We’ll get back to the Black Widow next week, but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to spread some very exciting news. I’ll let the good folks at IDW Publishing take it from here: Harlan Ellison’s Acclaimed Star Trek Script Comes to Comics IDW Will Adapt the Award-Winning Original Teleplay of “City On the Edge of […]
So as we’ve seen if you’ve been following along the last few weeks, although the Black Widow had been hanging around the Avengers for what seemed like forever, she’d never actually joined the team. So what spurred to Natasha to finally formally join up and become an Avenger? As it turns out, of all things, […]
We’ll get back to our Black Widow coverage next week, but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to tip my hat to the good people at Gallifrey One, the largest and longest-running DOCTOR WHO convention in North America, as they once again put on one of the most enjoyable convention experiences I’ll have all year. This […]
Previously, in Comics 101: Last time, we looked at the beginnings of Marvel’s resident super-spy the Black Widow, when she made her first appearance as a Cold War antagonist of Iron Man, Marvel’s then-most-prominent Commie fighter. After a couple of failed clashes with the Armored Avenger, the Black Widow cast out for a little help… […]
Previously, in COMICS 101: We tracked the beginnings of DC’s Earth-2 version of Supergirl, the Justice Society of America’s Power Girl. But how could she exist in a comics continuity without an Earth-2 Superman? Therein hangs a tale… The question of Power Girl’s now-befuddling origins was addressed in 1987, in issue #11 of DC’s anthology […]
Not every decision DC made following the rebooting of their universe in CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS was a complete success. Some were just out-and-out bad decisions (like the excising of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman from JLA history), some were editorial miscalculations that degenerated into a continuity nightmare (say, for example, Hawkman), and some were […]
For Those Who Came in Late: We’ve spent the last two weeks here at COMICS 101 looking at the original Silver Age Supergirl, Kara Zor-El. When we left off, following her heroic sacrifice in the pages of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, Kara was not only dead, but once all was said and done, she’d been […]
The Superman Family grew again in February 1960, with the introduction of Streaky, the Super-Cat in “Supergirl’s Super-Pet!” from ACTION COMICS #261, by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Jim Mooney. Here Kara discovers a marble-sized Kryptonite meteor, and resolves to take it back to the chem lab in the orphanage’s school and try to devise […]
Every year, the Christmas tree would be different. One year, it would be the classic red and silver glass spheres. The next, scores of wooden ornaments, lovingly accumulated over decades. The next, dozens and dozens of crystal bells, painstakingly hand-stitched together for months in advance of the big debut. And every year, it would be […]
Christmas is just around the corner, so let’s take a look at a few gift suggestions for the nerdery-enthusiasts on your shopping list. To begin: LEGO MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (most major consoles) While from a play-action standpoint, this doesn’t differ much from the earlier LEGO video games, the sheer breadth and variety available here makes this […]
There are a lot of stories out there about Silver Age Superman Editor Mort Weisinger, who shepherded the Superman comics for 20 years, from 1950 until 1970: he was a bully, he was jealous and petty, he took credit for the work of others, he abused his writers (a favorite story tells of a disgruntled […]
Last time, in COMICS 101… Last week, we looked at the beginnings of Marvel’s resident vigilante the Punisher, and at the character’s somewhat sad decline before returning to his proper style at the hands of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon… In Ennis and Dillon’s outstanding miniseries (available collected as THE PUNISHER: WELCOME BACK, FRANK), Castle […]
A man takes his family for a picnic in the park. The cruel hand of fate intervenes, and the man and his family are caught in the crossfire of a mob execution. The man’s wife, son and daughter are killed, but he survives. There’s nothing left for him now but to devote himself to killing […]
