Category: Books

DIVA, DAMES & DAREDEVILS Preview

DIVAS DAMES & DAREDEVILS CoverIn an age when fans take to social media to save comic books starring female heroes it’s amazing to think back to a time when strong women packed the pages of comics.

 

Divas, Dames and Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics takes you back to an age of extraordinary women fighting evil as reporters, fighter pilots, detectives, masked vigilantes and super-powered goddesses.

 

Mike Madrid (The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy and the History of Comic Book Heroines) devotes a chapter to the different styles of female heroes that populated comics anthologies of the 1940’s. You may know Wonder Woman or Sheena, Queen of the Jungle but Madrid introduces you to other fantastic women of the era. Continue reading DIVA, DAMES & DAREDEVILS Preview

Top 10 X-MEN Stories (10 to 6)

Uncanny X-Men #127 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny X-Men #127 courtesy Marvel

 

X-Men Battle of the Atom kicks off this week with mutants from the past, present and future in a time twisting tale to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Children of the Atom.

 

After years of reading (the X-Men was my first comic book ever) and a lot of thinking about the great epics of mutant past here are my top ten picks for the best X-Men storylines.

 

Here is our #10-#6: Continue reading Top 10 X-MEN Stories (10 to 6)

Villains Month Darkseid

courtesy DC Comics
courtesy DC Comics

Villains Month is here!

 

It’s the second anniversary of The New 52 and  DC Comics is celebrating the bad guys by letting them take over the hero books.  They even get the 3-D cover treatment.

 

Here’s a look at the Justice League title taken over by DC’s baddest of the bad and the villain behind the first big Justice League story of The New 52:

 

JUSTICE LEAGUE #23.1: DARKSEID
by Greg Pak and Paulo Siqueria with a 3-D motion cover by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado.

 

“For Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips, you conform or die. Now born into his realm is an anomaly who looks to challenge that. A trickster, who will go to Continue reading Villains Month Darkseid

Peter Milligan Takes On SHADOWMAN

courtesy Valiant
courtesy Valiant

Shadowman gets a new creative team. Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and artist Roberto De La Torre (Daredevil, Age of Apocalypse) are taking on Valiant’s dark hero with Shadowman #13.

 

As revealed today in USA Today, Milligan and De La Torre kick off their run all-new story arc “exposing the malignant roots of Shadowman’s superhuman abilities…roots that began in Jack Boniface’s own tortured past…and now extend through the bloodied back-alleys of 21st century New Orleans. Continue reading Peter Milligan Takes On SHADOWMAN

THE STAR WARS

The Star Wars #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics
The Star Wars #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics

The Star Wars before Star Wars!

 

Dark Horse Comics expands it’s Star Wars comic book universe this with an adaptation of George Lucas’s original, pre-edits screenplay for Star Wars in an eight part series called The Star Wars kicking off this week.

 

Three years before the classic 1977 film, George Lucas put down on paper his first story set in a galaxy far, far away. A story of Jedi Annikin Starkiller and General Luke Skywalker, an alien named Han Solo, and evil Sith Knights. The screenplay was titled The Star Wars! Continue reading THE STAR WARS

Tribute in INFINITY #2

Infinity #2 courtesy Marvel
Infinity #2 courtesy Marvel

INFINITY #2 hits this week!

 

If you got a copy of Marvel’s Infinity Free Comic Book Day preview book or saw Infinity #1 you saw what happens when a tribute is paid to Thanos: death…a lot of death.

 

Infinity #2 by Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver picks up the action. Adam Kubert’s cover shows Captain America leading the interstellar forces against Thanos!

 

But the teaser includes an ominous line: Continue reading Tribute in INFINITY #2

The End of X-FACTOR

X-Factor #262 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #262 courtesy Marvel

The End of X-Factor is almost here. The long-running series Peter David has written for more than a decade is coming to an end. It’s a time to look back at the innovative series and ahead to see the possible futures of the team members.

 

Back in the early 90’s there was Mutant Genesis (when Chris Claremont and Jim Lee launched the first X-Men #1) the original X-Men left their series, X-Factor, to join the two new X-Men teams/books. After diving up the popular characters into the two X-Men books, Excalibur and X-Force Marvel still had a title called X-Factor. Continue reading The End of X-FACTOR