upon themselves to clear his name. Jim had said, “It isn’t so much myself I’m thinking of… What’ll those kids think when they find out a policeman has taken a bribe?” But what they actually think is, as first said by Big-Words, is that he must have been framed. Tommy says, “Big-Words is right! Harper may be a cop, but I don’t think he’s the kind of egg that can be bribed!” And Big-Words concludes, “If Jim Harper is convicted they will release us from his custody and commit us to a reform school!” They do seem to take it personally, though. When Scrapper, while snooping, overhears a criminal talking about the framing, he has to think to himself, “I.. I mustn’t sock that rat!…. Not yet…”

Their plan to catch the crooks and then bring Jim there gets derailed when they’re taken prisoner themselves, except for Scrapper who the criminals believe that they’ve already killed. The rest of the boys saw this and reacted to Scrapper’s murder. When Scrapper wakes up, injured but alive, he struggles to where the rest of the kids are and finds that they’ve been buried alive, presumes that they’re dead, and, sobbing, declares, “I’ll get ‘em fellers! I’ll get those dirty punks for this!….. T-The Guardian’ll help me!” When Guardian finds Scrapper, he digs the boys out anyway and finds that they’re alive, Big-Words having just managed to hold a beam up above them to create a space for them, though he had only thought, “This may delay our end a while longer!” And when the criminals react with shock when the Guardian appears to beat them up, Guardian says, “I’ll bet those kids you buried didn’t squeal like you, Kelly!”

Also, at the beginning of the story the boys see Jim take in a group of tough criminals and Tommy comments, “I can’t believe Harper beat them single-handed… I’ll bet the Guardian was helping him!” Scrapper agrees, “Yeah! I’ll bet he’s in with the Guardian,” and Tommy says, “We’ll find out if he is or ain’t the Guardian himself one of these days!”

Fawcett Comics:

the Captain Marvel stories in Whiz Comics (1940) #85 and Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #72 and The Marvel Family (1945) #11

In this batch of 8 stories I read the Captain Marvel appearances published in May 1947, according to the issue cover dates. These stories ranged from 7 to 11 pages.

The story “The Marvel Family and the Talking Dog” (written by Bill Woolfolk; artist unknown) in The Marvel Family #11 was a great demonstration of how important Billy’s job is to him, though it’s not actually the first time he’s gotten violent when it’s jeopardized. The issue is that Mr. Morris foolishly signed a terrible contract that gave someone else “exclusive rights to all my radio time! They can force anybody off the air, just by taking his broadcast time,” not thinking that that clause would actually be used. Billy tries to appeal to the interloper, saying, “But it’s taken me years to build up a listening audience! If I shift to another time, I’ll lose most of them!” The man tries to push Billy out of his office, Billy pulls out of his grasp and tells him, “Take your hands off of me,” and the man then punches Billy. Billy is really upset and thinks, “I could call Captain Marvel to help me! But this is one fight I’ll handle alone,” and punches the man back. When Mary and Freddy rush in, having heard the fighting, they have to pull Billy off of the guy because Billy’s choking him out. Billy explains, “I lost my head! It won’t happen again,” but he’s still upset and later says, “Perry Johnson can’t do this to me! I’ve worked hard to get where I am!”

The story “Captain Marvel in Buried Alive” (creators unknown) in Captain Marvel Adventures #72 had criminals bind and gag Billy and put him in a coffin intended for burial to get rid of him after he discovered their criminal plot. I liked how personally Captain Marvel took this after Billy managed to get his gag off and say Shazam. As he flies out of the ground, he says, “Try to bury Billy alive, will they?” And as he’s beating the criminals up, he says, “That’s for trying to bury Billy alive.”

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mitchbeck · 2 years ago

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namorthesubmariner · 3 years ago

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Lady Dorma Comic Reading Guide

First appearing in Marvel Comics (1939) #1 Lady Dorma is Atlantis’s most beloved Atlantean Noble Woman, Namor’s true love, and his greatest loss. Her love for Prince Namor is no secret yet Dorma’s passions sometimes misguide her but in the end her courage, quick wit, and heart give her strength to save her people and her true love. Read all about one of Marvel’s first ladies!

Golden Age

Marvel Comics (1939) #1

Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) #10-15

Human Torch (1940) #3

Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) #24-25

Sub-Mariner Comics (1941) #32

Young Men (1950) #28

Silver Age

Fantastic Four(1961) Annual 1,#33

Daredevil(1964) #7

Tales to Astonish #70-77,79-81

Tales of Suspense #79

Tales to Astonish #83-98,101

The Sub-Mariner(1968) #2-9,11,15

Incredible Hulk(1968) #118

The Sub-Mariner(1968) #16-18,20-25,27-29

Fantastic Four(1961) #103-104

The Sub-Mariner(1968) #31,33-38

Bronze Age

The Defenders(1972) #93

The New Mutants(1983) Annual 5

Modern Age

Saga of the Sub-Mariner(1988) #2,5,7,9-10

Namor, the Sub-Mariner ( 1990) #13-15,19-21

Fantastic Four Unlimited (1993) #6

Hulk (2008) #10

Fantastic Four (1961) #569

King in Black: Namor (2020) #1-5

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dangermousie · 4 years ago

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2020 End of Year Post - cdrama edition

This is only going to cover cdramas that aired in 2020; if I had to make a post about all the cdramas I watched this year, I would still be doing it in three months...

Overall it’s been a fairly decent cdrama year (certainly better than the very lacklustre kdrama year.) It’s no miracle that 2019 was (so many excellent dramas!) but overall pretty solid.

