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The resurrection of Give Me Comics or Give Me Death!

on August 28, 2024

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Pulp - Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

Clearly writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips realised they'd found success - both artistically and commercially - with their modern noir series Criminal and whilst that recently relaunched series continues in its rich vein of form, the pair have also cleverly diverged into projects that put a twist on their formula; the Lovecraft influenced Fatale, super-heroes with Incognito (and the excellent Sleeper , which pre-dates Criminal ), the Hollywood setting of The Fade Out , and the supernatural in Kill Or Be Killed. This time around the USP is a tale set in the Wild West, although in typical Brubaker/Phillips (Bruillips? Phillbaker?) fashion things aren't all that they initially seem to be. Behind the gorgeous sepia-ish cowboy cover by Phillips lies a story set in New York City 1939, where lead character Max Winters is a down-on-his-luck comic book writer. Now, granted almost all of the characters in these Brubaker/Phillips stories are down-on-their-luck. ...

Podcast - Intentional Universes: Ghost Machine

Available from all your usual podcast providers, or listen here: It's all well and good talking about comics, but they are obviously a visual medium. Therefore, to accompany each episode we'll also do a little blog post with some images and other extras to give you some context as to what on earth we're talking about! After an exploration into the birth of the Marvel Comics universe, Mike and Lee look to another brand-new universe - Image Comics' Ghost Machine imprint. Plus what they've read this week and another addition to the Comics or Death Museum. Lee has been reading the conclusion of the X-Men Krakoan Age era of books. Here's a handful of the comics that wound up that long-running storyline: Fall of the House of X #1 and 4 - written by Gerry Duggan, with pencils by Jethro Morales and Lucas Werneck (though the covers below are by Pepe Larraz) And Rise of the Powers of X #1 and 5 - written by Kieron Gillen, with penc...

Podcast - The Genesis of the Marvel Universe

Available from your usual podcast provider or app, or listen here: To paraphrase LL Cool J; don't call it a comeback, we've been here for years! Yes, Give Me Comics or Give Me Death! has risen from the grave, like a phoenix from the flames, because as we all know in comics N.E.R.D. - no-one every really dies. It's all well and good talking about comics, but they are obviously a visual medium. Therefore, to accompany each episode we'll also do a little blog post with some images and other extras to give you some context as to what on earth we're talking about! We hope this gives you a better understanding of the comics we are babbling on about. The Birth of the Marvel Universe Fantastic Four #1 Amazing Fantasy #15 Uncanny X-Men #1 Avengers #1 If you're interested in how all these comics came about, and the secrets and controversies of the birth of the Marvel Universe, then we highly recommend Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe...

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