Art From J.T. Krul's Jirni From Aspen Comics

Art by Paolo Pantalena.

Peter David Suffers Stroke

Peter David, writer of Marvel Comics’ X-Factor reported on his website today that he has suffered a stroke while on vacation. David reported that he suddenly lost feeling and control over the right side of his body. He was taken to the hospital and now knows this was the result of a stroke, thought they are still assessing the full damage.

David has had a long and excellent comics career, at Marvel comics with long runs on both X-Factor and Incredible Hulk, and at DC Comics with Aquaman. He also is known for his Star Trek novelizations. I’ve always enjoyed his work, his run on Hulk stands out in my mind as the best ever.

Please join me in wishing him the best, and in hoping for a full recovery. You may post comments at his website, link provided below.

peterdavid.net

JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE CHARACTER INFO; DARKSEID'S ELITE, LOIS LANE, ALFRED AND MORE

From CBR.com


Our DC Entertainment source sent us over a fresh batch of news on the Justice League movie and characters set to appear.

Previously our source revealed to us the first news on the Man of Steel spearheading a new DC shared movie universe, the Justice League 2015 movie, a new Batman reboot in 2016, a few scenes from the previous DC movies and most recently plans for an Aquaman movie.

Here is the latest:

• Superman is essentially the same character from Man of Steel, and Zack Snyder is consulting regarding the writing of the character.

• Batman: The strategist of the group. Batman doesn't really want to be involved with these super powered beings he considers too powerful. Easily the most complex written.

• Wonder Woman: She has only been in man's world a few short months. The Wonder Woman script Michael Goldenberg is developing will be set before the Justice League movie.

• Green Lantern: Will be Ryan Reynold's character from the Green Lantern movie, but will be freshly written with a more serious tone.

• Flash: The most popular hero in civilian eyes who loves media attention, but when called upon is very serious.

• Martian Manhunter: Alien who has lived on Earth in secret for over a hundred years who has knowledge of Darkseid and his reign.

• Aquaman: Will be the King of Atlantis who has a key role in the film.

• There will also be a heavy military presence in the film which in future rewrites could include characters featured in Man of Steel or even Amanda Waller (Angela Bassett) of which neither are included in the first draft.

• Alfred Pennyworth is in the film in a minor appearance.

• Lois Lane is also in the film in a cameo.

• Darkseid's Elite will be featured who go up against the Justice League early on in the film.

SATURDAY SHOWCASE : Cool Comic Art

Kiss - White Christmas

It wouldn't be Christmastime without a little caroling, so enjoy this a cappella version of "White Christmas" performed by Gene, Paul, Bruce, and Eric during a concert in New Haven, Connecticut on December 12, 1987.

Just A Thought : New, Now, DC And Marvel

 

Just over a year ago DC Comics gave us there New 52 universe, a relaunch or reboot depending on how you would look at it. The DCU was only 5 years old in this new continuity but despite this some history remained some was wiped clean, some characters were relatively unchanged others were only the same in name. Now Marvel has there Marvel Now! event which seems on the surface to be a very similar to DC's, not so unique for Marvel to do this but, Marvel's Now! continuity though seems to be even more confusing. I'm not debating the fact that some characters needed a boost but why do a universe wide event if there was nothing wrong with certain ones. For example Green Lantern has been relatively unchanged, other then the addition of Simon Baz and a few tweaks, because it was doing well but Superman did need a boost lagging behind some of the other big guns. So why reboot everything, this is the question but when you look at the sales DC overall sales increased so of course Marvel felt it needed to do the same. But while sales have been better now for both is this really that good for the overall industry, or will they alienate long time fans who stuck it out over the years for the hope of bringing in new blood, so to speak, only time will tell. Just a thought.

My Transformer Videos

Made these videos a while back they feature mostly Dreamwave comic book art and have classic Transformer and GI Joe (cartoon) movie music, watch and enjoy.