Very cool.

Posted by utinni on 2008-02-16 02:46:39
Gerber
That's now the background on my computer. Steve's work rewired my brain.

Posted by Jurls on 2008-02-16 20:00:29
RIP Steve
This one hurt. I saw the post titled Mortality earlier this week and I thought uh oh. Which Marvel character is going to die now?

Tom I'm a few yrs older than you - 45 in two months. I read Steve Gerber's amazing writing in the 1970s in "real time." Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, The Defenders, Omega, Marvel-Two-in-One. In fact I just re-read all of the Man-Thing stories in Fear and V1 of Manny's mag. Dated sure but simply amazingly, mindblowingly different than so much else in that era. 1973-75 was a wild and vital time @ Marvel. If Gerber, Engelhart, or Moench wrote it, I bought it.

Upon finishing Man Thing, I turned to Master of Kung Fu. I've read from Marvel Special Edition #15 thru MOKF #115 so far. And it breaks m heart how fantastic Gene Day's work was becoming-almost rivaling Gulacy's best work in #29-50. Gene died just after completing #120 and the book wrapped after #125. I was 19 when it happened and I thought of Gene as an old guy. Now at 44 I think of a 31 year old dying of a coronary and I shudder.

And now we've lost Steve. Not as young a man as Gene in '82 or Stephane Peru this year. But trust me Fearless Believers, 60 is not all that old--far too early, far too soon.

Again condolences to Steve's friends & family. Thanks Steve for all the cool memories and the fine, if wacky, writing I can still enjoy 30+ yrs later. Thanks for the new writing in recent years (Hard Times, Dr. Fate, of which we'll only get a taste). And thanks Tom for sharing the news I never wanted to hear but am glad I know.

RIP Steve.

Posted by dds1981 on 2008-02-17 07:08:04