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Doctor Strange: Worth Seeing
Marvel did it again with their recycled origin story! Hero is a jerk/no-goodnik, hero has humiliating experience, hero goes through the process of learning new powers and hero gets skilled enough to defeat the villain. Could be a synopsis of Iron … Continue reading
Three offbeat comics to check out
They’re back for the fourth time and are now part of what’s called the Hasbroverse alongside the Transformers, ROM the Spaceknight, GI Joe and MASK. What I’d give to read the original Marvel run of about five years. Micronauts was a rarity … Continue reading
Happy 100th birthday to Bob Kane
Bob is most famous for being the primary creator of Batman. Since he’s dead and many other claims have come to light involving Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, I think there’s an asterisk by Bob’s name. I don’t particularly care. … Continue reading
RIP Steve Dillon
One of the UK artists/writers DC brought to America in the late Eighties/early Nineties, Dillon made his US debut on Vertigo titles like Animal Man and Hellblazer. Being from the UK, obviously he started out on 2000 AD titles like Judge Dredd too. Afterwards, he worked on … Continue reading
Image Comics’ Fantasy offerings
Last month I posted a second plug for Image’s Sci-Fi offerings. With WizWorld merely days away (I have a ticket to meet Matt Smith, Karen Gillan bailed), why not cover the realm of Fantasy. Here Image is doing pretty well. OK, … Continue reading
More Image comics I enjoy
If you love Science Fiction, I highly recommend Image. There’s more to them than The Walking Dead and creator-owned superheroes…I think they’ve scaled back on the latter. Below are my overdue plugs I promised two years ago. Rick Remender (Black Science) … Continue reading
Two new crossover comics for the Summer of ’16
It’s always exciting to see favorite characters from different owners/licensees get together! Judge Dredd works on numerous levels despite many people forgetting that it’s mostly a British parody of America’s love of violence: Dirty Harry and other unhinged, plays-by-his-own-rules cop. IDW … Continue reading
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RIP Jack Davis
My last delayed Obit, I promise. MAD magazine wouldn’t be the same without Jack. He had a great eye for accuracy and caricature. In many ways, his style brought out the humor and absurdity in what the magazine was parodying. … Continue reading
RIP Darwyn Cooke
This tremendous talent passed away in May but I didn’t want to ignore Darwyn so he’s my initial obituary entry for catching up while I was out sick. Darwyn had a distinctive style which most people recognize via his masterpiece mini-series The … Continue reading
Captain America: Civil War: Must See
Let’s hear it again for the Marvel Express Train of Success! If you think Civil War was going to be the end of the streak…nope. In many ways this corrects the “repeat” complaint I did have over Ant-Man (Iron Man 1) and Age of Ultron … Continue reading
Batman v. Superman: Waste of time
But Steve, why did you go? Well, I still like Batman and I wanted to see if Ben Affleck would do alright. For me, it’s about time we got an American actor over an ill-tempered Brit to play my favorite … Continue reading
One year in and Marvel is doing great with Star Wars
Third time must be the charm for the Star Wars line of comics. Dark Horse’s 20-plus years were fantastic but they were hobbled by a couple things. Most of what they did wasn’t Canon before it was relabeled “Legends.” They didn’t … Continue reading
Deadpool: Wait for Netflix or rent
Deadpool the comic-book character has never been my thing. I like funny comics. I’ve never been averse to the ultra-violent neither, trust me, Give Me Liberty and Lone Wolf and Cub remain favorites; the latter was done by Frank Miller before he became a … Continue reading
Why Image Comics is the new “number three”
Lately I’ve been shifting around my comic book buying/reading habits after how much DC’s 2011 hard reboot fizzled out. One major reason is how the clueless Hollywood division is now meddling with the editorial staff on what to publish and … Continue reading