I heard this once. It was awful.

I wish they didn’t insist on calling Bill Foster’s character Black Goliath. Anyway, I’m pretty sure this was John Byrne’s first work with Marvel. At least, ...

I was just perusing this issue recently for kicks and giggles.  I’d forgotten it was the precursor to Marvel’s Contest of Champions, which, in turn, was the ...

Spidey and Fist fight a guy named Drom who is aging backwards.Not just that, he also TALKS backwards. It turns out, he was born this way but actually was ...

It’s been over a year, and we really haven’t had a good origin story, so it makes sense for Steve Englehart to finally get around to writing one.  These ...

Trust me, this book gets a lot better. But for the first three issues, we get mediocre, unconnected stories pairing Spider-Man and Human Torch. After the ...

Blizzard and Electro hijack the Daily Bugle for ransom.  A newspaper???  But yes, that’s the level of their evil genius.This is yet another MTU where the ...

Guess who drew this story?Ignore the stilted dialog and look at the art. Can you place it? It’s by one of the most distinctive artists of the 1980s.Mike ...

This story is wizard.Medusa can’t stand rock and roll! A street gang based on Marlon Brando’s The Wild One! And The Shaper of Worlds!It’s actually all very ...

In the aftermath of the last two-part story, which ended in a battle in the Baxter Building, Spider-Man inadvertently releases Super Skrull from his ...

I’m very pleased to feature a new post from Jill Stewart, the second of a three-part series. Jill is Associate Professor in Public Health at the ...

My apologies for the long delay in updating the blog but it remains an ongoing project. After all, with something over 6 million council homes in ...