A perennial problem in comic-book storytelling is that the storytellers keep changing. Sometimes the series whipsaws in unpredictable and unsuccessful directions. Sometimes one writer’s plans get axed by their replacement. …
Writing about my Silver Age reread in 1968, I’ve commented several times that Jack Kirby’s stories, while still entertaining, feel like he’s getting ready for his exit. Captain America #108, …
Writing these Silver Age Reread posts, I’ve never denied my heart lies with DC more than Marvel. The reread has taught me that Marvel did some brilliant stuff; at the …
Given the last couple of posts in my Silver Age reread were mostly critical of Marvel’s 1967 output, it seemed worth mentioning that it’s not a slog to read them. …
When Jim Steranko jumped to Marvel from the advertising world, he brought a very different style of illustration with him. He started out inking Kirby on the SHIELD strip in …
A few years ago, my interest in the planetary romance genre was reignited, and I decided to read several classic series in this genre for the first time – and tell everybody what I thought about them.
