Two 34s from 1965
By a weird coincidence, both today’s reviews come from a thirty-fourth issue. Once again, I think they show the respective strengths of DC and Marvel. First, from Green Lantern #34, …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Captain America — Young Punk?
One of the things Silver Age Marvel (nor most later Marvel that I can recall) rarely touches on is how fricking young Captain America was in the Golden and Silver …
Doom, Don Heck, the Thing and More: Marvel in 1964
As part of my Silver Age reread I got to Fantastic Four Annual #2 and is it ever a game-changer. It’s the issue that gave us Doom’s backstory as a …
Reed Richards, veteran
Blogging about the Siancong War Monday put me in mind of something I’ve meant to blog about for a while, how unusual Reed Richard’s military service is by today’s comic …
One, Two, Three, Four, We Don’t Want Your Siancong War!
The Siancong War, as some of you probably know, was Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek’s solution to having MU characters with origins or backstories tied to specific military conflicts. Create …
(Black) Knights in White Satin: The Strange Early Life of Dane Whitman
As probably everyone reading this knows by now, The Eternals introduces us to the MCU’s Dane Whitman, AKA the Black Knight. It’s one case where cutting out some of the …
“She could never love me!” Comics and disability cliches
For me, the best kind of film reference book is one that makes me see movies with fresh eyes. Even movies that weren’t covered in the book. For example, Heather …