Notability date October 2009 Primary sources date October 2009 Infobox company company name Comicraft company logo company type Lettering and logo design company slogan foundation 1992 in comics 1992 defunct founder Richard Starkings key people Richard Starkings , br John Roshell location Los Angeles, California industry Comics homepage http www.comicraft.com Comicraft is a company law company which provides graphic design and letterer lettering services to various primarily comic book companies. History The company was founded by Richard Starkings in 1992. Starkings had been working for Marvel UK for five years, but left London for New York, circa 1990. ref name Origin1 Starkings, Richard. http www.comicraft.com about.html secret origin 1 The Secret Origin of Comicraft Part 1 . Accessed February 10, 2008 ref Lettering large numbers of pages overnight for Marvel editor Gregory Wright comics ... 2 The Secret Origin of Comicraft Part 2 . Accessed February 10, 2008 ref Digitizing his lettering ... on Comicraft . ref name Origin2 Overcoming the reluctance of the comics industry with such titles ... the legendary Todd Klein for the Lettering title, Starkings and Comicraft nevertheless managed to win ... Wizard the Comics Magazine also went against the Eisners, and named Comicraft the best letterer ... simply to make Comicraft s library of comic book fonts commercially available , but in 2002 its ... ActiveImages.com AboutUs.org Active Images . Accessed February 10, 2008 ref Clients Comicraft ... . Bibliography selected Comicraft has produced a 64 page book detailing the basics of lettering comics Comic Book Lettering The Comicraft Way ISBN 978 0974056739 Comics and books either lettered by, or featuring fonts created by, Starkings Comicraft include Batman The Killing Joke DC Comics DC By Alan Moore and Brian Bolland hand lettered by Starkings pre Comicraft, when he was still in England ... from Comicraft. These include Jess Nevins Annotations on Alan Moore and Kevin O Neill comics Kevin O ... more details
nofootnotes date April 2009 Active Images is a publisher of fonts and comic books based in the United States . Founded by Richard Starkings the company publishes fonts which are used by their commercial comic book letterer lettering division Comicraft and comic books featuring the character Hip Flask comics Hip Flask . External links http www.activeimages.com Official Active Images Website Category Comic book publishing companies of the United States comics stub typography stub US publish corp stub ... more details
Blambot is the name of an online type foundry and is the pseudonym alias of freeware and shareware typeface computer font designer Nate Piekos. Blambot specializes in handwriting script and display typeface s for use as letterer lettering in both print and online comic book comics . ref http www.comicbookresources.com ?id 14411&page article Pipeline 304 Comic Book Resources ref Nate Piekos Nate Piekos graduated with a Bachelor of Arts BA in Design from Rhode Island College . Since founding Blambot in 1999 , he has lettered comics for Marvel Comics Marvel , DC Comics DC , Oni Press and Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse , has become type designer to Harvey Award Winner, Mike Allred Mike Madman Allred , and has had his designs licensed by such companies as Microsoft , Six Flags Six Flags Amusement Parks , The New Yorker , Gap clothing retailer The Gap , and many more. His work has not only been utilized in comics, but on television and in feature films as well. Piekos also runs his own webcomic, http www.realmofatland.com Atland , in which he also uses his Blambot fonts for lettering. See also Comicraft References references External links http www.blambot.com Blambot.com Official site Category Comic book letterers Category Type foundries Category Independent type foundries typography stub ... more details
Andrew Sumner is a British movie journalist and magazine publisher. ref name comicraft Sumner wrote for John Brown s comics news magazine, Speakeasy , in the late 80s. He was a movie critic for the NME , Vox and Future Publishing s Total Film throughout the 1990s and wrote regularly for IPC Media s music and movie magazine, http www.uncut.co.uk Uncut . ref name comicraft http cwn.comicraft.com cgi bin index.cgi?column crumpets&page 3 ref ref name ipcmedia Sumner published various Emap magazines at this time and launched Celebrity Bodies , ref name ipcmedia a title that caused a brief media sensation in the spring of 2001. ref cite journal pmc 1120112 ref Sumner joined IPC Media as publisher of men s magazine http www.loaded.co.uk Loaded in May 2002, ref name ipcmedia http www.ipcmedia.com press new publishing manager for loaded press 56903.html ref also becoming publisher of Uncut in 2004. ref http