Masters Of The Fourth World?

Dave | November 30, 2009

 A few weeks back, I mentioned how the Masters of the Universe live-action movie from 1987 was, in essence, the closest we’re ever gonna get to a New Gods movie. This isn’t my theory, by the way—former comics great/current comics crackpot John Byrne said as much in a Next Men letters column some years back, [...]

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“We ain’t in the takin’ prisoners bidness. We in the killin’ Nazis bidness. And cousin, bidness is a-boomin’.”

Dave | November 20, 2009

 Oh man, do I ever love this. Some talented individual with exquisite taste in both movies and comic artists (I still don’t know who it was–these turned up on movie site CHUD, after appearing on Ain’t It Cool News Guru Harry Jay Knowles’ Twitter feed) created five covers for an imaginary Jack Kirby series adapting Quentin Tarantino’s [...]

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Loki is cool with me.

Rachelle | May 19, 2009

Now that the role has been cast in the upcoming movie, I would like to put forward an argument that Thor’s villainous brother Loki, the God of Mischief, isn’t all that bad.
Take this early apperance in Journey Into Mystery #88, for example. Loki comes down to Earth and starts "terrorizing" humanity by…
…turning everything into candy [...]

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Thor: Love and Rocks

Rachelle | May 5, 2009

I have been reading a lot of Thor comics lately, particularly the very first stories from Journey Into Mystery. Honestly, I’m surprised that the character caught on so quickly. I think we can thank Jack Kirby’s art.
Not that I’m not loving these comics. I love that it’s essentially just the story of a dude who [...]

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Let Doom turn that frown upside-down!

Rachelle | April 14, 2009

Panels taken from Fantastic Four #6, with apologies to Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Mariah Carey.

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