Tag Archive | "Marvel"

Secret Avengers – Ellis and McKelvie. Two very good reasons.

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Secret Avengers #16 By Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie Marvel Comics Why? Because I’m feeling slightly guilty over the amount of DC coverage we’ve been putting up recently. Because it’s Warren Ellis writing and Jamie McKelvie drawing. Because it’s got the Beast and Black Widow in. Because I’ve always been a Marvel boy at heart [...]

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Brandon Graham (amongst others) redraws FF #9 – UPDATED

Saturday, August 13, 2011

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Oh my word. Brandon Graham (Via Robot 6) posts up the staggeringly great results of a commission to redraw a page of Fantastic Four #9 (that’s the Fantastic Four as co-created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee). This page: And here’s Brandon Graham’s version: Very, very cool. And then he lets slip that it’s not just a [...]

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Bissette on “co-creation”, Kirby, Ditko, Marvel and Stan Lee….

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Steve Bissette’s wise words on the recent jack Kirby issues (see here) are now leading to an exploration into what it means to be a creator or co-creator of a character. Using the examples of the characters that were created for the Image 1963 series, where writer Alan Moore, and artists Rick Veitch, Bissette and [...]

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Things I want to read…. Steve Moore and Steve Dillon on Nick Fury

Monday, August 8, 2011

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Now, a lot of this is because I’m a stupid Nick Fury fan, and some of it is because I’ve never seen these anywhere apart from odd bits and bobs online, but I’d love to be able to read the Steve Moore written, Steve Dillon drawn Nick Fury strips from the Marvel UK Hulk Comic [...]

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Here we go again…. “Dear Daily Mail”….

Friday, August 5, 2011

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“Maybe the costume is in bad taste” Nope, maybe it’s the ridiculous reactions to it that are in bad taste. That young man above is Miles Morales, the youngster who takes over the Spider-Man name in the Ultimate Universe from last Wednesday’s Ultimate Fallout #4. A young, mixed race kid, African-American father, Hispanic mother. It’s a [...]

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Kirby and Marvel – Steve Bissette has an idea…..

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Last week the courts in the US ruled that Jack Kirby’s Estate have no claim on any of the characters Kirby created under work for hire agreements at Marvel. Quick reminder, just some of those characters include: The Fantastic Four, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, The Silver Surfer, The X-Men, The Black Panther…. and we [...]

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Well, the judge says Marvel does own Kirby….

Sunday, July 31, 2011

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To be honest I haven’t really got any chance to really go over this, but thought it important you should at least have a few links to those who’ve covered it. The ongoing case of Jack Kirby’s estate attempting to challenge Marvel/Disney for ownership of the characters Kirby created has had a rather massive ruling [...]

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Ellis on Marvel & DC’s Digital Strategies….

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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Late on this…. apologies. But it’s always fun to read what Warren Ellis thinks of the current goings-on in the comic industry (even if he wrote them a couple of weeks ago. Round One: DC…… wherein he makes a good point about DC’s digital strategy being all about attempting to reach out to those potential [...]

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Marvelman taking a while to sort out. Tom Brevoort surprised.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

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(From the published Marvelman Family’s Finest #1, July 2010 – variant cover by Dougie Braithwaite, posted on his Facebook. Still with the old, Marvel owned MM logo, nearly one year on, still no movement.) Okay, some latest on the attempts by marvel to get Marvelman back in print and finished. There’s a little background here, and [...]

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More on Marvel UK….

Sunday, May 22, 2011

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There’s not been that much response to the news that Disney has decreed that there will be no more UK originated marvel material – most people seem resigned to the news. However there is one blogger; Mark Roberts, whose entire writing is concerned with Marvel UK over at “It Came From Darkmoor“. And he’s come [...]

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No more Marvel UK? How ridiculously short-sighted.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

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According to reports Disney/Marvel US have decreed that there will be no more UK originated Marvel work. (Original story at Bleeding Cool) What a really short-sighted and stupid move. Granted Marvel UK hasn’t really been that influential in the last few years, but to completely cut off the possibility of something wonderful in the future [...]

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Stop It: random variant covers

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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Okay, here are a few covers for you: Spider-Man looks a little funny, especially grumpy black costume Spider-Man – perhaps because his neck muscles are trying to strangle him? The Fantastic 4 seem to have five members, and they’ve all got claws. A disco dancing, lingerie clad She-Hulk guest starring in Hulk – and a [...]

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Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

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I worked comics retail at the magnificent Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham all through the 90s. That meant I saw the rise of the speculator thing, that horrible time when every comic company seemed content to wallow in fleecing as many poor souls as possible. Variant covers, hologram covers, prismatic covers, die-cut covers, poly bagged [...]

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Mitch Breitweiser draws The Cap

Monday, April 4, 2011

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Top artist Mitch Breitweiser has posted up a short time-lapse video of him ‘fooling around’ as he puts it, doing a digital sketch of Captain America. I wish my fooling around could create pictures like that… Captain America Digital Paint Sketch by Mitch Breitweiser from Mitch Breitweiser on Vimeo. And I noticed this older, briefer [...]

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Strange Tales II – cover and process work is wonderful….

Saturday, April 2, 2011

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I always love these pieces, where we get to see the work that goes on behind the scenes to make the magic that appears on the comic page. Alison Sampson at her brilliant Space In Text site has posted a load of behind the scenes footage from Strange Tales II, featuring art by Kate Beaton, [...]

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