The MCU is wildly popular entertainment. It’s made to appeal to several age groups. I embrace much of this. I also have love for some of the young adult writing of years gone by, too. There is a downbeat, thoughtful quality in the comic series, Man-Thing. While the creature was created- a mix of strange magic and a failed formula meant to help soldiers adapt, a Super Soldier Serum-in 1971, the black and white version of the slime beast only briefly appeared in the magazine, Savage Tales, premiering in its first issue. When Man-thing was revived for a regular strip, ghouls of the vampire/wolf man/ mummy/swamp monster sort popular at Universal Pictures were in vogue. Marvel took cues from the success of smaller publishers like Warren. They took advantage of the relaxed Comics Code of Approval’s standards to bring in nightmarish creations, like Shelley’s Frankenstein. These appealed to some of the young kids, but they also opened more mature story telling possibilities. This...

Hey! Love high adventure? You're here because you love Tarzan. You just might feel they don't make'em like that anymore! And I'm not the guy to argue THAT! Tarzan's books began a century ago, with Edgar Rice Burroughs- at a whopping dime per word- captivating imaginations the world over. Saturday afternoons brought us black and white Tarzan thrills with Johnny Weismuller and Buster Crabbe. (My pal Ron Frenz- who cut his teeth in the Savage Land drawing Ka-Zar- actually shared a theater with Crabbe one night!) (I love elephants. I want to tell you about the elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka...look it up and I will tell you, later.) That's the first Tarzan y'boy C Lue remembers. Even to the present day, the legendary Lord Greystroke has entered the Hollywood jungle, with a 2015 entry atarring Alexander Skarsgard that took on modern sensibilities head-on. I feel LEGEND will only grow in cult stature. Frazetta's ACE Tarzan covers, like all things...

#275 A doctor in #276 says he’s never seen anyone with injuries like this live; “I’d almost believe he really is the Hercules of myth!” My friend Joseph makes the point that the Hercules of myth used some brain power---whether he borrowed the suggestions or not is never made clear---and showed more leadership and skill than the boorish braggart depicted in 1980’s AVENGERS comics. It’s true! Even if someone made the suggestion to flood the stables of Aegeus to clean them (and if the twelve labors of Hercules doesn’t sound familiar, crack open a copy of Edith Wharton or Bullfinch’s mythology, pronto!---Literary Lue), no one else was around when he tricked Atlas into taking the world back on his shoulders. (Now that JUST may have involved a bit of …embellishment?) I suggested he suffers from context: he was what he needed to be in the chemistry of the Avengers personalities. Still, he could have a negative trait, like the sexism that forces Janet to stand up for herself, and still s...

Myebook - D'n'A Comics #1 As promised: the online version of DNA #1!!!Fifty cents for a complete, nuanced, spine-tingling sixteen page story, written and drawn by us. Meanwhile, our remaining t-shirts are available at Convention Special Price, for $12 each plus $3.00 for shipping & handling. MORE COMIC CON PICS BELOW!!! AND!! You can use the button provided; the $15 will cover your postage. D'n'A t-shirt #1 Small $15.00 Medium $15.00 Large $15.00 or D'n'A t-shirt Puzzle pieces (girl and boy) Small $15.00 Medium $15.00 Large $15.00 While we prepare demos to go gig-shopping again, we have numerous other ideas in the works. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Integr8d-Soul/108962196641 We offer online home concerts, through Ustream (which is free; please tip through Pay Pal!) and Stageit.com We'd love to play for you, personally, or for your party. If you are NOT on the Pacific coast, adjust for time !! We are three hours behind the East Coa...