Yes, the 'Ultimate' comics have been quite popular.



Martin, do you remember they made a 1989 film of FF??  It was done on the cheap, and surfaced on video I think - but I've never seen it.  Be interesting to see what it's like, although I've heard its pretty bad.



I was pretty disappointed with The Hulk movie too.  No one could replace the Bill Bixby version, who was just fantastic in the tv show.



To my mind, one of the finest adaptations of any comic hero in tv/cinema, would have to be the Wonder Woman series.  Lynda Carter was perfect in every way for that show.

Oh, yeah, saw it at the club. The Thing was quite impresive for what it was, Human Torch threw animated flame bolts until he flames on at the climax, Invisible Girl...was invisible. Reed was again the let down. Remember the intermission in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life? With the guy with the l-o-n-g arms and "I wonder where the fish could be?"...it was about as good as that!



But anyway, enjoyed it more than the "other" FF film. The most notorious was the '90s Captain America. I prefer animated adaptions, even the sappy ones like Super Friends.

I remember Super Friends very well.  It was actually quite good from what I can remember.



The mid 70s Spiderman live action tv show with Nicholas Hammond was ok.



They released a few of those episodes into cinemas over here as I recall.  One of them was called 'Curse of the Dragons Blood' or something....

It wasn't my favourite because they changed the characters and whole tone of the Justice League as a reaction to criticism. Hence villains in Super Friends would'nt be credible menaces, but instead look a bit sinister. The last episode I saw featured Superman being captured by aliens and forced to ... play football in a version of the superball.



The '60s superhero animation was a step up from the over cautious '70s cartoons, pre-'50s is usually pretty good, but the superhero cartoons we've been enjoying since the 1990s are the best. IMHO.

Yes, I think that 90s Batman cartoons are great.  Moody and stylish, just like the character was in the 30s.



I haven't seen many of the hero cartoons these days though.  However, I have heard that the Spiderman cartoon that's showing now is fantastic.



Used to love watching the 60s Spidey cartoons, they were great.

hmm, just had another thought.



Martin, did you ever read the infamous 'Clone Saga' storylilne in the Spiderman comics in the mid 90s?



If so, what did you think of the whole thing?

No I didn't, but I had thought about it after reading the Green Goblin/Gwen Stacy story which originated it. The main thing which occured to me when I saw that they had gone though with it was that it seemed a bit of a rip off. The potential was there, but should have been flagged in some way.

We were vey lucky that Cheez TV played though the first two years of it. Now both Cheez TV and Spiderman repeats are a thing of history.

For what it's worth, I thought that Clone storyline was interesting.  At that time in its history, the Spidey comics were in a slump, and that storyline bought back the 'focus' that had been missing since about 1988.



I agree that it did get messy towards the end, and indeed did rip off the elements of the Gwen Stacy story, but overall it was imaginative, which was something you couldn't say about the years beforehand.



The X-Men cartoons that were on Cheez TV were quite good too, but I only saw bits of it.

I was disappointed that they didn't have the foresight to flag it or the interest to do this in the '70s. Beyond that I don't know about the story.

ok, well you didn't miss much anyway.  At the end of the saga the writers undid everything that happened in the previous 2 years, and started again from scratch.



I stopped reading them a few years ago, although I did read one recently where it was revealed that Gwen Stacy had Norman Osborns(Green Goblins) children!!!!



Appalling I say!!!!!!

...or as Zoran once said "Still waiting for them to reveal Uncle Ben is the Vulture...!"

Just you wait - I bet they'll do that too!



After all they did have Dr Octopus try to romance Aunt May, so anything can happen!