Ultimate Spider-Man #1 and why it's so fantastic

Hello comic readers and Spider-Man fans alike,                                                                                  Before starting my day of around town to do stuff I am definitely going to do my first full comic review of the year, and well why not start out with a hopeful and strong turn for one of Marvel comics most beloved characters... and still maybe a long way off of it but it could happen you never can honestly tell? Here's the cover of Ultimate Spider-Man #1,   

          being cared for by Spider-Man himself. This story is by writer Jonathan Hickman with illustrative art by Marco Checchetto. The original Ultimate Spider-Man comic with Peter Parker as Spider-Man started the winter/spring of two thousand and at that very same time the writer of the television series known as Babylon five was writer of the recently rebooted volume two of the continuation of Amazing Spider-Man since Marvel had declared bankruptcy in nineteen ninety six. His name was  Joe Michael Straczynski his run at first started to focus on making Peter and Mary Jane's marriage get to it's strongest strength throughout his run on the title till he was ordered by his boss to make it magically vanish by a Spider-Man title known as One More Day... (If you're a regular viewer/reader of this very blog, YOU KNOW HOW I HAVE FELT ALBOUSTULELY OF THE END RESULT, FOR NOW I WILL LET YOU FIND OUT ON YOUR OWN!), The writer of the original Ultimate Spider-Man line was Brian Michael Bendis, who before writing this project was writer of POWERS a imprint of his own released by IMAGE comics.                                                             The original reasoning for the Ultimate Spider-Man which was then followed a couple of years later by Ultimate X-MEN was to create a special diversity of the main Marvel Universe which at this time was only thrity eight years old, if we go all the way back to nineteen sixty two, even though Stan Lee was completely conceived by early nineteen sixty he was ready to retire from the then Altas comics the name of the company since the mid nineteen fifties. Yet the owner of the company a cousin to his mother's side of the family had wanted Stan to come up with something that could rival the competition's Justice League title? What did Stan and artist Jack Kirby come up with as a team for that family cousin Martin Goodman to leverage against the bigger than life of superheroes on a very popular team? They came out with the group               

                  known as the one seen here. The Fantastic Four and that was in late nineteen sixty one, so is it possible that the Marvel comics universe is in actuality more likely fourty years old back in the year two thousand? Anyhoo the Spider-Man character first appeared in a title known as Amazing Fantasy #15, in March of nineteen sixty two...                Just so that you can be aware the older Marvel comics universe is listed as Earth 616 and for reference of the original ultimate universe is listed as Earth 1610. The original Ultimate universe stories ended in twenty eleven. And had only one of their characters be pulled into the main Earth 616 timeline... Yes it's that universe's Spider-Man known as Miles Morales   

