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Marvel Short #20 – Dad-lit Avengers

Posted on November 18, 2021September 17, 2023 by phil.wrede
As he walks through the stacks of his local library, Rage can't believe how many books written by Tom Clancy (and people like Tom Clancy) are on the shelves.
The credits for the comic strip, citing the Unsplash users whose photographs were the background art, the ownership of Marvel by Disney, the creation of Marvel characters by actual human beings, and the figure photography/script/lettering by me, Phil Wrede.
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I’ve mentioned before that Rage was a character who caught my attention in some of the earliest comics I ever remember buying; what I particularly liked about him was how he didn’t really try to affect a superhero “persona.” He was a person (a 13-year old kid, in fact) and a superhero in equal measure. He’s a refreshing change of pace from the superheroes who carry around their secret identities like Atlas holding up the world. I think that’s what makes him such a natural ally of Domino’s in the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe!

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Comics, but with photos, instead of drawings.

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Using stock photos as backgrounds, and digitally pasting photos of action figures over them. Graphic design software enables the lettering.

The Point

To make comics, to share stories, and to retroactively justify all the money I've spent on action figures over the years.

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