Thunder and Lightning, who hadn’t been seen in years, are taken by Evil Raven in New Titans #118.
During the time I’ve spent the last few years blogging and eventually podcasting about my time as a die-hard Titans fan through the early 1990s, I’ve sometimes gone back to remember what I was doing as a comics collector when certain issues or storylines were coming out. After all, New Titans #71 was not just my first issue of this series but it was one of my first comic books and had it not been for the Titans Hunt storyline and Wolfman-Perez-era back issues being so cheap at the time, I probably wouldn’t be so passionate about this particular group of super heroes. It probably wouldn’t also pain me so much to read these post-Zero Hour issues because they are kind of painful.
Kind of like my life was in the winter of 1994-1995. Oh, who the hell am I kidding, it’s not like I lost a limb or anything. I had a girl break up with me in November and pissed and moaned about it until I started going out with another girl that following February (a story that’s best saved for another space and is … odd at times, to be honest). But I was that nerd, the kind who barely had a girl look at him prior to this and now I had to contend with the fact that I had some semblance of a love life. Plus, I was trying to get into college and still trying to get good grades, so my weekly comics haul, while important, sometimes took a backseat. At times, I was disengaged, and I can see that in what I remember actually picking up from that week:
- Aliens/Predator: The Deadliest of the Species #9
- Batman #515
- Batman: Shadow of the Bat #35
- Darkstars #27
- Deathstroke: The Hunted #44
- Detective Comics #682
- Flash #98
- Legion of Super Heroes #65
- Legionnaires #22
- R.E.B.E.L.S. ’95 #4
- Robin #13
- Spawn #27
- Star Wars: Dark Empire II #1
- Superman #97
Add New Titans #118 to that and you get … well, I don’t know what you get out of all of that aside from an argument for a waste of money and time. Half of those series I was buying because I had been buying them for a while, and some of them I had a genuine interest in (I wound up sticking with Flash right up until the time Mark Waid left), but I look at a few and go … huh? I spent my money on that? (more…)
Episode 10 of “In Country” covers issue 10 of The ‘Nam, where Ed Marks copes with the death of Mike Albergo from the previous issue while on patrol in the city. Plus, we get a little more insight into the character of Ramnarain in “Guerilla Action” by Doug Murray, Michael Golden, and John Beatty. As always, in addition to the summary and review of the issue I’ll be talking about the story’s historical context as well as taking a look at the letters, ‘Nam Notes, and ads.
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