   seen here. ( I can say this Miles since his character's beginning still hasn't been able to escape Peter Parker's shadow of who is better as the web Spiner at least comic wise), Miles Morales should have his own hero identity is all I want to say here. Now with all of the brief summarized histories of both sets of takes on the Marvel comics Universes,  let us jump right into this very interesting take on a Spider-Man defined universe that's unique in it's own way, shall we!                                                                                                                   One thing that is very engaging about this very issue is that in it for the first in a very long time of storywise Peter Parker is actually being shown here to be taking his life of existence very responsibly of being older than he is in the Amazing Spider-Man continually by being a father to two children named May and Richard Parker. (Richard Parker is Peter's father's name, he and his wife Mary were framed by Captain America's foe the Red Skull as spies and died when Peter was very young), so it's definitely a great recall to including the whole Parker legacy of family. There is also one character in this very story that in every other iteration of the Spider-Man mythology is never in the stories unless you want to remember the one time, that even after Harry Osborn's death he had succeeded in being absolutely capable of beating out his father Norman Osborn in torturing Peter Parker with the creation of his parents being clones just before the start of the nineties storyline of the clone saga.... yet this very person has been Peter's driving force of his motto of "With Great Power, there must come Great Responsibility!"                         Here he works for the daily bugle with Jonah Jameson, Robbie Robertson, and Wilson Fisk the Kingpin crime is a shrewd business tycoon who owns the Bugle. There's also his foe the Green Goblin. (Yet we have no idea of who he is as of right now, only that possibility his suit looks like it's Stark industry related...) Yet even though he is uncertain about something in his life as well at the current time, he has a very strong relationship with Mary Jane Watson who is his wife. I can honestly say that this version of Peter is very informative of sharing his thoughts of what he is thinking about with her and she is also a great commincater at the same time as being a hopeful listener of his concerns related to every day life. They truly do care about each other like the friends they are, suppose to do. Oh yes I did forget to mention as of yet he isn't even Spider-Man at all,  only a thrity something regular human dealing with life as best that he knows how to!                To me even though I don't know this writer named Hickman, well enough to understand his fundamental goals with this, with his take on Peter's on set so far.... I do know that most fans of Spider-Man as a whole want the man known as Peter Parker to of course have his share of trials of Problems as a normal human will go through weather he is has a super drawn out battle with any bad person on the street, to a specific super villain that he knows how to deal with. So how does Peter Parker deal with his fears of depression when he is in a life and death struggle of lifting his own inner strength is he consistently jokes with his foe whom he is threatened by!                                                                 It also seems as if in this spin of the Ultimate universe there are very few heroes out there trying to figure out who they are as well! So our boy Peter, is not the only human being known to be fighting a grand inner influence of faith in finding out if he is any kind of hero as well? What or Who made all of this very universe so much in need of heroes anyway? All I can honestly say is whom ever it is, is called the Maker. I know even though I know that answer of who the Maker is l have to get the prequel to this version of the Ultimate Universe which was released last year as a title known as Ultimate Invasion a four part plus a added one shot series. I happen to have three out of the five in single issue format, they too are scribed by Hickman as well.                                                                         There is ONE MORE  VERY IMPORTANT THING,  that I also want to talk about before giving my complete grade of this very Awesome and well constructive look at a set of fans appreciation of Spider-Man as a enduring as Mister Peter Parker truly is... Marvel as a company has had their top selling character be for since 2007, that is seventeen years way to long to keep him as a one note bum without any chance to be a growing character be stuck as maybe this is only me I don't happen to say it as anything but Peter Parker is actually been a as I mentioned a bum, but also a great villain because he has been unrelatable since One More Day ended. Yes you heard that right I am certain a bunch of Spider-Man fans believe a hero can't be worth being a hopeful inspirational source of being faithful to being fair and honest for everyone.  I mean with how most comics have been written for the last few years how can any hero at Marvel or Decetevice Comics be worth exploring for richness of knowledge of heroism... when the stories are written so condensed by the writer of any book. Now I have to also remember super heroes right now of both mainstream publishers are lost in editorial mistakes more than ever! The editors definitely need to know that writing towards one set of readers who don't care for your product will get their sells only so far for so long, in the long term. I am honestly hoping that Marvel won't make this Ultimate Spider-Man eventually just like they have the one that is sixty two years old and be unwanted at all. My grade for the family version of  Peter Parker seen here 

is really fascinating full of each character from Peter and Mary Jane and their two children May and Richard are ready to grow into the best of both worlds of who want to be full of gusto in their own ongoing and on growing creative universe. I can say this about reading this very issue has me thinking about getting the forementioned Ultimate Spider-Man onimibus from Amazon at some point. My grade is A + for this one and have high expectations that Peter and Mary Jane's marriage will eventually return in great detail in the one that is super brilliantly broken right now! 

New year and hoping for....

 Happy New Years day to all,                                                                                                                    When I want to think of the meaning of today's meaning it does seem that even though we use it as the start of the next set of the upcoming three hundred and sixty five days or if it is a leap year which I believe that it is we will have it be three hundred and sixty six days... with it all being because of the last day of this upcoming February with an additional day instead of the regular twenty eight of the normal for that month. Although I will admit that I can't say what the twenty ninth day will fall on exactly? One thing that I do know of for certain is that I have a lot of thoughts on old projects that I am planning on finding time to finish from last year and new ones starting through out this upcoming one too...                                                                                                                                                          The one project that is mostly on my train of thoughtfulness of late is this                                 

                                                                                             seen here,  my little classic friend as my nickname for when I am talking about her. Her name is MacKenzie and I have been working on it since before her birthday which is in the summer time of the year, while I will admit that I want to color her with my color pencils for several months I also have wanted to add more to her shirt an in that area lies the said hardest part.... but I feel that I am coming up close with something? As to if I am thinking of something in the background I highly doubt it but if I were to maybe it would be a huge H and B for of course Happy Birthday! As to it's title  I so far have two main ones to choose from and here they are "M&M forever friends"or maybe "Mighty Yellow M&M classics", I think I prefer the latter, but that's just me.                                                                 As for other type things that I have planned for this upcoming year is that I am hoping to getting around to posting about the many cartoon series that I liked or loved from when I was a tykesiter and why each of them mattered to me so much. Now as to if with them, I will go in a direct chronological order of how I watched those very anmaited drawings, I don't know as of yet what way it will be put out overall! One very important thing that I also am still thinking about before reviewing any of those is will I be wanting to do as I have in the past a general understanding of each series as well? I believe that this very year I will begin reviewing the television series that brought the important attention of medical dramas to the forefront way before stuff like E.R., Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, St. Elsewhere, House,  and even including before Doggie Howser... I am of course talking about 

