Category Archives: Komikillers

Brain-destroying killer comics just the way we like them

Endless coffin

So, we here at Fanthoman HQ have been decontextualizing and putting panels out of order since we were kids and then did it digitally with Mandrake strips.

It was not until this morning, however, that I thought about using the same script with a story that was expressly conceived with that treatment in mind … So this morning I contacted David Hine to ask for his permission to do it and got it done.

Nice people of the Internet, join me in thanking Mr Hine and Mr Kane 2000 for giving us Bulletproof Coffin Disinterred #4 as it was supposed to be read.

As a bonus, here is a sketch done by the very nice David Hine in the Lille Comics Festival back in 2010:

coffinfly

Improbable crossovers

As you might have seen on the collage I posted a few posts ago with my collection of inter-company crossovers, I am a bit obsessed with them at the moment. The quality is generally very poor but there’s something inherently fun about them.

I would like to take this moment to call for a minute of silence to the following crossovers, which might never happen:

Except the one with Darkseid and Thanos, of course … It’s already happened!

And, as a bonus, the King wanted to join the party too:

Captain America vs Batman

Captain America vs Batman by Jack Kirby

Legion of the Supernatural

When our heroes fail us… we will turn to our monsters! The Legion of the Supernatural follows the last of the famous monsters in a world where super heroes have hunted their brethren to near extinction. When an army of starving, inter-dimensional vampires returns to consume our world, only The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Bog Creature, The Wolf-Man, Dracula, and Sister Arcane have the power to contest the coming darkness – as it was their birthplace! Critically acclaimed scribe Rick Remender (Fear Agent, Punisher: War Journal) is joined by legendary illustrator Bret Blevins (Batman, X-Men) who has fully painted the adventures of this pulp monster-mash showcasing the most unlikely team of super heroes… the monsters.

The classic monsters, Remender and fully-painted art by a Bret Blevins who was returning to comics after years of storyboarding … Almost sounds too good to be true, right? And in this case it was, as the series still has to see the light of day 5 years later.

I have managed to find the solicitations for the first 2 issues (the solicitation text of the first issue is the opening of the article) and some art that I present here for your enjoyment:

Solicitation text for #2:

In a dank laboratory, amid the alien ruins on the moon, Frankenstein’s monster has been bitten by a cursed undead. His plea to Dracula is ignored, their rivalry continues. The Mummy Cleopatra has murdered humanities heroes. The Bog Creature moves towards his own plans for saving Earth by eliminating humanity. The vampire world has run dry of victuals. The lord of the vampires has amassed his forces and Tokyo is destroyed over and over.

Let’s not lose hope, though, as IDW’s Chris Ryall is still trying to get it published:

Legion of the Supernatural by Bret Blevins. I’d love to get this one going again someday. It’s by Rick Remender and Bret; the project stalled a few years back for different reasons but I really loved the look and feel of it, especially in the hands of Rick-n-Bret.

I think I speak for a lot of people when I ask Chris to keep trying! In any case, anybody know why the project fell through?

A week of art: Keith Giffen

Soooo, to finish off the week of art, how about some Keith Giffen? I wanted to end big and trying to pick a few Kirby pieces would be too heart-breaking. I have loved Giffen’s work since I can remember and his ability to reinvent his style decade after decade is one of the most interesting things to follow in the US comics scene.

I tried to select some unpublished or rare illustrations. Some of them are from http://www.comicartfans.com, which, as always, feels like a trip down the missed opportunities boulevard …

Mr. Giffen, we all like your writing but try to get some art done more regularly, please! And if everything else fails, there’s always Kickstarter!!!

A week of art: Aaron kuder

Time to highlight Mr. Aaron Kuder, already working for the big ones and with a great style that reminds the stylings of Frank Quitely or Tony Moore. Like the other artists featured this week, we can’t wait to see anything new that gets published …