Well, that scene looks familiar but I don't think that's the original text. I tried Googling it, only to find out Thor has quite the following on some very disturbing erotic message boards. Wow.
So, Nick Bradshaw's kind of blowing up right now, due to his work on Wolverine and the X-Men. But, I was first exposed to his work back in 2006, on a Wildstorm series, the appropriately titled Rokkin.
Written by Andy Hartnell, pencilled by Bradshaw, and inked and colored by Jim Charalampidis, Rokkin tells the story of Arness, a talented butcher, who lives in a medieval fantasy land.
Though adored by his neighbors, he's a simple, humble man, whose only real desire is to marry his lady, and give her the things she deserves.
..home.
In order to meet his goal, he works by day as a butcher, and by night as a woodsman, gathering lumber for the warrior, Rothian. But, one evening, he is called upon to assist Rothian with a new job, one that promises greater rewards.
Wait, Grizzlok? What's a--
-- oh.
After using his knowledge of animal anatomy to handily disembowel the demon-bear, Arness is rewarded with jewels, enough to give his wife a ring, marry her, and relocate them far away from the evil encroaching on the land.
Unfortunately, he doesn't do it quite fast enough. On the day they plan to disembark, Arness leaves the village to gather supplies, and returns to find it a smoking ruin, his wife missing. Caught unaware, he's bludgeoned into submission, enslaved by the armies of Lord Vulmax, and put to work building a fortress.
As it turns out, slavery is really good for building your core strength.
My scanner tends to wash out colors a bit, which means I have to fiddle with the brightness and contrast a bit. So, these images don't really do the book justice. I'm going to continue recapping the series, over the next few days, but if your local store has a good selection of back issues, try to find this book. Hartnell's script is a bit dry and formulaic at times, but as the series goes on, it loosens up a bit, with more modernisms injected into the fantasy lingo.
Bradshaw and Charalampidis' work is fantastic, though. The whole book looks like the most beautiful, violent movie, Disney never made. The creature designs are particularly fantastic, from the Grizzlok, to various giants and fantasy races, that show up later on in the series.
True story: I bought the first issue, due entirely to the cover. When you see a guy literally waist-deep in enemies, you know you're in for a good time.
Unfortunately, the published issue actually didn't feature a wraparound cover.
Here's a short story from the 2006 DC Comics Holiday Special to get us in the mood for Secret Superman. The comic it comes from is 70 pages long, so the excerpt is just a small fraction of the holiday goodness contained therein.
I wish DC and Marvel would release trades of their holiday specials, because they're always full of sappiness and humor.
That last panel has to be the best punchline ever. I was rolling on the floor.
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I finished reading the JLA/Avengers trade today, and I thought this was a cool scene:
I also liked the Captain America versus Prometheus scene after Prometheus downloaded Batman's moves and thought that would be enough to take on Cap. And the scene where Green Arrow and Hawkeye are back to back after being competitive the whole series.
So, Nick Bradshaw's kind of blowing up right now, due to his work on Wolverine and the X-Men. But, I was first exposed to his work back in 2006, on a Wildstorm series, the appropriately titled Rokkin.
Written by Andy Hartnell, pencilled by Bradshaw, and inked and colored by Jim Charalampidis, Rokkin tells the story of Arness, a talented butcher, who lives in a medieval fantasy land.
Though adored by his neighbors, he's a simple, humble man, whose only real desire is to marry his lady, and give her the things she deserves.
..home.
In order to meet his goal, he works by day as a butcher, and by night as a woodsman, gathering lumber for the warrior, Rothian. But, one evening, he is called upon to assist Rothian with a new job, one that promises greater rewards.
Wait, Grizzlok? What's a--
-- oh.
After using his knowledge of animal anatomy to handily disembowel the demon-bear, Arness is rewarded with jewels, enough to give his wife a ring, marry her, and relocate them far away from the evil encroaching on the land.
Unfortunately, he doesn't do it quite fast enough. On the day they plan to disembark, Arness leaves the village to gather supplies, and returns to find it a smoking ruin, his wife missing. Caught unaware, he's bludgeoned into submission, enslaved by the armies of Lord Vulmax, and put to work building a fortress.
As it turns out, slavery is really good for building your core strength.
My scanner tends to wash out colors a bit, which means I have to fiddle with the brightness and contrast a bit. So, these images don't really do the book justice. I'm going to continue recapping the series, over the next few days, but if your local store has a good selection of back issues, try to find this book. Hartnell's script is a bit dry and formulaic at times, but as the series goes on, it loosens up a bit, with more modernisms injected into the fantasy lingo.
Bradshaw and Charalampidis' work is fantastic, though. The whole book looks like the most beautiful, violent movie, Disney never made. The creature designs are particularly fantastic, from the Grizzlok, to various giants and fantasy races, that show up later on in the series.
He lives here in Moncton. I had a nice chat with him on free comic book day as he's trying to see about getting a comic con organized for here next year and even met his folks. The guy is really nice.
you know, I never really read the 80's all star squadron
always meant to
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All-Star had some really great moments; I still recall the Dr. Fate origin issue as being one of my all-time favorites. The Ian Karkull issue where they explain why the JSA never seemed to age; the first story arc with Dr. Mid-nite and co. where heroes are disappearing left and right; the introduction of Amazing Man and the fight against Real American and the Klan.
Good times.