www.ipcmedia.com press heery and sumner join ignite board press 68071.html ref He was the launch publisher of IPC s men s weekly http www.nuts.co.uk Nuts in 2004 and launched Uncut DVD in October 2005. ref http www.ipcmedia.com press ipc ignite unveils uncut dvd the only great movie magazine press 69450.html ref From May 2005 to December 2005, Sumner presented The Uncut Film on Turner Classic Movies UK , a series of contemporary classic movies selected by http www.uncut.co.uk Uncut that ran uninterrupted and uncut on TCM UK at 9pm Wednesdays. ref http www.ipcmedia.com press uncut in first programme sponsorship deal with film channel tcm press 63353.html ref Sumner became publishing director of IPC s celebrity weekly NOW magazine UK Now in January 2006, launching http www.nowmagazine.co.uk www.nowmagazine.co.uk in August of that year. ref http www.ipcmedia.com press andrew sumner appointed publishing director of now press 89146.html ref ref http www.ipcmedia.com press ipc connect launches the new home of celebrity gossip online nowmagazinecouk press 91547.html ref Sumner currently ... more details
italictitle Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title Batman The Spirit image Batman The Spirit.jpg caption Cover to Batman The Spirit . br Art by Darwyn Cooke . 1shot y publisher DC Comics date January 2007 in comics 2007 issues main char team Batman br Spirit comics The Spirit writers Jeph Loeb pencillers Darwyn Cooke inkers J. Bone letterers Comicraft colorists Dave Stewart artist Dave Stewart editors Mark Chiarello creators TPB Will Eisner s The Spirit, Vol. 1 ISBN 1401214614 subcat Batman sort Batman The Spirit Batman The Spirit is a 2007 in comics 2007 One shot comics one shot comic book written by Jeph Loeb with art by Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone . Published by DC Comics , the comic is a fictional crossover crossover between Batman and the Spirit comics Spirit . Plot summary When the American Criminologist Association holds its annual convention, its members are unaware that America s criminals are holding a gathering of their own. And when Batman s rogue gallery joins forces with the Spirit s colorful criminals, things can only get worse. Awards Batman The Spirit won the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue. Colorist Dave Stewart artist Dave Stewart won the Eisner for Best Coloring in part for his work on Batman The Spirit . ref cite web url http www.comic con.org cci cci eisners 07win.shtml title 2007 Eisner Awards Shine Spotlight on Comic Industry s Best publisher Comic con.org date accessdate 2010 12 30 ref Darwyn Cooke won the 2007 Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Artist for Batman The Spirit and his The Spirit ongoing series which followed. Collected editions Batman The Spirit is included in the trade paperback comics trade paperback Will Eisner s The Spirit, Vol. 1 ISBN 1401214614 . References reflist External links comicbookdb type issue id 73246 title Batman The Spirit Batman publications The Spirit Jeph Loeb Category 2007 comic debuts Category Crossover comics Category Team up comics Category Eisner Award winners ... more details
Infobox Graphic novel Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title foreigntitle image Dhampire Stillborn cover.jpg imagesize default 250 publisher Vertigo DC Comics Vertigo date September 1996 issues series main char team origpublication origissues origdate origlanguage origisbn 1 56389 256 1 writers Nancy A. Collins artists Paul Lee comics Paul Lee pencillers inkers colourists Paul Lee letterers Comicraft br Richard Starkings editors Axel Alonso br Lou Stathis creators transpublisher transdate transisbn pages 64 translator previssue nextissue US Dhampire Stillborn is a graphic novel la written in 1997 by bestselling Horror and terror Horror novelist Nancy A. Collins . It was planned as a ongoing series but that was shelved with the death of DC.Vertigo editor Lou Stathis with only the prologue oneshot ever published. Plot summary All his life, young Nicholas Gaunt has been tormented by visions of blood and evil, driving him to sadistic and suicidal acts. But when he learns that these violent thoughts stem from an unnatural mingling of human and undead blood before his birth, he must confront his true nature as a half vampire, or Dhampire ref http www.fantasticfiction.co.uk c nancy a collins dhampire.htm ref . See also portal Novels List of fictional dhampirs Notes Reflist References Refbegin gcdb series id 14788 title Dhampire Stillborn comicbookdb type title id 3067 title Dhampire Stillborn Refend Category 1997 books Category 1997 comic debuts Category Horror comics Category Vertigo graphic novels horror novel stub DC Comics stub ... more details
