Steve Englehart, the Lazarus Man
As a teenager in the Bronze Age, Steve Englehart was one of my favorite writers. Looking back, I still love his stories, but I’m almost as impressed by the number …
Tag: Marvel Comics
Successfully scratched itches
Following the lead of another Atomic Junk Shop regular who wrote about some itches that took years to be scratched, I take a look at a few comics stories that left itches I only managed to scratch decades after the fact
A supporting actor in his own book: Reading the Essential Man-Thing
My friend Ross once described Man-Thing as the world’s most perfect supporting character. After reading Essential Man-Thing Vol. 1 (you can get many of the same stories in color in …
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – August 2019
Yes, it’s a bit late. So don’t wait to read it!
“I didn’t know Future Man used a life battery!” Marvel Comics on Earth-616
Where DC Comics only occasionally showed us what the DCU’s Silver Age comics were like, Marvel wasted no time establishing Earth-616 had its own version of Marvel Comics, publishing their …
My late Fourth of July post: Captain America in the Age of Trump
What do you do with a symbol of America in an American era like the one we have now? I give Ta-Nehisi Coates credit for trying to tackle that question …