First of all: we lied. Jab wasn't QUITE done with Rob Liefeld yet! Because he initially forgot about YET ANOTHER team book Rob created for Image... Yes, Rob Liefeld created ANOTHER friggin’ superhero team in his first couple of years at Image Comics, the NEW MEN. Here, they’re another band of X-Men knockoffs who are... Continue Reading →
My wife hates comics books. It’s really frustrating, but honestly, we have so little in common, and some of that so little is that she just has no interest in them whatsoever. Not just superheroes, either. The whole notion of “books with pictures in them” is anathema to her. What’s really weird is that she... Continue Reading →
In the debut episode of the Stew World Order podcast, Stew and Nico from The Tiny Bookcase discuss the 2010 movie Kick-Ass. Check out The Tiny Bookcase at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1129067. And make sure to check out Punchline at https://www.punchlion.com And visit the SWO at https://swoproductions.com
Hey, it’s a volume of Stew's Reviews that ends in the number eight, so it must be time to review a manga series! It’s Manga Week! Ma… me… M8nga Week! No? No, I don’t think that works either. Actually, I think is just a happy accident. It was volume eight when I covered Dragon Ball,... Continue Reading →
Am I alone in just not liking Jean Grey? I mean, apparently not, but in my recent Top Heroines of Marvel article, Jean Grey was the most divisive character in the comments. Some said my leaving her out was "tragic" or "outrageous"; others noted she is "meh" or "sucks". She didn't make my Top Ten,... Continue Reading →
THE MUTANT LIBERATION FRONT: If there's one thing I love in comics, it's ridiculous teams of Jobber Villains.The M.L.F. has gotta go down as one of the most ludicrously overloaded villains teams in comics. See, they were created when Rob Liefeld had just debuted on the New Mutants title in its waning years (dozens of crappy Louise... Continue Reading →
I've got two of these lists coming by the time Women's History Month ends. I bet you can guess what the second might be. (I bet you can also guess, if you've ever paid attention to anything I've ever written, who #1 will be here. I'm nothing if not consistent!) I've long been a big... Continue Reading →
The snarling, grim, intense-looking Prophet was Rob Liefeld’s other attempt at a solo hero in his Image franchise, and is a weird combination of Rob Tropes- he has long hair and a weird cloth “boxing helmet” on, just like X-Force 's Shatterstar, but he’s also a roided behemoth in an extremely plain costume, so he’s a male... Continue Reading →
I don’t know if I will have written and posted the article by the time this review is published, but I recently decided I would do a Top Ten list of my favorite comic book artists. What a foolish endeavor. Within thirty to forty minutes of off-the-top-of-my-head thinking, I had a cut-down list of over... Continue Reading →
Boy, it still feels weird that Brian Michael Bendis isn’t at Marvel anymore. Like the dude or hate him—and there is plenty of material to support either decision—he WAS Marvel for, like, fifteen years. And now he’s on the other side of the tracks. Wild. I met Bendis at a Con waaaay back when Ultimate... Continue Reading →
