Cosmic Marvel Dream Team

So this one here actually started off with a fairly recent Silver Surfer fan art piece by Greek artist Kapandais Nikoloas. I took into photoshop on a day where I had some spare time on my hands and played around with it and started added other characters from separate fan art pieces from his gallery. It took a little time to get them to all blend in so that the finished piece didn't have too much of a "patch work" look to it and I think I was fairly successful in that endeavor.

 

Also recently, I was reading through a bunch of back issues online of Marvel Age Magazine. I came across this letter in issue 19. I remember back in the day when I got my hands on that copy of that Marvel Universe Handbook (issue 15) and thinking the exact same thing. I dunno why I never wrote any letters to comic book publishers back in those days I really regret it now.

In other news, Ant-Man and The Wasp Quantumania became available on Disney Plus yesterday so I gave it a watch despite almost 2 months of nothing but trash talk about the movie on social media by MCU fans. Now I know I'm in the minority here but I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised. And it's not because I thought the movie was all that great, but because it just wasn't nearly as bad as reviews had me believing. 

I mean, were there some logic gaps? Yes. Could some of the science in the story line have been explained better? Yes. Was it the least best movie of the Ant-Man trilogy? Yes. But despite all that, it was still a far more engaging and entertaining MCU film then Eternals (boring), Shang-Chi (boring) or Thor Love & Thunder (stupid and boring) were. Same goes for Spider-Man Far from Home, I mean seriously what was the point of that movie beyond just setting up the main plot device for Spider-Man No Way Home (Now that was a good movie!)? All that aside, Quantumania had one of the best movie quotes in recent years . . . "It's never too late to stop being a dick".

Kapandais Nikoloas (2022)

 

 May 22th Update: I have to admit for years now every time a ROM fan would wish for a omnibus collection I used to snicker to myself because it seemed like such a pipe dream. Well, not any more so I guess the laugh is on me this time. This is definitely the coolest thing to happen for the ROM spaceknight character since that action with several points of articulation came out some 5 years ago. I don't know if this will open new doors for MARVEL and Hasbro when it comes to all things ROM but this certainly comes as welcomed news just the same. After more then 2 decades it's nice to see MARVEL finally show some degree of respect to the ROM fan base. Would be really interesting to see what went on behind the scenes between MARVEL & Hasbro to make this happen.

Well it certainly wasn't all good news today. Actor Ray Stevenson passed away at only 58! As I was going through his filmography I realized all these years I had him mistaken in the movie Book of Eli for Sex and The City actor Chris Noth. Ain't that some shit!? Not seeing much about his time on Dexter in his acting credits which is a shame because he was good in that to. Now I find out he's supposed to be this bad ass in the upcoming Ashoka series so now I'm looking even more forward to that. Rest In Peace Ray. 

May 24th Update: I don't know what the Hell is going on this week. But now we just lost the legendary Tina Turner who I think most would agree was a national treasure. Among other things, I've got so many great 80s memories from Turner especially when it came to her music videos on MTV. It's too bad she didn't do more acting work back in the day, she had great on screen presence in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

It's been a while since I "book ended" one of my postings with recent photos of local public displays of solidarity with Ukraine. Here we are now well over a year into this shit. Fu#% russia, & the same goes for the regimes in iran and china to.