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Readcomix

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  1. I’m supposed to say these late-run books are tough in high grade, or somesuch nonsense, right???
  2. Obviously, high-grade Battlestar Galactica comes next…I hunk I’m gonna type BG because it’s easier, like FF…
  3. SOLD! Vampirella #5 NM range. This books is pricey on eBay; $@0 and up. I don’t know why. $5
  4. Vampirella #3 NM range doing the Spider-Man/Mary Jane thing with a clown. $5
  5. Vampirella #5 she’s like Tomb Raider or Dora the Explorer or something here $3
  6. All this, except…. I’m happy to level those same knocks at Namor, where they are more legitimately placed anyway. Ironically, the main reason Namor doesn’t get knocked is he doesn’t talk to fish. In fairness, early Namor is the original anti-hero, waaay before the edgy bad@ss heyday brought on by Punisher and Wolverine saturation. But since the early silver age, when he played that foil to the Avengers and FF, he has mostly devolved into a pompous gasbag. I said this in another thread — my favorite post-silver Namor story is Avengers 155. Subby runs his mouth and Wonder Man pulps him in three blows. He desperately needs a writer with a plan. He has had nothing like Peter David’s Aquaman run. On the other hand, while Aquaman has topped the low bar of DC movies, it wasn’t terribly special either. You could swap out its cast and setting with Black Panther; basically same story. I do think MF73 is an underrated cool GA key but I’m hardly on the ShillMan bandwagon either. But I kinda like Aquaman having a cheerleader; he needs it. Namor is kind of tiresome as the proud prince who is always ready to tell someone how not scared of them he is. We already had Hercules for that, and he’s more amusing as a semi-comical character. Namor hasn’t been interesting and textured since Stan was writing him — not because no one else could do it, but because no one else used him so well in that anti-hero, could be friend or foe way. Aquaman has had a lot more development as a character, from the loss of his son to reluctant leader of the last incarnation of the original JLA to Peter David’s run. Namor’s whole shtick for 30 years has been roll him out when you need an angry guy to start a slugfest.
  7. Presents well, complete…I’m in the 1.5-1.8 camp too for the amount of chew, but you’re hardly crazy to think it’s in the realm of possibility to come back 2.0 either.