Author: Gary

Mash-Up #25

Twice a week I randomly generate two dates and then compare the titles I own from both of them, trying to find some covers that, with a little basic photoshopping, I can mash together, and then I force the results on you lovely people.

By the way, I admit to being HUGELY influenced by the wonderful Super-Team Family blog which has been doing this for years (and a lot better) on an almost daily basis.

The Alan Grant/Garth Ennis run on The Demon was great fun, and a real difference from most of the stuff being churned out in the 90s.

And Vibe . . . what can we say about the original break-dancing Vibe . . . ?

RIP Stan Lee

Being a solid DC fan throughout my formative comic years, I missed out on much of Stan Lee’s presence – he was Marvel through and through, of course, so I didn’t have much contact with his creations.

You had to be living under a rock, though, to not know about him or what he’d done. It’s a shame some of his collaborators – particularly Jack Kirby – aren’t such household names to those outside of comics, but there’s no denying that Lee was one of the giants in the industry . . . and now he’s dead.

This cover probably won’t be used much over the coming days but these stories are the only thing I have in my collection written by Stan Lee.

Not his best work in terms of dialogue, but the ideas are there. How different things could have been.

RIP, Stan.

Mash-Up #24

Twice a week I randomly generate two dates and then compare the titles I own from both of them, trying to find some covers that, with a little basic photoshopping, I can mash together, and then I force the results on you lovely people.

By the way, I admit to being HUGELY influenced by the wonderful Super-Team Family blog which has been doing this for years (and a lot better) on an almost daily basis.

Ah, the JSA – those were the days, eh?

For what it’s worth, with the JSA characters, I was trying to mimic the effect seen on Green Lantern #138 which is where I stole Eclipso from.

New Aquaman Poster

Have to admit, I’m looking forward to this.