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
NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE #1 (OF 4, DC COMICS, $5.99) is by Mark Waid, Jerry Ordway and Todd Nauck, and that alone is enough to interest me. The fact that Waid, one of my favorite writers and a DC history expert, is figuring out
BLOOD HUNTERS: MEAN STREETS TP ($17.99) CHASM: CURSE OF KAINE TP ($17.99) DEADPOOL #15 ($7.99) DOOM ACADEMY #5 (OF 5, $3.99) FANTASTIC FOUR #33 ($3.99) GIANT-SIZE AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 ($4.99) INCREDIBLE HULK #26
KRYPTO: THE LAST DOG OF KRYPTON #1 (OF 5, DC COMICS, $3.99) is by writer Ryan North and artist Mike Norton. Maybe it's the recent Superman Family and Superboy reprint books, but I find myself missing Krypto. And lo, he appears! Here i
Oni Press's new "EC" imprint first came to my attention when my retailer gave me a double-sided promotional poster (because I buy all those archival EC reprints published by Dark Horse and Fantagraphics and IDW). I thought it was a good sign that the
I was reading Action Comics #398 (March 1971) this morning, in which Clark Kent covers the Seaside Folk-Rock Festival and I thought it might be fun to cite some lyrics from rock songs as written by the "hep" writers of '60s and '70s era comic book wr
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This doesn't happen very often, but Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 6 (which ships today) corresponds exactly to Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vols. 16-18; specifically, they both reprint Fantastic Four #164-203, Annuals #11-13, plus assorted other o
I have been bellyachin' about DC not releasing '70s era Superman for so long now that if I didn't buy this volume on the day it was released I could be classified a hypocrite. In point of fact, DC did release some of this material (Supe
The Stern/Buscema Avengers stands among John Byrne's Fantastic Four, Walt Simonson's Thor and Frank Miller's Daredevil as the best Marvel comics of the '80s. Roger Stern had been writing The Avengers since #227, but I had no advance notice that John
