Have I Now Seen Everything?

Spotted at Target --

Operation: Hulk Edition.

I just don't know what to say...

Lookin' at Marvel Covers for October 2008

Just because I don't hardly read any Marvel stuff, doesn't mean I don't like to look at pretty pictures...

INCREDIBLE HERCULES #122
by Clayton Henry & Guru eFX
I don't know why Namor is trying to bite Hercules' stomach, but I'm not complaining. It's almost worth buying just to hang it on the wall...

AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #18
by Mark Brooks
I don't know what it is about this cover, but I just think it's really neat. I love the art, the lighting, the coloring. It's just a really nifty image!

ASTONISHING X-MEN: GHOST BOXES #1
by Simone Bianchi
Boxes. Heh.
Nice boxes, too...

SECRET WARS OMNIBUS HC
by Alex Ross
I think it's really cool when Alex Ross takes an old, well-known image that was just a line drawing with flat colors and pops it out into three dimensions. This is a nice one. It would definitely make a cool poster.

ULTIMATE CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #1
and

ULTIMATE HULK ANNUAL #1
by Brandon Peterson

I really love Brandon Peterson's art. He must have a real job somewhere, because he just doesn't draw enough comics! I wish he'd do more interior stuff (and I wish he'd do it for DC! LOL). I love his line work. I wonder if he does his own colors? If not, whoever did on these covers is an awesome match. The lighting, palette, textures...they all just really make these images pop! Awesomeness.

The power of MIKE ZECK:
Two of the above covers coming in October are based on artwork originally done by Mike Zeck for the covers of MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS #1 (May 1984) and CAPTAIN AMERICA ANNUAL #8 (1986). Here they are:

WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN Trailer

Really, it's been a long time since I've had any interest in a Marvel animated series. But this one looks like it could be alright. There appears to be a lot of influence from the movie series, but it's still obviously steeped in the comic book mythology. I just might have to check it out.

Official Press Release

The first, official trailer for Marvel's upcoming animated series, "Wolverine and the X-Men," is here! Packed with more mutants than you can shake a stick at, check out what's in store for a world in which Professor X has been taken out and Wolverine must lead the X-Men into a very uncertain and dangerous future!

"Wolverine and the X-Men" begins as an explosive event shatters the lives of the X-Men and takes away their mentor, Professor X. The beaten heroes, including Beast, Storm, Cyclops and Nightcrawler, walk away from it all but then they are given a rare glimpse into the future, where they see a world in utter ruin…ruled by giant destructive robots. They discover the world has spiraled out of control because the X-Men have given up. So now the most legendary of all X-Men, Wolverine, must take the lead on the ultimate mission -- to prevent the world's destruction -- while fending off enemies Magneto and The Brotherhood.

New INCREDIBLE HULK Trailer

This trailer does a lot better job of selling the movie than the teaser trailer did.

INCREDIBLE HULK Trailer

Avengers Assemble!

Yeah, I was bored today. And now all of you get to suffer for it!!!
BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAH!!

Sorry. Okay, bye.

That '70s Christmas

25 Days of Christmas Comics Covers - Day 5

LAUGH IN THE DARK 1 (1971)	CHRISTMAS AND ARCHIE (1975)
MARVEL TREASURY EDITION 13 (1976)	FAT ALBERT 22 (December 1977)

United States Super Hero Postage Stamps

Maybe it's because my main Marvel reading years were the 80s and early 90s and they aren't really represented much here. Or maybe it's just because I'm such a major DC freak/geek/zombie/junkie, but the Marvel stamps that came out this year just don't excite me like the DC Stamps did. I have sheets and sheets of the DC stamps, and haven't even bothered to go the post office and pick up any of the Marvel ones.

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Oh well.