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Soldier Zero #1: Stan Lee! BOOM! C’mon!
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: October 20, 2010
It always kind of bums me out when two great things come out at once and only one of them gets a lick of attention. After twenty minutes in my local shop, it seemed like everybody was singing the praises of Kick-Ass 2 and nobody was talking about (or picking up, for that matter) BOOM! [...]
Spider-Man Vs. The Prodigy: Take That, Horny Teenagers!
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: October 11, 2010
Right around the transition from the Silver Age to the Bronze Age, comics loved to start getting into some real serious shit, both in regular series and non-canon PSA comics presented by third party organizations. Marvel cranked out more of these than anybody so a crazy amount of these involved your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. A [...]
Spider-Man: Back in Quack #1: It Is What It Is, Bro
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: October 6, 2010
Oh god, another Spider-Man/Howard the Duck team-up book? Well, if that ain’t a bit of déjà vu, I dunno what is. But considering how awkward that old Steve Gerber/Darick Robertson issue was, how much better can Stuart Moore (or really anybody other than the late Gerber, for that matter) do? The Service Organization of Philanthropic [...]
Thor #615: He’s Done Sci-Fi, Now Fraction Goes Mystical
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: September 23, 2010
I have a bad habit of hyping something up for myself so hard that when it finally rolls around, I can’t help but give it a resounding “meh.” After digging Straczynski’s run on Thor as much as I did (and being admittedly unenthusiastic about Gillien’s short stint), I was ecstatic when I heard that Matt [...]
Machine Man: Jack Kirby, Meet Stanley Kubrick
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: September 14, 2010
Even if you’ve never read or seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, chances are pretty good you know about HAL 9000 and his shenanigans. Something you probably didn’t know, however, was that it apparently took place on Earth-616. “What the hell are you talking about?” asked the entire Internet. Well, from 1976 to 1982, Marvel would [...]
One Month to Live #1: Marvel Universe vs. Mortality
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: September 1, 2010
Comic books are full of characters getting second and third chances. Resurrection, redemption, time travel, and deals with the devil are so commonplace that superpowers might just as well come with a big undo button. Dennis Sykes isn’t so lucky. He works a soul-crushing job as a banker, only to come home to his wife [...]
The New Adventures of Hitler: Oh, the Controversy
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 30, 2010
Sorry, guys. It’s time for another history lesson. So! In 1910, some Irish lady named Bridget Dowling moved to Liverpool and married a German guy named Alois Hitler waaaay before that name meant anything to anybody. In 1914, Alois abandoned his family, faked his death after WWI, and bigamously married some German lady. In 1939 [...]
Dracula: The Company of Monsters #1 Preview!
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 24, 2010
Vampires are everywhere right now (really, X-Men? Really?) and when I saw that a book with a title like Dracula: The Company of Monsters was coming out on BOOM!, my first thought was, “Oh, shit, not you guys, too!” But then I saw a glimmer of hope shining through my funk of apathy for the [...]
Swing With Scooter #15: Archie’s Pal, DC Comics
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 16, 2010
If you wanted to get laid in the mid-60s, it was easy. All you needed was a Vespa, a fistful of amphetamines, and a firm grasp on all things British Invasion-y. DC Comics, in their infinite wisdom, decided to cash in on mod culture with Swing With Scooter, a book about Scooter, a Paul McCartney [...]
High Five!’s Adventures at San Diego Comic-Con 2010
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 3, 2010
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For dubbing our San Diego condo “Hive Five Headquarters,” we sure were quiet during the actual convention. Surely, the other blogs were covering all of the actual news stuff (OMG EYE-STABS) while we were out, you know, having fun and stuff. But we wouldn’t be much of a comic blog if we didn’t talk about [...]
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