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bringbackwendellvaughn · 25 days

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#X-Men #Magneto #X-Force #New Mutants #Cannonball #Domino #Boom-Boom #Moonstar #Bedlam #Sunspot #Warpath #John Francis Moore #Jimmy Cheung #enemies

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cryptocollectibles · 4 months

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Doom 2099 3 Issue Mini Lot (1993) by Marvel Comics

Written by John Francis Moore, drawn by Pat Broderick.

#Doom 2099 #Marvel Comics #1993 #Doctor Doom #Dr Doom #Latveria #Etsy #Vintage Comics #Comic Books #Comics #Pat Broderick #John Nyberg #John Francis Moore #Punisher 2099 #2099 #Tiger Wylde #Victor Von Doom

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star-reyes · 9 months

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X-Force #70-81 "The Road Trip arc"

"X-Force Fun Fact: While many superhero groups are funded by the government or wealthy patrons, the members of X-Force refuse to sell out. Consequently, they're broke."

Writer: John Francis Moore, Joseph Harris

Pencils: Adam Pollina, Andy Smith, Mike S. Miller

Inks: Mark Morales, Team X, Hanna & Parsons, Rob Still

Letters: Richard Starkings/Comicraft, Emerson Miranda, Kolja Fuchs

Colors: Marie Javins, John Kalisz, Gloria Vasquez, Steve Buccellato, Guillermo Zubiaga

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balu8 · 5 months

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X-Force #66: Tragic Kingdom

by John Francis Moore; Adam Pollina: Mark Morales; Marie Javins and Richard Starkings

Marvel

#marvel comics #x-force #art #comics #comic book #richard starkings #Marie Javins #mark morales #Adam Pollina #John Francis Moore

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johnvenus · 1 year

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Happy Mothers Day ft Martha Wayne, probably most fleshed out dead mom figure of any major superhero:

Martha Wayne Reading Reccomendations:

Batman: Ultimate Evil (novel by Andrew Vacchs)

Batman: Family (mini by John Francus Moore)

Batman: Haunted Knight (TPB by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale)

Batman: Death and Maidens (story arc by Greg Rucka collected as paperback of same name)

Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader? (mini by Neil Gaiman)

House of Hush (story arc by Paul Dini which ran from Streets of Gotham #14-21)

#mothers day #batman #bruce wayne #martha wayne #andrew vacchs #john francis moore #greg rucka #neil gaiman #paul dini #jeph loeb #tim sale

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ufonaut · 10 months

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I admired the grim vaudeville in the face of all this deadly reality-- and he was very good.

Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop (1993) #1

(Howard Chaykin & John Francis Moore, Mark Chiarello)

#batman/houdini: the devil's workshop #batman/houdini: the devil's workshop 1993 #bruce wayne #batman #the joker #harry houdini #howard chaykin #john francis moore #mark chiarello #dc #dc comics #dcedit #comicedit #comicsedit #u can reblog

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haveyoureadthiscomic-poll · 2 months

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#fate #doctor fate #jared stevens #john francis moore #dc #dcu #dc comics #poll

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inhousearchive · 1 year

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House-ad for Fate (1994), one of the handful of new titles appearing as a direct consequence of the events of Zero Hour. Art by Anthony Williams and Andrew Lanning.

#house-ad #fate #dr. fate #doctor fate #jared stevens #john francis moore #anthony williams #andrew lanning #zero hour #dc #dcedit #comicsedit #90s

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superman86to99 · 2 years

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Superman: Under a Yellow Sun (1994)

As the cover says, this is supposed to be one of the novels written by Clark Kent when he's not reporting the news or fighting giant gorillas who shoot kryptonite from their eyes. This graphic novel has two sections: Clark's novel, which is about a former Navy Seal called Guthrie who gets mixed up in a plot full of intrigue and romance, and the real world scenes, where we see Clark struggling with the aforementioned plot while his agent breathes down his neck.

Turns out Clark's novel is due in a week and he's got a major case of writer's block. It doesn't help that he's been kinda busy dealing with a mysterious criminal mastermind who has been supplying Metropolis' street gangs with giant sci-fi guns with big logos that say "LexCorp" on them. Whoever could that be? Oh, and while fighting those gangs he finds out his previous novel is now sold on bargain bins, which had to hurt more than those super-lasers.

Superman confronts Lex Luthor about those weapons, but obviously he has already covered his ass by reporting them stolen. While at it, Lex tells Superman to come work with him and make a ton of money, like he did the first time they met, although I get the impression that this time he's doing it just to mess with him; it's almost like Lex knows Clark Kent is worried about having to give back the book advance he already spent if he doesn't finish his dang book soon.

