Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II
Q Magazine Comics Reviewer & your Blogger at http://toobusythinkingboutcomics.blogspot.co.uk/ Husband of the Splendid Wife, walking companion of Eyebrow Girl, the Hound Supreme, escaped teacher, irredeemable amateur
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“It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
(Panels by Bill Everett, Mike Friedrich et al, from Sub-Mariner #50, 1972)
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The back cover to 1973’s “Marvel Annual 1974”, a hardbacked collection of black and white reprints chosen apparently at random. (The front cover was exactly the same, but mine is rather more battered than the back.) The splendid Lee Grice- @LovelyLee_G at Tumblr - informs me that the artist was Geoff Campion
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Kieron Gillen calls it “probably my most candid interview ever”! The first part of his discussion with TooBusyThinking about Kid Loki and Journey Into Mystery is up now. Please do feel free to pass the word. I genuinely think folks will find it interesting!
You can find the interview here.
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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
H G Wells
(Panels by Carl Burgos, from Marvel Comics #1, 1939)
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“As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with them is always the right one; flog the rank and file and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian Rock.”
Dr Thomas Arnold
(Panel by Steve McNiven,Mark Millar et al, from Civil War #3, 2006)
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“Something will come of this. I hope it mayn’t be human gore.”
Charles Dickens, from Barnaby Rudge
(Panels by John Byrne, Chris Claremont & Terry Austin, from X-Men #132, 1980)
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“I cannot exactly tell you Sir (replied he), and I would be loth to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.”
Samuel Johnson
(Panel by Wally Wood, Stan Lee et al, from Daredevil 7, 1966)
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“I can’t say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.”
Daniel Boone
(Panel by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Joe Sinnot et al, from Fantastic Four #48, 1966)
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“Let me remind you of what the wary fox said once upon a time to the sick lion: “Because those footprints scare me, all directed your way, none coming back.”
Horace
(Panel by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky et al, from Fantastic Four #3, 1962)
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“There is not a memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
James Cabell
(Panel By Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, George Bell et al, from Fantastic Four #27, 1964)
