The first issue of Avengers I bought new was Giant-Size #1, which featured (among others, of course) Mantis. I just finished reading Fantastic Four (1st series) #323-325, which likewise featured Mantis. It put me in mind to re-read what followed. Bef
I'll say up front :I've never been a big fan of this "adventures of English aristocrats" stuff. Not to sound like Dennis the Constitutional Peasant, but I can never forget that their oh-so-elegant lifestyle is made possible by their exploitation of
Recently I've been going through a phase of resurrecting and completing old, unfinished discussions. My discsussion of Daredevil was split across many posts in the "What Comic Books Have You Read Today?" thread. Not that I expect anyone else other th
The Anglican Marines- our Steven's getting in as many callbacks to his era as he can.
I'm thinking that the woman on the "ambulance" screen (Susan Twist) is the one that you're talking about. She first appeared as Isaac Newton's housekeeper in "Wild
I've been waiting with trepidation to see the fallout on Diamond's online information since the bankruptcy was announced. Well, the other shoe has dropped — and it's as bad as I feared.
For those who don't know, the Diamond Previews site was my prima
I remember being HUGELY disappointed in Fantastic Four #296 when I first read it in 1986. Part of the the reason is that it appeared immediately after John Byrne's last issue on the title; and another part of the reson is that it is the 25th annivers
I don't know how many of you were fans of the indie folksinger, best known for "Supermodel" (which appeared, among other places, in the soundtrack for Clueless), "I Kissed A Girl" (Not the Katy Perry song, but the earlier one that's actually about s
With Back Issue #159 being a celebration of Crisis on Infinite Earths 40th Anniversary (WHAT!!!) and "Doc" Beechler bringing it up on FB, where I posted something similar, I was thinking about Marv Wolfman's original intent, that in 1987, all DC titl
1)And so, we come to the end of the Troughton era, with a ten part story that was never supposed to be a ten-parter, but only became so after the plannned four- and six-parters fell through. Written in tandem by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, it g
