Comic Voyage

If you haven’t been reading the New 52’s ‘Animal Man’, GO. No. RUN. Run to your local comic store and buy the trade ‘Animal Man Volume 1: The Hunt’. 

The revamped Animal Man series is simply engrossing. It’s a dark series, and not in the sexy-gritty Bad Planet sense. It’s more like a blood-curdling childhood nightmare. 

Buddy Baker is an actor, stunt-man, family man and part-time superhero. In the first issue of Animal Man, Baker’s son informs him of a hostage situation involving kids. Animal Man conjures the flight of an eagle, and soars valiantly to the children’s rescue. 

The series begins light, whimsical even, with flat cartoon-like illustrations that beguile you into a seemingly routine heroic tale.

And then comes the gore… 

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“…Jason Fabok’s art is very textured, which may engender vicarious shivers in the reader, especially when Mr. Freeze deluges his enemies with ice. And unlike Arnold Schwarzeneggerr’s interpretation of the character, the New 52‘s Mr. Freeze posses a complex, darkly forbidding demeanor. “ Continue reading

PENCIL AND INK: THE ORIGINS OF MR. FREEZE

“Hopped up on vicodin” after recovering from a car accident, actor Thomas Jane (known from his starring roles in HBO’s Hung, The Punisher, and The Mist) was attacked by vidid fever dreams of ‘horrible alien deathspiders.’ These nightmares inspired the addictive comic series Bad Planet, an absorbing fusion of sumptuous art and ingenious sci-fi storytelling… Continue reading

The X-Men are under constant scrutiny. From public ridicule to government surveillance, good publicity is absolutely pivotal to the mutants’ livelihood. Professor X and the X-Men are expected to be moral crusaders - beacons of all that is good and light. 

But what if a predicament requires darkness?
What happens when the unethical becomes the imperative? 

Enter X-Force. The X-Force is a secret black-ops squad currently led by (the epitome of unconventional heroics himself) Wolverine. Officially disbanded, the force tackles dirty assignments that the main X-Men simply cannot handle… Continue reading

PENCIL AND INK: DEADPOOL 
Severely disfigured, mentally deranged and obnoxiously loquacious, Wade Wilson redefines what it means to be a hero… 

Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool aka the “Merc with a Mouth”, is a popular anti-hero in the Marvel universe, and an essential facet to any True Believer’s collection. A mercenary mutated by medical experimentation, Deadpool posseses regenerative healing powers and immunity to disease, chemicals and telepathic assaults. However, this constant regeneration resulted in his overt mental lunacy, and severely disfigured skin.

It was obvious since his inception that Deadpool wasn’t the atypical Captain-America-esque hero fans were accustomed to, but Wilson’s wild humour and erratic behaviour established him a cult-like following in the Marvel community…  Continue reading 

In a world pervaded with financial uncertainty and national conflict, a little consistency is surely warranted, and an anonymous philanthropist has given us just that in blog form. The Same Picture of Dave Coulier Every Day posts the same picture of David Coulier…every day. 

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Satirist, writer, and TV host, Stephen Colbert, has decided to tackle a new niche: Children’s literature. Colbert’s latest book “I Am A Pole (And So Can You)” is a coming-of-age tale of a pole’s search for self-purpose. The pole explores his numerous functions; ski pole, totem pole, stripper pole, but none provide the existential fulfillment he desires.   Continue reading…