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.
Marvel Comics
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.
tradd moore
"Go home, traveler"- thoughts on Tradd Moore's Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise #1 (and maybe a few words on Ronin Book II #1)
Tradd Moore’s artwork is strange and fantastic, inspired by pop art as much as it is by comics. He’s telling a story about magic and his art is imbued with a different kind of magic.
Neil Gaiman
An Introduction To the World in Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman: The Silver Age #1
Young Miracleman wasn’t resurrected because of who or what he was but because one old man with too much power felt alone and rudderless in the world that he has made.
Neil Gaiman
From the Archive- Miracleman: The Golden Age
Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham reveal this post-superhero world through the stories and lives of normal but unsettled men and women.
alan moore
Welcome the Mighty Marvel Age of Miracleman
Miracleman #0 feels less like a celebration and more like a warning of what can happen to the character once Gaiman and Buckingham are finally done with him once and for all.
barry windsor-smith
"A Dream of Dying" in Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X
Maybe no one told Barry Windsor-Smith that he was telling a Wolverine story because Weapon X certainly doesn't read like one.
jim rugg
Some Nice Design in Jim Rugg's Hulk Grand Design Monster
There are just these clips and memories of old comics. This is not a Hulk comic but a comic about Hulk comics, a snake eating its tail.
George Perez
What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and George Perez’s JLA/Avengers?
An appreciation of George Pérez's stellar work on the JLA/Avengers crossover.
Jim Starlin
From The Archives-- The Strange Life and Death of Adam Warlock
If Lee/Kirby and Thomas/Kane were telling tales about an innocent childhood of the character, Jim Starlin was dealing with the moody teenage version of Adam Warlock.
2021
From Cover to Cover's Favorite Comics of 2021
Here are our favorites from 2021, a year that saw a lot of great books.Please know this post serves to celebrate our favorites, and while we read a bunch, we certainly don't read everything. Really, there's just too much out there.
Screenshot Reviews
#Screenshot Reviews-- Newburn #1, Primordial #2, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1
Capsule reviews of Newburn #1, Primordial #1, What's The Furthest Place From Here #1, and The Thing #1.