I quit buying comic books on a regular basis in 2005, having reasoned that I had so many that I could never reread even the ones I liked more than once.
But of course the medium continued to develop, arguably becoming more "mainstream" than ever.
The first warp-five starship, Enterprise (NX-01), was launched in 2151 under the command of Jonathan Archer. This was long before the time of the standard “five-year missions,” but it stayed out for three years before returning to
In a sidebar to my December CBG column on good reading for Silver Age fans in 2010, I suggested five collections that I wanted to see in 2011. Amazingly enough, between the time I wrote the column and it was published, TWO of those collections (Sugar
Justice League has been hinting at something for several issues. Mainly, a being named Perpetua who created the multiverse before the one we're reading. The next-issue blurb promises "The Other History of the Universe"!
When I stopped reading comics, towards the end of the 70's, I don't remember anything referred to as a Silver Age and certainly not a Bronze Age. I think there was just Golden Age and modern comics. I may be wrong but that's how I remember it.
It’s going to rain genre movies in 2019. That’s bad for movie critics who only like talky dramas, but great for we popcorn-loving plebes who apparently don’t know any better. There are too many to even list,
Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic book lovers e
For those unfamiliar with My Hero Academia, it's set in a world much like our own, except a couple of generations ago, humans started developing super-powers, or "Quirks". By the present day, about 80% of the human race has a Quirk of one kind, or a
The modern era story of the Marvel Family began in the year 1940, when the wizard Shazam granted great power to young Billy Batson, enabling him to become the super-heroic Captain Marvel.
In imitation of this, Fon-Ti, a rival wizard, granted power
Champions #1 - (yet another) restart; issue #27 of the previous volume came out earlier this month. Same writer (Jim Zub), new artist (Steven Cummings).
Conan the Barbarian #1 - return of one of Marvel's all time success
Young Justice, an animated show that ran on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2013, is returning for a third season on the DC Universe streaming service Jan. 4. The series is modeled on the Teen Titans, but it’s a Te
Wolf Moon Cullen Bunn, writer; Jeremy Haun, artist; Lee Loughridge, colorist Vertigo Comics, 2015
At this point writer Cullen Bunn had established himself as a horror story teller with The Damned and The Sixth Gun for Oni Press, and his Dark Horse seri