Pulp Avengers by Calamity Jon

I am a sucker when modern characters are re-imagined into old style projects. Calamity Jon is an artist who hit this idea right square on the head when he decided to take some of the lesser known Avengers (Wasp, Black Widow, Power Man) and fold them into pulp novel type stories. These covers look spectacular, and I would definitely read these books based on their tag lines alone. I am especially intrigued by the bonus in this series, DC Comics favorite space man Strange being written by Robert Heinlein (the author of Starship Troopers). That would be epic all the way around. Click here to see some excellent info on the source material of these covers, and check out all 5 after the jump...

The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Gets An Update....

One of the greatest memories of my comic reading childhood come from thumbing copies of DC Comic's Who's Who & Marvel's Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. These two series existed to drain cash from comic collectors like me, as all they did was act as an encyclopedia of all the characters (both minor & major) of the respective universes. It was great to read profiles about big name characters and find out little known facts about lesser known characters, and the best part was that they often listed the first appearance of the character. This was an important detail for collectors like me, as I often wanted to acquire a characters first appearance. It was like the Encyclopedia Britannica for geeks., just freaking wonderful. Now I stumbled upon a very cool NEW website from the guy who runs Cornered entitled The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Reduxe Edition . On this site Calamity Jon is recruiting artists to submit their best recreations of an entry in the Marvel Handbook page by page until they have the whole thing redesigned. This is such a great idea, and so far there are 8 submissions. with many more to come. If you know any artists who you think would be great for this project, click here for the submission guidelines. You can see my 3 faves after the jump...