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...ic strips from issues 152 to 161 of the ongoing monthly. Priced at £10.99, the large hardback includes characters such as The Fat Slags, Sid the Sexist, The Real Ale Twats, Elton John's Bandit B...
I'm following Wonder Woman I guess I have a weakness to heroins being a girl in a world filled with man characters and I enjoy the work Simone is doing with her.
I would however separate her issues
...ry menaces day in and out. That's why I disliked much of the the War Games Batman, because they stripped the character of his humanity and made him a dick. Number two is Spider-Man, because he's even ...
...lliance of the Moore and Davis stories remains almost an impossible comparison to overcome. After seeing the character written so originally it's a huge letdown to have him feature over the years in s...
...k Alphabet of Vampires which is really really cool.
Each post deals with another vampire comics hero, each character's story is told and the whole thing is just fun. ...
...tained story with a real beginning and end. Most of Kirby's work was in the Marvel and DC universes, and his characters lived beyond Kirby's work. He was creating and then leaving it behind for others...
...mend you start by reading the explanation here
It is one of the best ways I know of of connecting with the characters of the Super Heroes on a little deeper level.
I want to bring you all an entry...
... when every company desperate for a little Batman-like success made all their heroes a bit grittier and even characters like The Riddler and The Penguin suddenly became hardcore killers and Superman l...
...tain Marvel and the Marvel Family are not only the inspiration for the series, but in a couple instances the characters are actually shown in Miracleman. In the past DC and Marvel were on much cozier ...
...nking new to these boards.
I am a long time comic fan, and have a somewhat encyclopedic memory for comics characters, so if you have (Marvel) character questions, feel free to ask! I might even kno...
...nom. The origin is a lot simpler than all of the secret wars crap. The only downside is that the Eddie Brock character isn't really that interesting. I hope we get a lot more development of him before...
Reading a post recently about Marvel catchphrases, I wondered which Marvel characters have their own sound effects that I never noticed, so to start off, here are the two most obvious in my mind;
Wo
Speed Demon - Has he been seen anywhere recently?
Chance (The Michelinie/McFarlane character)
Shriek (Bring back Ravencroft now!)
The Chameleon - Is he still a mental wreck?
Avalanche - Is he
...ting about the spiderman book was how he kept his secret identity. he was always getting in trouble with the characters around him as peter parker and had to take a lot of insults . My favorite part w...
...ut Thanos getting an implant that allows him to use more than one body, then he can duplicate various Marvel Characters in his own image but each duplicate would have the power that Marvel Character h...
The whole 'Age the Characters' mentality is truly insidious. Sometimes it happens without the people involved even being aware.
Consider: Almost 20 years ago now I pitched, mostly in jest, a book th
...erse)
Vagabond
Wild Boys
If anyone came give me the current status (living,dead,inactive) of the above characters,I'll be eternally grateful.
Andrew Kieswetter
apkieswet...@hotmail.com...
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Sgt Tork is alive, in a plot twist that I have mixed feelings about. One the one hand, he's a great character, so the fact that he'll be in future stories is a nice touch. But on the other ha...
...w what's going on with spidermans famous arch-nemisis and foe Eddie Brock, aka VENOM.
Venom is the maddest character I wish they'd make a flick of him next.......
I have a few comics of Venom that...
...ooks and then have another storyline in the Dc Justice League books, then have teamup between the individual characters of both companies in one book, then when the teamups are done have one teamup wi...
...Byrne's Fantastic Four should be collected
Perhaps a line of Greatest Stories Ever Told for various Marvel characters (Spidey, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc.).
A What...
...it of his old nemesis in order to investigate some strange fireball activity. I'm sure that somewhere in the character's long history someone's done a similar fire-themed story, but it's fresh to me, ...
... of the way. It's all the more disppointing because Namor is such a great, unique, complex and unpredictable character in the hands of a good or even merely competent writer. Tsunami itself, as a grou...
I'm not trying to limit creativity or anything but it seems like different authors visions of the characters cause stroylines merely to undo the previous authors work.
