I think Gail has come with a new twist on the Ventriloquist and I think it works for Barbara. She's mixing elements of celebrity obsession, the desire to be beautiful and an almost Joker-like feel to the character and I'm not sure who the villain rea
Read more…HULK: CROSSROADS is the third of three recent chronological reprints of 1980s Bill Mantlo/Sal Buscema material. PARDONED deals with Bruce Banner gaining control of the Hulk and stepping up to his role in the MU super-heroic and scientific community;
Read more…I'm still going through my Howard the Duck comics and I realized that Howard has faced some... well not dangerous in the larger sense but definitely dangerous to him. Where other marvel heroes would face Dormamumu or Loki Howard faces Pro-Rata, th
Read more…Just in case everyone didn't think I was a total geek, I have compiled a list of how all of the Marvel "split books" evolved in terms of pages devoted to the heroes and their back-ups. I was inspired by Dandy Fosdyke's discussion of the split books.
Read more…The problems with my browser (and the computer crashing repeatedly) seem to have been eliminated after that massive CD-backup project yesterday.
So, just updated the blog again. Now have SPACE CONQUERORS! posted from the beginning in 1952 up to Jun
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Nothing Lasts Forever – Marvel Unveils Arthur Adam’s INFINITY #1 Variant Cover
This August, the Marvel Universe prepares for the biggest battle it’s ever faced – but first, Marvel is proud to unveil the jaw dropping variant cover to
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Hero Initiative hits the ground with 30 creators at Phoenix Comicon on Memorial Day weekend!
Los Angeles, CA (May 14, 2013) Hero Initiative, the charity that comic creators in medical and financial need, will hit the Phoenix Comicon
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(These are reposts of a 'discussion' I originally begun on July 22, 2009. Aztek is something of the black sheep of Morrison's DC superhero work, not getting much love, so I thought it worthwhile giving him a bit more exposure on the old webz. It's
Read more…I had forgotten how much fun the series was. Thirteen episodes but I don't think they put in the "attack of the FUD" or the episode where Yosemite Sam was a Klingon! But they do have his on-again/off-again romance with the Martian Queen and the gr
Read more…About time we had a general thread for Marvel's BLIND super-hero! Thanks to Kirk G for inspiring me to do this... as well as to dig out another 60's Marvel cover to "restore". Hadn't done any of those in months, and I just did an extensive restorat
Read more…Just watched The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey and I got a question: Had Count Dracula Count Dooku Saruman gone over to the Dark Side by this point in the story, or was he still effectively a goodie here?
Read more…Avengers Volume 1: Avengers World
Marvel Comics, $24.99, color, 152 pages
Reprinting Avengers #1-6
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Artists: Jerome Opena, Adam Kubert
Avengers is what Uncanny Avengers should have been.
It's hard to review a Hickman book, b
Read more…FRANKENSTEIN: AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E. VOL. 1: WAR OF THE MONSTERS
DC Comics, $14.99, color, 160 pages
Reprinting Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E. #1-7
Writer: Jeff Lemire | Artist: Alberto Ponticelli
FRANKENSTEIN: AGENT OF S.H.A.D.E. VOL. 2: SECRETS OF
Read more…Wolverine & The X-Men by Jason Aaron Volume 4
Marvel Comics, $19.99, color, 112 pages
Reprinting Wolverine & The X-Men #14-18
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artists: Jorge Molina, Chris Bachalo, Michael Allred
For those who have ever complained that the X-book
Read more…I was glancing at the latest press releases by Marvel on their website and see there's a big monster push for the current title "Journey into Mystery" starring SIF.... but the hook is that the artist is 're-imagining several of the early JIM monsters
Read more…Revival Volume One: You're Among Friends
Image Comics, $12.99, color, 128 pages
Writer: Tim Seeley
Artist: Mike Norton
This is an interesting little book that isn't going anywhere I expected it to. Which is both a good thing and a bad thing.
When I
Read more…Batman #20
DC Comics, $3.99, color, 30 pages
Writers: Scott Snyder (Batman), James Tynion IV (Batman/Superman)
Artist: Greg Capullo (Batman), Alex Maleev (Batman/Superman)
This is good comics.
This issue is the second part of two stories, the main
Read more…Uncanny Avengers Volume 1: The Red Shadow
Marvel Comics, $24.99, color, 136 pages
Reprinting Uncanny Avengers #1-5 (Dec 12-May 13)
Writer: Rick Remender
Artists: John Cassady, Olivier Coipel
Wow, what a disappointment.
Admittedly, the disappointmen
Read more…The artist Dan Adkins died recently. This post at The Beat has links to David Spurlock's announcement of his death and an appreciation by P. Craig Russell. An appreciation by Jerry Bingham, who he helped when he was starting out, can be read here. Ma
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