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Conan’s Favorite Joke

story by Kurt Busiek

art & color by Bruce Timm

lettering by Richard Starkings & Comicraft

#dark horse comics #Conan #conan's favorite joke #Kurt Busiek #Bruce Timm #Richard Starkings

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I’m not crying, you’re crying!

#dc comics #dc heroes #dc super pets #Krypto #Superman #superboy #conner kent #teen titans #kurt busiek #rick leonardi #jon sibal #brad anderson #carlos pacheco #jesus merino #dave stewart

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Avengers Forever 2 (1999) by Kurt Busiek & Carlos Pacheco

Cover: Carlos Pacheco

#Avengers Forever #Avengers #Kurt Busiek #Carlos Pacheco

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Iron Man 1 (1998) by Kurt Busiek & Sean Chen

Cover: Sean Chen

#Iron Man #Kurt Busiek #Sean Chen

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In 1992 The Welsh Publishing Group released The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles magazine, which included, in conjunction with Dark Horse Comics, a two-page comic by Kurt Busiek, Adam Hughes, Karl Story and Sean Tierney. The magazine only lasted one issue, so this was the only comic Busiek and Hughes produced for it.

Dark Horse was publishing a Young Indiana Jones comic at the time as a tie-in to the TV show of the same name, and Busiek regularly contributed articles to it that were used as back matter and tied the plot of the issue to real-world  history.

#kurt busiek #adam hughes #young indiana jones #dark horse comics #karl story #sean tierney #young indiana jones chronicles

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Conan's Favorite Joke

Conan #18

by Kurt Busiek; Bruce Timm and Richard Starkings

Cover by Cary Nord and Dave Stewart

Dark Horse

#dark horse comics #conan #bruce timm #richard starkings #kurt busiek #cover #cary nord #dave stewart #comic book #pulp

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Natasha Romanoff & Tony Stark

Iron Man (1998)

#marvel #avengers #marveledit #comicedit #natasharomanoffedit #blackwidowedit #tonystarkedit #ironmanedit #ironwidow #natasha romanoff #black widow #tony stark #iron man #iron man (1998) #616 #patch zircher #kurt busiek #richard howell #marvel comics #avengerscompoundedit

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BHOC: DEFENDERS #69

It was momentum, pure and simple, that kept me purchasing DEFENDERS each and every month through this period. As it was a Marvel team title, on some level I felt as though i “had to” buy it or risk missing something important. Which is crazy, but also a part of the key to Marvel’s success in those days. The pervading sell that everything that happened in the Marvel Universe was contributing to a…

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#Al Milgrom #Defenders #Ed Hannigan #Herb Trimpe #Jim Shooter #Jo Duffy #Kurt Busiek #Marvel

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Do you prefer Phoenix as what was originally intended, as Jean at the peak of her powers, or as the cosmic force it became that wound up getting involved with Jean (to put it in the most basic terms)?

No, it always had to be both. If the Phoenix is just Jean Grey, another Omega-level mutant, the story ends in cosmic oblivion. Even as an Omega, Jean Grey alone can win a battle, but she lacks the cosmic transcendence of Tiphareth to remake the universe in the image of the tree of life.

At the same time, if it is just the Phoenix inhabiting an empty vessel, the narrative collapses into hollow stage play. To borrow the language of my earlier post about Cristological controversies, if there is only a divine nature and no human nature, there is no sacrifice and no salvation. As Claremont understood and Shooter and Busiek failed to grasp, with the clone retcon, you lose the core dramatic arc of a brave woman who grapples with divinity and in the end chooses to die a human.

#xmen #xmen meta #phoenix #jean grey #phoenix saga #dark phoenix saga #chris claremont #jim shooter #kurt busiek

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#astro city #kurt busiek #image #image comics #indie comic #indie comics #poll

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January to April 2004. Fans of MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN would likely enjoy this poignant 2004 miniseries by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen, about a young man named Clark Kent in a world very much like ours, where Superman is a familiar — and fictional — pop culture icon. Clark grows up the butt of many jokes, but when he's in high school, he discovers that he really does have powers like Superman's, something that has no precedent in his world outside of comic books.

