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I’ve only just discovered ‘Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’, fantastic comic…

Cyanide and Happiness have been running a ‘depressing comic week’ all week and while most of them are only ‘ok’ mainly due to the fact that the fact that they suffer from ‘that’s depressing but is it really likely’ syndrome, today’s one though really hits the mark:

… Is a rather enjoyable short film by Kyle Higgins. Though a little bit simplistic in its plotting, and even though the ‘villains’ motivations don’t really make sense, it’s a great looking, well designed movie set in 1960’s Chicago about a superhero union. The link for the film is here and just to give you an idea of the ’style’ of the film, here’s a poster for it:

This looks like its going to be good when it comes out:

Definitely one of the stranger things that I have encountered in my recent memory. These seem to be audio adaptations of Marvel Comics done by Marvel themselves in the 70’s. A lot of them seem to be straight adaptations of the first 13 issues of the Fantastic Four comic. They even have an introduction by Stan Lee! Worth a listen. Group 1 is here and 2 here

Don’t exactly remember where I came across this, it’s been on my pc for years. Anyway, it’s more a curiosity but take a look:
Judge Dredd Advert

This is a comic based on an upcoming video game. Yet it’s surprisingly enough actually quite good. I’m not quite sure why they decided to animate the comic (though that is something that seems to be becoming a trend) but the music and Ben Templesmith’s art actually combine to make quite a creepy experience.


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Continuing Marvel Comics current stance of good works which they keep a fair bit of control over, here’s a sample video for a new ‘Black Panther’ cartoon. Heavily based off the new version of the comic that came out a few years ago, you can really see the John Romita Jr. artwork. There’s some interesting interviews here with some of the cartoon’s creators.

If you saw my post on ‘No Hero’ and were curious, some more ‘Warren Ellis/Avatar Press’ goodness. And Its free!

Two great websites that I’ve neglected to put onto my blogroll so far – Wrestling Gone Wrong is pretty self-explanatory one would think, while Act-I-Vate is a ‘webcomics collective’ featuring some truly great talents. While I haven’t had a chance to go through all the content they have, I would happily recommend ‘Kelly’ by Dan Goldman, though be warned that it is a truly fucked-up piece of work and ‘Lily McKenzie’ by Simon Fraser