the television series known as EMERGENCY!, which is also as old as I am.                                  And if you know me, besides being a hopeful creative type of person and wanting share both old and most certainly new things in the upcoming year of twenty twenty four, you all know that I am a essentially Henry Bemis in a whole multitude of ways. Yes I am of course talking about my other main love to growing in great knowledge in many type of gathering information from words written on a page. Whether it is in novels or as those twenty five pages with illustrative illustrations as well as a narrative between a set of people or sometimes interesting type other creative creations that a writer comes up with for their given stories in what is called a comic book. Over the past few years of late, I have been opening my reading palate to include a wider variety of variations on subjects... other than just my favorite one which is super heroes! As if you are unawareness my top understanding of a likable human that I really like and honor with great compassion is a certain New York citizen known simply as Peter Parker! So there is a new Spider-Man title coming out this very month that I and any true Spider-Man fan is truly appreciating and when it comes out I am sure that you will understand why I love that very title,  which is Ultimate Spider-Man #1... until then I still have plennty of comics to have past reviews to be appearing very soon...                                                                      
       Who is Henry Bemis?, your asking me right, well he is a character from the classic television series known as Twilight Zone which will probably be maybe one of my classic television series that I mentioned earlier before. All that I really can say is the actor who protrays Henry Bemis is rather fascinating that is all I want to say for the moment right now!, so other than comics I will admit that I also love regular novels and reading them takes me a little longer to ingesting because I really like to absorb everything of anything that is in every book I want to consume. Currently the novel that I am chopping down on is one that I started getting the sequels to a couple of years ago in twenty, twenty two. It is the first in an nine part Trilogy of books, here is  what it's   

cover looks like and yes I happen to know the author as well as having the book personally signed by her. For right now all I can say about it so far is the writing is full of great connections to a multitude of generations of all kinds. When I do get done with this whole series which will be a few years an couple of them still to be released later through out this upcoming year, I don't really know quite yet but I do admit that I know that I have plenty to choose from for sure!
 As to one of the many things I am planning throughout the next few months or even through the year I am planning on cleaning up my tablet that I am currently working these posts from of to much internal storage of my inner computer of a lot of things over the past few years of time. A few months ago when I was at Walmart I had picked up some storage memory cards to do this very task. Here is what I mean in the way of what will be transferred to those.                                                                                                                     

An if it is possible, I will be trying to at the same time seeing if I can transfer some sound clips that I have collected over those amount of years as well. There are some upcoming updates on that online Star Trek Timelines game that I really am deciding on what to post on that over the upcoming next 366 days of this year too. Finally before I leave you all wondering What my main hopes are for twenty, twenty four will be, besides what I have listed so far... I really want your upcoming year to be as encouraging and generous as possible. Now for the last couple of months of twenty,  twenty three I had decided on having my tablet's opening screen when I turned it on each day for that period of time was this seen here                                                                                                                                 

and yes for the life of me, even though I love the incredible hulk as much as I do spider-man from marvel comics I will admit that I can't think of who the very artist is who illustrated this version of the character. When I was at the same time looking at my tablet's main screen was from one of the final episodes of the live action television series  I had this 

                                                                                                      a image of the creature as they reference him mostly in the series and not always as the incredible hulk most times, holding a baseball bat ready to hit the incoming baseball being tossed at him, it's very cool how whoever created this image put the main title of the end theme of each episode as part of the title of the baseball card they created. I had happened to of found both of these on a Facebook The Incredible Hulk television series group. Then at the same amount of months of time on my cell phone I had this image 

   

from the first season of the incredible hulk series and I am betting that most of you maybe able to guess who the woman in the red Gi is? An if not she is in a few months from when " OF GUILT, MODELS AND MURDER" airred had a ongoing role on a little series known as W.K.R.P. in Cincinnati as secretary Jennifer Marlowe. Then when I have been looking at my main screen I have had this     

from the fourth season opener known as  "PROMETHEUS" two parter, where he has the greatest problem since David himself had accidentally dosed himself with gamma radiation... 

At least there is no Green text like there has been since the end of twenty, twenty three! 

Zonestist start to influencing of Christmas of 2023!

Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                           Look I know that like everyone else, that trying to get ready for finding time to find ways to go and be inspired into shopping for one's love one's and friends during this busy time of season can always honestly be tough, with how life in general is flowing since the last time when families and friends were able to get together.... which was of course the second to last Thursday for this very year of last month in November with something known as Thanksgiving or as I usually go an call it Trukey Day. I also know that somewhere inside us as people do find that we know deep down, we have to figure something out to get us in the mind set of being full of gusto. For some people they use the time building up to get into Christmas inspirational spirits by listening to seasonal music or like for myself watch something very influential related to the meaning of this very love fill holiday.                                                                                                                                  So as soon as when the new year starts one of my many upcoming things is going to be going back to some television series of the past years since starting this ongoing crazy blog that is always finding new opportunities to share my thoughts and takes of when I was a child. Yet one that I will be talking about today is the oldest one that I found myself self writing a overall review of since this past February of a little bit of everything in the mix of a story, yes that is right I am of course talking about the Twilight Zone. And even though I know that it rather late in the game of finding inspiration for shopping for Christmas gifts as I mentioned just up above, I went and determined that the best answer for it is finding the Christmas spirit is through a as I call it a Zonestist stroll into that series most focused Christmas episodes. Now just so that you will all know that I won't spoil these very episodes with the greatest of my own choice of details for when I go and review them as part of the series as whole, this will be for this year of sixty four years of historical joy of for at this given time.                                                                                                  I  decided to start my Zonestist stroll with the very last episode of the Twilight Zone's third season titled "THE CHANGING OF THE GAURD" 

, it was written by the series creator Rod Serling himself. In the story a teacher of literature comes to find out that after so many years of teaching about writing to at least six generations of young men that he finds dealing with retirement by seeing in his classroom several of his male students. Who in their own way with their words from their greatest potential which happens to be different for each other tell the teacher how his own perspective helped them in finding their way to dealing with encouraging themselves at certain points in their lives after leaving his classes. The message in this very episode was to show that everyone can really grow from what we learn during our lifetime regardless of where we end up at the end of each day...

     The second Twilight Zone holiday themed episode that I choose to helping out with being inspired by was the second season one titled "FIVE CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN EXIT"  

, it is the very episode where these people find themselves as unknowable type of identities of who they actually are? They all find themselves on a one quest beyond who they all are... they are trying to find a way out of whatever it is they are in? At one point they all hear a very loud noise but still know nothing of where it's coming from? At one point in the story the ballerina says "Perhaps WE ARE MAYBE THE UNWANTED?" Let me ask you all this,  at this time of year, do you have feelings of being unsure about if you are needed in someone's life? well the answer is YES YOU ARE WANTED by the most important people in this very world you are wanted by the children of any age. An your true friends and especially your family as well! 

  My final attempt at understanding to look beyond myself at this very time of year,  comes from viewing the best of the holiday themed episodes of the Twilight Zone which is also from the second season an is titled "THE NIGHT OF THE MEEK" where a man who par takes in the yearly hope for the belief of being a department store gift giver known as Santa Claus. 

An when this empty man finds a bag in the oddset of places, he in his own understanding of giving is Chris Kringle as he is always meant to be.                                                                           When I think about Christmas every year and this is just me, when I see a child trying of any age from a newborn to however long our given existence is finding it within ourselves to provide a little or a lot of help to our communities is forever appreciated.  And I want more than anything to say trying is the best way to finding knowledge of kindness is what the whole meaning of giving of ourselves is best found in our hearts and mindset of helping other people everywhere. Now with my drive fulfilled I am going truly try my best on this upcoming Saturday to get hopeful in finding presents  for my dear loving family and good friends. Oh and before I forget about it,  I want to wish everyone who's reading this a very meaningful Merriest of holiday love!
 

 

Steve Ditko Visionaries My Take Overall!

Hello All,                                                                                                                                                        Sometimes, it will takes more than words of dialogue to propell any comic book forward...it also takes line work of a wooden tool called a pencil. It also takes a piece a art board that is eleven by seventeen in size, and of course an idea to be put to the art board. Today I am going to be talking about comic artist Steve Ditko who I am still trying to find the right words to talk of his passing from a few years ago. I want to share my thoughts on his body of career work from back in the days of when he was working for a magazine publisher known as Marvel comics. In the end of last month while at Adventures Underground, I had decided to include in my comic buying to include this very trade seen here 