DRAMAS WATCHED

(In order of liking from least to most as opposed to pure quality; I am including if I’ve seen enough to make up my mind; yes I realize that’s inaccurate, but that’s my list)

44 The Legend of Jing Yan - the worst cdrama I have seen this year, and possibly the worst drama of 2020, period. The hero and heroine were both uncharismatic, incapable of acting and saddled with such shrilly moronic characters, the only suspense was how they haven’t both perished long since from forgetting to breathe. Nor was anyone in the rest of the cast much better; the screenplay was written by a lower mammal and the cinematography was the best a third-rate wedding cinematographer could offer. Stay the HELL away from this one.

43 Unicorn Girl - the only unicorn about this bland yet irritating piece of pap was the fact that I was supposed to believe the leads are hockey players.

42 Autumn Cicada - I like spy stories, Allen Ren, and Republican Era settings. I can tune out Communist propaganda with the best of them. Yet, the propaganda ate the story to such a degree that there was nothing left; pre magic change Pinocchio was less wooden then this narrative.

41 You Complete Me - no you do not.

40 Skate into Love - the only positive thing I can say about this is that at least it’s better than Unicorn Girl, if for no other reason that only one of them is supposed to be a hockey player.

39 Irreplaceable Love - how do you make a story about fake siblings with a mad mother falling for each other boring? I don’t know, ask the makers of this.

38 Eternal Love Rain - I hate to rain on their parade, but these two actors cannot act, have about as much chemistry as a piece of bread, and are trapped in a story perfect for entertaining the mental abilities of the leads of Jin Yan.

37 For Married Doctoress - ummmm, you could do worse I guess. It only made me break out in mild hives. The sadistic ending did make me laugh though.

36 Dance of the Sky Empire - why you get Xu Kai and waste him in this insipid mess of a story is beyond me.

35 Love Designer - it’s inoffensive except to my sense of entertainment. There is nothing wrong with it but oh God is it bland.

34 Love a Lifetime - It felt like a lifetime watching this, but I didn’t love it. The story is incoherent, the actors have no chemistry and it’s all an epic waste of time.

33 Love is Sweet - so sweet it gave me diabetes. I like Luo Yunxi and Bai Lu, but there is literally no plot. I don’t need to sink into a plotless morass to watch pretty people engage in PG-rated make-outs. I am an adult with access to stronger stuff if I am thus inclined, though to be fair they could get x-rated and I still wouldn’t be able to sit through so many episodes of plotlessness for that.

32 Fake Princess - I love Zhao Yi Qin, but the guy needs to pick better projects. The female lead in this one has the voice and personality that can strip paint but the story is also doing nobody any favors.

31 The Changan Youth - I lost my brain checking this out. I had to go and read a dense treatise on medieval coinage or Mayan farming to try to recover it.

30 My Dear Destiny - kinda cheesy fun. It honestly shouldn’t be as low except it really feels like community theater.

29 Handsome Siblings - why is the Nic Tse version so good and this one so bad? True mystery for the ages. Chen Zhe Yuan is the sole reason this isn’t lower, because that kid tries SO HARD to make this drama bearable and almost succeeds. I can’t wait to see him in Sha Po Lang which actually will give him something to do.

28 In a Class of Her Own - see my comment on The Changan Youth. But at least Song Weilong is gorgeous to look at.

27 General’s Lady - inoffensive, pretty and so utterly pointless.

26 The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion - those two leading actors are a no go to me but at least they considerately acted with each other instead of ruining two dramas for me. It’s very pretty though.

25 Jiu Liu Overlord - it’s a mess and I bailed, but I placed it this high merely due to the fact that Lai Yi finally gets a leading role and he’s sexy as fuck and I am shallow. Whoever styled Bai Lu should never work again except at a circus, however.

24 Cross Fire - not my genre and Luhan will always look too much like my cousin for comfort, but it’s a surprisingly gripping and dark drama. I liked it!

23 God of Lost Fantasy - if you want to watch a mediocre wuxia/xianxia, this is not a bad choice. Probably better than Legend of Fei actually, because at least it doesn’t have an A-list cast to waste and gives us Sheng Yilun himbo and shirtless.

22 Renascence - the insane cuts (it went from 70 eps to 36!!!) made a fairly cheesy story into a total mess. But I had a good time until I finally bailed mainly because of the male lead (Chen Zhe Yuan yet again carrying a not-good 2020 drama on his shoulders; the guy should be nicknamed Atlas) and the insane but in a fun way story. The female lead (both the character and the actress) were not up to par but oh well.

21 Legend of Fei - only this high because objectively there is nothing I disliked it. But there is nothing I liked either. The most uninspired drama on the list. If you could eat cardboard, this is what it would taste like.

20 Ever Night 2 - compared to EN1, it’s a waste of film. On its own merits, it’s not very good (the cast replacements are uniformly inferior and Dylan Wang is so wrong for Ning Que I cannot even put it into words; the script is useless.) But it had some parts I loved so very VERY much (all the shippy stuff was perfection) so I don’t feel too bitter.

19 Castle in the Sky 2 - a lovely if not too complex fairy tale. It is inferior to its prequel because it doesn’t have Zhang Ruo Yun who elevated it, but it’s still a solid bit of fun.

18 The Great Ruler - it’s very high fantasy, very pretty, and surprisingly involving.

17 (tie) Legend of Two Sisters in the Chaos - the secondary couple steals the show but the rest is not too bad if not too involving.

17 Legend of Awakening - a solid bit of fun with a seriously BDSM streak (theme this year apparently - but come on, the lead’s powers only activate when he’s in extreme pain!) It’s a bit generic and the costuming is done by a blind person, not to mention the OTP is a NOTP, but the rest of relationships (romantic and platonic) are wonderful (I live for the found siblings story in this one) and I like most of the characters.

