Comic Archive offers us up this short but cool timelapse (oh, I do like timelapse of drawing!) of artist Paolo Rivera painting Daredevil: Timelapse of Paolo Rivera Painting Daredevil #1 from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Saturday, March 19, 2011
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Back in the early 2000s Marvel Comics was a bit of a weird place, full of superheroes of course, but also, thanks to the work of Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada, rather prone to some interesting projects coming from different places. Just like this – a teen rom-com sports comic; 15-Love. Written by Andi Watson, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic By Warren Ellis and Phil Jiminez (with Andy Lanning – inks and finishes) Marvel Comics I read Exogenetic late one night/early one morning, deep into that time when I should really have been asleep in bed rather than drifting in and out of consciousness on the sofa. And that was why, when [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 20, 2011
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The second trailer is out for the upcoming Thor movie and looks like fun:
Continue reading...Friday, January 21, 2011
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So, no sooner than Diamond shift the on sale day for new comics in comic shops to Wednesday for everyone, Marvel decide to stage a little stunt with Fantastic Four #587 (the “death” issue of the “3″ storyline). This from the news story at Newsarama: “Fantastic Four #587 the much-hyped “death” issue where one of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 11, 2010
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It probably wouldn’t be as big as the one movie Thor has: The Kenneth Branagh helmed movie opens in May 2011 with Chris Hemsworth as the God Of Thunder.
Continue reading...Sunday, November 21, 2010
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Having a late look through some news feeds and came across this one from Heidi about Ultimate Spider-Man #153 & 154 written by Brian Michael Bendis and Ultimate Avengers Vs New Ultimates #1 (of 6) written by Mark Millar. From the official Marvel PR: “Marvel is proud to announce Death of Spider-Man, the groundbreaking new [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 25, 2010
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Superior Issue 1 By Mark Millar and Leinil Yu. Marvel Icon Last week I praised at least a partial return to form for Brian Michael Bendis with Scarlet. And today, it’s Mark Millar’s turn for review. But sadly, not his turn for a return to form. Not with this flabby, far too short, far too [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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Scarlet Issue 2 By Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev Marvel Icon Scarlet issue 1 was much enjoyed by Michael a few months back and I thought I’d stop by issue 2 to see if I could share in the fun. Straight off I can see exactly what he means, and it’s very much a [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 17, 2010
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Another mention for Comics Twart, the collaborative blog where artists pick a subject to draw and post the results over the week. And recently they did Silver Sable, one of those strange little Marvel characters that mean nothing to me, I can’t remember reading much of back when I used to voraciously read Marvel comics, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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Deb Aoki has started posting up plenty of photographs from the weekend’s New York Comic Con (and promises there are more to come). She commented that she had a particular soft spot for some old school Marvel cosplayers dressed as Iron Fist, Doctor Strange and Moon Knight: (Iron Fist, Doctor Strange and Moon Knight pose [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 26, 2010
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It’s just lovely isn’t it? Due out just in time for Christmas.
Continue reading...Sunday, September 19, 2010
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Twitter and Tumblr combine with artists jumping all over the Marvel Cats meme going round. Twitter search here, Agent M’s Tumblr collection here. If I were you I’d look at it now, have a quick giggle and a smile and then ignore it before it gets really annoyingly ubiquitous. (Catlactus by Chris Eliopoulos) (Daredevil Kitty [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 29, 2010
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Now that’s a gorgeous cover by Jaime Hernandez, from the second issue of Strange Tales Volume 2 – due in November 2010. He and Gilbert have stories in this one, along with Farel Dalrymple, Paul Maybury, Tony Millionaire, Jeffrey Brown and Paul Hornschemeier. And if you haven’t already picked up the collection of Volume 1 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 12, 2010
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John Griffith has uploaded the winning entry for the Aniboom/Marvel Comics motion comic contest from earlier in the year, a battle between the Hulk and Wolverine in the snowy north of Canada, complete with Logan wondering about that natty yellow costume and the embarassment factor in having to order a cowl… Puny Lil Man from [...]
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Friday, March 25, 2011
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