tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319448132024-03-13T03:09:37.280+00:00Leave Your Spandex @t the DoorManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.comBlogger595125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-1596444542952781462011-07-16T14:59:00.004+01:002011-07-16T15:08:52.162+01:00DC Retro-Active: Dan Didio on Batgirlfrom the back matter of all DC Comics shipping with a cover date of November 2009, from the desk of Dan Didio himself, regarding the process behind choosing the character behind the mask of the (then) new Batgirl, Stephanie Brown.let's type out the bit with the retro-active ironic value:[...]Choosing the new Batgirl was not an easy decision, and strong arguments could be made for most of them. AtManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-70824912840931772512011-07-15T13:36:00.000+01:002011-07-15T13:36:01.647+01:00the complete Emma Frost in one panelSource: X-Men Schism #1 (Jason Aaron, Carlos Pacheco), Marvel ComicsManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-73467488698944466982011-07-14T12:43:00.005+01:002011-07-14T21:00:26.323+01:00X-Men: Schism the XXX Parodythrough the wonders of creative censoring and panel rearrangement, we are finally ready to reveal the true reasons behind the Schism (TM) between Cyclops and Wolverine in the latest great summer X-over. X-Ploitation!Original Source: X-Men Schism #1 (Jason Aaron, Carlos Pacheco), Marvel ComicsManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-90619074534549313142011-07-14T12:25:00.006+01:002011-07-14T12:40:29.244+01:00Mutant and Prudenow, Marvel, is this the sort of 'square' message you want to be sending new readers flocking through your comics in search of hot and bothered Michael Fassbender action? Magneto don't swing.Joe Casey's Vengeance could very well turn out to be the best damn Marvel book since Milligan/Allred's X-Force. which just also happens to be the last time we saw a Marvel hero partake in a threesomeSource: Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-81685166524880368872011-07-14T12:20:00.003+01:002011-07-14T12:25:41.730+01:00this blog doesn't encourage cruelty against animals...except when it's funny.Source: Secret Six #35 (Gail Simone, Jim Calafiore), DC ComicsManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-44294326552778221132011-07-07T23:54:00.004+01:002011-07-08T08:33:50.122+01:00Death Before Snoo Snoothat Namor sure has his priorities mixed-up.Namor makes a crossover appearance in this week's Uncanny X-Men #540 in the middle of the ongoing events of Fear Itself: the Deep where -I'm assuming without having read it- he's fighting the Hammered-up Attuma and saving people's lives during what Marvel is trying to sell as its most cataclysmic event yet that has the entire Marvel Universe populace Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-73142743213698872352011-07-06T21:11:00.008+01:002011-07-06T21:52:23.976+01:00Justice League International Mystery Woman revealed?oh, come on people, this was such an easy one!backstory: when the solicitations for DC's new 52 titles launching in September first started pouring in, a lot of chatter started online about the identity of a mystery woman on the cover of JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #1:who later, even more mysteriously, disappeared from the cover in the final solicitations of the book. check it out, that blind Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-60161674623497358982011-06-24T19:39:00.002+01:002011-06-24T19:46:27.687+01:00it's medicine time!Jason Aaron guarantees you will never not squeam at a flu shot again in your life!p.s. stabbing Wolverine in the eyes with ejection needles and THEN having a nurse hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher over and over again while he's down? best moment of the year!Source: Wolverine Weapon XArt by: Yannick PaquetteWords by Jason AaronManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-14054380294062612382011-06-22T01:34:00.002+01:002011-06-22T01:39:56.586+01:00X-Men Movie Vs Family Treei'm a great big fan of Joe Stone's instant classic X-Men Family Tree, and I thought I'd use it to map out the missed intricancies of the X-Men's incestuous lives through the characters' appearances in the X-Men film franchise. there's 5 markers under each character, for the five X-movies. in order: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men First Class. a Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-19237269537870619512011-03-15T08:46:00.012+00:002011-07-06T22:09:46.522+01:00@JohnTikis #blogoscarsFor the new two weeks i'll be using this blog to host my great friend @JohnTikis for the Greek #blogoscars, Blogovision - The Movies vote, 77+ Greek Bloggers voting for our own winners in the oscars categories. it's going to get surreal. posting will revert to pure Greek goodness for that time, pay us no heed :)for SUPPORTING ACTORS10 Matt Damon- True Grit9 Masaki Okada-Kokuhaku8 John Hawkes- Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-73560730638649333142011-02-28T16:51:00.000+00:002011-02-28T16:52:53.245+00:00Gaga goes Kirby?i'm just saying...Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-31217010618046591992011-01-31T15:18:00.005+00:002011-01-31T15:40:16.519+00:00Shelf Pornso apparently, this is a thing we're doing today. Ilias Kyriazis challenged me (practically)so here's (most of) my shelf porn, I've left out the main DVD shelf and some other random comics shelves around the house. cos you can never have enough really, can you?needless to say, I have too many comics*annotated for hilarity and OCDnessManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-12374065962167896022011-01-31T03:13:00.004+00:002011-01-31T03:21:55.986+00:00FF twitter-craze"it's hella boring tonight. I'm gonna read the entire Hickman FF run from the start. hells to the yes."that was me, 6 hours ago, on my new comics-specific twitter account. what followed was a 6-hour long live-tweeting marathon as I read through the last issues of the Mark Millar run and then the entirety of Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four, two years worth of FF stories, and