16 Consummation - a rare modern cdrama I liked; a sweet coming of age story (and love story) even if wrapped in a pretty weird virtual reality concept.

15 Oops the King is in Love - this is how you do a low budget, sweet, silly piece of fluff. Our heroine pretends to be a eunuch and crosses paths with a powerless young king and they are adorable, even more so than the drama.

14 Song of Glory - pretty solid, though draggy and I didn’t love the toothpaste filter. But A+ cast, excellent leading couple chemistry, Li Qin being a BAMF and a leading man (Qin Hao) who is actually an adult.

13 And the Winner is love - objectively kind of a mess (and the heroine has the brainpower of a gnat), but the OTP chemistry is excellent and Luo Yunxi fighting and flirting with a fan as finally a leading man is worth the price of admission.

12 Miss S - snazzy and snappy and stylish and whatever else starts with S.

11 Eternal Love of Dream - I don’t know if it would work for you as well if you weren’t a hardcore shipper for this OTP in Three Lives but I was and this was such a darling, wonderful, shippy delight; plus I love this type of high fantasy.

10 (tie) Maiden Holmes - solid and sweet and a wonderful OTP. Proves that functional doesn’t have to mean boring. If you watch one cross-dressing drama this year make it this one.

10 Qin Dynasty Epic - srs bsns history epic. I am not far into it but it’s so good and smart and visually stunning (if you love battles, this one is for you.)

9 Love Lasts Two Minds - I adored this so much more than I should objectively have, but it’s so beautiful (and no I am not just referring to Alan Yu’s face) and the OTP has wonderful chemistry and the story is solid, and the whole trope of her memory being wiped but falling for him all over again while he’s constantly and utterly devoted is a fave; plus he’s in pain and semi-dyng for most of it so sluuuurp (happy ending, don’t worry)

8 To Love - yes, a modern drama is this high! But it involves intensity, tragedy, genuine adults and sexiness that is Lin Gengxin. And there is an actual plot and darkness OMG!

7 Legend of Xiao Chuo - so beautiful, so fun, so full of gorgeousness of Shawn Dou. Plus, Liao is a rare setting for a cdrama and there are a lot of characters and stories I liked a LOT. Less ship content than I wanted but more than I expected.

6 The Romance of Tiger and Rose - so so delightful. I was literally laughing out loud. I have no idea if it will work as well if one isn’t a seasoned watcher of period cdrama/reader of web novels, with bonus for watching/reading Goodbye My Princess, but it was a complete delight for me (and yes, I shipped for real, as well. Best of both worlds.)

5 Twisted Fate of Love - Jin Han gets a leading period drama role! And he’s enjoying it to the hilt, excellent as a smart, twisty bastard who is also charming and so madly in love with heroine. Sun Yi is beautiful and tough and her chemistry with JH is on fire, the story never drags, and it’s so twisty and fun and just awesome.

4 Love In Between - the most underrated drama on this list. It has no big names or big budget, but it’s wuxia that’s clever, driven, tragic, hopeful and so beautifully shot. Three separate (amazing) OTPs, a leading man who is so not typical (a doctor who cannot fight and who never acquires this ability) and who is intense and smart and damaged, a heroine who puts her quest ahead of her emotions, an unhealthy degree of involvement by yours truly. This is a drama Fei should have been.

3 Love and Redemption - such a lovely, addictive, utterly romantic fairy tale. I was obsessed with it for a reason. All the tropes you love and some you didn’t know you did, a star-crossed OTP to the nth power (and a secondary OTP I hardcore love), a twisty yet coherent plot, some insane chemistry and so much whump and hurt/comfort they must have bought blood packets in bulk.

2 Go Ahead - yes, I can’t believe it either. A contemporary slice of life cdrama made it this high on my list. But the way it feels so real, the found family perfection, the characters I love and loathe, the perfect cherry of a wonderful OTP that hits my narrative kinks on top, and just a perfect storm of loveliness all around with this one.

1 The Wolf - is that any surprise to anyone who’s checked out this tumblr for the last couple of months? Tragic, intense and gorgeous; so romantic and angsty and passionate it made me lose my mind (though some of it was gone the moment the camera panned to Darren Wang) - all my favorite tropes and then some; this is a drama that may not be perfect but it is 100% and then beyond perfect for ME.

FAVORITE DRAMA

The Wolf - I have seen objectively better cdramas; even this year. But it has been literal years since I have been this hardcore obsessed, this utterly pleased, this emotionally catered to and devastated at once. A beautiful dark fairy tale that manages to own me despite the storytelling gaps due to censorship, it took me for one of the biggest emotional roller coaster rides of my drama watching career. Visually gorgeous, poetic, intense, and so romantic it took my breath away, this is not just my favorite cdrama of 2020, it’s my favorite drama this year period, and the one cdrama this year to make it into my permanent Top 10 cdramas list.

WORST DRAMA

Legend of Jin Yan - see my write up for it for why as I refuse to waste more time on this stupid mess.

FAVORITE MALE CHARACTER

Wolfie, The Wolf - he is such a haunted, tormented, complex, dark mess; loving and violent, severely damaged and with a hidden yearning softness, longing and aloof. And the amount of charisma and sheer masculine sex appeal Darren Wang brings to the role is insane and not something I see much of in a cdrama. Plus, that character arc with its rapid fall and slow painful redemption is A++++

Runner Up: Sifeng, Love and Redemption - has a male lead ever loved more utterly and selflessly, suffered more thoroughly and beautifully, and managed to have such chemistry with both his leading lady and his leading man (that his leading lady temporarily turned into) at once? The answer is no.

