Fred Van Lente :: FREE COMIX!


	home :: on-line comics :: about :: email on-line comics Click on a cover to read. Marvel Digital Comics Marvel Comics recently uploaded an incredible number of their comics onto their web site, including many I wrote, such as the first issue of the Marvel Adventures Spider-Man black costume arc, chunks of the Scorpion saga from Amazing Fantasy, Marvel Adventures Iron Man and more. Click on the link to check 'em out -- although for most you'll have to sign up for their monthly subscription service to read beyond the first few pages, many can be read in their entirety for free. The Weapon Martial arts enthusiast Tommy Zhou has invented a means to create solid objects from light -- and invented a superhero persona to promote it, The Weapon! He even concocted an origin story for himself based on ancient Chinese legends his grandfather told him. What Tommy never suspected, though, were that his grandfather's legends were real -- and now an all-too real millenia-old ninja cult is after him, convinced he's unlocked ancient mystical secrets! But he's not going to go down without a fight -- lots and lots and lots and lots of fights! Foucault's Pendulum meets Jackie Chan in this sprawling martial arts epic from me and Scott Koblish, serialized for free thanks to our friends at Drunk Duck! Watchdogs Sam Garrison and his pregnant wife have moved into a neighborhood effectively abandoned by the police and left to sink deeper and deeper into crime and drugs. When he and his neighbor join forces to take the law into their own hands, he thinks he's making the streets safer -- but his partner has a far darker agenda, and soon Sam finds himself a target of the very neighborhood Watchdogs he created! A nail-biting urban vigilante thriller from me and Brian Churilla, and you can read it in its entirety, for free online at Drunk Duck. Rightwing The first antecedent for Action Philosohers. Steve Ellis and I first tried to get into the SPX anthology in 1999 with this parody comic, which I guess was even too superhero-y for the editors, who rejected it. Can the Conservative Cruader hope to prevail when the Liberal Legion bands together to destroy him? Will our winged wonder be able to continue his neverending battle for truth, justice, and a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage? Cthulhu Tract At the 2000 SPX, Steve and I thought we'd satirize another kind of comic, the Jack Chick-style religious comic. Getting tongue-tied trying to explain why you were up on Messenger Hill on Walpurgisnacht covered in blood? Well, help is on the way in the form of this relgious tract comic book which you can hand to your friends, loved ones or mental health professional. Action Philosophers! And at last... Then, in 2002 (the 2001 SPX was cancelled due to 9/11), another artist pal, Ryan Dunlavey, wanted to try to get into the anthology, and so, to continue the tradition, I thought it'd be funny if there was a Friedrich Nietzsche action figure, and this was the comic that came with it... And thus ACTION PHILOSOPHERS was born! The lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust, told in a hip and humorous comic book fashion! Among my personal favorites are the stories Ry and I did on Carl Jung and the Pre-Socratics.
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