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Fred Van Lente Day

Fred Van Lente Day Gift: Preview of Comic Book Comics #5

In the now-finished Fred Van Lente chat, Fred shared with us all some preview pages of the upcoming Comic Book Comics #5 by Fred and artist Ryan Dunlavey.

Check it out here.

The book comes out February 6th! Be sure to buy it!

Fred Van Lente Day Chat!

Time for the Fred Van Lente Day chat!

Here is the chat room where YOU can talk with the man, the myth, the legend, Fred Van Lente!

Remember to JOIN the room after you click on the link!

2010 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar

Every day until Christmas Eve you can click on the respective day on the Advent Calendar to reveal an installment of a Year of Cool Comics devoted to a Cool Christmas Comic Book! You can also click on all previous days on the calendar. Be sure to stop by every day for a cool Christmas comic book every day until Christmas Eve! Today is Fred Van Lente Day, so guess who wrote today’s featured Christmas tale?

Happy Fred Van Lente Day, Everybody!

It’s that most wonderful time of the year – Fred Van Lente Day!

This year, we’ll have a few special Van Lente Day treats for you, including a chat with Mr. Fred Van Lente himself!

Come back to the front page of the blog at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern to find the link to the chat room where Fred will be gracing us with his presence this year! Last year, Fred told us all some interesting information (including the death of Hercules!!), so who knows what he’ll dish about this year?

Happy Fred Van Lente Day, everybody!!

Exclusive Preview Pages from Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1!

Think of it as an early Van Lente Day present, but Marvel thought all of us Van Lente fans here would appreciate an exclusive first look at some preview pages (sans dialogue) from Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1, by writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with art by Reilly Brown.

Check it out (as well as a larger version of the Humberto Ramos cover for #1)!
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And a Partridge With Fred Van Lente!

Thanks so much to Bret Taylor (of Howyadoin Graphics – be sure to check his site out) for the drawing!

That just about does it for Fred Van Lente Day 2009, folks! I hope you had fun!

And most importantly of all, Happy Fred Van Lente Day!!

Two Curdled Loves…

Warning! Some graphic scenes from Fred Van Lente comics lie beneath the fold!

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Four Fawning Blurbs…

Here are four fawning blurbs about Action Philosophers…

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Five Golden Panels…

You folks pleaded and prodded, so here, for your “five golden panels,” I will give you the five funniest panels (in the order they appear) from the recent Thor/Hercules fight (with the two heroes pretending to be each other) in Incredible Hercules #136, art by Reilly Brown…

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Six Frequent Van Lente Collaborators…

A cool thing about Fred Van Lente has been the fact that, over the years, he tends to work with a lot of the same artists on more than one project.

Here are six of those artists!

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Seven Hercules Comics By Other Companies…

We all know that Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak write Hercules for Marvel Comics, but did you know that there have been lots of other Hercules comics out there (what with him being, you know, public domain and all) NOT published by Marvel Comics!

Here are seven of them!

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Eight Van Lente Comics You Might Not Have Read…

Here are some comics written by Fred Van Lente that you might not be so familiar with!

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Nine Reasons to Have Been There for the Chat…

By missing out on the Fred Van Lente Day Chat with Fred Van Lente, you missed…

1. Learning who is going to write the upcoming Savage She-Hulk mini-series

2. Finding out what the plans for Carmilla Black are in Fall of the Hulks

3. Fred sharing Halloween pictures of himself as a kid…who did he dress up as?!?!?!

4. Learning who Fred’s favorite Spider-Man supporting character is

5. Discover what Marvel character made an appearance in one of Evil Twin Comics’…uhm…comics

6. Learn how Fred and Greg Pak share the writing duties on Incredible Hercules

7. News on the upcoming Complete Action Philosophers

8. Upcoming Hercules tidbits

and, most of all,

9. You missed Fred sharing a mysterious teaser image that will only appear in the chat itself!

Ten Chatters Chatting…

Well, hopefully at least ten. ;)

Come to the Fred Van Lente chat here and join the chat room!

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