It's weird that it's taken so long to get here. A hundred-plus comic reviews. Dozens upon dozens of articles on the genre. Lists of all sorts. And I've never just sat down and written up a list of my ten favorite comic book characters? That's not entirely true. On the Ghosts of the Stratosphere podcast,... Continue Reading →
I should really be doing more modern comics stories in this series. I mean, the people deserve to know if comics that came out recently are worth their time! And I, the hero that I am, will be here to show them the truth, so that they know what to do with their comics buying... 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 →
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 →
For more on this countdown so far, check out: #100-#96! #95-#91! #90-#86! On with the list: #85. Robin #46 By Chuck Dixon, Cully Hamner (and Sal Buscema!) Hey, I loved this title. Robin was the first DC book I ever started buying monthly (though that distinction is not truly amazing; it was very quickly followed... Continue Reading →
My wife and I just recently moved into a new house. The house-shopping process took... a very long time. We got to the point where we figured we were cursed. But eventually, the stars aligned, and we were able to both buy a new home and sell our old one. During the shopping process, we... Continue Reading →
Some of the most memorable and fascinating characters in all of fiction were first created for comic books. The last decade-plus of movie ticket sales can more than substantiate that. But even before cinematic effects caught up with the way these larger-than-life heroes deserved to be presented, you are still talking about characters that have... Continue Reading →
Alternate costumes in comic books are really hit-or-miss. When you are dealing with classic, long-standing characters, the creative urge to change things up is understandable. I mean, have you been wearing the same outfit for the last 80 years? Do you even have the same style or taste in clothes that you did ten years... Continue Reading →
Depending on how you look at it, I got a lot more done in the back half of January than I did in the front end. By that, I mean that I watched a lot more movies per day and played a lot more video games. I read a bunch of comics, too. Well... a... Continue Reading →
Last week, after doing some meditating on standards in grading books, I started a list of my Top 15 Comic Stories Ever. Go check it out to see how #11-#15 (the "Honorable Mentions" of my Top Ten, as it were) shook out, because here today, we are moving along to part two of that list, in... Continue Reading →
Welcome to our newest feature here at SWO Productions: Entertainment Rex! Twice a month, I will look back on what I've read, watched, and experienced and let you know if it can be recommended or not (is that... semi-monthly? Bi-monthly is every other month, right? What means "twice a month"? Semi... Bi-sometimesly? Anyone have any... Continue Reading →
I take no pride in being something of a harsh grader when it comes to comic books. I am not really sure why it is--I tend to grade out movies much more generously than I do comics for whatever reason--but if you look at my grading history, it is easy to see I am typically... Continue Reading →
This started off as a slightly different list. Originally, this was going to be my Top Five fight scenes of all-time in comic book history. It's another one of those Top Ten list ideas for our podcast that we have not gotten around to yet, and one that I thought had some legs and was... Continue Reading →
So back in 2002, Marvel decided to have a month where all their titles’ stories had no dialogue. The gauntlet was thrown down to their writers and artists to tell compelling stories with as few words as possible. I say “as few as possible” because some of the titles screwed around with this concept as... Continue Reading →
This week we're turning heel and delving into best assortments of villains in all of comics! A dictionary that I didn't actually bother looking at presumably defines a villain as "the kind of person you chill like" and a gallery as "a place with... art, right? I don't know". But in the world of comic... Continue Reading →
