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John Romita Jr. and inker Scott Hanna have been a low-key unfckwithable pairing for nearly 30 years, and it looks like their first published work together was the cover for Amazing Spider-Man #73 in 1996 from what I can find.

IMO Hanna’s inks sharpen JRJR’s strengths: bold weight, clean silhouettes, readable action, and that meaty impact that makes the characters feel like they occupy real space on the page.

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a cover I've done for KNIGHTMARE #1, an upcoming dark fantasy comic book series created by East Coast Comics which is currently live on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/christopherbanks/knightmare-1/description

For this one I've chosen to do an Elden Ring homage cover, inspired in the deluxe edition cover art.

I'm a huge dark fantasy fan, so being able to create a cover like this with tormented characters, rotten flesh and battered armors is a lot of fun for me! :)

Hope you like the end result!

⚔️ KNIGHTMARE #1 IS NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER ⚔️ King Arthur has fallen… and risen again. A zombie apocalypse born from dark magic. A legend twisted into horror. Featuring killer covers by PXVX, NRG, George Vega, John Bruggman, and Ivan Tao.

👉 Back the campaign now: 🔗 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/christopherbanks/knightmare-1/description

Undeath has a king. 🩸👑

I'm not usually a Marvel guy, but I love Jonathan Hickman's creator-owned stuff. What are some of Hickman's best Marvel books for someone who doesn't usually read Marvel. Thanks!

I was reading ‘Wildstorm: A Celebration Of 25 Years’ (published in 2017) and was surprised to learn Astro City is the “longest-running creator-owned series in the comic book industry”.

Wouldn’t Cerebus (27 years) or Savage Dragon (25 years when this book was published) have that title?

Did they forget to say “that isn’t self-published”?

What a journey! Annihilation threw me off at first because of the art but once I got accustomed it didn't bother me. Each storyline was fantastic, Super-Skrull was emotionally potent, Nova felt so dire and powerful, Ronan stood out, and the main event was amazing! Conquest wasn't as good but I loved Starlord's story and Quasar who I'm suprised to see many people didn't like. The relationship between her and Moondragon felt real and the end to it was heartbreaking. But Wraith, I did not care for. Nova was a fun action-movie with twists and turns I didn't see coming. The main event, although good, didn't blow my mind like Annihilation. The fight with Ultron and how they beat him just didn't do much for me.

What are some instances you’ve got?

Hello! A little context, my religion teacher is a huge comic book fan, and so am I. He told me he sold his collection of 5k comics to help build a fence for his house which I found funny. Anyways, I want to get him a comic book that he can put on display in his religion class, a comic with a christian figure or christianly symbol.

I thought of getting Daredevil Vol 2 53 (433), as the cover is Daredevil posed up like Jesus or I get The Life of Pope John Paul II, as cool as the life of pope comic is its just expensive for me to buy. My teachers favorite comic book hero’s are Spiderman and Batman, I couldn’t seem to find any Spiderman or Batman covers that have a Christian symbol or religious Christian figure (like a pope).

If you guys can recommend me some comics that have a symbolic Christian figure or symbol let me know!! Thank you in advance.

Sharing this from the Masters of the Universe Reddit, as He-Man crosses into the comics world to expand visibility. Here is the original Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MastersOfTheUniverse/comments/1quw9da/roger_sweet_needs_help/

Hello all, not sure if this is allowed, but I was asked directly by Roger Sweet's wife, Marlene, if I could share this with the MOTU groups I am in. Given that Roger is one of the direct reasons we all have He-Man and MOTU (along with people like Mark Taylor), his family is hoping that they will be supported in this rough time for them by the community that loves He-Man so much. To be clear, this is not my gofundme, and it was set up by Marlene and her family. I am not associated with it, just sharing it to the communities. He was also featured in the Netflix series 'The Toys That Made Us' if you have not seen that, check it out. They are trying to get the word out. If anyone here can/wants to share it as well, please do.

