Roy Thomas Returns to Marvel to Write a Conan the Barbarian Prequel
Games Radar/Newsarama announced veteran Thomas, the guy who launched Robert E. Howard’s pulp adventures into the realms of comicdom, was hired by Marvel, now that…
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Kitty Pryde: Another Legacy Character Falls Victim to Marvel’s PC-Pandering
Polygon’s gushing over how Kitty Pryde, now resurrected a few months after being put in death limbo, turns out to be returning to the land…
How Can the ‘X-Men’ Still Matter When They’re Beholden to Political Correctness?
A writer at the Triad City Beat wrote about the X-Men’s history as an allusion to the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s…
Activists Accuse Marvel of “Queerbaiting” for Killing Kitty Pryde Instead of Turning Her Gay
First, as Screen Rant reported a few weeks ago, Marvel decided to go the cheapjack route and kill off one of the X-Men’s most notable…
Join the Club? The Myriad Origins of Marvel’s Sinister Hellfire Club
First, we need to establish the mood… press play, then continue reading. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire (1968) [High Quality Stereo Sound, Color,…
DC’s Alternative Ending for Jason Todd Begs Further Questions
Polygon’s written up another history piece not unlike this one about the ill-advised way DC went about crafting the death of the second Robin, Jason Todd, in…
Back Issue Spotlight: X-Men: The End: Book 3: Men & X-Men
It’s “the end” of the classic era of Marvel Comics’ “The End” titles with the X-Men: The End as I go through Book 3…
Is Another Marvel Comics Valkyrie Headed for the MCU?
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there are multiple Valkyries. They were warrior defenders of Asgard. As we saw in Thor: Ragnarok, they bravely faced off against…
Back Issue Spotlight: X-Men: The End: Book 2: Heroes & Martyrs
Continuing with my backissue reviews through the epic sized X-Men: The End, tonight I wanted to continue to go through the story by covering the…
Back Issue Spotlight: X-Men: The End: Book One: Dreamers & Demons
We’re in the final stretch of my The End videos as we go over the final leg of Marvel’s original ‘The End’ books, and this…