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Rest in Peace, Gerry Conway







Gerry Conway — a remarkably prolific writer whose talent refused to be confined to any single publisher or medium — has died at the age of 73. Throughout his distinguished career, he played a key role in shaping many of the iconic comic book stories and characters that remain part of the medium’s enduring canon.

Born in Brooklyn on September 10, 1952, Gerry Conway was a comics fan from an early age. His first published comics work was a letter to the editor in Fantastic Four #50, which appeared when he was just 13 years old.

His first professional comics work came three years later, in 1969, with three stories (one text piece and two comic stories) in DC’s House of Secrets #81. For several years he wrote horror and Western stories for anthology titles at both Marvel and DC. He broke into the superhero genre in 1971 with Daredevil #72. While still scripting horror stories, he soon added Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and Thor to his repertoire. In August 1972, at the age of 19, he succeeded Stan Lee as the writer of The Amazing Spider-Man.

At 20, he wrote the landmark “death of Gwen Stacy” story in Amazing Spider-Man #121. When he was 21, he co-created the Punisher—originally introduced as a Spider-Man villain—alongside artists John Romita Sr. and Ross Andru.

For more than four decades, Gerry Conway moved fluidly between Marvel and DC Comics. At Marvel, he wrote The Amazing Spider-Man from 1972 to 1975, as well as a run on Fantastic Four from 1973 to 1974. At DC, he enjoyed an eight-year stint on Legion of Super-Heroes and also wrote notable runs on Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.

In addition to co-creating the Punisher, Conway played a key role in the creation of several other iconic characters and concepts, including Peter Parker’s clone Ben Reilly (again with Ross Andru), the original Ms. Marvel, Power Girl, and Killer Croc.

Together with Roy Thomas, he co-wrote the groundbreaking 1976 one-shot Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man #1—the first major modern crossover between the two publishers. The pair were originally scheduled to write the Justice League of America/Avengers crossover in 1979, but the project was cancelled due to editorial conflicts and was eventually revived in 2002 with Kurt Busiek as writer. Conway and Thomas also collaborated on Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!. In the early 1980s, at the dawn of the video game industry, they wrote two miniseries—Atari Force and Swordquest—that were published by DC and included as pack-ins with Atari 2600 games.

Later in his career, Conway returned to DC for The Last Days of Animal Man and wrote a run on Carnage as well as Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1–9 for Marvel. He also scripted the syndicated Star Trek newspaper comic strip for most of 1983. Conway briefly served as Editor-in-Chief at Marvel in 1976, succeeding Marv Wolfman before being replaced by Archie Goodwin.

Beyond comics, Conway enjoyed a successful career as a television and film screenwriter. His TV credits include G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, My Little Pony, The Father Dowling Mysteries, Matlock, Diagnosis: Murder, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and two episodes of Batman: The Animated Series. With Roy Thomas, he co-wrote the screenplay for the 1983 animated film Fire and Ice, produced by Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, as well as the 1984 live-action film Conan the Destroyer.

He also authored two science-fiction novels: The Midnight Dancers and Mindship.

 

The fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will premiere on Paramount+ on July 23, 2026. The 10-episode season will drop new episodes weekly on Thursdays, concluding on September 24.

 

Who is this? Super Empathetic Talk Show Host?

 

It's a character from the Invincible comic/TV series named Lucan. The jokes/memes that have being going around is that the character looks like Steve Harvey.

 

This actually makes the Viltrumites scarier in my opinion, as cartoon characters, they seem abstract. Just imagine seeing a guy who looks like Steve Harvey, literally turning people in to ground meat with his bare hands.

 

Invincible is in my queue, but I haven't had a chance to start watching. Looking forward to laughing my ass off about a super-powered talk show host with a five-button sport coat.

 

I'm kind of liking the stylistic choice of going with American accents. It really sets this movie apart from every other sword and sandal movie.

 

Masters of the Universe | First Look – Featurette

 

Haven't made up my mind about Masters of the Universe yet. Who's going from this forum?

 

I don't really go to theaters anymore, but I will see it when it hits streaming in November or December. Just for the nostalgia factor.

 

The end of Daredevil Born Again season 2

Spoiler

Luke Cage returns at the Season finale of Daredevil, and it looks like he and Jessica are still a couple

 

Image Comics Presents Hammerfist

Publisher Description

Reservoir Dogs collides with Evil Dead in a filthy crime story that mutates into a savage splatter-horror nightmare from New York Times bestselling author Rick Remender and acclaimed artist Steve Epting in the upcoming Hammerfist.

In Hammerfist, readers meet Mike Denton, a dirtbag hitman, junkie, and absentee father. He's spent his life chasing the easy fix—drugs, cheap sex, and murder for money—all while failing the one person who still believes he can be better: his daughter.

Now, on the eve of Black Noon – an ancient darkness that erases the light in all things – Mike has to drag himself out of the gutter, awaken a supernatural weapon powered only by love, and fight his way through the living embodiment of evil to save her. This is the story of an unredeemable killer forced to do the one thing he’s avoided his entire life: stand for something other than himself.

Release Date: August 26, 2026

 

Not sure if this is a design for Static or Black Lightning. Either way I think it's a cool design concept.

 

There is a little controversy in the Black Nerd community, several of us are unhappy that the new Marvel fighting game coming pretty soon is featuring Shuri as Black Panther. I'm personally disappointed with this decision, as it reinforces the incorrect narrative that Black Panther is a title and not a character. This also means there is probably not going to be a Black Male representation in the game.