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6 Reasons Why I Love Comic Books
We all have our vices, mine is the funny books. I’m a total comic book geek – which I hope didn’t come as a shock to any of you. Some people like sports, some like NASCAR, some like music, but not me. I love reading superhero comics. It’s my passion. And not only do I love reading them, but my dream job is to someday write superhero comics. I wear comic book T-shirts, I collect comic book action figures, I write a blog about comics and every week I take a trip to my local comic book shop to pick up a big stack of new books to read.
You could say I’m cuckoo for comic books!
But I would take it as a kindness if you didn't
But why do I love comic books? Of all the millions of things I could love, especially all the ones that are more socially acceptable, why do I continue to be a huge geek who reads comic books? Why spend the money? What do I get out of them? Hopefully today I can answer those burning questions! Here are 6 reasons why I love reading comic books!
6 Super-Villains Based on Randomly Lame Objects
Never let it be said that all the good super-villain themes are taken. If you can settle for not being the next Joker or Doctor Doom of the world, there are a whole host of possibilities for the up-and-coming villain of tomorrow! There are whole arsenals of deadly weapons to base yourself on or an always expanding and ever fearsome animal kingdom! Or why not combine the two? Did someone say Pistol Shrimp?
Or maybe you can just base your villain identity on whatever you find lying around.
Vacuum...Woman? Maybe? Too sexist?
Not everybody can have a real stellar super-villain identity like Magneto or Doctor Octopus. Sometimes super-villains need to get creative. And sometimes maybe they shouldn’t have even bothered. Here are 6 super-villains who weren’t trying very hard.
6 Spider-Man ‘Brand New Day’ Villains Who Crashed and Burned
There are few comic book stories more likely to send fans into a screaming rage than ‘Spider-Man: One More Day’. The basic idea was that Marvel Comics wanted Spider-Man to appeal to a younger audience, and they didn’t think little kids wanted to read about Peter Parker’s long-standing marriage to Mary Jane Watson. Even though that relationship was the backbone of the movie trilogy. But they couldn’t make Spider-Man a divorcee or a widower, because that would also age him in the eyes of young readers.
So Marvel’s answer was for Spider-Man to make a deal with the Devil to magically change history so that Peter and Mary Jane were never actually married, and that they were just boyfriend and girlfriend for a very long time. A deal with the Devil!
Marvel: Because who needs the sanctity of marriage, right?
Needless to say, the fans were outraged! I was one of those fans.
But one of the simple truths about loving comic books is that, in the end, all of us fans are just clinging to the stories and creative ideas of a handful of writers and editors, who are just real people like us. And they have a business to run. They wanted Peter Parker to be a swinging single, so they just went ahead and wrote it into the comics.
The ‘deal with the devil’ storyline was called ‘One More Day’, and it led directly to a new storyline called ‘Brand New Day’. The idea here was to give Spider-Man a fresh start. He wasn’t being rebooted, per se. Everything that had happened to him had still happened, it’s just that Peter and Mary Jane were only ever boyfriend and girlfriend, and now they were broken up so that Peter could be single again. The writers also decided to freshen up the Spider-Man comics by giving him some new friends, new supporting characters and new super-villains. They wanted to make Spider-Man feel fresh and new, while still maintaining him as the same Spider-Man as always.
Well I’m here to tell you that pretty much every new super-villain and status quo change created for Brand New Day crashed and burned. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the current big summer Spider-Man story “Ends of the Earth” is all about classic villains Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six. Or last summer, the big ‘Spider Island’ storyline had the Jackal and Kaine as lead villains.
May this list be righteous justification to all the fans who hated ‘One More Day/Brand New Day’.
The Top 6 Bunny-Themed Comic Book Characters
How is it that in the wide world of superheroes and super-powers, the two most popular characters are based on a spider and a bat? Of all the animals in the world, of all the possible themes and names for great superheroes, everybody loves ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Batman’ the most? Where’s Lionman? Or Eagle-Man? Why not a Cheetahwoman? But I’m not here to debate the awesomeness of Batman or Spider-Man, I’m here to wonder whether or not there are any rabbit-themed supeheroes!
Want to learn more about this spectacular fellow? Read on!
Today is Easter, but rather than do something weird involving religious stuff, I wrote up a list focused on bunnies! Bunny superheroes (and villains) to be precise! It really is quite the eclectic group, though I couldn’t specifically find any Easter Bunny superheroes – unless you count Rise of the Guardians.
Which I don’t. Check out the list after the jump!
6 Silly Armored Superhero Costumes
The one constant in the world of superheroes is the colorful costume. Tights, spandex, latex, long johns, leather, pajamas; all superheroes play dress up when it comes to fighting crime. It’s just more fun that way. But in the real world, everybody knows that a big, muscular guy in spandex just looks silly. If a real world Batman was just wearing a pair of gray tights, he’d be no more threatening than a ballerina. Why do you think the movies put Batman in a specialized suit of black armor, or the X-Men wear black leather?
Tights and spandex costumes just aren’t cool, no matter how good they might look when drawn.
Paper, though, always looks good
Which is why, throughout the history of comics, creators have often tried to upgrade a superhero’s costume to make it look more badass. For some reason, this meant changing from spandex to armor, with heavy layers of complicated plating and protection. Yet no matter how good the creators’ intentions, somehow these upgrades looked even worse! These armor costumes were running rampant in the 90s, and in hindsight, everybody agrees that they looked ridiculous. Superheroes have gone back to tight spandex ever since.
I thought I’d share with everybody some of the more ridiculous armored costume changes in comic book history.
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