AHa! Happy Birthday Adam Hughes!

How great it is to have a list of birthday celebrants on a specific day by just a flick of a finger. Coolness. 

Superman by Adam Hughes

And today, one of the most talented, respected and in-demand comic book artists in the industry is celebrating his birthday! Adam is one of my favorites and if you have visited by blog before, you would have probably seen many of his works featured here. He's such a great artist and draws women with such complete bad-assery that any man would love to date them (if they were real). Doing pin-ups is his main specialty and because of the time-consuming nature of his style, he doesn't get to do monthly comic books and instead focuses on doing covers for comic book companies such as DC and Marvel. Apart from his regular work, jhe's usually seen as well during conventions doing sketches for fans. 

Sadly, one of his sketches from a recent ComicCon went up for sale on Ebay.  A guy went up to Mr. Hughes pleading and crying for a sketch and of course, Adam being a class act obliged and did it for him. Then lo-and-behold, this prick sells Adam's prized work for more than $400 that the artist charged for. What an ass. As a result, Adam will no longer do commissions at conventions at this price, thus ruining other people's chances of getting a marquee Hughes' portrait during these events. It sucks I know, but I understand Mr. Hughes decision. Its his art. More details on this story at BleedingCool.

For the meantime, I chose a couple of Adam's best renditions featuring the Superman family courtesy of his website and deviantArt account to celebrate him and his remarkable skills. Wishing you all the best in life, Adam. And a big thanks for all the wonderful portraits. 

Know More About 'Thor' In Just 8 Fun WebComic Panels

Since this whole week was all about the buzz on Marvel Studio's latest superhero film Thor, why not spend a couple of minutes of your precious time learning more on the history of the hammer-wielding Thunder God of Asgard with a cool original comic by artist Chris Haley and Curt Franklin of the webcomic site Let's Be Friends Again , featured on Comics Alliance's "Comics Everybody!" segment. 

I honestly don't know anything about Thor before I watched the movie except that he has a fucking magical hammer that he throws around, and this web comic helped me more ways than one on knowing more about his illustrious comic book career, even giving me a clear answers on questions like:  why is there a gigantic frog that exactly look like him in some of his stories?   Is he still a virgin?  Those kinds of questions. 

Want answers? Head over to the whole thing by clicking on the link above. 

Kilowog and Sinestro Beat Hal Jordan's Ass In Latest 'Green Lantern' Trailer

Just like the title says. And more footages featuring the Guardians of Oa, Doctor Hammond, Parallax, the Green Lantern Corps, and Carol Ferris (Blake Lively).  

Though I'm pretty impressed with the trailer and some of the CGI scenes, I still don't dig Hal Jordan' mask. It really looks weird to me for some reason. Anybody who feels the same? 

'Green Lantern' is directed by Martin Campbell and stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Angela Bassett, Mark Strong, and the voices of Michael Clarke Duncan and Geoffrey Rush. Scheduled for a June 17 release.

[video courtesy of Comics Alliance via Yahoo! Movies]

Latest Comic Book Reviews (05.04.2011): Avengers 12.1, Morning Glories #1, The Walking Dead #84

Pretty slow day yesterday so I got to read three comic books to say the least. I have one from Marvel featuring their marquee super-team, and two horror flicks from Image Comics that includes zombies and some school girls in them. I thoroughly enjoyed each titles and I just wanted to kill some of my time so here I am writing some kind of review for each. 

Ok, before you click ok the jumpie link down there, let me note that the titles are rated by the number of stars I give them, with 5 stars being the highest. That means if a title gets a rare 5 stars, then that should be really m'effin good! 

Now that we got that out of the way, you can now click on the jump for all of my reviews.