As I write this, I am about a week removed from having a surprise appendectomy. It’s weird how your body can just turn on you. I’m not here to say it’s a terrible thing compared to what a lot of people go through, but waking up at 3am because you are suddenly in a new pain you never felt before and being in surgery by … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Spider-Geddon
MON-EL (Lar Gand, aka M’Onel, Valor) Silver Age Mon-El:-Mon-El, starting out as a “Superman has a BROTHER!” type of Silver Age Superboy “tease” story (“oh this awesome thing is totally happening OH WAIT WE TAKE IT BACK IT’S NOT!!”), and in fact was a re-write of ANOTHER story that’d come out earlier (featuring Halk Kar, an amnesiac alien from a planet near Krypton). He ended up being … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Mon-El & Shadow Lass
What are the time parameters for spoilers? As in, at what point do you bear the burden of protecting yourself from being spoiled rather than depend on social media and society to do it for you? I always say in regards to big blockbuster movies, the limit should be until after the second weekend in theaters has passed. If you can’t see a major release … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Heroes In Crisis
I recently ranked 63 comics I reviewed in the last two years against each other for an anniversary celebration to see where they all fit against one another. It was… a lot of work. Digging through old material to remember what books were involved, debating internally as to how they stack up (literally no one cares, on a list of 63, how number 42-44 are arranged, but … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Batman – Cataclysm
I’ve never read Dark Knight Strikes Back. From what I understand, I’m not missing much, but I just never got around to picking it up. I think I thumbed through the trade when it was all collected, and it just looked too “busy” for me. So I just never gave it a try. It’s just… some stories really don’t need sequels! Especially something like 20 … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Dark Victory
I think Jeff Moy’s ENTIRE CAREER just revolves around that run as “LOSH” artist. LIGHTNING LASS (Ayla Ranzz, aka Light Lass, Spark, Gossamer, Live Wire)Silver Age Ayla Ranzz:-Ayla is introduced as the twin sister of Garth, aka Lightning Lad, given the same powers from the same incident that empowered her two brothers. She was actually introduced after Garth DIED, disguising herself as Garth for some … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Lightning Lass & Timber Wolf
Our podcast got blocked on Twitter by Dan Slott! This isn’t something I take any pride in, so this isn’t like some kind of stupid brag. I’ve seen folks who take getting blocked by a famous person as a badge of honor, and that has never ever been our goal. I’m actually mildly bothered by this! Mostly because I have no idea what we have … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Poison Ivy & Harley Quinn
Pink or GTFO. Or the man-kini girdle.. COSMIC BOY (Rokk Krinn, aka Polestar)Silver Age Cosmic Boy:-One of the only pink-clad male superheroes ever, Cosmic Boy’s as old as they come on the Legion, debuting alongside Lightning Lad & Saturn Girl. Since then, he’s pretty much been the resolute leader of the squad, leading the team more often than not (he’s effectly the “Cyclops” of the … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Cosmic Boy & Magnetic Lad
LIGHTNING LAD (Garth Ranzz) Silver Age Lightning Lad:-Lightning Lad is a charter member of the Legion, and one of it’s all-time most important members. Kinda hard to think of a time when “Electrical Guy” WASN’T one of the more common super-powers in comics, but there it is, I think he’s one of the very first. He’s also had kind of an iffy place in Legion history, dying … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Lightning Lad & Saturn Girl
GOD, I loved the first Sin City movie. I left the theater after seeing that flick completely amped. After it came out on DVD, I must have watched it a dozen more times. I waited with baited breath for a sequel to let me return to the visually striking world of meatheads and dames. And I waited. And I waited. About a decade later—WELL after … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Sin City – Hell & Back
Now that I’ve started off with mini-bios of Superboy & Supergirl, here’s their Post-Crisis stand-ins & successors: Andromeda & Kent Shakespeare! They- they knew what they were doing with the wording and the body language in that last panel, weren’t they? Original Laurel Gand:Andromeda was one of those odd Legionnaires chosen to fill a gap- this gap being Supergirl’s history with the Legion. Introduced as … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Andromeda & Kent Shakespeare
See, I was supposed to have the closings on my house and the house I’m buying this week, but my buyer has run into problems, so everything has been pushed back, probably about a month. In the meantime, the wife and I have already packed up almost all of our non-essential stuff! So I guess I get to live surrounded by cardboard and clutter for … Continue reading Stew’s Reviews: Batman & The Outsiders
So this obscure fellow is actually an idea Siegel & Shuster came up with a few years later- some would say they based him off of Fawcett Comics’ success with Captain Marvel Jr., but instead of making a sidekick character, they just told the stories of “Superman When He Was a Boy”. He got a whole new supporting cast and became a HUGE deal, earning … Continue reading Jab’s Legion of Super-Heroes Reviews: Superboy & Supergirl
Threeboot:The Threeboot era is what really killed the Legion for a lot of people. Not even that it was particularly BAD, but just the fact that fifty years of stories meant NOTHING, yet again- Legion fans had suffered through this once before, and more if you count all the Retcons and “fixes” that just buggered things up further (the origin had been retold about four … Continue reading Jabs Legion Of Superheroes Overview, Part 2
THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: 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!”, and the Legionnaires introduced were just the original … Continue reading Jab’s Reviews: The Legion of Super-Heroes
