I’m a sucker for variant covers that pay homage to Marvel comics Conan #1 by Barry Windsor-Smith. That cover is one of my all-time favorites, so when a modern comic honors that I’m usually going to part with some cash. While I was in Newbury comics this afternoon they had Barbaric #1, from Vault comics... Continue Reading →
Normally on this blog I write about the comic books that I read. I do it mostly as a journal but I also hope that there is the chance that someone else might read it and enjoy it. I’m writing this piece though in an effort to express my feelings of sadness and loss after... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago Chris and Reggie released their 100th episode of the Cosmic Treadmill podcast. The topic was the Marvel event - Age of Apocalypse. After listening to the first episode I hardly remembered the story in the comic. I talked to my brother about it and he had a completely different experience... Continue Reading →
A long time ago, when my brother and I were young our church had a Christmas fair. It was usually a good time; one of the parishioners dressed up as Santa Claus, there were gingerbread cookies, and games. Since there were games, there were prizes. One year, one of the prizes that my brother or... Continue Reading →
I grew up when VCRs were just becoming common in people’s homes and video rental stores were springing up in every neighborhood. Popular movies still circulated in theaters multiple times over the years. It was a time when it was not common to see movies more than once. Novel and comic adaptations of movies we... Continue Reading →
Over the last couple of weeks Marvel has released several True Believer comics reprinting key Thanos stories, such as his first appearance in Iron Man 55 and the first issue of the Infinity Gauntlet mini series. Thanos has come to be of Marvel comics most popular characters. On April 26th the Avengers: Infinity War will... Continue Reading →
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