Almost made the cut - Feng Xi, Twisted Fate of Love, Han Shuo, The Romance of Tiger and Rose, Qing Ci, Love in Between.

FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTER

Xiao Qian, The Romance of Tiger and Rose - so funny, so much the reason this drama was such a delight. I adore her beyond words.

NEEDS TO BE MURDERED

Murder Daddy, The Wolf - I am sad the censors robbed us of seeing him die on screen. He was fully human but nonetheless managed to be the worst monster in a drama full of literal ones.

Ling Xiao’s Mom, Go Ahead - I hate her so much I don’t want to look up her name. She abused the kid, the disappeared and came back to abuse him some more. I mean she literally gave her child mental health issues. She is the WORST.

FAVORITE SHIP

Xing’er x Wolfie, The Wolf - are you kidding me? Who else could it ever be for me? They destroyed each other and saved each other, sworn enemies and childhood lovers, soulmates and epic messes, they couldn’t live with or without each other. The longing, the passion, the intensity, the angst, the epicness. LIKE THERE ARE NO WORDS!!!!

FAVORITE SECONDARY OTP

Si Yuan, Shen Manqing, Love in Between - I loved them as much and often more than the main OTP. So much angst and passion and a happy ending! She is a seeming sect darling (except the sect is horrible and also sexist so her only worth is as a marriage candidate) and he’s an information broker who is actually one of the members of a destroyed sect that’s blamed for the massacre of her family. That chemistry and yearning is insane. The scene where she touches his face when he’s unconscious was in serious running for my favorite scene of 2020.

NOTP

Legend of Awakening - I have never seen a couple that didn’t just have no chemistry but exhibited actual revulsion towards each other before watching Chen Feiyu and Cheng Xiao try to act as lovers in this one. It was almost entertaining to be honest.

FAVORITE SCENE

It’s a tie and both are from The Wolf. One is a sequence where Wolfie marches to the walls alone, seeking death at Xing’er’s hands and the whole sequence with the battle and rescue follows. The other is the intercut between Xing’er going to her wedding and Wolfie going to his execution, and the auto-da-fe being intercut with her wedding.

BIGGEST CRUSH

Wolfie, The Wolf - Ummm have you seen this tumblr lately, it’s basically a drool shrine to the man.

BEST SCENE STEALER CHARACTER

Yelü Yansage, The Legend of Xiao Chuo - I have loved this actor since The Myth and he continued to competently steal every scene he was in.

NEEDS A SEQUEL

To Love - come out of the coma, dammit!!!!!!!

NEEDS A DIRECTOR’S CUT

The Wolf - duh. It started out as 59 eps and got cut to 49. I reaiize some stuff is never gonna get put in due to censorship, but some of the stuff that got cut got for time reasons because they were deluded and hoping to get a TV broadcast so ep count had to be under 50. I mean I doubt the censors would care if they kept scenes of Wolfie building her a swing or whatever. I really really want a director’s cut the way Goodbye My Princess did even if like with GMP it’s only three extra eps. Hell, I will take extra three minutes, as long as those three minutes are Darren Wang shirtless or with a sword. Ahem.

NEEDS SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

The Song of Glory - it’s a fairly solid drama but honestly it didn’t need to be as long as it was and kind of got draggy and I got lost interest. (I could have gotten snarky and said all the dramas I didn’t like needed scissors taken to them in their entirety but decided to play nice.)

TOO MANY SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

There are a number of dramas I could complain about with regard to this (hi there, darling The Wolf!) but this award goes to Renascence - poor Renascence was never going to be a masterpiece, but it had the potential to be a bit of good cheesy fun until it had its run time cut by more than half and became an incoherent piece of insanity.

TROPE THAT NEEDS TO DIE

Dumb shrill innocent heroine who can’t tie her shoes - see basically all the cdramas I didn’t like this year.

FAVORITE TROPE WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF

Male lead torture - I mean it’s always open season on that in cdramas, but between Love and Redemption, The Wolf, Love Lasts Two Minds, Love in Between and so on, it was a banner year!

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

Legend of Fei - what a waste of that cast; what a waste of our finite time on this Earth. What a waste of my intelligence to hope for something better and stick with it for a dozen eps. I have had stale wonderbread that had more personality than this drama.There is absolutely nothing that stands out about this drama in any way, from half-dimensional characters, to actors who are sleepwalking, to a plot that moves at the speed of an arthritic snail, to uninspired cinematography and direction, to lack of any chemistry between anyone in the cast. If paint-by-numbers was done by a group of particularly linear robots, it might come across the same way as this drama.

BIGGEST GOOD SURPRISE

The Wolf - honestly, I did not expect it to come out AT ALL EVER let alone to become my favorite drama of 2020. I was not familiar with the leading man (hahah), I liked Li Qin but wasn’t yet obsessed with her, and Xiao Zhan was excellent in The Untamed but I was hardly going to follow him from drama to drama (and I don’t do SLS any way.) And the trailer was enjoyable but unlike seemingly everyone, I didn’t think it was going to be some epic masterpiece. And then it came out and while it wasn’t objectively an epic masterpiece, it pulled out all the favorite tropes, shippy and narrative kinks from the deepest darkest recesses of my id. And I fell harder than I have in years.

2020 DRAMAS I HAVEN’T SEEN THAT I MOST WANT TO WATCH

None. Covid Year gave me PLENTY of time

BEST NON-2020 DRAMA I’VE WATCHED IN 2020

Novoland Eagle Flag and Joy of Life - they are in my Top 10 dramas from anywhere now. They are quite different except being smart and giving me protagonists to obsess over.