br BLP sources date October 2008 Infobox comics creator name Richard Starkings image 10.16.11RichardStarkingsByLuigiNovi1.jpg caption Starkings at the 2011 New York Comic Con . birth name Richard Alan Starkings birth date 1 27 62 birth place Yorkshire, England death date death place nationality United Kingdom British area Letterer, editor, writer alias signature notable works Hip Flask comics Hip Flask br Elephantmen awards website www.hipflask.com Richard Starkings is a United Kingdom British font designer and comic book letterer , editing editor and writer . He was one of the early pioneers of computer based comic book lettering and as a result is one of the most prolific creators in that industry. Career Starkings lettering style was originally inspired by British comic strip letterers Bill Nuttall letterer Bill Nuttall and Tom Frame . Starkings United Kingdom UK career began with lettering jobs in 2000 AD comics 2000 AD s Future Shocks and various comic strips strips in Warrior comics Warrior . From there he moved to Marvel UK where he lettered Zoids in Spider Man Weekly and The Transformers Marvel Comics Transformers before becoming an editor for the company in the late 1980s. However by the beginning of the 1990s he devoted himself exclusively to lettering, finding work in the much larger comic book industry in the United States . In 1992 Starkings founded Comicraft , a studio which trains and employs letterers and designers and provides Unique Design and Fine Lettering services for comic books from many different publishers. In the mid 1990s Comicraft, online as comicbookfonts.com began to sell their Font designs as software applications through their Active Images publishing company. Hip Flask Originally Starkings had intended that the advertisement s for these fonts would feature Marvel Comics Marvel and DC Comics characters, however when he failed to receive the authorisation to do that, Starkings created his own character to illustrate the ads Hip Flask c ... more details
primarysources date January 2008 Image Hip Flask 2002 01 cover.jpg right thumb 250px First issue of the 2002 series Hieronymous Hip Flask is a fictional anthropomorphic hippopotamus who appears in comic book s published by Active Images and Image Comics . He was created by Richard Starkings . Overview The character of Hip Flask first appeared in a number of advertisement s for Comicraft comic book font s in the late 1990s in which he was originally depicted as a private detective this has since changed in the pages of his own comics . The character was created by Starkings when he failed to receive authorization from Marvel Comics Marvel or DC Comics to use their characters in his Comicraft ads. He later graduated to his own series of One shot comics one shot s by writers Richard Starkings, Joe Casey and artist Ladr nn . His strip adventures have placed him firmly in the science fiction genre , in a dystopian future 2262 . Much of the imagery of Hip Flask s world is reminiscent of the movie Blade Runner , especially as both are set in Los Angeles . The comics have been published once every one or two years, with three issues available as of July 2006. A monthly series called Elephantmen was first available for sale in stores in July 2006, ref name D2006JUL19 http www.diamondcomics.com shipping archive 2006 071906.txt shipping list for 2006 July 19 , Diamond Comic Distributors, 2006. ref published by Image Comics . Set in the same fictional universe universe , focuses mainly on other human animal hybrids, fleshing out the continuity of the main series, though Hip will feature as well. In 2001, the character s similarities with an Australian comic book character called Hairbutt a bumbling anthropomorphic hippopotamus private detective led Hairbutt co creator Bodine Amerikah and Darren Close of OzComics to accuse Hip Flask creator Richard Starkings of plagiarism . Starkings replied that he created Hip Flash without any knowledge of Hairbutt, and that their similarities ... more details
Refimprove date April 2010 Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics image Docfrank.jpg imagesize default 250 caption Descript cvr Doc Frankenstein 1 November 2004 art Steve Skroce schedule Irregular ongoing y genre publisher Burlyman Entertainment startmo November startyr 2004 endmo endyr present issues 6 main char team writers Wachowski Brothers artists Steve Skroce pencillers inkers Jason Keith letterers Comicraft colorists editors creative team month creative team year creators Geof Darrow br Steve Skroce TPB ISBN TPB ISBN subcat American comics altcat sort Doc Frankenstein addpubcat nonUS Doc Frankenstein is an American comic book ongoing series series created by Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce , ref cite web first Matt last Brady url http forum.newsarama.com showthread.php?threadid 