The legendary comics artist John Severin passed away at his residence in Denver at the age of 90. This brilliant artist has gained worldwide recognition because of his distinctive art. The key element of Severin’s work was his ability to portray illustrative style focusing excellent details with visually appealing cartoons.

The excellent skills of Severin many glorious years when he worked to the perfection for different genres of comics including war, western and humor. He worked as Marvel’s classic artist and with iconic publisher EC Comics.

Severin’s career started with Prize Comics for Crestwood Publications in the late ’40s, where he polished his style on a variety of genres, such as, Western and Romance. His first signature character was the Western hero “American Eagle.”

In mid ’50s, he joined EC Comics published a variety of comics along with their horror genre comics. Here Severin got the chance to sign his own name and develop his unique, detailed style more.

After EC collapsed, Severin joined Marvel, which was at that time known as Atlas Comics. At Marvel, he became the most recognized cartoonist for their many Western titles during late ’50s and the ’60s.

Later the artist worked for “Cracked” in the ’70s and remained as most recognizable cartoonists for the next 20 years. Over the past decade, the kept doing new work or new influence in the comics’ world. Severin also kept contributing often to new comics projects such as in a number of Dark Horse releases.

John Severin leaves behind his wife Michelina and his 6 children. The man also has 13 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. John’s fans worldwide will miss this comics’ legend greatly.

Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures1, The Avengers is an American superhero movie schedule to be released on May 4, 2012. The movie is based on the Marvel Comics’ Avenger series, with the same superheroes. This is the sixth movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe being written and directed by Joss Whedon. The huge star cast of the movie includes stars like Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, and Samuel L. Jackson.

In the movie, Nick Fury, the chief of S.H.I.E.L.D, the peacekeeping organization employs a group of superheroes to fight a new enemy that is threatening the safety of the world. These superheroes include Hulk, Thor, Iron Man and Captain America who are fighting towards saving the world from destruction.

With the success of Iron Man in 2008, Marvel announced the release of ‘The Avengers’ in July 2011. However, later it got postponed for a 2012 release.

Production of the movie initially started in April 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Later the movie was shot is Cleveland, Ohio in August 2011 and New York City in September 2011. The movie was converted to 3D during post-production.

This volume of Venom is set in an eastern European country called Nrpsvekistan, which is under attack. The attack was initiated by a nationalist known as the Bright who has captured a mother and son duo. Many leaders of U.N peacekeepers came to help them, but were all killed by Antarctic Vibranium bullets shot by Jack O’Lantern, who also executed the man and his mother.

Jack O’Lantern has an unidentified superior who keeps an eye on him on video to ensure that special Vibranium bullets are working. Doctor Ferid Ekmecic, who designed these bullets are making use of them in this war. Now, Jack O’Lantern’s boss wants him to find the Doctor and bring him to his boss.

As Lantern was about to capture the doctor, Agent Venom attacked him. Agent Venom, whose real name is Flash Thompson is bonded with Venom symbiote, a fictional extraterrestrial life.

However, in his quest to save a civilian, venom couldn’t recover Doctor Ekmecic alive. Now, venom knows that he couldn’t bond with the Venom symbiote for more than 48 hours. In that case, the bonding will become permanent and the authority at Project Rebirth will kill him.

After taking the civilian to a safe place, Venom goes to rescue Doctor Ekmecic and is attacked by Jack O’Lantern who captures the doctor. After getting conscious venom find Lantern’s flying off with the doctor and shoot a web at the Doctor, who dies instantly.

On reaching back Project Rebirth, Flash was yelled at by General Dodge for the failure of the mission.

Jean “Moebius” Giraud who was a great French artist in the comic world is no more with us. He has given some of the best collection of wonderful books and earned worldwide fame for his work. Here we are mentioning six of his works written in English that everyone would love to go through.

At number one is ‘The Airtight Garage’, an epic published by Marvel comics. This is one of the Moebius’ masterpieces that display his dynamic works. This is a wonderful book that manages to encapsulate you with its fantasy and surprises.

The second one is ‘The Incal’ (Humanoids), which is said to be the biggest of Moebius’ works in English language. This imminently available comic is a remarkable due to its simple depiction, periodic suspense, vivid descriptions and so on.

