by Katherine
Venom is a fictional character, a symbiote life form in the Marvel Comics universe. The creature is a sentient alien with a gooey, almost liquid-like form. It requires a host, usually human, to bond around for its survival. In return the Venom creature gives its host enhanced powers. If Venom fully bonds with its host it takes full control and the host will be taken over by the symbiote. In effect, when the Venom Symbiote bonds with a human to form a super-villain, that new dual-life form itself is also often called Venom.
Gavok wrote a post about Venom after reading Separation Anxiety (Venom #23-26) written by Howard Mackie and drawn by Ron Randall.
In a bout with splitting hairs, I always found it interesting that they named a videogame after this story. For one, the game’s story isn’t based on Separation Anxiety, but Lethal Protector. Second, the game is meant to be a sequel to Maximum Carnage, even though that story came after Lethal Protector. Third, even though Carnage had nothing to do with Lethal Protector, they toss him in as the final boss for the hell of it. Hey, they did have those sprites lying around from the last game.
Onto the comic. Eddie is meant to be shipped to a research facility in New Mexico and spends some time held in an overly sci-fi restraint device. Despite being without his symbiote and being completely prone, he has dozens of guards aiming their guns at his vital organs in case something happens. They’re that scared of him.
by Katherine
Cursitor Doom is a psychic investigator who has been in a coma for the past “twenty-something years”. His castle is being used as a prison by the government.
Steve from the Bear Alley-blog treats us to an episode of Cursitor Doom.
The strip was drawn by Eric Bradbury, one of my favourite artists. Eric was responsible for many of the finest strips I read when I was growing up (’House of Dolmann’ was a huge favourite) so I am completely biased in his favour.
by Katherine
For all of you Irwin Allen fans Hermes Press proudly announces its publication of complete reprints of all of the classic Irwin Allen television show comic book adaptations: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; The Time Tunnel; and Land of the Giants. Hermes Press will kick off the series by reprinting Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Volume One in February, 2009.
Following the release of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Volume One, Hermes Press will publish the two issues of The Time Tunnel in a trade paperback with over 48 pages of supplementary material, photographs, and essays about the show and its production in July, 2009.
What surprises me here, though, is that they don’t mention a Lost in Space comic. Did they not make one? That seems like a lost opportunity, since it was easily the most kid-friendly of all the Irwin Allen shows and the one that more people seem to have heard of.
Read more about it on Brainfreeze: Comic Love.
by Katherine
Who doesn’t remember their first comic book, the one that got you excited and ready to enter the world of comics with full power. For Mark Hale his first comic book was The Bible that he got as a gift by a friend of his mother.
The Bible is a comic edition of the bible tales that was published in 1975
I feel lucky to have found this comic again in the midst of moving one summer, buried in the bottom of a box of random books. This is truly the Ten Commandments of comic books, featuring astounding craft that fits the format used.
by Katherine
Due to the economic situation most comic lovers have to be cheep on purchasing their comics, because prices are to high right now and everything is too expensive comics should be sat a side, is it really have to be this way? Kleefeld on comics comes to the rescue with a great post for the broke comic fan.
If you’ve been reading this blog even semi-regularly, you’ve probably noticed a shift in the past several months to more online comics coverage. Well, here’s the next step: online comic conventions.
