Kansas City-based toy designer and illustrator, MAD , is sick of the sellouts. Specifically, he’s tired of seeing the heroes he grew up with being “motivated by profit rather than to inspire.” That’s why he came up with his own take on these “Modern Heroes”—each of whom sport cartoonish, skeletal faces, to drive home the […]
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The 90s were a turbulent time for Marvel Comics. While they nearly saw financial ruin, they also met with success by teaming with Saban Entertainment to introduce two of the most beloved animated series of the decade: X-Men: TAS and Spider-Man: TAS. Boosted by their success with Saturday morning cartoon, it wasn’t long before Marvel […]
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After the success of the Impel’s previous run of Marvel Universe cards, the mighty Marvel Comics made sure to follow it up with another great set for fanboys to battle over. You can learn more about the history of these sets over on the Multiversity Comics, but in the meantime let’s take a gander at […]
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Terminator vs Robocop. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 4 You can thank my daughter for getting me back into Epic Rap Battles of History recently. It seems like the ERB crew can make just about any fictional character into an amateur rap star. Granted, this battle is nowhere near as awesome as Frank Miller […]
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Welcome back to another edition of Trade or Die! This go around we’re taking a look at a wonderfully crafted series that just so happen to contain some really BIG blunders. Ones so big that the fan boy in you will be willing to gather torches and pitchforks to storm the Doctor Doom’s castle because […]
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As many of you already know, Netflix’s new Daredevil series premieres today (which I’ll no doubt spend all weekend binge-watching) which will feature a brand new costume for the high-flying “Man Without Fear.” In honor of the premiere I thought it’d be fun to feature a crap load of the coolest Daredevil fan art we […]
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It’s downright shameful how the comic industry got looked down on from the rest of the literary world in years past. Only recently, in the past decade or so, have comics become more widely accepted—some even used in classrooms as an education tools. For the most part comics offer up some great stories, demonstrate how […]
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While Marvel Comics has dabbled in animation since the mid-60s, it wasn’t until 1999, when they joined forces with Saban International and 20th Century Fox, that the publisher offered up it’s first animated series based on The Avengers. The series, The Avengers: United They Stand, was heavily promoted and much hyped. The collective fan response […]
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Despite the inclusion on Black Widow in Avengers, female superheroes are woefully under-represented by the big two (Marvel, DC Comics) in television and film. That’s all about to change in 2015, as Marvel’s got Agent Carter up-and-running, gears up to release Jessica Jones on Netflix and DC gets ready to premiere not one, but two […]