Tag Archive | "Marvel"

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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Siege: Embedded #2; Volstagg’s on the road to nowhere in a nothing book

Thursday, April 1, 2010

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Siege: Embedded issue 2 by Brian Reed and Chris Samnee Marvel Comics Siege is Marvel’s big event for this year. Not being content with being the most powerful man on Earth the book is centred on Norman Osbourne and his invasion of Asgard using all of the super villains and HAMMER agents at his disposal. [...]

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Marvel’s first shot at Marvelman….

Sunday, March 28, 2010

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(Mick Anglo’s variant cover to the Marvelman Classic Primer #1) Press releases this week from Marvel announced their plans to begin reprinting the Mick Anglo Marvelman comics they aquired the rights to in 2009. They’re starting rather unimpressively in June with a prose comic primer; Marvelman Classic Primer #1; “…a commemorative one-shot featuring interviews with [...]

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Two for Sunday – Project Rooftop and March Madness

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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Lightweight and easy on the eye? Perfect reimaginings of classic characters done in an all-ages style? That would be Project Rooftop’s All-Ages All-Stars. Two done so far: (Mike Maihack’s Scarlet Witch – Disney? Are You Paying Attention? Give this man a Saturday morning cartoon.) (John McNally’s Martian Manhunter) And if you want a little less [...]

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Steve Bissette’s forgotten comic wars

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Over on his blog Steven Bissette, artist on Swamp Thing, Tyrant and publisher of Taboo is currently chronicling the trials and tribulations of the comic industry circa 1986. It’s fascinating stuff from an era when a lot of important things were just beginning to develop across the industry. Bissette’s subtitle to the series of posts [...]

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Kieron Gillen on farewells…. and comic economics

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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(The first and last issues of S.W.O.R.D. by Gillen and Saunders) This week saw the final issue of Kieron Gillen’s Marvel series S.W.O.R.D. ship to comic stores. I’ve only read issue one since every time I popped into a comic shop I couldn’t find any issues available. But issue 1 was a blast. That it’s [...]

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Marvel Vs DC

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Conor, Josh and and Ron on iFanboy discuss one of the all-time biggest things in comics, bigger even than Power Girl’s, er, reputation, it’s DC Vs Marvel:

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Anyone else thinking this?

Saturday, March 6, 2010

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I saw the cover to the Amazing Spider-Man (Villain Variant) #23 this week (over on Newsarama) and all I could think was this….. It’s the nose isn’t it? “I’ll get you Peter Parker, I’ll get you“. Or is it just me? The villaious Red Hooded Claw or Lobster Man is actually a new Vulture. Just [...]

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Astonishing yet not confusing? Tough to get right….

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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Here’s the promo art for the forthcoming “Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis” by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews….. Cyclops and Storm seem somewhere about 7ft tall, Storm appears to have forgotten most of her top and, from that waistline, hasn’t been eating properly either. And poor Emma Frost has suffered from some really bad plastic surgery that’s [...]

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Comic – Art

Saturday, February 6, 2010

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Rather nice iconic abstracts from artist Bob Kessel in a series called Pop Unintentional, the latest in a long line of artists to plunder the iconic superhero characters for their own ends. But still …… pretty. (Gossip by Bob Kessel, after Norman Rockwell.) (Without Fear by Bob Kessel) (Via Robot 6)

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