I liked Kitty Pryde aka Sprite aka Shadowcat aka Ariel as soon as I met her in Uncanny X-Men #129. The young girl who could phase and walk through walls and possessed unstoppable spunk grabbed my attention. I adored how she instantly bonded with Storm and soon proved she wasn’t scared to jump into the […]
Don’t you wish you had a parade with a giant fat balloon of you? Mark Waid does. Well, maybe not: You can buy this issue yourself by just clicking here!
Not all of Batman’s rogues were big hits right off the bat; some needed a few years to ferment. Let Mark Waid explain: Want to have it for yourself? Just click here!
BBC America has posted on their Web site a 7-page preview of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION/DOCTOR WHO: ASSIMILATION SQUARED! Click over to check it out! You can buy a set of the A and B covers by clicking here!
Think back for a minute to say, high school or college. A pretty sizable chunk of your life, right? Now imagine spending four times that long writing a single group of characters. Sixteen years. That’s how long Chris Claremont was the writer on Marvel’s UNCANNY X-MEN, the series he revitalized, which in turn revitalized the […]
Rumors are flying about the talk that DC will re-introduce one of its “iconic” characters as a gay man, a fact pretty much confirmed by DC higher-ups at a recent convention. Exactly what character has yet to be confirmed, but a certain rumor site is claiming “on good authority” that the newly gay DC super-hero […]
The first appearance of Vandal Savage? Mark Waid found it! And now you can own it! Just click here to buy!
I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for Disney. Disneyland, the feature animation, the music, all of it. Always have been. Which is why I’m so pleased to show off our newest category in the Blastoff Online Store: Disneyana. Here are a few sneak peeks at some of the amazing bits of Disney […]
DC didn’t just publish superhero comics in the 1950s — Mark Waid tells us about one of the stranger series to hit racks back in the day: And you can own it! Just click here to buy this classic, bizarre comic!
Events in the pages of comic books can be scary. I’m not talking about alien invasions, horror stories, or a Hulk-sized arch-nemesis stomping through a city. Sure. Some of those stories have woken me up in the middle of the night in sweats, but stories about hate and prejudice really get to me. They chill […]
Did you know Jerry Lewis had a comic? Did you know it ran for a decade?! Mark Waid tells us more: How can you not want to own this issue? Just click here to buy!
Harlan Ellison has the first Silver Age appearance of Two-Face, and even better, a great story to go along with it: How can you turn down an offer like that? To buy the issue, Click here!
Here’s a scary statistic for you. This week’s column marks the 400th column to be posted here at Comics 101.com. Four hundred. That’s a lot of columns. I’m hoping to get back to the longer history columns soon, as I’m just now coming out of a very deadline-crazy period, and expect to have a little […]
