Which was better - the Kang War of 1974-5 or the Kang War of 2001?
2006-10-09 12:20:30 · 5 answers · asked by wrowx 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
I liked the Avenger's Forever take on Kang. Interesting aspects with Kang/Iron man later on. Don't remember too much about the 1974-1975 Avenger's books, although I am sure I have read the stories. Here is Steve Englehart's take on Kang. He wrote Kang in the 1974-1975 books.
Steve Englehart's Thoughts on Kang
[Editor's note: As most all of you know, Steve Englehart wrote the AVENGERS during the 1970s, and AVENGERS WEST COAST during the 1980s, in addition to many other Marvel comics and related projects. He also created NIGHT MAN for Malibu and currently writes scripts for the TV program based upon his comic. Steve was asked for his thoughts on Kang, and specifically what was in his mind when he wrote Kang back in the 1970s. He was kind enough to share some of his thoughts with the Jarvis Heads, and give permission to reprint the reply here. --Van Plexico]
I don't know the current Marvel reality, but if you were Rama-Tut, and Dr. Doom, and Kang, (and Immortus?), and moved back and forth among those identities, living in super-scientific splendor one day and in the sands of Egypt the next, fighting the Avengers one day and helping the FF the next...I think you'd start to see identity as a fluid and illusory thing. Hopefully you'd still know who you were at bottom (though I'd wonder what name the guy would talk to himself with), but after that, life would be very existential.
I personally, in my heart of hearts, thought "Kang" was the weakest of the identities, in a character sense. He had amazing power, and could easily be seen as the Avengers' greatest villain (though Ultron's not bad)--I still love the idea that they could fight him for a month, beat him, and have him return two minutes later while they're lying around gasping, with him tanned, rested, and ready from two years of preparation for this next attack.
I think that because of that in the real world he'd beat them in the end; unless they killed him they couldn't stop him from overwhelming them (and even then, he'd be coming at them from non-killed times). But "Kang" lacks the deeper character bits that the other identities had. Stan gave him a girlfriend way back when, but it never went anywhere, and beyond that he was just a Bad Guy (all this subject to revision due to that amazing Kang story I haven't seen).
Part of my mind-set when I did GS AVENGERS 2 was, you start off as Rama Tut and reach the real heights as Dr. Doom. You can then go on to become Kang but you can never do anything Doom hasn't done as well or better (time travel is a shtick but doesn't make you *feel* any better than that first time you stole the Silver Surfer's power)...so eventually you tire of it all and try to set it right. Kang, then, is already past it just by being Kang, fighting off a future he feels deep down but won't admit to, and trying to keep it down by staging more and more grandiose schemes.
Geez, I do like the guy (or what he could be).
2006-10-09 12:44:24 · answer #1 · answered by David Y 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Kang War of 1974 was the best.
2006-10-09 22:17:20 · answer #2 · answered by Andrea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kang War of 2001. I just got the TPB of AVENGERS FOREVER and I really, really have to recommend it for anybody who is an Avengers fan or who likes/hates Kang. It definitely put some continuity issues into perspective. Good book and good source.
2006-10-10 10:20:28 · answer #3 · answered by Bill N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2001
2006-10-09 20:00:15 · answer #4 · answered by DAMOLA A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Loved the 70's version---those issues and the "KORVAC SAGA" got me totally hooked on the Earths mightest Heroes!
Have not missed an issue since and only need 14 to go to complete the series!!
2006-10-09 23:22:38 · answer #5 · answered by f4fanactic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