May your doom be nice
As y’all must know, Damage Control was a series by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colon dealing with the company that cleans up after superhero battles, alien invasions, giant robot clashes, etc. …
Tag: Marvel Comics
You got horror comics in my love comics! And my war comics! And my superhero books!
As I blogged about last year, the Bronze Age horror-comics revival began in 1968 when DC rebooted House of Mystery into its definitive form, with Cain as caretaker, landlord to ill-fated …
From Genre Book Club to Deathlok to Mark Gruenwald’s Omniverse. Why yes, that is a long, strange trip
About two years ago, I joined the local library’s Genre Book Club. The premise is that rather than read the same book for each meeting, everyone reads the book of …
If Marvel Comics can have Captain Marvel, why not Mary Marvel? Incredible Hulk #142
As I blogged about last year, I’m not a fan of Valkyrie’s debut in Avengers #83. Though of course Valkyrie turns out to be a disguise the Enchantress adopted to …
It suddenly occurs to me that bronze and silver are not the same metal
Back in 2022, I settled on March 1972 as the cutoff for my ongoing Silver Age reread. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a particularly significant month. It …
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 …
Ditko and his inkers
Ditko may have been his own best inker, but quite a few others were no slouches, either.