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‘Ultimate Marvel Team-Up’ #1- Matt Wagner’s Mutant Mayhem

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #1 introduces a more traditional version of Wolverine to the Ultimate Marvel Universe. He is gruff and violent, but actually wants to co-exist with humans and leave his dark past behind. In a later filler arc of Ultimate Spider-Man, Bendis would explore the comic potential of a Wolverine/Spider-Man team up, but he looks at the more serious implications of being a mutant in the Ultimate Universe while also making Spidey kind of geek out around him. Even if Sabretooth is a fur coat wearing punching bag and some of jokes don’t land, it is a rare privilege to see comics legend Matt Wagner put Spider-Man through his acrobatic paces and use the full comics page (or two) to its storytelling potential.

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Eight Comic Book Characters That Stayed Dead (So Far)

  Comic book characters are always dying and coming back to life. Whomever said “The only certainties in life are death and taxes” clearly didn’t have mutant healing factors and clones in mind when they said it. There are however a scant few comic book characters that have managed to stay dead. In honor of …

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Marko Manev’s Latest Superhero Noir Print ‘Mutants’

We’ve featured artist Marko Manev’s Superhero Noir series in the past and now he’s released a new print titled Mutants, which is now on sale through Bottleneck Gallery. This is a limited timed release priced at $35  for a 13 x 19 inch print. You can purchase Manev’s X-Men themed piece Mutants here. 13×19” giclee …

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The 2000’s: A Vital Decade in Horror Cinema

Many film websites published “decade’s best horror films” lists in late 2009/early 2010. While these lists collectively provided a rough snapshot of the genre’s ups and downs during that time, with more time to reflect, it becomes increasingly clear what an important period the 2000’s were for the horror genre on a global scale. Not …

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