lørdag den 11. februar 2012

background added

So, managed to do some kind of background here, dont know whst to think of it yet though. Dont get me wrong, I love the art itself, drawn by Michael Turner. What bugs me about it is the way the layout looks on this page, I should try and do something about that.
The image itself is from the Marvel crossover story Civil war, 2006-2007, a story that pitted the heroes of the Marvel universe against each other when US goverment decides to pass a bill entitled Superhero Registration Act (SRA). The decision is made after an incident later called the Stamford Incident. Young superhero group the New Warriors, participating in a reality tv show, understimated a hostile situation when they tried to apprehend a group of villains, one of which was the villain Nitro. Trying to escape, Nitro caused an explotion thaat killed 600 civilians, including 60 children. The heroes are devided into two camps, pro registration and anti, with Captain America leading the underground resistance, along with such heroes as Luke Cage, The Falcon, Daredevil, eventually Spiderman and several others against Iron Man, Reed Richards, Henry Pym and many more.
Though denied by the author, Mark Millar, and Marvel as well, many consider Civil War to be a sort of reference at the then newly passed and much discussed Patriot Act bill in the US. The bill was accused of decreasing the freedoms of the individual, bringing with it more surviellance. The same can be said about the fictive SRA, which demanded that every costumed hero took of his or hers mask and identified themselves with the goverment, the goal being having more control of the superpowered community.
Anyways, I'll probably get more into Civil War some time later on, this was just a little random info based on the new background. If you haven't read it, you definately should!!
Mo

fredag den 10. februar 2012

Getting started..

Okay, finally got started on this blog thing, I guess, been thinking about it for a while now. I suppose I should give some sort of introduction to myself and what this blog will be all about. Name's Michael Olsen, nicknamed Mo (hence part of the blogs name), 25 years old and studying to become a public school teacher, from and living in Copenhagen Denmark. As for what the blog is about, as the name suggests, it's all about comics, which I've been reading since I was 6 years old. And to be more specific, Superhero comics, mostly focusing on Marvel since that is what I mainly read and follow. That being said, all kinds of comic topics could come up and all kinds of comics. My intentions with this blog is mostly just to share my interest in comics with whoever might want to read about it. I'll be doing this through various reviews of collected editions (Trade Paperbacks/Hard Covers) and/or "articles" on what I consider to be important moments, events, storylines etc. 'Nuff said, this blog will be about comics, like 95% Marvel, and whatever I find worth writing about within that world.
Oh and I'll do something about the look of this whole thing once I've figured it all out!!
Mo