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He’s a Raccoon with a Rocket… he’s Rocket Raccoon….
Sometimes the simplest of things can send you on some huge nostalgia trip…. here’s a piece by Kalle Malloy I saw on Oh Yeah Comics… And that’s all it took to have me right back in ’85, walking into Nostalgia & Comics for my once every two months visit. Mom and Dad would nick off [...]
Continue reading...Avengers Art Appreciation….
Saturday, February 11, 2012
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Marvel have decided that, for no reason I can decipher (oh, a movie you say?) it’s going to be Avengers Art Appreciation in April. On the one hand: Variant covers are a stupid, ridiculous, destructive thing, responsible for no end of torment and financial troubles in the comics industry through the years (oh, alright, they [...]
Continue reading...Marvel on Marvelman – “Sit tight. We’ll have some additional news soon.”
Saturday, January 21, 2012
“Sit tight. We’ll have some additional news soon.” Yep, that’s as good a summary as you’ll find regarding Marvel and their plans to bring back the Marvelman stories written by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. It’s the final piece in a long, extensive, and informative round-up by Pádraig Ó Méalóid of everything that’s gone on over [...]
Continue reading...Jamie McKelvie – a great reason to buy X-Men: Season One….
Saturday, January 14, 2012
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X-Men: Season One is part of Marvel’s “lets get our books into the hands of non-comics buyers by selling new hardcover origin graphic novels of some of our iconic characters. Matbe it will work, and having the Disney connection provide them with shelf space in every Disney store across the globe can’t hurt too much, [...]
Continue reading...Ultimates Addendum…. Ultimate Hawkeye
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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More in the guilty reviewing stakes – all brought about because some idiot agreed to review all 52 of the New DC. That idiot would be me. And then the idiot starts thinking it would be nice to see what the other big company is doing at the moment. So whilst I’m working up the [...]
Continue reading...The Ultimates Volume Something #1 – another surprisingly good first issue…
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Guilt is a strange old thing. It’s possible to get guilty for all manner of reasonable things – a missed anniversary, some little lie, that extra bowl of ice-cream, a little too much drink, a loose tongue…. the list goes on. Comic reviewer’s guilt? That’s just stupid. But it happened last week, when I felt [...]
Continue reading...Secret Avengers – Ellis and McKelvie. Two very good reasons.
Monday, September 12, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Brandon Graham (amongst others) redraws FF #9 – UPDATED
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Bissette on “co-creation”, Kirby, Ditko, Marvel and Stan Lee….
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Things I want to read…. Steve Moore and Steve Dillon on Nick Fury
Monday, August 8, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Here we go again…. “Dear Daily Mail”….
Friday, August 5, 2011
“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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Well, the judge says Marvel does own Kirby….
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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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