Marvel Universe Carnage (Not the Cletus Kasady variety) – The Infinity...
Over the past five years or so we’ve been bombarded by a genre of filmmaking that I’ve never been able to get into – torture porn. Saw and its interminable sequels and imitators are the...
View ArticleWhere exactly would you get one of those serviced? – Warlock and the Infinity...
I bought into The Infinity Gauntlet heavily back in the day. Its willingness to dispatch Marvel superstars in assorted horrible ways was a new thing to my young eyes. Jim Starlin’s art has never done...
View ArticleOH GOD, THANOS MADE NORRIN RADD HIS SEX SLAVE – The Silver Surfer #56
Normally this manner of comics-based bondage is restricted (no pun intended) to Wonder Woman comics. Glad to see the Sentinel of the Spaceways getting in on the kinky action. No, a red ball is at no...
View ArticleTrading Card Set of the Week – Marvel Masterpieces (SkyBox, 1992)
Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer-winning biographer of Peter the Great and all things Tsarish, once stepped off the beaten Romanov path and wrote a great book called Dreadnought. It chronicled the...
View ArticleTrading Card Set of the Week – Marvel Universe (Impel, 1990)
Behold, the granddaddy of them all. Though there had been several comic book-related trading card issues before Impel got into the game, none had taken the serious, company-wide approach that was seen...
View ArticleThe ending that still matters – The Death of Captain Marvel
Deaths in comic books tend to be a lot like retirement/loser leaves town matches in wrestling: they don’t stick. Sure, the characters get a “last” hurrah, and their proprietors get to milk all the...
View ArticleTrading Card Set of the Week (Special Scorched Retinae Edition) – The Silver...
There’s such a thing as going too far with a concept. Despite its invulnerability, you wouldn’t make the whole plane out of the black box (Seinfeld routines to the contrary). You can’t make a pizza...
View ArticleAdam Warlock. Thanos. Magus. 1970s Jim Starlin. Be there. – Warlock #10
With next year’s Guardian’s of the Galaxy, Marvel will throw open the doors to its vast, goofy, glorious cosmic adjunct, inviting curious moviegoers to come in and have a look around. Yes, The...
View ArticleHooked on a feeling or no? – Guardians of the Galaxy
Three years ago saw the film advent of the God of Thunder, Thor, in all his mailed and flaxen-tressed glory. In my review for that film, which I liked quite a bit, I focused a lot on how it was the...
View ArticleTrading Card Set of the Week – Marvel Universe Series II (1991, Impel)
The first spectacular set of Marvel cards produced by Impel back in 199o has already been covered here. The hosannas for that product can’t be overstated: they were crisp, clean, and beautiful, and a...
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