Category: comic books

Comic Cover of the Week: Totally 80s HEAVY Metal Marvel!

The NEW Defenders were a pretty awesome era of the team with a totally sweet line up and one of the team’s best member’s GARGOYLE! I say that here we have one of Marvel’s most METAL covers, 1984’s issue #136. We see a wild sort of thrash metal style satanic themed masterpiece featuring a pentagram glowing while Gargoyle’s brain fries! What a great simple but utterly breathtaking cover by Frank Cirocco that could have been easily used by a band like Slayer in the 80s!!


Wolverine in Deadpool 3: Put on the F$#king Mask Already!

Ok so Deadpool 3 is apparently ALL the rage, cuz we get Hugh Jackman as Wolverine once again but in the classic, fan demanded YELLOW costume. O-M-G!! Its finally happening…well I’m not impressed people! Ok he’s got a yellow and blu kevlar suit on…ok. Where is the fucking MASK?! You know what I’m talking about, THIS:

So yeah the ‘DEADPOOL 3’ trailer looks as if it’s going to be pretty fun little time. I’m sure it’s going to be a BIG hit, that is if people don’t have what they claim is “superhero fatigue”. I think honestly the bulk of the superhero stuff that has come out in the last 4-5 years though has just been pretty terrible, it’s not “superhero fatigue” it’s just shitty filmmaking plain and simple. I’m not a huge Ryan Reynolds fan and hence not as enamored with the Deadpool films as most but I’m certain I’m going to be excited to see Jackman return to the role of Wolverine. However, where the fuck is his god damn mask?!!

He’d better not be walking’ around maskless the entire time, or this is a wasted effort here to try and bait us with his “authentic” “classic” yellow costume. And hey can we lay off the whole kevlar look already? Most of these costumes look more like military outfitting than superhero uniforms. I’m the biggest fan of his brown, tan & black suit personally. It’s a classy much less offensive to the eyes look than his blue and yellow duds. But yeah as far as the whole “he’s wearing the suit” hype I’m NOT buying it until I see a fucking mask on Jackman’s head. We’ve seen Hugh in the role long enough, we’ve seen his face enough-PUT ON THE GOD DAMN MASK! ‘Nuff said……

Comic Cover of the Week: Marvel’s Strange Tales of Vintage Voodoo!

Hey I’m probably the only one here who was a fan of one of Marvel Comic’s weirdest heroes: Brother Voodoo! I’m not quite sure if this hero is even a thing today, I’m sure he’s considered a racial stereotype, but I’ve always viewed him as the black Doctor Strange & always thought he was a great offbeat character more centered in the Marvel’s horror stories. More likely to be seen with Man-Thing than say Captain America, so I’ve always seen a lot of potential for him to be a break out star, especially now when the internet is so focused on identity and race. They could bypass The whole alias of Brother Voodoo as he’s got a pretty great real name, Jericho Drumm.

Here’s a cool vintage Brother Voodoo cover, the first one is a more modern makeover from Bruce Timm and the second is the original. If I was still a fan of the current Marvel stuff or the MCU (which I gave up on totally) I’d say he’s got true potential in 2024!! OG cover from John Romita way back from 1973!

Comic Cover of the Week: CHRISTMAS With MAN-THING?!

‘Tis the season to be jolly even for the Man-Thing apparently?! Yes! Even the smushy green monster has got the holiday spirit as the festive cover from 1998 clearly shows! I’ve always really liked Man-Thing he’s really a bizarre anti-hero and here he’s decided to don the Santa Claus duds for the cover, Liam Sharp kinda gives him a more sexy furry looks than I normally like but regardless it’s still pretty sweet Holiday themed cover from the late 1990s!

Comic Cover of the week: Web of Spider-man #8!

Back in the day ‘Web of Spider-Man’ was one of my favorites of the webheads many titles at the time. Particularly because I found that this series had some of his best comic book covers and Of course I was a giant fan of the wildly controversial black Spider-man costume. Looking back at it it’s aged like fine wine And it always looked super bad ass on covers with overly simplistic design proving again that less is sometimes indeed more. Covers like this make me really miss the comic books of the 1980s, artist Geof Isherwood created an iconic cover from an amazing era….