tweeted or Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-22876229433204694392011-01-26T22:27:00.006+00:002011-01-26T22:58:58.189+00:00Hercporn fanmailDear Marvel. As much as I rejoice in the news of the continuation of the overarching Hercules saga by mr Pak and mr Van Lente in a new title with a new #1, and as much as I appreciate the gay overtones in the book's solicitations --This April prepare for Herc #1 – an explosive new ongoing series from New York Times Best Selling writers Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente and artist Neil Edwards settingManolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-13233148967150909492011-01-25T01:34:00.006+00:002011-01-25T02:02:09.919+00:00X-Men Legacy #244Creepy.Mike Carey is one of the best horror writers in comics, it's good to see him dusting off some skills in his current x-workload, even if it's for one page. The rest X-Men Legacy #244 has Rogue following the young mutant Blindfold who's following the hints in her precog dream on the first page and questioning various persons of dangerous interest around the island, as a means of tying up (Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-88861945935001458362011-01-24T02:58:00.003+00:002011-01-24T03:08:34.211+00:00find the odd one outanyone can play along from home. Christos Gage has created in Avengers Academy a fresh batch of riveting and diverse teenage would-be(?)-heroes, and, as is evident from their brief character bios in the issue summary page cropped above, he has smartly used each of their powers as a subtle and powerful metaphor for their personality. well, for the most part. one of them may have just been saddled Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-23349250643939801252011-01-14T12:35:00.000+00:002011-01-14T12:35:00.467+00:00speaking of birds behaving queer...must be some new batch of Q1N1 avian flu. second hit already this week. (That is of course the Batman villain 'the Penguin' having a fit in the pages of Gail Simone's as-of-lately very-theme-specific Birds of Prey)Source: Birds of Prey #8 (DC Comics)Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-88690062704410437682011-01-12T23:26:00.000+00:002011-01-14T00:43:34.498+00:00RuPaul's Duck RaceThe financial crisis has hit Duckville the hardest and Donald has had to seek out other, baser, means of employment. No, he's not actually the surprise contestant in the upcoming RuPaul's Drag Race Season 3, but he does somehow (ok, so I didn't actually read the whole issue) end up in a Hollywood flick, in drag, as the leading man's paramour (including an almost inappropriate almost gay kiss).If Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-49173275613072820112011-01-11T13:14:00.003+00:002011-01-11T13:22:25.292+00:00Tough Guy Talk circa 2011to say that the new 'vs vampires' adjectiveless X-MEN book sucks would be both an appropriately cringeworthy pun and an understatement.Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-20790579658962995862011-01-09T12:58:00.000+00:002011-01-11T13:25:14.825+00:00in space noone can hear you bark CowabangaWhen Cosmo, the telepathic commie space dog, surfed through space with the Silver Surfer, silver-shiny-shiny herald of the planet-eater Galactus. Hilarity ensued.Source: The Thanos Imperative: Devastation #1 (Marvel Comics)Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-46783756009688091102010-12-19T23:10:00.006+00:002010-12-22T12:03:34.149+00:00#1 of 2010move over GagaTV taught me how to feelnow real life has no appeal#1. Marina & the Diamonds - the Family Jewelsand the last day rundown:2. Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More3. Interpol - Interpol4. Trouble Over Tokyo – Hurricane5. Scott Pilgrim – OST6. Monika – Exit7. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs8. The National – High Violet9. Scissor Sisters – Night work10. Belle & Sebastian - Belle and Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-33626080628789663942010-12-19T16:54:00.005+00:002010-12-19T17:21:24.474+00:00#2 of 2010if Interpol was a slow-burning sneaky kind of romance that kind of creeps under your radar before it's too late to do anything about it, Mumford & Sons was a love-at-first-sight in-your-face kind of thing. an attack on the senses. banjos, folkiness, Christ-freak undertones, warts and all. but also pure, beautiful, melancholic, overwhelming, unassuming, love. I'm such a sucker for that, no use Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-83621845110734231912010-12-18T06:43:00.006+00:002010-12-18T14:03:11.078+00:00#3 of 2010some things you can't explain, they just click for you, they creep up inside your life, bit by bit, undetectable-- is it some of the words, is it the sound, the music, will it help if you play it backwards, will you be able to explain why you must repeat and repeat and repeat the same tracks from the moment you get up till you fall asleep, still humming them as you do? when I started my rough Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-24389387232393241412010-12-17T09:28:00.005+00:002010-12-17T15:34:04.156+00:00#4 of 2010Toph (="Trouble Over Tokyo") is insane enough to release his third album as a book. a cd with a hardbound lyrics book and commentary. or a poem collection as an audiobook? or a novel with a soundtrack? or... whatever-- something amazing.a collection of personal experiences and emotions, refined to 12 songs-poems-stories-letters---storms. at the heart of each storm, each tiny hurricane, something Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31944813.post-62330554174466976242010-12-16T01:31:00.000+00:002010-12-16T13:46:32.039+00:00#5 of 2010it's a movie soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie based on the comic book, performed -and credited to- the bands in the movie, and the songs that inspired the comic book characters that make up the band that perform in the movie. straightforward? also, fun. energetic. youthful. trashy. the best adaptation of a comic on screen and the best adaptation of songs to fit the mood of the comic Manolis Vamvounishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11837151734535124044noreply@blogger.com1