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Joe Zhang
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C'mon Pedro. As a kid I couldn't wait for the next issue of the Micronauts or Rom. Isn't that good enough for me?
And no, the glasses I wear are not pink colored. Ruby quartz, all the way.
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Matt Reed
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Jason, I was 12 in 1979. That's 'round about the time ROM and MICRONAUTS debuted. Loved them from the first issue. Still do.
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Jay Matthews
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Think fast. How was Acroyear pronounced in the circles you ran in?
It was fun having character names that you had never heard pronounced by any human vocal cords with authority. We used to argue about Acroyear, I guess primarily because the y-e-a-r at the end threw some people.
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Richard Patton
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Speaking only for myself, I can say with 100% certainty that I'm not
looking through rose-colored glasses when I comment on how much I
loved his work on ROM, MICRONAUTS and HULK. All three. Hell, I even
forgot to mention CLOAK AND DAGGER, another favorite of mine. Sure, I
wasn't the biggest fan of Mantlo's take on ALPHA FLIGHT coming on the
heels of JB's stellar run, but every creator has misses. I'm not gonna hold
that against him. For me, a ton of his work introduced me to characters I
love to this day. I can't give the guy any bigger praise than that.
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Get out of my head!!! :)
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Richard Patton
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Think fast. How was Acroyear pronounced in the circles you ran in?
It was fun having character names that you had never heard pronounced
by any human vocal cords with authority. We used to argue about
Acroyear, I guess primarily because the y-e-a-r at the end threw some
people.
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As a kid, I said- "uh-CROY-yur"
As an adult, I picked up- "ACK-crow-year"
I don't know which is right!
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Jay Matthews
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Whoa. I was an an "uh-CROY-yur" man all the way myself. I may have participated in atomic wedgies given to the "ACK-crow-year" guy. <<sudden pang of self-doubt>>
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Jason Czeskleba
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Since we were all roughly the same age maybe I was just more jaded than you all at that age (I did start collecting at a very early age). Anyway, Mantlo's work struck me as cliched and formulaic when I was 13, but I think I would have liked it more if I'd read it before I had gotten so familiar with many of the cliches and formulas of the superhero genre. I guess that's what I was driving at with the age question. When I was 7 I thought Rich Buckler was a really great Fantastic Four artist because I didn't know much about the giant whose shoulders he was standing upon. At any rate, Jay, I did not intend to imply that people who like Mantlo's work do not have good taste.
At any rate, to get in the spirit of the thread: My all-time favorite Mantlo story is Super Villain Team-Up #14/Champions #16
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Jason Czeskleba
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IIRC, they said "uh-CROY-yur" in the TV commercials.
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Jay Matthews
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Jason wrote:
| At any rate, Jay, I did not intend to imply that people who like Mantlo's work do not have good taste. |
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Not at all. That was my backhanded way of conceding that it might have been crap, but I liked it, so Bill succeeded. When I reread them now, I still read them through the lens of my boyhood enjoyment. So my crap-detector is forever broken for those issues.
Hulk 250? Come on! Is your heart made of stone?!?
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Richard Patton
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IIRC, they said "uh-CROY-yur" in the TV commercials.
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Thanks, Jason! (How the heck did you remember that?)
Say, Jay- can you help me decipher your avatar?
<< Hulk 250? Come on! Is your heart made of stone?!? >>
Heart not stone! Heart is Heart! Heart is strongest one there is!
(Love #250)
Edited by Richard Patton on 17 May 2006 at 9:14pm
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Jay Matthews
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It's the cover of Hulk #94 (the most current issue). You've got to hop on the Planet Hulk story. It's good. That's the Hulk in a gladiator helmet.
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Jim Yingst
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I never heard the commercials at the time. I decided on "ACK-ro-year" (like
acrobat) all on my own. Then at some point I became aware that "officially"
it was uh-KROY-er. Maybe it was a response to a reader question in the
letters column? I don't really remember. I ended up retraining myself, so to
speak, and now I remember the character as uh-KROY-er. Took awhile
though.
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