comics
From Marvel to DC, Geeks explores the popular and independant comic titles in the geek universe.
One X-Cellent Scene
This is the type of imagery that makes you incapable of sleeping at night. My first introduction to the X-Men as a kid was reading the Brood Saga, but I didn’t read it in order. I started with The Uncanny X-Men #165, at the start of Paul Smith’s run, which was near the end of the Brood storyline. That issue featured Storm, a black, female superhero with a high moral standard, white hair and blue eyes. A mutant with the ability to control the weather, she discovers that she is way more powerful in space, manipulating solar winds and gravity. She was immediately relatable to me, her unique appearance mirroring my own. The story, Storm realizing she is a host for a Brood queen, was both shocking and heartbreaking. The cover was hard to look at, but so very well executed by Paul Smith, it was even harder to look away. It was like Empire Strikes Back being the first Star Wars movie you saw.
By Antonio Jacobs5 years ago in Geeks
Dark Metropolis
The place is Gotham City, one of the great, enduring, visually stunning fictional cities in popular culture that originated in the pages of the comic book Batman.Gotham City, a colossal metropolis in the United States, functions as the dwelling of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne, who protects the city against organized crime in the guise of his alter-ego, The Batman. Gotham's stark angles, creeping shadows, and dense, crowded, airless atmosphere have captured people's imaginations, both young and old,for decades. But Gotham City has moved outside of the pages of the comic book and evolved into an important symbol in fictional narrative.Gotham City establishes in the viewer’s psyche a gloomy playground into which ominous theories can be invested as he or she fully embraces the darker aspects of the imagination. This paper explores the history of Gotham City and the contextsin which it has adapted and thrived, with roots steeped in history and ever-changing architecture and atmosphere. Gotham City has been interpreted across various media for over 75 years and become one of the most iconic cities, not only in popular culture, but also the collective imagination.
By Tess Trueheart5 years ago in Geeks
X-Plaining the Dawn of X: Hickman and Yu’s X-MEN
With HOX/POX acting as a relaunch of Marvel’s X-Men titles, it’s fitting that the first ongoing monthly book to spin out of HOX/POX is X-Men, written by “Head of X” Johnathan Hickman with art by the legendary Leinil Francis Yu. Unlike the other X-titles, X-Men serves as a bit of an episodic series, with most of its chapters not exactly relating to other issues, but instead mainly serving as a way to build this new world, so to speak. Introducing new enemies, establishing Krakoa’s position on the world stage, and creating new mythologies.
By Zack Krafsig5 years ago in Geeks
Conan The Avenger
In 2018, Marvel Comics announced that it had reacquired the rights to publish and print comic books based on the works of Robert E. Howard, namely Conan the Barbarian. Along with relaunching previous 70’s ongoing titles Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan, the Cimmerian made an official, canon jump to the mainstream Marvel Universe (Earth-616). First appearing in the event miniseries Avengers: No Road Home, Conan has continued to appear as the central character in both the Savage Avengers ongoing series and the Conan: Battle for the Serpent Crown miniseries.
By Zack Krafsig5 years ago in Geeks
The Yellow Flick Road
If I was a conspiracy theorist (and I’m not, because that’s what they want us to believe), I would say that 20-Century Fox has it in for any positive black male role model, and that is why they never survive in an X-Men film. In contrast, The MCU has cultivated several black men as heroes – James Rhodes or Rhodey, Sam Wilson aka Falcon, and T’Challa the Black Panther, and the DCCU has several as well, albeit not as pristine – Victor (Cyborg) Stonex, Deadshot, they even kept Black Manta ALIVE – the XCU goes out of its way to discard the smattering of black men they have loitering about. Korath the Persuer, by the way. Djimon Honsou? Amistad? (I forgot about Heimdall in the video. Sorry Idris Elba).
By Antonio Jacobs5 years ago in Geeks
9 Reasons Why Spider-Gwen #0 Isn't Hardly Worth the Super High Prices it's Fetching on eBay
If I hadn’t seen the sold listings with my own eyes, True Believers, I really wouldn’t have believed it. But innocent noobs on eBay have been lining themselves up to get fleeced on second prints of Spider-Gwen #0, a comic book released by Marvel in January, 2016.
By Paco Taylor5 years ago in Geeks
SPANDEX lives!
There's a long history of LGBT comics hiding out in the small presses. For a long time, the big American publishers banned any mention of homosexuality under the Comics Code, and even after the code was ended, Marvel had a blanket ban on such things into the early nineties. British comics had a bit more leeway in theory, but since comics here were still viewed mainly as a kids' medium throughout the twentieth century they were affected heavily by the government's Section 28, which banned any positive depictions of homosexuality in schools but which had knock-on effects in any kid-focused media.
By Daniel Tessier5 years ago in Geeks