18150 title Skroce and the Monster Steve Skroce on Doc Frankenstein publisher Newsarama date September 18, 2004 accessdate April 7, 2010 ref written by the Wachowski Brothers Andy and Larry, better known for their work on The Matrix series , drawn by Steve Skroce, and published by Burlyman Entertainment . The first issue was published in late 2004 and six issues have been released as of March 2010 the last issue being cover date d December 2007 . Plot summary The comic tells the story of Frankenstein s Frankenstein s monster monster , who survived the events of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein novel and adopted his creator s name as his own and earned doctoral degrees as well . Doc Frankenstein has since been involved in world history Flashback narrative flashback s show him as a gunslinger in the Wild West , a soldier in World War II , a supporter of the teaching of evolution in 1925 s Scopes Trial , and a supporter of Roe v. Wade in 1972 . However, the extremely Liberalism liberal viewpoints he espouses has made him a target of fundamentalist s, who have sought to kill him over the years without success. Awards Doc Frankenstein was nominated for the 2005 Best New Series Eisner ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2010 Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title The Punisher vol. 5 image Puniser 2001series 32 cover.jpg imagesize default 250 caption Descript cvr The Punisher 5 32 November 2003 art Tim Bradstreet schedule Monthly ongoing y Superhero y publisher Marvel Comics br Marvel Knights startmo August startyr 2001 endmo February endyr 2004 issues 37 main char team Punisher writers Garth Ennis 1 6, 13 37 br Steve Dillon 7 br Ron Zimmerman 8 br Tom Peyer 9 12 artists Manuel Gutierrez 9 12 br Darick Robertson 15 17 pencillers Steve Dillon 1 7, 13 14, 18 23, 32 br Mike Lilly 8 inkers Jimmy Palmiotti 1 7 br Rodney Ramos 8 letterers Comicraft br Wes Abbott br Richard Starkings colorists Chris Sotomayor 1 7 br Steve Oliff 8 11, 13 br Andy Troy 12 editors Nanci Dakesian br Stuart Moore creative team month creative team year creators TPB ISBN subcat Punisher altcat sort Punisher vol 5 addpubcat The Punisher is the fifth eponym ous Marvel Comics comic book ongoing series series featuring the character Frank Castle, also known as the Punisher . It consists of 37 issues as part of the Marvel Knights imprint . Most of the issues in this series are written by Garth Ennis however, Tom Peyer , Steve Dillon , and Ron Zimmerman also feature as writers. Publication history The series continued on from Ennis The Punisher 2000 series The Punisher vol. 4 limited series . Collected editions The series has been collected into trade paperback comics individual volumes . The Punisher vol. 5, 8 12, were not written by Ennis and not collected into a trade paperback. Paperback Volume 1 Welcome Back, Frank collects The Punisher 2000 series The Punisher vol. 4, 1 12 , June 2001, ISBN 978 0785107835 Panini Comics Panini , ISBN 1904159214 Volume 2 Army of One collects The Punisher vol. 5, 1 7 , February 2002, ISBN 978 0785108399 Volume 3 Business As Usual collects The Punisher vol. 5, 13 18 , November 2003, ISBN 978 0785110149 Volume 4 Full Auto collects The Punishe ... more details
Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix image Furtheradventureapocsinister.jpg caption Cover to issue 1 schedule Monthly format limited series Mini series limited y Superhero y publisher Marvel Comics startmo June startyr 1996 endmo September endyr 1996 issues 4 main char team Cyclops comics Cyclops br Jean Grey Phoenix br Mister Sinister br Apocalypse comics Apocalypse writers Peter Milligan artists pencillers John Paul Leon inkers Klaus Janson colorists Kevin Somers letterers Comicraft editors Mark Powers creative team month creative team year creators TPB The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix ISBN 0 7851 0556 5 subcat Marvel Comics addpubcat1 X Men titles sort Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix is a four issue comic book limited series mini series published in 1996 in comics 1996 by Marvel Comics . Publication history The series is a sequel to the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix 1994 , and was written by Peter Milligan with pencils by John Paul Leon and inks by Klaus Janson . Plot summary The X Men members Cyclops comics Cyclops and Jean Grey Phoenix are brought to Victorian era England in the year 1859, where the scientist Nathaniel Essex, obsessed with Charles Darwin Darwin s theory of evolution , encounters the centuries old mutant Apocalypse comics Apocalypse who transforms him into Mister Sinister . ref The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix 1 4 June September 1996 ref Collected editions A trade paperback