Posts Tagged ‘Spider-Man’


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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Excelsior! Happy Birthday Stan Lee

December 29th, 2009 by Riff

A tribute to Stan Lee, celebrating his 87th Birthday

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The Darkness: More Creativity

June 19th, 2009 by Riff

I’ve featured a few posts about creation – to me that’s one of the quinetessentially interesting things about a comic – because there are so many different levels of input – compared say, to a novel. With a novel you primarily have the author and a contribution to the work by an editor: The images [...]

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Friday Roundup

April 3rd, 2009 by Riff

A weekly round up of news in the world of comics!

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Diggle to pen Marvel’s Daredevil

March 21st, 2009 by Riff

So catching up on comic news as I’m prone to do – after all, who else is gonna keep you in the mix? – and this flops onto my desktop courtesy of Myspace Comicbooks’ “Cup o’ Joe.” Frankly this is excellent news. Excellent? It’s fucking fantastsic! Yep, Andy Diggle is take over from Ed Brubaker [...]

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Draw the World Together Relaunches

March 11th, 2009 by Riff

Ok here’s some exciting news for all you guys, but especially for those of you involved in City of Heroes or Villains, but also for comicbook fans everywhere: Our friends at DtWT are back in Action!!! That’s right – Draw the World Together, a very worthy charity organisation has relaunched with a brand new website. [...]

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Alex Ross’ Obama Man

March 8th, 2009 by Riff

Following on from Marvel’s “Barak meets Spidey”Alex Ross has designed a T shirt based on his famously iconic Superman. Nice touch, but Gordon Brown won’t be wearing it. And he saved the world (allegedly.)

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Art or Artifact: Comics as Commodity or Entertainment.

February 22nd, 2009 by Riff

Comicbooks aren’t for kids any more it seems. Hell some of them aren’t for grown-ups either. For many they seem to be a cash cow, an investment, something to be stored in vaults, in plastic (or better still foil) bags, in acid-free cardboard boxes in low ultra-violet light, never to actually be read or enjoyed, [...]

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Dark Avengers Preview

February 12th, 2009 by Riff

This looks scary and exciting and exciting and scary all at once. I must admit I’m rather behind – I’m still catching up with Secret Invasion so I’m only getting snippets of the previews etc but I wanted to share this with you, since Bendis himself tweeted it. Dark Avengers Let me know what you [...]

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