Howard the Duck

An Offbeat Birthday Tribute To The Late, Great Steve Gerber
An Offbeat Birthday Tribute To The Late, Great Steve Gerber
An Offbeat Birthday Tribute To The Late, Great Steve Gerber
Steve Gerber was one of comics' most individual talents – an acclaimed writer whose career spanned four decades, an outspoken voice for creative rights, and, of course, as he's inevitably known today, the man who made an ill-tempered cigar-smoking duck into one of Marvel's most unforgettable characters. ...
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 09.22.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 09.22.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 09.22.14
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Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 08.28.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 08.28.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 08.28.14
Each weekday, ComicsAlliance brings you a carefully selected variety of links from around the web about comics and comics-related media, including movies, video games, toys, and whatever else might be worth noting. Quite frankly, these are items you may just need to know about to have a productive day. Take a look at today's hand-picked links after the jump.
Marvel Announces New Printing Of 'Howard The Duck' Omnibus
Marvel Announces New Printing Of 'Howard The Duck' Omnibus
Marvel Announces New Printing Of 'Howard The Duck' Omnibus
This week, Marvel Comics announced that it's planning to publish a new printing of the Howard the Duck Omnibus in October, collecting the character's first appearance, all 33 issues of the original Howard the Duck series, and several other appearances in Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Treasury Edition, and Man-Thing. It's the first time the omnibus has seen print since 2008, and it's a great resource for anyone looking to familiarize themselves with Howard -- a great, satirical character often held in low regard because of the 1986 movie. It's also an opportunity to get to know the work of Steve Gerber, the writer who co-created the character with artist Val Mayerik. Gerber died in February 2008, six months before the original release of the omnibus, and did not hold very positive feelings towards Marvel for decades after his Howard the Duck comics were first published.
Marvel Unlimited Edition: After Steve Gerber
Marvel Unlimited Edition: After Steve Gerber
Marvel Unlimited Edition: After Steve Gerber
The Marvel Unlimited app is a gigantic, messy cache of awesome and terrible old comic books: a library of 13,000 or so back issues of Marvel titles, available on demand for subscribers with tablets or mobile phones. Like any good back-room longbox, it’s disorganized and riddled with gaps, but it’s also full of forgotten and overlooked jewels, as well as a few stone classics. In Marvel Unlimited Edition, Eisner-winning critic Douglas Wolk dives into the Unlimited archive to find its best, oddest and most intriguing comics. Steve Gerber died in 2008, but his work is still casting a shadow over contemporary comics -- it's a good bet that Guardians of the Galaxy and The Defenders wouldn't be what they are now without him, for instance, and the biting, off-kilter tone of his writing has found its way into the central stream of superhero comics. Here are a couple of ingenious variations on projects he co-created, as well as a posthumously published jewel.
‘LEGO Marvel Super Heroes’ Adds Doctor Doom, Howard The Duck, Elektra, More
‘LEGO Marvel Super Heroes’ Adds Doctor Doom, Howard The Duck, Elektra, More
‘LEGO Marvel Super Heroes’ Adds Doctor Doom, Howard The Duck, Elektra, More
The ink is barely dry on all the reviews of the new Lego Marvel Super Heroes game coming out of Comic-Con International in San Diego, but developer TT Games isn't letting that stop them from announcing a slew of new characters that will be appearing: Beast, Curt Connors, Doctor Doom, Elektra, Gambit, Green Goblin, Howard the Duck, the Invisible Woman, Juggernaut, Kingpin, Magneto, the Punisher, th
Marvel’s ‘Fearsome Four’ Mini to Pit Birds and Monsters Against Man-Thing
Marvel’s ‘Fearsome Four’ Mini to Pit Birds and Monsters Against Man-Thing
Marvel’s ‘Fearsome Four’ Mini to Pit Birds and Monsters Against Man-Thing
Marvel's Man-Thing has earned a pretty heroic reputation of late in the pages of Jeff Parker and Kev Walker's Thunderbolts, but his trademark burning touch may prove to be a liability to the Marvel U during Fear Itself. Leave it to Howard the Duck, She-Hulk, Frankenstein's Monster and Nighthawk to fight to save a threatened New York City from his mossy touch starting this June in Fear Itself: Fear