iPhone Apps That Sound Like Marvel Characters

Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Marvel Comics,

Can you imagine if iPhone apps were named after characters from the Marvel Comics Universe? I can...and here they are:

Doctor Bong - A constantly updated map of medical marijuana clinics and how far they are from you right now, man.

Fin Fang Foom - A restaurant locator for sushi bars, steakhouses and White Castles.

Impossible Man - An app for ladies with low self esteem. Automatically uploads photos of wealthy, handsome and available men who just aren’t that into you.

Mr. Fantastic - Lets you enhance photos of your junk before you email them to women you find attractive. Also known as The Favre.

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Marvel Comics Review: Captain America: Reborn #1

Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, Marvel Comics,

Rating: *** 1/2 *
 
Captain America: Reborn is here!  Ed Brubaker’s soon to be classic run on Captain America continues with this mini-series which will return Steve Rogers to land of the living, but did he ever really die in the first place?
 
In Captain America #600 we saw that Sharon Carter recovered the gun that she used to kill Steve.  However, it appears that this is no ordinary gun and Steve Rogers was not killed, but instead he’s – somewhere else right now.
 
Ed Brubaker wastes no time in revealing what happened to Steve and how he will end up returning to the Marvel Universe.
 
It seems that the gun that Sharon used to “kill” Steve was part of a larger weapon that the Red Skull and Arnim Zola had borrowed from Dr. Doom.  The weapon was a variation of Doom’s time platform.  After the assassination, Sharon Cater was then strapped to the machine by Zola and the Skull to be used as a homing beacon of sorts in order to retrieve Steve’s body.  Sharon was able to retrieve some of her senses and fought back which resulted in Steve becoming stuck in time and space.  So where is he?  He’s in the past.

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MICHAEL JACKSON: COMIC BOOK STAR? NOT SO MUCH.

Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,

Michael Jackson has passed away, and the media circus will not abate until the next celebrity scandal or death – perhaps Redmond O’Neal will do something crazy at Farrah Fawcett’s funeral? In the meantime, let’s console ourselves with a quick look at his career as a comic book character. Don’t worry, it won’t take long.

Considering how fast nowadays that comic books – perhaps fueled by a need-for-sales-and-publicity desperation – have embraced Barack Obama and thrown him into the Marvel Universe, the Image Universe and even stuck him back in the barbarian age, you might have thought they’d have equally embraced someone who was once as globally popular as Michael Jackson. Especially since MJ, back when he was alive, had been seen taking his disguised children into a comic book store to do some non-Wednesday shopping. Or even, as Michael Dean wrote in The Comics Journal #270 about how Michael Jackson almost bought Marvel Comics.

You’d be wrong. Michael Jackson’s comic book appearances appear to be few and far between. Yes, he appeared many times in MAD Magazine and CRACKED Magazine, but that should be considered a special category, since those are “magazines” and not comic books. Let’s take a look at the others.

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