by Doc Schaefer | Jul 15, 2020 | Docs Corner, Reviews
METAL MEN #8 DC COMICS Being a huge fan of the Metal Men since the beginning (Showcase #37 – 1962) the creations of legendary writer Robert Kanigher and pencillerRoss Andru, I am always excited by their appearances. This title was no different and started...
by Doc Schaefer | Jul 8, 2020 | Docs Corner, Reviews
EXCITING COMICS #7 ANTARCTIC PRESS Exciting is definately the key word here! Three stories! Three reenvisioned heroes! And plenty of thrills and chills! Darkdevil battles a horse-headed demon for the lives of innocents! The Ghost confronts a strange woman from...
by Doc Schaefer | Jul 2, 2020 | Docs Corner, Reviews
FEMFORCE #189 AC COMICS I have always been a fan of insane villains. From Dick Dasterdly to Jack Lemmon’s Professor Fate in the Great Race, evil doers with complicated plans and not so trustworthy compainions are my “thing”. So as Bill...
by | Jun 28, 2020 | Articles
It’s such a great sentence because it’s always true. Each defines the other. Picture a spaceship in, um, space. It can be either the U.S.S. Enterprise or the Millenium Falcon. I mention both because I know there are two kinds of people, and I’m a...
by Doc Schaefer | Jun 24, 2020 | Docs Corner, Reviews
GREEN LANTERN 80TH ANNIVERSARY 100 PAGE SUPER SPECTACULAR DC COMICS This year appears to be one when all the DC Universe charcaters are getting an anniversay super spectacular. But honestly, this book has an amazing line up of writers and artists that treat us...
by | Jun 22, 2020 | Articles
Comic books can make you feel all sorts of emotions, and that’s part of the beauty of the art form. While I do appreciate when a comic can make me sad, angry, or hopeful depending on the situation and what characters are trying to bring out that emotion out of me, I...
by Doc Schaefer | Jun 17, 2020 | Docs Corner
METAL MEN #7 DC COMICS Just over 1/2 way through the maxi-series and it looks as Didio has gone off on a tangent. The series up until now have been a wonderfully nostagic romp through the back catalog of the DC Universe. And while an arguement can be made that one...
by Doc Schaefer | Jun 9, 2020 | Docs Corner, Reviews
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #6 DC COMICS To be honest, I feel a bit cheated here. Boldly annoucing the newest recruits of the Legion on the cover, I had hoped to see them in action or at the very least given a little back story here. Monster Boy appears as a Mars...
by John Robinson | May 20, 2020 | The Thing Is..
by Rick Lundeen In 2015, with the clock running out on Fox’s possession of the rights to the Fantastic Four on film, they decided to film another one at the eleventh hour, thus keeping the FF hostage at Fox for another seven years. The calibre of film was a bit...
by | May 18, 2020 | Articles, Back Issue to the Future
Commentary by Sean H. If you ask the average reader for the best Superman origin story, you’re likely to get one of two answers. Superman Secret Origin by Doomsday Clock dream team Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, or Superman Birthright by Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu...
