Wizard 53 - 1995 Year End Review: Comics Are Struggling!

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[@aid8m]

Edvin Biukovic was a Croatian artist who died in 1999. I loved his his two Grendel series, and he had an amazing short story in Weird War Tales that was published after his death.

[@paulbisanti1535]

Those Grendels were great. I recall being so hyped after seeing the preview of the first one.

[@vandals4873]

Darko Macan and Edvin Biuković getting Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths made is a story unto itself. Amazing books for sure

[@portland-182]

War Child by Liefeild came out - Maximum Press 1996. They also did a ton of Battlestar Galactica comics - some with Liefield art. The one in the article is probably 'Apollo's Journey'. Richard Hatch also wrote Battlestar Galactica novels, which is why he got to write the comics. X-Nation 2099 did come out it was a 6 issue mini

[@PebblesMintstone]

The Gene Ha character designs and environments from The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix were so imaginative and totally unexpected from a book published by Marvel at the time. Futuristic dystopia with this mystical feel. Very inspired.

[@jimmanley558]

Gene Ha is still in the Chicago area and active in comics conventions and library events. Very cool guys, has his own creation, Mae, and has a lot of fun work in his bibliography. Besides working with Alan Moore on Top 10, he did a little work with Simpsons comics, Fables and other random things. He was even a special guest at a Chicago Wolves hockey game this year.

[@kbruns33]

Wizard was the best, I won their monthly contest once (I think it was issue 16.. i forget) but that is where I got my copy of ASM 300.

[@jameshenson3826]

What condition did it arrive in?

[@thxlopez]

Awesome only 182 issue left #235 Ryan Reynolds green lantern cover 😊

[@newspooiechannel]

The Marvel Action Hour lasted for one season with Iron Man and Fantastic Four episodes across the hour. The majority of episodes from both shows were written by Ron Friedman, who is most notable for receiving screen credit as the writer of Transformers: The Movie. The writing and animation were unremarkable (Iron Man being the more tolerable one). Marvel fired him along with the animation studio and attempted to reboot both shows for a second season under the Marvel Action Universe banner, which were, to their credit, much better seasons for each. Marvel also picked up distribution for the final season of Biker Mice from Mars and it became either a 90-minute block or a segmented 30-minute airing over three days. In my area, three channels carried the Marvel Action Hour that first year. The second year, only one carried the Marvel Action Universe and put the episodes on at 5:30am Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, where no one would ever see them. Regarding Liefeld's return the Marvel, just before Heroes Reborn launched he did a backup story and cover art for their Mission: Impossible movie tie-in comic with Marv Wolfman writing... one of his last few works before the Blade lawsuit 2 years later. During Heroes Reborn, Thor's title reverted back to "Journey Into Mystery" and centered around the "The Lost Gods," who are several Asgardians appearing in other forms. When the new Thor series was relaunched as part of Heroes Return, Journey Into Mystery would continue for about half a year with random stories involving Shang-Chi, Black Widow and two issues featuring Hannibal King in what would actually become Marv Wolfman's final Marvel output prior to the lawsuit.

[@ffreed]

The Marvel Action Hour got a second season, but it was rebranded as the Marvel Action Universe. Fantastic Four and Iron Man got second seasons that were hugely improved from the first seasons because the creative staff was completely overhauled. Larry Houston became showrunner for Fantastic Four, while Tom Tataranowicz (who later produced the Incredible Hulk cartoon) took over Iron Man.

[@doncarlosderush1500]

Amazing video. Dig the content!!!🙌🙌🙌

[@jimmanley558]

The 90s Battlestar Galactica did happen. Rob Liefeld was involved and did several covers.

[@tombolton5575]

This is the first issue of Wizard I ever bought.

[@RicoRenzi]

Wild that Wizard coined the phrase Stacking Paper

[@montagethemovie5947]

I dig what your saying about superstar artists driving the books like a Jim Lee or Joe Mad back in the day. I would consider Frank Quietly a superstar artist. In this writer driven market I think Mark Millar does a good job of putting the artist front and center to promote his titles

[@drawrobot]

I remember Death by Chocolate being good. Don’t think I’ve read it since it came out. Almost half the jokes do not age well in Mallrats. But it’s peak Silent Bob & Jay… then Kevin made more.

[@theartofSkinner]

Joel orbeta is L’amour Supreme! Woooohoooo

[@brianapodaca4222]

Whoa!

[@EasterlyArt]

44:08 Godzilla Returns/Godzilla #0 from Dark Horse bottom right corner. If that's the one by Kazuhisa Iwata, the TPB (1995) has pieces in the back by Geof Darrow, Mike Mignola and Alan Moore.

[@ironjack6401]

Love your videos, I was wondering what camera do you use for you videos, thanks.

[@I-Ren-Zero]

One thing I noted was the coverage of Topp Comics and their Western books and Vamps in the issue .... which while not amazing stuff it was the industry trying to do comics beyond the superhero stories. David Yurkovich got mentioned, and I always liked his stuff and wish more people had checked him out.

[@chaselowe4061]

Always a good Sunday watching you fellas peruse the bane of my teenage years.

[@silverfactoryrecordsandboo8584]

7:34-you have to cover one of the windows 95 interactive CD-ROM comics. I have a few of them and they are a very weird and unique early version of digital comics. You can click a lot of the panels and it gives you background info or shows you clips from the various shows relating to the comics. The ones I remember being on there are Giant Size X-Men 1, the Spider-Man Hobgoblin story (the original Roger Stern one), and the John Byrne FF issues w/his take on the Kirby Galactus saga (248-250 I think?.) This is a play-through of one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jovcY56liJ2Xl5Y

[@Monkey_Boy9602]

I still have that Vampirella card! To keep it safe, I put it in the center of the card holder page so that it wouldn't stick out of the top of the binder. Also, they did indeed tally the votes in Marvel vs DC, and to make sure they were ready for either outcome, they actually drew up BOTH endings. You can see the alternate ending of Hulk vs Superman (which Hulk should've won by the way) right here on KZbin!

[@brunomidrash]

Bob Harras was already Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief at that point. But he didn’t replace Tom DeFalco. DeFalco had been removed from the Editor-in-Chief position for over a year by then. The big bosses divided Marvel into five sections after removing DeFalco, each with their own Editor-in-Chief. Harras was E-i-C for mutant books, Bob Budiansky for Spider-books, etc. Which makes me wonder: at what point did Harras consider getting Liefeld and Lee to give “rebirth” to Iron Man, Captain America, Avengers and Fantastic Four? During the five-section interim between the DeFalco and the Harras Eras, these books were under Mark Gruenwald’s jurisdiction. Maybe Harras had already something in mind should they someday come under his?

[@theaceofspades56]

Kevin Lau did a great Vampirella manga called Vampi in the early 2000s worth checking out. Dude went all out on the art.

[@jamesmoss3424]

I got wizard #53.😀👍

[@admbrnk3665]

I bought Violator/Badrock #1 when it came out… No disrespect to the artist, but the art ain’t anything special. I didn’t buy any further issues. On a somewhat related note: I feel like Alan Moore was the only “good” writer any of the Image guys knew about at the time. There was a period where it seemed like they were trying to get him to write every Image book.