Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where the debut of the Infinity Warps last week reignited some childhood fandom in me. As such, in honor of Infinity Wars: Soldier Supreme #1 hitting our racks this week, we’re looking at Super-Soldier #1 & Super-Soldier: Man of War #1! How’s It Different? Like Spider-Boy, JLX, and…
DetailsI thought I’d feature a book for this week’s Fabulous Find. So looking over my various bookshelves, The Book Of Conquests written and drawn by Jim Fitzpatrick jumped out at me. The book was published in 1978, by Paper Tiger, a Dragon’s World Limited Imprint, which is a Great Britain entity, in conjunction with E. P.…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where this week I discovered a childhood favorite was on Amazon Prime – 1995’s Street Fighter: The Animated Series! What’s The Plot? Colonel William Guile, one of the world’s top martial artists, has been dishonorably discharged from the military and is traveling the world living…
DetailsWelcome back for another RETRO REVIEW and this week I’ve gone into the comic book vault and pulled out Flash # 131 published by DC Comics, or National Comics, as it was known in those days. Here’s the cover, dated September 1962: This is the second of the ‘famous’, or at least very collectable Flash/Green…
DetailsWelcome 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…
DetailsHello there, fabulous friends, fans and family, and welcome to another Fabulous Find. I’m here again to share one of my cool (at least I think they’re cool) collectibles from my collection. This week I’ve pulled a fanzine entitled; The Complete Justice League of America Reader. It was published in 1973 by future comic book professional;…
DetailsWelcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where we once more dip our toes back into the world of indie direct-to video children’s films, 2013’s over-punctuated A Talking Cat!?! What’s The Plot? A retired tech millionaire and his awkward nerdy son learn lessons in life, love, and family from a self-proclaimed human…
DetailsSo the Fantastic Four is finally back in the pages of Marvel Comics comic books, with a new number one issue just released this month. And about time, I say! And in honor of that, his RETRO REVIEW takes a look at Fantastic Four # 142, cover dated January 1974. This issue sports a cover…
DetailsWelcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we dip our toes back into AU crossovers of Hasbro’s biggest franchises with Dreamwave’s Transformers/G.I. Joe. How’s It Different? It is an Imaginary Story transposing the Autobots, G.I. Joe team, Decepticons, and Cobra into a World War II setting. What’s The Story? It’s 1939 and the…
DetailsI have a confession to make! Yes, I am hooked on series characters. Comics, of course, but also books! I guess it stems from my elementary school days, when I read The Hardy Boys series, written under the house name of Franklin W. Dixon. In 1959, the series underwent extensive revisions and were reissued in…
DetailsWelcome back to Scripting Errors, a periodic feature where we look at movies that might have been! Today’s entry is the single best Valor script ever written, Superman: Flyby. Who Wrote It and When? J. J. Abrams, circa 2002. Felicity had just ended, Alias was just beginning, and his big directorial break with Mission Impossible…
DetailsIt’s been a while since I reviewed a Charlton Comics Group comic book, so I’ve excavated my copy of Captain Atom, Volume 2, number 83, cover dated November 1966. For a too short period during the sixties, Charlton Comics tried their hand at producing super-hero comic books, or in their vernacular, Action Heroes! The hero that…
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