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The Hurtful Racial Epithet Known As Sabertooth!

By pkindlon | Published September 23, 2011

Were you all aware of this one? The issue of Wolverine where Sabertooth is nonchalantly referred to as a certain anti-Semitic slur, you know that one? I was so far removed from Wolverine as a character and a series at this point that this controversy slipped under my radar. But here it is. Larger than life. A word you’re not supposed to say in a book read mostly by people with the intellect of 12-year-olds. Danger?

There’s two stories that float around about this little snafu. Here’s the more likely of them: Dialogue gets cut off in a copy machine mess-up, letterer does as he’s told, editor sleeps through it. Pow. Collectibility. Marvel recalled the book and most people own the corrected copy, but there are a few of these bad-boys floating around. Here’s one. Buy it… racist.

Larry Has Me In His Web

By pkindlon | Published September 20, 2011

It’s no secret that I think Larry Stroman is one of the unsung comic greats. I’d put him next to any forefather and firmly believe he’d crush any contemporary. I regularly scan Ebay for evidence that this (mostly) forgotten genius is still celebrated, if only by the educated few. So how did I miss this? Only 5hrs left on this beautiful Black Widow page. I believe it’s from “Spinning Doomsday’s Web” which was a Punisher/Black Widow team-up, but I could be wrong. Regardless, this is a beautiful page of original art by Larry. Pick this bad boy up NOW.

Wolverine, Hold My Calls.

By pkindlon | Published September 15, 2011

Wolverine is a lot of things. Mutant. X-Man. Wildman. Berserker. Victim of horrible experimentation rendering him a freakish killing machine. Phone.

Want to really push potential lovers out the door? Here’s a good start. A phone from 1994 featuring Wolverine on his knees holding a giant receiver. You NEED this.

Oh and this buy-it-now is new and in box. See, here’s the box.

But if saving $20 is of greater value to you than the product being new in box, try this auction on for size.

NOTHING CAN STOP THE BLOB!

By pkindlon | Published August 17, 2011

When I was 14, I went to Niagara Falls and spent $40 getting to the boss of this game only to run out of money and have two nerds come in and swoop the glory. I’ll see you in hell, thieves. Saw the falls for about one second.

And as a consolation prize of sorts, here’s some sideart for a different X-related game. Significantly less memorable, but included for those of you who can’t afford a fully functional coin-op machine in your house but want to celebrate X-Men in gaming.

Here Comes the Bride

By pkindlon | Published August 15, 2011

Last week I promised a bunch of 2000AD-related posts and I meant to make good on that promise, I really did. But my sister got married and it pushed everything back. Cut me some slack. For today, let me settle in while you take a look at marriage in comics.

Let’s start with the end-all of comic book weddings. This is iconic. People have this tattooed on them. It sets the bar and I’ve never seen it matched.

And here’s a slightly less-memorable comic book wedding issue.

And, finally, the least-memorable comic book wedding issue to come with two collectable cards and currently sell for less than cover price.

Is This An Awkward Time To Mention Captain America’s Meth Problem?

By pkindlon | Published July 5, 2011

Everyone remembers when Captain America was strung out on meth, right? It was a magical time in comics. A time where being in a meth-lab explosion didn’t leave you horribly disfigured in a Des Moines-area hospital burn unit. It just made you reckless. And cool as hell.

Some of these issues, no matter how ridiculous, were pretty fun reads. I love badguy on badguy violence and this arc had great examples of that. Cap should get hooked on drugs more often. Hopefully the paparazzi doesn’t get ahold of this sordid detail from his past. He’s got a movie coming out and doesn’t need this kind of press.

Pocket Nullifier

By pkindlon | Published June 16, 2011

For less than the cost of a breakfast sandwich you can wield ultimate power. Here’s three cards, one purely collectable the other two part of a collectable card game, that will give you a cosmic perspective on life and death. Or really, existence and nonexistence. Feel like Reed Richards when he faced down Galactus.

Chaos Has Hit Me In My Face

By pkindlon | Published June 8, 2011

Tornados. Wiener pics on Twitter. DC reboot.

This world is afire. I don’t understand anything, least of all my place in all of this. So I’m taking it back to a simpler time for just this one post. I’m taking back to the part of your life where you thought you could possibly ever pull this shirt off. You’d have to be younger than eighteen and a bit of late-bloomer because there is no way you’d be aware of women and still wear this. You loved playing D&D in your friend’s basement, reading comic books, and playing manhunt in a church parking lot. Wolverine was awesome.

Drift there, now, my friend. Leave this complicated world and its expectations of you behind. Come to tie-dye land.

Rick Rolled

By pkindlon | Published June 7, 2011

They got me. Funny joke, Marvel. I picked up Spider-Man 2099, a really poorly-conceived Elseworlds-style series that answered the question no one was asking, “What if Spider-Man was set in 2099?” And I picked it up because I love Spider-Man and I love Rick Leonardi. I was Rick rolled. Because this thing was near unreadable. On its own merits it might have been “ok”, but with the name Spider-Man attached, how could it ever hope to measure up? Everyone reading it is thinking, “ok, cool, I guess. But I want to read the REAL Spider-Man doing shit I can relate to on some level. Not this guy driving a hovercar.”

Still, look at the Leonardi art on this signed first issue. It’s so strong it makes you want to pick it up even now. Even knowing it’s near-unreadable, you want to touch it. That’s the power of Leonardi.

And check this one out just because I’m a freak for production art and maybe you are too.

Rick and Dagger

By pkindlon | Published June 6, 2011

Rick Leonardi. Is the man underrated? Well, he’s had a long career in comics and that’s something not everyone can claim. But he’s never really been placed among the best contemporary creators. People seem to file him under “working artist” instead of “visionary”. And that may be the case. But there has to be some area inbetween terms for those men and women who are in every way notable, but perhaps not “essential” in popular opinion. I’m going to say Leonardi is important. That’s the word I’ll use.

I thought with a new Cloak & Dagger oneshot floating around, now would be a good time to revisit important artist Rick Leonardi’s 1985 series of the same name. This is the complete mini-series. Leonard would return for the ongoing version, twice.

And in case you needed a non-Cloak & Dagger point of reference, here’s a beautiful Uncanny Issue from Leonardi. Hell, dude even made Spider-Man 2099 a viable purchase! More on that later.