>“For years, Marvel Comics and Hip-Hop culture have been engaged in an ongoing dialog,” Marvel EIC Axel Alonso said in a press release. “Beginning this October, we will shine a spotlight on the seamless relationship between those two unique forces.”
Here's the eighty Marvel hip-hop variant covers revealed so far, by chronological reveal order. Pages from the free Hip-Hop Variant Sampler will be included if there's a matching one. Also included are the interviews on this topic.
Note that some of the longer YouTube URLs indicate that they're part of a playlist because the respective full album videos are not available because of muh copyright; the same case is with incomplete such playlists.
Foreword to the Hip-Hop Variant Sampler by Killer Mike of Run the Jewels.
Title: Extraordinary X-Men #1
Artist: Sanford Greene
Homage: De La Soul, "3 Feet High and Rising" (1989) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTqs1ZuADQ]
>>Axel-In-Charge, July 24, 2015: http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/axel-in-charge-alonso-responds-to-marvels-hip-hop-variant-cover-criticism
>CBR News: Let's get into it about the hip-hop variants unveiled last week-- we'll talk the resulting conversation, but let's start out at the beginning. It's an effort that you were very closely involved in -- how inspired was it by how successful the Run the Jewels variant covers were earlier this year?
>Axel Alonso: The response to Run the Jewels variants was tremendous. And it confirmed what I already knew existed: a massive overlap between comics culture and hip-hop culture. I'm a lifelong hip-hop head. I was about 10 or 11 -- all about Earth, Wind & Fire and Parliament – when I heard [the Sugarhill Gang's] "Rapper's Delight" at the Doggie Diner on 23rd Street [in San Francisco], and it knocked me off my feet. I hunted down the EP and memorized all the lyrics and that was that. Hip-hop was a transforming force in my life. Hip-hop, basketball and comics are my three passions -- Korean food's number four. [Laughs]
>This variant program is an opportunity to show not only my love for hip-hop culture, but also the love of so many in Marvel's freelance community. Hip-hop inspires a lot of us. It is the musical score for a lot of our lives. This comes from a place of love.
>CBR: How quickly did you realize you could get as ambitious with it as you have? It's been said there's something around 50-plus covers in total coming, and readers have only seen about 15 at this point.
>>80924719
Title: Howard the Duck #1
Artist: Juan Doe
Homage: Ol’ Dirty Bastard, "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version" (1995) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHnsDSh8-8w]
>Alonso: I knew this was an all-in initiative from the start. There was no doubt in my mind that there were more than enough iconic covers for us to pay homage to -- if anything, I knew there'd be covers we couldn't fit -- so we decided to do a variant for every new series launched under "All-New, All-Different Marvel," from October through February... which will probably mean around 55-60 covers. I enlisted the help of [Talent Manager] Rickey Purdin and [Assistant Editor] Chris Robinson and our one self-imposed rules was that any hip-hop artist -- no matter how much we loved them or how many great covers they had -- would be limited to one cover. We could've done 3 or 4 homages to A Tribe Called Quest covers, for instance, but this approach allows us to shine a spotlight on the broadest range of rappers -- Old School, New School, East Coat, West Coast, Southern, Gangsta, Trap Lords -- and span the decades to include contemporary artists and Old-School pioneers, like Eric B. & Rakim. One of the cool side effects of this whole thing is that, my son -- who's 12 and way into Vince Staples and A$AP Rocky -- saw a cover on my laptop and wanted to know who Schoolly D is! [Laughs]
>CBR: The covers seen so far definitely span eras all the way, up to some rather contemporary material like Tyler the Creator's "Wolf." So far of the artists involved, there are people who have been Marvel regulars as of late -- like Phil Noto, who did the "Squirrel Girl" variant based on that Tyler the Creator album -- yet we've also seen Marvel going out of that field to artists who haven't worked at the publisher in a while. What can you share about the process of picking which artists to bring in to contribute?
