PULP AFFECTION_BATTLING BOY

by Paul Pope.

BATTLING BOY LIVES!

PULP AFFECTION_WCA: “Lost in Space-Time”

West Coast Avengers #17-24. (1985)
by Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom.
MARVEL COMICS GROUP


"...Before it's over, "time has split in seven," with characters in 2940 BC, 1776, 1847, 1876, 1917, 1977, 1987, and the Eternity of the Gods all working together - or trying to..."

You think Back to the Future is Fun?

Check this out.

PULP AFFECTION_Batwoman (II)

... latest work by our dearest J H Williams III.

You can get his explanation of it all here.

PULP AFFECTION_Knight of Vengeance

Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance. 
Limited Series 1-3.
Summer 2011
Story: Brian Azzarello
Drawing: Eduardo Risso.




This is the best comic we´ve read in a while and by far, the best of the year.


It includes one of the biggest twists on comic-book history and one of the 
most original reinterpretations of the Bat myth.


Check it out HERE (SPOILER)

PULP AFFECTION_Silver Centurion






































Iron Man #200
November 1985
Penciler: Mark Bright
Inker: Akine Garvey
Marvel Comics Group.


First appeared in IM#200 and properly evolved in WCA.

An armour for a new stage after a mid-life crisis (sounds familiar...)

West Coast Avengers  #1
September 1984
Writer: Roger Stern
Penciler: Bob Hall
Inker: Brett Breeding
Marvel Comics Group.


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PULP AFFECTION_Silver Surfer x Moebius

Now that he is closer to the stars...

PULP AFFECTION_THE WRETCH

What do you get when you dress Fido Dido in a mix of Spiderman´s black costume and Spawn rags and you give him a little bit of Batman I-don´t-speak-but-I-stare-at-you Attitude?

THE WRETCH.



Original with classic origins, black and white pages with flat coloured sleeves in a Mignola-esque style.

by Phil Hester.

PULP AFFECTION_DC New Identity

It will take a while until we get used to it, but its a real change for DC. Just in time to go along with the reboot.

PS: We love the green lips of the Joker.

PULP AFFECTION_The New Mutants #17 - 31

by Bill Sienkiewicz.

From July 1984 to September 1985 something changed in the way comics were drawn and read.

For more info, go to Good Comics and Frog 2000.

We specially like the abstract expressionism way of drawing comics, the lavish use of ink and the rough brushes technique...

PULP AFFECTION_Spiderman Collage

by Mr. Garcin.

PULP AFFECTION_Mayhem at Wayne Manor

This is just supercool.

We can´t add anything else.

by Evil Space Robot.

PULP AFFECTION_SECRET WARS II Spiderman Crossover and the Current Financial Crisis in the World.

The Secret Wars were the first Crossover in the history of comicbooks and Secret Wars II were probably the first Crossover with Ties In.

Today we would like to recommend having a look at this issues storyline as in it we found a perfect metaphor of the current financial situation around the world.




Secret Wars II  #2
August 1985
Writer: Jim Shooter
Penciler: Al Milgrom
Finished Art: Steve Leialoha / Joe Rubinstein
Marvel Comics Group.






WOSM #6:
Sept 1985
Script: Danny Fingeroth
Layouts: Mike Harris
Finishes: Zeck, Layton, Simons and Mooney.
Marvel Comics Group.


ASM #268:
Sept 1985
Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciler: Ron Frenz
Finished Art: Josef Rubinstein.
Marvel Comics Group.
 


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Plot Summary (thanks to comicvine)


The Beyonder appears in Manhattan. He gets a card for the Heroes for Hire, so he teleports to their office. Iron Fist is interested in talking about philosophy with the Beyonder, but Luke Cage says all that is worthless, and all that matters is money, which stands for gold. The Beyonder decides to reward them, and turns their entire building to gold as Spider-Man shows up.

The story is continued in Web Of Spider-Man 6, Amazing Spider-Man 268, a cross-title two-parter about the aftermath of the Beyonder transforming Power Man and Iron Fist's office building into gold.cross-title two-parter about the aftermath of the Beyonder transforming Power Man and Iron Fist's office building into gold.

People are trapped inside the collapsing building, and the worldwide value of gold will go down, so the US government moves in to forcibly take the building and its contents from their rightful owners and orders that it all be cut-up and thrown away in the sea.

In the meantime, Wilson Fisk is blackmailing the US government as he knows what´s going on with the building. They agree to pay his "services" giving him all the (gold) typewriters from the building.

As predictable Fisk turns out to be an enemy ally as he finally tries to get the gold for him.

Spiderman saves the day when everything is lost for the global economy, realizing he has been mentaly tortured by the remorse of picking up a little (gold) agenda from a (gold) paperbasket inside the (gold) building while the US gov has been literally throwing gold to the sea and Fisk getting a huge revenue for an immoral behaviour.

As usual, the worries, the small incomes and all the work to be done is suffered by humble citizens (even if they have been bitten by a radioactive spider in their youth years)


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It is quite scary to think that this prophecy was made almost 27 years ago...

PS: The double cover of Spidey is cool, though.

PULP AFFECTION_Double Magic: Swamp Thing vs. Batman

Swamp Thing Vol 2 #53
October, 1986.

DC Comics.

by Alan Moore.

Creepy, scary, dark, romantic, Batman as invited guest...

...just in time for Halloween.

PULP AFFECTION_ Progressive Covers: Pics + Ink

Invincible Iron Man Vol 1 #152.
November 1981
Marvel Comics Group.





Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 #262.
March, 1985.
 Marvel Comics Group.


Very curious now, and at the time, some of the first attemps to use mixed media in comic books back in the 80´s.

PULP AFFECTION_Double Magic: Marvel Two-in-One

This comes from Nak Attack, one of the World´s Greatest Comics Guru that has suggested us this...

... what else could we do but post it?

One of the weirdest and most interesting comic collections featuring The Thing plus one invited "artist".




We like the idea of strange combinations with unexpected results!

NAK ATTACK* KNOWS.

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* PS: we are trying to convince him to provide us with post for our blog on a regular basis...cross your fingers and let´s hope he agrees!!!

PULP AFFECTION_WHAT THE...? nr2

by John Byrne.

Marvel Comics Group

Sept. 1988.

We can´t add a single word about the author that haven´t been said already.

As usual, we like the more unknown version of one of the greatest pope in Comics Industry.

A great example of how to entertain and make fun of something that was originally created to be fun.

Under the lighthearted surface and gags there are second (and third) readings full of irony, criticism and pulp knowledge.

we like the idea of different meanings in 1988 and 2018, depending the reader´s comic knowledge and age and how it is fully enjoyable either way.

Our favourite number from one of our favourites collections.

PS: And yes, it features Super(b)man in a MARVEL issue...  :)

PULP AFFECTION_Longshot Limited Series (1985 - 1986)

Longshot created by Ann Nocenti.

Limited Series by Arthur Adams.

Marvel Comics Group, 1985 - 1986.


























All you need to know: "The series featured the "Mojoverse", an alien dimension whose residents are addicted to gladiator-like entertainment and ruled by the tyrannical network head Mojo. Longshot, who possesses probability altering or "luck" powers, is an action star who escapes enslavement by Mojo."

More than 25 years ago, sounds like a pulp fiction prophecy...

ESCAPE ENSLAVEMENT. LONGSHOT WAS RIGHT.