Marvel’s “War is Hell” isn’t hell to read but it’s closer to hell than heaven.
As Greg Hatcher has remarked in many of his columns, we live in an age when an astonishing amount of old comic book material is available. I completed my set …
Tag: Chris Claremont
The rest is still unwritten
This week I finished rereading the small number of New Mutants issues I still have (I gave a lot of stuff away some years back to a now-defunct program auctioning …
It’s embarrassing that I missed this
I’ve been rereading my old X-Men — that is, the Len Wein/Dave Cockrum-created New X-Men — for a while now and recently reached X-Men #183. I remembered disliking it and …
Comics You Should Own – ‘X-Men Unlimited’ #1-3, 5, 7-11, 14, 18-19, 31-33, 35, 37-38, 40, 43
So many short stories, people!
A trickle that became an overwhelming flood: New Mutants
Reading the New Mutants’ debut in their eponymous 1982 graphic novel is really strange forty years later. Not that it’s aged badly. The story of Professor X reluctantly recruiting a …
Comics You Should Own – ‘The New Mutants’ #18-31
Another masterpiece by Bill Sienkiewicz? I know, it’s crazy!
This used to be so damn cool
Groundbreaking stories or concepts often have a short shelf life. Frequently they’re upstaged by someone who does the same thing better. Sherlock Holmes wasn’t the first private detective nor Tarzan …