The Leader’s doomed-from-the-start bombing of the video call was a moment I’d had in my head since the early days of this storyline. The fact that he kidnapped the least tech-savvy, least cinematically-fluent internet personality that he could find – J. Jonah Jameson – was the icing on the cake of this failed moment of…
I feel like it’s an unspoken (until now, anyway) rule of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe that everybody likes pizza. No matter what word in your language you have for it, or the ingredients you prefer atop it, the food dish that is pizza has a galactic, universal, multiversal appeal!
I may be a little too pleased with how this comic turned out, but at the time I completed it, it was probably my favorite one, to date. Everything just came together, from the character poses, to the dialogue (Jonah and The Leader did a surprisingly good job of bouncing off each other), and the…
Briefly, I really enjoyed Thor and Captain Marvel’s interactions in Endgame. I wanted more of them, and I wanted a way to use some of the amazing stellar photography that NASA and JPL make available on their websites, so this strip basically wrote itself, once I started posing the characters together.
I really liked Domino in Deadpool 2, but when I started this comic project, I would not have predicted that she’d have become such a major player in my stories. Obviously, Zazie Beetz perfectly played Domino’s exasperation with the stupid situations unspooling around her in Deadpool 2; if there’s a single character from the Fox…
My wife has been just exceedingly supportive of my allowing this toy comic hobby to consume my spare time, to the point of finding and buying interesting little accessories for me to include. She bought me the little toy dog that became Tanngrisnir, and the second I opened the box that the toy was housed…
One of the tossed-off lines in the MCU that’s always going to stick with me is when, in the first Avengers movie, Tony Stark remarks that he’s, “kind of the only name in clean energy right now.” The MCU never really returned to that idea, at all, and I really wish it had. I get…
I remember when Fat Thor made his first appearance in Endgame, and for just a moment, I felt more seen by the MCU than ever before. I am certainly not the star of an action movie franchise, but I am a cisgendered, straight white guy, so I’ve never really hurt for representation in media. I’m…
So, given how emphatically certain Avengers make their case for their politics and worldview, it’s probably no surprise that I, personally (mostly) share that worldview. However, the infighting and interpersonal drama that so define the Avengers doesn’t work if only one side gets to consistently make their argument, and that’s kind of where this strip…
As much theory and philosophy as I can pack into the making of these comics, and the building out of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe, this is fundamentally, still, playing with toys, which means I can pair up versions of characters who won’t have a chance of meeting on the big screen….
