When I said I was taking a break from my Star Wars toy comic after its last installment, I didn’t really expect to take about a year and a half off from it, but life (and inspiration) sure find ways to pull you in unanticipated directions. My Mandalorian and R5 are back, at least for…
This is kind of a mess of a meeting, here, but that’s what you get when the people running it are operating at cross purposes! I am thrilled, however, to finally get to introduce the President of the United States of America in the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe. I’ve had my eye…
The third, and for now, final installment of the superheroes’ fight for Ukraine is here, and I figured there was no duo better suited to cap this little power fantasy exercise of mine than Colossus and Wolverine. Iron Man and Darkstar in the first entry fought the battle from the air, and Red Guardian and…
Building on the previous strip, it looks like Lord Zedd has a few enforcers that he likes to send out to his buildings and harass his tenants, doesn’t it? Good thing at least some of these renters know how to stand up for themselves! In my anecdotal experience, it seems like people vastly prefer Tommy…
To pick up and continue into the daylight portion of Spider-Man’s No Good, Very Bad Night…* You didn’t really think that Miles Morales’ heart-to-heart with Thor, God of Thunder and Encouragement, was going to be the end of his spider-voyage, did you? Neither did Thor, or Rage, or War Machine, or Sam Wilson, the high-flying…
My personal history with the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers goes back to the premiere of the series; I was exactly the right age to fall in love with the show. It was the perfect combination of stories of good friendship, martial arts fights with weird monsters, giant robots, vaguely cartoonish physical comedy, and a slightly…
Here, in Part 2 of the superhero defense of Ukraine, the Red Guardian and Sunfire hold the line against some more approaching tanks. Well, Red Guardian holds the line. Sunfire pretty much blows it up. I don’t have anything more sophisticated to write than I did for the first part. Like a lot of people,…
It looks like Domino is taking Lt. Governor Gerber’s talk about her polling numbers seriously, if she’s going to quit the Avengers again.* At least she’s responsible enough to only focus her energy on one big, world-changing project at a time; if Tony ran for mayor, he’d surely be trying to run the company and…
So, I’ve mentioned before that I set out to try and weave some elements from real life into these toy comic stories. It takes more to save the world than just punching bad guys, even though that’s what superheroes tend to be best at. Sometimes, however, punching a bad guy is exactly what the world…
![The Scarlet Witch sits silently in a park, staring off into space. Behind her, the Vision tentatively extends a hand towards her, but can’t bring himself to actually touch her. The effect is, hopefully, like a romance novel cover. The title of the comic strip, “All-New, Overworked Avengers Presents… ‘Burning Out [Her] Fuse Up Here Alone’,” is visible at the top of the page.](https://www.pizzarat.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1-35.png)
This is, obviously, a real departure from the story of Spider-Man’s No Good, Very Bad Night that has been taking up the “main story” of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe for a while, now (read Parts 1, and 2, and 3, and 4, if you’d like). I would like to say that…
