tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post6616470904721493984..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: BAB Two-In-One: That Voodoo That You Do and That Horn You Blow.Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-7127627646650358512015-06-01T16:42:34.276-05:002015-06-01T16:42:34.276-05:00First Off..I love vintage first appearances like B...First Off..I love vintage first appearances like Brother Voodoo's! This character was a time piece!! Gene Colan was the undisputed master of the horror genre!!<br /><br />One more comment...Teen Titans are just damn cool. The early team like on display here and my personal faves The New Teen Titans adding Raven, StarFire, Cyborg and Changeling my be the most perfect Super-team ever created..and that says a lot!<br /><br />Great read as always gang!!<br /><br />Till next time!!<br /><br />Hero Out!Charlton Herohttp://charltonhero.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-78507682122731672552014-07-29T03:39:52.409-05:002014-07-29T03:39:52.409-05:00I just had to come back to this post, because I...I just had to come back to this post, because I've been reading the Brother Voodoo stories in Essential Marvel Horror vol. 2 (one of my reading projects over the past few months has been to finally get through all of my Essentials books - the two Marvel Horror volumes are the last of the lot).<br />Anyway, Karen, I have to say I found the structure of the story quite interesting, and unusual. Basically, pretty much all of Strange Tales #s 169-170, featuring the good Brother's origin, are told in flashback. And this continues into the next issue (#171): we finally find out why that UN pathologist was attacked at the airport at the beginning of #169 - and even that's explained in a flashback!<br />Also, in that third issue, we're treated to the term "zuvembie" all over the place, which at that point was downright silly, because Marvel was already publishing Tales of the Zombie in its b&w magazine line.<br /><br />Otherwise, Brother Voodoo is a good character as introduced, but the stories are so far nothing special. However, Colan's art is, as you noted, quite well-suited to the character.<br />And as for the way the dialogue is written for the Haitians, well, your take is a bit more charitable than mine - I'm finding it really annoying. First and foremost, Haitians speak French, so when they speak English, they wouldn't be speaking in that faux Jamaican lingo that Wein used. Aarrgh!Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-39648508330069645212013-12-03T14:52:27.007-06:002013-12-03T14:52:27.007-06:00The art here certainly does look nice - interestin...The art here certainly does look nice - interesting also is that Colletta's inks mesh really well with Novick's pencils.Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-41043544283825017672013-12-03T14:33:33.149-06:002013-12-03T14:33:33.149-06:00Good for you, Edo!
Looking at that lovely Irv N...Good for you, Edo! <br /><br />Looking at that lovely Irv Novick/Vinnie Colletta art again makes me both smile and frown. I've mentioned a couple of times recently that I am considering getting rid of my comic books. Of course, not everything is in my library in reprint form. I had wondered about finishing out my Teen Titans reviews, to the last issue (#53). But when I got them out for a thumb-through the interior art (sadly, Don Heck -- man, I hate always feeling that way about his Bronze output) was so off-putting that I set the lot back down. There were some swell Rich Buckler covers, however! But I didn't think I could get through the visuals in order to do a review. Now, if Novick had been on the job...<br /><br />DougDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-50949729008278932202013-12-03T14:28:16.068-06:002013-12-03T14:28:16.068-06:00Why let Greg have all the fun commenting on these ...Why let Greg have all the fun commenting on these old posts? A link to this one appeared in that "You might also like" section on another older post I was reading today, and I was surprised to find that I'd never noticed this before. That issue of Teen Titans was the first I ever had, and I have to say I can really relate to Doug's observation that, at age 10, you kind of blindly accepted quite a bit of outlandish stuff in these comics. Anyway, this was probably the only issue of the 'original' Titans that I had - probably had more to do with spotty spinner rack distribution than anything else.<br />And I like Brother Voodoo, too (rhyme intended), even though I only first read any of his stories when I bought the Essential Tales of the Zombie a few years back.Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-68452934071420971612009-11-27T09:08:20.284-06:002009-11-27T09:08:20.284-06:00I have an OA from that Teen Titans and let me say ...I have an OA from that Teen Titans and let me say that the art is 100% nicer looking than what eventually was printed. Wish I had that splash page.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com