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  • 15 – Comic Book Ninja III

    15 – Comic Book Ninja III

    The conclusion to our epic Comic Book Ninja saga, featuring the secret origin of Comic Book Ninja! Franka put it nicely. General assholery is running rampant and it is up to Comic Book Ninja to take them down!

    Now, it is not all doom and gloom and we do see a lot of the more positive fandom out in the world today. But boy, the toxicity fandom is quite loud and you always wonder if there is indeed darkness before the dawn. Luckily, Comic Book Ninja has our backs.

    And I think he will be busy. We have a whole lot of comic book events coming up, more specifically in the film-verse. Fantastic Four and Superman are being released almost simutaneously, and before that we have the Thunderbolts, which is obviously not following its origin as one of those shock and awe comics back in the day. When these things happen I tend to ignore everything that is speculated or people’s opinions on whether or not it will be good or bad, and leave it for the only opinion that counts to me…myself. And I think others should have this approach as well. You should never be ashamed for what you enjoy, even if you do feel like you are in the minority. It is your life after all and we only have a short amount of time on this spinning ball we call Earth. So spend it consuming everything that you enjoy and do not let others dictate otherwise.

    That is the true lesson of Comic Book Ninja.

    Back to the comic. A bet has been suggested and shots have been fired. How will Curt take the bait? Because Franka is obviously baiting him. Read next week to find out!

    -Marv

  • 12 – Marvel vs. DC

    12 – Marvel vs. DC

    Marvel and DC made quite the ripples a few weeks ago when they announced a new Marvel and DC crossover. This is not anything new of course, these two companies have combined talents and characters to great effect in the past. I still remember those two wonderful Superman vs Spider-Man stories in those gorgeous oversized formats punching me in the face. Then of course we had the 90’s, when you could vote on which character would defeat which, to great fanfare.

    Some saw this coming because the two companies recently released some Omnibuses of the 90’s event, so some did sniff that something was indeed in the works. And the possibilities are indeed endless. I dare say that the Legion of Super-Heroes have been making a return, albeit in an agonizingly slow way. Will we actually see some of that Jonathan Hickman take/pitch that almost came to be?

    But if you like one company more than the other on some days, and then the other one the next, perhaps this is enough to make your head explode. The news did break Curt because he just did not know what to do. Some believe him to be a robot and that this revelation simply did not gel well with his programming and for that he self-destructed. I do not believe he self-destructed because he will be back tomorrow as he always is. But I also cannot rule out him being a robot.

    -Marv