ETA: Also The Untamed because @idlewilds3 pointed out I actually watched it in 2020 even though I didn’t think so because this hellyear has lasted about three decades.

MOST ANTICIPATED IN 2021

I am gonna limit it to dozen and leaving out ones that aren’t necesarily supposed to air next year (Joy of Life 2, Love in Flames of War, Novoland Princess from Plateau.)

Monarch Industry, Novoland Pearl Eclipse, Silk Washing Stream, Dream of Changan, Sword Snow Stride, Wu Xing Shi Jia, Ancient Love Poetry, Immortality, The Long Ballad, Mirror Twin Cities, The Imperial Age, Fall In Love

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smbhax · 13 days ago

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From "Sazzik the Sorcerer" in Tales of Suspense #32, August 1962. Stan Lee (?) plot, Larry Lieber (?) script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg original colors, Joe Letterese letters. Photoshop color reduction.

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comic-bucky · 5 years ago

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Golden Age

Captain America Comics (1941) #1-78

All-Winners Comics (1941) #1-21

Young Allies Comics (1941) #1-20

USA Comics (1941) #6-17

Kid Komics (1943) #2-10

All-Select (1943) #1-10

Complete Comics (1944) #2

Mystic Comics (1944) #4

Young Men (1950) #24

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Silver Age

The Avengers (1963) #4, #56, #106-107, #277, #387, Annual #16

Sgt. Fury (1963) #13

Tales of Suspense (1964) #63-71, #75, #82, #95

Captain America v1 (1968) #105, #107, #109, #112, #121, #128, #131-132, #139, #162, #176, #215, #219-220, #227, #253, #255-157, #261, #264, #281, #294, #297-299, #326, #349-350, #372, #383-384, #423, #437, #441, #445, #447-448

Captain America Annual (1970) #1, #6, #9, #13

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Bronze Age

The Invaders (1975) #1-31, #38-39, Annual #1

Captain America's Bicentennial Battles (1976)

Marvel Premiere (1972) #29-30

What If..? (1977) #1, #4, #5

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Modern Age

What If..? v2 (1989) #28, #105, #200

Adventures of Captain America (1991) #1-4

Captain America: Medusa Effect (1994)

War Machine (1994) #15-17

Batman/Captain America (1996)

Deadpool v1 (1997) #0, #61

Captain America/Citizen V (1998)

Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty (1998) #7, #12

Fantastic Four (1998) #569, #584, #588

Domination Factor: Avengers (1999) #2.4, #3.6

Earth X (1999) #0-1, #4, #10

Universe X (2000) #9, #X

Universe X Special: Cap (2001) #1

Paradise X (2002) #0-1

Captain America v3 (1998) #1, #12, #25, #32, #39, #48, #50, Annual 2001

Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War (2001)

The Ultimates v1 (2002) #1, #3, #7

The Ultimates v2 (2005) #1, #8

Ultimate Avengers (2009) #2, #6

The New Invaders (2004) #2

Captain America v4 (2002) #10, #17, #19-20, #26

Captain America: 65th Anniversary Special (2006) #1

Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009) #1

Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2011) #1

Cable & Deadpool (2004) #45

Captain America v5 (2005) #1-50

Winter Soldier: Winter Kills (2007)

Young Avengers Presents (2008) #1

Punisher War Journal (2007) #11

Fallen Son: Wolverine (2007)

Wolverine: Origins (2006) #15-20, #23, #25, #30

Civil War: Battle Damage Report (2007) #1

Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War (2007) #1

Secret Invasion (2008) #4, #6-8

What If? Secret Invasion (2010) #1

Avengers/Invaders (2008) #1-12

House of M: Civil War (2008) #3-4

What If? House Of M (2009) #1

Mythos: Captain America (2008) #1

Invincible Iron Man v1 (2008) #17, #20-22, #501

Incredible Hulk v2 (2009) #601, #607, #609

Nomad: Girl Without a World (2009) #1, #4

Ms. Marvel v2 (2006) #41-42

Ms. Marvel: War of the Marvels (2009) #1

Agents of Atlas (2009) #3-5

New Avengers (2009) #48-64, Finale

The Amazing Spider-Man v1 (2009) #600-601, #637, #648, #661

Wolverine (2003) #38-40, #72-74

Young Allies: 70th Anniversary Special (2009)

The Marvels Project (2009) #7-8

Avengers: The Initiative (2007) #19, #34-35

Dark Reign: The List - Avengers (2009) #1

Captain America v1 (2009) #600-619

Captain America: Reborn (2009) #1-6

Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield? (2010)

