Artwork for MCU Phase Two Blu-ray Box Set, by Matt Ferguson
*squints at winter soldier* oh is that tiny thing falcon
phew they put a black guy on one of these
Yeah, an O’Malley variant cover. You heard.
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And then there was that time I stayed at a hotel and discovered a freebie Avengers promotional comic that was all about Tony Stark shilling the Wyndham Rewards club. (Oddly enough, I was not actually staying at a Wyndham.) Love that panel at the end.
Story by Fred van Lente, art by Brad Walker. Part 1 of 2.
Cross-posted to 80-Page Giant…
In 1956, Atlas Comics (precursor to Marvel) began publishing Dan DeCarlo’s short-lived humor series Sherry the Showgirl. In 1964, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the villainous Kraven the Hunter in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man. In a storyline beginning in 2012, Stan Lee, his brother Larry Lieber, and Alex Saviuk paired the two up in the Spider-Man newspaper strip.
Stan Lee has the weirdest ships you guys seriously
(Cover scans courtesy of comics.org, newspaper strip courtesy Comics Curmudgeon.)
And then there was that time I stayed at a hotel and discovered a freebie Avengers promotional comic that was all about Tony Stark shilling the Wyndham Rewards club. (Oddly enough, I was not actually staying at a Wyndham.)
Stark really does not strike me as a Continental Breakfast kind of guy - or a breakfast before noon guy, really, and you know you can never find anything at hotel breakfast bars after like 10am. On the other hand, that penultimate panel of the assembled Avengers being incredulous is amazing.
Story by Fred van Lente, art by Brad Walker. Part 2 of 2.
foolofthegeekdom asked:
As someone who hasn't kept up with the fandom, can you explain to me the issue with a female Autobot after Arcee has been around for well, pretty much ever?
Arcee wasn’t even the first female. The first female Transformers character was Auntie, the Ark’s sentient computer system from the very early Marvel comics material. And then the cartoon introduced the Female Autobots (a proper noun because it’s the name of their underground resistance group), and then Arcee came around.
As of now, there’s 186 female Transformers who have articles on Transformers Wiki.
But that doesn’t mean people like it and accept it. Female Transformers are seen as a goofy intrusion on what apparently are the super-serious sci-fi adventures of some cars and trucks who transform into the Superfriends, versus a cassette player who grows a hundred times his size and poops a cat out of his chest. You can be a robot who transforms into a Formula-1 racer who has no trouble driving down an average American street without anyone raising an eyebrow, but a girl robot apparently is a bridge too far.
FUN TRIVIA: Ratchet was originally going to be a girl back in 1984 (named after Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), until Hasbro told Bob Budiansky that, no, you can’t make some of them girls, this toyline is for little boys, all Transformers are male.
So close.
thefunkmob asked:
So I wanted to get into transformers comics. Can you recommend a good place to start? Ive already started reading the classic Marvel comics, and they have been fantastic. Basically I am asking which newer comics I should start with that you think are good.
The current ongoing comic book series by IDW are both good, Robots in Disguise and More Than Meets The Eye. It might be best to read Last Stand of the Wreckers before them, and then the “The Death of Optimus Prime” one-shot that kicks off both of them.
So I was reading through the collected IDW “Classics” reprints of the original Marvel comics, got to Wheeljack here, and was like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaitaminute….
*shakes fist* You cartooned him up! You monsters!
I mean, like, there are legitimate coloring errors that these reprints completely ignore, but, sure, hey, have Wheeljack edited into his cartoon colors.
Sure, Cosmos is a cute Peter Lorre-talking dude in the cartoon, but in the Marvel comics, he was a murderous motherfucker. If his arm is raised, he’s killing somebody with it. And he’s usually got both of ‘em up.
A frightening peek into my understanding of world history as of the Nineties.
Like with Marvel Comics readers, Creationists also believe in a sliding time scale. You know, to make the Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations fit. Between 2000 and 1500 BC, there was a rise and fall of every prehistoric and early civilization, a score of Egyptian dynasties occurred at a rapid-fire pace of about maybe two years each, to fit them all in, and Peter Parker went through like 30 girlfriends and six Presidents while remaining 25 years old.
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