#June2011
Chinese Dude Makes Ridiculously Swank Homemade Iron Man Suit.
Wang XiaoKang is clearly the most pimp of Iron Man fans. By day he is a Chinese Telecom worker. By afternoon, or evening, or sometime he is the builder of an absolutely gorgeous Iron Man Mark I movie armor.
Want to see him lumbering about in it? Of course you do.
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Variant Covers: Giant Lizards, Vikings, and Damn Canadians.
I hope everyone is safely buckled into their seats. We are riding the Wayback Machine, as the comic book landscape is desperately trying to scramble back to the 1990’s. DC is relaunching their brand. Marvel is ending Uncanny X-Men. Greg Capullo is drawing Batman. Joey Mads is drawing Spider-Man. Everything is seemingly returning to how it once was. A nostalgic attempt to recreate the magic and sales of a time before the internet, or digital sales, or all the naughty things mucking up the landscape.
What can we do though? Nothing. We continue buying the comic books. We kvetch. We moan. But we buy. That’s where this column comes in. Variant Covers. The watering hole that we all gather around. I tell you the titles I’m sweating this week, and you share yours. Communal. A group therapy session. My arms are open, my armpits are sweaty. I will hold you.
‘The Avengers’ Promotional Poster Is As Bad As Expected. [Updated]
[Updated Updated: See the suck in even higher high-res. Thanks Daniel Heard!.]
I love promotional posters. Especially ones for shitty things like the International Licensing Expo. That’s where this beast was spotted in the wild. What should we take from this poster? Nothing. Nothing save some laughs.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Joe Madureira To Draw ‘The Avenging Spider-Man.’ Oh Goodness.
It’s official. Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureira are both employed by the major comic book companies, heralding the feared return of the 1990s onto the comic book market. Joey Mad will be penciling the Zeb Wells written title, ‘The Avenging Spider-Man.’
Barf Sense tingling.
Hit the jump for all the news and some preview pencils.
Mark Millar Leaves Marvel To Do Solely Creator-Owned Work. Whatevs!
Oh I’m getting snarky now! Mark Millar was a favorite writer of mine for a long, long time. His work on The Ultimate, and Old Man Logan will forever go down as cherished stories of mine. Recently though, he’e been focusing on creator-owned titles, and frankly I find them all to be crappy schlock. With all this emphasis has come a weakening of his Marvel swag, and my love for his present material has decayed.
He’s leaving for only creator-owned work. This could cut two different ways.
Marvel Ending ‘Uncanny X-Men’, Oh Please Guys. C’mon.
I’m not particularly glad to see that Marvel is joining in on the bullshit DC reboot-rehash-refried-look at me train with Uncanny X-Men. They’re “ending” Uncanny X-Men at issue #544, because of totally immense consequences and shit. Please.
Budget Concerns Shortening Downey Jr.’s Time In ‘The Avengers’? Oh Marvel.
For a company that has seemed deadset on compromising the quality of individual movies in favor of building up to a corporate-climax next summer with The Avengers, I’m often confused as to why they’d be cheap. Rumors about budgetary concerns have plagued the production, cropping up in stories about where they’d be shooting, or getting Norton to come back to play Banner. Now they allegedly could influence how much Tony Stark appears in the flick.
Review: X-Men: First Class. Cold War, Hot Swag.
X-Men: First Class dropped yesterday, and the Brothers Omega went to see it. We’re lifelong fans of mutants and zany dudes in wheelchairs, so we were pretty excited. What’d we think of the movie? What’d you think of the movie? Hit the jump to join in the fun.
Variant Covers: Criminals, Mutants, and Hot Dogs.
With the stink of Memorial Day weekend-promoted seared animal and sunshine still on my flesh, I bustle to bring you this week’s Variant Covers. Summer time always smacks of considerable events, the now common deluge of superhero flicks, and a good excuse to read some funny books in front of that big shiny star looming down at us. Per usual, I encourage readers to share their pull lists for the week. I can’t read everything, haven’t heard of your favorite niche comic but I’m interested, and often just like to look at slicing swords and telekinetic knives.
Hit me!
The Old Spice Guy Campaigns To Play Luke Cage. I’m Not Sold, Are You?
It seems that Isaiah Mustafa has gone full Sean Young on us and is campaigning to be Luke Cage. There’s a short teaser he, and some other mysterious and undefined powers that be, have cut. Hit the jump for the trailer and my take on the entire thing.
