Big Bang Comics

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Big Bang Comics is an American

Big Bang Comics first appeared in 1994, with a five-issue limited series (numbered #1–4 and #0), published by Caliber Comics. A second series lasting 35 issues, set in the Image Universe, was published by Image Comics from 1996 to 2001.

Publication history

Through 2005, Image Comics published 35 issues of Big Bang Comics set in the Image Universe, followed by seven one-shot comics.

Big Bang Presents

As of the 2010s, Carlson self-publishes Big Bang Presents. Like its predecessor series Big Bang Comics, this is an anthology featuring a rotating cast of new and established characters in a self-contained fictional universe, written by Carlson and drawn by Ecker and various other artists. The company has also begun reprinting earlier comics in trade paperback form through Pulp 2.0 press.^[1]

Big Bang characters

Some of the iconic characters in the Big Bang Universe include:

• The Beacon
• Dr. Weird
• Knight Watchman
• Protoplasman
• Thunder Girl
• Ultiman

Superhero teams in the Big Bang Universe include the Round Table of America, the Knights of Justice, the Pantheon of Heroes, and the Whiz Kids.

Metafictional imprints

To give more depth to the various characters, in the world of Big Bang Comics, several invented publishing imprints were created which supposedly existed in the Golden Age and the Silver Age (a device later used by Amalgam Comics).^{[citation needed]}

All of these false covers appeared on the reverse of the Caliber Press limited series issues in scaled-down shots, and again as full-page replicas in Big Bang #0.

In other media

A TV movie named Knights of Justice was made in 2000. Although it featured the Golden Age versions of Ultiman and Thunder Girl and used the name of the company's Golden Age superteam, the team also included Knight Watchman and a heroine called Masker (who appeared in BB #21), both of whom are exclusively Silver Age heroes in the published version of the universe. The team's mission was to defeat a supervillain and prove their usefulness to the President or face being disbanded.

The film is loosely based on the hyperactive Saturday-morning shows of the 1970s that combined special effects with live action, yielding a clearly Silver Age feel to the action.

Big Bang Comics RPG

A pen-and-paper

See also

• America's Best Comics

References

External links

• Official website — free webcomics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
• Official Knight Watchmen website
• Big Bang Comics (Caliber) at the Grand Comics Database
• Big Bang Comics (Image) at the Grand Comics Database
• Big Bang Comics (Image) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Big Bang Comics on International Superheroes
• Jazma Online interview: Gary Carlson June 5th, 2005
• B-Independent.com: Gary Carlson b-independent interview August 25th, 1998