Monday Madness /CoronaVirus Comics THE STAND: CAPTAIN TRIPS "Prologue: the Circle Opens" Part 1

One of Stephen King's best-selling works starts with a pandemic...

...which begins here...

(note the partial lyrics/quotes of songs from several noted composers, singers, and poets.)

To Be Continued...

Next Monday!

Adapted by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and illustrated by Mike Perkins, Marvel's The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (2008) details the accidental release of a fast-acting viral bio-weapon that will shortly decimate the world's population!

Marvel needed six mini-series from 2008 to 2012 to adapt the 1990 revised and expanded edition of the already-massive 1978 novel!

Trivia: Randall Flagg, a character who appears in many of King's stories, unifying them into one "multiverse", makes his debut in The Stand novel.

But, in comics, he premiered in Marvel's Dark Tower adaptation, which was published before The Stand!

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The Stand: Captain Trips

Collecting the entire 5-issue Mini-Series

or

The Stand Omnibus

collecting all six miniseries and the SketchBook plus an exclusive Companion in one huge HTF and OOP two-volume slipcased set!

9/11 Report: the Graphic Adaptation

You'd think two of the guys who worked for decades on Casper and Richie Rich...

...couldn't produce something as...violent and visceral...as this!

Well, you'd be wrong!

Writer/editor Sid Jacobson and the late, great illustrator Ernie Colon took the 9/11 Commission's Report and made it into a must-read graphic novel!

BTW, a lot of the purple prose in the adaptation is taken verbatim from the original Report!

You can read the entire GN as an interactive presentation HERE.

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9/11 Report: the Graphic Adaptation

and/or

After 9/11: America's War on Terror

(both by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon)

9/11 Report: the Graphic Adaptation

You'd think two of the guys who worked for decades on Casper and Richie Rich...

...couldn't produce something as...violent and visceral...as this!

Well, you'd be wrong!

Writer/editor Sid Jacobson and illustrator Ernie Colon took the 9/11 Commission's Report and made it into a must-read graphic novel!

BTW, a lot of the purple prose in the adaptation is taken verbatim from the original Report!

You can read the entire GN as an interactive presentation HERE.

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics

Visit Amazon and Order...

9/11 Report: the Graphic Adaptation

and/or

After 9/11: America's War on Terror

(both by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon)

9/11 Report: the Graphic Adaptation

You'd think two of the guys who worked for decades on Casper and Richie Rich...

...couldn't produce something as...violent and visceral...as this!

Well, you'd be wrong!

Writer/editor Sid Jacobson and illustrator Ernie Colon took the 9/11 Commission's Report and made it into a must-read graphic novel!

BTW, a lot of the purple prose in the adaptation is taken verbatim from the original Report!

You can read the entire GN as an interactive presentation HERE.

Please Support Atomic Kommie Comics

Visit Amazon and Order...

9/11 Report: the Graphic Adaptation

and/or

After 9/11: America's War on Terror

(both by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon)

Tek Jansen - Beginning's First Dawn: Episode Three

The third (and final) chapter of the origin of Tek Jansen (Stephen Colbert)

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Tek Jansen - Beginning's First Dawn: Episode Two

Continuing the origin of Tek Jansen (Stephen Colbert)!

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Tek Jansen - Beginning's First Dawn: Episode One

The ORIGIN of Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen!

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Stephen Colbert IS Tek Jansen: Space Hero!

Did you know new Late Show host Stephen Colbert is really...

...and that he had both a five-issue mini-series...

...and a number of animated cartoon episodes (with Colbert as the voice of Jansen)!

Hang tight, True Believers, 'cause we'll be posting some of the OOP (that's "out of print") adventures of everybody's (especially Stephen's) favorite space hero!

YouTube Wednesday: Batman

Last Wednesday, we looked at Superman, so this week let's peek at Batman...

First, the 1943 serial (which predated the live-action Superman serials)...

Note: this is the trailer from the 1965 re-release which identifies the first serial, Batman, by the title of the second serial, Batman and Robin!
Then, the trailer for the 1966 Batman movie produced between the first and second seasons of the tv show!

And, if you're wondering why they did it that way, intead of doing the movie first, then the tv series...
1) Many American households still didn't have color tvs in 1966, so they saw the show in b/w, even though it was broadcast in color!
The movie was the first time many fans saw the live-action heroes in color!
2) The bigger budget enabled the producers to build and film a number of additional vehicles and props including the BatCopter, BatBoat, and BatCycle, and a larger Batcave set, which were then reused for the remainder of the tv series' run!
In 1989 Tim Burton brought a kool gothic feel to Batman..

...which Joel Schumacher destroyed in Batman & Robin!

and Christopher Nolan restored in the reboot, Batman Begins...

..and continued in Dark Knight!

Bonus: though it's not live-action, here's "The Dark Knight Returns" from the 1990s animated series...

...because Michael Ironside as a middle-aged Batman is just too good to miss!