Or if you prefer, happy Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, or good old fashioned Mardi Gras!
As you may know, today is also known as Pancake Tuesday, held on the day preceding Ash Wednesday because pancakes were a way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk, and sugar, before the fasting season of the 40 days of Lent.
And so, we reprint the most famous pancake story in comics, featuring Mike Mignola’s Hellboy!
Originally published on ComicMix as Happy Pancake Day!
Via Chris Ryall at IDW Publishing, we have this drawing by John Byrne, featuring Popeye and an Uncanny X-team, too.
C’mon, you never once looked at those forearms and thought to yourself, “Stinkin’ mutie”? With forearms that big, to heck with retractable claws– he could have a whole retractable wolverine in there. Nevertheless, this is not how I imagined Byrne returning to the X-Men.
Colors by Leonard O’Grady.
Originally published on ComicMix as Monday Mix-Up: John Byrne’s X-Men and… Popeye?
What…? I mean… WHAT?!?
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You know, I never thought I’d think of the Chris Claremont days as the uncomplicated days of X-Men, but…
Originally published on ComicMix as Saturday Morning Cartoons: Previously, on X-Men…
As someone who’s had to deal with a lot of hacked websites recently, I can’t help but sympathize with the Emerald City Comicon, whose site has been hacked and backups deleted, all with less than a month to go to this year’s con in Seattle.
Although the Emerald City Comicon site is down, you can still buy tickets: http://ow.ly/hgGe2 March 1-3 #eccc
You can get also updates at their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/emeraldcitycomicon March 1-3 #eccc
Media interested in badges/celebrity interviews at Emerald City Comicon write Joe Parrington directly at joep(@ symbol) emeraldcitycomicon.com.
Go help them out, and know that the show is still scheduled to go on.
Originally published on ComicMix as Emerald City Comicon site hacked
Five bucks says Dan Slott puts this in The Superior Spider-Man.
Originally published on ComicMix as Doc Ock is having real trouble controlling Spider-Man’s body…
Now that the NHL strike is over and hockey is back, who saved the season? Superheroes!
Playing for the heroes: Batman, Spider-Man, Rogue, Gambit, and Iron Man. Playing for the villains: Bane, Joker, Mystique, Catwoman, and Deadpool… and Commissioner Gordon as the referee!
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Originally published on ComicMix as Monday Mix-Up: Superhero Hockey!
Today’s the day we celebrate Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schickelgruber Burns, the owner and manager of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Without this ancient billionaire, the Simpson family would simply be poor, instead of part of the working poor. So feel free to say “exxxcellent” all day long. And don’t forget to release the hounds.
Other people may tell you that this is actually the birthday of poet Robert Burns, and that you should celebrate by playing the bagpipes, eating haggis, drinking scotch, reciting poetry in a thick Scottish accent, and closing out the evening by singing Auld Lang Syne. But that just sounds frickin’ weird.
Originally published on ComicMix as Happy Burns Day!
Sean Howe shows us proof that Marvel sold original artwork instead of returning it to the artists, or compensating them in any way.
Marvel began returning current pages to artists sometime in 1974, and eventually worked retroactively back a few months, to comics cover-dated from January 1974; among the earliest issues from which art was sent back were Avengers #119 and Amazing Spider-Man #128.
But a year earlier, Marvel sold the covers to these issues, cover-dated January 1973, to the Winnipeg Art Gallery . Seven covers, plus progressive proofs and color guides for each, for a total of $770.
Back in 1986, Irene Vartanoff (who began managing artwork return in 1975) told The Comics Journal that Marvel would occasionally send artwork to exhibits. But as far as I know, this is the only evidence that exists of Marvel actually accepting money for pages of original art.
It’s unclear if the gallery still possesses the pages; nothing comes up on their inventory database. But if Rich Buckler, Joe Sinnott, Barry Smith, John Romita, Sal Buscema, or Tom Palmer happens to read this, they may want to give them a call.
via MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY (Untold Stories: Marvel Sells Stash of Original Art…) .
It has been long suspected that lots of comic art went out the door. But this is the first documented proof I’ve seen that Marvel did so and profited from it.
A quick guess puts the value of all that original art at $35,000 today. We wonder if the artists are ever going to see any of it.
Originally published on ComicMix as Marvel’s Original Sin
A sequel to the original sleeper hit movie Red , based on the DC Comics comic by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer , Red 2 has come out with a new trailer today.
In Red 2, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they’ll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world—and stay alive in the process.
The movie stars Bruce Willis as Frank Moses, John Malkovich as Marvin Boggs, Mary-Louise Parker as Sarah Ross, Brian Cox as Ivan Simonov, and Helen Mirren as Victoria. They’re joined this time around by Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, and Neal McDonough. It’s being directed by Dean Parisot, and written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, based on the comic by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer.
Watch the new trailer now:
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Originally published on ComicMix as Watch “Red 2″ new trailer
