So 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…
I 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…
It’s Friday once again and time for a new Fabulous Find, and this week it is another fanzine I have recently added to my collection. This one is Conjure # 1, dated 1974 from Thomas Sciacca and George Perez. As Sciacca says in his editorial, Conjure is George and his attempt to “create a new…
Welcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where this week I discovered the sequel to a previously profiled flick on Amazon Prime and just had to inflict it up my readers share it with you all. It is Sinister Squad, the 2016 sequel to 2015’s Avengers Grimm and a mockbuster of Suicide…
Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! It’s another Fabulous Find, two weeks in a row! I’m not sure what came over me, but I didn’t feel like reviewing a comic book this week and so I decided to double down on my Fabulous Finds and what a find it is! It’s a bootleg copy…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re celebrating the release of the surprisingly good Solo: A Star Wars Story with a Han-centric alternate take on the original trilogy, Star Wars Infinities – The Empire Strikes Back. How’s It Different? Like the previous installment, this one is a For Want of a Nail story.…
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging to bring you…an actual movie review. There’s a brand new horror movie streaming right now and I, being a crowdfunder on it, got a screener copy thereof (I’m going to get physical media when it becomes available). It’s called Director’s Cut, starring and written by Penn Jillette and directed…
Boy Howdy! It’s time for a new RETRO REVIEW and this week I’ve visited the independent section of the comic book vault and brought up Mage # 1, of if you prefer, Mage The Hero Discovered # 1, cover dated May, 1984 published by Comico. Comico may have published this comic, but’s it’s the Matt…
Welcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, which will go back to its eldritch slumber just as soon as we mine the vein I found on Amazon Video. In celebration of Avengers: Infinity War (SPOILERS: Superman comes back to life to help fight Steppenwolf), we intellectuals are watching what is truly the…
Greetings and salutations, all. Welcome to a new RETRO REVIEW and this week I’ve dug through the comic book vault and pulled out a couple of comics I forgot I even owned. They are Detective Comics # 569, cover dated December 1986 and Detective Comics # 570, cover dated January 1987. Both are published by…