Archive for the ‘Regular Features’ Category
We’re Back! A Comic Blog’s Story
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 3, 2011
Look, baby, we know we’ve been distant lately. It’s just that, well, things looked like they were starting to get a bit stale. You know how we are! We had to go out! “Sow our wild oats” or whatever the expression is! But we realized that, after all that, the only place we really wanted [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
High Five! Top Five! – Bizarre Santa Claus Cameos in Comics
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: December 13, 2010
It’s December, and we all know what that means. STUPID OVERPRICED CHRISTMAS COMICS! And with the random holiday specials comes the totally awkward stories where Santa rolls around with your favorite superheroes. They’re generally throwaway stories that nobody buys and, well, really hold no bearing on continuity. So what’s the point? Well, occasionally, you strike [...]
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1: What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: November 11, 2010
Much like the old characters from Charlton, Fawcett, Milestone, and MLJ Comics, DC has recently acquired the full rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents team and is folding them into the DCU in their own title. Before I get into a review of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1, however, I should probably tell you a bit about their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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