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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Ultimately Fantastic Four Arcs by Mark Millar.
Composed of the following: Crossover issues 21-23, Tomb of Namor 24-26, President Thor 27-30 and Frightful 31-33 all written by Mark Millar and pencilled by Greg Land
From Wikipedia: Ultimate Fantastic Four is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running Fantastic Four comic book franchise as part of its Ultimate Marvel imprint. The Ultimate Fantastic Four team exists alongside other revamped Marvel characters in Ultimate Marvel titles including Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, and The Ultimates. While the characters may bear resemblance to their normal Marvel Universe counterparts, they differ in many aspects. The origin of their powers is different and the team is much younger. The series revolves around the adventures of Reed Richards, siblings Susan and Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm, who get engulfed in a malfunctioned teleporter experiment and get super powers: Reed can stretch, Susan projects force fields and makes herself invisible, Johnny becomes a human torch and Ben a superstrong stone giant. The series takes place in contemporary New York. The title was created by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar and Adam Kubert. The series debuted in early 2004, and has a monthly publishing schedule. It is currently written by Mike Carey with art by Tyler Kirkham. It has been indicated in the February Solicits that the series will end in February, as will Ultimate X-Men.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
These are Weeners!
The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius is a comic book series created, written and illustrated by Judd Winick. It follows the comical escapades of the eponymous character, a 10-year-old boy who secretly possesses the most powerful intellect on Earth, along with his impulsive best friend Jeremy and his crush Sara. Barry puts his genius to work primarily in creating outlandish inventions that are centuries ahead of their time, such as teleportation devices, jetpacks and wallet-sized nuclear devices. Many of the storylines involve one of Barry's inventions going horribly wrong (usually due to Jeremy's clumsiness) and the two boys' efforts to right the situation before anyone can find out. Barry takes great care to keep his genius a secret and maintains Jeremy as his only confidant. The pair's dialogue is rife with profanity, often complex in its construction, and this foul-mouthed irreverence is reflected to a lesser extent in several of the other characters.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
These 2 Hit the Mark
If you are looking for comic book story arcs that's peppered with fast-paced action scenes, witty character wise-cracks and an awesome array of artwork, then, these two must-read 12-part mini-series would certainly hit those marks (again some pun intended). Written and created (as in the case of Hunter/Killer) by Mark Millar (Marvel's Wolverine vol.3) with art from John Romita Jr. while Mark Waid (Superman: Birthright) and Marc Silvestri (Witchblade, Darkness) collaborated in making Hunter/Killer (for Top Cow | Image), both Wolverine's Enemy of the State / Agent of Shield by Millar and Hunter/Killer by Waid and Silvestri offer readers a chance to re-acquaint themselves with a well-known character like Wolverine but at the same time picking up a "new" set of super-powered heroes and villains (sometimes, you don't really know who is what) that have almost similar origins and are now facing off their demons as they try to fight their way through the diabolical manipulations, machinations and double-crossing of their respective handlers. .
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Vaughan's Volumes
Hello again! As promised, I'm back to give you the comic books
I've read and come to love the past couple of months. And, among the many many
comics I've read the past many many months ago, the works of Eisner award
winner Brian K Vaughan are among the best that I have come to like a lot. And
I've read a lot of his books, come to think of it, BKV's works are the most that
I've read amongst all of my favorite writers. Let me see, ok, more recently I've
read Pride of Baghdad, which is a true-to-life(?) story about what may (?) have
happened to the animals after fall of Baghad in Iraq, Then before that, his run
on Swamp Thing volume 3 which I think was quite timely then and especially
now because it's running theme was about our role in making sure that our
planet's environment is kept safe and in check from our excesses. Of course, it
was told thru the different wildly adventures of Swamp Thing's daughter who was
rebelling against her nature and at the same time discovering herself and her
place in humanity. Not coincidentally I guess, is how BKV again made the very
appealing storyline of the Runaways volumes 1 & 2, about a bunch of teenagers discovering
their true character and natures. But of all the characters and stories that BKV
has made a run of, the first (and last, some pun inteneded) and most
memorable for me is the one you might be downloading below:
Incidentally, if like me, you happen to like BKV's writing, you might want to check out the other titles I mentioned above by visting and perhaps, joining:
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Rising Authority
The Kingdom is not the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but the Comic Kingdom based in where else The United Kingdom (otherwise you'd be most likely be reading this in Arabic)hmmmm...come to think of it, does anyone know if there are any Arabic comic books?? Anyways...I digress. I also made this blog to "feature" comic books which I really liked reading and highly recommend (some of which can be obtained at the comickingdom.co.uk forum). I'll try to make this at least a weekly event. If you came from the forum, you may also want to check out their stuff! So enough yapping here's my picks for this week:
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