Newsarama Belittles Another Stan Lee Creation: Black Widow
Newsarama did a sugarcoated interview with Kelly Thompson about her new Black Widow series where Natasha Romanova goes “into retirement”, as though such a thing…
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While Comic Industry Burns, Marvel Doubles-Down on Social Justice
Right on the heels of the SJW-influenced New Warriors comes a 5-issue miniseries starring America Chavez, who was created under similar intentions a few years…
What Exactly Is San Diego Comic-Con and Is It Still About Comics?
Comic-con, now renowned as San Diego Comic-Con or abbreviated SDCC, is a comic-related convention in San Diego. The 2020 event is scheduled for July…
No More Heroes! Superhero Films & TV Shows That Are Best Forgotten
TV shows have been featuring superheroes for years, and lately it’s felt like a veritable “golden age” of solid offerings, but there’s also a wealth…
Angry University Adjunct Applies Critical Theory to Superhero Films
An excerpt from the College Fix: Mich Ciurria, an adjunct in the University of Missouri philosophy department, decided to apply that little ‘ol thing…
Comic Book Clubs: High School Kids Still Getting Into Comics
The Leavenworth Times in Kansas has an article on a student’s comic book club in a local school: They are the predecessor to video…
Comics Review: Captain America: The End
Tonight it’s the last of the new batch of What If’s (The End) is out (I’ll get around to Doctor Strange, promise!) Having said that,…
Washington Post Sadly Bungles Story on Earliest Black Superhero
The Washington Post just did a story about the history of an early black superhero creation from the Golden Age, late 1940s called Lion Man, which…
That Marvel Comics Promise That Took a Full 28 Years to Be Fulfilled
Way back in 1973 a teenage would-be artist Michael A. Barreiro entered a competition in issue #3 of the Marvel fan magazine FOOM (Friends of ol’ Marvel)…
Magneto Undertakes New Mission in Hickman & Oliver’s Giant-Size X-Men
When Giant-Size X-Men hits stands next year, X-Men fans will get to see Jonathan Hickman’s vision for mutantkind unfold. These large-scale, but standalone stories…