Superman rejects the offer, of course, but his financial woes trigger a creative breakthrough: in the novel, Guthrie travels to the tropical island of Corto Maltese and is offered a job by a filthy rich businessman called Preston Tagger, who is basically Luthor with a goatee. Unlike Clark, however, his literary alter ego ACCEPTS the money from the corrupt fat cat. To cement the fact that this is book is some sort of wish fulfillment fantasy for Superman, Guthrie even hooks up with a character clearly based on a sexy LexCorp lawyer Clark met while investigating those "missing" weapons, Joanna DaCosta.

Yeah, no goatee this time; she's straight up the same character. In fact, even Lois "A Pair of Glasses Fooled Me For Years" Lane notices that Clark appears to be sweet on the lawyer and confronts him about it. This leads to what has to be the most serious argument we've seen in their relationship (so far).

Perhaps to prevent any further relationship troubles, Clark also introduces a very obvious version of Lois: a principled reporter who despises Guthrie for working with Trager. Joanna makes things, uh, harder for Clark when she shows up at his apartment one night and indicates that she's almost ready to give him evidence against LexCorp, because watching a man die due to those super-weapons gave her a crisis of conscience. She also offers to give him other things, but Clark tells her he's a taken man.

Right after she leaves, Clark writes the scene where Guthrie consummates his romance with the thinly disguised book version of Joanna, so it's pretty clear that Lois does have something to worry about... but not for long. The plane carrying Joanna and her evidence against Luthor conveniently blows up and Superman isn’t able to save her. Enraged, he goes to Luthor’s place but stops himself right before doing something drastic to him. Guthrie does the same thing with Trager in the novel -- right until the "stopping himself" part.

It's Lois who tells Clark (after snooping on his novel without permission) that killing the bad guy doesn't really solve anything. It takes a further pep talk from Perry White to get Clark to realize that Lois was right, and he rewrites the ending so that Guthrie actually takes down Trager's criminal empire with help from the "Lois" character and a "Perry" one (there's also a "Jimmy" one somewhere in there, but he contributes nothing substantial to the plot, true to life).

At the same time, Clark eats his pride and asks Lois for help with the LexCorp story. Together, they follow the evidence and bring down... not Luthor, but at least the guy who blew up the airplane, so that’s something. Months later, Clark wins the prestigious Zenith Award (best known as the "Baldy") for his new novel, and Luthor even congratulates him on that detestable Trager character.

Oh, and Clark gets a letter from Joanna telling him she missed that flight that exploded, but the whole "almost dying in a fiery explosion" thing made her rethink turning on Luthor and she's just gonna go into hiding forever now. We end with a short scene where Guthrie says he may not have gotten rich during his tropical vacation, but at least he can live with himself. Plus, the “Lois” character seems to like him now, so it wasn’t a total wash.

Creator-Watch:

This graphic novel is written by John Francis Moore, who also wrote the non-continuity Superboy series based on the late '80s/early '90s TV show (which we're veeeery slowly covering on our Patreon... more soon!). The book sections are drawn by Eduardo Barreto, who also did Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography and the issue where Superman finally brings down Intergang, so he's like the official artist for gritty crime stories around these parts.

Meanwhile, the real life parts are by the great Kerry Gammill, who was a regular contributor to the Superman books around 1988-1990... and might have started this one around that time, since he was notoriously slow. Sadly, this book is his last major Superman project to date (though if you wanna argue that his two pages in Superman: The Wedding Album are "major" I won't argue with that).

Plotline-Watch:

We can establish that this story takes place shortly before Clark and Lois' engagement not just through the state of their relationship (close, but not so close that she'd know he's an alien), or the fact that Lex Luthor is still overweight and bald, but thanks to the poor sales of Clark's first novel. Back in Superman #49, a month before the engagement, Clark shows Lois that The Janus Contract is on the bargains table at a bookstore and she comforts him by telling him he's in good company (does "J.L. Byrne" still count as "good company"?). Presumably he found out about the fate of his book during this story and decided to show Lois not long after that.

This is the second in-story instance of the Zenith/Baldy Awards, introduced during the "Dark Knight Over Metropolis" storyline, and we'll see the third and (I believe) last one soon-ish in 1994 or early 1995. This is the only thing that messes up my timeline above, since Luthor "died" shortly after Lois and Clark got engaged and presumably it took more than a few days for Clark's novel to be edited, printed, distributed, and win the award. Let's just pretend Lex has long red hair and an Australian accent in that scene at the end to make it work.

It would have been cool if the writers had brought back Joanna to testify against Luthor in the main books around this time now that he's finally about to go down, but given that this was a fancy graphic novel (with a fancy $6 cover price) I can see why they didn't.

If only Lois had been there at the writers' room for Zack Snyder's Man of Steel...