Or is that “Tranos” or “Thrump”? Well anyway, the idea for this hit me a month or so ago and I spent most of the morning committing iPad Pro and Apple Pencil toward making it happen. Obviously a homage to the classic cover of The Infinity Gauntlet #4 from 1991:
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Okay, it’s not a “perfect” movie. I for one would have appreciated more of Ultron’s legendary Oedipus complex between himself and his “father” (who in the Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity is Tony Stark). But those little problems aside, Avengers: Age of Ultron is a gob-smockingly powerhouse of a ride comin’ at ya, and in this viewer’s opinion it’s more than the ideal movie to kick off a summer season.
So we caught it last night during its preview showings (it officially opens today). “We” being longtime friend/artistic collaborator Melody Hallman Daniel who’s been visiting here for the past week, her service dog Sasha, and Yours Truly. After what seemed like a dozen trailers (alas! the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was not one of them, and if it had been I was going to stand up wave my hands frantically while screaming “YES YES YES!!”). The film starts with ...
Definitely THE best of the series by far! And one of the finest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date.
Go see it. Now! Or, perish in flames. It’s your choice. But not really…
(And do not do not DO NOT leave the theater until you’ve seen the end credits. All of the end credits. You have been warned.)...
If there are movie theaters in Heaven, then Jack Kirby has to be smiling this week.
Because I saw Thor at 12:01 this past Friday morning and the more I think about it the more I find myself believing it to be the best pure comic book superhero movie that I’ve ever seen.
Based on the Marvel Comics character created by Kirby, Stan Lee and Larry Leiber, Thor is the adaptation of “The King”‘s trademark vast cosmic vision that we always wanted in a movie but never thought we’d actually get! I would even say that Thor is a film that we’ve seen precious little of since the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope, NOT The Phantom Menace). Directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Chris Hemsworth as the titular Norse god of thunder, Thor is a movie of big concepts painted with broad brushes across an ...
Last week this blog joined others in oggling with admiration a full-sized costume of a Covenant Elite from the Halo video games.
Then two days ago I shared with y’all the “impressive… most impressive!” video of a German Star Wars fan’s General Grievous costume.
If you have yet to be astonished at the costuming creativity that is apparently running rampant through the land, then this should drop your jaw to the floor: Anthony Le’s full-sized, fully automated set of War Machine armor! That photo on the right? That’s not a still from Iron Man 2: that is Anthony fully suited up.
Meanwhile I’m sitting here, looking at my humble Jedi Knight costume, looking back at the ingenuity of these other outfits, a single tear trickling down my cheek…
(Okay someday, Lord willing, I will at last put together that movie-quality Boba Fett costume that I’ve always dreamed of, muhahahahaha!)...
Many egotisticial nutcases in history have had pastimes. Fidel Castro almost made it as a professional baseball player. Charles Manson wrote songs. Even Hitler painted roses.
And apprently local cult leader Johnny Robertson of the Martinsville Church of Christ (part of what many are now calling “Sons of Hell” and “Stalkers for Jesus”) is not exempt.
Here’s the original photo that was sent in by “Code Name Exelsior”…
This photo was taken inside Martinsville Church of Christ’s sanctuary. That’s Johnny Robertson himself in the left of the picture, and fellow cultist/stalker (and partner with recently found-guilty criminal trespasser Micah Robertson) Mark McMinnis in the plaid shirt sitting down.
Have you spotted it yet? Is your “Spider-Sense” tingling?
Well if not, behold true believers!
I count at least nine and possibly more Spider-Man comic books sitting in a pile on the pews of Martinsville Church of Christ. The headquarters of ...
Inspired by Marvel Comics’ “Civil War” storyline from a few years ago, I made these banners that you can put on your own blog or website or whatever declaring whose side you are on!
Yes, it has come to this: the entire western world dividing up into Team Leno and Team Conan. There are natural disasters across the globe and corrupt politicians taking us for a ride… but thank God we have our priorities in order!
/sarcasm...
Y’all have got to check this out! It’s on Cartoon Network and it’s based on those cute lil’ Marvel Super Hero Squad toys from Hasbro. But don’t let that mislead ya: The Super Hero Squad Show is really more like Marvel Comics meets The Family Guy.
What sort of funny are we talking here? Captain America was just on the phone while wearing a Confederate outfit, discussing the re-enactment he’s on his way to: “Hey it’s the Civil War, what’s the worst that could happen?”
Looks like I’ve found something new to DVR (in addition to those reruns of Are You Being Served? on PBS 🙂...
Fourteen months ago Mark Millar began his “Old Man Logan” arc for Marvel Comics: the story of Wolverine, now some fifty years in the future, eking out a hardscrabble existence with his wife and children in the countryside of an America gone straight to hell. And in all that time Wolverine – now simply known as “Logan” – hasn’t once popped his claws.
And then the cataract-plagued Hawkeye approached Logan with a business proposition: one that the former X-Man couldn’t turn down because he needed the rent money to pay off the inbred progeny of Bruce Banner. For the next several issues we watched Logan and Hawkeye tear across the remnants of the United States en route to New Babylon. And during the trip we finally learned what happened on the night the heroes fell, when Wolverine was brought down so hard that he forever forsook violence.
But it was ...
Click on over to ComingSoon.net for the story that I thought had to have been a joke when I first heard about it this morning.
But it’s true: Disney is purchasing Marvel Entertainment and everything that comes with it – comics, characters, movies, the whole shebang – for $4 billion in cash and stock transaction.
All that I can think of at the moment is that this will probably become the entertainment industry’s equivalent to Ted Turner’s Time Warner purchasing of America Online....