comics trade paperback was produced some time after the mini series finished publication collecting it into one 96 page volume released in October 1997 ISBN 0 7851 0556 5 . However, it was produced during a period of economic decline for Marvel, and before trades had reached the popularity they would a few years later, and has thus been left out of print. In other media Television The episode Descent of X Men The Animated S ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2010 Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title The Punisher vol. 4 image Punisher vol. 4 1.jpg imagesize default 250 caption Descript cvr The Punisher 4 1 April 2000 art Tim Bradstreet schedule Monthly limited y Crime first Superhero y multigenre y publisher Marvel Comics br Marvel Knights startmo April startyr 2000 endmo March endyr 2001 issues 12 main char team Punisher writers Garth Ennis artists pencillers Steve Dillon inkers Jimmy Palmiotti letterers Comicraft br Wes Abbott br Richard Starkings colorists Chris Sotomayor editors Jimmy Palmiotti br Joe Quesada creative team month creative team year creators TPB Welcome Back, Frank ISBN 0 7851 3384 4 subcat Marvel Comics altcat sort Punisher vol 4 addpubcat1 Punisher titles The Punisher also known as The Punisher Welcome Back, Frank is a twelve issue comic book limited series written by Garth Ennis with art by Steve Dillon and published under the Marvel Knights imprint of Marvel Comics . The series features the vigilante anti hero the Punisher and ran from April 2000 to March 2001. Publication history Expand section date July 2010 The story continued in Ennis The Punisher 2001 series The Punisher vol. 5 ongoing series . Plot Frank re establishes himself in New York City by taking on the Gnucci crime syndicate. Detective Soap is assigned to catch the Punisher it is purely a P.R. move as the cops do not really want to. Frank turns Soap to his side, getting him to pass information on local crime syndicates. Against his will, Frank gains three loyal friends in his neighbors, Joan the Mouse, Mr. Bumpo, and Spacker Dave. All end up helping him in his fight against the Gnuccis, partly out of self defense as the criminals learn where Frank lives. Spacker suffers torture at the hands of the Gnuccis, unwilling to give up Frank s location. In the end, the Gnuccis are destroyed, no longer a threat. Soap becomes police commissioner. Frank s friends find themselves wealthy with stolen Gn ... more details
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Orphan date February 2012 Electric Crayon was a digital coloring company founded by Steve Buccellato , Marc Siry and Douglas Rosen in 1992. Based in Santa Monica, California, Electric Crayon mainly served the US comic book industry, providing digital color separations for many popular Marvel, DC, and Image titles, including Generation X comics Generation X , Astro City , and the one shot Batman Punisher crossover. Electric Crayon was notable for two reasons Although Image Comics and other independent companies such as Steve Oliff s Olyoptics had pioneered digital color separations, they were typically focused on special projects or boutique publishers. Electric Crayon attempted to bring the greater detail and color fidelity available through digital separations to mainstream comics, typically known for coarsely screened hand separations. Electric Crayon was founded shortly after Richard Starking s Comicraft , and occupied the same office building for a time. This led to the creation of new efficiencies in the comic book production process, where the dialogue balloons containing the lettering were composed onto the finished color art. This allowed the lettering work to happen in parallel to the inking, rather than as a serial process, compressing the time necessary to produce a finished digital file for printing. Electric Crayon operated for slightly over a year as a comic book coloring company. Eventually, the mounting costs of archival hard disk storage and the slow computers of the time made it impractical for the company to scale without either selling to a larger company or raising rates beyond what the market would pay. ref name toptwothreefilms100504 cite web url http www.toptwothreefilms.com films aidc bts interviews f20041005 index.html title Top Two Three Films Adventures Into Digital Comics Interviews Steve Buccellato accessdate 2007 03 21 date 2004 10 04 publisher Top Two Three Films http web.archive.org web 20070313094001 http www.toptwothreefilms.com fi ... more details