Siege (2010) #2-4

Siege: Captain America (2010) #1

Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (2010) #1

Dark Wolverine (2009) #84

Avengers v4 (2010) #1-7, #10, #12.1, #16

Avengers vs. Pet Avengers (2010) #1-4

I am An Avenger (2010) #2, #4-5

Free Comic Book Day: Avengers (2009) #1

AAFES 7th Edition (2009) #7

AAFES 9th Edition (2010) #9

Wolverine: Weapon X (2010) #12-15

Avengers vs. Atlas (2010) #1, #4

Dark Avengers Annual (2010) #1

Hawkeye & Mockingbird (2010) #1

Age of Heroes (2010) #1

Invaders Now! (2010) #1-5

World War Hulks (2010) #1

World War Hulks: Captain America vs Wolverine (2010) #1-2

Captain America The 1940s Newspaper Strip (2010) #1-3

Captain America: Forever Allies (2010) #1-4

Black Panther/Captain America: Flags of Our Fathers (2010) #4

Black Widow: Deadly Origin (2010) #1-4

Black Widow v4 (2010) #1-6

Chaos War (2010) #1, #5

Chaos War: Dead Avengers (2011) #1, #3

Heroes for Hire v3 (2011) #9-10

Fear Itself (2011) #3-4

Fear Itself: Captain America (2011) #7.1

Fear Itself: The Worthy (2011) #1

All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes (2011) #1-5

Captain America and Falcon (2011) #1

Captain America: A Little Help (2011) #1

Captain America Corps (2011) #1-5

Captain America and Bucky (2011) #620-624

Captain America: Hail Hydra (2011) #1-2, #5

Captain America v6 (2011) #1-2, #19

The Winter Soldier (2012) #1-19

Marvel Zombies Destroy (2012) #1-5

Secret Avengers v1 (2010) #15

Secret Avengers v2 (2013) #9, #16

Captain America v7 (2013) #6, #13, #20

Winter Soldier: The Bitter March (2014) #1-5

Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration (2014) #1

All-New Marvel Now! Point One (2014) #1

All-New Invaders (2014) #1-15

Original Sin (2014) #1-8

Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier (2014) #1-11

Black Widow v5 (2014) #8, #12, #15, #17-18

Planet Hulk (2015) #1-5

Runaways v4 (2015) #1-4

1602 Witch Hunter Angela (2015) #1

1872 (2015) #1-2

Red Skull (2015) #1-2

Civil War (2015) #1-4

Captain America: White (2008) #0-5

Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) #7-8

Loki: Agent of Asgard (2014) #12

A-Force v1 (2015) #5

POP Secret Avengers: A Tussle in Time (2016)

Thunderbolts (2016) #1-12

Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016) #1-2, #4, #11-13, #16, #18

All-New, All-Different Avengers (2015) #8-9

Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill (2016) #1

Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Alpha (2016) #1

Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Omega (2016) #1

Black Widow v6 (2016) #9-10

Captain Marvel v6 (2016) #8

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016) #8

A Year of Marvels: July Infinite Comic (2016) #1

Generations: Sam Wilson: Captain America & Steve Rogers: Captain America (2017) #1

Secret Empire (2017) #0, #2, #4-5, #8-10

Secret Empire: Brave New World (2017) #1-2, #4-5

Secret Empire Omega (2017) #1

Tales of Suspense v2 (2017) #100-104

Captain America v8 (2017) #25, #695, #701

Captain America v9 (2018) #1, #5-7, #12, #19-21

The Punisher v8 (2016) #227-228

The Punisher v9 (2018) #5

Old Man Hawkeye (2018) #6, #8

The Unstoppable Wasp (2018) #7-10

Rise of the Black Panther (2018) #3

Captain America Annual (2018) #1

Winter Soldier (2018) #1-5

Invaders (2019) #1-12

War of the Realms (2019) #3-5

War of the Realms - Strikeforce: The War Avengers (2019) #1

Strikeforce (2019) #1-9

Web of Black Widow (2019) #2, #5

Deadpool v5 (2018) #13

Gwenpool Strikes Back (2019) #3

Captain Marvel v8 (2019) #6

Uncanny X-Men (2019) #11

Marvel Comics (2019) #1000-1001

Marvel Comics Presents (2019) #7

History of the Marvel Universe (2019) #2, #5

Avengers: Save Like A Hero (2019) #1

Captain America & The Invaders: Bahamas Triangle (2019) #1

Spider-Woman v6 (2020) #1

Amazing Spider-Man (2020) #38

Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula (2020) #1

Hawkeye: Freefall (2020) #1, #4

Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #1-5

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Other Bucky reading guides *work in progress*

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updated 12/08/20

#reading guide #bucky barnes #winter soldier #comic bucky #some of them are cameos but they are great #the other guides are coming one of these days

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bellaroles · 4 years ago

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Reminisce of the time a few years ago I hunted for these books like a hawk because goodreads rec. them to me. These were quite hard to get and some I regretted having acquired them lol.

Here some of the titles

The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope. I love this one. Very Rereadable. I also like her other book, the Sherwood ring. No regrets on these

An Earthly knight by Janet McNaughton. Nope DNF. (I was in Tam lin phase then lol but this one I shall passed) Regrets!

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. This is so fun. I may reread sometimes in the future.

The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan. I like the book fine but will not reread.

Time enough for drums by Ann Rinaldi. Right this was interesting for me but as the internet keep telling me the age gap in this one is bothering me a lot.

Keturah and lord death by Martine Leavitt. I couldn't really get pass the MC self consciousness and the way the story was told. Regrets!

Summers at castle auburn by Sharon Shinn. I love her Archangel book. (1 st book only) and this one also supposed to be without flaws. Only there are quite a few of issues that disturb me.

The Hollow kingdom by Claire B. Dunkle. Hmm will not reread. On the stockholm syndrome note.

A Face like glasses by Frances Hardinge. Was glued to the pages literally. Could not put it down. Felt the same thrills reading these like when I read Garth Nix's keys to the kingdom. Might reread but y'know it won't be like the first time ever again.

Dragon's bait by Vivian Vande Velde. Felt like a cliffhanger with no second book. Not that interesting. Regrets

11. The Blue sword by Robin Mckinley. Can't say I regret this but I'd felt that this should have been better. Not to mention the weird prequel book that I won't reread again.

12. The Belgariad series by David Eddings. Loved these while it lasted. I got bored with the second series. Not rereadable to me.

13. The Changeover by Margaret Mahy. Like it. Not gonna reread.

14. The Changeling sea by Patricia A. Mckillip. I regreted that this was the first Mckillip book I'd ever come across. Dreamy but not engaging. My favorite of hers are the forgotten beast of Eld, In the forest of Serre, the Riddlemaster series, and Winter rose.