If this premise sounds familiar, it's because it's a lot like the origin of the Earth-Prime Superboy, before he became a way for Geoff Johns to mock comics fans (and for DC to play out its institutional hostility toward Siegel and Shuster). In the pre-Crisis era, Earth-Prime, one of editor Julius Schwartz's little jokes, was supposed to be our world, where comics artists, writers, and editors transcribed the adventures of the real heroes of the other Earths. In the afterword to the trade paperback compilation of SECRET IDENTITY, Busiek admits that the similarities were wholly intentional, and that while he didn't mention it in his proposal (and DC didn't advertise it as such), this was essentially his extrapolation of that 1985 concept by Elliot S! Maggin, Curt Swan, and Al Williamson.

After moving to New York City in his '20s, this Clark becomes a reporter — though not for the Daily Planet — and meets a young woman named Lois Chaudhari. To my knowledge, this was the first time a counterpart of Lois Lane was presented as an Asian woman (although of course she's not precisely Lois Lane).

Throughout most of the story, Clark uses his powers only in secret, but he does make himself a Superman costume. Eventually, he feels compelled to come clean with Lois:

Like Busiek's ASTRO CITY, SECRET IDENTITY is a very introspective story, less interested in action (of which there's relatively little) than in emotion and small observations of life with superhuman abilities. If you're expecting bigger dramatic stakes, you may find the series underwhelming — there are no supervillains or alien invasions, just Clark's reflections on his life and family, from childhood to old age — and the fact that the story never reveals why Clark has powers may frustrate. However, its autumnal wistfulness is appealing if you're in the right frame of mind for it. Immonen's art is gorgeous, and I can't think of a better artist for this story, which straddles the line between a real-world environment and the "heroic realism" of the modern superhero genre.

Fourteen years later, Busiek tried to do a similar story with Batman, BATMAN: CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, with John Paul Leon, which doesn't work nearly as well, wallowing in some uncomfortable attitudes about mental illness and an inappropriate though deliberately ambiguous supernatural element. Leon's art is interesting, but the story leaves a sour taste, and it does not succeed (at all) in doing for Batman what SECRET IDENTITY does for Superman, which is disappointing.

#comics #superman secret identity #kurt busiek #stuart immonen #earth-prime #superman #clark kent #lois lane #my adventures with superman #maws #elliot s maggin #curt swan #al williamson #eduardo barreto #julius schwartz #batman creature of the night #john paul leon #i don't think supernatural elements are necessarily inappropriate for batman #but putting that in a supposedly “real world” story about a man who is definitely mentally ill is in poor taste

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Love this new Jamie McKelvie Avengers cover!

#marvel #avengers #Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #avengers assemble #heroes return #jamie mckelvie #kurt busiek #george perez #captain america #steve rogers #scarlet witch #wanda maximoff #the vision #clint barton #Hawkeye #Firestar #angelica jones #vance astrovik #justice #iron man #tony stark #Thor #carol danvers #ms. marvel #warbird

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Avengers Forever 12 (1999) by Kurt Busiek & Carlos Pacheco

Cover: Carlos Pacheco

#Avengers Forever #Avengers #Kurt Busiek #Carlos Pacheco

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1993 Marvels Marvel Comics House Ad

#alex ross #kurt busiek #marvels #jim hammond #human torch #marvel #marvel comics house ads #comic ads #comic house ads #print ads #house ads #1993 #90s #1990s

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Superman #652 by Kurt Busiek, Geoff Johns, and Pete Woods

#dc #dc comics #superman #clark kent #lois lane #kurt busiek #geoff johns #pete woods #up up and away

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BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #231

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, INCREDIBLE HULK went through a consistent pattern with me: it would start with some storyline that I was interested in, then segue into a bunch of issues that left me cold, to the point where I’d be on the verge of dropping it, then a story would come along that I liked and that would renew my interest for a time. And so on and so on. This issue was one of…

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#Incredible Hulk #Kurt Busiek #Marvel #Roger Stern #Sal Buscema