Category: Fantasy

Wolverine & ILoveYouMan

When Hack saw how much money the superhero movie Deadpool & Wolverine was making at the box office, he decided to pen a mash-up of the X-Men anti-hero with ILoveYouMan, the superhero with super bad breath created by his cover artist Jonny M.

As is typical with Hack, he didn’t bother to acquire the rights to either hero before publishing the novel (Jonny makes so many covers for Hack’s book that he didn’t realize Hack was ripping him off until it was being printed) and was promptly sued by both Marvel and Jonny, resulting in almost every copy being pulled from circulation.

It’s a pretty compelling read if you can get your hands on it.

The Curse of Ub Iwerks

Here’s a trivia question for you: Who created Mickey Mouse? If you said Walt Disney, you’re only half right!!! Ub Iwerks was an early partner of Disney’s who took a drawing that Walt sketched out of a cartoon mouse and refined it into the character who starred in Steamboat Willie. Iwerks went on to do much of the animation for the early Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony cartoons, becoming so popular that the Motion Picture Academy gave Disney a special Oscar in 1932 for creating him. If you find it odd that Walt got all the credit for creating Mickey, so did Iwerks who had left the studio in 1930 because he was sick of never getting any credit for Disney’s creations despite being a major contributor to them. Disney ultimately received a record 26 statuettes, never sharing credit with any of his collaborators.