Marvel Comics

Marvel Maximum Collection

This video game collection was announced last week, and I want to talk about it. https://youtu.be/XwzjDboeb5Q?si=pyyxEcf8sXl_r1sJ Konami’s 1992 X-Men Arcade is a classic beat ‘em up in the vein of…

Retro Andy March 6, 2026

Movies

Fantastic Four: First Steps teaser trailer

Earth-616, the official Marvel Comics universe, canonically begins with Fantastic Four #1 from 1961. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby collaborated on over 100 issues of the original FF comics, and…

Retro Andy February 4, 2025

Illustration

Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman 2023

I drew Julia Carpenter back in 2007, but I've gotten a bit better since then (hopefully!). And seeing her in the trailer for the upcoming Madame Web movie made me…

Retro Andy December 1, 2023

Comics Illustration

Happy Apocalypse (2012)

Remember when the world was supposed to end back in December of 2012? I thought it would only be appropriate if the X-Men villain named Apocalypse wished everybody a happy,…

Retro Andy September 14, 2023

Comics Toys

Banshee Mighty Muggs Custom Toy

In late 2009, I received a commission to make a custom Mighty Muggs figure of the X-Men character, Banshee, from someone who had seen some of my previous Mighty Muggs…

Retro Andy September 3, 2023

Comics Toys

Carnage Mighty Muggs Custom Toys

As I've noted before, I don't make the same custom figure twice, especially when I put them up for sale. I don't want to end up taking commissions for the…

Retro Andy September 2, 2023

Comics Toys

Deadpool Mighty Muggs Custom Toy

Thanks to his appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (or whatever that thing was), Marvel gave the "Merc with a Mouth" a huge push in 2009-2010, making Deadpool more visible than…

Retro Andy September 1, 2023

Comics Movies Toys

Spider-Man 3 Mighty Muggs Custom Toy

It's hard to imagine now, but at the time of Mighty Muggs' popularity in 2009, there were only three live-action Spider-Man movies. The most recent of which was Spider-Man 3,…

Retro Andy August 31, 2023

Comics Illustration

Hawkeye Initiative/Danger Girl 5 Homage

Throughout the 2010s, the Hawkeye Initiative was an idea posted on Tumblr to point out how ridiculously posed women in comics can be, by re-drawing the same image and replacing…

Retro Andy February 15, 2023

Comics

That time Magneto confronted the Red Skull

Pages from Captain America 367, 1990. Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencils by Kieron Dwyer, inks by Danny Bulanadi. This is not the whole issue. Captain America, Magneto, Red Skull, The…

Retro Andy September 17, 2022

Television

She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Episode 1 thoughts

First off: THIS IS NOT A REVIEW. I don't really spoil anything. I just had some thoughts that I wanted to get out of my brain and down on "paper."…

Retro Andy August 19, 2022

Illustration

Firestar 2016

I was just going through old drawings, and came across this digital sketch I did of Firestar from Marvel Comics. This one is notable for me trying a different way…

Retro Andy August 7, 2022

Illustration

Teenage Mutant Ninja Avengers

After getting a Captain America Ninja Turtle sketch cover by Kevin Eastman in 2010 I thought, hey, what if there was an entire TEAM of Teenage Mutant Ninja Avengers? So…

Retro Andy August 4, 2022

Video games

Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter character art by Bengus

Hey, you know what I like? Artwork. You know what else I like? Video games and comics. You know what ELSE I like? Artwork about video games and comics. Japanese…

Retro Andy July 28, 2022

Comics

X-Men Oddity: Recycled art on the X-Cutioner’s Song Poster

While I was recently looking up Marvel Epic Collections, I came across this poster for the 1992 X-Men Event, The X-Cutioner's Song: This was a poster that hung in comic…

Retro Andy July 11, 2022