I don't know too much about The Elementals, but they always looked like a pretty cool team. who better to pair them up with than the Element Man himself? Oh, the visuals that would ensue.
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Wow! Elementals long overdue. Another great cover.
ReplyDeleteYeah!! The Elementals! At last!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Elementals represented the classic elements (earth, air, fire, water) while Metamorpho represents the chemical elements.
ReplyDeleteAlex is right. They were basically a Comico version of the Fantastic Four. But, with the dubious added refinement of each member having to be what Billy Crystal-as-Miracle Max would call "mostly dead"!
ReplyDeleteAfter looking up Comico's Elementals, I can now add Fathom to a proposed team also consisting of Jade, Miss Martian, Gamora, She-Hulk, and Hera Syndulla.
ReplyDeleteNor should Fathom of the Elementals be confused with the Aspen/MLT character by that name. Both are hydrokinetics like a certain redheaded Atlantean-who-mustn't-be-named! But, only Fathom of the Elementals has Shulkie's complexion.
ReplyDeleteToo close to The Emerald Elite, Bob.
ReplyDeleteAh, well.
ReplyDeleteIs there room for a team of hot blue women? Shadow Lass and Nocturne to start with....
@Bob You can add Nebula to that list!
ReplyDeletebill willinghams Elementals was a really good comic, with some great artwork, but it lost its way even having swimsuit issues,
ReplyDeletethey had many more issues than Metamorpho, but he holds a special place in Fans hearts, even though he is generally wasted in group comics.
@simon, story and art were very good. I would guess sales were very good at the start.
ReplyDeleteBut how were the sales later on? Lots of ggd story tellers didn't have enough market.
If I see Lady Cop tomorrow, I'll know you're doing a First Issue Special tribute ... :)
ReplyDelete@Simon: actually, the swimsuit issues were my favorites!
ReplyDelete@Anon949: mine, too. Indeed, those certainly haven't impaired FemForce issue sales!
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I wonder what Monolith and Fathom would think of Badrock and Riptide from Team Youngblood?
ReplyDeleteI LOVED the Elementals, but towards the end they were really a victim of Comico's economic and publishing problems. Willingham had obviously written a lot of issues that just WEREN'T getting published because Comico sucked. :(
ReplyDeleteI wonder who holds the rights to Comico's library.
The series Pantheon from...Lone Star Press, I believe...was written by Willingham and described as what he was trying to do with the Elementals; a story of how the world with SuperPowered beings tries to cope in the shadow of their threat. ANOTHER good series by Willingham almost derailed by a comic company's publishing issues.
Well, Justice Machine was last published by Innovation (probably better known for their adaptations/spin-offs of LOST IN SPACE:TOS & QUANTUM LEAP:TOS) in 1990.
ReplyDeleteThe Elementals--and most everything else--were bought by somebody named Andrew Rev.
I used to buy a lot of alternate company comics when in college and was introduced to them thru my favorite alternate company comic Justice Machine.
ReplyDeleteStill have my copy of Justice Machine Annual (Texas Comics) somewhere.
Very happy for them to join your universe.
Gosh this brings back great memories of the mid to late '80s, the Golden Age of rising independent publishers. Justice Machine and Elementals were awesome, when you could find them. By the 90s I had switched exclusively to buying independent and foreign graphic novels because DC and MARVEL had declined so badly.
ReplyDelete@Anon311: Me, too! Unfortunately, I have discovered the hard way that indie comics are a mixed blessing, at best. As a lot of their more ambitious limited series have very sporadic mass marketing. Eng. translation: not all comic stores (certainly none of the ones in my neck of the woods) ever get every single consecutive issue of such series. Leading to deplorable continuity gaps!*
ReplyDeleteAt least, that's undeniably proven the case with Red Anvil's WAR OF THE INDEPENDENTS (currently approaching an eight year hiatus) and Image's CROSSOVER (curently approaching a five year hiatus).
*Something that Marvel and DC, even at their worst, still can't be legitimately accused of.
@Carycomic: Justice Machine was revived by writer Mark Ellis in 1992 after its Innovation run through Ellis' Millenium Publications imprint, but only lasted 2 issues. He then completed that storyline many years later in 2012 in Justice Machine: The Object of Power graphic novel, published by Bluewater/Storm/Stormfront/Tidalwave (or whatever the F they call themselves now, a notoriously shady publisher)
ReplyDelete@Dara: thanks for the further update. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with you about Bluewater's shadiness. I'm surprised DC never sued them over their use of the name "Isis"!
@Cary: The name Isis is public domain, referring to the Egyptian goddess.
ReplyDeleteIt is-is?
ReplyDeleteI'll just steal a cookie on my way out. ;-)
ReplyDeleteTo me, copyright/trademark/patent are just three different names for the same thing. Similar to pro-wrestler/actor/politician.
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