Spider-Woman Motion Comics

The idea of motion comics has been around for quite a while. Spider-Woman definitely isn’t the first to do it. I wouldn’t be able to tell you what the first motion comic was without doing research, but I think I’ve seen an Astonishing X-Men motion comic a few months before and well, there’s that Watchmen motion comic that kinda freaks me out.

I’m going to talk about what I think about the three motion comic episodes and compare EP-01 to Spider-Woman #01.

To give you a better idea of what motion comics are, think of them as a mix between cartoons and still pictures. Kinda like those old 1960’s cartoons of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and Hulk. You know, “When Captain America throws his mighty shield…” Remember now?
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Be A Hero.

As you all know, a motherfucker of a storm hit us last Saturday, September 26, 2009. Again, let me reiterate- it was one motherfucker of a storm. If you were cut off from any form of media until today, here are some pics that might help you gauge the level of destruction this Ondoy brought upon us.Click here and here.

Here at Comicology, we talk about super heroes, toys, comics, games and movies. While we can all argue that these things are valuable to us, they are definitely not necessary for survival. However, there are people, about an hour’s drive from where you are right now, who were stripped of everything that is vital to life and right now, they are going through a hell I wouldn’t wish upon anyone. If we can afford action figures, toys, comics, DVDs and video games, we can afford to help out. We can afford to donate some money, at the very, very least..
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Hall of Heroes Haul!

I’m currently in a in the state of settling into a new job. That means I have yet to receive my old job’s last pay and I have yet to be paid in the new job. I am broke, at the moment. However, my dad is not. BWAAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAA!!! This post and this haul is brought to you by my dad’s credit card.

A few days ago, I was telling you guys about the Hall of Heroes event happening over at Robinson’s Ermita, right? They extended it by a day because today just so happens to be a legal holiday. Hooray! I went over and grabbed a couple figs, mostly 3.75″ and I’m selling off the Goliath 12″ fig that came with the pointy-masked Iron Man.

Here be my haul:

I got the Gigantic Battles Iron Man with Goliath, the running variant Iron Fist and Wave 5 “Silver Centurion” (BULLSHIT) Iron Man. I do not want the Goliath fig, so I’m selling him for P1700.00. If you want him, comment or get in touch with me at 0922-8157452.
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Comic of the Week- Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1

Moon Knight has been an interesting character for me for some time now. I first took notice of him as a West Coast Avenger, though he did strike me a little bit too much of a cookie cutter superhero with generic street level powers but with a twist. Turning him violent and savage made me really dig him, especially since he’s doing it in the name of Khonshu, which was a very interesting take on the character.

In Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1, they take Marc Spector, give him his wealth back, clean him up, remove him from hiding and shine a whole new light on him. Do I like it? Well, meh.

Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1
Writer: Gregg Hurwitz
Artist: Jerome Opeña/ Dan Brown

Okay, this will be spoilery so turn back now if you haven’t read it yet.
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Wave 5 to be released at Robinson’s Ermita

Check this out. According to Cybertron Philippines, the event tomorrow and Sunday at Robinson’s Ermita holds the release of the following items:

MARVEL
Marvel Universe Battle Pack Assortment - 2,199.75
- Spiderman and his Amazing Friends
- Army Building pack

Marvel Legends 2 Pack Assortment W2.5 - 1,499.75

Marvel Universe Wave 5 - 549.75
- Guardian
- Spiderman
- Silver Centurion Iron Man
- Namor
- Red Hulk
- more

That means these guys are being released tomorrow.

I’m not a big fan of hoping against hope, but do you think “others” includes these guys?

I’m picking up the Iron Man one. Who wants the Skrull guy? slangards gots dibs though.

Comic of the Week- Exodus #1

Hey geeks. I’m trying out this comic of the week thing and see how it picks up. I used to do weekly reviews but that got tiresome and were actually the least popular posts. This time, I’m just going to pick out one title from all that came out the previous release and geek out about it. Yeah, this is pretty late, but I’ve been busy so bear with me here.

This week, I’m going to talk about what could possibly be my favorite issue that came out of the whole Dark Reign thing and possibly my favorite X-men related thing for the entire year of 2009.

Exodus #1
Written By: Matt Fraction
Art By: Mike Deodato and Terry Dodson
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Ships Today!

