dshramek

January 20, 2012 2:15 pm I think the trick to a Fantastic Four story is to think of them as adventure stories. The Fantastic Four should have the same stories as the 1970s era Doctor Who or a Doc Savage story, except that the characters also happen to have superpowers. At it's core, it's just a pulpy adventure story. They discover parallel dimensions, planet-eating space entities, lost civilizations in the Himalayas, armies of Mole-men beneath the city, etc.

January 9, 2012 3:32 pm I believe I may be able to parse some of his outrage on this. In his post, he speaks of the breast-feeding mafia and that they might have paid for this cover. It is likely an off-handed joke, but it is in the exact rhythm and structure of punditry's accusations of the "left-wing media brainwashing our kids with X" argument. It rather reminds me of the outrage that the new Muppet movie was programming kids to hate big oil companies. It may be, therefore that he's offended not by the idea of breastfeeding, but that some shadow-y agenda mongering conspiracy is pushing their doctrine on children in things disguised as entertainment media. It's fine to sell toys and sugary cereal to kids that way, but not to teach them politically charged things like this. However, is comments about Ma Kent were right out of line. I slap you with my glove, Mr. Dorman and challenge you to pistols at dawn!

January 9, 2012 3:17 pm There are plenty of things to be offended about in this image. 1) Does this image promote interspecies breeding? Note she has insect wings and he has goat horns. Unless they're Inhumans or marvel mutants, these might be two different species of humanoid. 2) Also, as an insecto-sapien, is her breast milk safe for that baby? Other images show it with little horns (I hope the baby was c-section. More offensive imagery!), so it clearly takes after daddy. That breast milk may have insect-only enzymes. Maybe it has a silk component that is a choking hazard for babies who don't have the capacity to regurgitate it into a pupa.

December 6, 2011 6:45 pm I vote Abnett and Lanning with art by Stuart Immonen.

December 6, 2011 2:37 pm Also, I sincerely hope this story has one moment where Cap's shield throwing goes up against Cyclops's oft forgotten unerring geometry sense.

December 6, 2011 2:18 pm X-Children's Crusade?

December 5, 2011 12:06 pm I would add Leave it to Chance. A great book for younger readers.

October 24, 2011 6:12 pm Poor Blink has been gone so long, she didn't realize she'd grown out of her shirt. Hopefully this story is about her going to buy a shirt that fits before all those buttons or clasps or whatever break while she's striking one of those dynamic throwing things poses.

October 18, 2011 11:01 am Two points: 1) I dig the little touches, like the Roxxon Gas being pumped at that station. 2) The song there was an original composition called "Marvel Swing." Can we make that the official Marvel Universe song? It'd go great with those Phil Noto period photos from Hank Pym's collection.

August 2, 2011 9:48 am And here I was hoping it would be Miguel O'Hara.