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On the other hand, with the Crisis, when Roy Thomas was still trying to make it work we had this scene originally:
And after the Crisis, when the big guns were moved squarely and solely into the modern era, and Thomas was able to use the Freedom Fighters (which I believe he wasn't able to do with the first pic), it became this:
In fact, although I had some comics as a kid, which my mom would always throw out after a while, this is the first comic I picked up when i was in high school that started my comic collecting craze:
I still remember reading it for the first time and falling in love with the Shining Knight. He's still a favorite of mine.
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As a matter of fact... I remember an awesome moment, but cannot find the name or issue of the comic book it came from. Way back in the early 80's, when I was a kid, we used to go to a Food Lion grocery store, and I would sit and read comics while my mom shopped. I read one of those supernatural mystery books like House of Secrets or House of Mystery (although it could have been something else) and it had a story of a vampire and werewolf who were fighting in a swamp or the forest and stumbled upon a cabin. They proceeded to tear each other up until they were both dying and exhausted. And that's when the person who lived in the cabin revealed he was a ghoul and was going to eat them both. I have never been able to find out what that comic was, but it was pretty awesome to my 11 year old mind.
I don't know about that one, but here's a similar idea, from Curse of the Weird #2, a book Marvel used to reprint 1970's horror comics, during the 90's.
Basically, a clan of vampires are talking about how their leader's the biggest badass around. Well, except for the Beast-Man. That dude's way scarier. Then they abduct a fat, bald guy.
What a twist!
I enjoyed this one, too.
That's the one galaxy that Galactus just doesn't fuck with.
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I really wish my local comics shop still had their old building, with a basement full of comics from every era just overflowing everywhere. I would love to pick up some old 70's and 80's comics.
I would love to replace those old Rom, White Tiger and Moon Knight comics my mom threw out.
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Quiet! This is a happy place.
Oh look, Wanda is sad
better cheer her up with this arrow that shoots a bouquet of flowers into her lap!
It's like every problem Hawkeye ever comes across leads to him thinking "I need an arrow for this..."
So I saw this on tumblr and of course there's no citation or anything I can find...
Is this real? What comic is it in?
the original scene has Thor and Iron Man talking about how Stark fucked up in Civil War
C'mon Centi
YOU'RE GETTING SLOPPY, CENTIPEDE. SEE ME IN MY OFFICE.
That's a weird edit of that scene.
this is the one from IIM
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
YOU GET IN MY OFFICE TOO
FUCK IT EVERYONE IN MY OFFICE
God dammit. I'm getting into trouble without actually doing anything. It's like highschool all over again.
Written by Andy Hartnell, pencilled by Bradshaw, and inked and colored by Jim Charalampidis, Rokkin tells the story of Arness, a talented butcher, who lives in a medieval fantasy land.
..home.
In order to meet his goal, he works by day as a butcher, and by night as a woodsman, gathering lumber for the warrior, Rothian. But, one evening, he is called upon to assist Rothian with a new job, one that promises greater rewards.
Wait, Grizzlok? What's a--
-- oh.
After using his knowledge of animal anatomy to handily disembowel the demon-bear, Arness is rewarded with jewels, enough to give his wife a ring, marry her, and relocate them far away from the evil encroaching on the land.
Unfortunately, he doesn't do it quite fast enough. On the day they plan to disembark, Arness leaves the village to gather supplies, and returns to find it a smoking ruin, his wife missing. Caught unaware, he's bludgeoned into submission, enslaved by the armies of Lord Vulmax, and put to work building a fortress.
As it turns out, slavery is really good for building your core strength.
My scanner tends to wash out colors a bit, which means I have to fiddle with the brightness and contrast a bit. So, these images don't really do the book justice. I'm going to continue recapping the series, over the next few days, but if your local store has a good selection of back issues, try to find this book. Hartnell's script is a bit dry and formulaic at times, but as the series goes on, it loosens up a bit, with more modernisms injected into the fantasy lingo.
Bradshaw and Charalampidis' work is fantastic, though. The whole book looks like the most beautiful, violent movie, Disney never made. The creature designs are particularly fantastic, from the Grizzlok, to various giants and fantasy races, that show up later on in the series.
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Unfortunately, the published issue actually didn't feature a wraparound cover.
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Wheel of Pain, anyone?
But seriously, that is some impressive artwork.
I also liked the Captain America versus Prometheus scene after Prometheus downloaded Batman's moves and thought that would be enough to take on Cap. And the scene where Green Arrow and Hawkeye are back to back after being competitive the whole series.
I like that it's completely definitely in context.
This is the JLA kids equivalent of "the last time you really inspired anyone -- was when you were dead"
He lives here in Moncton. I had a nice chat with him on free comic book day as he's trying to see about getting a comic con organized for here next year and even met his folks. The guy is really nice.
I loved the Crisis on Infinite Earths series, but hated what it did to All Star Squadron.
always meant to
Good times.
And after the Crisis, when the big guns were moved squarely and solely into the modern era, and Thomas was able to use the Freedom Fighters (which I believe he wasn't able to do with the first pic), it became this:
In fact, although I had some comics as a kid, which my mom would always throw out after a while, this is the first comic I picked up when i was in high school that started my comic collecting craze:
I still remember reading it for the first time and falling in love with the Shining Knight. He's still a favorite of mine.
Basically, a clan of vampires are talking about how their leader's the biggest badass around. Well, except for the Beast-Man. That dude's way scarier. Then they abduct a fat, bald guy.
What a twist!
That's the one galaxy that Galactus just doesn't fuck with.
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I would love to replace those old Rom, White Tiger and Moon Knight comics my mom threw out.
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