It didn’t take long for the Avengers to respond to the distress call from the Vault, did it? Certainly, a better response time than I was able to manage in keeping up with the activity of Edwin Cord and his unwilling army in 2022! Now, strictly speaking, the Leader was never imprisoned in the Vault;…
I’m always on the lookout for “characters” to add to the case of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe who aren’t standard-issue super-powered people. NECA figures (like the police chief, here) are pretty excellent for this; I’ve sung the praises of the Dr. Who figures that I’ve put in the city and state…
If you thought the Avengers were going to get a break after the commotion of the Holiday Adventure… I don’t know what sort of superhero comics you’ve been reading all these years! It’s been a while since we really paid much mind to The Vault, the prison for super-criminals in the Rocky Mountains, and X-Force’s…
Well, after six installments, we’re here, at the conclusion of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe’s 2022 Holiday Adventure! It’s not of the same production quality as the Hawkeye show, I admit, but I think everybody had a good time. Well, not most of the HYDRA goons, or the Shocker, or the Hobgoblin,…
Five entries into the holiday adventure story, and it’s clear that I’m not great at checking my comic plans against a calendar. It’s officially 2023, and this isn’t even the last installment in this tale! I hope you’ve been enjoying reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed putting it together, at least. So, Sandman! I…
I think it’s a rule that, if you’re going to bring the Fabulous Frog-Man into your comic, you have to give him an opportunity to redeem himself and do something legitimately heroic. Like the old, “five reels of vice, the sixth of virtue,” Hollywood rule that I don’t remember well enough to quote exactly, or…
I said I was trying to bring things full-circle in this holiday adventure in the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe… This week, the return of the grimdark Spider-Man who, clearly, hasn’t dealt with whatever residual trauma he’s still carrying around from the Red Skull’s sneak attack on his No Good, Very Bad Night!…
Would superheroes ever make the time to talk, if not for fights against overmatched hordes of enemies? I’m thinking… no. That Baron Zemo – he sure is doing his best Batman ’66 villain impression here, don’t you think? He ordered his henchmen to “leave no witnesses” when he has them get in a fight with…
I have a long list of ideas for stories I’d like to get around to telling in the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe. Two of the earliest entries, which I wrote down before I ever took a single photo for the comic, were “Christmas adventure,” and “Domino and Black Cat good/bad luck powers…
Well, we finally made it! The conclusion of my semi-Secret Avengers, mostly Avengers West Coast-inspired incursion into Latveria. I think the Ultron drone had the best line this week with, “Let’s see how difficult it is to cut you open!” Though, the drone and Luis collaborating to name-drop his new superhero code name is a…
