Hello Four Colors readers. This week is going to see the debut of some new features to Four Colors. With the relaunch of this blog, I have thought about what to do to make this blog new and exciting for readers (as well as being new and exciting for me to write). So with the promise of more, shorter posts, I am going to be introducing a few new article focuses, which I explain below: Wednesday Reviews (Cool Title TBD)… Read More »
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS TO MARVEL’S “AGE OF ULTRON” MINI-SERIES, CURRENTLY RUNNING. In 1968 (our time), founding Avenger Hank Pym (aka Ant Man aka Giant Man aka Yellowjacket) created a breath-taking artificial intelligence named Ultron. Instantly rebelling against Pym, Ultron teamed with the Masters of Evil to take down the Avengers, almost succeeding (for the first of many times). Pym’s creation has been haunting him ever since, always promising to raze and control Earth but never succeeding…until now. Half the heroes… Read More »
It’s Comic Book Christmas! Today is Free Comic Book Day, the annual tradition of the comic book where, every first Saturday in May, publishers offer free comic books to readers in the hope of enticing them into checking out the rest of their books. The Complete List of Free Comics This year marks the 11th year the industry has done this event and it has grown immensely since then. Over the past few years, Marvel and DC have been using FCBD as… Read More »
Every great comic book character has a resurrection story and now, so does Four Colors. I debated back and forth with how I was going to start the blog back up. Initially, I was going to just skirt past the elephant in the room, which is the fact that there have been two (2!) posts in the past year. I wanted it to sound like there was some explanation other than life getting in the way, even make a joke about starting Season… Read More »
Entertainment Weekly is currently in the middle of huge, tournament-style competition that asks their readers that eternal comic book question: Who is the Greatest? When I first saw this poll, I found myself absorbed with the question. Obviously, I have stated on this blog who my favorite is on SEVERAL occasions (Spider-Man), but it is always a fun debate to get into, especially with this bracket set-up. Now, EW.com just finished their first round of voting and as I went through… Read More »
There are a few things that I really regret in my life. My performance in college, failing Chemistry in high school, a few relationships that I royally screwed up (and the ones I never let happen). Among those is that I never wrote to Charles Schulz. This past month, BOOM! Studios (through their children’s line, KaBOOM!) began a new Peanuts comic book series, which follows last year’s graphic novel, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown. For a long time… Read More »
Bil Keane, the creator of Family Circus, passed away last week at the age of 89. Keane came from the same line of thought as Santa Rosa legend, Charles Schulz. In the Associated Press article about Keane’s death, Schulz was quoted as saying “ I think we share a care for the same type of humor. We’re both family men with children and look with great fondness at our families.” Peanuts and Family Circus are two sides of the same coin: the… Read More »
Back in my hometown of Eureka, we have a video rental store. It is called Spotlight Video. For you non-Humboldt natives, it is pretty much a Hollywood Video. Except one thing is definitely different. Now, obviously, with the quick rise of streaming video and RedBox, video rental chains have been hurting. I know the pain personally as I worked at the Rohnert Park Bradley Video when it shut down. But Spotlight Video, like so many other businesses right now, is… Read More »
Wired.com recently posted an article by Patton Oswalt. It has the controversial title of “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.” As we head into the eye of the storm of Geekdom, it is an article that needs to be written. What is discussed needs to be brought up when there are girls who are going to Comic Con just to ogle Ryan Reynolds and The Dark Knight winning Academy Awards. It might be hard to justify this article. Yes,… Read More »