 held by one of two of Steve's creative creations for the company known as Spider-Man!                                                                                                        Now let's break into this great bit of Steve's legendary work by letting you know that it has seventeen superhero tales of that era called the nineteen sixties to the early nineteen nineties, to be specific to 1992 the year after yours truly had graduated from high school... it also has ten non superhero tales in this as well that ran from December of nineteen sixty one through till April of nineteen sixty three. His main other character that he was famous for Co-Creating Stephen Strange better known as the master of black magic DR. STRANGE, which is also on the cover of this very trade.                                                                   A majority of these stories in here are written by the man who got a start at Marvel when they were still known as TIMELY Comics all the way back in nineteen thirty nine, when he was seventeen years old and his name was Stan Lee. He along with both Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby started a revolution in nineteen sixty one by changing the company by writing about superheroes....   Steve was working for Marvel when they were known as Altas comics in nineteen fifty six and because of sales of comics were nearly nothing  was laid off with all the other freelancer artists in the following year of nineteen fifty seven... then was rehired along with the other freelancer artists a few months later in the following year.                                                                                                                                               The one of Steve's works before his creation of Spider-Man in the final issue of Amazing Fantasy ongoing magazine cover dated August #15,1962, which was released in July... I want to talk about this book 

  seen here. As you can see the title of this isn't Amazing Fantasy at all, it is Amazing Adult Fantasy which was the ongoing title from as far back as November of nineteen sixty one. 

 In fact there is a huge connection in these anthology stories in all of Amazing Adult Fantasy/Amazing Fanstany that is well how can I not reveal a twist of fate endings to each one, very much like a certain television series running on the air at the time? Yes I am of course talking about the one and only Twilight Zone!  (Which is coming very soon for a review of the first twisted season....)                                                                                                       Here is the opening image of one those very stories from Amazing Adult Fantasy number seven that most comic readers may just put off as another simple comic tale...              

called JOURNEY'S END this five page yarn has a simple crook that has definitely found a way to elude the law after he has done something very irredeemable and uses a time machine to get away from his problems. Only later in the story do we find out that he is returned to the persent and placed in Jail. BUT WHY YOUR ASKING? Before I reveal why he is there,  back in nineteen fifty nine the premiere season of the Twilight Zone in it's twenty sixth episode it had a very different type of take on a man known as Joe Caswell is pucked at the moment of a hanging in 1880 and brought to 1960 and kills his savior and how that ends different from Journey's End the comic story is another modern day crook takes a trip to that very hanging party in 1880! It seems in the comic tale all we know is that the crook in that tale beats a man who is the time machine inventor so badly that... well you try to piece the answer together? An give me your own answer ok! Stan Lee who wrote the story possibly in a interview said that when he was writing those anthology tales he put a O Henry type of ending on them... as to how truthful that was who really knows... Yet Steve's art style really makes me even now see that he loved the pencil work he laid out for the story of JOURNEY'S END!                                                                                         Before I get into the heart of why Ditko left his mark on the Marvel comics universe as a hero in a influential instrument of inspiration for upcoming artists I want to also say that he drew the core of the company's main characters at that time in the first Amazing Spider-Man annual dated with only the year of release   

       which is nineteen sixty four. That also coincided with the release of the regular issue of the amazing spider-man seventeen that had the conclusion of his second confrontation with the fan favorite mysterious villain known as the Green Goblin which kept appearing everywhere and fighting the hero to a standstill each time they encountered one another. Of all of the characters on this annual shown here Spider-Man had fought them at least once or twice from the first fifteen issues thus far.  Now as to some background of the man on the annual in the odd color of a purple outfit ( I say this because in his first appearance which is amazing Spider-Man number three his outfit was completely white in color, then his second appearance was in issue eleven and it was purple,but then the very next issue he was colored in color that has mostly been his color scheme ever since which is the same as Bruce Banner's monstrous alter ego), he is known as Doctor Octopus. When Stan Lee had a appearance of a hero that Spider-Man had yet to interact with he put a footnote of where you could find them in their own comic title throughout the story.                                                                                                                                          Whenever Ditko laid out his panels on his page and was creating the illustration within it he really put his heart into using his imagination a great example of this was his creation that I mentioned earlier known as Stephen Strange and here is a pair of panels 

           from one of the last Dr. Strange tales in this trade. The story was named THE END--AT LAST! in a comic known as STRANGE TALES 146 dated July,1966. In the story Dr. Strange's arch nemesis Dread Dormammu takes them both to the nether world of the entity known as Eternity. Dormammu tries to destroy both Strange and Eternity.... when Steve created the universe of Doctor Strange back in nineteen sixty three, he saw the scope as everything on an inter dementional plane of existence including at least one of the many characters in the weaving of it's very creation!                                                                  Of all of Steve's many times of working at Marvel his best that is included here is the three part arc of Spider-Man's saga is issues Amazing Spider-Man #31-33!                               

