Tag Archive | "Spider-Man"

Kirby covers Amazing Fantasy #15

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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The Kirby Museum blog posts this cool Kirby reworking of his (pencil work) and Ditko’s (inking) original, iconic Amazing Fantasy #15 cover for Marvel (above), the issue that introduced the web-slinger to the swinging 60s; the new version (below) is pencilled again by Kirby, this time inked by Martin Lasick. Lovely, clear, strong, bold image… [...]

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Face It Tiger….

Sunday, November 6, 2011

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The original – art by John Romita, Amazing Spider-Man #42 (1966) Photo by Steve Cook (from his Facebook) – Model Megan McGuire Do yours eyes a favour – go and lose yourself in some great photography at his website.

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Project Rooftop does Spidey….

Saturday, September 17, 2011

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I should pay more attention to Project: Rooftop than I do (but there’s only 26 hours in a day). For those of you who don’t know, it’s a comic book fashion type blog, that runs regular costume redisign comps. The latest one to rejig the Spidey costume left me a little cold – too much [...]

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Here we go again…. “Dear Daily Mail”….

Friday, August 5, 2011

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“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 [...]

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Spidey no more?

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

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(cover to Ultimate Comics Fallout #4, art by  Marko Djurdjevic, (c) Marvel) Hitting racks tomorrow as our comics elves do the New Comics Day Dance this should be one worth checking out: Brian Michael Bendis and Co give us a new Spider-Man. Yep, no longer will the friendly neighbourhood webslinger be Peter Parker… From the [...]

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Brendan McCarthy talks to Mark Kardwell

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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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 [...]

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Art for the weekend…. Spiders, Vampires and Holy Bat-Calvin!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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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) [...]

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McCarthy’s Spider-Man & Doctor Strange – gorgeous.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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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 [...]

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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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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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We’ve got the Fever… The fabulous art of Brendan McCarthy

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 [...]

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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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Happy Valentines from Darwyn Cooke and Spidey…

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 [...]

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Robot 6 talks with Brendan McCarthy

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 [...]

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