*GL-Elfquest*. Dash, not slash! You have no idea what horrible images you conjured up in my head with the slash there!
Sarah | Email | 04.03.05 - 3:49 pm | #

I saw something from Marvel for Dark Empire in Advance Comics (IIRC) back in the day, too.

I miss Impact. Mike Parobeck's art on The Fly was fantastic. I was hoping the line actually would be revived after the Crucible mini-series, but no such luck.
Bill Doughty | Email | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 3:51 pm | #

The Fly was pure magic cause well, damn it, Mike Parobeck was the greatest artist like... ever...!

I only have a full run of The Fly, I wouldn't mind a run of The Black Hood either. I believe that was Ty Templeton. The Comet was Tom Lyle, who is good, but no Paorbeck or Templeton.

With this Impact line was the final storyline "Crucible" included? That thing is pretty damn cool.
Reid Harris Cooper | Email | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 3:51 pm | #

The last AMAZING HEROES PREVIEW SPECIAL lists DARK EMPIRE as an upcoming release from Marvel/Epic, with some differences from what eventually came out from Dark Horse.
Bob | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 4:37 pm | #

The hood looks strangely like The Phantom Blot from Disney's ducktails...but with a more...human body from the head down.
dirk a. keaton | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 4:52 pm | #

The layouts for CRUCIBLE were by a plucky young man named Joe Quesada, who was drawing X-FACTOR as well at the time.

I thought THE BLACK HOOD had a pretty kickass concept, derivative of Grendel but still fairly neat. Wish I had a full run of that.
Dan Coyle | Email | 04.03.05 - 5:58 pm | #

Sarah - duly noted! Thanks for the tip.

Reid - yup, Crucible was definitely included!
Mikester | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 7:23 pm | #

hey mike, If you don't mind me asking: How many beans does a complete set of Impact comics cost nowadays? And did that include one of the DCU books that included the Impact 16-pg preview section?
milo | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 7:33 pm | #

Milo - That would be about one-hundred thirty bones...I realize that you could probably search quarter boxes far and wide and eventually put together a set, but 1) this customer wanted the convenience of getting them all in one lump, no fuss, and 2) he originally priced out the comics by looking at the online price listings of another store, and we beat those prices handily.

No, it didn't include a copy of the preview section, unfortunately.
Mikester | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 9:46 pm | #

THE COMET was my favorite, too: Story by Mark Waid and art from Tom Lyle. Couldn't go too far wrong, there. Lyle would later move onto a Spider-Man book during the Clone story and left the industry. . .

Lyle's art reminds me a little of Mark Bagley's, so he wasn't a bad choice for Spidey artist.
Augie De Blieck Jr. | Email | Homepage | 04.03.05 - 9:51 pm | #