15. War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. Very entertaining. I love it. Haven’t reread this since.

16. Song of the lioness series by Tamora Pierce. I was undecided about these. Well I like the Immortals better than this one. Trickster duology impressed me the most. Not regret these but still haven’t reread them.

17. Sabriel by Garth Nix. Special to me because I read this first on audiobook. What a thrilling experience. I was so crazy about the Abhorsen lore for months. Haven’t reread also.

18. Wildwood dancing by Juliet Merrilier. I was crazy about nearly all of her books for a time. Reread this along with Heart’s blood and Daughter of the forrest many times. It was good but didn’t really hold up to now.

19. Enchanted forest chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Like but not love. I like Mairelon’s books better or even the sorcerer and cecelia book.

20. Crown duel by Sherwood Smith. Love the books though Mel’s impulsiveness irked me lots of time. The starts of my obsession with her Sartorias-deles saga. Too many books with vastly different target audience, I gave up trying to read them all at some point lol. Love banner of the damned and the Inda books though.

21. Sally Lockhart’s series by Philip Pullman. Yeah I like his spectacular HDM but I like these more. Sally is so cool. No regrets.

22. The Black magician triology by Trudi Canavan. Used to be my guilty pleasure. because of the ending I will not reread.

23. The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. Love these and the third trilogy also. Regret reading the second. Won’t reread because it was too painful. Also if I could one day reread them, I might continue with the series.

24. Earthsea cycle. By Ursula K. Le Guin. Favorite series. Reread many times. Will continue to recommend them.

25. Mistborn series. By Brandon Sanderson. Love these but won’t reread because I can’t go thru all of that again.

26. The chronicle of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. Read on audiobook. Like them but haven’t reread since.

27. Lumatere chronicles by Melina Marchetta. So intense lol, it was good but I won’t go thru all that again.

30. Tales from the flat earth by Tanith lee. Did not regret. So dark and arabian-ish. I especially love Simmu’s stories and Chuz. Her B&B retelling in Red as blood is also my fav. So unique. But I regret buying her Claidi’s journals and Paradys books.

31. I, Coriander by Sally Gardner. So pretty cover. The stories was good for my teen years. Did not reread since.

32. A Company of swans by Eva Ibbotson. Gosh this was unexpectedly cute. So many weird things but still it works for me. Haven’t reread.

33. The Ivy tree by Mary Stewart. This book lied to me! I was so obsessed with the pseudo amnesia thing. First read on audiobook. One time is enough because the suspense can be experienced only one time.

34. The Seer and the sword by Victoria Hanley. Regrets. The plot was supposedly engaging but I couldn’t care less.

35. The Blue castle by L.M. Montgomery. Beautiful prose. Like the plot very much. Now if I could really find the time to read Anne of green gables.

36. Book of a thousand days by Shannon Hale. Nice. Can’t remember much but I like this enough to draw a doodle. I like her Austenland better. That was hilarious.

37. Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. I love these esp. the Dawn trader one. Haven’t reread yet.

39. The savage Damsel and the dwarf by Gerald Morris. Funny. I remembered that much.

Other books I regret are The books of Pelinor by Alison Croggon. Darkangel triology by Meredith Ann Pierce. Knight and Rogue by Hilari Bell, A college of magics by Caroline Stevermer, Riverside by Ellen Kushner.

#past bookshelves

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generic-hufflepuff1 · 4 years ago

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My Tma favorites (per entity per season)

In honor of the finale of Tma, I'm looking back and going through the seasons and picking out my favorite episodes. I'm sorting them by entity and Im gonna write a little piece at the end of each fear as to why I picked that episode. It is relatively spoiler free but still keep your wits about you.

Also this is only up to Mag 197

The Stranger

Season 1: 1 Anglerfish tied with 34 Anatomy Class

Season 2: 77 The Kind Mother

Season 3: 83 Drawing a Blank, with 96 Return to Sender as a close second

Season 4: 128 heavy Goods

Season 5: 182 Well being, but 165 Revolutions is very very good

Overall: 1 Anglerfish

So all the of The Strangers’ episodes are really evocative and well written and I have to say that it was a very, very close call for almost every single season and I still cannot really decide if I truly like Mag 1 more than Mag 34 but I have to say that Mag 1 is so very good at drawing you into the world and works as a stand alone piece.

The Buried

Season 1: 2 Do Not Open

Season 2: 66 Held In Customs

Season 3: 97 We all Ignore the Pit

Season 4: 132 Entombed

Season 5: 184 Like Ants

Overall: 2 Do Not Open

I love Mag 2 as the protagonist straight up did not have any of this bullshit. And they even got a mike drop moment with the frozen key. Like in this house we stan Joshua Gillespie. His determination to not have to deal with that shit is so incredibly strong that it sticks with you.

The Web

Season 1: 16 Aracnopobia

Season 2: 69 Thought for the Day

Season 3: 81 A Guest for Mister Spider

Season 4: 136 The Puppeteer

Season 5: 172 Strung Out

Overall: 81 A Guest for Mister Spider

Honestly Mag 81 is absolutely brilliant and serves to contextualise so much of season 1 and 2 and ends up being incredibly important to the world as a whole. That plus the delivery and excellent premise gives it a slight edge over Mag 172 that is a pure exploration of the controlling and manipulative nature of addiction

The Vast

Season 1: 21 Freefall

Season 2: 75 A Long Way Down

Season 3: 91 The Coming Storm

Season 4: 124 Left Hanging

Season 5: 174 The Great Beast

Overall: 174 The Great Beast

So the first half of season 5 does an amazing job of truely fleshing out each fear and the Vast is no exception. The split between the two protagonists makes it clear that The Vast is not just about big things or empty space but deep existentialism and the fear of the inevitability of life.