One author decides he wants Th
...they work around the fact he's already been mentioned, when the premise of the ultimate series is to start a character's story from scratch. so we would expect his creation in Ultimate Hulk #1. again,...
these are some great books and I love being able to see the origins of some of my favorite marvel characters.
but my question is has anybody heard if they are going to make more softcover versions?
...le. (I'm tired of seeing Wonder Woman lyrics.) I usually prefer to quote the actual writer instead of just a character. I started thinking of all the Marvel character catchphrases. Did Stan Lee create...
...that could be almost totally focused on story arcs rather than long, ongoing sagas. There is a solid core of characters, plus a large supporting cast, some better than others. And let's face it, Alpha...
...u scratching your heads! The first is a combination live action/CGI version of ROCKET RACCOON with the title character being brought to life via computer effects.'
Strangely enough, I can't find any...
....7%)
Another fairly high drop for the second issue. Nothing happened in the second issue either - the lead character finally turns up in the last panel - so it'll be interesting to see whether the r...
...2 different titles every two months! More issues and stories have published about Richie Rich than any other character, possibly in the entire history of comics books, with over 2000 issues to his cre...
Or is there such a character? Friend of mine asked me about the name and it doesn't ring any bells for me. TIA
... advice on storytelling from a baseball card executive isn't worth working for more money and higher-profile characters?
JMS has a 'leave-me-alone-to-write' clause or he probably would have bailed a...
...rse than any of Stan Lee's cameos (except that if anyone is entitled, he is since he at least co-created the characters), or the movie Lana Lang being cast as Mrs Kent in the Smallville tv series.
I...
...ave a small page devoted to Spider-Man for a role playing game, and on it I have a very basic history of the character.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/mathew/csspiderman.html
One of the things I ...
...y of the Superman stories I read...
Does anyone else do the same? Are the creators more important than the characters, or is it just me being older? The only titles I read independent of the creator...
...still peruses this newsgroup to catch up on whats happened to the characters and Marvel staff?
I'll give my reasons why and when i dropped particular titles. I'd be interested in hearing why othe
Since we're discussing whose the most overrated character, we might as well ask the next most obvious question too - who is the most underrated?
I've been reading the ASM Essentials Volume 1 and was reminded of the Betty Brant character. The last I saw she was involved with Ned Leeds and he became the Hobgoblin. I cannot remember if they were
...ly grating. He shows no honour at all.
I much prefer the flawed nobleman, blinded by his own vanity to his character flaws, BUT within context admired and liked by his people. Remember Darth Vader w...
...Spectacular') and/or where could I find it on the internet. Lastly, are there any FAQ's on famous comic book characters on the net anywhere? Thanks generously in advance....
...thought Marvel READERS were the true editors.
The best format EVER for introducing new READERS to Marvel's characters and Marvel cut off the pipeline at its source. They are truly losing touch. Mayb...
I like it a lot. Interesting, plausible characters, great plot twists, nice cliffhangers for each issue. It's one of my favorites.
That's debatable. Over in racdcu, there's a thread in which people try to find any 'top tier' DC characters that were introduced relatively recently (as in, the last 50 years). Characters that are mer
Heh. I have heard people comment in passing about certain characters only appearing in a given issue because Marvel needed to prove they were still around. The one example I can provide is a Generatio
... since he was promised it long ago).
I would like to see an X-Men & Teen Titans project involving the best characters to be affiliated with each team (I can do without Marrow, Maggot, Pantha, Danny ...
...ame when she was a superhero?
Is it true that the author originally wanted to use Jessica Drew as the main character but it was nixed, so he made up someone just like her.
Thanks...
...some extent. Reed Richards (and by extension Ben Grimm), Hank Pym, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner and Doom (as the character doomed to villainy ala Luthor in Smallville) take a page from the Ultimates and y...
Can someone enlighten me as I'm have a severe braindead moment!! What character did Flash Thompson become if one at all?!?! Please someone put me out of my misery!!!
...will be reincarnated as a mutant comic book superhero this fall, according to publisher Marvel Comics.
The character will appear in a five-series storyline called 'Di Another Day' in Marvel's 'X-Sta...
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