for the video game X Men Legends II Rise of Apocalypse Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title The Rise of Apocalypse image RiseOfApocalypse3.png caption Apocalypse as featured in 3 schedule Monthly limited y Superhero y publisher Marvel Comics startmo October startyr 1996 endmo January endyr 1997 issues 4 main char team Apocalypse comics Apocalypse writers artists Terry Kavanagh br James Felder 3 4 pencillers Adam Pollina br Anthony Williams comics Anthony Williams 4 inkers Mark Morales comics Mark Morales br Harry Candelario 1 br Al Milgrom 4 letterers Comicraft br Richard Starkings 4 colorists Christian Lichtner editors Mark Powers creative team month creative team year creators TPB The Rise of Apocalypse ISBN 0 7851 0586 7 TPB ISBN subcat Marvel Comics altcat sort Rise of Apocalypse addpubcat The Rise of Apocalypse is a four issue limited series published in 1996 by Marvel Comics . The series was written by Terry Kavanagh , and drawn by Adam Pollina . Plot summary 5,000 years ago, a baby is found in the Egypt ian desert by a band of nomad raiders. The child is raised and named En Sabah Nur by the tribe s leader, Baal comics Baal , who teaches the boy survival of the fittest . During the same time, Egypt is ruled by the Pharaoh Rama Tut who, in actuality, is the time traveller Kang the Conqueror , who arrived from the future to claim En Sabah Nur as his heir, because of the fact that the boy will grow up to become one of the most powerful Mutant Marvel Comics mutants and notorious villains in history Apocalypse comics Apocalypse . Nur s tribe is destroyed by Tut s armies. Before Baal dies as well, he tells Nur that he is destined for greater things. Seeking revenge, En Sabah Nur travels to Rama Tut s city where he hides himself as a slave and falls in love with Nephri, the sister of Ozymandias Marvel comics Ozymandias , Tut s general. But Nur is eventually rejected by Nephri, upon seeing his disfigured visage. His mutant powers awakening, he e ... more details
Infobox comics story arc Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title Flowers for Rhino image Tangled Web 5.jpg imagesize default 250 caption Descript cvr Spider Man s Tangled Web 5 Oct, 2001 Art by Duncan Fegredo . publisher Marvel Comics startmo October startyr 2001 endmo November endyr 2001 genre covered by cat parameter titles Spider Man s Tangled Web 5 6 notable y main char team Spider Man br Rhino comics Rhino writers Peter Milligan artists Duncan Fegredo pencillers inkers letterers Comicraft br Jimmy Betancourt editors colorists Steve Buccellato TPB Spider Man s Tangled Web, Volume 1 ISBN 0 7851 0803 3 TPB1 The Best of Spider Man, Volume 1 ISBN1 0 7851 0900 5 cat Spider Man sortkey Flowers for Rhino Flowers for Rhino is a critically acclaimed Spider Man story by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo . Published in 2001, it is a pastiche of the classic Science Fiction story Flowers for Algernon . Flowers for Rhino appeared in Spider Man s Tangled Web 5 6. Plot summary Rhino comics Rhino , a brutish and dimwitted enemy of Spider Man, suffers a mid life crisis after he attempts to rescue Stella, the beautiful daughter of a mob boss, who coldly informs him after he is hired as a full time bodyguard on the grounds that he s too stupid to be a serious romantic or business threat. Recalling a recent meeting with the doctors who created his latest suit, he undergoes a brain operation that turns him into a super genius. With his new intellect, he quickly demonstrates a change in his usual methods, allowing him to defeat Spider Man, subsequently running away with Stella to start his own crime organization. With his new intellect, he writes a novel, gets a restraining order that prevents Spider Man from attacking him, sets up a crime syndicate with the aid of such other criminals as the Mad Thinker , after breaking them out of prison , and even rewrites Hamlet . Unfortunately, it has the side effect of making the subject so intelligent that he is no longer able to fully enjoy life, w ... more details
Refimprove date September 2008 Infobox comics story arc Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title Riot at Xavier s image NXM137.jpg imagesize default 250 caption publisher Marvel Comics startmo January startyr 2003 endmo May endyr 2003 genre covered by cat titles New X Men 135 138 notable August 2009 main char team List of X Men members writers Grant Morrison artists pencillers Frank Quitely br Keron Grant inkers Tim Townsend br Norm Rapmund br Avalon Studios letterers Richard Starkings br Comicraft editors colorists Chris Chuckry TPB Riot at Xavier s ISBN 0 7851 1067 4 cat X Men sortkey Riot At Xavier s Riot At Xavier s is a four part storyline that ran from New X Men 135 138 2003 . It was written by Grant Morrison and features artist Frank Quitely s last work on the title. The story centers around an original character of Morrison s, the teenage mutant Quentin Quire . According to Morrison, the storyline was inspired by a playground riot he witnessed in his youth. ref http