Tag Archive | "Marvel"

Bendis and Maleev’s emo vigilante – Scarlet Issue 1

Friday, August 6, 2010

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Scarlet #1 By Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev Marvel/Icon It’s quite difficult to tell you what Scarlet is actually about. Even after reading the first issue and Marvel’s blurb I’m still struggling to give you a brief outline of this new book from their Icon imprint. It seems that Scarlet is a new character [...]

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More Strange Tales….

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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Now that’s a bloody good cover by Rafael Grampa. From issue 1 of Marvel’s second series of Strange Tales. Heidi’s got more details over at The Comic Beat, but essentially it’s more of the same with a very impressive talent list of: Alex Robinson, Dash Shaw, David Heatley, Dean Haspiel, Edu Medeiros, Farel Dalrymple, Frank [...]

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Lapham and Baker on Deadpool Max – oh yes!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Latest in that list of Marvel books that I look forward to because they don’t feel like Marvel books – there’s going to be a Deadpool Max series written by David Lapham and drawn by Kyle Baker. From the “Cup Of Joe” interview with Marvel Exec Ed Axel Alonso: “And in October – drum roll, [...]

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S.W.O.R.D. – one volume will have to be enough.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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S.W.O.R.D. – volume 1 (of 1) – No Time To Breathe by Kieron Gillen and Steven Saunders (with Jamie McKelvie) Marvel Comics “My Spacegirl Friday. Fury Nick and Green-haired Nora. Joss Whedon writes Deep Space 9. West Wing in orbit (plus zap-guns). 24 with the neo-con-agenda swapped for gags. The fastest-paced comic Marvel puts out, I think. We [...]

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So Aquaman found this on the floor of the ocean….. Chris Samnee on the WW thing.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

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Over at Chris Samnee’s sketch blog, he posts these pics, a great pair of images in response to the Wonder Woman costume thing: Like Samnee says…. “Apparently someone didn’t need it any more“. (Via Blog@Newsarama) And whilst we’re talking about Samnee, his art on the upcoming Thor: The Mighty Avenger looks more and more appealing [...]

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More Marvel Variants ….. lovely, but strange

Sunday, June 6, 2010

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The variant cover thing is something that haunts my nightmares. I automatically think hideous metallic, hologram, foil rubbish from the 90s. But then Marvel start putting out things like these as part of their Iron Man 2.0 by design variant series…… (A spectacular Alan Aldridge Avengers #2 variant cover on the left – Aldridge being [...]

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Doug Braithwaite’s Marvelman Variant cover

Friday, June 4, 2010

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From the upcoming Marvelman Family’s Finest #1 – variant cover by Dougie Braithwaite, posted on his Facebook. Due in July.

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Ultimate Avengers 2 – The return of the man in black….

Friday, May 7, 2010

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Ultimate Avengers 2 Issue 1 by Mark Millar and Leinil Yu Marvel Comics “Some jobs are just too dirty for the Ultimates. For these, Nick Fury must gather the Avengers, a black ops team willing to do the missions that others won’t. What role will an infamous mass killer play in Fury’s plans?” If you [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. issue 1. Famous faces, secret histories (and why Reed Richards is a bit crap).

Monday, April 19, 2010

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S.H.I.E.L.D. issue 1 by Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver Marvel Comics This is another one of those quirky Marvel series that seems to be the only sort of Marvel Comics I’m attracted to these days. Gone are the days of keeping up with convoluted continuity and continual changing of the goalposts of a character’s history [...]

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Imagining the superheroes through 60s paperbacks……

Sunday, April 18, 2010

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These are just a couple of the set of gorgeous retro pulp paperback style reworking of classic comics. All designed by Fonografiks (Steven Finch), the designer/letterer of Popgun. The rest are here; Power Pack, Daredevil: Born Again and FF. (via Robot 6)

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Nemesis Issue 1 – original concept, poor execution?

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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Nemesis Issue 1 by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven Marvel / Icon Mark Millar comes out with yet another creator owned series, this time with regular collaborator, Steve McNiven.  This new book is based around the idea of what if someone like Batman was the bad guy? Extreme intelligence, multiple forms of combat training and [...]

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Iron Man Lego madness….

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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Not available in any shops…. yet. The Iron Man Lego in what looks suspiciously like life-size (nope, not life sized, bah, about 2 foot tall according to Matt in the comments). The instructions will weigh more than a box of bricks and by the time you’ve finished you’ll probably find yourself gently rocking back and [...]

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Batman and Robin

Friday, April 9, 2010

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New Comics Day is a day later than usual in the UK this week, due to the Easter Monday holiday and subsequent delivery problems caused by the UK’s main distribution routes being choked by millions of fluffy bunnies carrying baskets. But it’s worth waiting for -  there’s Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Batman and Robin: [...]

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Paul Smith – Kitty Pryde, X-Men classics and Leave It To Chance

Monday, April 5, 2010

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It’s one I missed when it was released a few years ago, but there’s a great review by Kelly Thompson at CBR of X-Men Kitty Pryde: Shadows And Flame. To be honest, the story doesn’t sound all that great – Kitty Pryde in Japan to investigate another Lockheed type dragon, and inevitably falling foul of [...]

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Marvellous covers…. and even more marvellous McCarthy

Saturday, April 3, 2010

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Mark Kardwell pointed out a slew of great looking comic covers from the Marvel solicitations, and he’s absolutely right, these are good. Kaare Andrews does a strange, strange look for Emma Frost, even without the baby sick. And Paul Pope doing Marvel covers is great. Actually Paul Pope doing anything is great. And it gets [...]

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