(From “Bulletman” number 9, 1942. How often do you get to combine Superman II and a backhanded country song title? I love my job!)
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If you get the chance, head on over to Comics Alliance to read Chris Sims’ take-by-take breakdown of great early Nineties video of Stan Lee interviewing Rob Liefeld. Chris is a very funny writer and the whole article is a quick and amusing read. Choice bits include:
3:09 – We’ve got to admit, there’s something utterly hypnotic about watching Rob Liefeld draw pouches and armbands on a guy, and it’s only made better by the pure joy in his voice when he explains to Stan that they’re full of explosive boomerangs.
5:04 – As Liefeld rushes to finish the drawing on Stan’s deadline, Stan starts joking about how his suggestion to add spikes makes Cross a collaboration, and starts referring to him as “my character” and “our creation.” He’s laughing. Rob’s laughing. Steve Ditko is gritting his teeth.
Chris also makes a very telling serious point, though:
0:25 – This is quite possibly the most mind-blowing moment of the video, as at this point, it comes out that the latest issue of “X-Force” had sold OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES. Just to give you an idea, Diamond Comic Distributors’ best-selling comic for July 2009 was “Captain America Reborn” #1, which came in just under 200,000.
Comics were big, huge, ginormous, incredibly big business. Like the real estate market, some of that was artificially inflated by speculating investors buying many copies of each big issue, but still, the industry today is a fractured, tiny portion of what it was then. Five million copies of X-Force, folks, that’s a lot of paper being pushed to the public.
You can view the video on YouTube if you like. Chris’ regular site is “The Invincible Super-Blog” and is a daily must-read for me, the guy’s a hoot.
Posted in Randomosity
Our Poll Position for this week asks you to put yourself in the position of a super-joiner:
Discussion after the jump.
Posted in Versus
(From “Bulletman” number 9, 1942.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
I’ve just uploaded a lot of Contest Prize items to the HeroMachine 3 Alpha that I hope you’ll enjoy. Previews, links, and images to follow after the jump.
Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, Previews
(From “Bulletman” number 9, 1942. The crooks must be the same ones who used to shoot at Iron Skull.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Imagine a comics panel. You’ve got a dramatic visual layout, the brightly-colored and powerfully muscled Bulletman barreling into hapless thugs with lowered shoulder. A vigorous starburst explosion heightens the impact of the crash, separating men from hats and setting limbs akimbo, thugs flying. A simple black and white divider in the background enhances the tension.
Meanwhile the caption at the top spells out what we’re seeing, employing powerful words like “fury”, “thundering manpower”, and “hammer”. All of which sets us up nicely for the ensuing onomontoPOWia. Perhaps a WHAM or the traditional POW? Or, more daringly, a BOOM or SHA-KOOOM?
No. Oh no. Because in a world with ninja tanks and villains slapped silly, a world where the two most powerful heroes get flung around the skies by their necks, limbs flapping like chickens spun at the end of a farmer’s arm, “thundering manpower” goes “POOOOFF”.
Posted in OnomontoPOWia
(From “Bulletman” number 9, 1942.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
Hammerknight was asked in the last recipe posting for help dressing up the admittedly very primitive and limited female figure, so he was nice enough to provide the following quick guide. Many thanks to him as always for the help! If there’s anything in particular you want to see him put together be sure to let him know in the comments.
Thanks HK!
Posted in Recipes, Tips & Tricks
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com
