When it comes to entertainment we are living in an era when bout 90% of mainstream media is seemingly owned by like three companies. Whether it is: film, theme parks, comics, or TV chances are it is owned by either Disney, Warner Bros. or Universal. Now, this may come as a surprise…but probably not, these multi-billion dollar corporations are not run by people who care about art in any form,…

It was at Dragon Con 2006 in Atlanta, my first ever con, perhaps this was the formation of a Core Memory al a’ Inside Out but I will leave that to the little people who live in my brain. My younger socially awkward self was nervously in-line to meet my first ever con guest, legendary comic book artist George Perez. He was there raising money for the Hero Initiative a charity that he was a…

The Marvel universe is home to many, many mutant characters. Some have amazing powers, whilst others are…improbable. Such as mutating to travel through portals but only on a boogie-board. That’s not what we’re here for today. Today it’s the grossest, most difficult to look at let alone imagine being, the most hideous mutations inflicted on these poor souls. We left Chamber of the list, as his…

While superheroes currently dominate the big screen, those in capes and masks have also held a strong presence on the small screen as well. While there are countless fantastic animated superhero shows, the characters of Marvel and DC have also showed up in live action as well. Adventures of Superman: For decades “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” has been known throughout the world as the…

Whereas most supervillains in the Marvel Universe have grand plans of world domination. But in New York, Wilson Fisk has a goal of simply being the wealthiest and most powerful crime lord in the Big Apple as the Kingpin. First appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #50 he used the temporary retirement of Spidey as an opportunity to forge a united crime syndicate in the city with he and the top…

Bruce Wayne has spent a lot of time money and effort hiding the fact that at night he dons a costume and preys on cowardly and superstitious criminals. Despite all of his skills as a crimefighter, he is still only human and can only keep a secret so well. Over the years a number of different heroes and villains alike have uncovered that it is actually Gotham City’s favorite billionaire playboy…

As comic book readers we have collectively reached the point where the deaths of major characters do not really pack a punch. As soon as we see a costumed figure meet the Reaper we begin the countdown in our heads until their return. But occasionally they do not come back, as there are some comic book character who have died and remained dead. Captain Marvel: The Kree warrior Mar-Vell was the…

I am going to publish this and immediately remember another ten that should have been on the list. Maybe I’ll do a follow up. But I did a quick scan of galleries and jotted down the first ones that stood out. When I checked back, I’d immediately gotten ten on a first pass. So we’re sticking with it. GIANT SIZE X-MEN #1 Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum, 1975 This is an easy pick, as it kicked off the…

In the 2000’s, then Marvel Comics’ then president Bill Jemas and Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada were successfully pulling the publisher back from the brink of financial ruin. One the things they realized was that comicdom needed to bring in a new generation of readers. These new readers were unfamiliar with the decades of continuity nor the countless heroes and villains, chances are the new…

We live in a world where entertainment has solidified its place on the screens of our iPads, iPhones, iSewing Machines, smart TV’s, computers etc. No matter if you want to watch the newest episode of Stranger Things or read the latest Scott Snyder comic, you just press an app and get started. Everything you could possibly want to amuse yourself is on a little device you can put in your pants…

At some point during my latter college years, I was listening to a radio show on NPR which specialized in music from emerging acts from all over the world. On this night, they played a song from a little band from Britain who the host was quite excited about as they blended the styles of folk music with Brit pop/rock. I was intrigued and needless to say this song from this little English band…

Possibly the biggest thing in the audiobook world recently was that Amazon’s arm Audible was making the ambitious move to adapt the DC Comics/Vertigo masterpiece the Sandmaninto audio form. No doubt this would be a daunting task as Neil Gaiman’s dark fantasy saga spans all of time, space, and reality. In addition to the grand scale comes the fact that the story is being transformed from a visual…

If their is a superhero team reminiscent of a pantheon it is the Justice League. A team without equal they recruit the best and those who have proven themselves to battle evil. Over the decades they ahve attracted a number of talented creators who have brought out the best in the Justice League, so in no particular order here are the greatest Justice League stories.

Brave and the Bold #28:When…

For the past few years I’ve been reading through the X-Men comics. All of them. New Mutants, Excalibur, X-Factor…every title that existing in order of publication. This wasn’t planned. I’d read the comics as a youngster and stopped during my teenage years. Through the x-cellent podcast ‘Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men’ I felt a need to go back to the beginning and see where it all started. So I…

Ever since the creation of Joe Simon and Jack Kirbyburst onto the scene, decked in a star-spangled costume and socking Hitler in the jaw he has been an icon of Marvel Comics. Steve Rogers volunteered for a risky medical experiment and the result was he became a superhero dubbed Captain America. Wielding his famed shield, he has fought evil across the decades becoming a fan favorite in the…

Recently the fandom community was rocked when Dan Didio, the publisher for the past 18 years at DC Comics was parted from the company. His co-publisher Jim Lee is still around, but is of course a busy man so it is not outside the realm of possibility that it will be “when” rather than “if” a new publisher is named. Given that by all appearances the decision to part ways with Didio was a corporate…

I am sure every comic fan has now learned that after 18 years the Co-Publisher and former VP-Executive Editor of DC Comics, Dan Didio was released from his position. By all accounts this decision came down from the new corporate overlords at DC’s parent company Warner Bros. While we could sit here for days arguing over the why and how and who said what, but I am not here for that today. What I…