It's our first ever BONUS episode! Stew and Amanda Stewart break down the newly released Spider-Man: No Way Home!
BONUS EPISODE! Spider-Man: No Way Home
Stew’s Reviews: Amazing Spider-Man – Coming Home
Best Buy needs to be more clear about their sales. I was in the market to purchase a new microphone for our show (AND YES, this intro shows how far in advance I write these articles, because I have had the new microphone since about June 2018! - Stew), and I was perusing Best Buy.... Continue Reading →
The Top 100 Comics Of A Lifetime: #50-41
For earlier entries, click HERE! Let's not kid ourselves: the first half of this list was underwhelming. Back in 2006, Wizard put together the list of the Top 100 single comic book issues of the previous two and a half decades--basically the best single issues of the 80's, 90's, and first half of the 2000's.... Continue Reading →
Top Ten: Favorite Comic Book Heroes
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 →
Stew’s Reviews: Absolute Carnage
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 →
Stew’s Reviews: Superior Foes of Spider-Man
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 →
The Top 100 Comics Of A Lifetime, Part 5 (#80-76)
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 →
The Top 100 Comics Of A Lifetime Part 4 (#85-81)
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 →
Comics’ Best Alternate Looks: Part 1
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 →
Why the Best Comic Characters Just “Work”
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 →
Top Five: Spider-Man Costumes
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 →
Entertainment Rex: January Part 2
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 →
My Top Fifteen Stories Ever: #10 to #6
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 →
Entertainment Rex: January
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 →
Tough Grading, The Elusive A+, And My Top 15 Stories EVER
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 →
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