Recommendation: Iron Man

Well, as mentioned before, there are more than 7,000 superheroes in the American comic history. And among all superheroes, my flavor must be Iron Man from the Marvel Comics!

Well, the reason why I fall in love with Iron Man is simple: because he is different form other superheroes! The typical superheroes are usually born or given with some super-power like flying or extreme strength, but all Iron Man, or Tony Stark has is his intelligence and the technologies he invented (well, he even invents some equipment for several superheroes like Captain America and the Avenger team).  Also, besides his role as a superhero or an ingenious engineer, he is a billionaire adventurer, successful industrialist and a “playboy”. What a charming character!

      

The film serials of Iron Man makes me love him even more. The character Tony Stark is acted by Robert Downey Jr. His awesome acting really makes Iron Man alive, and make the character even more charming and “playboy” (and more handsome!).

      

The Iron Man 3 is ready to be shown on 25 April 2013, what a great news for Iron Man fans! And here is the official trailer of the movie, let’s scream for Iron Man girls!

Comic across the world: American comic

The USA is the second large comic industry around the world.

Compared with Japanese manga, the variety of American comic is much less. Most of them are action comics about superheroes. There are totally more than 7,000 superheros in the American comic history, and most of them (more than 80%!) are created by the two main American superhero comic companies: the DC Comics, the largest comic company in the world, and the Marvel Comics, the second largest comic company.

 

Founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications, the origin of the DC comics is one of its popular comics named Detective Comic. It owns many well-known superheroes, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Women and the superhero team Justice League.

The Marvel Comics founded slightly later than the DC Comics, in 1939 as Timely Comics. It has created many famous superheroes as well, like Spider-man, Iron Man, Captain America and the superhero team the Avengers.

Besides these two main comic companies, there are some smaller superheroes companies like the Dark Horse Comics which publishes Star Wars and Hellboy, and the Images Comics which publishes the Walking Dead.

        

There are some non-superhero comics as well. The Garfield and the Peanuts are probably two of the most popular non-superhero comics. The drawing style of this type of comics is more “soft” and “childish” compared with the superhero comics.

     

No matter it’s superhero or not, one thing can be sure is that once the comic become popular in the America locally, there is a high possibility of them to be famous among the world.