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"Let us not give these witless fuckers an inch." Alan Moore
Here's a thing I drew a while ago. In the Green Goblin's first appearance, he tricks Spider-man into thinking he's going to be in a movie. There are two panels between which they travel from Hollywood to New Mexico, and I was like, "what happened on that journey??" Well, now we know...
WIP on the drawing board today. I tend to rub out the pencils as I go, as it hides some of the subtleties of the inks, and it makes it easier for me to see how the page is developing...
Has anyone seen this book in the flesh? Just wondering what the paper stock is like. Is it glossy like an omnibus edition, or something with a bit of texture, more like the Taschen books? Any help gratefully received before I part with my moolah...
Marvel's Mightiest Monsters is now available wherever you buy books! Order your copy: https://bit.ly/4c8ZTMR
This release showcases the larger-than-life creatures that helped establish the creative foundation for the Marvel Age of Marvel Comics. 💪
Marvel's Mightiest Monsters, a collection of Jack Kirby's Atlas-era monster comics, assembled and edited by me and John Lind and designed by Ian Chalgren & Lind, is out today.
I wrote about it and other things in my latest newsletter:
chrisryall.substack.com/p/tales-of-s...
All Hallows Steve/ComicDeepDive reading X-Men reposted
Bill Sinkiewicz provided the cover for The Comics Journal #54 (1980), and a couple of months later, Neal Adams responded with an illustration for the back cover of #56.
All Hallows Steve/ComicDeepDive reading X-Men reposted
Bill Sinkiewicz provided the cover for The Comics Journal #54 (1980), and a couple of months later, Neal Adams responded with an illustration for the back cover of #56.
X-Men #215 features a cameo by Julius Schwartz for some reason, and his fellow doctor is named Diane Duane, an Irish fantasy/sci-fi writer. No idea if this was a planned thing, or Claremont just used those names because Alan Davis' characters bore some resemblance to them. 🤷♂️
X-Men #215 features a cameo by Julius Schwartz for some reason, and his fellow doctor is named Diane Duane, an Irish fantasy/sci-fi writer. No idea if this was a planned thing, or Claremont just used those names because Alan Davis' characters bore some resemblance to them. 🤷♂️
70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I just spent half an hour searching for the best deal on this out of print book, then discovered that I own it already. Not the first time I've done that. 😏
DC Comics published an adaptation of DR NO in 1962. It came out months before the movie and sold poorly.
It wasn’t until around 1969 that someone at DC discovered they had owned the rights to do Bond comics for the entire decade, but no one had ever bothered trying again.
eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models.
If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.
Page 40: A new discovery!
The people who run the village want Steed to leave but his curiosity may ruin the opportunity!
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Chris Claremont had been pestering Alan Davis to draw the X-Men for some time, and finally, with X-Men #113, Davis made his debut. It also features the debut of Psylocke - although not yet in the form in which she'd be better known...
I'm reading a couple of issues of X-Factor because they're a part of the Mutant Massacre crossover, and I'm reminded once again what a woefully ill-conceived book it was. The original X-Men pretend to go evil as the "X-Terminators" whilst also pretending to be the mutant-hunting X-Factor, thus...
a field guide to Skarsgårds:
if silver fox he be, that's Stellan you see
unsettling but hot, Alexander you've got
only dread doth you fill, then behold, that is Bill
I'm reading a couple of issues of X-Factor because they're a part of the Mutant Massacre crossover, and I'm reminded once again what a woefully ill-conceived book it was. The original X-Men pretend to go evil as the "X-Terminators" whilst also pretending to be the mutant-hunting X-Factor, thus...
I'm reading a couple of issues of X-Factor because they're a part of the Mutant Massacre crossover, and I'm reminded once again what a woefully ill-conceived book it was. The original X-Men pretend to go evil as the "X-Terminators" whilst also pretending to be the mutant-hunting X-Factor, thus...
... of a business, but it makes no sense as a team name, so why keep it? I don't *entirely* blame Bob Layton and Butch Guice because apparently they had to redo the first 2 issues in no time because Shooter wasn't happy with them. But also, Layton's idea for the Big, Shadowy Bad-Guy (tm) was...
... The Owl, the lamest of Daredevil villains. Of course, when Louise Simonson took over (Layton left because the X-office kept denying him the use of characters that Claremont had a lock on) the Big Bad became Apocalypse. So to sum up, X-Factor sucks. Rant over. Back to the Massacre...
I'm reading a couple of issues of X-Factor because they're a part of the Mutant Massacre crossover, and I'm reminded once again what a woefully ill-conceived book it was. The original X-Men pretend to go evil as the "X-Terminators" whilst also pretending to be the mutant-hunting X-Factor, thus...
... further stoking mutant hatred... it's mind-bogglingly stupid before you even get to how it ruined Scott Summers as a character because he walked out on his wife and child. (Yes, I know they tried to Goblin Queen their way out of that.) Even the name, X-Factor... it kind of works as the name...
The Mutant Massacre has started, and I'd probably feel like they were more of a threat if their first proper appearance didn't make them look so dopey. I blame Brett Blevins' inks mostly (he had a tendency to make everyone look like an elf) but JRJR's costumes aren't helping. 🫤