THE MICRONAUTS: CROSSOVERS WITH MARVEL CHARACTERS This weekend’s light-hearted, escapist superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog will look at the stories in which Marvel’s licensed toy I.P. the Micronauts interacted with established Marvel characters. My look at the early Micronauts stories can be...
s writers were veterans from Marvel and DC. The title refers to the 99 names, or attributes, of Allah, but while the superheroes’ culture is clearly Islamic, the specific religious faith of the characters, many of them teenagers around the world, is not made explicit in order to ...
A couple of years back, British filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield learned that the 1926 bookWinnie-the-Pooh —which introduced the characters Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Christopher Robin — was about to fall into the public domain and decided to direct a horror film featuring the quartet. The low...
Fantastic Four, American team of comic strip superheroes, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1961, that brought an element of realism to the genre unique for its time. A cornerstone of Marvel’s universe of characters, the Fantastic
and satisfies those who like their heroes “grim and gritty,” at least in contrast to the source material; at the same time the line between good and evil is boldly drawn, the characters larger than life, and it is still full of the wonder and excitement of the serial medium and marvel...
Known by countless names—the First Eve, the Viscountess of Atlantis, the Archmother of Witchcraft—the Goddess of the Underworld is most well-known as Lilith, the Mother of Demons.
Arad had been so successful licensing Marvel intellectual property, most of the company’s biggest names were already under contract with various Hollywood studios. That left Maisel with a weaker selection of characters to play with. These ten superhero properties, most of them future...
His main claim to fame was hustling his way into professional comics work with All-American Comics by bringing to their company one of the greatest comic characters ever, Green Lantern. Martin's original iteration, Alan Scott, first brandished his green lamp of justice back in 1941, and it ...
she names her baby after someone she never met, on the premise that her husband once slightly got along with him for about two hours. stirring!) jokes get underlined by characters explaining them and noting that they were humorous. some characters just walk into a room, announce their ...
It’s still a sore spot fans had to wait three years for Evangeline Lily to suit up as the Wasp, and I had to Wikipedia some of the other characters’ names. And maybe Wright would have made this good movie, great. But Ant-Man is still very good. In a separate interview I did ...