A Colorful Hulk

Hulk smash!

The bold coloring scheme on the artwork REALLY smashes! 

A tip of the hat to artist JP Cuison also known as Gigzilla. 

Here is an Instagram reel of the artist creating the masterwork, very fun!

 

 

 

 

Play-Doh Martian Manhunter

 

 Absolute Martian Manhunter has been for me one of the highlights for me of DC Comics' Absolute line. 

The writing by Deniz Camp was crisp and provocative while the art and colors by Javier Rodriguez were hypnotically beautiful.

After the series won three Eisner Awards at the San Diego Comicon last week, Mr. Rodriguez wrote "Deniz came up with an incredible pitch; I picked up some Play-Doh and that's how it all started."

Play-Doh! 

 

 

 

 

 

Art Baltazar Draws Himself Very Well!

 

Aw yeah!

I have been a fan of Art Baltazar and his artwork for over 20 years now. Even before his ingenious Tiny Titans was my reading highlight of every month I was purchasing every issue of Disney Adventures digest magazine just to get his couple of pages.

Now the gentleman has posted a photo of himself side-by-side with his self-portrait.

Very nice! 

The Secret Origin of Klaus Janson

 

Klaus Janson is one of my all-time favorite comic book inkers!

I have been a fan of the gentleman's artwork ever since his Batman cover to TCR #109 came out in 1974, so that's a pretty long time.

 

 

Down below is a 1977 page from Daredevil #149 I used to own. The pencils by Carmine Infantino showcase that genius's familiar poses and masterful storytelling, and the inks by Mr. Janson add the perfect amount of gloss and sheen and grit. Nobody could have inked this page better!

 

 Fast forward to the present day.

Last month saw the publication of Justice League: Dream Girls #4. Quietly nestled inside that final issue of the miniseries was an 8-page backup story entitled "Just for One Day: Heroes." Written, penciled, inked, and colored by Klaus Janson, this powerful memoir should be sought out and read by every comics fan! 

 

The Entire JSA Attended Superman Day 2026

Superman lives in Metropolis, right? But Metropolis, Illinois?

The small town of Metropolis, at the bottom tip of the state of Illinois and located on the Ohio River, was incorporated in 1839. It was a century later in 1938 that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman and geographically located him in a generic Metropolis.

In the 1970s the town of Metropolis decided to capitalize on the name of their town and they built a Superman Museum! Every Summer they have a Superman Week and the fans show up in costume.

Down below is a nice photo from this year's celebration.

If you might like to read something else I wrote about Metropolis, back in 2012, please be whisked away by this link.

 

 

 

Newsarama is Gone

I have been a voracious consumer of comic book news for many decades.

I started subscribing to The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom in 1973 when it was mentioned on the letters page of an early issue of Kamandi, and there I got to read Now What? written by Murray Bishoff.

Then I started reading The Comic Reader and The Comics Journal. I was receiving comics news in the mail every week throughout the 1970s and 1980s. 

Then a little after that came the online news source of Newsarama. (Do you know that Mark Waid always pronounced it as if it rhymed with drama?) Honestly, I think it got to the point that I was checking newsarama.com on a daily basis for new articles!

But this week I found out Newsarama is gone now, gone for good. You can read its sad saga over here.

Where will I get my comics news now? 

 

 

Jack Kirby's Kamandi on the Wall

 

The second half of 1972 was a magical time for DC Comics fans!

First issues of Swamp Thing and Shazam and TWO from Jack Kirby: The Demon and Kamandi The Last Boy on Earth! What a year!

All the talking animals in Kamandi! Some of them even keeping humans as pets! Admittedly the post-apocalyptic milieu was a direct descendent of The Planet of the Apes, but Mr. Kirby did a great job with it and you'd have to admit Kamandi was pretty off the wall. 

Well now, many decades later, at long last we can say Kamandi is ON the wall! 

Here, let's take a better look at that!