Last time: We discovered the clone’s name is “Junior” and has been raised by Clay Varris. Henry discovered the news and… took it rather well. Yuri gave him the skinny on Clay’s master plan to create super soldiers, expecting Henry…
Last time: Henry met his younger self. It did not go well.
Henry’s in jail and looking pretty dejected. I guess if you just got your ass handed to you by somebody half your age and got stuck in a…
Last time: Elite soldier Henry Gordon decided to retire after an assassination, feeling he was losing his touch. Then an old war buddy of his named Jack told Henry his target had been an innocent man. After uncovering the fact…
“Development hell” is a term describing films in various stages of production that for one reason or another have hit a wall. Perhaps there’s problems with the script, or it’s discovered the budget will be too high. Perhaps producers or…
So hopefully over the past couple of weeks, you read my articles regarding the two Vision and Scarlet Witch limited series that were published in 1982 and 1985. While I enjoyed the first series, I found the second series a…
Last time: Dar, Kiri and Tal snuck into the pyramid to rescue Zed, while Seth gathered rebel forces. Zed then proceeded to prep the good guys to walk into an ambush after banishing the good guy’s MVP.
Morning finds Dar…
Three years later…
While I can’t fit three years of Marvel Comics history into such a short space, I can at least provide a bit of background to set the stage. Damn, all that fun-poking I was doing regarding Bill…
Last time: Dar met “pilgrims” that turned out to be Seth and Tal, the former king Zed’s captain of the guard and the latter Zed’s son. Together they helped free the slave girl Kiri, who turned out to be Tal’s…
When it comes to comics, the one format that never made sense to me was the limited series; if a series was selling well, why would you stop at just four issues? We saw that happen with Marvel’s Transformers,…
Last time: Dar met human-eating bat people, then he went to town to find Rip Torn sacrificing children to Ar. Rescuing the last victim, he learned the slave women are being taken to a temple to be sacrificed, among them…
Last time: Dar’s entire village was wiped out by the Jun horde led by Rip Torn, leaving him the lone survivor. Arming himself, he hit the road of vengeance and picked up a few furry and feathered allies on the…
Last time: An evil wizard/priest and a host of witches attempted to sacrifice King Zed’s child to Ar(rrrrrrrrrrr!), but were thwarted by a passing stranger with a donkey. Raising the child as his own, Dar’s Dad learned his son could…
Prior to the 1980s, fantasy films were never a huge genre; if you look back at releases during the ’70s you had maybe one true fantasy film a year, be it animated flicks like The Lord of the Rings,…
When I last looked at Wonder Woman, it was to cover the first seven issues of her reboot, which contained the epic seven-part Gods and Mortals story that gave the character a much-needed reboot and established a very different background,…
Last time: James endured a debriefing almost as painful as the fight with Masters, then he headed out to meet up with some MI-5 blokes to check on a shipment of infected drugs, only to run into Dharma Reach. After…
Last time: Bond fought Bishop… wait, Bishop? His name’s Masters. Where the hell did Bishop come from?! God, I have to stop writing these things at 3 AM. And my cats are useless at editing; I have no idea why…
Last time: James entered a drug house and killed, well, everybody. Mr. Bishop visited the local MI-6 station and killed, well, everybody.
Bond is strolling down the sidewalk when Bishop approaches, calling him Mr. Hutcheon, his official cover. Bishop fumbles…
Last time: Bond arrived in Berlin and received a warm welcome from Dharma Reach, bionic assassin. He later went to go meet Dr. Kurjak, our obvious bad guy, who told Bond where to find the drug dealers. Is it a…
Last time: Bond avenged 008’s death and his reward was to take on the deceased agent’s case load, part of which involved a drug dealer peddling an exotic product. He was sent to Berlin, sans gun, to meet a contact…
As hard as it may be to believe, what with the passing of legend Sean Connery, I had intended to look at this comic for a little while now. You see, my plan has been to recap comics at the…
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