jonathan hickman
The Crisis Before The War in Avengers: Time Runs Out by Jonathan Hickman
This is the end of Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers story but not the end of his Marvel story.
Steve Lieber
Bring Me The Head of Silvio Silvermane-- thoughts on Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber's The Superior Foes of Spider-Man
Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber don’t portray these guys as villains. If anything, these criminals are working-class stiffs, maybe one step up from being a henchman.
garth ennis
The Breaking of a Good Man— a look at Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov’s The Punisher: Valley Forge, Valley Forge
Maybe it’s not the right time to be writing about a lone gunman prowling the streets of NYC. Or maybe it is as Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov are less focused on the exploits of Frank Castle the man and more dialed into the symbol that is The Punisher.
jonathan hickman
With Great Power, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda... thoughts on Jonathan Hickman and Macro Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1.
It’s the small changes that say the most about Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man.
jonathan hickman
Sidestepping the Event to Tell the Story in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S.
Hickman and Schiti pull away from telling the huge story that we expect and find another way to tell a character-driven story between the context of those loud battles.
Neil Gaiman
Gaiman and Buckingham write the new gospel of Miracleman in The Silver Age
You’ve got to wonder what Miracleman: The Silver Age would have read like if it had come out in the 1990s instead of the 2020s.
Bill Mantlo
From the Archives: The Micronauts #1-12 by Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden
As Akira Kurosawa is to Star Wars, George Lucas is to The Micronauts, Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden’s 1979 comic series that was based on a toy line.
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- July/August 2023
Claremont’s X-Men takes shape as being the story of Storm.
tradd moore
Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise by Tradd Moore and Heather Moore
Tradd Moore has synthesized the vocabulary of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko with Mike Mignola and Jim Woodring’s sense of time, space, and movement..
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- May/June 2023
Chris Claremont starts setting up for the X-Men’s future, starting by removing links to their past.
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- March/April 2023
This period around 1982/1983 marked a shift in the X-Men characters themselves, turning them from superheroes into characters who are often wrestling with themselves as much as they are the bad guys.
Chris Claremont
My Claremont Year- February 2023
Days of Future Past establishes the story that Claremont told in Uncanny X-Men but it takes him a few years to realize that.