In this Amazing Spider-Man arc, it is definitely considered the best of the duo of Steve's best pencils and his own plotting that gives gravity to both the teenager named Peter Parker and his driven hero of Spider-Man on all levels of growth for the teenager that got bit by a dying radioactive arachnid way back in a title that wasn't even Spider-Man at all in name. Oh and the dialogue was written by a fellow named Stan Lee.... the other stories in this visionaries trade are after Ditko who had felt that he was no longer getting fair duty of creativity on his most interesting character of creation went and decided to leave because he also felt that he and Lee couldn't get along much anymore! It wasn't until fourteen years later in nineteen eighty, did Steve returned to work at least in a small way he at the time didn't have any connections of dealing with Stan and as far as I know he would only work for his former employment if that were certain.... the characters that Marvel had him work on at the time Daredevil the man without fear. He did pencils for issue 162, in the story Daredevil had a case of memory loss and becomes a fighter in the ring in one of Hells Kitchen boxing gyms. Then finds out who he is, after bringing down a corrupt fight promoter known as Mr. Hyle and his oversized cat named Ramona... that was in January of that year, then some months after that he was able to return to one other character that he drew back in the early days of nineteen sixty three known as the incredible Hulk, when he was working on this very title again, there was a little television series of the same name airing on the CBS network on Friday nights. He illustrated issue 249 titled "Jack Frost nipping at your soul!" I won't tell you of it's story, other than I really enjoyed it very much.                                                                                                                               Then eight years later (after working on not only his own character known as Mr A which he started in nineteen sixty seven at a independent comic publisher), in nineteen eighty eight, he co created with writer Tom Defalco Robert "Robbie" Baldwin known also as Speedball the masked Marvel. The first issue of a ten issue series, is seen in this special Steve Ditko trade, I am wondering if Steve would have tried to make Robbie Baldwin endowed with more than just drawing him, if Marvel would have allowed him to and explored stuff that he really wanted to with Peter Parker way back in the sixties? The final character that Steve made for Marvel was in Marvel Super-Heroes issue 8 released in January nineteen ninety two with the title "The coming of Squirrel Girl!"                                Here is what both Squirrel Girl and Speedball look like from their initial beginnings by the artist                                                       

      who drafted them to fully compete line art. I would  be guessing around nineteen eighty eight for Robbie Baldwin to late October/November back in nineteen ninety one before the book was released in December of ninety one for Squirrel Girl! Besides seeing a youthful illustrator growing in his own skills with his ongoing projects he because of those aforementioned reasoning of why he left the BIG TWO creative comic companies he was essentially one of the first of mainstream creative to making his own triumphs with his own character way before the biggest movements in the early nineteen nineties when IMAGE COMICS imprint was founded. As to getting to the very title of this entry of my overall take on the Steve Ditko Marvel Visionaries I will say is definitely considered in my opinion a lot of great information about comic illustrating for a person who wants to study art that it is wanting to become a comic artist is a stepping stone of learning is worth a long look. My grade is an B plus, an for thrity six dollars I can honestly say that I am really looking forward to re reading it for getting even more fascinating history about Marvel comics and their characters very strong starts!

Happy Birthday to the Hulk that always is INCREDIBLE!

Hello comic and television fans alike,                                                                                                   Earlier tonight I went and put out my first entry for this month and I will get around eventually of getting out other ones leading up to this very Incredible lead into this particular actor's RAGING Special day.... Hey just what is it that I am talking about you maybe wondering about? Well maybe it is easy to tell of what I am discussing tonight with both the words of HULK and INCREDIBLE are related without any doubt to a certain comic book character that is owned by Marvel comics, which also owns and publishes my favorite character of theirs     

    the guy seen here, actually fighting the incredible hulk... the one known as Spider-man. Travel with me to years before even I was born in time to today's date November ninth, with the four digits of the year being nineteen, fifty one. This person while growing up in elementary and even high school was shunned because he was born with huge percentage of his hearing lost, so to overcome that he built his confidence back by not only reading from time to time along with learning sign language. He was going and lifting weights to build up his muscles each day after doing his homework from his classes at school. In the fall of nineteen seventy six he got a chance to compete against a certain Australian body builder by the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger.                                    The Birthday boy and Schwarzenegger were both approached by a executive producer of an upcoming television series known as  THE INCREDIBLE HULK Kenneth Johnson. Who after a scene from said upcoming series in dalies with his young son David at the time had told his father that who was currently playing the title character just did not fit the role exactly. Schwarzenegger passed on the offer of the title role because he was getting some movie roles by this point and thought of his friend from the pumping Iron competition from a few months ago. The actor who lost the role was James Bond villain portrayer Richard Kiel who has one small frame in the project 

                 seen here from the morning of the first Hulk Out of Banner from when he was changing a tire the night before, and was walking through a forest!                                               This was the birthday boy's first acting job and when he was filming his first scene of the thing he was doing was set up to be was the creature was to be turning over his own car into a ravine (storywise) by the production crew to help him lift the automobile to finish the said scene. He was actually really tired of waiting for the scene to be properly set, so in his make up he truly lifted the actual vehicle himself!                                                                  

                                                                                Throughout the course of the whole series there is one episode during season three where television children host Fred Rogers visits the set of Universal studios and gets to see how the Birthday boy is made up as his character. I will have a post about that at some eventual point as well.  At some time during the writer strike of nineteen eighty the series was canceled before it had a proper ending. Yet the Birthday boy had made such an incredible impression to other studios and he got to play Hercules shortly after his first acting part was ended way to early.  

