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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: May 12, 2010
How have I never seen this before? DC Challenge seems like it’d be so far up High Five’s alley, I’m pretty sure it has to buy us breakfast in the morning. Check it. According to legend (or the back pages of issue one, whichever), Len Wein, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Mark Evanier, Bill Rotsler, and [...]
Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 15, 2009
I got to open a Christmas present in October this year; Rob picked up Spider-Woman #1 (Volume One, not the new Bendis run) for me at Long Beach Comic Con. (Thanks Rob!) I finally opened it tonight, thinking “This was written in 1978, it’ll be cheesy enough to lovingly mock, right?” Turns out, not so [...]