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A little pin designed of our favorite lovers- errr… “cousins” ✨ this soft enamel pin design pokes fun at the fact that in western dubbed anime, Neptune and Uranus were translated from lovers, to cousins! Grab one on my shop below~
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He will always turn a back on a friiieeend, he is never there to depeeeend…
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duggan: deadpool 30 is going to explain how the nova corp is still around!
deadpool 30: they just are okay?
It’s not STILL around...it’s back. There were too many interplanetary threats going unchecked, so lots of planets agreed to bring it back and each contribute people from their planets to be a part of it.
“I try to capture all the little fun moments that happen when living with cats. All my little cat comics are done on 4 by 4 post-it notes! My fluffy friends are always a great source of inspiration and entertainment. And best of all they are always there when you need a hug or a good cry.”
Comics/text by Rikke Asbjoern - More info: Instagram
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Aaron Kuder variant cover to All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #1, on sale May 3rd!
Here are all six of my covers for the current Deadpool crossover. It was a fun challenge to do all of these connecting covers in a way that they work as a single image, as individual images, and also in a way that shows the cast of the each book on their own cover. It was a ton of work, but in the end I’m really happy with how they turned out! For all of these, lines by me, and colors by Jim Charalampidis.
All six covers Reilly did for the ‘Til Death Do Us... crossover!
hey HEY I got to do one of those STAR WARS variants featuring scenes from A NEW HOPE! I asked for the Special Edition Jabba scene.
He’s not kidding. He requested it.
“I don’t read Deadpool. He’s just a little too “LOL MEMES” for me!”
Twist of the decade.
Jordan; Sorry that you have to deal with people being rude/hateful. Thank you for being available for questions. Do you suppose that some of the frustration about characters is due to the nature of Marvel canon? That is, for example, I HATE the current Captain America story, so I choose not to read it or support it. It's not my canon. But even after this story ends, it will always be part of his canon. Future stories can reference it. It is part of him from now on. And that for me is even worse.
Well, if that is how you feel then, in your case, that is definitely part of the problem.
I don’t feel that way, myself. There are AWFUL things that have been done in Spider-Man comics that I think were HUGE MISTAKES. But you move past them, and for the most part they are not referenced that much. And even when they are…it’s just not as bad, the further you get from it. As long as more good stories are being made in the time afterwards, it’s not as big of a deal. All the stories are part of the characters, both the lame ones and the great ones…and not everyone agrees on which are which. The Ben Reilly stuff in Spider-Man was hugely unpopular–chased away tons of readers from the book. But there are people who ADORE it.
What’s the alternative? Reboot the books every once in a while and start from scratch? For my part, I would not be very interested in that. There are cartoons and movies that reboot the characters if people are that interested in new versions…I am glad that the Peter Parker I read about now is the same one I read about when I was a kid…even if it DOES mean Gwen Stacy slept with Norman Osborn. >Shudder<
I don’t know what the alternative is. There really isn’t an easy answer, nor, I suppose, do I expect you to have one either. I do believe it is a topic worth considering, though, as part of having custodianship over these characters.
I guess, having read your Tumblr for the past few weeks and seeing the many people complaining to you about “Marvel is ruining Cyclops/Emma!!1!” posts, I got to wondering if these readers’ reactions where just ‘bad things happening to characters i love” and/or ‘story I don’t like happening to characters I love” or if there was something more. I suppose just “story I don’t like” or “bad things happening to character I love” is probably enough of a reason for some readers to get very angry, though that’s difficult for me to understand. I come out of a fanfic background and there are tons more bad fic for every good fic, that it just becomes routine when coming across a badly written or badly characterized fic to hit the back button and move on to the next one, no skin off my nose. But fanfic is one thing and canon another, so that got me wondering if the big heavy stamp of ‘canon’ was a factor.
I don’t know.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to respond, and keep your mind on Marvel business(?)
Also important to note that we WANT people to love the characters, too. The fact that people DO get so emotional about characters is a good thing.
