We Ain’t Cool Foolkiller Review
You have to love a site that calls itself “We Ain’t Cool.”
I have to love a site called “We Ain’t Cool” that runs a review of the Foolkiller maxi-series that’s as dead-on as this one is, even in its less-than-flattering moments.
You can probably find Foolkiller in the quarter bins at your local comics stores, on eBay, or as an illegal download on some BitTorrent site. However you go about locating it, I hope you like it as much as this reviewer did.
June 6th, 2005 at 10:16 AM
I read Foolkiller when I was way too young to appreciate it. I just knew it was a new Marvel title, and I wanted all of them. Now that I’m old enough to actually appreciate it, I don’t have them anymore. Bummer!
I’m going to try to track down a copy.
June 6th, 2005 at 10:40 AM
A quick Google search on Foolkiller results with a Free Republic poster’s profile. FreeRepublic.com is a rabid right-wing website. His user ID is “Foolkiller” and his profile says this:
“I’m (THANK GOD!) a retiree in Ohio who doesn’t go out much these days, primarily because movies suck anymore, they’ve banned smoking everywhere, and everyone tells you how to behave & how you’ll live. Screw ’em. I no longer have to put up with it. I’m divorced, have 5 kids, 10 grandchildren (actually, 14 if you count the foster kids). Collect movie posters, Robots, “good girl” art & anything else that tickles my fancy.”
Fool? Just thought you’d find it interesting.
June 6th, 2005 at 3:39 PM
(googlepause)
The internet seems remarkably devoid of Foolkiller/Mr. A comparison-contrast essays. Grump grump.
June 6th, 2005 at 4:52 PM
A couple of things which the author should have known, one minor, one major:
1) The minor: I doubt tha the person who created the Foolkiller had a problem with the costume change, for reasons which SHOULD be obvious.
2) The major: The author does not remember the state of comics in 1990. Yes, comics since Foolkiller had gone further, but Foolkiller WAS a pioneer.
June 6th, 2005 at 5:34 PM
For anything else edgy about it, wasn’t Foolkiller the first comics character to use the internet in any significant way?
June 6th, 2005 at 6:17 PM
I just got these issues from eBay and I’m really looking forward to sitting down and enjoying them.
June 7th, 2005 at 7:10 PM
As one who was very much involved in computer communications at the time, including Internet programming, I can say with authority that the Internet was NOT available to the general public in those days. What Foolkiller was using was BBS networks, services usually available free of charge. Steve started up a BBS in those days: the Bingo Bango Bongo BBS, IIRC. He also co-wrote BBS’s FOR DUMMIES around the time the Internet started to become widely available. Not as bad as Isaac Asimov, who wrote a guide to using slide rules right about the time calculators became cheap. What was worse about that was that he had written stories about calculators comming into common use…
June 8th, 2005 at 1:16 PM
I recall that there was talk, back in the early ’90s, of doing Foolkiller as a trade paperback. Alas, it never happened, and I’m loath to remove my old copies from their plastic bags. I’ve got very little of my collection bagged–I don’t care that much about most of it–so I don’t remove the few bagged items from their coverings lightly. Maybe I should buy readers copies in one of those old bins.