Our modern world is a physical one. A world of gorgeous movie stars, high-end diets, and cosmetic surgery. People eat kale and water just to drop a few pounds; all in the quest for physical perfection. What if, in our visually-obsessed culture, all of this was actually achievable in one small step? In Image Comics’ […]
Author Archive | Harley Salbacka
Teen Angst, Crime and Superpowers: WE CAN NEVER GO HOME
A high-school social reject and the overachieving queen bee strike up an unorthodox friendship. Sounds like an ’80s John Hughes flick, right? Wrong. Black Mask’s We Can Never Go Home is almost a Spider-manesque superhero story but with a definite shade of darkness to it. Not unlike early Peter Parker stories, much of it focuses […]
Watch Out! Here Comes the Spider-Gwen!
Well, we the fans asked and we received. After the astronomical success of Edge of Spider-Verse issue #2, fans flooded Dan Slott with letters and pictures begging for more of Gwen Stacy as Spider-Woman. Unlike in reality, death in the comic-book world is by no means an absolute. Over and over we see characters die […]