Entries from March 2009
March 30, 2009
Megan Fox loves comics!
This might just seem like a brazen stab at getting gratuitous pictures of Megan Fox on the blog, but there really is a genuine reason for her appearing on my comic book site.
It turns out that Official Hottest Chick in the World is a “huge comic-book fan” according to this month’s Empire magazine.
The cover star [...]
March 30, 2009
Justice League of America Newspaper Strip: Chapter 53
Last week the evil Dr Destiny unmasked himself to the Justice League and revealed he wants revenge on them because they sent him to a psychiatric hospital where he became deformed. The villain shot Superman, but could someone save him in the nick of time? Read on!
As usual, click here to see a larger version [...]
March 29, 2009
It’s Splash Page Sunday!
George Perez. Love this guy. Check out this splash from The Avengers #144 to see how cool he is. Words by Steve Englehart.
March 28, 2009
It Sucks Being Sue Storm!
Look at this. Reed is probably in his laboratory discovering the microverse or something, but his little wife is in the kitchen, where she belongs, baking cookies. In an apron.
It sucks being Sue Storm.
March 27, 2009
Iron Man vs Bruce Lee!
If you’ve seen a cooler thing than this today, you’re a goddamn liar.
March 26, 2009
Review of Fantastic Four #564 and #565!
Everyone knows that the Fantastic Four is the greatest comic book ever, just like everyone knows Scotland is the greatest country ever. Therefore, a FF story set in Scotland should be the greatest comic of all time.
Not quite, but FF #564 and 565 were still cracking reads. Originally intended as a Christmas special, this two-parter [...]
March 26, 2009
Ultimate University! Comic book writers lecture students!
Recollections of my time at Edinburgh’s Napier University (where I learned how to be a mild-mannered reporter) revolve around having just that one more Guinness, throbbing hangovers and lurching in late for class, but even I might have made it in for 9am if I was being lectured on comics.
The coolest thing about Napier back [...]
