New Avengers #13, which goes on sale this morning, November 30th, finally reveals the identity of the mystert character who has benn running around the book recently. As if you couldn’t tell by the title, I’m planning to spoil it in a bit. If you don’t want to know who it is, stop reading. Please…
Eager to check out the newest run of Wolverine, I went to the comic store today to pick up issue 36, as well as plenty of other literature. On the shelf sat issues 33, 34 and 35, but no 36. I asked the owner who said he’d been bugged about it all day by customers,…
Many things agitate me. I’m just one of them types. But as far as my nerdery is concerned, nothing has irked me more than what I keep hearing about the Brett Ratner’s entry into the X-Men movie franchise. First it was the dismissal of Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler in favor of … Beast. The Kelsey…
I recently bought a set of the first two years of West Coast Avengers. I’ve been reading the series when I’m not reading the new comics of the week or a new trade I got. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the storytelling, given Marvel in the early 80s wasn’t exactly the pinnacle…
Next week, the second issue of Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos hits shelves. I won’t buy it. Chances are, you won’t either. Best as I can tell, it’s a pile of junk. Normally, a book this silly looking – it seems to feature a team of monsters Nick Fury sends out to fight something, for some…
Over the past 15 years in mainstream Marvel and DC comics, I could only come up with one decent new villain. An afternoon of thinking, and all I could come up with is Hush, who I consider to be a borderline major villain.
Don’t read Marvel Knights Spider-Man #20. By all things good and holy, I implore you: Let this piece of crap remain unopened. So the story starts out with Spidey and two people dressed in the original Iron Man suits (one grey, one gold) breaking into Castle Doom. Once inside, it’s revealed that the two Iron…
With all that setup, how could it not be Thunderbird, right? The mysterious space baddie is wearing TB’s costume, or at least seems to be. And check out the cover (Silvestri’s version). It’s a cool recreation of the cover of Giant-Sized X-Men #1, with the characters all decayed and dead looking. The only one who’s…
I recently had the chance to email back and forth a little with Eric Powell, creator of the Eisner award winning “The Goon,” which is published by Dark Horse. I’ll be writing my usual comics column on this for the Arkasnas Democrat-Gazette. But I’ll post some excerpts of our online discussion below. ME — The…