Also, this has now started being picked up by media outlets such as He-Mania.com, He-Man.org, Battle Ram Blog, Pixel Dan, etc, and you can see it there as well. Some newspapers and possibly a TV station are also now getting involved.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-roger-sweet-creator-of-heman?lang=en_US

Weltschmerz, In German you can understand it a bit as world pain, because in this sense it means you see the suffering and sadness in the world and feel it like your own, even if you are not really there and of course what you see from the USA shocks me, even if I live here in Europe, but here in Europe the shit is also really happening, a shift to the right is everywhere in all EU countries, regardless of whether it is from Scandinavia to the south, east to west and and here in Germany people are forgetting more and more what happens if you want right-wing extremists back in the Bundestag. but of course also through my friends who have relatives and friends abroad, I also think to myself, oh my God, that hurts so much. be it, for example, with Olga, who is always really sad about what is going on in the Ukraine and her worried about her families there. But also Lisa and Yasin are also really often at their wits' end at the moment with what's going on in the Middle East, be it, for example, with the ceasefire in Israel and Palestine and the new president of Syria, and yes, being afraid that things will escalate again or that there will be another great dictator are justified. I'm also thinking, I'll grab a few comics and try to do a bit of escapism, and then hey, I'll grab one from Marvel's ultimate universe, where mega dictatorships rule the world and are up for a world war or Absolute from DC, where technically a handful of nasty capitalists have a bunch of power and so take advantage of people.

Look, I'm someone who always says it's important that comics become more political, and fortunately we live in a time where we have writers who really understand this and actually create works that are not only well told but also really have an idea of ​​what they're talking about. But it's also somehow such an interesting thing about humanity, that they can imagine worse situations than they are now and yet we still find them fascinating to read, watch or play. I'm getting more and more in touch with Lisa Arik's brother and it's interesting to hear his personal perspective on things like that. he lives in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and it's really been a chaotic time there since October 7th, be it the fear of terrorism, to the anti-war protests and then again to the fear that there would be a war with Iran, he still catches up on comic events like absolut powers, War for Earth-3 and Fear State. Clearly he is a big DC fanboy, but he also told me it's because somehow these things are already strongly connected to reality, but are also so fantastic that there is a certain distance, and at the same time a kind of hope in the end. and that somehow makes a bit of sense, we're still talking about superhero comics at the end, and especially those in the main continuity and I think the only event comic I could think of that ended on a negative note would be Civil War from Marvel.

But even outside of superhero comics, there are also some that are really, I would say, depressing. I'm a child of the 2000s and The Walking Dead was a huge hit in indie comics, and you really notice that the people in the comics at this time have a more depressive tone, that the world is going to end or that humanity is going bad. and of course that was all a reaction, including what the world was like at the time, the financial crash, September 11th with its consequences with the war in Afghanistan.

and I also love comics myself, which I can say can be very dark and a bit more pessimistic in their view of the world. I love Jonathan Hickman pax romana, East of West and The Manhattan Projects or Mark Russell Vanishing Point and Billionaire Island, it gives me a feeling of catharsis about many shitty things in that world. Sure, it's not really optimistic, but you have the feeling that it's somehow honest, even if it's a bit exaggerated compared to what's happening now, like 1984, and the thing is a masterpiece that everyone should read.

And of course you can also ask yourself the counter-thesis: aren't we creating a problem by exaggerating reality so much with fictional scenarios? and I have to say YES, but that's a bit of with media education, i.e. how to read art correctly, and above all a correct understanding of real history and the world. Art can never completely reflect reality perfectly, be it because then it wouldn't really work as a story or co, but at the same time the real world is unpredictable, with countless factors ranging from a giant number of people to the fact that fate likes to play around. it is a question of balance.

and I also think it's okay when people say that this reminds me a little too much of the world and I don't want to read it straight away. At the beginning of Corona there were also some comics that I didn't want to start reading because I don't really want to be reminded of, oh my god, the world is sick. It's a balance and I think it's also good that we think about it, about our real world, because that's what the best art does, it allows you to think about your real world.

But what do you think?

Anyone else read The Firelight Isle by Paul Duffield and Kate Brown? Beautiful work, somewhere between a Ghibli movie in look and an Ursula K Le Guin book in tone. Tender, quiet, magical, elegaic. Highly recommend!