Saturday, December 23, 2023

Merry Christmas, Eric Masterson!

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You may find it hard to believe, but Thor #444 is the only Christmas issue of the title’s 60-plus years. Maybe I missed another issue or two...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

Schrödinger’s Robin: The Meaningless of Batman 428: Robin Lives! #1

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It has long been the ultimate ‘what if?’ in mainstream superhero comics. In 1988, DC Comics ran a call-in phone poll where readers voted on ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

The Platonic Ideals of Smiles and Gods: The Immortal Thor #1

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How many Thor #1s have I seen as a reader? The Jason Aaron run alone had eight. Half of those were mini-series, the other four were presumpt...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

The Everyman Thor: Eric Masterson in Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz’s Thor and Thunderstrike

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Does Thor need a ‘secret identity?’ Of the many questions I’ve pondered over the years about the Thunder God, this is the one that I tend to...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Custom Kitchen Deliveries 12 – Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1

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I was wondering if that was going to happen. Well, not specifically that, but that reveal. After all, a key part about Dominions is that, on...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Custom Kitchen Deliveries 11 – Nightcrawlers #3

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Well, I was way off, wasn’t I? For those who didn’t read last week’s edition, I dove head first into wild speculation about the grand plans ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Custom Kitchen Deliveries 10 – Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants #3

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Who is the poet narrator of Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants #3? This is the question that vexes me. Done in the font/word balloon a...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Custom Kitchen Deliveries 09 – Immoral X-Men #3

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Genetics aren’t enough. We are now 1000 years from where Sins of Sinister began and the universe is a monstrous wasteland of rival faction...