A ton of radical comics from the 90s, including a bunch of Venom titles, come to auction this weekend! That got us thinking about Venom’s best crossovers, which started shortly after his transition from “murderous super-villain” to “murderous anti-hero”. Here are our Top Five! 5) Wolverine 1996 mini-series Venom: Tooth & Claw is, despite the…
Welcome back to Consigned, Cool, & Collected! Each week, Back to the Past chronicles the stories behind the nifty stuff that passes through our doors. Today’s installment concludes a series we’ve been running on the gorgeous CGC graded comics coming to auction May 19-21! This particular specimen will be part of our in-person grand finale…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops, where the experts at Back to the Past illustrate their decades of collectibles knowledge using examples from our auctions. This week, we’re looking to our April Twenty-Fourth and our May Fifteenth sessions – both featured fairly well-preserved copies of Incredible Hulk #181, but the latter auction’s specimen was coverless. How…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where this week we’re once more dipping our toes into the Amalgam Age of Comics with Legends of Dark Claw #1! How’s It Different? Like JLX and Spider-Boy before it, it is an Amalgam – a deliberate and literal blend of two separate characters into one. It doesn’t…
Welcome back to Scripting Errors, where we look at movies that might have been! Today’s entry would more accurately be called a MisTreatment, since I selected a 19 page X-Men treatment (the first step in the script writing process) rather than a full script. This post is illustrated with fan art by Scott Ngo, check…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re looking at a mutant-centric story in honor of The Gifted’s season finale last night – Chris Claremont’s X-Men Forever. How’s It Different? It’s a Royale With Cheese, where a bunch of little differences add up to create something very different, but it all stems from a…
Hey, hey, hey, it’s time for another RETRO REVIEW and this week I’ve dug through the Marvel Comics section of the comics vault and unearthed Hercules, Prince of Power # 1, cover dated September 1982. I should mentioned that the subtitle, Prince of Power, is only listed on the cover and is not listed as…
Avengers vs. X-Men has reached its conclusion, leaving the intrepid Cyclops rotting in a cell. A fitting result for the leader of the X-Men? Sean Pigeon offers a few examples of AVX justice from the Avengers side, like Scarlet Witch and Namor, and questions the outcome in this video segment that all Avengers and X-Men…
Growing up, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Wolverine. I didn’t not like him, I just tended to lean towards a different set of characters. Every kid I knew loved Michelangelo from the Turtles, my favorite was Leonardo. When G.I. Joe was huge, every kid loved Snake Eyes, my loyalty was and will always be…
The winter of 1994 was when I discovered my first taste of freedom. Every Wednesday, since getting into comics the year previously, my mother was dealt the thankless task of picking my friend Chris and I up from school. Like the saint that she was, she would then take us to our local comic shop…