For more on the comics that have brought us to this point, click HERE. All right, we are into the second quarter of this list, which you will remember was Wizard Magazine's Top 100 issues of a lifetime, assuming your lifetime was 1979-2006. There have been some... choices so far. I'm not entirely sure what... Continue Reading →
So Why Was It Successful?:ASS. Ass ass ass. And legs. Sometimes boobs. But mostly ass and legs. J. Scott Campbell was made an almost instant superstar, and the fact that the book reveled in T&A more than anything else in Image at the time was a big turn-on to an audience of horny teenage boys.... Continue Reading →
Mothers and their children share a special something something. Hey, I don't know what to tell you; my own mom was the dirt fucking worst. All kinds of abusive and really just the absolute pits. She died a long time ago, though, so it's fine. I won. But what are you, my therapist? This isn't... Continue Reading →
Does anyone know if Deadly Foes of Spider-Man still holds up? I loved that mini-series from the early 1990’s, but I worry that it will have aged poorly if I try to go back to it. If I recall it correctly, it had some aspects that absolutely should have survived as good story-telling (a humanizing portrayal of... Continue Reading →
Last month, I lamented that I had only seen ten movies in the span of an entire month. I went on a September TEAR to make up for that! So let's get straight into the first half of September's recommendations. MOVIES Seventeen days, twelve movies. That's more like it. I kind of blew up in... Continue Reading →
The Legion of Super-Heroes is one of the oldest super-teams in all of comics, and one of its most original ideas. Which is kind of funny, because it was dealt with very off-handedly at first in your typical "Superboy" adventure. Superboy at the time was basically "The Adventures of Superman when he was a boy!",... Continue Reading →
For more on this series up to this point, click HERE! #80. Preacher #50 By Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon The second of what I'm sure will be at least a few more Preacher books on this list--Wizard loved this book so damn hard--I was surprised by how much I liked the previous offering. I... Continue Reading →
Yes, DEATHBLOW. I’m less surprised by the name and more surprised they didn’t come up with it elsewhere- it’s possibly the most “Iron Age” name in a line that includes Warblade, Ripclaw, and Ballistic. The comic itself is an attempt by Jim Lee to ape Frank Miller, and it’s curious and bold on that attempt-... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to Stew's Reviews! Devotees will know that it was only a few weeks ago that we were talking Green Lanterns (The War of the Green Lanterns, specifically), and fate has steered us back towards the chartreuse champion as we dig into a six issue miniseries for the second week in a row (this one... Continue Reading →
Wait, don't I usually do two of these in a month? I do; this is usually split up into first half / back half so it doesn't get too wordy. But August was a pretty slow month in many regards, so by the time mid-August appeared and I had done very little, I figured I'd... Continue Reading →
For more on Jim Lee's WildCATS, click HERE! HAHAHAHAHAHA- Jesus! Lookit this guy! I mean, Rob Liefeld was a PARTNER of Jim Lee’s at this time! Youngblood guest-starred in the second & third issues of Jim’s signature Image book! So Jim just COMPLETELY rips off Deadpool, right down to the color scheme and Those Damn... Continue Reading →
I’m not… I’m not a Marvel fanboy, as it were. Admittedly, I own more Marvel comics than anything else. I have more access to Marvel comics than anything else. But I am not a card-carryin’, DC-hatin’, Marvel fanboy. So you can imagine, after the first four weeks of the revised "Stew's Reviews" and realizing I had... Continue Reading →
This one's going to be quick, so bear with me. I'm SUPPOSED to be packing for Cancun right now. By the time you read this, I'll at least be in the air. It's hard to believe SWO Productions is already coming up on ten months' of existence! Ten months so far of articles and podcasts... Continue Reading →
NOW THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN WORLDS COLLIIIIIIIIIDE!! ARE YOU READY TO TART? CAUSE I'M READY TO TART... WAIT, SORRY. BUT YES, OUR COMIC BOOK PODCAST WEBSITE THAT REGULARLY REVIEWS POP-TARTS IS ABOUT TO CROSS THE STREAMS, BABY! THIS IS... POP-TART QUEST! I mentioned these last week, and I alluded to getting around to... Continue Reading →
On today's blog, we're going to cover a variety of Random Marvel villains selected from my overflowing "jobber" file. I'm not going to say all of these are in fact jobbers, but they are definitely some more strange and obscure Marvel villains that you might have forgotten about over the years. Enjoy! Flag Smasher (Karl... Continue Reading →
