SMAX... that blue guy in TOP 10, right?

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NYCC: Quesada, Young, Cassaday Art Caps Marvel's Gaiman/Miracleman Announcement
          Sat, October 12th, 2013 at 1:47pm PDT                       |             Updated: 1 hour ago                   
 Stephen Gerding, Senior Editor
                     
During Marvel Comics' traditional Cup o' Joe panel, Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada made the announcement people have been waiting to hear for years: Miracleman is coming.

"Miracleman #25 has been sitting in the darkness, nobody’s seen it," Neil Gaiman told a cheering New York Comic Con crowd in a taped video message. "I love the idea that it’s finally going to be seen. The writer called the project the "big, incomplete book of my life," announcing Marvel’s intention to bring the material back into print, finally finishing his and artist Mark Buckingham's story

After the video, Quesada told the still excited crowd that Miracleman's return, starting with the long out of print material and culminating in the ending of Gaiman's incomplete arc, will begin in January 2014.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=48467

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Never heard of

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Oh man, you have missed out.  Alan Moore had Captain Marvel come into more or less the real world.  You MUST track down and read.

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Superman to Asterix: Comics tell immigrant story
Associated Press
By THOMAS ADAMSON 14 hours ago



A painter works during the preparation of an exhibition on Comics and Immigration at the Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris, Monday Oct. 14, 2013. The exhibition takes place from Oct. 16 to April 27, 2014. Visible at right are two figures by French comics artist Herve Barulea, also called Baru. Tracing comic sketches and magazines from 1913 to the present day from the U.S. to France, the exhibit shows how the immigrant story -from Asterix's "foreign" Polish and Italian authors, to Superman's Eastern European creator- hugely shaped comic books, from their characters to their storylines.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)


     
PARIS (AP) — Superman and Asterix have more in common than meets the eye, according to a new exhibit at Paris' Immigration History Museum.

Comic sketches and magazines from 1913 to the present show how comic books the world over were shaped by the immigrant story, from French Asterix's "foreign" Polish and Italian authors, to American Superman's Eastern European co-creators.

Drawing on 500 sketches and documents from some 117 artists, the exhibit opening Wednesday explains how immigrants on the fringes of society were attracted to the subculture of comic books.

"The whole history of comic books is the history of immigration," said curator Helene Bouillon.

Comic characters themselves are also often masked allegories for being foreign, from Asterix, the yellow-haired Gaul who fights Romans and travels around the world, to the alien Kal-El, who tries to live on earth among humans despite his super powers, the exhibit argues.



A painting by Iranian born French comics artist and film director Marjane Satrapi


"Superman is the super immigrant. who comes from planet Krypton with super powers but who is faced with the feeling of being in exile" Bouillon said.

The exhibit also shows how the medium became more serious in the second half of the 20th century, using the medium to express uncomfortable truths about society's tolerance.

It includes original illustrations from Iran-born cartoonist Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical novel "Persepolis," which tells the bleak story of a young girl fleeing to Europe against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. A film based on the novel won the Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival in 2007.

"This idea of pictures being maybe simpler or being caricatures allows some authors to say things that would maybe be too awful to put in a novel or in photography," Bouillon said. "You have to make people laugh to accept the very difficult stories."



Detail of a drawing by American comics artist Richard Felton Outcault: The Yellow Kid

http://news.yahoo.com/superman-asterix-comics-tell-immigrant-story-081955917.html

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The best match-up idea in the history of ever...

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No, the best matchup would have Hellcow v. The Man-Eating Cow...

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No, the best matchup would have Hellcow v. The Man-Eating Cow...

Yes.  Officiated by Bova the She-Cow, of course...

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I'm not absolutely sure Bova and HellCow never met, so that might not be fair...

-These are all actual comics characters, folks.

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Actress Gal Gadot announced to be officially the next Wonder Woman.

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http://www.lotsoftinyrobots.com/2012/07/yahweh-or-dr-doom.html

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So this morning, for the millionth time, I saw an infamous Rob Liefeld panel of Captain America posted somewhere.  On a whim, I saved a copy (see the first attachment) and did a little fiddling to see about fixing the bad anatomy and perspective.

I'm reasonably satisfied with the results of an hour's tweaking.  Cap's too bulky and the perspective's still not quite there, but It's certainly an improvement...