365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 247: The Original Force Friday

Why, when I was a kid, we didn't have a whole day full of new Star Wars toys to line up for at the general store, nosirree. We had to wait for our crappy merch and sometimes mail away for it! So there!


Heroes World ad printed in Machine Man (1978 series) #1 (April 1978), artist unknown (probably students from The Joe Kubert School?)

Kirby: Like a Rock

Jack Kirby is a big slab of rock.

Now hold on, hold on. Let me explain.

Jack Kirby is the monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Or, to call it by its familiar nickname, TMA-1. Howdy, T!


Now, that's not just because Jack did the oversized treasury edition adaptation of 2001 (and can you think of a Marvel book more deserving of that big-ass format?), but that's a good enough place to start. Along with being glad that Jack Kirby never did a comic book adaptation of Kubrick's Lolita or Eyes Wide Shut. (Although I would have dearly loved to see Jack's version of Dr. Strangelove or A Clockwork Orange. Heck, even Barry Lyndon!


Splash page from Marvel Treasury Special: 2001: A Space Odyssey one-shot (1976), script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Frank Giacoia, colors by Marie Severin and Jack Kirby, letters by John Costanza

Bear Attack! Month 2014, Day 12: Welcome to the nineties / We've got giant bears

Panels from Iron Man Annual #11 (September 1990), script by Roy Thomas and Dann Thomas, pencils by Tom Morgan, inks by Randy Emberlin, colors by Nel Yomtov, letters by Janice Chiang

LOL Sundays #18: Boy, you make my heart go boom, boom

Page from Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. #8 (November 2006), script by Warren Ellis, pencils by Stuart Immonen, inks by Wade von Grawbadger, colors by Dave McCaig, letters by Joe Caramagna

365 Days with Hank McCoy, Day 312

Panels from X-Men: First Class v.2 #13 (August 2008), script by Jeff Parker, pencils and inks by Roger Cruz, colors by Val Staples, letters by Nate Piekos