Category: Comics
The Continuing Adventures of the Amazingly Media-Savvy Spider-Man
My Misspent Youth: Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. It was always easy for me to determine if a particular … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum
My Misspent Youth: The Incredible Hulk #142 by Roy Thomas and Herb Trimpe
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. In this history of mass culture, there have been few things … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: The Incredible Hulk #142 by Roy Thomas and Herb Trimpe
Mighty Marvel Checklist HyperboleCheck: Fantastic Four #104
The adventures published by Marvel Comics during the company’s heyday in the nineteen-sixties and seventies were scintillating and suspenseful sagas of stellar superstars spanning the stars. And it’s a good thing they were, given the profound propensity that the company’s … Continue reading Mighty Marvel Checklist HyperboleCheck: Fantastic Four #104
My Misspent Youth: Fantastic Four #200 by Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. By the time I found my way to superhero comics, I … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Fantastic Four #200 by Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard
Spectrum Check
Comics were added to the mix recently over at Spectrum Culture, which speaks directly to my woefully geeky heart. My first offering on that front is a retroactive examination of the Wolverine miniseries created by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller in the early nineteen-eighties. I well remember reading the limited series when it was first published, reveling in the aching coolness of it. He was in a tight race with bashful Benjamin J. Grimm in my own personal Favorite Character category at the time. By the end of that decade, it’d be hard to think of a character I was … Continue reading Spectrum Check
It’s my turn to see what I can see, I hope you’ll understand, this time’s just for me
Upon further reflection, it’s not actually that difficult to figure out why Darren Aronofsky chose to follow up Black Swan by presiding over the latest cinematic adventures of Marvel Comics mainstay Wolverine. The similarities between Nina Sayers and Logan are legion. He may be able to recycle whole pages of the Swan script. Continue reading It’s my turn to see what I can see, I hope you’ll understand, this time’s just for me
Mighty Marvel Checklist HyperboleCheck: The Amazing Spider-Man #91
Back issues are expensive. The cover to The Amazing Spider-Man #91 from 1970 may have a price of 15 cents on it, but trying to procure this item from your local comic book shop proprietor will require an outlay of … Continue reading Mighty Marvel Checklist HyperboleCheck: The Amazing Spider-Man #91
My Misspent Youth: Fantaco’s Chronicles series
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. As we’ve established, I spent a lot of time reading comic … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Fantaco’s Chronicles series
Coffee for Two 