We last saw our heroes, they were confronted by the Joker, now ambassador of Iran to the United Nations. The final part of our story opens with Batman and Superman in a dark room with CIA agent Ralph Bundy, who…
In part two of “Death in the Family”, the Joker blew up a warehouse with Jason Todd inside and DC left it up to us to decide if he would live or die. Part three opens with Batman stumbling through…
Last time, in a story jam-packed full of coincidences, Jason Todd, the least popular Robin, discovered his dead mom was not his biological mom. He went on a quest to find her and he and Batman wound up in the…
DC Comics post-Crisis on Infinite Earths was a weird time. Initially, me and everybody I know who read that epic considered it one of the best stories ever printed. George Perez’s art was top notch as usual, and the…
Our story opens with a series of viewscreens showing calamity and disaster as a universe dies, as someone monologues about the end of this reality while we see a nebulous face that calls itself the “sentience of the universe”. It…
It’s another amazing cover from George this time, with an honest attempt to get every single JLAer and Avenger on it. I mean, he has both Crimson Foxes on this thing! If he missed anybody, it must have been a…
So before we jump into the game, I just have to break down this cover.
It’s a fantastic work, and it’s great to see the one, true Captain Marvel featured on the front. Although I do have an issue with…
X-Men/Teen Titans was the first DC/Marvel crossover story I ever bought. The stories published during the ’70s came out before I was buying comics, and I suppose when reprints were available they looked a little to, uh, Silver Age for…
When we last left our tale, our titanically uncanny heroes, um, lost. Right. Moving on.
We cut to… the Wall.
Not that wall. This Wall.
Remember what I said last time about Simonson being Kirby’s spiritual successor? Well, here you…
You know what we haven’t seen in a long while? A crossover event between DC and Marvel. I’m not saying it was ever a common occurrence, but does anyone remember All Access, or DC vs. Marvel? Or smaller…
As we take a look at the final installment of this four-part story, I want to take a moment to mention the cover art. For me, the cover should imply the action that will take place in the comic, and…
So I read the article over at Inverse regarding the Black Widow movie’s screenwriter, Jac Schaeffer, and I dunno. Some of what she says I agree with, such as not adhering slavishly to canon. It worked for Thor, for example;…
Before we get into this week’s recap, I just wanted to talk about the format of Marvel Fanfare back in 1982. Most if not all issues ran more than one story, and also often contained full page pin-ups from different…
So the San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone, and the first thing that struck me was how nobody I’m following on Twitter, none of my Facebook friends, and none of the “news media” hyped up anything related to actual…
Previously in part one, we had a recap of how the Justice League was formed after they defeated seven alien combatants who came to Earth to fight for the rulership of another world. The seven Kryptonite meteors they arrived in…
Back in the early ’80s, my comic buying habits were a bit erratic. Other than X-Men, there weren’t a whole lot of titles I was steadfastly wedded to. However, I do remember really enjoying Justice League of America when…
A new Spider-Man movie is coming out tomorrow, and honestly, I’m not feeling the sort of buzz I experienced years and years ago when Toby Maguire wore the red and blue. Oh, I know Sam Raimi’s films had their flaws,…
A lot has happened between issue #21 of Swamp Thing’s title and now: Swamp Thing fought Jason Woodrue AKA the Floronic Man for control of a mysterious force known as the Green. He met John Constantine, who gave him some…
So the Swamp Thing TV series just became a mini-series, and there seem to be conflicting stories as to what the hell happened. DC Comics’ response was a bit vague, and even the producer James Wan (if the name sounds…
A video showcasing and celebrating my play by e-mail game, Science City.
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