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(by Alex Ross. Click image to go to Graffiti Designs to purchase one of your own.

The Superhero Quiz

In yesterday’s responses, our good buddy Tommy made an oblique reference to his darker nature, and pointed us towards this image. In doing so he reminded us of the Superhero Quiz (our results are seen below). I know that we’ve chatted about this fun quiz some time back, but our increased readership, along with Tommy’s timely reference made bringing it back worthwhile.

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 80% The Flash 75% Hulk 70% Green Lantern 70% Superman 65% Iron Man 65% Robin 47% Supergirl 45% Catwoman 45% Batman 40% Wonder Woman 35%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test


As you can see by my results, above, it is rather obvious who I would be (am). You too can play this game, and find your own inner superhero.

Got (Superhero) Checks?

Do you have a checking account? Do you still write paper checks? Well, if you do, then perhaps you might want to spruce up your bill-paying activities by declaring your allegiance to the Marvel Universe with wicked-cool checks that do just that!



Well, if you are interested in checks like these, or virtually any other type, then you are going to want to check out Checks in the Mail. Their check pricing is reasonable, and their product is quite good.

The Wife and I have been using them for years.

Funny is as Funny does

Like most of America, I get my news not from either the broadcast networks, nor from the 24/7 cable news networks, or even from the Intertubes. I go straight to the source and get my news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

Still, that is for “real” news. For what is going on in the world of Funnybooks I go directly to PVP:



Then, for an alternate view, I stop in over at SpiderFan:



Now I’m going to go drink heavy and giggle like a schoolgirl.

Spider-Man speed painting

Have you ever seen an artist draw a picture? You know, standing around at a convention in Artist’s Ally, while you are waiting for a con sketch and chatting up an artist? Yeah me too, only it somehow never looked quite this cool:




Pretty cool, eh? well, here is another speed painting, this time of Spidey in his black costume.



I love watching this stuff.

A retconning we shall go!

A short time back I talked about how the syndicated strip For Better or Worse went into some sort of odd retcon mode. well, base on my reading of that strip, I couldn’t help myself but to construct a Spider-Man strip that dealt with the same subject.

I present that strip here.



Oh, in case you don’t recognize him, the guy in the shower is Patrick Duffy, who came back from the dead a year after he left Dallas, because the writers of the show reached a wall with stories, and needed him back, so they decided that the previous year’s worth of stories were all “Imaginary.”

Sound familiar?

Colbert Nation Invades Marvel!

I know that I told you all that I was going to spend today waxing poetic about some comics that were produced by some of my good buddies over at CAG, but I’m going to have to bump that back a day or so, to bring you this breaking news about some exciting Spidey-News. We have just learned that Spider-Man has teamed-up with none other than Comedy Central’s blowhard, right-wing, political pundit, Stephen Colbert. That’s right, the star of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report will not only appear in Amazing Spider-Man ##573, but he will appear on the cover in a take on Amazing Fantasy #15. According to SplashPage:

Spider-Man has teamed-up with some rather unique characters — from Dracula to Howard the Duck to even the original cast of “Saturday Night Live.” Now, adding to that, um, prestigious list, in the upcoming “Amazing Spider-Man” #573, he’ll team-up with late night talk show host and true American patriot, Stephen Colbert.

I understand that there is a 1/25 ratio to this cover, so, it might be tough to acquire.

What is not going to be tough to acquire is Chris Giarrusso’s newest Mini Marvel digest comic, Rock, Paper, Scissors. This comic not only gathers together ongoing stories involving the Mini Marvel charters that have been running throughout the backs of numerous Marvel Comics, but delivers a couple of longer-form stories involving Spider-Man as a paperboy delivering the Daily Bugle. As a special treat, it also reprints a couple of the very first Mini Marvel strips that appeared in the Bullpen Bulletins page.

Personally, I think that this stuff is some of the best material I’ve seen come out of Marvel in years, and to have it all collected in one place is worth the purchase price. If you want to stop in on Chris’s website and see what else he is up to, I’m sure he’d love to have you do just that.

In other Marvel News, Earlier this week Marvel released Iron Man on DVD and Blu-Ray. As I understand it, there are a number of versions of the disc out, including a “standard” version, a two-disc version, one that comes with a comic, and one that comes packaged with a trio of Iron Man bobble-heads.

As if that wasn’t enough, According to SplashPage, it looks like Tony Stark is gonna have a little bit of competition in the DVD section of Best Buy, when the chain store releases the (much derided) made-for-TV Nick Fury film, staring David Hasselhoff.

Also riding on Stark’s coattails, will be The Hulk, who’s DVD follows Iron Man’s in a couple of weeks. So, yeah, this is going to be a fine month for Marvel fans. Oh, and in case you are wondering, the trailer for the new Punisher flick (due out in December), is also in theaters now. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. I’m thinking that it will be the best one yet.



More cool stuff as it happens.

*** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE ***

Hey folks, I just heard from Chris about the Mini Marvel’s book, and he wanted to correct something that I said in regards to his book.

However, in response to your line, "What is not going to be tough to acquire is Chris Giarrusso’s newest Mini Marvel digest comic, Rock, Paper Scissors," I'd like to respectfully suggest that it WILL be tough to acquire.

There were not a lot of orders, so the initial print run was very low and sold out in under a month.

There is a second print run now available with a new cover, making the first cover (the one in your blog) impossible to now acquire.

This book does not have very significant retailer support and tends to fly under the radar, so it's unlikely this book will be found in a comic shop unless it is order requested by a knowledgeable fan.

Though it's an obvious all-ages title, Marvel is not offering this book in the bookstore market.

Sorry to be a stickler for detail, I just want to do whatever I can to spread awareness of the book and overcome the obstacles it's facing.

While I’m glad that Chris took the time to bring me up to speed, I’m sorry to hear that the book is under-performing (even if it is due to under-promotion on Marvel’s part). As stated, I think that this stuff is great, and I want to fully support the book, so everyone go out and buy up a copy. You should all go to your retailers and demand that they carry this (and previous Mini Marvel one-shots).

Oh yeah, you should all probably write to the various Marvel editors and tell them how much you love reading Mini Marvels in the back of the comics.