I Will Tell You #76: Happy Fat Tuesday In the dead of winter, Christmas is nothing more than a distant memory, and Easter Sunday seems as far reaching as the promise of the spring season it heralds. Even St Patrick’s Day, with its own promise of corned beef and cabbage and cheap beer dyed green…
I WILL TELL YOU #68: Merry Pop Culture Christmas! But first, just a normal but jolly Merry Christmas, one and all! There’s no place I’d rather be! Now, lest you think this is some kind of misguided attempt to relive my childhood and be up and wide awake at 7AM on Christmas morning, I will…
Top 5 Reasons Why The Avengers Are So Cool The Avengers are so cool, in fact, that I will tell you why with no lead-in whatsoever. 5. Comics’ Mightiest Creators Sure, Fantastic Four had Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and Uncanny X-Men had Chris Claremont and John Byrne. But The Avengers had all of those…
As part of Avengers month (plus), leading up to the opening of the movie; The Avengers, this week I am looking at Thor # 377, from Marvel Comics. It is cover dated November 1983 and features a really strange looking image of the title character, Thor! Or does it? Who is this strange looking creature wearing…
Happy Friday to all my readers! This week I’ve pulled out The Incredible Hulk # 161, cover dated March 1973, from Marvel Comics. It has a cover drawn by Herb Trimpe and inked by Sal Trapani, showing the Hulk fighting the X-Men’s Beast, aka Hank McCoy! The story itself is entitled; “Beyond The Border lurks…
Happy Friday! And welcome back to Greg Turner’s Retro Review. This week I’ve pulled out Detective Comics # 475 & 476. These are published by DC Comics and are cover dated; February and April 1978. The comics feature the Batman against his foe, the Joker, in a two-issue continued story written by Steve Englehart, with pencil…
If this is Friday, then this must be Greg Turner‘s Retro Review! This week I’ll be looking at Marvel Comics’ John Carter, Warlord Of Mars # 11. This bronze age beauty is cover dated April 1978. And features a lovely cover drawn by Dave Cockrum. The inks were done by Dave himself, with the possible assistance of Rudy…