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The Mandarin Member Since: Sat May 17, 2008 Posts: 6,978 |
Subject: What is the best Gorilla Grodd story? Posted Fri Feb 23, 2018 at 08:50:33 pm CST (Viewed 1175 times) |
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What issues would you say have the best Gorilla Grodd story? 
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Grey Gargoyle Member Since: Sat May 17, 2008 |
Subject: IMO, Silver Age Flash issues, then, Bronze Age Secret Society of Super-Villains, then, in Modern Age, issues by Geoff Johns & Scott Kolins [Re: The Mandarin] Posted Tue Feb 27, 2018 at 06:29:12 am CST (Viewed 1142 times) |
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Reverend Meteor Member Since: Sat May 17, 2008 Posts: 11,689 |
Subject: I like the silver age stuff. nnt [Re: The Mandarin] Posted Thu Mar 01, 2018 at 06:20:28 pm CST (Viewed 949 times) |
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Quote: What issues would you say have the best Gorilla Grodd story?
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Daveym   Moderator Location: Lancashire Member Since: Sat May 17, 2008 |
Subject: Re: What is the best Gorilla Grodd story? [Re: The Mandarin] Posted Sat Mar 03, 2018 at 05:18:17 pm CST (Viewed 1162 times) |
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For me it was coming from William Messner-Loebs in a three part story beginning in The Flash , Grodd's first appearance in several years, and Loebs took the opportunities presented by this gap, and the massive shift in the status-quo and tonal shift of both the book and the times, to re-present him as a very credible threat indeed. A literal apex predator. Messner-Loebs wasn't adverse to revisiting Barry Allen's old rogues, but most were presented as belonging to that generation, and Gorilla Grodd was the first (bar arguably Vandal Savage) to be presented as a still valid and major force. Amoral, superior, and very much now, more than ever, The Flash's most dangerous foe... this three parter was, and still is, a great story to read. William Messner-Loebs isn't all that well remembered today, and that is a great shame as his long run on The Flash is one of the underrated gems of the late 1980s, and should be celebrated for its fine work in developing Wally West and his learning to be The Flash. A socially concsious writer Messner-Loebs work still stands to rereading as his stories were usually about something... 
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JesusFan Member Since: Sat May 17, 2008 |
Subject: Re: What is the best Gorilla Grodd story? [Re: Daveym] Posted Thu Mar 08, 2018 at 01:08:30 pm CST (Viewed 1128 times) |
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Very powerful villain, as was strong as a super ape, smart as Lex, and Tp like Prof X!
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