With the collected edition of the great Brendan McCarthy’s weird and wonderful Spider-Man: Fever due to hit the shelves this week, Mark Kardwell talks to Bren: “Mark: This is your first piece for Marvel Comics. What was it like working for the fabled “House of Ideas”? Brendan: Other than to cut a few lines of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 22, 2010
Via Wim (and Reddit), although no artist mentioned sadly – any idea who it’s by? Is it you? Get in touch if you know. But a great Calvin & Hobbes image. UPDATE 22/5/10: Thanks to Jason Garrattley in the comments – the artist is Kyle Latino. Lou Romano’s Monster Squad series (more at the link) [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Spider-man Fever Issue 1 by Brendan McCarthy Marvel Comics It starts off like any other Spider-Man book – Spidey in New York being tackled by one of his famous gallery of villains – The Vulture this time. But it quickly gets a little more interesting, when a nearby Dr. Strange opens a long lost book [...]
Continue reading...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: [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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We’ve mentioned several times here in recent weeks how stoked we all are at seeing Brendan McCarthy‘s fab artwork gracing the pages of Marvel and judging by the posts on various comics sites and Twitter so are a lot of other readers. Well Brendan has kindly taken time out from his sojourn in LA (where [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 21, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 14, 2010
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I saw this over at CBR in July last year and have been hanging onto it until this special Valentines Day, a day of hearts, flowers, love, romance and probably a heap of regret, sadness and unhappiness as well. But hey, cheer up, it’s Darwyn Cooke writing and drawing Spider-Man from issue 11 of Tangled [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 4, 2010
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Robot 6‘s Chris Mautner talks with a man who is a huge favourite of pretty much all of the online crew here, the one and only Brendan McCarthy; you will want to go and read this! “Chris: Obviously it’s not just coincidence that the two stars of Spider-Man: FEVER happen to be the two Marvel [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 23, 2010
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We’ve seen the cover to the new Brendan McCarthy Dr Strange meets Spider-Man for a while now, but isn’t it about time we actually saw some of McCarthy’s artwork from the series? Absolutely, and thanks to Comics Alliance, we now get a first look. They’re looking just gorgeous, but that was really to be expected [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
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Yes, that is Captain American and Batman sharing a ride in a Mini; with petroleum prices increasing and supplies dwindling, not to mention the pollution caused by cars our superheroes are teaming up to fight crime by carpooling. Meanwhile Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man, enjoys a well earned vacation driving around Scottish beauty spots. Mind [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Scots actor Alan Cumming has joined the cast of the Spider-Man musical, Turn Off the Dark, where he will be playing Spidey’s nemesis Norman Osborn, better known as the Green Goblin. “He has such range and such charisma as a performer that I feel his Green Goblin will bring many surprises that will move and [...]
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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