www.barbelith.com old interviews interview 2.shtml Interviews with Grant Morrison . Barbelith Interviews. Retrieved January 14, 2012. ref Plot synopsis The story centers around Quentin Quire, who had appeared at first in issue 122. Quire is fleshed out as a super intelligent young teenager, who is a pupil of Professor X s mutant school at the X Mansion . When he finds out he is adopted, and a mutant celebrity called Jumbo Carnation is killed by anti mutant racists, Quire begins to mock Xavier s pacifistic teachings, hero worships the mutant supremacist Magneto comics Magneto , and assembles a gang of militant class mates to kill humans in retaliation. Their rage is fueled by consumption of the fictional drug Kick , which supercharges their mutant abilities. Side plots are the workings of mysterious mutant teacher Xorn , Quire s crush on Sophie of the Stepford Cuckoos , the relationship between flirty Angel Salvadore and the ugly Barnell Bohusk Beak and the growing estrangement of Cyclops comics Cyclops ... more details
noref date April 2012 Infobox graphic novel Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title Avatar The Last Airbender The Promise foreigntitle image Avatar The Last Airbender The Promise Part 1 cover.jpg imagesize 230 caption Avatar The Last Airbender The Promise Part 1 cover publisher Dark Horse Comics date January 25, 2012 Part 1 br May 30, 2012 Part 2 br September 26, 2012 Part 3 issues series main char team origpublication origissues origdate origlanguage origisbn writers Gene Yang artists Gurihiru pencillers inkers colourists letterers Comicraft editors creators Michael Dante DiMartino br Bryan Konietzko transpublisher transdate transisbn pages translator previssue nextissue US Avatar The Last Airbender The Promise is a graphic novel written by Gene Yang and illustrated by Gurihiru . It is a sequel to Avatar The Last Airbender and a prequel to The Legend of Korra , both created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko . Part 1 was released on January 25, 2012, Part 2 will be released on May 30, 2012 and Part 3 will be released on September 26, 2012. Mainly set one year after the conclusion of the original series, Avatar The Last Airbender The Promise details the adventures of Avatar Aang and his friends soon after the War, and will provide a link to the sequel series The Legend of Korra . The events of The Promise Part 1 begin immediately after the last episode of the original series, Sozin s Comet The Final Battle , but after a few pages move forward one year. Overview Although the War is now over, tensions run high as Aang and Zuko are put on a collision course after the Avatar travels to a Fire Nation colony and finds tension between neighbors a threat that may shatter the world s newfound peace . The unfinished conversation between Zuko and Ozai about the whereabouts of Ursa, Zuko s long lost mother is completed, but the conversation takes a different path after Zuko asks the question and her fate still remains unknown. Negotiations with Earth King Kuei and the be ... more details
and his partner John Roshell formerly Gaushell began creating comic book fonts and started Comicraft ... Companies that provide computer lettering Artmonkeys Blambot Comicraft Studio Daedalus References ... the Comicraft studio s online guide to comic book lettering Category Comic book letterers Category Comics ... more details
Refimprove date September 2007 Infobox comic book title Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title Empire image EmpireDCComics.jpg imagesize default 250 caption schedule Monthly limited y Superhero y publisher Gorilla Comics Image Comics br DC Comics date Gorilla br May September 2000 in comics 2000 br DC br September 2003 in comics 2003 February 2004 in comics 2004 startmo September startyr 2003 endmo February endyr 2004 issues 6 plus issue 0 main char team writers Mark Waid artists pencillers Barry Kitson inkers James Dean Pascoe letterers Comicraft colorists Badass editors Joey Cavalieri br Harvey Richards creative team month creative team year creators Mark Waid br Barry Kitson TPB Empire ISBN 1 4012 0212 8 TPB ISBN subcat DC Comics sort Empire Empire is an American comic book limited series published by Gorilla Comics an Image Comics imprint and DC Comics , created by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson . The protagonist of the series is a Doctor Doom like supervillain named Golgoth who has defeated all superheroes and conquered the world, but must now contend with internal power struggles. Publication history The series was originally published in 2000 by Gorilla Comics , a company formed by Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek and several others, but the company folded after only two issues were produced. Empire was finished at DC Comics in 2003 2004, although it remains in its own fictional universe and is not part of the DC Universe . The already published two comic books were collected in a 0 and then the rest of the story was told over six issues. Characters Golgoth the Emperor of the world. He is human and at the beginning of the series it is revealed that his wife is dead but his daughter is still alive. He is ruthless and ensures the loyalty of his Ministers through the use of a highly addictive booster drug called Eucharist . His powers seemingly come from his armour he is never in the series seen without his mask. His powers include hand blasts and teleportation , a technology tha ... more details
