Remember the time Iron Man met the Angel? I wish I could forget
Despite coming from Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Tales of Suspense #49 is a mess. Like a lot of the early Marvel I’ve been rereading, it makes me feel the …
Tag: X-Men
House of X/Powers of X: Imaginative Setup But No Landing
House of X/Powers of X Writer: Jonathan Hickman Penciller(s) Pepe Larraz Inker(s) Pepe Larraz Letterer(s) Clayton Cowles Colorist(s) Marte Gracia House of X/Powers of X hit big last year, a …
Marvel Comics Digests: a post-mortem
For about a year, we were treated to digests from Marvel; here’s a rundown of what we got.
MCU Fan Theory – a Long-Awaited Arrival
(The following short piece contains spoilers on Avengers: Endgame.) This isn’t a theory so much as a ‘wouldn’t it be cool if?’, a brief thought of my own. Five years …
In praise of Panini Pocketbooks
UK publisher Panini churned out a bunch of modern digest-sized reprint books that collect a wonderful quantity and variety of Marvel comics, mainly from the 1960s through the 1980s.
In Memory of Len Wein (1948-2017)
When I think of good comics, I think of Len Wein. The mark he left on comics is immense. Anytime in the last 30 years when I heard that Len Wein was writing a comic, I automatically picked it up. It was just a no-brainer.
What I Like About You: Alpha Flight
When I started out reading, I used to say my favourite series was Alpha Flight. As time went by, that changed to John Byrne’s Alpha Flight when I began to realise that only those first 28 issues (plus appearances in Uncanny) really had the magic for me. So, what makes that series in particular so ‘me’ish?