Comments on: Feel The Love

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:13:47 +0000

Yeah, Sentry is a failure on pretty much every conceivable level.But last year’s Age of the Sentry was actually pretty good.

Of course, I don’t think it’s really “in continuity” or whatever. It’s never been mentioned, that I know of, and it hasn’t affected how the Sentry has been portrayed since. All in all, the Sentry in Age of the Sentry is like an entirely different and – naturally – more likable character.

By: CapnCarrot

CapnCarrot — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:53:22 +0000

I would of gone a long time without guessing Sentry. I guess I don’t even think of him, you know, at all. I know he’s there, but I don’t care.

As for Ollie, I’d argue you need characters like this in your universe. Yes bad writers, and sometimes even good ones, can make you roll your eyes at how they use him, but if he’s good enough for Hal Jordan, he’s good enough for me.

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:38:29 +0000

So it WAS a long-winded dialogue balloon. I dig now, thanks.

By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:17:12 +0000

If you don’t mind my jumping in, Jefferson, a partial answer to your question can be found at http://www.postmodernbarney.com/2008/08/odds-n-ends-2/

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:47:14 +0000

I get the hate about Leifeld, but what’s wrong with Millar? Is it those long-winded, comma-free balloons of “hip” dialogue?

By: Jon H

Jon H — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:08:09 +0000

I have to assume that whoever created the Sentry managed to get a part-ownership deal with Marvel and gets royalties on any appearance.

By: Martin Wisse

Martin Wisse — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:59:07 +0000

Thank you. My faith in humanity is restored, as I loathe the Sentry with a passion almost equal to yours.

I dislike all sort of long lost mysterious people from [Hero]‘s past, gettin unearned respect.

By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:37:45 +0000

And, Lawrence, I’ll add that Wizard Magazine made a collaborative effort with Marvel to fool readers into thinking that the Sentry was an actual honest-to-goodness Silver Age creation. First, they ran an obituary for Silver Age artist “Artie Rosen.” Then they ran the “Wizard exclusive” that Rosen left behind a file with unpublished artwork for Startling Stories #1 — supposedly Stan Lee’s introduction of the Sentry, which Wizard said he had co-created with Rosen before the Fantastic Four, but had forgotten about when the FF took off instead.

As memory serves, Wizard published a “Ha ha we fooled you!” months later, followed months after that by a more chaste “Will fans forgive and forget?” as part of one of their overly frequent retrospectives on the history of their own magazine.

By: Arynne

Arynne — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:44:52 +0000

I absolutely have to quote Rupert Griffin from Fanzing here. He says that Green Arrow is:

“…the only superhero with a political point of view. Granted, it was sometimes hard to tell what that point of view was – Green Arrow never espoused a coherent political philosophy, eg, something which was recognisably and definitely Marxism or liberalism or anarchism – but it was anti-authoritarian and socially aware. That separated him from the other superheroes. The other Leaguers – including Green Lantern II – may have had vague conservative beliefs (which revolved around the notion of the goodness of virtue, decency and a faith in authority and the status quo), but political and social beliefs were never as essential to their characterisations as they were to Arrow’s.

“This trend began during the Hard-traveling heroes run on the Green Lantern-Green Arrow book from around 1970 to 1971. After O’Neil and Adams got their hands on Ollie, he became a moralising, cantankerous, undisciplined, occasionally sanctimonious and overbearing hero who made all the other Justice Leaguers look like the bunch of stuffed shirts they were (God bless ‘em). He is instantly recognisable – by his signature slangy eloquence and his mixture of ranting and whining. He is the superhero as the sixties and seventies hipster”.

I think the character is loved by some people and hated by others for the exact same reasons…

By: Crowded House

Crowded House — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:42:35 +0000

Hmm…a “lost silver age” character, who angsts about his life, shoehorned into continuity, Superman analog…is anyone else thinking of Triumph besides me?

Wow, that is a spectacularly bad idea.