Refimprove date January 2009 for other uses of the name in comics Judgement Day comics Infobox comics story arc Wikipedia WikiProject Comics title Day of Judgment image Day of judgment 5.jpg imagesize default 250 caption Day of Judgment 5 November 1999 . Pencils by Matt Smith artist Matt Smith , inks by Steve Mitchell comics Steve Mitchell . publisher DC Comics date startmo November startyr 1999 endmo endyr Superhero y Crossover y titles Day of Judgment 1 5 br Anarky comic book Anarky 7 br Aquaman 61 br Azrael comics Azrael Agent of the Bat 58 br Batman Day of Judgment br Day of Judgment Secret Files and Origins br Green Lantern 118 br Hourman 8 br Bart Allen Impulse 54 br Justice League JLA 35 br Martian Manhunter 12 br Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. 4 br Superboy 68 br Supergirl 38 br Superman The Man of Tomorrow 15 br Teen Titans The Titans 9 br Young Justice 14 main char team Spectre comics Spectre , Hal Jordan , Sentinels of Magic writers Geoff Johns artists pencillers Matthew Dow Smith , Christopher Jones artist Christopher Jones breakdowns inkers Steve Mitchell comics Steve Mitchell letterers Comicraft editors Kevin Dooley colorists James Sinclair comics James Sinclair TPB ISBN cat DC Comics sortkey Day Of Judgment Day of Judgment was a DC Comics limited series and fictional crossover crossover storyline during the autumn of 1999 in comics 1999 . The limited series was written by Geoff Johns , with art by Matthew Dow Smith . The main storyline for the series dealt with the Spectre comics Spectre whose previous host, Jim Corrigan , had left him when he ascended into Heaven being bonded to a new host, in the form of the then deceased Hal Jordan . Storyline Endeavoring to cause chaos on Earth, as well as to take out rival demon Neron , Etrigan the Demon arranges for the now hostless Spectre to be bonded to renegade angel Asmodel , who used the Spectre s power to freeze Hell and release hordes of demons on the Earth. This action also results in villains such as the Encha ... more details
In universe subject comics category comics date October 2009 Superherobox Wikipedia WikiProject Comics image Image Alyssa Moy.jpg 250px caption character name Alyssa Moy real name Alyssa Moy Castle species Human publisher Marvel Comics debut Fantastic Four vol. 3 5 May 1998 creators Chris Claremont br Salvador Larroca alliances Fantastic Four br Shadow Hunters aliases Unrevealed powers Genius level intellect Alyssa Moy is a character in the Marvel comics universe. She is a former lover and colleague of Reed Richards . Alyssa works as a scientist, and has a genius level intellect nearly equal to that of Reed. She first appeared in Fantastic Four vol. 3 5 May 1998 . Fictional character biography Alyssa Moy has been a seldom used character since her creation and has been associated almost exclusively with the Fantastic Four. In one instance, for example, she lends her hovercar to assist Reed and Ben Grimm in retrieving an essential item a villain has tossed miles away. In another instance, Alyssa and Franklin Richards face down the extra dimensional threat of the Warwolves , who pursue them through the New York City. The wolves take on the shape of civilians to try to entrap them. Alyssa witnesses the wolves killing at least one police officer, a sight she tries to shield Franklin from. Alyssa and Franklin are soon rescued from the wolves by the Fantastic Four. ref Fantastic Four vol. 3 7 July 1998 Chris Claremont plot , Salvador Larroca pencils , Art Thibert inks , Comicraft letters , Liquid colors , Mark Powers editor , Bob Harras editor in chief ref ref http www.uncannyxmen.net db issues showquestion.asp?fldAuto 4111 Uncannyxmen.net issue summary . ref Moy and the others also face the other dimensional bounty squad of Gatecrasher Marvel Comics Gatecrasher and her Technet comics Technet . Everyone is transported to the Otherworld, to face the entire Captain Britain Corps , which is controlled by Roma. The entire incident had started because Roma believed Franklin to ... more details
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