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…
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…
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,…
When we last saw our teen heroes, the New Mutants found their friend and teammate Danielle Moonstar AKA Psyche (I’m… pretty sure she wasn’t calling herself “Mirage” at this point. I don’t know if Claremont’s tendency to have characters re-name…
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In my last article, I talked about how I had erroneously ASSumed the creation of the New Mutants meant my beloved X-Men were going away. After being assured by my local comic book store owner that it was not the…
It might sound dumb now, but back in 1982 when the New Mutants graphic novel was announced, I took that as a sign that The Uncanny X-Men was getting canceled. Please bear in mind I was just a teenager and…
Last week, multiple prologues had villains Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus thwarted by our heroes, Superman and Spider-Man respectively. As Clark Kent and Peter Parker went off to attend a (yawn) news convention, Luthor and Ock met in prison and…
When I looked at the X-Men/Teen Titans team-up, I had said all the crossovers done before had felt like gimmicks. But after I had said that, I wondered if perhaps I had been, well, unfair. After all, it had been…
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I continue my look at the “maxi-series” format and list my top 10 favorites of all time. Make sure to check out part one and part two if you haven’t already. And now, the thrilling conclusion!
3. Avengers Forever
With…
As promised, I continue to take a look at the “maxi-series” format and explore my top 10 favorites of all time. If you missed the first part of this list, you can read it right here. And now, on with…
It’s weird, but when I picked the Deathlok Saga to review, the only thing on my mind had been the fact that the titular character was essentially an animated corpse; Halloween was the only thing on my mind. Then someone…
Part three of our story opens with Captain America wandering through the bombed out remains of New York City, circa 1993…Waitaminute. Lemme go back and check issue #286… Ah-ha! It was originally 1991! So was Godwulf chilling in that subway…
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Last issue had Captain America dealing with the problems of breaking in a new sidekick and the inner angst of being Steve Rogers, but then he got to ignore all that stuff when he met the clone of Luther Manning,…
With the Halloween holiday upon us, I was wondering what comic I should review. I’ve already looked at Swamp Thing, and Man-Thing seemed a little obvious. I was never a fan of Marvel’s Dracula, and never read Werewolf by Night…
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…
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Previously: The villain went kaboom. What more do you really need to know? It’s daytime now, and there’s a serene-looking shot of the San Francisco skyline, so I guess the city recovered pretty quickly from a rocket exploding in the bay.
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…
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