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Amazing Spider-Man #15: Dan Slott’s Regent took down a god, then falls to …...
It is a good bet that when Marvel writer Dan Slott was a kid that he was the one who always changed the rules of whatever game he was playing with friends. The Amazing Spider-Man #15 is a perfect...
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Iron Man #11: Bendis gives Riri action, Tony tepid climax
Invincible Iron Man #11 should have been an action-packed extravaganza with War Machine, Captain America, Nova, Ms. Marvel, She-Thor, Vision and War Machine all joining forces with Tony Stark to...
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Civil War II # 3: Bruce Banner goes out like a punk during superhero amateur...
Marvel’s Civil War II #3 was released today, which means Bruce Banner is officially dead (until he’s alive again). Your friendly neighborhood blogger might do up a write-up in the future, but I figured...
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Civil War II No. 4 Review: Captain Marvel learns to love the police state
Civil War II #4 is out, which means that it’s time for another review on Marvel’s latest hero vs. hero event. Check out your friendly neighborhood blogger’s latest Youtube video and share your thoughts...
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Bendis botches Ironheart launch with Tony Stark fans
Iron Man fans know that the clock is ticking on Tony Stark. Brian Michael Bendis is relaunching Invincible Iron Man with a new character — Riri Williams — as the protagonist. This young woman, who...
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Bendis’ Tony Stark ‘loves’ woman he’s been on about 2 dates with; Invincible...
It was just under one year ago that Brian Michael Bendis’ Invincible Iron Man launched. Yours truly was excited at its potential, and even gave the first handful of issues rave reviews. Then,...
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Bendis nicely sets up ‘Champions’ in Spider-Man #8, but classic heroes turned...
Brian Michael Bendis is one of Marvel’s key writers, but in a previous life he may have been a circus juggler. Spider-Man #8 somehow manages to move the title’s plot forward, set the stage for...
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Robert Downey Jr. and friends tell U.S. to vote for woman who called black...
There was once a time when Robert Downey Jr. understood that telling people how to vote was not something pretend superheroes should be doing. Marvel’s “Iron Man” inherently knew that intelligent...
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Civil War II #5: Team Stark v. Team Danvers throw down
Brian Michael Bendis’ Civil War II #5 hit stores this week, and someone must have slipped something in his drink because he dedicated the entire issue to a massive brawl between Team Stark and Team...
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Marvel pulls Riri Williams variant cover, cowers to Social Justice Puritans
A new breed of Puritans exist in America these days, but they ironically want nothing to do with Christianity. They’re overwhelmingly secular college kids who spend their days and nights looking for...
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Invincible Iron Man #1: Civil War II delays mar Riri Williams debut
Months ago it was announced that Marvel would essentially be race and gender-bending Iron Man by handing the book over to a teenage genius named Riri Williams. Fans were not given much to work with in...
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Brian Michael Bendis’ obsession with racial politics returns with ‘Invincible...
Imagine that you grew up reading Iron Man comics books. You love anything with Tony Stark, but for some reason Marvel’s Brian Michael Bendis was given the green light to make him disappear like a...
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Iron Man #2: Bendis makes Riri Williams perfect, but perfect is boring
Question: When is an Invincible Iron Man book not an Invincible Iron Man book? Answer: When Brian Michael Bendis needs to buoy sales while his new — seemingly perfect — female character named Ironheart...
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Civil War II #8: Marvel’s Minority Report no Cruise thriller
Marvel’s “summer” event, Civil War II, is finally over with its eighth issue! Or…is it? Brian Michael Bendis’ conclusion to this hero vs. hero tale “ends,” but not before warning readers that they are...
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Marvel’s zero-sum politics needlessly damage the comics industry
The partisan politics of modern Marvel Comics creators is a mainstay of this blog, but for the most part it is usually discussed within the context of whatever “red state vs. blue state” argument makes...
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Mark Waid: ‘Every superhero you love’ is a SJW
There was once a time when activist-writers tried to hide their attempts to hijack comic books and turn them into little more than social-justice propaganda. Writer Mark Waid has changed all that. This...
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Invincible Iron Man #3: Bendis gets his ‘Golden Girls’ vibe on
Writer Brian Michael Bendis may have been subconsciously affected by Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty more than he would like to publicly admit, because Invincible Iron Man #3...
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Marvel flinches on hack writing after backlash, but actions speak louder than...
It appears as though sagging sales, fan backlash, The New York Times dropping comics from its “bestseller” list, and a general consensus that Marvel has lost its way has finally pushed the “House of...
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J. Michael Straczynski: Partisan writer hits the block button because...
Regular readers of this blog know that on any given day there will be an honest comic book review or a post that exposes the hypocrisy of partisan writers within the industry. If a book is good — like...
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Iron Man #8: Brian Michael Bendis gives Riri Williams the definitive SJW origin
For months I have purchased Brian Michael Bendis’ Invincible Iron Man, the book that replaced billionaire Tony Stark with superawesomegottaloveher genius Riri Williams. I have repeatedly asked what the...
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