Juggernaut #1-4 [...] I’m on this for awhile.
... Or one more issue anyway as the next issue is the last in this five issue mini-series
Birthright #46 - the beginning of the epilogue as the final story wraps up. Good start as this last arc promises to be interesting.
Yeah, almost time for me to try this again. Ends at 50 and I may try to jump back in right after that.
The Department of Truth #6 - Great issue! Finally some answers to who the players are and how long the fight has been going on. Art was a little cartoony but it worked with this historical story.
Damn it. You gonna make me go back and do this ain't ya?
Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl #3 & 4 - Man I love this series! Great pair of issues and glad I read them back to back. All out war between our two heroes and the poor drug dealers are caught in the middle.
Crap! I forgot all about the Kick-Ass "New Girl" thing I was reading! Or was it "Next Girl"? Well, regardless, I have to get back into that before I forget everything I read in the first few issues
After reading 1972's Thor issues back to back, I decided a couple things ...
Thor #203 (1972)
Thor #204 (1972) - I think I am going to by-pass this title as I go further into my "youthful re-reading" of Marvel. It isn't that I don't enjoy it, I do, but I think I am falling into the same problem I had as a youngster trying to read this title ... it just has a voice that is far too different than all the other titles. That isn't a bad thing, it makes the title stand out, and when I go back and read Thor I will be happy that it is different
, but when trying to read these past titles (that are already a challenge at times to get through, the prose being what it was/is, nothing like 70's speak "you dig?"
) reading Thor speak is even more of a ... distraction for me. I have a couple Dr. Strange issues (not including the Defenders) that I fear may also suffer from this, so I may have to take both Thor and Strange out of my current reading list and go back at another time and read those. I think the younger me would have done (and probably did, a lot of the times) the same thing. I either read Marvel heroes like Cap, DD, Spidey, etc ... and left Thor and the good Dr. on the rack or I was reading Thor, Dr. Strange, Man-Thing and the like and was off of the cape stuff during those times.
The only constant I can remember buying is the FF and even then I missed a lot of those issues.
Marvel Feature #1 (1971) - Gotta be honest and say I did NOT enjoy this at all. There are a couple stories in this first issue and the main one was not one of Roy Thomas' (Or early Ross Andru's) best efforts. Strange, Hulk and Namor stop a bomb (basically). Although it is cool how Strange did it, he slowed time around the bomb so it will take eons and eons for the timer to finally go off, it wasn't a good story. Oh, Surfer was there as well. Ehhh, a little. He knocked himself out trying to escape Earth (as he was just punished for betraying Galactus and forced to stay on this planet) so Strange decided to inlist Hulk instead of waiting for Surfer to wake up
Of course another story in this issue that comes after the bomb stuff is called "The Return". It showcases Dr. Strange's return to being the Sorcerer Supreme (I guess he walked off in the last issue of his own series?), but why this is not the first story I have no idea. Plus it was drawn by Don Heck who, even after all these years, I still do not enjoy.
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Taskmaster #2 Amazing Spider-Man #113 (1972)Captain America #154 (1972)Daredevil #92 (1972) Avengers #104 (1972)