Snark Blocker
Snark Blocker - Nextwave Double-Page Spreads
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 at 1:06 PM EST
In the penultimate issue of Nextwave (#11), the team finds itself forced to fight through various hordes of bizarre villains to get to where they need to go.
Writer Warren Ellis and artist Stuart Immonen chose to depict these various battles as a series of SIX double-page spreads in a row!
It looks amazing - Immonen just [...]
Snark Blocker - Batman is a People Person?
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 PM EST
While it is hard to imagine, how else can you explain the guy meeting up with pretty much every fictional character out there?
Let's take a look!
Snark Blocker - Other Cool Comic Advent Calendars!
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 7:07 PM EST
Dave is doing another one this year.
So is Scott (he has a pretty sweet layout this year)!
And for a new one I did not mention last time around, Brendan McKillip is also doing one this year!
Also, Jon's Random Acts of Geekery has one!
If you know of anyone else doing a comic book advent calendar in [...]
Snark Blocker - Mike Zeck's G.I. Joe Covers!
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 9:00 AM EST
Prepare yourself - this much testosterone may be bad for your health.
Otherwise, enjoy!
Snark Blocker - Herblock Takes on Every President Since Hoover!
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 7:00 AM EST
Herb "Herblock" Block had just so many great comic strips I could not fit them all in, and one thing I ended up omitting was the fact that, due to his longevity, the man produced cartoons caricaturing every United States President since Herbert Hoover!!
I figured, though, that that was far too cool NOT to mention, [...]
Snark Blocker - Happy Meal
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 5:26 AM EST
Okay, let's try this again!
I present to you, courtesy of artist Emiko Iwasaki, Happy Meal...
Snark Blocker - Mid-Ohio Con Posters!
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 7:48 AM EST
Check out the following Mid-Ohio Con posters by John Byrne and Chris Giarrusso (after Byrne).
They're awesome!
Snark Blocker - The Cutest Porn Comics Ever
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, September 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 AM EST
Awhile back, when featuring Colleen Coover in the Month of Art Stars, I mentioned her early comic book work on the Eros Comics lesbian porn comic, Small Favors.
Well, I thought the covers were so great that I felt I had to share all of them with you all.
Enjoy!
Snark Blocker - Michael Golden Draws the Marvel Universe
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 9:19 AM EST
Here are two excellent classic drawings by Michael Golden of a whole pile of Marvel superheroes from the early 1980s!
Enjoy!
Snark Blocker - Amalgam Comics!
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 1:29 PM EST
Here a series of covers from a simpler time...the mid 1990s. In 1996 and 1997, DC and Marvel released a week's worth of comics called Amalgam Comics, which were made up of a mixture of DC and Marvel characters. They got a number of their top creators at the time to work on the projects, [...]
Snark Blocker EXTRA!
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 3:00 PM EST
Reader Scavenger has made his case for what the song of the Superman/Batman/Robin "day off" montage should be - he made a YouTube video with his selection!
Check it out here!
Snark Blocker - A Day In the Life
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 9:46 AM EST
For today's Snark Blocker, I want you to imagine the following fifteen World's Finest covers scrolling by you as though they were part of a montage of events that Superman, Batman and Robin got up to one day on their day off.
Next, come up with a song that would accompany the montage!
Enjoy!
Snark Blocker: Rarely Viewed First Issues
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, August 4th, 2008 at 9:38 AM EST
For today's snark blocker, I thought it would be fun to take a look see at the first issues of some notable titles, titles where we normally don't look at their first issues.
It'll be a hoot (thanks to the Grand Comic Book Database for the covers)!
So enjoy!
Snark Blocker - Face Front, True Believers!
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 12:42 PM EST
Here is every one of DC's superhero title stunt of December 1997, where practically all of their superhero titles had a full face figure on the front of the cover of each book!
Enjoy!
Snark Blocker - Jigsaw Comic Book Logos!
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 4:52 AM EST
This bit will help block the snark by being soooo bizarre that it blocks the snark!
Here, then, are ten new comic book logos made up entirely of words from OTHER comic book logos!
Enjoy!
