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John Romita, Sr., 1930-2023

John Romita, Sr., was one of the last survivors of those who, with Stan Lee, shaped Marvel in the early and mid-1960s.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is good; we’d never deny that. But it has an impossible task in living up to its predecessor.

Steve Ditko 1927-2018

The term ‘iconic’ is much abused in the contemporary arts, but Ditko’s individual, fascinating, and instantly recognizable style truly deserves the description.

Does Whatever A… Super Can?

If it had been Superman, it’d have been a shorter battle…

Go ahead and make the new Captain America a Hasidic Cyborg Freegan, by all means. Fancy a Thor who’s a Latina paraplegic with a knitwear fixation? Have at it! But this once, Marvel, when you’ve Got It Right – don’t mess it up!

All-New Hawkeye 1 & Howard The Duck 1.

I’ll be straight with you. In my head, anyone who isn’t Steve Gerber writing Howard The Duck is tantamount to comics blasphemy to me…

Stan Goldberg, 1932-2014

An appreciation of one of the definitive teen-humour and Archie Comics artists and long-time illustrator of Millie the Model, Stan Goldberg, who passed away on 31 August, 2014.

#NotAllDucks or Yes, I know Howard The Duck is in Original Sin. Please Stop Telling Me

Nevs Coleman goes “WAUGGH!” about matters, duck-related and otherwise.

Amazing Spider-Man 700 and associated events

Welcome back to the future. We’ve been living in the past too long.

Superman Adventures, Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man, and… more…

Next month, we go to the comic shop, and Marvel has one comic on the shelf. It’s by Ty Templeton. It’s called Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man. Next to it is Superman Family Adventures by Art Baltazar, published by DC. And we all lived happily ever after.

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