(AfroGamers.com) Now and days, comic book publishers tend to release variant covers for important issues. You know, first issues of a new line, reboots, or issues released during an imprint-wide event. Variant covers really became a regular thing when the comic book issue stabilized then rebounded during the late 2000s. ...
(AfroGamers.com) A few years back, I’d run into some discussion on social media about the Marvel character Nighthawk. He wasn’t a character I’d heard of but he’d been in publication some years ago. Well, it was 2016 and we were getting a new Nighthawk comic. The Decision to Run Nighthawk ...
(Afrogamers.com) Comics offer some of everything for everyone. If you enjoy sci-fi, there are comics for that. Do you like fantasy or romance? You can find comics that feature both of those. Obviously, if you enjoy superheroes you could throw a rock and hit a superhero comic. The medium delivers ...
(AfroGamers.com) A service like Marvel Unlimited is great because you have access to the publisher’s library of comics. While the recent stuff is from 2018-2019, my main thing is the older stuff. I like to see the root of characters and franchises—even if things tend to end up retconned several ...
(AfroGamers.com) Spider-Man debuted in August 1962 in the fifteenth issue and final issue of the Amazing Fantasy anthology’s first run. The hero would get his own series with The Amazing Spider-Man in March of the following year. His creation came about as a reaction to the success of the Fantastic ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every so often you just come across a comic or manga with a story that really catches you. Probably half the time, that comic was either finished or cancelled. In diving through manhwa I hadn’t read yet I came across one such series. Fist of Legend is a short-lived ...
(AfroGamers.com) When Image Comics launched in 1992, it had probably the most dangerous line-up of writers, pencilers, and inkers of any publisher’s roster at the time. Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino, and Todd McFarlane. Besides their creativity, what made this group of founders ...
(AfroGamers.com) When Marvel’s Spider-Man dropped in 2018, it changed storytelling in comic book games. From a gameplay standpoint, it was an open-world game with acrobatics—it’s the same formula from the Spider-Man 2 game as well as the Prototype and inFamous series. However, Insomniac Games really put their back into the ...
(AfroGamers.com) When I began dating my fiancée, we got into an argument over Hancock. Yes, the 2008 superhero film starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron. Oh, how she claimed I hated Hancock. Meanwhile, I’m wondering if we are actually having this argument. Like was that real argument? Over Hancock? Of ...
(AfroGamers.com) There are a few comics/manga/manhua/manhwa/webcomics out there that use gaming as a mechanic. The most common mechanic used is from RPGs and MMORPGs where the main character can read their own stats and those of others. One comic for gamers is Solo Leveling by Chu-gong with Jang Sung-rak handling ...