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Bad, Better, Best.

By admin | Published October 3, 2010

Worst to first, an assortment of comic posters.

BAD – Time displaced mutant hero/cop from the ’90s. Next.

BETTER – Jim Lee’s Wolverine in a traditional X-Team Uni. Cool, but not the best Jim Lee / X-Men poster.

BEST -John Romita Sr. puts together a Spider-Man poster on a bright sunny day in New York. Somewhere, the world is alive with happiness.

Leinil Francis Yu original art

By admin | Published October 1, 2010

Two page spread from Wolverine #140, by Leinil Francis Yu. I couldn’t NOT post this – it’s just too awesome. If you’ve seen Yu’s recent work, look at this piece and see the evolution. He still has a very similar style, but there is a bit of a less discernible use of detail lines. I see a lot of similarities here (in his Wolverine and especially Nightcrawler) to that of Carlos Pacheco – strong facial angles and a good use of negative space. Love this. I spy an Optimus Prime too…

Giant Comic Lots.

By morgado | Published September 30, 2010

See these three Hulk comics?

They’re just the tip of the iceberg. What we’ve got here is a lot of comics. A lot of 1,173 comics, to be exact. Plenty of really good stuff in there too, including plenty of first appearances.

The price is already over 3,000, and I’m sure it will go higher. You probably could make a bid just for the hell of it. Not that we encourage that sort of thing in the slightest. Just would be cool to say you took a shot. Of course, with my luck working it’s magic on you by proxy, you’d probably end up winning. Same thing applies to this lot…

Go ahead, make that opening $29,999.99 bid. You know you’re just gonna get outbid anyways. Go on. You won’t.

Dear Toy Companies,

By admin | Published September 20, 2010

Cut me a break. I am desperately attempting to rid myself of this collecting affliction. I’m doing my best, but these kind of deep cuts are sucking me in to new, dangerous worlds of products. For example.

These toys echo not just cool heroes from my childhood, but weird versions. Purple, giant “M” Magneto? Fresh from the future, a future where bandanas are wildly popular, Bishop? Jubilee? Jubilee? Really? And the throw-in Wolverine, I’m not crazy about. (Nor am I banana jacket Jubilee, but the Magneto makes up for it) But these “mini-mates” are just about a reasonable enough size that I could keep them neatly arranged and also easily hidden (swept into a drawer) when other grown-ups are about.

For my adult life style, and wallet, please refrain from making anymore of these. And making them limited edition doesn’t help either – it’s like saying the cocaine is caramel flavored. Stop.

Signed,

A Fan.
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Top 100 Summer Comics #7

By admin | Published September 15, 2010

Technical difficulties everybody…

Maybe the height of the Adam Kubert run on Wolverine. So good that the entire episode was essentially revisited in the recent Jeph Loeb, just instead of a claw through the brain he cuts his head clean off with the murmasa blade.

The story: Sabretooth has sought refuge at the Xavier Institute (the ’90s name for the School for Gifted Children) but is obviously still a total psycho killer. Wolverine gets it, but has been MIA healing and dealing with not having an adamantium skeleton. Logan comes home, and decides it’s time to take out the trash. Epic battle. Why hasn’t this been collected yet?

Top 100 Summer Comics #14

By admin | Published September 6, 2010

I’ve mentioned Acts of Vengeance enough on here that really, I need to recommend you check it out. Marvel is putting out an omnibus so I’ll get that up at some point. But this corner of the meta-crossover was so good I often forget it was even consider a part of it.

#14 – Uncanny X-Men 256

This is by far the coolest the Mandarin has ever been. Claremont and this newbie artist by the name of JIM LEE just upped the ante on the whole game with this 3 issue jaunt. Psylocke returns as a crazy ninja assassin and Wolverine is trying to get her back, despite looking like a Jersey Shore cast member trying to wake up at 7 am. Not pretty.

The best part about all this? Not surprisingly, Lee’s pencils were absolutely on point. The tone and imaging of the book resonates so well that the story was leaping off the pages. A great story that was just taken another step by the visual – perfect example of the validity and value of comic books in the literary marketplace.

Top 100 Summer Comics #38

By admin | Published August 13, 2010

Simply put, this is a gamechanger. Claremont and Byrne nailed it. Every x-men related book pays homage to this two issue storyline, and really, every modern marvel comic owes this issue a little bit of credit.

#38 – Uncanny X-Men 141

A dystopian future that was spelled out on a beyond-iconic cover, everybody’s dead. Wolverine’s popularity was only grown by his heroic ends that comes in this story, and I honestly can’t think of two better issues of comic books, period. Unbelievable. If you have not read this story, I don’t think you can consider yourself a fan. Canonical.

Top 100 Summer Comics #39

By admin | Published August 12, 2010

100 issues of a series is never a thing to scoff at. And in the ’90s, it was celebrated with a holographic / foil / somethin’orother cover.

#39 – Wolverine 100

This issue was supposed to be Wolverine getting his adamantium skeleton + claws back. Marvel threw a curveball and decided to hold off on that for another couple years, eventually happening in issue 145. Instead, Wolverine just kills Nemesis aka Tyler Dayspring aka Cyclops’ grandson. It was fun, it has zero impact on what’s going on today, and in both of those descriptions, it was the definition of x-books in the 1990s.

Top 100 Summer Comics #40

By admin | Published August 11, 2010

I almost don’t even know if I should talk about this as much as post the cover and the creative team.

#40 – Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure

Walter Simonson, writer. (!!)

Mike Mignola, penciler. (!!!!)

Buttttt…. I will write a little anyways. An almost surprisingly awesome book, even with the credo that this particular writer/artist combo bring. Apocalypse was still early in his character development and I think this particular one shot went a long way towards establishing him. In my last post I mentioned how important the setting is to a great wolverine tale – this one is no different. Somehow Mike Mignola drawing Wolverine fighting cyborg T-Rex’s in the Savage Land just works on every possible level. If you’ve never read this, and I hadn’t for quite a while, dig it up and dig in.

Top 100 Summer Comics #41

By admin | Published August 10, 2010

Rest of the week’s top 100 – Wolverine.

No particular reason why. Just realized how COOL he was when I was 12. And yes, he’s overexposed now. Hell, he was overexposed then. But I couldn’t get enough. Even as I got older, I am always up for a good Wolvie story.

But nowadays, there’s too many Wolverine stories in San Francisco, as an X-Man. Or New York, as an Avenger. There’s two locales I’ve always preferred for a good Logan romp – Canada and Southeast Asia, specifically Japan (real place) and Madripoor (unreal place). Let’s go to C A N A D A.

#42 – Wolverine 78 (series 1)

Bloodscream’s origin. Cylla, total x-villain jobber. Wilderness of Northern Canada. This issue opens with Wolverine riding a motorcycle with a wolfskin cape/coat, complete with skull. Oh, and a sword. A quick wrap up to a chase, but for some reason this issue works really well on it’s own. Reminds me of the days when action could happen ‘off screen’ so to say and that was just fine. Adam Kubert hit a real groove on this series from about issue 75 to 100, and I’ll go into detail sooner or later on the stylistic change directly after that issue that really threw me off. But here he is golden. Larry Hama had a great handle of the character, and despite some dialogue that is ridiculed with apostrophes and slang that feels dated now, it still works.