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Earth Tales 6: Remembering Stan Lee (DC Comics) December marks the 100th anniversary of the late Stan Lee’s birth, and it seems like DC Comics wanted to do something to celebrate. Given the writer/editor/icon’s long-standing relationship with Marvel, they didn’t have much choice in which characters to choose and had to turn to characters that Lee created as part of a big project with the publisher in 1998 Imagine…, The legendary creator teams up with an all-star cast of artists to reimagine some of DC’s most important characters. Titles such as Imagine Stan Lee and Joe Kubert creating Batman and Imagine Stan Lee and John Buscema creating SupermanThere are a dozen in total, and ten new characters are introduced (Superman, Batman, Robin, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Sandman, and Shazam), enough new superheroes to fill the page Imagine Stan Lee and Jerry Ordway starting JLA and Imagine Stan Lee and John Cassady creating a crisis.
This $9.99, approximately 80-page tome revisits many of these characters in ten-page short stories. Obviously it had the right intentions, but then Imagine… The creation of this project, which apparently resides on Earth-6 in DC’s current multiverse, didn’t result in the greatest story, was basically just a gimmick (Marvel’s Stan Lee! Work for the Outstanding Competition!), and was marred by some great Be remembered for his work.
Only two of these artists returned to the project. The Flash co-creator Kevin Maguire cut Superman’s time short, while Ordway returned to the Justice League. Some artwork from the original artists does appear in Secret documents and originsStyle’s character profiles appear at the end of the book.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the resulting tribute comic wasn’t all that great. The most notable of these is Mark Waid and Maguire’s Superman story, in which the belligerent, embittered Man of Steel sets out to end all wars on Earth and, he believes, all those who supply him with weapons or those who profit from our conflicts will be personally affected. planetary space travel).
I love the cartoony art in Megan Fitzmartin, Anthony Marks, and Mark Morales’s Catwoman story, and Ordway does a great job with the character-filled work featuring the JLA, Batman, and Sand There’s also above-average art in Zan’s stories, but the stories themselves are mostly forgettable, run-of-the-mill superhero tales featuring well-designed and conceived alternate-world versions of DC stars. In addition to the above, there are also stories about Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Sandman from Lee and company.
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Godzilla vs. the Mighty Transformers Power Rangers (IDW Publishing) The formula for every episode of the original series, 1993-1996 The mighty Transformers team One scene has the villain Rita Repulsa growing her monster into gigantic, kaiju-sized proportions, and the Rangers need to board their giant robot vehicles to fight it, eventually combining them into the giant Robot Megazord to defeat it. With that in mind, and considering Ranger’s career as a giant monster warrior, a crossover with Godzilla isn’t as ridiculous as it might first sound.
In this mini-series from writer Cullen Bunn and artist Freddie E. Williams II, Rita and her minions discover a mysterious artifact that allows them to gaze into different dimensions. She used it to find a world without the Power Rangers, assuming it would be an easier world to conquer. She transports her entourage there, but there’s a stowaway, Green Ranger Tommy Oliver, spying on them.
They land in chaos, as the world they’re traveling to is apparently Godzilla’s world, and he’s currently fighting Megalon, a group of hovering saucers semi-controlled by the Xillians of Planet X. Mi summons his Dragonzord (the Rangers can still use their “zords” despite being in a different dimension) and battles Godzilla, but not for long. Just then, the rest of the Rangers sent by Zordon arrive to rescue Tommy.
Meanwhile, Rita and her followers force the Xillians into an alliance and convince them to summon more and more giant monsters, supplemented by their own supplies (all of which are recurring monsters) in the show).
like a movie length episode power rangers The manga is mostly about giant monster battles, with Yoshioka, various insect-like monsters, and King Ghidorah eventually joining the fray. In keeping with crossover tradition, Power Rangers and Godzilla first fight each other and then join forces to fight a common enemy.
Bunn does a great job writing a pure fighting comic, while Williams is able to draw everything that’s thrown at him well and create a shared world in which each of the series’ characters They all seem to be a common world.
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The Monkey King Vol. 1: Monkey appears (DC Comics) After debuting with short stories in 2021 DC Heroes Day: A Celebration of Asian Superheroes, Gene Luen Yang and Bernard Chang take a more comprehensive look at their new DC superhero, the Monkey King, in this series. This is a very good Super Comic and the character is a welcome addition to the DC Universe. outside Superman crushed the Ku Klux Klan, With stunning Gurihiru artwork, this might be Yang’s best Super Comic work to date.
Star Wars: The Grudge Pit Story (Dark Horse Comics) this Vader’s CastleCollection of similar horror Star Wars The story follows Jabba the Hutt’s victims as they try to entertain the space gangster ahead of his impending execution by telling horror stories from across the series’ era. Unlike the premise of sustainable development Vader’s Castle Comics – You know what Chekhov called the Pit of Hatred, right? Plus, it features a beautiful cover by EDILW favorite Kelley Jones.
