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THIS IS WHY NO ONE LIKES YOU RICHARDS!!!

griphus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:36:36 -0800

Super-Social Networking: Superhero Facebook Status Updates

Perry Bible Fellowship does Wes Anderson

skynxnex — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:47:39 -0800

The Cloud Photographers : "an artificial Wes Anderson soundtrack" by Nicholas Gurewitch, of Perry Bible Fellowship fame (previously). Also has an interview with Gurewitch about the soundtrack and the story of The Cloud Photgraphers. More recently, Gurewitch is featured in Marvel Strange Tales. Two scans (scans about as NSFW as the median PBF comic) on the Truth and Beauty Bombs comics forum (via Dinosaur Comics).

Religious Studies 101: A Handful of Thorns

fearthehat — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:17:19 -0800

Religious Studies 101: A Handful of Thorns - A Radio Play Crossover Event (Intro, Act 1, Act 2, Act 3). Producer and scriptwriter Greg Weisman unites the characters of the critically acclaimed animated series Gargoyles and The Spectacular Spider-Man in a script originally performed at the 2009 Gathering of the Gargoyles fan convention. Please be warned that the script contains spoilers for the aforementioned shows. The script, although not part of canon for either series, is welcome new material for fans of the shows, both of which face uncertain futures, especially in the wake of Disney's recent purchase of Marvel (previously on MeFi). While both shows were primarily aimed at a younger audience, the script acknowledges that the shows, and Gargoyles in particular, draw much of their support from an older Periphery Demographic. There are several Parental Bonuses ("Not that kind of threesome") and even a shout out to pornographic comic company Blue Mug Productions (very NSFW, obviously). There's also a rather brief appearance by previously unused Spidey villain Carnage, who was presumably included in an attempt to dispel persistent rumours (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) that Weisman does not like the character. Previous discussion of 'Ask Greg' and Gargoyles on MetaFilter.

Iron Mouse?

Fuzzy Monster — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:55:16 -0800

Iron Mouse? Disney to buy Marvel for 4 Billion dollars. This is good news for Marvel Shareholders but is it good news for Marvel fans?

Young Mutants in Love

Artw — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:31:13 -0800

They've been rumoured to be an item for some time, but in X-Factor #45 Rictor and Shatterstar, formerly of X-Force (the most 90s comic of all time), finally kissed - giving the comics world two more confirmed gay superheroes and making the X-Men Universe Relationship Map out of date (Shatterstar creator Rob Liefeld has however vowed to undo it). Meanwhile over at DC flagship title Detective Comics is now fronted by the new lesbian Batwoman - ironically a character who was introduced to make Batman seem more hetro.

HARUKU SMASH!

Artw — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:26:51 -0800

The Incredible Hulk, as told by Koike Kazuo, of Lone Wolf and Cub fame, and Yoshihiro Morifuji. More scans here.

Fighting Crime AND Fat

mippy — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:22:27 -0800

Marvel think that not enough of their readers are female. So they decided to hook them in in a way that girls understand.

curse curse chomp curse curse

Pants! — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:07:04 -0800

Samuel L. Jackson inked a mammoth nine-movie deal with Marvel. The actor will play a supporting role in most of the movies as character Nick Fury.

Free Online Comic Books for All!

Effigy2000 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:34:37 -0800

Fans of both Dead Space (and comic books in general), will be happy to learn that the first issue of the new comic book mini-series based on the game has been released online, in full, for free here. Not a fan of Dead Space but like comic books? There are lots of other comic books online that can be viewed for free, like stuff from DC Comics, Marvel and Image. There's also a few Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor Who comics online for your viewing pleasure (in fact you can even make your own with the latter).

"I don't kill them because they're bad people. I kill them because I hate them."

Artw — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:00:32 -0800

The Punisher MAX #60 hits comics stores this week, marking the end of Garth Ennis's run on the series. His earlier Punisher work on the series put the character back on track after some disastrous wrong turns, but it was the Marvel MAX series that striped the Vietnam vet turned vigilante's war on crime of all extraneous elements and turned it into something dark and brutal. The evocative covers of Tim Bradstreet (also leaving the series) matched the interior darkness, with Ennis toning down his humor to let the Frank Castle become a monomaniacal psychopath in a corrupt world. Adversaries included the resourceful and violent Barracuda, a kind of anti-Punisher based on the song Stagger Lee. It's not over for the Punisher - screenwriter Gregg Hurwitz and artist Laurence Campbell are taking over the series, and Ennis will be returning to the character with a miniseries in the lighter tone of his Marvel Knights work or The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe.

...even after five agonizing years of the Iraq War, a summer blockbuster isn't prepared to say that not only is its action hero is corrupt, he's corrupt because America has become corrupt.

gerryblog — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:53:31 -0800

Iron Man, who represents an imperial America, can only win Pyrrhic victories. Spencer Ackerman of Tapped Online has a nice history of the Iron Man comics that reads the character's alcoholism, Civil-War overzealousness, and persistent blundering "into a hell of unintended consequences" as a symbol and subtle critique of American exceptionalism and what Jonathan Schell among others has called "impotent omnipotence".