‘Arzach’ is another book in the list. This is a very simple story that has been elaborately told. The depiction is new and wonderful with desolate landscapes. It is interesting to see the sheer amount of time that the writer takes in telling the story in a sense of grandeur and mystery.

‘The Gardens of Aedena’ is the fourth book enlisted here. It is the most comprehensive solo works of Moebius and also amongst his most obscure. This is a five-volume project and a magnum opus of his work.

‘The Long Tomorrow’ is the fifth one, which is a detective story laced with sci-fi and futuristic accouterments, whereas ‘Mississippi River’ is the last book mentioned here. If you love Moebius’ work, do read these wonderful works of his lifetime.

Written by Kyle Higgins, DC Comics’ Nightwing issue 7 is a good effort done by the team, which has resulted in creating an emotional and epic issue for readers. For a change, a team of pencil workers and inkers has done the artwork of this issue rather than a single pair. And interestingly the task has been done quite creatively and impressively. The flashbacks and memories are all pointed with soft lines, whereas, present action and emotional scenes are portrayed in striking combinations. This has definitely made the issue important and substantial in scope. And one must give the due credit to the artwork team including Eddy Barrows, Gerlado Borges, Eber Ferreira, and Paulo Sigueira.

The importance of art can be felt in this issue from the second page onwards. The striking amalgamation of past memories and the present situation is very dramatically displayed. In fact, the art impresses you even before the dialogues. Every turning point of this issue has been captured page by page by the artwork, thereby presenting breathtaking result.

The story is unique and revolves around the life of Dick Grayson and his perspective on his life. The plot has been well crafted and accomplishes what it deserved. Carried nicely by the wonderful artwork, this issue of Nightwing #7 is must read for all.

The color for this issue is done by Rod Reis, whereas the letters are given by Carlos M. Mangual. As far as the cover of Nightwing issue 7 is concerned, it is together designed by Eddy Barrows and Rod Reis.

Coming from the house of Marvel Comics, this issue of astonishing x-men written by Christos Gage is another interesting and exciting issue. As in the earlier series we know that four leaders of X-Men, Cyclops, Emma, Wolverine and Armor, are in Japan fighting monsters.

In the meantime, there has been an emergency that occurred, which require the attention of X-Men. Now, since the main leaders are far away, the rest of the X-Men army is in dilemma as to provide help or deny it.

However, how can you expect X-Men to stay behind when enemy attacks? Storm, Colossus and Kitty Pryde together with Beast and Agent Brand joins in the battle against this enemy. But the problem arises when the intergalactic law goes against the X-Men in letting them destruct their opponent.

The story is about how Storm and her team live up to the task. Another point of worry for this team is what Cyclops is going to say when he will be aware of all this.

It is quite interesting in this series because as one team of X-Men battling an enemy here simultaneously another adventure is taking place as the Monstrous are fighting in Astonishing X-Men in Japan. This concurrent dual adventure has never been seen before.

Amongst the uncountable varieties of horror comics released worldwide every now and then, only a few are there that are really capable of leaving an impression on the minds of its readers. If such horror comic series and its mascots are to be named then Vampirella is a name that cannot be left out. Whether you name her to be the sexiest or the horrific vampire heroine; she definitely has the power and thrill in her comic series to treat the readers with new and appealing stories. Although she being a fictional character, her look and her attires make her remain one amongst the countable ladies of the comic characters. In a report made by the Comics Buyer’s Guide of presenting “100 Sexiest Women in Comics”, Vampirella was ranked 35^th and that itself is a matter of certification depicting the beauty and the appeal of the horror queen.

The reason behind Vampirella looking so sexy and different is that she has got care and concerns of the stylist like Trina Robbins who designed her hair and costumes. The first story of this bad girl was created by Tom Sutton which started publishing under the Warren Publishing’s black-and-white horror comics magazine named as the Vampirella #1 in Sept. 1969. The writer-editor of the horror comic magazine was Archie Goodwin. The Vampirella comic ran from the first issue to the 112^th issue, till the year March, 1983 under the same black-and-white Warren Publishing.

