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Ka-Pow! Marvel Opens Massive Comic Book Images Archive And API To Fans, Developers | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Marvel Comics is unveiling its programming interface (API) and developer platform in a beta version tomorrow morning, swinging wide the gates to the Marvel universe of comic heroes to fans and developers around the world. The API–which will include comic book artwork, character histories, creator insights, and expanded stories–will grant members access to an expansive database of Marvel’s library of 75 years of comics, including over 30,000 comics, 7,000 series, and 5,000 creators. This move gives developers the tools to create their own Marvel-based apps and digital offerings.
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I haven't spent anytime looking at it yet, but... that sounds pretty sweet.
 
Just got our tix for Emerald City Comicon in March. We are doing the one-day pass (Sat) to check it out. Quite a listing of celebs will be there but I am looking for certain things for purchase and to people watch. Anything I should look for in particular considering this is my first show??
 
THE FANTASTIC FOUR Screen Testing Miles Teller for Mr. Fantastic; Kate Mara and Emmy Rossum for Invisible Woman | Collider

Finally, THR says Doctor Doom will be the villain. That’s not too surprising, and neither is the fact that the production is probably going for a big name since it looks like the superheroes will be comprised of rising stars. Where it gets exciting is that the studio “isn’t ruling out switching genders for the role.” That’s a cool possibility, and since they’ve already switched races on Johnny Storm, why not have a female Dr. Doom
Read more at THE FANTASTIC FOUR Screen Testing Miles Teller for Mr. Fantastic; Kate Mara and Emmy Rossum for Invisible Woman | Collider
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Sweet flaming Christ on a hibachi!!!!! Why have any resemblance to the source material? Lets make it a movie about young nazi teddy bears looking for love and we can call it Fantastic Four...and there will be 7 of them...and they will all be rundown and very un-fantastic. **** you!
 
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I don't follow comics lately like I used to 20–35 years ago, but I found this article through a friend. Curious about thoughts from some of the LGK comic book aficionados.

Multiversity Comics ? Comics and the Diminishing Role of Artists in a Visual Medium

It's a pretty quick read, but here's the lead if you're short on time:

Brian Michael Bendis’ “Avengers”.

Geoff Johns’ “Green Lantern”.

Jason Aaron’s “Wolverine and the X-Men”.

When you see people talk about some of today’s greatest and most celebrated runs in comics, it’s quite often only the writer who gets mentioned, even though each of those books wouldn’t have been the same without people like David Finch, Ivan Reis and Nick Bradshaw. We’re living in the Era of The Writer in comics, a time when the quality of comics – in my opinion – is at an all-time high, with art that astounds and thrills — yet there may never have been a time in comics where being an artist is more thankless or minimized.

It’s not just in the marketing for collections at the Big Two, but in reviews and in page rates and in length of runs and many more things. Comic artists have been devalued to the point where you could argue public perception is of them as almost secondary creators, and certainly fungible ones in the comic creation mix.

But why is that? How did we get to a place where these storytellers who make comics comics are the sidekicks, and what can we do to make things better?
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LetTigerIn said:
I don't follow comics lately like I used to 20–35 years ago, but I found this article through a friend. Curious about thoughts from some of the LGK comic book aficionados.

Multiversity Comics ? Comics and the Diminishing Role of Artists in a Visual Medium

It's a pretty quick read, but here's the lead if you're short on time:
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Good read, thanks for posting the link. I think the author is right on the money, personally, but for me... for the most part, it doesn't bother me. It's pretty rare that I buy a comic based solely on the artist attached to the book. A good artist is very important and can have a serious impact on the book, but I'm going to buy whatever Greg Rucka's name is on regardless of who's drawing it. I think a lot of people feel the same. A good writer can make a book worthwhile even if the art is subpar, but a great artist can only improve a poorly written book so much, you know?
 
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