FIGHTING AMERICAN: THE TIES THAT BIND #4
Writer: Gordon Rennie
Artist: Andie Tong
Cover A: Andie Tong
Cover B: Jack Kirby. Colors by David Leach.
Publisher: Titan Comics
FC, 32pp, $3.99, On sale: June 6, 2018
FINAL ISSUE!
The critically-acclaimed series returns with a brand-new story featuring Fighting American and Speedboy!
This August, Marvel invites you to join Johnny, Ben, Sue and Reed in their much-anticipated return to comics, featuring an all-new story from Dan Slott, Sara Pichelli, and Esad Ribic!
And to celebrate the return of the first family, Marvel is excited to reveal a special Fantastic Four poster featuring classic artwork by Jack Kirby, which will be available to readers this August.
Be sure to pick up Fantastic Four #1 on August 8th, and stay tuned for announcements about Fantastic Four’s release, upcoming incentives, and more!
FIGHTING AMERICAN #3 (of 4)
Writer: Gordon Rennie
Artist: Andie Tong
Color: Tracy Bailey
Letterer: Simon Bowland
Cover A: Andie Tong
Cover B: Jack Kirby
Publisher: Titan Comics
FC, $3.99, On sale: May 2, 2018
The critically-acclaimed series returns with a brand-new story featuring Fighting American and Speedboy!
The Prisoner #1
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artist: Colin Lorimer
Cover A: Mike Allred. Colors By Laura Allred
Cover B: Photo cover
Cover C: Jack Kirby, Mike Royer. Colors by Mike Allred
Cover D: Colin Lorimer. Colors by Joana Lafluente
Cover E: John McCrea. Colors by Michael Spicer
Cover F: Mike Allred Black and White Variant.
Publisher: Titan Comics
FC, 32pp, $3.99, On sale: April 25, 2018
In the 21st Century, the global currency is no longer oil or gold but information. And he who possesses it possesses the world. There is one place on the planet where the most valuable information is mined, a place that prides itself on ‘mental fracking’, promising to extract any secret from any individual using any means possible.
It is perhaps the intelligence community’s darkest secret, aligned to no one political system or state, an autonomous institute, free of state manipulation. The identity of its controller, the mysterious Number One, is unknown. It is a place so secret, some believe it to be a myth. It is The Village.
Now read on…
FIGHTING AMERICAN: THE TIES THAT BIND #2
Writer: Gordon Rennie
Artist: Andie Tong
Colorist: Tracy Bailey
Letterer: Simon Bowland
Editor: David Leach
Cover A: Andie Tong
Cover B: Jack Kirby
Publisher: Titan Comics
FC, 32pp, $3.99, On sale: April 4, 2018
The critically-acclaimed series returns with a brand-new story featuring Fighting American and Speedboy!
Deadline is reporting that director Ava DuVernay is closing a deal and will dive into Jack Kirby‘s creations with The New Gods for Warner Bros.
This is another big budget film for the director whose film A Wrinkle in Time opened this past weekend. That film was released by Buena Vista, a division of Disney, a competitor to Warner Bros. in both film and comics.
This is the second female director Warner Bros/DC has brought onto a project. Patty Jenkins was the first and her Wonder Woman went on to gross over $800 million worldwide.
It is believed this will be a freestanding film not connected to the DC Cinematic Universe. That move is interesting as Steppenwolf was the villain of Justice League and Darkseid has been looming over that film universe.
The director is a fan of Kirby’s creations stating that her favorite superhero is Big Barda.
Gosh, that's hard. Big Barda. Many reasons. #askava https://t.co/3qxGDq7mHe
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) December 27, 2017
Kirby’s creations debuted in the early 70s and involves two warring factions, those of New Genesis and those of Apokolips. Think of it as a combination of a lot of different mythological backgrounds. Known as the “Fourth World,” the New Gods can currently be seen in Mister Miracle written by Tom King with art by Mitch Gerads as well as appearing in various series of DC Comics.
This is a massive sandbox to play in and it’ll be interesting to see where it all goes from here.
Face front, true believers!
In the last entry in this series, I was intending to write about Chris Claremont’s stamp on the mutant metaphor. However, recently I got bitten by a (non-radioactive) different idea and so instead I want to talk about another aspect of the mutant metaphor, a metaphor-within-a-metaphor, one that’s cropped up in many different eras of X-Men history: the comparison of humans and mutants to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons.
Read moreFIGHTING AMERICAN: THE TIES THAT BIND #1
Writer: Gordon Rennie
Artist: Andie Tong
Color: Tracy Baily
Letterer: Simon Bowland
Editor: David Leach
Cover A: Jerry Ordway
Cover B: Jack Kirby
Cover C: Andie Tong
Publisher: Titan Comics
FC, 32pp, $3.99
On sale: March 7, 2018
In 1954, NELSON FLAGG took part in an experimental US Military procedure that saw his mind transferred into the enhanced and revitalized body of his dead brother, JOHNNY FLAGG, to become America’s first and only superhero, FIGHTING AMERICAN!
63 years later, FIGHTING AMERICAN and his sidekick, SPEEDBOY, have found themselves marooned in the 21st Century.
With MADAME CHAOS now safely behind bars, FA and SB have begun the mammoth task of tracking down all of the stolen PROFESSOR DYLE TWISTER tech that she sold on the Dark Web to every whack-job, fanatic, terrorist and weirdo she could find.
Meanwhile, one of FA’s old 1950s villains (sent through time by CHAOS LAD), the notorious DOUBLE HEADER, is now the head of the FBI and starting to make life difficult for our two-fisted man of action.
Black Panther is coming to theaters and we’re reviewing each trade paperback volume of the current ongoing series from Marvel! We’re starting with the first, “A Nation Under Our Feet.”
Black Panther Vol. 1 A Nation Under Our Feet collects issues #1-4 by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze, and Laura Martin. It also features Fantastic Four (1961) #52 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Get your copy. To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.
Amazon/Kindle/comiXology or TFAW
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April 17 sees the release of Fighting American Volume 1: Brave New World – the return of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby‘s (creators of Captain America) legendary two-fisted superhero, originally created back in 1954! Join Fighting American and Speedboy in this brand-new graphic novel collection as they navigate the dangers and wonders of the modern world.
Described by Superman’s Jerry Ordway as “fun!”, this graphic novel is a direct continuation of Simon & Kirby’s All-American classic! Written by Gordon Rennie, with artwork by Duke Mighten, PC De La Fuente, and colors by Tracey Bailey.
Fighting American, the ultimate icon of truth, justice and the American Way, and his young teenage sidekick, Speedboy, have found themselves marooned in the 21st Century whilst on the trail of a gang of villains plucked from their past by a mysterious villainess known only as Lady Chaos… Now, there’s nothing left for them to do but to bring some much-needed two-fisted justice and home-spun 1950s grit to a modern, media-obsessed, cynical world.
To celebrate this hotly anticipated graphic novel, Titan has released a brand-new trailer!
