Posts Tagged ‘Marvel Comics’
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 [...]
Wolverine’s Foray Into Death Metal
Posted by: Brendan K. on: February 18, 2011
A charming curio from a time often better forgotten in both music and comics: The early 1990s. I’m listening to Entombed’s “Wolverine Blues”, released in 1993 with an exclusive mini-comic starring everybody’s favorite Canucklehead. Though sometimes noted by serious metal fans as less of a “true” death metal record than their previous records (remember, we’re [...]
Bill Murray and Stan Lee’s Fantastic Four Radio Show
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: January 4, 2011
So, we all know how much I love the old Silver Age Fantastic Four books (or, well, anything Silver Age, really). It’s no surprise, then, that I got ridiculously excited when I discovered that in the mid-70s there was a short lived radio serial based on several of the Lee/Kirby issues of Fantastic Four. The [...]
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 [...]
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