Archive for the ‘Riff’ Category
Hulktastic!
July 15th, 2010 by Riff
Marvel fans are almost certainly aware of the rash of upcoming Marvel movies geared towards launching the Avengers on the silver screen. We’ve already had 2 Iron Man films, and we’re awaiting Captain America, Thor and the Avengers. And we’ve had two movies featuring our favourite green-skinned hooligan, the Hulk. Initially there was Ang Lee’s [...]
Tags: Ang Lee, Bruce Banner, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Ed Norton, Eric Bana, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Jack Kirby, Marvel, Marvel Movies, Rick Jones, Sam Elliot, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Thing, William Hurt
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Marvel Shorts?
June 21st, 2010 by Riff
Here’s some potentially exciting news, courtesy of Slashfilm.com the gist of which is that Marvel seem to be considering a short movie to play alongside their main features. Why’s that so good? Well as the article states, it allows non-comic fans to get a taste of Marvel’s less well known properties, and to see why [...]
Tags: Disney, Hulk, Iron Man, Marvel, movies, Sin City, The Thing, Tron
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“The Man”
March 11th, 2010 by Riff
I had occasion to be reading a bit of Daredevil the other day, just a page or two mind you, but a random thought struck me. It was from the “old school” DD, pre-Frank Miller, and so it was pretty insane and far more “happy go lucky” than anything post-Miller – but I digress. The [...]
Tags: Avengers, Batman, Bullpen, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Frank Miller, Gene Colan, Iron Man, Jack Kirby, Marvel, Roy Orbison, Spider-Man, Stan "The Man" Lee, Superman, X-Men
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Every Hero needs a sidekick!
March 3rd, 2010 by Riff
Meet Buddy. Buddy is my new best friend and he arrived this morning at approx 10.30 am, which probably explains the slightly bewildered expression on his face. It’s been a big week for him. Buddy used to race, but he is past his fastest now and so was pensioned off at the age of around [...]
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So Just Who’s Running This Game, Anyhow?
February 17th, 2010 by Riff
As regular readers will know by now, I’m an avid fan of the game City of Heroes (and Villains for that matter too.) If you’re even close to the MMO ground, you’ll probably be aware that there’s been more than a few changes there, partly in response to another game that almost came over the [...]
Tags: Abbey Chase, Agent Zero, Andy Hartnell, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Danger Girl, Deuce, Going Rogue, J. Scott Campbell, Major Maxim, Marvel, Matt 'Positron' Miller, Natalia Kassle, Reichsman, Sydney Savage, War Witch
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Excelsior! Happy Birthday Stan Lee
December 29th, 2009 by Riff
A tribute to Stan Lee, celebrating his 87th Birthday
Tags: Dr Doom, Fantastic Four, Jack Kirby, Spider-Man, Stan Lee
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Time for a Rethink?
October 7th, 2009 by Riff
Musings over the future direction of this site and or blog. Whither now?
Tags: Ashes, comics, Crucial Comicbooks, Opinion, WordPress
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Comicbook Experiment: Calling all Artists
August 16th, 2009 by Riff
Here’s an idea that came to me the other day and I thought I’d share it with you all dearest reader. Many of us in comicbook fandom land aspire to be a comicbooks writer or artist – we love comics so much we want to be involved in their creation – and frankly I’m no [...]
Tags: comic books, comicbooks, Web Comics, webcomics
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Warren Wants Your Web Comic
August 3rd, 2009 by Riff
If you’re even vaguely interested in comics, Warren Ellis’ Whitechapel forum probably hasn’t escaped your notice. However, just in case it did, here’s a little heads up from me: Warren Ellis wants to host your web comic. He’s basically offering you the same deal I did a couple of months ago (great minds think alike [...]
Tags: Warren Ellis, Web Comics, Whitechapel
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Testing an Avi
August 1st, 2009 by Riff
Ok need to get my new avatar on the new CoH forums so I’m gonna cheat and upload it here fro now. This is another great sketch done by Federico. I’ve trimmed it and added the colour but the rest is all him!
Tags: Bloody Sugar, City of Heroes, Federico, Scarlet Shocker
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