                He and his co-star Bill Bixby in the late nineteen eighties were absolutely able to advance the television series version of The Incredible Hulk with three television made films. So who is the Birthday boy in name besides all of his television and film work he owns gyms in California... Lou Ferrigno is the age of the year I was born minus the nineteen before it which is Seventy-two and ready to be our raging creature called the incredible Hulk if someone would ask him about it rather nicely.... just joking of course or am I? Either way about it all, I as a fan of his Hulk television series know that making him angry is the last thing I would want to do!                                                                                               Happy Birthday Lou Ferrigno if you happen to ever find this when you're looking for Birthday gifts from your many fans!

A classic Halloween movie a day later....

 Hello Everyone,                                                                                                                                           Yes it is officially just the first of the month that has the most meaningful holiday that we as humans seems to choose to find our own way of not being fairly faithful to, as we truly should be respectful of remembering.  I am of course talking about the very last Thursday of November in which we celebrate with our families and friends of being Thankful for what we have been generous to be having shared and helped others throughout the whole year till that moment of time. Rather if it was about being kind to someone that we have met through the year, or have seen hope from other people trying to find a way to encourage not only ourselves but their own existence against being dragged down to their lowest possible point... and finding out the inner strength of inspiration to helping everyone out. Yes of course I am talking about the holiday called Thanksgiving. I do hope that you will try to focus on finding generous rewarding contributions of sharing your yearly interest in conversations with your family and friends who you will be sharing that great Thursday of whatever your shared meal is or will be? The very reason why I am actually bringing this up is because this very November will of twenty,  twenty three will be ending on a Thursday.                                              Now onward and upward to the very title of this very entry of tonight's of a Halloween belated movie that is a classic no matter if it makes one think or even better yet makes one be full of great fear and or frighteness! In a way before I get into the heart of this film I have to say in every way possible the main character is supposedly the color of this very text. (Which will be brought up in of this movie review)....  I will also say before starting this review of what this classic film is that I have in one place or another talked or have had wallpaper images of this title character that are both very funny or very scary in the past especially when it was the month we just left called October... I saw tonight Frankenstein  the monument to both science gone completely wrong because of one of the two men seen here 

are outside of a cemetery watching a funeral ceremony concluding with a burial of a unfortunate soul being placed freshly into the ground. After the grave digger walks away they just dig up the body anyway! Then we get to know that the one in the background of the picture is a doctor and he has been trying find body parts from the recently past souls of dead people to do something with them? Yet we are at same time introduced to the doctor's only achilles heel is a young woman named Elizabeth who wants to marry him and his name is Henry Frankenstein. Henry did at one point in his life work with the greatest medical school that the small village the two of them are living in. BUT at some point, let his work consume his own train of thought to drive his own perspective of being good or dangerously deranged take over his own saintanty.                                                                     The man pressed against the oversized fence gate ( because of Henry Frankenstein seemingly telling him to be quiet is his assistance Fritz), of the entrance of the cemetery... who helps Henry in finding those corpses for his driven dream of bringing something from the dead back to life. One of the things that Fritz errors in is that when the two are looking for a fresh body with a normal brain he accidentally kills the hanging body by cutting it off of a gollow that has exactly what Henry is wanting a perfect sample of a regular human brain by breaking the neck... which makes the brain useless...                                                                       Henry later invites his mentor Doctor Waldman  and his soon to be finance Elizabeth to witness his own triumph of bringing a bulit body to life. Which is seen here! 

                    

He and Fritz send the lab table to the top of his watch tower's open roof... and exposes the corpse to the power of flowing through the rain clouds and then is pulled back to the lab. And Henry views with his own eyes                                 

                                                      that he had succeeded in being absolutely insanely intelligence. It is after bringing his monster to life he tries to teach it to be more than just a mindless being yet Henry doesn't know that the brain he used was an abnormal one....                                                                              The monster eventually finds his way out of the lab and meets a little girl named Maria at a river where she is making boat flowers and she teaches the monster how to do                                                                                 

   it as well. Eventually the  monster with still very little understanding of what they are doing at all tries to see if Maria is like a floating boat. Then all of the villagers go after the monster and put an end to what it had done. Yet the film doesn't end there and I will offer you as chance to explore how this scary classic on a streaming service or maybe even YouTube if you're interested! 

