COMIC BOOK MOVIES 101: HOWARD THE DUCK

Looking back at this Summer’s blockbusters, with the tent pole releases of Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, and looking forward to next year’s ludicrously star-filled The Avengers, it can be hard to remember a time before Marvel’s range of comic-book characters dominated Hollywood’s major releases. But every journey has to start somewhere, and before ever Spider-Man, Blade or the Men in Black could make it to the big screen, Marvel’s cinematic origins were far more feathered than feared. Read the rest at filmwerk.co.uk