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Swamp Thing #59: “Reunion”
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 17, 2012
There are several things both notable and fascinating about this issue of the Swamp Thing. First and foremost, this story is unbelievably fucked up. Modern comics deliver sick, twisted, graphic gore and horror but seldom dig into emotional turmoil this deep. WARNING: SPOILER ALERT Part 1: Abby’s Past Tragedies Abby Cable is already a tormented [...]
Swamp Thing 165 – Newt Gingrich’s DCU
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 11, 2012
Hi ho, happy readers it’s Jonny here! Who even writes for this blog anymore? Certainly not us! Anyway, I just read a magnificent issue of Swamp Thing from the year 1996! Clinton was in office and Dole wanted to oust him. Newt Gingrich had signed some weird “Contract with America” and the world of American politics [...]
Justice on Skis
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: September 17, 2011
Dear everyone. I will pretend this is the real Justice League. I hope you enjoy. Happy readings. -Jonny
The Bronze Age: Marvel & Radical Christianity
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: September 1, 2011
Today’s post gives me the opportunity to introduce a new category for Bronze Age comics I’ve called: “Love for the Bronzer”. You may not realize this, but Dr. Strange and the Man-Thing have have something in common: murderous Christians hate them. I suppose in Strange’s case it makes a bit of sense. Since the Julio [...]
Crisis On Infinite Treks
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: August 31, 2011
I was catching up on Crisis on Infinite Earths tonight when I noticed this lovely Easter Egg. As a big Trekkie, and a fan of The Wrath of Khan in particular, this panel made me very happy. It’s worth noting that Marv Wolfman actually wrote the Marvel Super Special comic adaptation of Star Trek: The [...]
Justice with a Side of Eggs
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: May 7, 2011
Friends, I am amused! I was reading Adventure Comics #463 last night and noticed an Easter Egg in the midst of the JSA story. The adventure is called, “The Night of the Soul Thief”. Check it out: Notice the lady’s shirt? “Hi! I’m Phyllis,” right there on the chest. Who’s Phyllis? None of the credits help. [...]
Comics In Arrested Development
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 20, 2011
I haven’t written for High Five in some time now. To be fair I never contribute too heavily and a disruption is measured in months not weeks, but really I haven’t been writing because I haven’t kept up with new comics. Sure, I hit the shop every week and often pick up a book or [...]
Planet Comics #10: The Red Comet
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: December 20, 2010
Hello, Readers! Jonny here. In my many readings and explorings of the Information Super Highway (that’s the Internet to you “Web2.0” Kiddies) I discovered a Golden Age gem from January 1941 called “The Red Comet” that was published in Fiction House’s Planet Comics. Planet Comics started in January of 1940 as a monthly magazine collecting, [...]
Superman v. The Great Depression
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: August 8, 2010
“Fans come to me asking how this works or that works, and I say, ‘It’s a comic book. It’s not real.’ We already have a real world, why do you want fiction to be like that too?” – Grant Morrison, 2010 Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Golden Age comics. I know there aren’t [...]
Charles Atlas Has a Message for the Kids
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: June 11, 2010
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Today I was reading through Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing # 16 and staring up at me on the first page was an advertisement so incredible I had to talk about it. Though the world of comics has always been a bizarre and ever-changing landscape a few concepts have remained intact. Among them is the idea of [...]
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