Futurama Comics #23

Also in comic shops this week, Futurama Comics #23, which includes a splash page cameo appearance by the Silver Surfer!

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This is a great issue, particularly the spin it puts on the Robert Silverberg short story/Twilight Zone episode "To See the Invisible Man."

Wolverine on "The Simpsons"?

Special thanks to Jeff for sending me the following article:

The X3 Advertising Campaign / Full Trailer News
Posted Wednesday November 9th, 2005

Brazilian magazine Herói recently interviewed Daniela Tose (international director of licensing) and Mark Rhodes (vice-president of retail development) at Marvel. They had the following pieces of information to offer based on the advertising campaign that they have planned for X-Men 3:

· A full trailer for X3 will be released in February. It will be exhibited in theaters, on the internet and at various other big events (including the Superbowl Finals).

· Hugh Jackman will make a special appearance on The Simpsons next year. This will likely coincide with the promotion of the movie.

· There will also be some mention of X-Men in an episode of The OC next year as well.

Special thanks go out to Nelson, who runs Brazil's largest X-Men 3 Fan Community. If you speak Portuguese then be sure to check it out!

Source : Heroi Magazine | Archived News

Homer as Wolverine custom action figure by Alecia Gulley.

Ty "The Guy" Templeton

One of the many things I missed while being offline was a message posted to this blog by Ty "The Guy" Templeton, who's been one of my all-time favorite creators ever since the Justice League International days. More recently, he worked on Dan Slott's awesome Spider-Man/Human Torch mini-series.

Templeton was the writer/artist on one of my favorite Bongo issues: Bart Simpson #17, "Legends of the Bartman Family" (responsible for a number of entries in the Super Simpsons Handbook). In Simpsons Super Spectacular #1, Ty wrote and drew the Pieman story, and illustrated Chuck Dixon's "The Crimespree on Springfield 2," starring Bartman, Houseboy, and Bartdog. He also wrote and drew Rob Zombie's "House of a Thousand Donuts" in Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #10.

Special thanks to The Guy for stopping by. Keep up the good work, and I hope you'll be back.

The Simpsons vs. The Fantastic Four

Left: Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1964). Right: Simpsons Comics #1 (Bongo, 1993). "The Amazing Colossal Homer" won the 1994 Eisner Award for "Best Short Story."

Top: Treehouse of Horror XIV, "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off"-- Lisa presses the button on Bart's magic stopwatch and transforms the rest of the family into the Fantastic Four.
Bottom: "I Am Furious (Yellow)" -- Stan Lee hangs out in The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop and proves to a young customer that the Thing action figure will fit into his toy Batmobile.