As I write this, my cat is chewing on the HDMI cable to the television. I mean… I don’t LET him. I stomp and yell at him, and he stops for a second and looks at me, but he just goes right back to it once I stop glaring at him. It’s a really weird... Continue Reading →
Hey, remember when The Walking Dead was a good television show? Wait, was The Walking Dead ever a good television show? No, no, it was good for a bit. I enjoyed seasons two and three. All the stuff with Shane (starting with when he killed Otis) through the prison’s destruction… that was some good, appointment... Continue Reading →
I have a feeling--I can't substantiate it, but I somehow guess--that I still think I'm, like, twenty-six years old or so. Like, if you walked up to me and said "DON'T THINK, JUST ANSWER! HOW OLD ARE YOU?", I would instinctively say a number in the 20's. I'm not sure why that is. I am... 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 →
What the hell, right? I just did an X-Book last week! Where has the variety gone? Well, as of this writing (and I say the a lot knowing I’m writing batches of these at a time without really keeping track of when they will be posted), this has been the week from hell. Most notably,... Continue Reading →
It's been a long way to the top, but since we do, in fact, want to rock 'n roll, we have all successfully made it. After the past two weekends of tension-building action where I gave you my favorite comics #11-#15 and then #6-#10, I can tell that your anticipation is at an absolute fever pitch! But never... Continue Reading →
What would you put as the Over/Under on how many iterations of X-Men #1 there have been over the years? Like, factoring in all the various adjectives, color qualifiers, and other name addendums? Uncanncy, Blue, Gold, X-Treme, and the like? How many versions of X-Men #1 have there been over the years? It’s got to... 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 →
Nobody liked 2020. I mean, it's even kind of boring as a meme at this point, but yeah, we all know it... 2020 was kind of a dogshit year. That's brutal, but honest. My 2020 more-or-less started with appendicitis (and that, having happened in January, genuinely feels like an eternity ago), and really... everything just... Continue Reading →
VOLUME 2, ISSUE #1 Welcome, everyone, to the BRAND NEW Stew's Reviews! What's new about it, you ask? Why, there is a slight format shift; gone are the "Thumbs Up" and "Thumbs Down" sections, and in their place is a more detailed breakdown of each book's stars and creative team. Also each issue will have a... 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 →
I've been itching to cover this particular idea for a while now. I love fights and I love the funny, but comics are best to me when they make you FEEL. I remember reading the last issue of the six-part Spectacular Spider-Man series "The Child Within" as a boy and being struck because it was... 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 →
Written by—who else?—Chris “I’m Responsible For All Your Good X-Men Memories” Claremont and brought to life by Brent Eric Anderson, God Loves, Man Kills is an unflinching look at prejudice, religious fanaticism, and loyalty. This was the comic—more than any other—that really nailed the theme of how dangerous it could be to be born a... Continue Reading →
I really dug Wolverine as a kid. I can actually remember why that was even the case. At the first inkling that I was going to start getting into comics, my dad told me that Wolverine was a great character, and that I should follow his and the X-Men’s adventures. This is unusual to me... Continue Reading →
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