Redesign gone wrong…
The new look for Wonder Woman has been a big topic. I without question agree with my fellow ‘Noizer and give this two thumbs down. It’s screaming 1994 in the worst way. Speaking of… way back when Mrs. Richards aka Susan Storm aka the Invisible Woman had a pretty horrific makeover herself. To set the [...]
Top 100 Summer Comics… #80
It’s always been a fun concept for writer’s to play with the powers of the Fantastic Four. Recently (well, relatively) Mark Waid and Mike Weiringo did a nice job of a Human Torch / Invisible Woman power swap. Well done, worked in the context of the story really well. But my favorite take on this [...]
Cold Lampin’
After a month away, I returned to my apartment to face the awful truth that I live in a hovel suitable only for troglodytes and mole people. This is the sort of clarity you only get from stepping away from something long enough to take it in anew. The apartment isn’t beyond salvage though. I [...]
3-D Man? 4-D Man? No…
Actually not even close. Those aren’t even the Marvel characters he gets most often confused with. Somewhere between a man of little intellect, Daredevil and Wolverine’s wardrobe, and a human ox lies… D-MAN. I don’t really want to spoil it for you, but D-Man SUCKS. He sucks. As in “couldn’t-make-the-Great-Lakes-Avengers” SUCKS. But… in the most [...]
So wait… Baseball cards come with gum…
But Gum comes with comic books?Β And wait… then the 90′s hit, and comics came with baseball cards! THE CIRCLE IS COMPLETE! I’ll say this. I knew at a young age NOT to eat the gum that came in packs of cards, but I’m still tempted to try this 30+ year old gum featuring Marvel [...]
Not him! It can’t be him!
Yeah, it’s definitely not him. It IS however a 24 issue lot of Marvel Two In One comics, starring everyone’s favorite ever lovin’ blue eyed Thing. Basically it was just Marvel Team Up, with Benjy in the Spider Man role. Both books were always a fun time, with loads of second tier characters getting exposure.
Super Hot Wheels and not so super Hot Wheels.
Hot Wheels. A staple of every boy’s childhood since the 60s, and if you didn’t have Hot Wheels you had Matchbox cars. The Marvel superheroes went the Hot Wheels route, to varying effects. The best one I think belongs to the Mighty Thor… A van with a Thor mural on the side? They should make [...]
Steve Englehart’s Fantastic Four. Emphasis on FANTASTIC.
A strange thing happened at Cumberland Farms on Loudon Road in Colonie in 1989.Β The Thing no more? Why is Ben Grimm standing there in that Man diaper?! It all happened in the pages of Fantastic Four #327. I was either skating at Guptill’s or on my way back from the ColonieΒ Pool with my Pops [...]
