Create Your Own Comics is packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts and loads of fun suggestions to start you off on your way to becoming a comic master. The only guide you’ll ever need to making your very own cool comics. This isn’t just page after page of blank comic pages. It’s a comprehensive guide to what makes comics work, with templates to help you find your way and hints for getting the best out of your own story ideas. Learn the basics of common comic elements and how to use them, including panels, speech bubbles, splash pages and sound effects. Find out how to create comics in different styles and genres, from funny to scary and superheroes to monsters. Once you feel you’re a comic master, practise your new skills by using the story generator tools to get your imagination pumping and come up with unique stories of your very own.

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Industry giant Robert Kirkman (Invincible, The Walking Dead) leaves his mark on the Ultimate X-Men! If one man is capable of disrupting the carefully controlled world of Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, it’s Ultimate Cable! He comes from a tragic future, and his sinister secrets will shock the X-Men to their very core. He’s not the only refugee from tomorrow here today: Bishop is completing his own team of mutants, ready to carry on Charles Xaviers’ legacy. You’ll never guess who the new Ultimate X-Men are! But dark times are ahead as the evolutionary emperor known as Apocalypse arrives — and two more monstrous threats, who look eerily like Stryfe and Onslaught, rear their ugly heads! Plus: The X-Men are on a collision course with the Fantastic Four! And the end is nigh as Ultimatum strikes and a tidal wave sweeps through New York City — and Magneto is to blame! COLLECTING: Ultimate X-Men (2001) 75-100, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk (2005) 1-6, Ultimate X-Men/Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual (2008) 1, Ultimate Fantastic Four/Ultimate X-Men Annual (2008) 1, Ultimatum (2008) 1-5, Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem (2009) 1

Welcome to Solar City, Texas - a retro-futuristic city home to superheroes, flying cars, and robots, but also vampires, werewolves, and gargoyles! And living among them is a misunderstood monster and the brilliant woman by his side! Together they’ll have weird adventures into the occult to smash evil and possibly save their own souls! This omnibus collects some of the earliest work of the long-running, award-winning web comic series, including work by DC Comics superstar Nicola Scott and the ultra-rare crossover with Hack/Slash featuring art by Marvel Fan-Fave David Baldeon! Join Halloween Man and Lucy as they battle man-eating zombies, the Headless Horseman, and the criminal mastermind known as the Phantom Hood.

The fabulous Spider may have finally met his match! After centuries of captivity, the all-powerful Crime Genie has been freed, and now he has his sights set on conquering mankind! The 'King of Crooks' returns! The Spider is a fabulous intellectual adventurer who straddles both sides of the law and uses a whole host of super equipment to stay one step ahead of his enemies. When small-time hoodlum Steve Gurko unwittingly releases a magical entity from captivity, he quickly gains the kind of power he could only ever dream about. Embarking on a crime spree, Gurko soon finds himself on the Spider's radar. But the astounding crime fighter is about to face his toughest opponent to date because the Crime Genie won't be enslaved by a fool like Gurko for long. Once unleashed, this mystical menace possesses enough might to enslave the human race forever!

To maintain his position as the undisputed 'King of Crime', the Spider must face off against a formidable assassin known as 'The Exterminator' and a shape-changing crook from outer space! He's the undisputed king of crime! The Spider is an amazing mastermind with a stunning array of weaponry and a vast network of villainous henchmen! Now the underworld is fighting back and have sent a strange assassin known as The Exterminator to lure the spider into a trap! But one battle isn't enough for this arachnid adventurer - when a shape shifting crook from another planet arrives on Earth, the Spider must stop the alien from plundering the planet and toppling him from power!

Equipped with a razor-sharp mind, superb athletic ability and a vast array of cutting edge gadgets, The Spider has his sights set on taking over the New York underworld and establishing a 'Syndicate of Crime'! Join the menacing Spider on his earliest adventures, recruiting other fiends into his fledging empire and seeing off competition from other villainous foes, including the master of illusion, Mirror Man! Fully remastered and collected for the first time, this volume presents many of the super-crook's exciting 1960’s adventures which featured the most popular British comic book villain and sprang from the imagination of Superman co-creator, Jerry Siegel.