Once More the Engine of Her Thoughts Began...

robocop is bleeding — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:50:58 -0800

For over the past year, John Seavey has been reading through Marvel's Essentials and DC's Showcase Presents reprints in order to examine the title comic's storytelling engine. From classic characters to barely-footnotes, much of the bedrock of Silver Age heroes are represented in the column's archives. A storytelling engine is here described as the status-quo (characters, both good and bad; setting; mood and tone; etc) that helps to provide comic writers with story ideas. This was much more important in the Silver Age from where the Essentials and Showcase reprints get the bulk of their material. Back then comics were more episodic, self-contained, and often had two or three stories in a single issue, so writers really needed all the help they could get to churn the tales out! Of course, prevailing wisdom at the time suggested that the entire readership turned over every two years, so there was little need for things like continuity or logic, but there was a big need for a stable engine that could help produce new (or gently used) stories week after week. And because I find blogspots tagging hard to search through, I provide links to individual comic titles for you, dear reader! Adam Strange Ant-Man Aquaman Batman Brave and the Bold Captain America Challengers of the Unknown Classic X-Men Conan Daredevil Dazzler Doctor Strange Flash Ghost Rider Godzilla Green Arrow Green Lantern Hawkman House of Mystery Howard the Duck Hulk Iron Man Jonah Hex Killraven Man-Thing Martian Manhunter Marvel Horror Marvel Saga Marvel Super Villain Team-Up Marvel Team-Up Marvel Two In One Ms. Marvel Nova Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Phantom Stranger Power Man and Iron Fist Punisher Savage Dragon She-Hulk Silver Surfer Spider-Man (Part One) (Part Two) (Part Three) Spider-Woman Supergirl Superman Family Superman Teen Titans The Atom The Avengers The Defenders The Elongated Man The Fantastic Four The Haunted Tank Thor Tomb of Dracula Uncanny X-Men (Part One) (Part Two) Werewolf By Night Wolverine Wonder Woman World's Finest X-Factor

The Hulk is on the trim side, actually

Navelgazer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:09:12 -0800

Marvel vs. the BMI (one-link, but fun.)

The Marvel Assistant Editors' Month

GavinR — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:55:24 -0800

Back in 1983, before crossovers and limited edition covers ruined the industry, Marvel had a really great idea for a special month of comics. You see, the bigwigs were going off to the San Diego Comic Con so the junior brigade was placed in charge for the time being. It was an opportunity to try something different, something strange, something offbeat, and something by Fred Hembeck. There has never been anything quit like it since, and that is a damn shame. They don't make comic books like that any more. By the way, Amazing Spider-Man #248 is one of the best super-hero stories ever published in the history of the industry.

Stan The Man

sambosambo — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:07:11 -0800

I may not know art, but I know what I like. Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight Previously on MeFi.

Marvel Comics goes digital

jbickers — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:25:21 -0800

"Marvel has put the power in the hands of the fans by making thousands of comics—ranging from Golden Age classics to the most recent Marvel masterpieces—available online, including the first 100 issues of FANTASTIC FOUR and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN plus so much more." If Marvel's not your thing, you can always while away untold hours here.

Illustrated classics by scratchboard artist Scott McKowen

jstruan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:07:52 -0800

Scratchboard artist Scott McKowen was a successful designer of theater posters when Marvel Comics hired him to create the covers for Neil Gaiman's 1602. He recently completed new covers and illustrations for old classics like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Surprisingly, he has no entry at Wikipedia.

Who Is Steve Ditko?

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:03:21 -0800

Co-creator of Spider-Man, Steve Ditko is famous for weird, distinctive art, his 1966 departure from Marvel Comics, and granting very few interviews in the course of his decades-spanning career, preferring to let creations such as The Creeper, the Objectivism-inspired Mr. A, and Squirrel Girl speak for him.
Okay, Squirrel Girl not so much.
Jonathan Ross turns the spotlight on the artist in the BBC4 documentary, In Sea rch of Steve Dit ko. Did they find him? Well, that's The Question, isn't it?

Get yer Marvel Universe info right here!

Kattullus — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:50:12 -0800

The Official Marvel Character Bios will clue you in on Marvel characters from the obscure to the world famous. To find out about the really, really obscure you have to visit The Appendix to The Handbook of the Marvel Universe, where you can learn about such characters as Glowworm (a.k.a. Race Killer), Thunderhoof (part of Force Four) and human/amoeba hybrid Half-Man.

Hi, I'm a Marvel...and I'm a DC

CrunchyFrog — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:06:15 -0800

Hi, I'm a Marvel...and I'm a DC. A collection of videos on youtube targeting both the Mac/PC ads and comic book based movies. Ten videos so far, with more coming "Soon. I promise."

Capt. America's Command Termintated with Extreme Prejudice

sbrollins — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:18:24 -0800

Captain America, RIP. Marvel kills off Captain America. Obviously this is Civil War (previous post) fallout, but how long can they honestly expect this to last?

ComicsFilter- Civil War Is Over (If You Want It)

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:21:46 -0800

The premise of Marvel Comic's Civil War storyline is that after a hero-related disaster, the government decides to force all superheroes to register, causing a split in the hero community. While heroes debate and decide which side to join, fans debate whether or not the cross-over series is actually any good. Clearly, Christopher Bird falls squarely on one side and has attempted to "improve" the story by starting a project to edit the dialogue of the series. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Face Front, True Believer!

EatTheWeak — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:22:34 -0800

Polite Dissent rings in the new year with the best and worst in comic book medicine from 2006. While this entertaining blog's subjects are not limited to four color minutiae, it is the source of some of the most entertaining posts. Please to enjoy Flatlining, Hippocrates, Originitis, and the scourge of a generation, Metal-Eating Disease!

This man...this blockhead!

Gamblor — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:29:00 -0800

Peanuts Meets Marvel. Peanuts characters as Marvel Comics superheroes.

He shall be fire and life forever...

mephron — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:49:17 -0800

David Cockrum has passed on. The cause of death was apparently complications from diabetes; he died peacefully, in his sleep. Comics fans would know him from a number of projects, amongst them Giant Size X-Men #1 where he helped introduce Colossus, Storm and Nightcrawler to the world, his run on the Legion of Super Heroes, and possibly his self-published work The Futurians. You can find some nice retrospectives on his career and what he did for Marvel and for DC Comics.