• What a sneaky and appropriate way to kick off the Curt storyline aye? You think it is about us, and our love for Asterix and Obelix. But then someone has to make it about him, and here we go.

    Look, I like to think of myself as a compassionate person. When someone is hurting, I will be the guy who runs for that glass of water, or pillow, or whatever is needed at the time. And of course when someone tells me their woes and are baiting me for that inevitable, ‘what’s wrong?’ or ‘do you want to talk about it?’ follow-up question, I will take the bait. Every time.

    Franka is keeping this storyline pretty close to herself, so I do not know where it is going. But if it is about Curt, I know it is going to go somewhere you least suspect or you really do not want to go. But we are going there. Heaven help us.

    Finally, a bit of housekeeping. Since expatNERD is located in Europe, location still undisclosed, we are coming up to vacation season. Luckily, Franka is quite ahead, and she has everything scheduled for when we are both on vacation. The only thing that might not happen is the ‘Comic’ page might not be updated at the appropriate time and in the appropriate way…or the big comic on the main page might not be changed. But internet and technology willing, whilst being in the middle of nowhere…I hope this will still happen.

    But until then, as we go on our respective vacations and consume our summer movies, I wish you all a wonderful and safe vacation period!

    Ciao,

    -Marv

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  • Man what a Super week last week was! And I will say, after seeing Superman…it totally rocked! James Gunn brought the big guns and it looks like the movie will have legs. I think we can say that DC is back film-wise and I can’t wait to see more films in this rebooted universe.

    But good news true believers! The Fantastic Four movie comes out next week! As Marv keeps saying, if you told me that one year we would have a new Superman movie, then a mere two weeks later, a new Fantastic Four movie…well…I just might have to punch you in the face for lying. But boy, my face would have been red because it’s actually true!

    With the new Fantastic Four movie coming out I thought I would give you some of my recommendations from the comics. This is in no particular order, but the first storyline that comes to mind is the Son of Doom storyline, by Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard.

    This is incredible and has all the classic elements of the Fantastic Four. Including their arch nemesis Doctor Doom, who changes by the end of it. Wolfman sprinkles the plot crumbs starting in issue #192 and then slowly ramps it up to the resolution in #200. You have a lot of drama packed in these issues and I do not want to give too much away, but it is definitely worth hunting down these issues. They should not break the bank too much by any means and you can easily find them. And I promise you, you won’t regret it.

    Plus, for people who come to the store and would like to begin with the Fantastic Four, especially with the new stuff, I always recommend to start here. Once you get through the Son of Doom, Jim Shooter (RIP big guy) takes over as editor in chief. And then, as we know, Shooter will eventually hand over the book to Johny Byrne, who will start his classic run on the series. And the Son of Doom (in my humble opinion) is really the start to all of that.

    Finally, one fun part of the Son of Doom, is that Thing really has a hankering to punch the living daylights out of Doom. And that is celebrated in my drawing below.

    Tschüsschen!

    Franka

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