Monday, December 10, 2012

Men In Black the comic book

To be honest I never read any of the Men In Black comic books, and I never knew it even was based off of a comic book, but I've seen all of the movies and now am curious about the comic book. While doing reasearch on the comic book I learned that it was published by Marvel Comics and they only made six issues of the comic book, which would explain why it is so unheard of. The comic book was created by Lowell Cunningham in the 1990 and they stopped making them in 1991. The comic book's story line is the same of the movies. A top secrect governmetn agency that monitors good and bad paranormal activty here on Earth; such as aliens, demons, zombies, and other paranormal begins. When reading up on the comic book I was really suprised of how much of the movie stayed true to the comic. Such as the character Kay and Jay are protrayed in the movie exactly the same way as in the comic book. This suprised me so much because usually they change a lot of the characters and how they are when they do remditions, but the comic was really similar to the movies. Also the mind eraser that they use multiple times throughout the movies is directly from the comic book. Although I am kind of sad to learn that they only made six issues of the comic. I would have really liked to see the story of the comic go for more than a few issues. I feel they should make another issue of the comic book, because a lot of people have fallen in love with the movies they made and also I believe it would become a very popular comic book. I did find however a short retribution to the comic book, where they took the characters from the movies and made a short comic book version it, not adding anything new but just basically making the movie into a comic book.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

One of the reason Fantastic Four is one of my favorite comic books is because it was the first comic book to have a team of Superheros, and I really liked that Stan Lee was the creator. The reason I like the movie so much is because I am a big fan a Jessica Alba, and have seen all of the movies she's done good or bad. This is the sequel to the first Fantastic Four and I have to say that I honestly think it's better than the first one. The story begins with Mister Fantastic and Invisible woman's wedding but when they discover a  silvery humanoid flying around and mysterious craters forming across the world the government asks them the check it out. When the human torch catches up to the "Sliver Surfer" he takes the Human Torch into the atmosphere and drops him. Usually the Human Torch would be able to fly out of these sort of situations, but after touching the Silver Surfer he is having trouble using his powers. At the last moment he shoots out flames and goes to tell the others what happened but when he starts to touch the others they end up switching powers, and are having trouble keeping their own. Meanwhile Mister Fantastic is trying to find out where the Silver Surfer came from he notices that theres a pattern and that every planet this Surfer has landed on have all been destroyed. But what the Fantastic Four don't realize is that the craters that the Silver Surfer created has just released Dr. Von Doom from 2 years in a metal statue. While the Fantastic Four are trying to catch the Surfer Dr. Doom is coming up with a plan to take back whats his. When the Fantastic Four finally catch the Surfer they come to realize that he is not the destruction, in fact they learn he is just a messenger from a cloud that consumes everything in its was Galactus. The Silver Surfer also mentions to Invisible Woman that his board is a GPS for Galactus and it is his board that he gets all his power. But while they have the Surfer in custody Dr. Doom steals the board in order to achieve his goal in being number one in the world, but when the Fantastic Four show up it's a fight to the death and they realize they can't defeat him while he has the board. So they decide to give the Human Torch all of their powers and with that he defeats Dr. Doom, but all isn't safe. Galactus is right outside our atmoshpere ready to consume Earth, but when the Silver Surfer sacrifices himself, he flies into Galactus destroying it, the world is now safe again, and after all the credits run through is shows an image of the Silver Surfer floating through space showing he is still alive. This by far is the best Fantastic Four movie and I hope they continue to keep making them.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Fantastic Four

Marvel Comics first debuted The Fantastic Four in 1961, being the first rising comic book with a superhero team. The comic book has been remade into a movie twice, once in 1994 and then again the 2005, but the 2005 remdition has to be my favorite. The superhero team consists of: Mister Fantastic, a scientific genuis, who can strech his body to incredible lenghts and shapes; Invisible Woman, who can go invisible at any given time and can also project a powerful force fields; Human Torch, who can generate flames and fly by surrounding himself with fire, and the Thing who is made of stone with the ability of superhuman strength and endurance. The 2005 remdition starts with the four heading off into space to study a cosimc energy cloud, but when the trip goes bad and they are exposed to cosmic rays, they return home with their very own special ability. When the Fantastic Four show their abilities to the public they become big, people are cheering their names, they are well like, and accepted in society. When Victor ( Mister Fantastic's old classmate , and ceo of a major company) hears about the uprising of the Fantastic Four he begins to become jealous; starting to  steal a heatseeking missile and also a supercooling unit, which he is using to mutate his arm, turning it into an organic metal, and allowing him to produce bolts of electricity. While the fame of the Fantastic Four overiding his company's downfall, Victor sets out to use his new ability for revenge on them. The Fantastic Four have to settle their differences and come together in order to defeat Dr. Doom (Victor). In the end the Fantastic Four Deafet Dr. Doom and accept their roles as superheros, or so they think.....