I often have too much to say about my toy comics, but I love this one so dearly, that I’m going to let it speak for itself. Except that, every time I read this, I hear Batman’s lines in Dietrich Bader’s voice, and it makes me so, so happy.
Author: phil.wrede
Marvel Short #31 – Told You So
It’s probably obvious that I have no academic or professional background in graphic design, but man, when a good idea hits, I’m glad I have just enough working knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator to bring it, more-or-less, to life by myself. The PizzaRatNet logo was something I threw together in a slightly feverish state, certainly…
All-New, Overworked Avengers #47 – ‘One of These Days, I’ll Chase You Down’
Welcome to Part 2 of X-Force’s Assault on the Vault! If you haven’t read it already, you can take a look at Part 1 here! I really enjoyed how a lot of the “visual effects” in this strip turned out; it’s taken something like 14 months of regularly working on the comic, but I think…
Marvel Short #30 – Fashion Show at Lunch!
As of the day this comic was originally posted, it’s been around 21.5 years since the first Fox X-Men movie came out. It’s probably no surprise that my one of my then-closest friends and I took a bus to the movie theater to see it on opening day; as dyed-in-the-wool fans of Marvel Comics, and…
All-New, Overworked Avengers #46 – ‘You Make Me Dizzy, Running Circles in My Head’
I’d like to think it was obvious that somebody was going to come along and break Shatterstar out of The Vault, and that it was equally obvious it wouldn’t be the Avengers. Enter: X-Force, the team of mutant rebels that was teased in offhand dialogue over a year ago! If I was going to introduce…
Marvel Short #29 – Changing Climate Change
Again, in this world of obscenely advanced technology, and people truly empowered to use it for the benefit of humanity writ large, I have to imagine we would be a lot further along on addressing some of the truly existential crises than we are in reality. An activist Wakandan state alone would be able to…
All-New, Overworked Avengers #45 – ‘The Terror of Knowing’
I think one of the first “ideas” I had for these comics was to make War Machine and Domino a couple. It’s in the very first installment of All-New, All-Remote Avengers! I believe the most sophisticated my thinking had gotten was that it could be funny to see the perpetually straight-laced Jim Rhodes try to…
Marvel Short #28 – Who’s a Techno-phobe?
There are a number of threads that became so crucial to the tapestry of the MCU that I can’t imagine it without them, and one of the most significant, for me, is Paul Bettany’s voice. For as much as I enjoy both incarnations of The Vision, I loved JARVIS so, so very much. I assume…
All-New, Overworked Avengers #44 – ‘I Hang My Head and Cry’
Given what I wrote for the comic strip where Justin Hammer (as played by Dr. Ian Malcolm) was introduced, it’s probably no surprise that Jurassic Park was a formative movie for me, and remains one of my all-time favorites. If it wasn’t obvious before, it has got to be, now, with the late Sir Richard…
Marvel Short #27 – No Place Like Home
There are a few jokes that I will never get tired of having the characters, especially Thor and Spider-Woman, tell, and when I can find a way to tie two of them together, those are really thrilling moments for me.