At San Diego Comic Con this year I saw a few people dressed up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I thought wow, those are some great cosplayers…… but I had no idea that a few months later one of my favorite childhood cartoons would be back on the air and possibly even better than before. I was first introduced to the Turtles like many of us, from Saturday morning cartoons back in the late 80s. I remember spending hours outside of my backyard as a child playing with my best friend with those old school Ninja Turtle action figures. My mom would bribe me if I went shopping with her that she would get me a action figure or comic at our local mall here in Los Angeles. After a few weeks of this I had all the turtles I wanted in my collection. I still wanted to know more about them and one day I went to the bookstore and I found these oversize graphic novels by First Publishing featuring everyone’s favorite Turtles: Michelangelo,Leonardo,Rafael and Donatello. There was something different about those books though, they each had the same color red bandannas and I was asking myself “Is this just a […]
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Sometimes creators get introduced to a comic really young and those comics make a huge impact on their life, for example, Boo Cook, who currently works on Dredd for 2000 AD as well as Richard Starkings’s Elephantmen at Image comics, became a fan of Dredd at a very early age.We are lucky enough, here at Comic Impact, to have Boo explain how Dredd has changed his life and why , he thinks, you should run out and see the new Dredd 3D movie!
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Many of you who listen to the P.O.W know that out of all the comics available to our fair readers I tend to gravitate more towards Marvel. I have always believed in voting for the things you believe in (product wise) with your hard earned cashesh! If you don’t like an artist or a writer team combo ..don’t buy the book! Many comic fans out there are what we call completionist, or people who have to collect all of something whether it is good or not. They just buy the damn book because they have to have a consecutive number in a line of books.They are ignoring the old adage quality over quantity. Now I am by no means ignorant to the fact that both Marvel,D.C., and Image are among some of the worse offenders for doing multi packaged cross overs and eight different foil embossed covers with Deadpool on them. They understand that for the most part the comic community is among these aforementioned completionists. It is their bread and butter. This small little rant brings me to the current Amazing Spiderman run. Amazing is currently putting our good friend Peter Parker through The Gauntlet. In turn it is […]
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So are you a fan of the great cosmic comic book story lines but sometime you just feel like there to hard to get into them ? If you have not been reading them all your life ? Are you also a fan of the great Jack Kirby. Well then I found the book for you. It is Image’s “Jersey Gods” a ongoing series with writer Glen Brunswick (“The Gray Area,” “Killing Girl”) and illustrator Dan McDaid .
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