This ships today, bitches. Here’s the official trailer:

And here’s Juggernaut picking a side.

 Imma get an Xbox360 solely for this.

Ang Astiging Boy Ipis!

For all the super heroes and villains we discuss here, I think what Comicology has always lacked was a focus on the local stuff. There are a lot of good comic books that come out locally, and some of them I can say are pretty goddamn good. Today at Comicology, we’ll be featuring the brain behind a Filipino super hero that I particularly like mainly because he’s unique among a slew of characters wearing variations of the Philippine flag. Let me introduce you to Paul Michael Ignacio and ang Astiging Boy Ipis!

Comicology: Hello Paul. Thanks for taking time out to answer out questions. I guess we should start with an origin question. What got you into comics and comic book creation?
 
Paul: Hey, no problem! I started like any other person who pursued his “comics dream”.. as a FAN. I loved comics ever since I was 6 years old when my father introduced this reading material to me by bringing home copies of FILIPINO FUNNY KOMIKS from work. I was a big SUPERDOG fan. I would draw him everyday.
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Ultimate Cyclops Collector- workhorse3 aka Carlo Ricohermoso

Cyclops is supposed to be the general of the mutant population.He’s also supposed to be the greatly respected leader of the X-Men, although a lot of people (read: fanboys) would complain and say he’s nothing more than a B-lister, especially when compared to the “star” of the X-Men, the canucklehead, Wolverine.

Although his position is great and is greatly loved by a certain niche of fans (ME!) and writers, he seems to always come up short, especially in popularity and is almost always shot down a couple rungs from where he should be. This is probably why there aren’t so many mainstream action figures of Cyclops. To be a collector of all things Cyclops and Summers family related must be difficult given the limited number of figures that comes out for this guy, as compared to Wolverine, right? Well, we’d think so, wouldn’t we?

Our friend here, Sir Carlo Ricohermoso, better known as workhorse3, is famous over at the PTK boards for being the guy with the largest Cyclops themed collection in the country, and possibly this side of the galaxy. I got curious and went into the Cyclops thread and asked around for the guy who had the most extensive, most complete, most boner-inducing Cyclops collection and all the posters unanimously said “bro workhorse3.”
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Pixar-Marvel Ant Man? Could it be?

All this craziness between Disney and Marvel and all the speculations has really put a bad taste in my mouth. I, for one, am optimistically skeptical. I am very uneasy about the deal, but I don’t want to jump to any conclusions. I am hoping for the best, where Disney feeds Marvel money for a better marketing reach and higher returns but keeps their grubby paws away. However, should there be a Jonas Brothers meets The New Avengers comic book, I will embrace Dark Horse and DC and IDW and try to forget Marvel ever existed.

It also doesn’t help that the Disney-Marvel deal has a $140 million termination fee. This means that if the deal doesn’t push through, Marvel has to pony up $140 million smackers to Disney. I know they got the money, but are they liquid enough to do this? Maybe, but Marvel has already said they have no intentions of backing out of the deal. The House of Mouse and the House of Ideas are going through with this marriage.

However, today, I read the first good news that this merger has sired.

I found this article up on comicbookmovie, which they found on Entertainment Weekly. CBM writer said they found in on page 23:
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Disney Confirms

I yanked this off comicbookmovie.

This is from Niki Fenke. After doing some research, it turns out that NIki Fenke is a Deadline Hollywood reporter. She was talking about Bob Iger, head of Disney, and Ike Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel.

“Content-wise, the two moguls agreed that Marvel would continue to operate independently of the notoriously micro-managing Disney in the same way that Miramax did under the Weinstein Brothers. Though that probably won’t make even hardcore fanboys feel better about the deal they’re pissing on all over the Internet yesterday and today. (Given what Iger likes to refer to as the “combustion of digital word of mouth” that operates these days, Iger and Perlmutter have their work cut out for them trying to get skeptical fanboys to believe that Disney has no intention of altering the creative approach which Marvel takes to its comic books and movies. Of course, it helps the corporate confluence between the two companies that Marvel’s movie fare has been and will be “PG-13″.) 

What this basically means is that Disney will not fuck with the way Marvel handles its characters. That should let me sleep a little more soundly. With deeper pockets, larger budgets and the characters we’ve grown to love, Marvel’s future looks bright. At least, I hope so.