Category: ultracomics

kevinsworldofcomics:

Oh, This Comic: What If… #27 (cover by Frank Miller).

I was still behind on Uncanny X-Men, scrambling to fill in the gaps via back issue bins. I knew Phoenix had died in #137 but, though I’d read all the way past John Byrne’s run and into Dave Cockrum’s return, I still hadn’t found a copy of that issue & thus didn’t know the exact circumstances of her end. 

Knowing I had X-Men fever, the manager of my comic shop suggested this issue — written by Jo Duffy, drawn by Jerry Bingham — as a temporary fix. I. Was. TRAUMATIZED. Pub date was 1981, so I probably read it in ‘82 or ‘83… and I’ve never opened it since. 

fishheadned:

This year’s high-concept, low effort Halloween costume was “aging punk Charlie Brown. The knuckle tattoos were what really sold me on the idea.
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marvel1980s:

1983, Mohawk Storm — From Paul Smith’s blog:

Towards the end of my X-Run, Weezie (editor Louise Jones), and hubby, Walt Simonson, go on vacation. They leave daughter Julie behind (there’s a movie in there somewhere). Upon departure, Walt sported the hirsute look we’ve all come to know and love. Upon his return, not so much. Somewhere in-between he’d undergone a tonsorial transformation of titanic proportion. He was now pink faced! Beard and mustache… gone.

Daughter Julie is not amused. She runs from the room. That’s not Daddy, that’s one of the pod-people!

Chris thinks this is story gold. He puts Storm through her paces. She loses her powers. She loses her nerve. She gets blowed up. Her powers attack her. But that ain’t the worst of it. She loses huge chunks of her beautiful hair! Storm needs a stylist.

I do a number of different styles and AS A JOKE, I include a Mr T mohawk for laughs and giggles. Chris and Weezie fail to laugh and latch on to it immediately (d’oh!) I argue as best I can but, my run is essentially over. My vote doesn’t count. Weezie says (and this is pretty much a quote) “We’re going to get hung no matter what we do. We may as well commit the murder.”

Stuck with the mohawk, I do my best to make it work. Once the style is set, I determine she needs leathers to pull it off. Punk Storm is born.

“Despite the bawdy humour, ‘Carry on X-Men’ is in many ways more faithful to the source material than Bryan Singer’s films. Definitely one of the best of the later ‘Carry On’ films.” — Chris Wesson

Now that he has completed his ambitious, tricky, and emotional comic series The Lengths, I’m really pleased to see my pal Howard Hardiman get recognition for the achievement. Check out, for instance, this majorly fantastic review from The New Statesman (an excerpt):

The Lengths is an important work. It covers topics largely passed over even in prose literature, let alone the diversity-challenged world of comics. In giving a voice to the voiceless, Hardiman deserves praise — and behind the anthropology, The Lengths is a love story sweetly told.

The best way to check out the series for yourself, of course, is to support the artist and buy it here.

Wonder Woman style sheet, 1982

samhumphries:

Paul Smith did the best Dark Phoenix.

Paul Smith did the best EVERYTHING.