Two Saturday-morning theatrical serials of Batman were produced in the 1940s, and it’s hard to overestimate the influence they had on the character. After all, Hugh Hefner showed…
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Wolverine: Legacies
Wolverine first appeared near the end of 1974. Children who read that comic would be past middle age before his background would be fully sketched in (assuming the…
So, You Want to Be an Iron Man Villain?
The best of superheroes have the best villains. If you want to take down the golden avenger, you have to be a cut above average as villains go….
Space Western Comics
After all is said and done, and let’s face it, all has been said and done, you wonder why Charlton did it. They took a cowboy and put…
What Was That Future We Were Headed Towards?
Post-disaster stories are based on one of two things: either the world we know was overcome or it was never good enough in the first place. Lately we…
Hellboy’s A Christmas Underground
We stand upon the earth, the gods are above us, the demons are below us. That is pretty much as close as you can get to the common…
Hooked on a Feeling
When I’m wrong, I try to be the first to admit it. And in this case, was I ever wrong. A couple years back when Marvel announced that their summer 2014 film was going to be Guardians of the Galaxy, I thought they were insane. Here they were on this incredible hot streak of box-office […]
Marathoning the MCU
…Hemsworth and Bradley Cooper/Sean Gunn as my new favorite team of Thor and Rocket. But there’s no denying that this movie belongs to Josh Brolin as Thanos, whose quiet nuanced…
Secret Identities and Tension on SUPERGIRL
…(Nesta Cooper) was fantastic. I mean, she was a badass stealing that book, running back into danger. (Mon-El reverting back to his fumbling self to go along with her was…
Scenes From a Bat-Life
…in my bedroom and wearing my cloth Ben Cooper costume everywhere my Mom would let me. At the supermarket, the clerks would ask, “Hey, Batman, where’s Robin?” And I’d answer…
Face it Tiger, The Old Rules Don’t Fly Anymore – Looking at RENEW YOUR VOWS
…me. Marvel’s “It” couple was no longer a thing, and one of my favorite heroes was alone. He dated Carly Cooper for a minute, but I never believed it was…
Treasury Editions
Once upon a far away time, when superhero comics had just begun, comics were 64 pages long and cost a dime . Came the war and with it…
Daredevil’s First Makeover
Every superhero changes over time. Things have to be retconned or just plain rewritten to present them to a new audience or just stop embarrassing yourself from what…