We’ve met the whole Fantastic Four! We’ve learned about their mission! Now, we’ve got to go to the Negative Zone! To take on a Fantastic Four story is, I think, to attempt to do justice to the King: Jack Kirby. A visionary artist, whose influence on visual media is nigh impossible to calculate, as well…
This second entry (read the first here) in the initial Fantastic Four-centric arc of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe brings with it another entry of my opinions about the Fantastic Four! I told you I had a lot of them. While what resonated with me about the FF initially was the drama…
This is a big deal for me, this week’s comic strip. Not only do I get to introduce the rest of the Fantastic Four (Reed had a line of dialogue in the inaugural “No Sleep ‘Til Jonah” post), but I’m also trying to take better advantage of the storytelling flexibility I have here on the…
So, basically, this strip, and my blended version of the Guardians and the Starjammers (which I’m intending to just call the Starjammers) came out of wanting to expand the presence of conspiracy theories and those who hawk them in the comic. Sure, we have some folks who love to do that already, but there’s a…
Every so often, there’s an installment of the main story of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe that doesn’t feature an Avenger – not one! That’s not because I have an incredibly intricate long-term plan to turn this comic into one that features characters of my original creation; most every character in this…
John Jameson’s striking out on his own this week, relatively speaking, and he sure seems to be striking out! It’s almost like he’s a pale shadow of his father/mentor, and has no new ideas to bring to the table! We’ve never seen anything like that before, right…? Also, let’s take a minute to celebrate the…
The Avengers weren’t the only ones who saw the inaugural episode of “No Sleep ‘Til Jonah” as the last straw! Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are well-loved around New York City, even though there are some loud and powerful voices that shout otherwise.
100 installments of the “main story” of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe! The first relationship that I really established was War Machine’s and Domino’s, so it’s only fitting, I think, to continue onto this next phase of their relationship. The Avengers and the mayoral race were really means to an end for…
Again, full disclosure: just like Power Rangers in Space, I never watched Power Rangers S.P.D. or Power Rangers Turbo, so the characterization of anybody represented in plastic here from those programs is, I’m sure, wildly inaccurate at best. But, it’s all done in service of some extremely unsubtle sociopolitical commentary; it’s not just inaccuracy for…
After the Daily Bugle’s editor-in-chief, J. Jonah Jameson spent not one, but two whole comic strips railing against the Avengers, our heroes had to come together to plan a counter-offensive! If there’s one thing that Earth’s Mightiest Heroes seem to be learning in the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe, it’s that you have…