 

Comic Cover of the Week: Bill Sienkiewicz DAZZLES!

Comic cover of the week? More like ‘album cover’ of the decade! Here’s just another example of just how amazing of an artist Bill Sienkiewicz is once again. I’m blown away that rock bands weren’t knocking down his door to do their album cover artwork. Dazzler #27 (from 1983) surely does “dazzle”and if you take a minute to look at the whole collection of his Dazzler artwork it’s just as good as this-some of the most awesome “80s” imagery of the decade…hands down!

Comic Cover of the Week: Moonstone Messes Up The Jade Giant!

Moonstone’s one of my favorite female baddie’s and has been one of the coolest of  The Incredible Hulk’s rogue gallery since way in 1978, when she first appeared in this totally rad issue! This particular comic was one of my favorites as a kid-and the fact that she could go toe to toe with the Jade Giant solidified her in my book as one of the most power female villains in Marvel comics! I always wanted to see her take on She-Hulk because as a kid it was rare to see female villains that could mess of the  Hulk. This is such a great cover too, showcasing why Herb Trimpe and Bob Mcleod could get the job done for a smashing cover that is reminiscent of the powerful “Sal Buscema punch”-such a classic cover, it really makes me miss a good old fashioned  Hulk adventure!! 

Halloween Comic Cover of the Week: Ben Grimm Meets the UNDEAD!

I was such a gigantic fan of The Thing as a kid (and still today) and would buy pretty much any comic book he appeared in if my mom would buy it for me! All of my time seeing him in the Fantastic Four had always made me wish he’d get his own solo book. In a way he’d already gotten in with ‘Marvel Two in One’ which featured him and a revolving cast of wild often times unknown characters from the Marvel Universe. But the real deal series for him came right after in 1983-a solo comic series written by John Byrne. Anyway it was one of my favorite comic books and it got really interesting when he quit the Fantastic Four (was replaced by She-Hulk) and went off planet for a bizarre series of adventures. one of my favorite covers was from THIS awesome simplistic spooky tale that’s perfect for Halloween. The Thing #19 continues his wild solo adventures and picking this cover to showcase really inspires me to go back and re-read this series from the start! Ron Wilson was the perfect artist for the series second imo only to John Byrne himself….

 

Comic Cover of the Week: The HULK vs. The SUPER SKRULL!

Dale Keown has easily just GOT to be one of the greatest Hulk comic book artists of all time-and here’s more proof of that as I’m showcasing issue #375 all the way back from 1990. This is an awesome cover it’s straight to the point-we waited far too long to see The Hulk battle The Super Skrull but here it finally happened. Keown’s art always for some reason reminded me a bit of John Byrne, who’s one of my all time faves but I think Keown’s Hulk is even better. This was an awesome era of the comic that explored some cool new concepts and of course here focused on the grey Hulk. The kid in me still gets so excited to add The Super Skull to the Grey Goliath’s rogue gallery… 

The interior art too was no joke-look at how awesome some of these panels are! Dale made sure none of us were disappointed by their battle. I tell you, they just don’t make Hulk art or Hulk battles like they used too…

Comic Cover of the Week: The Incredible “John Carpenter Thing” HULK!

I was looking through my incredible Hulk back issues the other day and sort of forgot about how good some of  The Incredible Hulk run from the late 90s early 2000s was. It reminded me of one of the things I took note of back then and again today, was how amazing Kyle Hotz’s Incredible Hulk artwork was!

One of my all time favorites is issue #19 from 2000. It reminds me of a sort of “John Carpenter’s The Thing” take on The Incredible Hulk. Hotz nails it here, giving this cover and many others a sort of “horror” vibe. I’m definitely needing to revisit these issues that he was artist on- again here’s another one issue #21, the kind of imagery I always want to see from an Incredible Hulk comic book-a dose of sc-fi, horror and of course a raging monster ready to lose control!