          As  to my overall thoughts on what I think of the film are right here, for myself each time when as I was growing up I would always be finding myself completely waking up at some point in the film and not knowing what it was that I had missed. It sure wasn't because I was afraid of the character... in fact the only scary character that had me out of my seat or scared no matter what was Witches and when I was younger for the longest time I could never watch the Wizard of Oz film because of yes of course the Wicked witch of the west, 

          even though I did see the one Mister Rogers neighborhood show with the actress who played the Wicked witch named Margaret Hamilton. It took me years still even after seeing that very episode before I ever was brave enough to watch it all the way through! Sorry for the quick sidebar of what did frightened me in the way of Halloween characters, but I really had to put it in this one since I am talking about movies in a way that celebrate the candy giving away day of the year. The actual story of Frankenstein at the point of when this film was made was already one hundred and thirteen years old. The film was directed by James Whale, and had a play made about the monster a few years before the movie was released in nineteen twenty seven, when the movie was released in nineteen thirty one. Many of the people who were in this are in other classical monster movies that are under the Universeral Studios production. Some examples of these crossovers are the young man who played Fritz ( Dwight Frye), played Renfield, in Dracula which was released the same year as Frankenstein. He was in The Invisible Man as a newspaper reporter (1933), he was various other characters in four other Frankenstein films. Which were made from (1935-1943). The young girl who was Little Maria (Marilyn Harris),  was also in Frankenstein again in it's sequel Bride of Frankenstein in (1935) but was uncredited in it. Marilyn was seven years old when she played Maria in 1933, she died on December first, of nineteen, ninety nine... Now onto the man who portrayed the MONSTER of this film, 

Boris Karloff was born for real on November twenty third, eightee hundred and eighty seven. He was the MONSTER twice throughout the Frankenstein films (nineteen thirty one, through nineteen forty eight). Besides playing good ol Frankie, he also was the Imhotep a high priest of ancient Egypt in nineteen thirty two's THE MUMMY. He was the host of the television series "THRILLER " which was originally run from September thirteenth,  nineteen, sixty through till April thirteenth,  nineteen sixty two, it was an anthology series based on horror theme stories. At some eventual point I may do a overall review of that series, but the last big thing Karloff did the most people know about was that he was both the narrator and voice of the Grinch in Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch stole Christmas" animated special, which was made in nineteen sixty six.                             Is there anything that I maybe have forgotten for a good review of Frankenstein from nineteen, thrity one I am sure that yes there is? But I will admit that I am really okay with that because I know that I can find more interesting notes on each viewing. Now before I truly will leave you to your evening of late night fun for the first of November of twenty,  twenty three I want to share with everyone my current image from when I open my cell phone was this  `

 which is from my vacation that I had earlier this past summer with my folks when we took a cruise from California to Vancouver Canada. This piece of art was on the aft section of the eleventh deck of the ship. As well when we were finding in Vancouver itself I have had this  

on my phone when I have been opening my phone to accessing my main stuff of doing my outings on the internet.  Here I am by the Gastown steam clock in downtown Vancouver, Canada. Then also since late May I have had this as my ENERGIZING wallpaper 

of the classic brother and sister Adam and Adora the twins of King Randor and his wife Marlena... raising their swords of destiny and are here their super powered selves HE-MAN and SHE-RA with glittering prismatic background was on my tablet when I was opening it,since the end of May. Then as well when I was looking at my tablet's main screen I was devouring a whole other take of sword holders seen here 
           

of  the Hero HE-MAN and his adversity Skeletor are holding aloft their power swords at each stronghold in classic FILMATION the animation company that made the cartoon series based on the Masters of the universe toyline, which was start in nineteen eighty one officially. Yes if you are wondering I will be adding a full review of each episode of both HE-MAN and SHE-RA animated series to my list of upcoming events that will be available here fairly soon....  

       Before I give you my full grade of the Frankenstein movie that is over ninety years old and I will let you find out on your own of how old it actually is, I have to remember to at the same time that I am changing out my plates on both my tablet and on my phone I will be changing the background of this 

very site, since the month of May of twenty,twenty three has a particular big back story which I am still working on in my set of ideas... but I can honestly say DO WE UNDERSTAND OUR relationship WITH OUR DEAR EARTH! My overall grade for the original Frankenstein film is A +!