The Spiral

Season 1: 26 A Distortion

Season 2: 74 Fatigue

Season 3: 85 Upon the Stair

Season 4: 126 Sculptors Tool

Season 5: 177 Wonderland, tied with 187 Checking Out

Overall: 187 Checking Out

This one was difficult as Mag 177 and Mag 187 as both of them lingered in my head for literal weeks after listening to them. In the end Mag 187 was so completely mind boggling in how it completely changed my perception of the Distortion. And is a masterclass in writing a character twist.

The End

Season 1: 29 Cheating Death

Season 2: 70 Book of the Dead

Season 3: 94 Dead Woman Walking

Season 4: 155 The Cost of Living

Season 5: 168 Roots

Overall: 168 Roots

I have quite literally experienced some version of what the victims are describing. But more than that the realisation of the implications of this domain for the world as it elevates the episode much higher than any of the Ends other appearances as eventually the other entities will fear the End just as the mortals do.

The Flesh

Season 1: 14 Piecemeal

Season 2: 58 Trail Rations

Season 3: 90 Body Builder

Season 4: 131 Flesh

Season 5: 171 The Gardener

Overall: 171 The Gardener

Everything about Mag 171 just speaks to me. From the visual it conjures, to the brilliant use of botany metaphor to describe various body image issues, to Jared’s simple but weighty request. This episode lives rent free in my brain at all times. This is the first time that I have zero contenders for my favorite of an entity.

The Corruption

Season 1: 32 Hive

Season 2: 68 The Tale of a Field Hospital

Season 3: 102 Nesting Instinct

Season 4: 153 Love Bombing

Season 5: 164 The Sick Village

Overall: 32 Hive

Although Mag 164 does have a very particular place in my heart and in the history of literature due to its topic and the precise time it came out, but it does pale compared to just how brilliant Mag 32 is. As the first real mention of the entities it reveals just little enough to keep the suspense whilst providing just enough answers that it's obvious in hindsight. But once more none of that matters in the face of “There is a wasps nest in my attic” the shere delivery of this episode has placed it in many people's favourite lists.

The Slaughter

Season 1: 7 The Piper

Season 2: 42 Grifter’s Bone

Season 3: 105 Total War

Season 4: 125 Civilian Casualties

Season 5: 163 In the Trenches

Overall: 42 Grifter’s Bone

Mag 42 is very interesting. I’ve mentioned in some of my other posts that Im pretty sure that Jonny Sims finds some fears harder to write and the Slaughter is definitely one of them but I’ve only come to this conclusion by looking at how frequently they show up but listening to the show you would never be able to tell and Mag 42 is one brilliant example of this it is a brilliant way to expand on how the Slaughter manifests.

The Desolation

Season 1: 37 Burnt Offering

Season 2: 67 Burning Desire

Season 3: 89 Twice as Bright

Season 4: 139 Chosen

Season 5: 169 Fire Escape

Overall: 67 Burning Desire

I find Mag 67 so intensely interesting as it leads into one of the major themes of Tma, that love can and will defeat and overpower even the most gripping fear. The simple love of a simple man sowed just enough doubt to destroy an avatar of destruction. Tma is filled with similar moments but personally this one is my favourite.

The Dark

Season 1: 25 Growing Dark

Season 2: 63 The End of the Tunnel

Season 3: 86 Tucked In

Season 4: 143 The Heart of Darkness

Season 5: 173 Night Night

Overall: 173 Night Night

I remember the reaction to Mag 173. It was so incredibly powerful to watch most of the fanbase (myself included) react in exactly the same way the characters did to the reality of this domain. First with dawning realisation, then anger followed sudden confusion at where to direct that anger. It was quite eye opening to say the least.

The Hunt

Season 1: 10 Vampire Killer, with notable mention to 31 First Hunt

Season 2: 56 Children of the Night

Season 3: 112 Thrill of the Chase

Season 4: 133 Dead Horse

Season 5: 176 Blood Ties

Overall: 112 Thrill of the Chase

I absolutely love Mag 112. It is such a brilliant idea, and as a result I end up valuing it a bit more than Mag 133 or 10 which are particularly telling for me as it proves that the Hunt is weirdly the fairest of the entities and absolutely condones fighting back and even killing its avatars or that it just cares about the circular nature of the hunt.

The Eye

Season 1: 23 Schwartzwald

Season 2: 53 Crusader

Season 3: 82 The Eyewitnesses

Season 4: 138 The Architecture of Fear

Season 5: 183 The Monument

Overall: 138 The Architecture of Fear

Oh Smirke. Poor naive and enlightened Smirke. I love Mag 138 more than the other Eye related episodes because it is due to this character that we even have a metric through which to observe the world of tma

The Lonely

Season 1: 33 Boatswain’s Call

Season 2: 48 lost in the Crowd

Season 3: 92 Nothing Besides Remains

Season 4: 159 The Last

Season 5: 170 Recollection

Overall: 170 Recollection

Covid lockdown hit me quite hard and I have not seen a single piece of media that captures the feeling of having hours and days drift into each other quite like Mag 170 so along with Mag 164 it has a very strange place in my heart.

The Extinction

So this one is a bit of a different situation so im gonna simply list my top five in order

175 Epoch

149 Concrete Jungle

65 Binary

157 Rotten Core

156 Reflection

Mag 175 is another example of a statement that my mind will drift to if I leave it alone for too long. From the vivid visuals to the subtext of the descriptions to the delivery of every line it is easily one of the best episodes of Tma in my personal opinion.

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