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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 [...]
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 [...]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1: Nostalgia Goggles, Don’t Fail Me Now!
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 26, 2011
IDW has always had a bad habit of taking their dirty franchise-licensing thumbs and jamming it into my pie of childhood nostalgia (terrible metaphor, but go with it). Every time I hear that there’s going to be a new comic based on something from my youth, I get super-excited until I see that it’s coming [...]
Infinite Vacation #1: This is Your Multiverse on Drugs
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: January 12, 2011
One of my New Year’s Resolutions this year was to buy a comic every Wednesday that I know nothing about. Considering how much I enjoyed last week’s Who Is Jake Ellis?, this has actually been a pretty good plan. On this week’s Wednesday pilgrimage, I came across Infinite Vacation by Nick Spencer, a guy whose [...]
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, [...]
Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers #1: No Case Too Big, No Case Too Small
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: November 30, 2010
If you were born in the mid-8os like me, you have fond memories of watching the Disney Afternoon line-up of cartoons. Nothing beat coming home from first grade, plunking down in front of the TV, and binging on Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, TaleSpin, and Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers all in a row. BOOM! Studios has already [...]
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 [...]
Superboy #1: Think Small
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: November 3, 2010
Ever since the Superman panel at SDCC 2010, my interest about Jeff Lemire’s Superboy had been piqued. After all, he’s proven with Essex County, The Nobody, and Sweet Tooth that he’s best writing about what happens in small-town America and, well, it doesn’t get more small-town America than Smallville. Directly following his stint as the [...]
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