100% Not Virgin /co/ characters
For the sake of brevity, we should ignore parents in this topic.
https://kat.cr/bunnicula-s01e09-son-of-bunnicula-preair-720p-webrip-x264-srs-t12285794.html
https://kat.cr/bunnicula-s01e09-son-of-bunnicula-preair-webrip-x264-srs-t12285806.html
New ep is up
I thought the new episode didn't air?
>>80926704
>preair-webrip
Oh right, I should probably read things properly before posting. Thanks for the heads up.
https://mega.nz/#!6tgxQJaB!VGHRIFY-uJ0Q-aNtvkpAK_yuslLQD7429G5IcbzO7TQ
>Shows that dropped in quality after the first season
Pic in question is the most prime example I can think of
>>80924131
While they're probably not as bad as the tmnt example and fairly recent...
>Wakfu
While not terrible, it's second season was a drop in quality writingwise compared to the first season. While parts of that is due to france3, Ankama definitely fucked up when the ball was in their court. Also, who told ankama they could write romance drama? Still, it was a fun ride, but it also serves as an ill omen for the rest of the series.
>Gravity Falls
Holy shit that second half of season 2. It's so weird because the first half seemed very good, arguably even better than season 1.Korra
I don't think i need to say much. Season 3 at least kind of good and season 4 was decent, but those are debatable.
Wanna know what Arthur, Caillou, and Johnny Test all have in common?All three went from decent hand-drawn animation to cheap as fuck flash animation.
>>80924754
I always felt like on average Wakuf was the weakest when it came to their filler episodes, they have some stand out moments but would have been better used on the main plot. This was especially true for the second season where you have a 3-4 faction war going on and one of the factions was only introduced 2 episodes before the finale.
I mostly agree with you with gravity falls, especially with the finale it sort of felt like they had to rush to complete everything as best they could. I'm still dissapointed in the zodiacjust requiring a group of people with vague relations to the symbols on it to hold hands, then becoming even less relevant a few seconds later. The method they used to resolve the issue was actually pretty good, but didn't feel like it had the foreshadowing it needed (I think that strategy was only mentioned right before they implemented it) and would have a better impact had the negative effects stuck around.
Korra is a series of good ideas mixed with sporadic bad implementation. It's actually sort of an example of what this thread is talking about while also being it's opposite, season 2 was definitely it's low point.,but it got much better in 3 and leveled out in 4.
Sunday edition
Undercover Steve and Diana are always the best
Just to make up for all the reboot disappointment, post clips, fanart, gifs, and otherwise that remind you why you were ever a fan.
So, /co/, what do you think about this movie ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoNgLnjzVg
>vagina buns
https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/03_03/Mktrsch/Market%20Research/Scripts/Sausage%20Party.pdf
you can't make a sausage party thread without the script
>movie
Storytiming Blue Beetle vol4 1-4 back-up stories with The Question, Blue Beetle 5 as a whole and then Mysterious Suspense 1.
Hellboy on the front page!
>>80923420
go home hellboy
I wish i could drink with skeletons too.
>Hellboy ends in August
Today is Grayson's birthday. Share your favorite things to celebrate the golden son, Dick Grayson.
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Post the goofiest looking character you have ever seen directly in the eyes
phineas is the best
>>80922715
why do women seem much dummer from the front?
Rate Jon Bernthal's portrayal of Frank Castle
Frank/10
Rate how hard you would wife Karen
>>80920501
She's meh and you know it
Does /co/ like Scalies?
>>80920458
No.
>>80920458
Yes.
>>80920458
I don't like those scalies.
You get to be any /co/-related character of your choosing for one day. Nothing you do will have any consequences. If you die, you'll simply return to your original life before the twenty-four hours are up.
Who would you be?
>>80917649
Spiderman.
Then I'd spend my day banging the living shit out of Mary Jane. And Black Cat.
i want to fuck that moth.
Best Samurai Jack girl or GOAT Samurai Jack girl?
It's impossible to screw up southern belle characters.
>implying every woman in the show wasn't Aku
>>80908723
Well the only other worthy candidates are genderbent versions of the male characters so I say yes.
