Sometimes great comics just slip under the radar. Either the creatives aren’t well-known enough yet to break through the clutter of an already crowded shelf, or a book’s tone and style is just a bit ahead of its time, or who knows what the reason is; it just doesn’t click with the comic-reading audience at […]
I’ve always loved John Byrne’s work, as long as I can remember. Even when I was little and not paying much attention to creator names, it was his issues of MARVEL TEAM-UP that were always my favorites. Through his epic run on FANTASTIC FOUR, and then SUPERMAN, back to Marvel for books like SHE-HULK and […]
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that comics, like everything else, don’t exist in a vacuum. Everything that comic-book readers think of as conventions, as benchmarks, even as clichés of the genre, had to appear somewhere first. Even something as basic as, say, the team-up. Before 1941, despite the fact that the newsstands were positively overflowing […]
Previously, in Comics 101: Last time, we introduced you to the beginnings of one of DC Comics’ lesser lights: Terry Sloane, the Man of a Thousand Talents known as Mr. Terrific. With a less than memorable costume and not much in the way of superpowers, why did Mr. Terrific stand the test of time in […]
