GPOY.
(From Matt Kindt’s incredible new book Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes)
Mindblowing preview of the next Hawkguy spotlighting Pizza Dog. Aja gettin that Eisner.
Source: CBR
Man you guys the Hawkeyecomic is the besssssst.
And also, while watching Avengers for the seventh time in theaters last night as part of the Iron Man Marathon (Iron Man Three is pretty fucking great), all I could think was: I want a Matt Fraction written, Jeremy Renner starring Hawkeye movie. Can we get on that, universe?
(via mattfractionblog)
Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson And
Peter Parker by Steve Rude
Oh man all the feels.
(via themarvelageofcomics)
I’m a sucker for well-executed Days Of Future Past references/homages. (And with the X-Men: Days Of Future Past movie coming out next summer, weeeeeeee it’s a great time to be a DoFP fan!)
And I’m a huge fan of Havok. For a time in the 90’s Havok in the pages of X-Factor, and X-Factor in general, was the comic to beat. And there have been some great Havok stories of late (particularly when they got him as far away from his brother, Cyclops, as possible.)
And John Cassaday art, man, it really doesn’t get better. (Except John Cassaday art when it’s in Planetary, because man, no one writes for Cassaday better than Warren Ellis.)
So this, from issue four of Uncanny Avengers (out this week), was a treat. A real treat.
I mean, yeah, in the 50 years Scarlet Witch has existed in comics she’s never, ever, used her powers like she did in this issue, but, hey, man, comics.
Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows poster by Alex Ross
There is a very large, very soft spot in my heart for the Hanna-Barbera superheros.
Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt, Birdman, Space Ghost (SPACE GHOST IS THE BEST), The Herculoids, the Galaxy Trio, Thundarr…
There’s something timeless about them, something that always works, that always plays well. And they’re a group of superheros that only, really, existed and worked in one medium, a medium that, quite frankly, most actual superheroes never really worked in: cartoons.
Sure, Batman: The Animated Series is the pinnacle of superhero cartoons, but, outside of X-Men: The Animated Series (which mostly doesn’t hold up, and is painfully dated) and, perhaps, the larger B:TAS universe, comic book superheroes translated to cartoon superheroes largely doesn’t translate that well.
You either dumb down the character and the world, or you aim it just at the kids demographic, or you aim it just at adults, and either way, it doesn’t work as well as the actual comic.
Whereas the H-B cartoon heroes just work across the entire board. Though dated, they’re dated to the cartoon world of the 60’s, which is, like I said, timeless. Computers are large and cartoony, everyone looks like Mad Men, and the technology is broad and Kirby-esque. Unlike, say, something like the X-Men: The Animated Series, wherein everything looks like the 90’s. This is why B:TAS works so well, because it’s a cool noir world without the 90’s timestamp.
And, you know, Blue Falcon sounds cool! And Space Ghost looks cool! And the Herculoids are SO WEIRD. And Dyno-Mutt is basically just a robot Scooby Doo!
As superheroes who were designed to move and exist in the television medium, the characters work 100% better than ones designed to exist in comic books. And yes, comic book characters can and do work in a 3D medium (The Avengers movie, the aforementioned Batman: TAS, um, some parts of The Walking Dead), but the H-B cartoons are vibrant, colorful, fun, goofy time capsules that, quite frankly, we may never see again.
And that’s probably okay.
(Source: comicblah)
West Coast Avengers #45 by John Byrne.
The VIsion (in his white garb introduced here) was my gateway into comics, starting with this Marvel Universe Series Two trading card:
So there’s no way I wouldn’t reblog this, the cover of West Coast Avengers #45, the first appearance of the white Vision.
(via themarvelageofcomics)
(Spoiler Alert.)
It’s not often I read an X-Men comic and want to weep like a baby (oh who are we kidding) but, you guys, in this weeks All-New X-Men #7, young Scott gave young Jean the wedding invite from their own future wedding. (from X-Men #30, which I bought in 1994, when I was 12. Geez.) Their future wedding that already happened. But not for them. Time travel is great.
I gotta say, when Scott opens the safety deposit box earlier in the issue, I got choked up at it’s contents…
But that wedding invite. All the feels.
All-New X-Men continues to be the best X-Men comic in years.
I wish this comic was a game, so that I could buy it and play it and grow really fucking frustrated because it is too hard to play. :(
Much like the recent Sonic 4 Episode 2 for iPad/iPhone, which has the worst controller/gameplay ever invented, and the Mega Man 9 & 10 entries for the Wii, which are, quite possibly, the hardest video games I’ve ever played.
I gave up on both.
I am thirty years old.
I will definitely be buying this comic book.
A little late to the game, but, these are my favorite pages from last week’s comics.
First is DOOM THE ANNIHILATING CONQUEROR from Fraction and Allred’s FF #3. Three villains high-five to become one mega bad guy?!? THAT IS FANTASTIC. Michael Allred is drawing the fuck out of this book. There is a better page in the book, involving a staircase chase, but how can you not love DOOM THE ANNIHILATING CONQUEROR?!?
And then Darwyn Cooke’s Dr. Manhattan from Minutemen #6, which is one of two of the best Before Watchmen titles (Silk Spectre being the other), and here Cooke, always one of the best artists in comics, uses the nine panel grid from Watchmen to spectacular effect.
