Welcome back for yet another RETRO REVIEW. This week, I present Marvel Comics’ Master of Kung Fu # 44, which is cover dated September 1976. It features a cover drawn by John Buscema, with inks by Al Milgrom The story itself is entitled; Prelude: Golden Daggers (A Death Run)”. The book if you didn’t know, featured Shang-Chi, the son of…
DetailsWelcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re looking to Batman’s future in “The Knights of Tomorrow” from Batman: The Brave & The Bold season two. How’s It Different? It’s an Imaginary Story, ultimately based on the one from Batman #131 – right down to being Alfred’s real person fanfic about the Batman Family.…
DetailsGreetings, friends, fans and family. I’m back with a brand new Fabulous Find this week. And once again digging through my fanzine collection, I bring you Heroes’ Hangout # 5, dated in 1967. My best guess it was sent out late spring or early summer of ’67. This fanzine was published by Rudi Franke. Earlier…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where we’re taking a detour into the combined DC/Milestone Universe in honor of the debut of Young Justice: Outsiders (and with it the return of Static, Icon, & Rocket to the small screen, not to mention the “other media” debut of Hardware). We’re watching Static…
DetailsWelcome back to a new RETRO REVIEW. This week I’ve pulled out of the comic book vault, Showcase # 73, from DC Comics. The comic is cover dated April 1968. It features a brand new character; the Creeper. The Creeper was the brainchild of recent Marvel Comics stalwart, Steve Ditko. Back in March of 2018,…
DetailsWelcome back to Strange Times & Places, where this week we’re going back to the USSR! A little while back, Valiant Entertainment did their own riff on the Age of Apocalypse with Divinity III: Stalinverse, but we’re focusing on the tie-in one-shots collectively called Divinity III: Heroes of the Glorious Stalinverse. How’s It Different? It’s…
DetailsSo we come to the end of yet another year. My ninth writing blog posts for the Back To The Past website. Time sure does fly by, doesn’t it? As always, the Christmas season really cuts into my time trying to keep up here, so like previous years I just want to say the traditional…
DetailsMerry Christmas and welcome back to Strange Times & Places! Today, we’re doing something a little different & looking at a re-imagining of folklore – Grant Morrison’s Klaus! How’s It Different? Gosh, that’s a hard one since there’s no one single “accepted” Santa Claus canon. Probably an Imaginary Story – in the words of Alan…
DetailsWelcome back to another Fabulous Find for the week before Christmas. I am continuing with the contents of the fanzine Fan # 1 this week to make it a little easier on myself and because there are lots more Christmas goodness within Fan # 1 to share with you. Recapping last week’s post, Fan # 1…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where I’m taking a page out of Greg’s book and talking about old school garage rock…in the form of The Shaggs’ one and only album, Philosophy of the World. Who are The Shaggs? Sisters Dot, Betty and Helen Wiggin officially formed The Shaggs as teenagers…
DetailsWelcome back to another Fabulous Find. This week I’ve got Fan # 1, which comes from Chris Padovano and was published in 1977. It was actually a continuation of The Fans of Central Jersey fanzine, which had just folded. Chris had been working on issue # 21, when the club & zine went under, so…
DetailsWelcome back to Strange Times & Places, where this week I’m jonesing real bad. For three years, Disney has trained me to want Star Wars in December…and this year they’re giving me Mary Poppins Returns. To sate my cravings, we’re reading 2013’s eight issue mini-series The Star Wars. How’s It Different? It’s an Imaginary Story,with…
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