The editing work at first was handled by Bill Parente and later on by different hands like Archie Goodwin (from issues 7 to 12 and 34 to 35), Billy Graham (from 13 to16), Bill DuBay (from 21 to 50, 87 to 95 and 101 to 102) and then by Louise Jones ( from 51 to 86). The artists whose hands laid life to the character of Vampirella were Jose Gonzalez, Gonzalo Mayo, Rudy Nebres, Jim Janes, Leopold Sanchez, Ramon Torrents, José Ortiz and some others from time to time.

The Fearless Vol. 7 comic book is with a flashback touch this time and it is the flashback of Fear Itself. The story of the volume is about the fifth Worthy hammer and its rescue and about the action-packed fights of Sin and the DOA and Crossbones and Wolverine. You can find Sin and the DOA fighting upstairs for the fifth hammer and at the same time Crossbones and Wolverine are having a battle in the same room where the hammer is stored. The battle came out to be really tough and strong but it is the Wolverine who makes it finally to defeat the opponent. But the moment he is about to finish his opponent, Damion Hellstorm appear suddenly who saves Crossbones from Wolverine and thus, retrieves the hammer.

Damion Hellstorm, together with Crossbones then proceeds to save Sin and the D.O.A. and succeeds in doing so. They finally teleports form the scene as the Valkyrie arrived and the story of the book finishes there. The fifth Worthy hammer is finally retrieved and is saved from going to the wrong hands. Quite interesting and action-packed, the vol. 7 of the Fearless is simply amazing and readers this time as well are to find something very new and nail-biting. So, readers looking for a non-stop action reading can choose this volume precisely.

The very new Secret Avengers #21.1 is up for you all and whoever have gone through it must have felt the refreshment and the charm brought by a team of complete new people. The comic book this time has a new writer for you, a new team, a new direction of story and finally a new feeling of reading and enjoying it. The Marvel comics have gone hotter with Rick Remender who has taken over the positions and the responsibilities of a creative writer and this is not over. The comic will also lead you to find the new leader of the Secret Avengers!

The comic starts with showing the place of action- Bagalia, a place which is infamous as the hub of all bad activities like kidnapping, hooking, robbery, gambling and other crimes. It is at Bagalia, Captain America and Hawkeye are seen loitering in search of something. Yes, they are in search of an American senator who has been kidnapped and it these two heroes who have taken the responsibility of finding and rescuing the senator and also learning who is behind this wicked job.

The story gets interesting as along with fighting with the wicked, the duo are seen competing with each other and also Captain America testing Hawkeye to judge how much more reliable the later will be to be assigned with the responsibility of leading the Secret Avengers in the future. The complete story has taken an exciting turn and an enjoyable experience to see the two fighters banter one another and also bearing a love hate relationship.

The 30 Days of Night is a comic series of three short stories and each story of the series has enough reason to shake one up with the horrible and fearful stories. The line of horror comics has very well been represented and even brought to a new level by this comic series for which one must praise the great works done by a team of creative and enthusiastic people. The team is led by Steve Niles, the writer and some other indispensable person like Ben Templesmith responsible for ornamenting the comic with inside art, Ashley Wood for the brilliant cover work, Robbie Robbins for letters and design and the IDW Publishing for publishing the comic series.

The story of the comic 30 Days Of Night is one of most thrilling and scary that focuses on the vampires and their cruel operations of eating mankind in a small town of Alaska, named as Barrow and is based in the northernmost part of the state. The town faces a one month, i.e., a 30 days period of no sun rise during November 18^th to December 17^th and the temperature too remains below the freezing condition.

It is at this time that the protagonist of the story Sheriff Eben Olemaun and his wife Stella finds that all means of communication like their mobile phone are being stolen and destroyed and some mysterious kind of people seen demanding for raw meat. These unknown people are then discovered as vampires by them who started destroying the city by eating up its people uninterrupted by any outer force. As Eben and Stella have no means to come into contact with the outer world, they have to fight back to the vampires. The comic further contains a thrilling and interesting story on Eben’s fight with the vampires for saving his wife and his town.

The story of the comic is truly breathtaking with a scary situation being created by the excellent artwork of Templesmith.