I mean, the alternative seems pretty obvious to me – just make it so that characters are owned by their creators instead of corporations. This way, the original writer who made up the character is the person who is writing that character throughout their “lifespan” in the comics world. If you liked the character/story at first, you’re likely to continue to like it, because it’s made by the same person and will therefore probably be at least in the same ballpark of quality/characterization/etc.
Sure, you sometimes run into the issue of having a writer’s work go down in quality over time, but even the most disappointing sequel novels don’t usually come close to the quality whiplash you regularly see in Marvel/DC comics. That kind of severe swinging between “great” and “unspeakable shitstorm” is almost always associated with a change in who is actually making a thing.
Of course, the problem with this alternative is that as much as comic fans fucking love complaining about the quality of comics, they don’t actually want this. This is because the whole appeal of Marvel and DC comics is that you get to read about the same characters in the same world on at least a monthly basis until the heat death of the universe – something that is obviously impossible if characters are owned by their original creators, who might decide the character’s story is finished, or run out of ideas, or get bored, or, you know, fucking die, eventually. Fans of Marvel comics might bitch if a character is written badly, but not nearly as much as they’ll bitch if that character’s story does not continue to be written forever. See: the fan reaction when Marvel dropped Fantastic 4 comics after publishing them non-stop for fifty three fucking years.
Not that Marvel/DC aren’t actively encouraging this kind of mindset, because they are. The Fantastic Four cancellation was notable precisely because other characters have been published uninterrupted for even longer. But really, this is why the overblown reaction comics fans have to crappy comics is so baffling to me. Like, if you continuously publish stories about a character for more than half a century, with dozens of different writers over time, yeah – some of those stories are going to suck. This is not a creative model designed for quality control, it’s a model designed to extract money from nerds who are afraid of change. Good comics can be made within this model, sure. But so can bad ones, and those bad ones will probably be made about characters you are invested in.
On some level you have to realize that it’s your responsibility as a fan to be emotionally prepared to the inevitable eventuality of shit comics, and not to react by screaming at Marvel employees. This is the trade-off you signed up for, people! If you really want comics about Emma Frost to be published until Jesus comes back and smites our asses – and you do, or you wouldn’t be buying Marvel comics – accept that some of those comics are going to be shit. If watching characters you like being written badly is really that upsetting to you, drop DC/Marvel and switch to Image or indie comics or manga outside of WSJ hell or whatever, and then accept that you get a certain amount of canon and then it’s over, and you have to find something new to be into.
I mean. That’s a really cynical take on things.
Out Today: The Wicked + the Divine #27, Doctor Aphra #5 and Uber Invasion #4
Big week, which basically all my main books out. Firstly, there’s THE WICKED + THE DIVINE 27, which is the penultimate issue in IMPERIAL PHASE (Part 1) and where things get all messy. We are deep down this particular hole now. There are three covers ,and the one above is a charity cover for Planned Parernthood.
You can get it from your local comic shop, or digitally either from Comixology or direct from Image. You can read the preview here.
Also penultimate issue, where Aphra’s journey in to the Citadel of Rur goes entirely normally and nothing goes wrong.
It’s available from your local comic shop or digitally. Preview here.
And we take a break from the main thrust to go back and show what’s happening in Britain (generally) and what Stephanie has been doing (more specifically). Even for Uber, this one is morally bleak.
Available from your local shop, or Comixology (And there’s a preview there too)
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Guardians of the Galaxy #1.MU is out today!
“The Terror of Planet X” hits shelves today from me, Chad Bowers, and David Baldéon, with 30 pages of monster fighting action, and it was super fun to write. I mean, when you have a crossover that’s built entirely around the Marvel Monsters and you get the book that actually has one of the Marvel Monsters on the team, that’s something to make a big deal out of, right? So we went into it with the idea of tying the Leviathons attacking Earth back to Groot, asking the question of what scares you when you’re the monster.
Grab it today at your local comic book store, or pick it up at Comixology!
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A very quick sketch of Deadpool and Shiklah, by Alberto Navajo (JANF).
